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Citizens of Syria and Iran have been blocked from being able to play League of Legends, with the situation being put down to "US laws and regulations", amid growing tensions between Iran and the United States.US President Donald Trump has imposed what he calls "major additional sanctions" on Iran over the past few days. Syria is a close ally of Iran, and as...

I love Games Done Quick - apart from being a hugely beneficial charity event, it's mesmerising to see some of the shortcuts and glitches gamers take to complete a game is stupidly short order.The Summer Games Done Quick starts today on Twitch and for 24 hours a day you'll be able to catch speedruns of some of your favourite titles, with games due to be cover...

Take this one with a pinch of salt, but there's a possibility that Diablo 4 could be revealed at this year's BlizzCon.The news is coming via a French publication known as Le Monde. In a paywalled article discussing the layoff of employees in Blizzard's Paris studios, some employees apparently let the news slip that they'd seen an internal presentation of the...

Do you know which reveal I was most giddy about during Microsoft's E3 press conference? If you guessed Gears 5, Project Scarlett, Halo Infinite, or even Forza Horizon 4: Lego Speed Champions, well, you'd be wrong. It was learning that finally, after all these years, we'd see a reboot of Microsoft Flight Simulator.Now, I'm not an enthusiast of planes per-say...

There's a new tournament coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, as PUBG Corp. have revealed their plans for the PUBG Nations Cup, a world cup of nations that will complete against each other to crown one nation the best in the world at obtaining that chicken dinner.16 nations will be taking place, and each country will have a selection process where four p...

Bloodstained: ritual of the night is a compelling new gothic horror action side-scrolling RPG set in 18th century England, and one of the rarest collectables in the game are the 8-bit coins. They're really valuable in-game currency, and enables you to unlock new, powerful gear that will be really useful in the later game.You can buy them via microtransaction...

Tim Schafer seemed fairly honest about the decision to sell Double Fine Productions to Microsoft at E3 - it all came down to the money. While he (may) have been joking, he has given some fairly compelling reasons why he feels the move was the right one, and speaking to Gamasutra, he further explained the decision behind it.To be fair to Microsoft, apart from...

This one slipped under the radar during E3 week, but IGN have noted that during one of Capcom's livestreams during the event, Monster Hunter: World will be getting a brand new dynamic difficulty system, and it's not just for Iceborne, either.Previously the game only had two difficulty levels, those being different for singleplayer and multiplayer. It was pre...

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