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The UK’s two largest video game magazine rivals are now one. Future has agreed terms to acquire Imagine Publishing parent Miura for 14.2m. Imagine’s portfolio includes GamesTM, Retro Gamer, Nowgamer.com, X-ONE, Play, For Beginners and SciFiNow. "This is a unique opportunity to acquire a market leading knowledge, science and technology …
Read More »A team-by-team introduction to professional Overwatch
Overwatch is still in it’s infancy but has shown promise from professional teams and developers that it is pushing to be the next great esport. ESL recently announced a $100,000 invitational tournament at the end of summer during Gamescom. With no announcements about official Activision Blizzard tournaments, many team owners …
Read More »felps: "Brazilians don’t give up"
We’re closing out our DreamHack ZOWIE Open Summer coverage with an interview with Joao "felps" Vasconcellos and Rafael "zakk" Fernandes following Immortal’s victory at the $100,000 event. Read more on HLTV >>>
Read More »Meet the players who’ve come out of nowhere to compete for a spot in the Hearthstone World Championship
In just a few days, eight relatively unknown players will travel to California to compete for just one spot in the Hearthstone World Championship. A total of $80,000 is on the line for the event, which is more money than these players have likely ever competed for before. But the …
Read More »CEO 2016 Smash Bros preview – The rivalry, the robot, the rest
The summer of Smash continues this weekend in Orlando, Florida at Community Effort Orlando 2016 (CEO). Originally a fighting game community event, CEO has now become one of the annual premier events for Smash. An impressive 678 entrants will be competing for the coveted CEO championship belt this year. Although …
Read More »The Dollars and Sense of eSports Team Ownership
Along with capturing the attention of those outside the video game industry, electronic sports (eSports) are attracting a new class of investors seeking to get in early on the rising phenomenon. Nowhere else is this more evident than in Riot Games’ League of Legends eSports scene – the League Championship …
Read More »No Diggity Dota 2 team signed by Escape Gaming days before TI6 qualifiers
Escape Gaming has signed the No Diggity Dota 2 team, just days after the squad was invited to the European qualifier for The International 6. No Diggity has been playing together for some months now, placing fourth at DreamLeague and qualifying for events such as EPICENTER. The team’s strong performances …
Read More »Leffen to miss CEO, US return pushed back to EVO
William "Leffen" Hjelte has dropped out of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament at Community Effort Orlando (CEO) due to personal reasons. The Smash Bros star tweeted earlier in the week that he will not be at CEO but will still take part at EVO next month. The news …
Read More »Blizzard removes ‘Avoid this player’ feature from Overwatch after matchmaking abuse
Some of Overwatch’s best players found themselves victim of a matchmaking feature that allowed rivals to ostracise them. Blizzard has said that it has disabled the ‘Avoid this player’ menu option (the UI itself will be updated in a later patch) after players were using it to distance themselves from …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed creator has not played a Ubisoft game in four years
Patrice Desilets has confessed that he has not played a Ubisoft game since Assassin’s Creed 3. Having designed both the Prince of Persia reboot as the first Assassin’s Creed, the developer originally left Ubisoft in 2010 for THQ, only to rejoin Ubisoft in 2013. However, just two months later he …
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