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85-year-old Koichi Sugiyama has worked on Square Enix’s RPG franchise since it began in 1986
Read More »International Factfile 2016: Switzerland
The Swiss games industry had a turnover of 226m CHF (178m) in 2015, according to the latest report by the Swiss Interactive Entertainment Association (SIEA). The market has declined by 7.6 per cent compared to 2014, due to a ‘rise in online sales’ (which are not included in the study). …
Read More »$75,000 Overwatch tournament heading to the Gfinity Arena
The Overwatch MGA 2016 Championship Presented by MSI has been announced with a $75,000 prize pool and a LAN final at the Gfinity arena in London. Four of the world’s best Overwatch teams will compete at the Gfinity arena on December 7th and 8th for the title of MGA world …
Read More »Female co-op character was considered for first Gears of War
The Coalition studio director Rod Fergusson hassaid that he suggested offering players the ability to choose between a male and female character in the the first Gears of War’s co-op multiplayer mode. When I first joined Epic, one of my first ideas I had for Cliff [Bleszinksi] was ‘Hey, how …
Read More »Peter Molyneux’s The Trail appears on iOS App Store
22Cans’ mysterious The Trail, which we’ve been aware of but known little about for quite some time, has suddenly appeared on the Apple App Store. The game does not yet appear to have launched proper, with its page only showing in some regions, and the app itself not yet available …
Read More »Studio Wildcard defends premium DLC for Early Access game
Expansion packs were always planned for Ark: Survival Evolved
Read More »Why do esports pros engage in match fixing?
How do you spot a cheat? How do you look at a match and say with certainty that it’s been fixed, that the results could not have been the outcome of a fair competition? How does a player watch a match between, say, the mediocre Russian Dota 2 organizations Fantastic …
Read More »ReDeYe On What Made The International 6 The Best One Yet
It is fair to say that The International 6 will go down as one of the greatest eSports tournaments ever. The venue was incredible, the production was some of the best we have ever seen and, of course, the in game action was on another level. Wings may have come …
Read More »Huni: ‘Maybe [I’d] like to be an LCK player’
Thirty minutes earlier, Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon sat in stunned silence at his desk, his face covered up by his hands. After going 17-1 and 16-2 in two consecutive splits, Immortals failed cinch the final seed for the World Championships after a one-sided loss to Cloud9 in the Regional Qualifiers. Read …
Read More »Blizzard on balance, better design and Eichenwalde
Eichenwalde, the first new map in Overwatch, has now wended its way from the PTR to the live servers. The German castle brings a unique flavour of attack and defence to the game’s Hybrid mode, affording defenders the opportunity to rain hell from on high and attackers the opportunity to …
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