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Do not feed chocolate to birds, as it can be potentially fatal to them. It’s that important message that has this week led to a most unexpected controversy in the world of Minecraft. The frequency of updates for the world-conquering crafting game has definitely increased recently, and among these additions …

The Trading Card system will be locked away from new releases on Steam until they have have proven themselves to be real games. Many games offer Trading Cards which can be sold by players on the Steam marketplace. Their value is typically low, often around 10p or less, although some …

Bandai Namco has banned two players from the Tekken 7 UK Championships following accusations that they colluded to throw a match. Kotaku reports that it has been alleged that Justin ‘King Jae’ Nelson conspired with Charmel ‘C-Krizzle’ Miedji Koloko in their third round match in last weekend’s Birmingham qualifier. The …

Live streaming services Hitbox and Azubu have merged to form Smashcast, turning the newly-formed LA-based company into the world’s largest independent eSports broadcaster outside Asia. The platform, which will utilise Hitbox and Azubu’s 20m monthly active users, hopes to be a main competitor to Twitch, and will be the only …

Developer Brendan Greene has confirmed that the possibility of bringing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to Xbox One and PS4 is being investigated. "We have a team working already on looking to port it to at least the Xbox One," Greene told BusinessInsider. "We’re looking at both consoles of course, but we have …

Ronimo’s side-scrolling 2D MOBA Awesomenauts is making the transition to free-to-play. The switch will be made on Steam on May 24th, although an update that has overhauled the progression system has already gone live. Changes include an overhauled tutorial and ‘beginner experience’ designed to make it easier for newcomers to …

Despite having just last week unveiled its RX500 series of graphics cards, AMD has confirmed that its next-generation GPUs will arrive this quarter. Wccftech reports that the Vega cards, which will be the first to offer AMD’s much hyped new graphics architecture, will be launched by June at the latest. …

20 year-old Adam Mudd has been sentenced to two years in jail for creating a hacking program that was responsible for downing Sony and Microsoft’s networks. The Guardian reports that Mudd, who was 16 at the time, created a program called Titanium Stresser that was designed to shut down services …

Ready At Dawn is to partner with the UK-based game server hosting specialist Multiplay to host its new physics-based arena brawler, Deformers, which releases today. Multiplay previously hosted Respawn’s Titanfall 2 and Tripwire Interactive’s Killing Floor 2 last year. Using its own hybrid cloud orchestration service, Multiplay’s technology allows Ready …

The biggest games company in the world is to take on digital PC games giant Steam. As spotted by PCGamesN, Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad has revealed that the Tencent Games Platform is being rebranded as WeGame. The service already has over 200m users alone in China, compared to Steam’s …