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Jeff Minter from Space Giraffe and TxK fame is re-imaging the legendary Polybius arcade game as a PSVR exclusive. Announced with an incredibly detailed short story on the Playstation Blog, Minter revealed that he has decided to create Polybius exclusively for PSVR. He said in the announcement that it was …
Read More »Star Citizen’s single player campaign will miss 2016 launch date
Squadron 42, the single player branch of Star Citizen, has been delayed into 2017. At Citizencon the team at Cloud Imperium Games announced the delay, saying that the campaign would not meet its 2016 release date. While a lot of the technology behind the game is done there are still …
Read More »Production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 reportedly suspended
According to reports from South Korea production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been suspended. South Korean news company Yonhap reported that all production of the Note 7 has been halted after it was discovered that the new replacement devices were also likely to catch fire. Last month Samsung …
Read More »FIFA 17 still UK No.1, Mafia III debuts in second place
EA’s latest FIFA title has held onto the top spot in the UK charts for its second week on shelves. That’s according to GfK’s software ranks, which say that the football title saw a sales decline of 79 per cent week-on-week. Meanwhile, 2K Games’ latest new release, Mafia III, debuted …
Read More »Inside the Unique Culture and Business of Jonas Jerebko’s Trendsetting eSports Deals
This past July, while at Vegas Summer League watching his young Celtics get their fresh start in the NBA, Jonas Jerebko was up to something new himself sitting in the stands. Jerebko, who was with a business partner James O’Connor, texted Tobias Sherman, the IMG global head of eSports, We …
Read More »Thijs on the state of Hearthstone before BlizzCon
Thijs ‘Thijs’ Molendijk has proven himself one of Europe’s strongest Hearthstone talents time and time again. The Dutch prodigy is a regular fixture at the top of the podium on the EU leg of the Championship Tour, earning a spot at next month’s big one: the Hearthstone World Championship at …
Read More »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 »Could Modern Warfare Remastered cannibalise Infinite Warfare’s pro scene?
I think it is fair to say that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is not the Call of Duty game that the majority of the series’ hardcore fans are looking forward to most this year. That honour goes to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, a title that fans have …
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 …
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