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Microsoft has named the 104 Xbox 360 games that will be available via Xbox One’s backwards compatibility patch later this week. Missing from the list are the likes of Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto IV, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and assorted Call of Duties, all of which have …
Read More »Toys story: Pixel Toys’ Andy Wafer on making the move to mobile
Between them, Alex Zoro and Andy Wafer have an impressive CV. Zoro began his career at Rare, before co-founding DJ Hero studio Freestyle Games in 2002. Wafer, meanwhile, started off at Codemasters before moving over to Freestyle, where he did digital and online work for Activision in the UK. The …
Read More »Gfinity sells further shares after first annual financials show £3.6m loss
Gfinity held an accelerated sale of 1m in shares this week after the eSports company’s first public financial report detailed losses of 3.6m up to June 30. The report revealed that profits were up on the same period last year by 163%, from 213,450 to 560, 828, however losses had …
Read More »SteelSeries have moved an e-sports team into their HQ, and don’t they look thrilled about it
E-sports sponsorship deals have come a long way fromhiring Fatal1ty to apologetically hold up a motherboard– peripherals manufacturer SteelSeries have announced that they’ve moved the Winterfox CS:GO team into their Chicago HQ. There, they’ll train as normal in conjunction with SteelSeries staffers, and provide insight and feedback on new products. …
Read More »Overwatch is not going to be free-to-play
Many folk expected Blizzard’s upcoming team shooter Overwatch to be a free-to-play title. These folk were wrong. As well as revealing the game will be coming to PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC, the developer has also confirmed that the Standard Edition of the game on PC will …
Read More »How This Tech Company Benefits From ESports
Video game accessories company Mad Catz has worked with pro gamers to design eSports products and improve consumer gaming peripherals. The sales of video game controllers, headsets, steering wheels, fight sticks, PC keyboards, and mice is big business worldwide. The North American console and PC video game accessories and peripherals …
Read More »Book and movie deals secured for Zoe Quinn’s Gamergate memoir
Film due to hit big screens in September 2016
Read More »CS:GO is currently 100 times more popular than Call of Duty on Steam
That got your attention, didn’t it? Yup, turns out Counter Strike: Global Offensive has a hundred times as many Steam users as the most popular COD on the platform. Turns out you really can’t keep a good terrorist-kiboshing force down. A quick look atSteam’s stats pageshows you a hundred of …
Read More »The curse of ‘indie’
Debbie Bestwick explains why the term ‘indie’ could hinder your chances of success
Read More »SNES PlayStation hybrid shown powered-on and working
The incredibly rare hardware collaboration between two of the industry’s giants has seemingly been proved real. The ‘SNES PlayStation’ was re-discovered back in July after a Reddit user posted images of the long-lost prototype unit, of which only 200 were made. Created before the original PlayStation, the machine was the …
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