Game industry business news

Europe’s Redemption Lies With Odoamne and H2K

After a terrible week one of Worlds, League of Legends fans had written off Europe. The region had only picked up one game, and every other region had comfortably tossed them around. When G2 was officially eliminated from their group, only picking up one win against Albus NoX Luma, all …

Read More »

Smash god Mango on Cloud9 as he takes Big House 6 title

With his back against the wall, Joseph "Mango" Marquez managed to pick up his third win at the Big House 6. It wasn’t always smooth sailing; things looked nerve-racking for Mango as he narrowly squeezed into top-8 after a close five-game set with Ryan "The Moon" Coker-Welch. Read more on …

Read More »

League of Legends is finally getting replays

After thousands of requests from players over the years Riot Games is finally adding a replay system to League of Legends. Currently players wanting to watch replays of their games must use third party software or simply record the action as they are playing. However this is a bit of …

Read More »

ESL One New York breaks digital engagement records

ESL One New York, which took place in the Barclays Center last weekend, brought in six million unique viewers and broke engagement records. Online viewership peaked at more than 450,000 concurrent viewers, which is presumably split across both the CS:GO and Street Fighter V action. This translated into six million …

Read More »

Paris Saint-Germain enters eSports with Millenium partnership

Yet another European football team is entering the world of eSports, this time it’s Paris Saint-Germain, the current French league champions. PSG has signed a partnership with the WEBEDIA group, which owns French organisation Milleniun and organises tournaments in the region. Through this partnership PSG will create its own eSports …

Read More »

GMA 2016: Meet our host – Simon ‘The Miller Report’ Miller

There are just a few sleeps now until we open the doors for the Games Media Awards 2016. The event, which takes place on Tuesday October 11th at London’s Sway Bar, will celebrate the very best of the UK’s games media – whether print, digital or broadcast. The Miller Report’s …

Read More »

Uncharted remasters will be sold individually next month

Each of the games from Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection will be available individually from November 16th. Uncharted 1, 2 and 3, all of which were remastered for the collection last year, will be available individually in Europe, although seemingly not in other territories for the time being. No price …

Read More »

Oculus reveals completely wireless VR headset prototype

Arguably the biggest news to come out of Oculus Connect 3 was the reveal of a new wireless VR headset prototype. Known as Santa Cruz, the headset at first appears visually similar to the Oculus Rift, however upon closer inspection there is a clear lack of wires. Positioned on the …

Read More »