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It’s the second day of ELeague and two teams face elimination: Immortals, the second best team from Brazil, and Europe’s FaZe Clan, a team that just replaced Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey with former Astralis in-game leader Finn "karrigan" Andersen. Read more on ESPN >>>
Read More »SSG Cuvee talks H2K win, final vs. SKT, top lane matchups
One of the standout performers at the 2016 League of Legends World Championship has been Samsung Galaxy top laner Seong-jin Cuvee” Lee. Playing in his first-ever Worlds, he helped lead Samsung to a surprising 5-1 group stage record and back-to-back knockout stage sweeps against Albus NoX Luna and H2K. Read …
Read More »What does another Korean win mean for Worlds?
Hold on a minute, haven’t we been here before? With just the grand final to go, the 2016 League of Legends World Championship knockout stage is looking remarkably similar to the previous year. Read more on Red Bull >>>
Read More »Nintendo’s Esports Switch: How and why Nintendo can use Smashers to save itself
This week’s Nintendo Switch announcement spawned dizzying fanfare thanks to the inclusion of a short clip that featured the visual language of esports: players in jerseys marching into a packed stadium to compete in a competitive Splatoon match. The fact of the matter is that Nintendo, a company that has …
Read More »Blizzard reveals LCS like set up for Heroes of the Storm in 2017
Blizzard has revealed the set up for Heroes of the Storm Global Championship 2017, which shares more than a few similarities with the LCS. After a somewhat lackluster competitive season over the last twelve months, which saw a lot of big names drop out of the scene, Blizzard has finally …
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin studio
Studio located with new Twitch team, looking to hire local game development talent
Read More »Microsoft is raising prices in the UK thanks to Brexit
Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the prices of its business software and cloud services in the UK as a result of Brexit. Microsoft’s blog post revealed that the company will be raising business software prices by 13% and cloud service prices by a whopping 22% from January …
Read More »How Life is Strange changed Dontnod
Back in 2013, Capcom launched what it hoped would be a major new action series. Remember Me was a unique, cyberpunk story-driven triple-A game from new French developer Dontnod – a studio set-up by former Criterion, EA and Ubisoft creators. The team had spent almost five years on the game, …
Read More »Hasbro is being sued by Peak Games over a My Little Pony game
Turkish developer Peak Games is suing Hasbro as they claim that the recent My Little Pony: Puzzle Party game copies their game Toy Blast. According to VentureBeat, Peak Games filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and have alleged that Hasbro’s Backflip Studios have taken their …
Read More »Telltale talks Mr Robot, Batman and its new publishing business
Telltale doesn’t make games like other people. It doesn’t begin a game with a prototype or concept art, instead it starts with a script. We don’t produce a game visually until we feel we have completed the script,” explains Job Stauffer, the head of creative communications at The Walking Dead, …
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