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North American LCS team Echo Fox has signed former League of Legends world champion Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok for its 2017 roster. The announcement was made over on Yahoo eSports, where they revealed that the former member of the world championship winning Samsung White team would be heading to the NA …
Read More »The Houston Rockets hire director of esports development
NBA team the Houston Rockets has hired Sebastian Park as director of eSports development. Park was formerly the CEO of Team Archon, before leaving that position and being a consultant for the last few months. According to a report from Bloomberg, Park will assess how the Rockets and owner Les …
Read More »Ubisoft talks ‘live’ games strategy: The Crew, The Division and Rainbow 6 Siege
Games have always been happy to experiment when it comes to revenue streams. They started with pure retail sales, but then DLC came along, subscription models worked for MMOs, episodic content still has its place, while microtransactions are very much in vogue – both on console and mobile titles. The …
Read More »Pre-order for The Last Guardian exceed Sony’s expectations
PS4 exclusive The Last Guardian will be hitting shelves next week and, despite being in development for nearly ten years, there’s still a sizeable fan base eagerly waiting for its launch, Sony’s product manager Joe Palmer told MCV. I can’t comment with specific details, but I can say that pre-orders …
Read More »PS4 was the most popular console on eBay on Black Friday in US
A PS4 was sold once every 20 seconds on eBay throughout Black Friday in the US last week. Polygon reports that this made the machine the best-selling console for the day, ahead of the Xbox One, which sold at the rate of one every minute – that’s three times slower. …
Read More »Call of Duty tops charts in difficult month for boxed retail
Shooter Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare took the No.1 spot in the November charts, making Activision Blizzard the No.1 publisher in both units and value for the month. Boxed unit sales were down 26 per cent compared to Black Ops III’s first month, though. And Activision’s shooter was not the …
Read More »53 titles confirmed for Oculus Touch launch
Oculus has said that its Touch controller will launch to a line-up of 53 compatible games. Well, at least that’s the ‘launch window’ target. The Oculus Touch controllers launch on December 6th, priced at 189 per pair in the UK – which seems pretty steep compared to the $199 US …
Read More »‘Xbox has got its mojo back’ – strong Xbox One sales strengthen brand
2016 will be viewed as a tipping point for Xbox One. That’s according to Xbox UK marketing chief Harvey Eagle, who says that this was the year the brand ‘got its mojo back’. The exec cited strong sales of Microsoft’s slimmer and cheaper Xbox One S SKU, which hit shelves …
Read More »Telltale confirms Guardians of the Galaxy series
The anticipated tie-up between Marvel and Telltale for a Guardians of the Galaxy game has been officially confirmed. The game will be called Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series, and was unveiled at The Game Awards last night. The first episode will debut digitally in 2017 and on …
Read More »Xbox, Rebellion and Ubisoft headline this week’s MCV
This week, we talk to Xbox UK marketing chief Harvey Eagle, who says strong Xbox One S sales have helped the brand’s performance and that we’ll look back at 2016 as "a tipping point for Xbox One.” We also had chat with Ubisoft’s VP of live operations Anne Blondel about …
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