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Google has announced the Pixel, the first phone made entirely by the search giant with no other companies involved. The Pixel features the best smartphone camera ever, with a 12.3MP camera featuring an f/2.0 aperture and big 1.55 micron pixels, which certainly sounds impressive. It also comes loaded with the …

An angry mod has taken it upon themselves to completely close the No Man’s Sky page on Reddit. User ‘Rougewolf’ blamed the toxicity that had infected the community for the move. Eurogamer reports that the subreddit had 150k subscribers at the time of its closure. So I purged the subreddit,” …

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Here we are again: With more than a little dj vu, North American clubs are 6-3 after the first week of games at Worlds. It’s the same three teams—Team SoloMid, Counter Logic Gaming and Cloud9—and the same overall regional record with the second round-robin looming. Read more on ESPN >>>

The biggest event of the League of Legends calendar is finally underway, and the action at Worlds has already been outstanding. Teams no one thought stood a chance have taken games off the top competitors, while teams that some predicted would go far have stumbled, and there have been more …

Once in a blue (buff) moon, Riot decides to really buckle down and create a jungle-specific champion. The last one we got was Rek’Sai and the time before that, well, let’s just say jungle was the role for rejected top lane champions. But with League’s newest jungler, Ivern, we are …

Last week, Hearthstone’s latest set of card changes were announced. Targeting some of the most oppressive and powerful decks in the game these nerfs could well change the game significantly ahead of the $1 million Hearthstone World Championship. Read more on The Daily Dot >>>

Steve Aoki just became the owner of an eSports team … and he’s crossing his fingers the investment’s worth it.We got Steve out in NYC where he told us about his fresh partnership with the Vegas gaming org. Rogue, which he says is "crushing it" in the 1st-person shooter Overwatch. …

PlayStation VR predicted nearly five times as many units sold as the HTC Vive

UK indie publisher Curve Digital is making moves into America. The company has just opened a brand new US office in San Francisco in attempt to improve its presence on that side of the pond. Curve’s American arm is hiring for marketing and developer relations staff. I am delighted to …