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Rainbow Six Siege (opens in new tab), Ubisoft’s competitive, team-based, eSports-focused twist on the Rainbow Six formula, has been nudged to December 1, a handful of months back from its previously-announced October 13 release date. Fortunately, the September 24 beta will continue as scheduled, though you’ll need to register (opens …

Back in 2009 (when all this was forests as far as the eye can see), Mirror’s Edge did a lot of things really, really well. Free-flowing movement. Actual parkour. A bright and colourful future. But there was one thing it didn’t quite pull off – guns. Sadly, when it came …

The Halo series has some of gaming’s most well-known music, and while you could buy a copy of each title’s soundtrack, that’s not quite the same as hearing it when you first fired up the game that it was tied to, is it? Well, until humanity discovers time travel so …

2K Sports has given fans a first glimpse at the WWE 2K16 roster this month, and today they’ve released the first in a series of weekly character announcements leading up to the game’s release date of October 27. And what an eclectic bunch it is. The full list of superstars …

We really shouldn’t be surprised that our generation are constantly berated for being the selfish ones, obsessed with instant gratification and more vain than that guy who probably thought that song was about him: we’ve grown up around games that are forever placing us in the shoes of The Most …

Kinect may have failed to make an impact in either of its incarnations, but the latest hardware tech from Microsoft is determined to learn from the horrors of the past. HoloLens, the holographic software that projects an interactive 3D image through a headset into the world around you is already …

In an interesting conversation about where games are going and changing expectations, Black Ops 3’s design director David Vondahar has talked about the idea of a persistent profile carried from one COD to the next. It’s apparently an idea that’s “come up a lot” but realistically sounds unworkable without some …

You know that moment when you finished the last Tomb Raider and realized that raiding tombs just wasn’t really a core concern anymore? Crystal Dynamics’ new approach led them to some exciting new areas – Resi 4-indebted over-the-shoulder gunplay, set-piece heavy virtual cinema and Japanese demonology – but those areas …

So, Crackdown 3 (opens in new tab) might be the most impressive demo I’ve ever seen. We’ll have a full preview up later today, but suffice it to say that all that bluster about “leveraging the Cloud” to bring hitherto unseen levels of physics-based destruction is totally accurate. That moment …

New enemies, gear and missions aren’t the only big changes coming to Destiny (opens in new tab) in year two’s major Taken King expansion. They’re now not even the most exciting additions. For it seems that Bungie is taking the drastic – and really rather enticing – step of completely …