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After purchasing a newly qualifiedLeagueChampionship Series(LCS) team,Follow eSportswill shed its old name today. The website, which labels itself the TV Guide of Esports,” is renaming both the site itself and professional esports teams toSplyce. With holdings inLeague of Legends,Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,Hearthstone,Super Smash Bros. Melee, and more, the team’s new brand …

Samsung’s Gear VR headset is now available to buy in the UK. The tech – which has people using their mobile phone as a screen – is up for grabs on Samsung’s own online store. The Gear VR will set consumers back 80. It launched in America in November, and …

Restructure follows consecutive months of financial woes as stocks and sales fall

Since writingyesterday’s articleabout the violent altercation between CS:GO panelist Richard Lewis and Dota 2 pro player Jonathan ‘Loda’ Berg at DreamHack Winter 2015, I’ve been contacted by DreamHack offering further comment. "We can confirm that an incident did occur between both parties" writes DreamHack’s Michael Van Driel "and that at …

Psyonix’s car-football hit Rocket League appears to be on its way to Xbox One. That’s according to the Taiwanese games rating board – thanks again – as reported by Gematsu and Twitter user Lifelower. Earlier this year, VP of marketing and communications Jeremy Dunham said that Rocket League was ‘100 …

ArenaNet has partnered with ESL to launch a new global eSports structure that spans a pro league, a farm team system, and a minor league for ‘Guild Wars 2.’ NCSoft-owned game developer ArenaNet originally launched its massively multiplayer online (MMO) game,Guild Wars 2, in August 2012 as a $40 game …

The numbers are finally in for what appears to have been a blockbuster Black Friday. 86 per cent of all consoles sold last week were PlayStation 4 and Xbox Ones, an increase the 75 per cent that were sold during the same period last year. Software for those platforms made …

Most traditional sports haven’t always been considered true sports. When American football was invented in 1869, it was considered a game. It wasn’t until 1920 when the NFL was founded that the game of football was officially christened a sport. Basketball followed a similar path, as James Naismith invented the …

We need your entries for the MCV Awards 2016 to be submitted to us by Wednesday, December 16th – that’s just two weeks away! For a full list of categories and how to enter, click right here. To recap, the way the awards are being judged has been changed. They …

Mino Games has another mobile hit on its hands with Mino Monsters’ sequel. Games Industry reports Mino Monsters 2 has brought in $1.7m in its first month out on the App Store and Google Play. "We see this early success is a validation of the unique approach we are taking …