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After running into some legal issues by owning twoLeague of LegendsLCS qualified teams, Team Dignitas was forced to sell off at least one by Riot Games. A month-long bidding war for the two teams finally ended with Team Dignitas making the decision to sell off its European counterpart. The buyer …
Read More »The carry: The strange career of a League of Legends star
In the brief history of professional League of Legends, there might not be another European player who generated as much hype and excitement as Martin ‘Rekkles’ Larsson. When he debuted for Fnatic in 2014 – a proud eSports organization that predates League, and whose team won the first-ever LoL world …
Read More »Developer wants EA to OK a next-gen Darth Maul game
Red Fly Studios was once making a Darth Maul game for PS3, 360 and Wii. Now it wants to bring the project back to life. The developer’s Dan Borth took to Reddit yesterday to confirm that his team is working on resurrecting” the project and is currently working on a …
Read More »Konami is making a new Bomberman
Cherished console series Bomberman is getting a new entry! And you can probably guess what’s coming next, right? Pocket Gamer reports that Famitsu has revealed Taisen Bomberman, which is in development for iOS and Android and is designed to mark the series’ 30th birthday. It’s due out some time this …
Read More »Analytics firm Newzoo partners with Fnatic for access to valuable eSports data
Amsterdam-based video game industry research firm Newzoo BV has announced that it is partnering with Euorpean eSports organization Fnatic as part of a plan to expand its data insights in the rapidly growing professional competitive gaming scene. Fnatic has professional teams in several of the biggest eSports games, includingLeague of …
Read More »Sega apologises for calling a Sonic character ‘Boob’
Whoops. Sega has had to apologise after an update to mobile title Sonic Runners introduced a character with a rude name. The Halloween update was supposed to include ‘Boo’. Y’know, as in ‘ghost’. Instead, it actually offered a character called ‘Boob’. Y’know, as in ‘breast’. An in-game pop-up currently reads: …
Read More »The best Battlefield 4 team just quit to play a new game (and it’s probably Overwatch)
Fnatic‘sBattlefield 4team have been the best in the world for some time. But now the team is quitting the game with a new pasture on the horizon. Overwatch‘s beta arrives on Tuesday and very few people have got their hands on the game. But big players in the esports scene …
Read More »Payday 2 devs says microstransactions are ‘working as we intended’
Overkill has at last responded to fans who continue to be outraged by the game’s recent addition of microtransactions. The shooter’s recent Black Market update added weapon-boosting perks to the game which can be obtained via a cash-purchase. Fans were especially agitated as the developer explicitly stated in may 2013 …
Read More »Miyamoto wanted the killing removed from N64’s Goldeneye
If Nintendo had had its way, James Bond would have killed none of his enemies in the hugely successful Goldeneye on N64. Bond is a violent franchise and making that fit with Nintendo, which is very much family-friendly, was a challenge,” the game’s co-designer Martin Hollis explained to an audience …
Read More »Xbox Live lead architect quits Microsoft
Eric Neustadter departs after 18 years with the company
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