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Team Dignitas has appointed Jonathan Kemp as its new CEO after being purchased by the Philadelphia 76ers. Kemp is perhaps best known around these parts as being the former Chief Operating Officer for Eidos, although he has also worked in marketing and on the Olympics. His new role will see …
Read More »DeNA withdraws from western markets
Japanese mobile publisher DeNA has dissolved DeNA Global and ngmoco LLC in a filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, informally announcing their retreat from western markets, DeNA Global was the company’s San Francisco based subsidiary, formed to oversee activities in the western markets. DeNA was one of the early leaders …
Read More »Lewis Hamilton gets a cameo appearance in Call of Duty
World champion F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton will appear in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Hamilton’s cameo appearance sees him play the role of an engineer aboard the Retribution, one of the United Nations Space Alliance’s last remaining warships, following a devastating attack on their fleet in the game’s opening …
Read More »Dan Harmon is making a scripted eSports comedy show for YouTube
Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, is making a comedy series based around eSports for YouTube Red. The series will feature six 30 minute episodes that follow a new team of eSports stars who are trying to make it big in the growing competitive gaming industry. Both …
Read More »CBS is making a Candy Crush TV show
Turns out that Candy Crush is still incredibly popular. So popular that US TV network CBS has decided to turn it into a TV game show. In the show two teams of contestants will compete to progress through giant interactive game boards. This will apparently take an entire hour, until …
Read More »PS4 and PC title Dead Star is shutting down
Competitive online shooter Dead Star is switching off, despite being offered for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in April. Kotaku reports that Armature Studios is closing the game’s online servers on November 1st, and has already pulled the game’s store listing on both Steam and PSN. It was released last …
Read More »Watch Dogs 2 delayed two weeks on PC
Watch Dogs 2 has been delayed on PC by two weeks to make sure it runs well on all the different hardware variations. The PC version of Watch Dogs 2 will now launch worldwide on November 29th, while the console versions of the game will still launch on November 15th. …
Read More »Brexit is simulated in Football Manager 17
One of the new features in Football Manager 17 is Brexit, which can make life unbelievably hard if you are unlucky. Deciding to take the reigns of a British club opens you up to the possibility of having to deal with Brexit. There will be three types of Brexit that …
Read More »SKT vs. ROX Tigers is a fight for the future of Korean League of Legends
Welcome to the Korean breaking point. The 2016 League of Legends Worlds Championship semifinal match between the ROX Tigers and SK Telecom T1 could very well signal a new era for Korean League of Legends. Never before have two Korean teams facing off at Worlds played with such immensely different …
Read More »An exhaustive interview with SFAT, NorCal’s #1 Fox
Rarely does a Melee player come along and beat multiple Gods in a single year. SFAT did it in 2016, though, taking several sets off of Hungrybox and Mango, most recently at Shine (Mango & Hungrybox) and The Big House 6 (Hungrybox). We sat down with the most promising American …
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