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The Heroes of the Storm Fall Championship will conclude at BlizzCon on Friday and Saturday, with the winning team as the recipient of the $300,000 first-place prize. The remaining group stage will determine the final four teams of the tournament. Finally, the last four teams will participate in a single-elimination …
Read More »Doublelift opens up on LCS burnout: ‘It’s such a bad life’
Team SoloMid shocked fans this week when it announced that star AD carry Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng would be sitting out the 2017 NA LCS Spring Split. After TSM’s disappointing group stage finish at the 2016 World Championship, fans feared the team might be looking to change its formula for the …
Read More »Q&A: Anders Blume on casting Overwatch and the importance of being able to pivot
Slingshot’s Blake Bottrill had the chance to talk to longtime caster Anders Blume at the ESL New York at the beginning of October to talk about casting Overwatch in addition to Counter-Strike and how to stay fresh in different games. Read more on Slingshot eSports >>>
Read More »The heroes of Hearthstone to watch at BlizzCon
Hearthstone’s World Championship has officially begun, with the group stages getting underway before BlizzCon this week. Already we’re getting a feel for who’s going to be a tough opponent in the playoff stages, but before we’re too deep into the deck, perhaps we’d better get a good look at the …
Read More »Red Dead Redemption 2 reveal reception beat Take-Two’s already high expectations
The reaction to Red Dead Redemption 2’s announcement surprised even publisher Take-Two. Speaking to MCV ahead of the company’s financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the number of views the title’s initial trailer received were higher than the firm’s own high expectations. The game was teased via a logo …
Read More »VIDEO – Search For A Star – Graduate devs get The Apprentice treatment
Can fledgling games developers stand up to the scrutiny of the experts and win themselves that vital first job? That’s the crux of a new web series launched this week, which provides a behind-the-scenes look at this year’s Search For A Star competition. Final year students will battle to secure …
Read More »Join MCV at the Future Games Summit on the 23rd and 24th of November
It’s now only three weeks to the inaugural Future Games Summit 2016, which is being brought to you in association with MCV. The Future Games Summit is a brand new two-day conference which will examine current and future trends across the entire spectrum of the interactive entertainment industry. The two-day …
Read More »Katamari’s Takahashi releases new Tango AR game Woorld
The latest creation from Katamari Damacy mastermind Keita Takahashi is now available for a very specific group of owners. Woorld, which is an augmented reality title, is designed for Google’s Tango AR platform. And to date only one handset supports it – Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro. Basically, this is about …
Read More »EA is confident Titanfall 2 can grow its player base
Titanfall 2 may yet achieve sales to match its critical popularity, EA has argued. The game debuted last week but indicators suggest sales will fall far short of predictions. Conversely, Battlefield 1 is performing stronger than expected. With the game launching just days apart, the natural conclusion is that Battlefield …
Read More »Valve cracks down on Steam ‘bullshots’
"We haven’t been super crisp on guidelines for screenshots in the past, so we’d like to take this opportunity to clarify some rules in this space,"
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