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Steamforged’s table top game based on the popular Dark Souls series met it 50,000 funding goal in just three minutes. At the time of writing, Dark Souls: The Board Game has raised 461,630 – almost ten times its initial goal – and has been backed by 5,763 people. What’s more …
Read More »Call of Duty legend Nadeshot founds new team
Call of Duty legend Matt Nadeshot” Haag has founded a new eSports team called 100 Thieves. The team has acquired the King Papey Call of Duty squad and will compete in Stage 2 of the Call of Duty World League starting tomorrow. The move has come as a surprise to …
Read More »Slender: The Arrival dev announces first person adventure Valley
Blue Isle Studios has announced its follow-up project to last year’s console horror-fest Slender: The Arrival. Valley sounds like an altogether different proposition, going by the early press. Players will don a powered suit that grants them extraordinary speed and agility, along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate life and …
Read More »RELEASE DATES: Mafia III launches in October
MCV offers the most comprehensive UK video game release schedule available. Here’s a round up of the most notable recent changes and upcoming games. Click here to see the full listing. Publisher 2K Games has just revealedMafia III’s release date: the new installment in the organized crime franchise will launch …
Read More »The first Dark Souls has been offline on PC for a week
Dark Souls 3 may be the current love of the series’ dedicated community, but a problem with the original game has proved a source of frustration for some this week. Kotaku reports that the PC version of Dark Souls (dubbed the Prepare to Die Edition), which was released a year …
Read More »Should the skill of competitive Hearthstone players be primarily assessed on results?
Are results really the best way to gauge the skill of competitive Hearthstone players, given the amount of RNG in the game? We asked two expert players who feel passionately about the subject to argue it out. Read more on PCGamer Pro >>>
Read More »Sacramento Kings Co-Owner Andy Miller Says That Virtual Reality is "Inevitable" for eSports
Andy Miller is co-owner of the Sacramento Kings and NRG eSports. NRG recently signed up Shaquille O’Neal, Alex Rodriguez, and Jimmy Rollins as partners and has big plans for the future. Miller also founded Quattro Wireless, which was acquired by Apple in 2009, where he went on to become the …
Read More »League Of Legends’ Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street Talks Balance – Is It Even Possible?
League Of Legends boasts a huge roster of playable characters which bring the potential for vast numbers of potential compositions, ability interactions. It also has a player base quick to seek out what’s strong at any given time in the game’s ongoing development. So how do you approach that as …
Read More »The legend of Tyloo
For some, TyLoo was just another team from Asia. For others, TyLoo was the monster team from China that had dominated the Asian scene for months. People didn’t give TyLoo a chance against the teams at Malmo, they were a free win and an easy prediction. No one expected them …
Read More »Call of Duty World League champions look back on a year of Black Ops III esports
The road to the Call of Duty Championship isn’t an easy one. It’s filled with gut-wrenching losses, surprise upsets, and an ever-shifting play field as new games change the rules from one year to the next. And if the most recent esports event is anything to go by, the 2016 …
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