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Activision has confirmed that Sledgehammer Games are working on the next Call of Duty game, after months of speculation and rumor.The news was confirmed during Activision's quarterly earnings call, with Sledgehammer slated to work on the next game in the franchise, while continuing to provide support on Black Ops - Cold War. This will be the first game heade...

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the head of production on Cyberpunk 2077 has quit CD Projekt Red, following an investigation into bullying that cleared him of any wrongdoing.Tomaszkiewicz resigned from the company despite the outcome, apologizing for the "bad blood" that he had caused. Tomaszkiewicz was the focus of the bul...

One of the most startling statistics to come out of the Apple vs. Epic Games trial this week is confirmation that Epic has spent more than $1 billion signing up exclusives to the Epic Games Store. The information came from documents released as part of the trial, which shows that $444 million were spent on exclusive game launches in 2019, and that $542 milli...

We've covered various peripherals so far in our top 10 lists of the best gaming hardware money can buy in 2020, including gaming keyboards, chairs and monitors, but one of the single most important components you'll buy for your setup is without doubt the mouse. Anyone looking to get into competitive shooting games, for example, will quickly learn that the m...

Valve has released a new analytics tracking tool for CS:GO, and players are pretty upset at the $0.99 per month cost, for a tool that is seemingly less useful than other, free alternatives from third parties.The new tool, known as CS:GO 360 Stats, lets players track stats across Competitive, Premiere and Wingman, allowing players to record K/D rations for ea...

It seems to be going from bad to worse for Google's Stadia game streaming service, as seven key staff members, including vice-president and product head John Justice, have quit the company, hot on the heels of Stadia's internal studios being shut down earlier in the year.It all started when Justice was reported to have departed by The Information, which was...

The entire concept behind Verdansk '84, the new map for Call of Duty: Warzone, was to give the developers an opportunity to build a new environment from scratch, to avoid the issues that the existing game had with cheaters and glitches. Sadly, that plan seems not to have paid off, as players are already glitching their way under the map to cheat.By glitching...

The Director's Cut of Borderlands 3 has a lot of neat new enhancements, such as new side missions, some behind-the-scenes content, and a new raid boss - but one of those bonus extras, a cutscene that didn't make it into the finished game - would have changed the game for the better in the eyes of many.The cutscene in question was a funeral scene, for one of...

There's a new update releasing for Fallout 76 this week, known as Locked & Loaded, and it brings with it a lot of quality of life improvements and features that should really continue to improve the experience of the game, which has slowly turned itself around since it's troubled launch a few years ago.The changes including new SPECIAL loadouts, that will al...

Warhammer: Vermintide 2's latest expansion, Chaos Wastes, released earlier in the week, and to give everyone an opportunity to see what the fuss is all about, the game is having a free-to-play weekend on Steam.Prepare for the unexpected and overcome new challenges in this new rogue-lite inspired game mode with this free update to Vermintide 2. The Chaos Wast...

There's a rumour flying around the internet right now, thanks to a YouTube video posted by PUBG Leaker PlayerIGN, that a "pure sequel" to the Battle Royale is currently in development.The video claims that inside sources have confirmed the existence of what PlayerIGN calls "PUBG 2," and that the game is going to be grounded once again in realism, as opposed...

The Epic Games Store has a couple of new free games available this week, and they're pretty decent, with both Alien: Isolation and Hand of Fate 2 up for grabs.Alien: Isolation, while showing a little age, still holds up well and is a fantastic entry in the Alien franchise of games. It's set about 15 years after the film, and you play as Amanda Ripley, the da...