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As we reported on Wednesday, the SNES Mini was the main story of Japanese retail this week, out-selling both the Switch and the NES Mini in its first week, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The NES Mini, by comparison, sold just 263,000 units in its first week on sale, …

Microsoft has announced three new Xbox One S bundles priced at just £229. Launching in the coming weeks, the UK will receive an Xbox One S Rocket League Blast-Off Bundle, an Xbox One S Starter Bundle and – for those that didn’t manage to get their hands on the limited edition …

Replay Events has announced the full line-up of games and publishers that will be attending this year’s Play Expo Manchester at Event City. Taking place this weekend (October 14th-15th), the event will see the likes of Ubisoft, Jagex, Techland, PQube, Lucid Games and more showcase their latest titles at the …

Epic Games has announced that its controversial Battle Royale mode for Fortnite has already hit 10m players in just two weeks. The game also peaked at 525,000 concurrent players on Monday, with 3.7m active users on that day alone.  To celebrate the milestone, Epic released an infographic, detailing (among other facts) …

In addition to announcing a brand-new standalone VR headset in the form of the Oculus Go, Oculus also announced yet another permanent price cut for its regular Rift headset.  After its successful Summer of Rift program, where it dropped the price temporarily to £399 for six weeks, the Rift will now stay at …

Oculus has announced a brand-new standalone VR headset for release in early 2018. Unveiled yesterday at its OC4 conference, the Oculus Go will cost $199 and doesn’t require any cables or a smartphone to provide the display.  Made of fabric that’s both soft and breathable, Oculus says the headset will …

Nintendo’s Classic Mini SNES has sold over 360,000 units in Japan during its opening week, Famitsu has revealed. While we’ve yet to receive Famitsu’s full hardware charts for last week, the publication took to its own website this morning to state the highly-sought after micro console shifted 368,913 in its first four …

Just when you thought game trailers couldn’t get any weirder than the all-singing, all-dancing Japanese promo for Destiny 2, Nintendo has released a musical video ahead of the release of Super Mario Odyssey (see below). The song has been a key component of Nintendo’s marketing material ever since the platform holder …

Ubisoft has unveiled its post-release plans for Assassin’s Creed Origins, including the Season Pass and free add-on content that will be available to all players.  The Season Pass, which is included in all Gold Editions of the game and available to buy separately, will be split into two main sections. …

Green Man Gaming has launched two new local language websites in Latin America today as part of the company’s internationalisation strategy, the e-retailer has announced.  Following the success of its English and German ecommerce websites, Green Man Gaming customers in key markets such as Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Mexico …