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Update: Eurogamer (opens in new tab) has revealed the first picture of the new controller model, after it appeared on an Austrian retailer’s website. It looks as though we were right – there are no obvious cosmetic changes beyond the addition of a headphone jack. Enjoy! Original Story: Microsoft has …

David Sandberg’s homage to over-the-top ‘80s actioners has hit the web in its entirety to a surge of positive reviews. Why has this low-budget crowdfunded gem won over the entire Internet and racked up 3.2 million views (at the time of writing) in less than a day? Over the course …

For the past couple of years NVIDIA has been valiantly plugging away at establishing its own entertainment platform on its own terms, first with the SHIELD portable (opens in new tab) – an all-in-one portable device built into a controller with its own 720p multi-touch display – and then with …

UPDATE: There’s some pretty compelling evidence to suggest that this might be XCOM related. Posting on a Take Two forum, user Hobbes__ (opens in new tab) discovered these images in the concept art: The use of two images from XCOM Enemy Unknown suggest a strong link to the series, along …

The long-gestating sequel to Independence Day is finally looming on the horizon, with returning star Vivica A Fox giving an update on what we can expect from her character in round two. The new film will be set some fifteen years after the events of the original, with Earth readying …

Have you heard of Hearthstone (opens in new tab)? It’s quite popular in that ‘maybe an intervention is in order’ kind of way. Speaking to GamesMaster, director Eric Dodds wants it to stay like that, he just hasn’t worked out how yet. “I want Hearthstone to be played over a …

UPDATE: Take-Two has now issued the following statement: “Strauss misspoke during today’s call, as over a year ago Rockstar Games had said that they were exploring story mode content for Grand Theft Auto V. However, no further information has been released since. As always, we leave it to Rockstar Games …

The Witcher 3 (opens in new tab) won’t launch for a few hours yet, but we already know what improvements its day-one update is bringing along. Several NeoGAF (opens in new tab) users have posted their early patch notes, laying out in detail the first of CD Projekt Red’s post-release …

The new Ratchet & Clank for PS4 is retreating to its burrow (or wherever lombaxes live in the wild) for about a year. Insomniac Games announced that the reimagined take on the adventuresome duo’s origin story is now planned for release in spring 2016, back from its initial release window …

The X-Men cinematic universe continues to mutate! Deadline reports that The Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone is on board to write and direct The New Mutants for Fox. Dubbed a ‘standalone spinoff’ the movie will be an adaptation of the Marvel comic book series, which follows a splintered …