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Director of product development Chelsea Blasko promoted to chief product officer
Read More »Greenshoots applications closes next week
Apply by 12pm Tuesday, Auguse 2nd to be in with a chance of up to £50,000 plus Xbox support
Read More »Expanded Oculus motion-tracking support paves way for room-scale VR
Oculus has updated the number of motion-tracking sensors supported by the Rift virtual reality headset, ahead of the launch of its Touch motion controllers later this year. The tech now allows devs to track through up to four boxes, twice the number used in the standard room-scale VR setup for …
Read More »Nintendo’s NX will be a handheld with removable controllers that runs on cartridges
Main body of machine will be a screen with a folding stand for portable use, running on Nvidia’s Tegra processor
Read More »NX is a portable console with detachable controllers, report claims
Nintendo’s NX, according to new reports, IS a portable console that can hook up to a TV. Eurogamer says it has word from a number of sources that the NX is a high-power portable console with its own integrated display. It adds that the device has an attachable controller at …
Read More »CS:GO ELeague Finals: What Can You Expect?
It’s been a ride. ELeague – the televised CS:GO tournament from Turner Broadcasting – is coming to an end, and it’s easy to call it a success. The matches have been thrilling, the production has been fantastic and the viewing numbers have been surprisingly high. Read more on Ginx >>>
Read More »How do you explain the phenomenon of watching videogames?
For all our think pieces about interactive media, social media, and virtual reality, we are all still very much living in a culture of spectation. Big budget movies, music videos, episodic television, and professional sports: these are still the main sites of cultural cohesion for most people in the United …
Read More »Why Overwatch’s South Korean coup matters
Crown and king should not be conflated – the latter is forever destined to be replaced. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes years, but in the end, the mantle must pass to another. No reign lasts forever, and League of Legends may be drawing on, at least in one nation. Read …
Read More »Checking Riot’s lane swap assumptions
So far, I’ve mainly dealt with statistics and fairly small, straightforward statements from Riot Games’ original statement discussing the changes coming to turrets and minions on Patch 6.15. Addressing the rest of Riot Games’ claims for why they believe the changes they are implementing are necessary requires more interpretation and …
Read More »Isaiah "TriForce" Johnson: building the Jamaican esports community into an industry
In esports, for every big-name region like China or the US, there’s dozens of smaller regions that have never found international success. Nowhere is this more true than Jamaica and the Caribbean, where Isaiah Triforce” Johnson, founder of Empire Arcadia, is fighting to help turn an esports community into an …
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