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After a poor first year in League of Legends NRG Esports has sold its spot in the North American Challenger Series. J2K Esports and Technology is the party buying the spot, and they will be fielding a team known as Gold Coin United in the Challenger Series Spring Split. J2K …
Read More »Nintendo Switch UK livestream dated for 4am January 13th
Nintendo has finally set a date and time for its upcoming Nintendo Switch presentation in the UK. The press will be going hands-on with Nintendo’s new Switch console on January 13th in the UK, but those wanting to watch the livestream at home will have to set their alarm clocks …
Read More »COGnitive Gaming to shut down at the end of the year
COGnitive Gaming has announced that it will be closing its doors on December 31st. The organisation has been around for a few years, initially getting involved with the Smite scene back in 2013. They stuck with Smite, even fielding two teams at the 2015 World Championships, where they took both …
Read More »PPD named CEO of EG, Loda and Akke own Alliance
After Twitch announced that it handed control of Evil Geniuses and Alliance over to the players yesterday we now know who is in control. A press release from Evil Geniuses revealed that former Dota 2 team captain and winner of The International 5 Peter “ppd” Dager will act as the …
Read More »UKIE’s Jo Twist talks 2016 for UK games, Brexit and London Games Festival
2016 has been an eventful year for both the games industry and the UK as a whole thanks to the EU Referendum vote that took place this June. We speak to UKIE boss Dr Jo Twist OBE to take the pulse of the UK games market. How would you assess …
Read More »Yooka-Laylee gets release date, is scrapped on Wii U
Playtonic’s crowdfunded platformer Yooka-Laylee has got a release date. The game will hit PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux on April 11th priced at 34.99 for non-backers. It will be available both digitally and physically. However, Wii U backers may notice that their platform is missing from that list …
Read More »Twitch gives Evil Geniuses and Alliance their independence
Twitch today announced that it has given control of both Evil Geniuses and Alliance over the the players and player selected management. Previously both teams were founded and owned by GoodGame, a company that was purchased by Twitch a few years back. Because of the purchase this meant that Twitch …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New comms lead for CCP’s VR titles
Kelion joins CCP from nDreams,Scammell leaves VideoGamer and a new media and market development director forInnoGames. CCP hires new comms lead for its VR portfolio George Kelion has joined Eve: Valkyrie developer CCP as senior communications lead for VR games. He will be working from the firm’s new studio in …
Read More »Shared Rooms: Designing Multiplayer VR
Multiplayer will be key for the mainstream adoption of virtual reality, but comes with a fresh set of problems to surmount. Jem Alexander asks studios what stands between us and the perfect social VR experience.
Read More »Capcom on Resident Evil’s return to its horror roots
It all started in VR, in a dirty kitchen. At E3 2015, Capcom started showing off a PlayStation VR demo called Kitchen, a virtual reality horror experience that was – if nothing else – incredibly unsettling. At the time I speculated with my colleagues that this was Capcom teasing a …
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