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IO Interactive has shared more development insight about arguably the stand-out character in 007 First Light: James Bond's mentor figure, John Greenway. This is the character played brilliantly by Walking Dead and Line of Duty actor Lennie James - a character as welcoming as a locked door when Bond initially joins the resurrected double-O secret agent training programme at the beginning of the ga…

Bungie has shown off Vault Breaker in a new gameplay trailer. This is Marathon's experimental, time-limited PvE mode, which arrives today in Season 2's mid-season update. Vault Breaker is a roguelite mode that exists separately from the normal modes. In other words, it's not simply a PvE toggle you can turn on across the game. Read more

Another day, another update on what's happening over at Xbox after last month's showcase and the subsequent cuts of 3,200 jobs and studio divestments . The matter at hand today: console exclusives, and based on past comments by Xbox , we don't really know what to expect or what's going on. Read more

In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out as especially egregious. Id Software, developer of Doom and Quake, was forced to lay off 136 people – more than half of its workforce. Read more

Sony's planned shift away from producing physical discs for PlayStation might be unpopular, but new sales data has highlighted the stark business reality behind it. Read more

Activision has finally revealed some worthwhile new details about what the next few months will look like in the lead-up to the release of Modern Warfare 4. The company officially announced the return of Call of Duty: Next, the event that has, for the last several years, served as the home for the debut of multiplayer gameplay. Read more

There's been one thought I haven't been able to shake during my time with Battlefield 6 's upcoming Tsuru Reef map - the game's biggest yet, which arrives tomorrow with Season 4 . Tsuru Reef is the item on a restaurant's menu that you tell yourself you'll try one day, yet you keep ordering the usual every time you visit. But just as that restaurant's menu is richer for having this delectable curi…

It's been two weeks since Microsoft announced 3,200 layoffs and sweeping cuts hit the Xbox division . Not even well-established institutions like Doom and Quake studio id Software were safe - with the first reports painting a very bleak picture - yet Hugo Martin, director on the latest Doom entries, pushed back against claims the iconic FPS developer had been turned into little more than a suppor…

Do you ever get a hankering to bust out the fancy robes, grab a staff, and venture out into the wild with a gaggle of your friends? Well, good news! Religious war is back in a big way, in Old School RuneScape . Read more

The Elder Scrolls 6 isn't anywhere near done, and you might be getting tired of replaying Skyrim and Oblivion over and over again across several platforms. But don't worry, as the Elder Scrolls community has now cracked a surprising way to replay Morrowind . Read more

It's Mass Effect all over again, maybe. You'll be able to carry your save from The Blood of Dawnwalker into future Dawnwalker games, developer Rebel Wolves and publisher Bandai Namco have confirmed. Read more

Our first look at Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer gameplay arrived, not as part of a Call of Duty: Next event, as is tradition , but through a handful of livestreams from a select few who got to play the game at Fanatics Fest NYC, which took place 16th-19th July. Read more

Spain is the new FIFA World Cup winner after defeating Argentina one to zero last night, and once again, the EA Sports FC game correctly predicted the result in advance. Read more

Insight into the fall of British high street video game retailer Game going into administration has been brought to light in a new report. After years of business troubles and challenges, this write-up claims the company's liquidation was caused by changing consumer behaviour, fierce competition, and "uncertainty associated with Brexit". Read more

There is no end seemingly in sight for the memory crisis, or of how much higher the price of consumer electronics could go. Valve, which recently shipped its expensive Steam Machine, has learned this the hard way. Read more