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Microsoft’s technically impressive super hero title Crackdown 3 will now be coming out next year. Developer Reagent Games announced this delay via the title’s official website. It was initially set for a 2016 release following last year’s Gamescom. As well as this change of release date, Reagent has revealed that …
Read More »CLG: A story of plateaus
Bursting onto the North American scene as a team known as NetCodeGuides, the current four man core of Counter Logic Gaming, Tarik "tarik" Celik, Stephen "reltuC" Cutler, James "hazed" Cobb and Joshua "JDM" Marzano, rapidly rose through the ranks of the North American scene and, for brief periods of time, …
Read More »Kelsey Moser reviews the EU LCS Top 3: One of these is not like the other
In the first two weeks of the EU LCS, it’s dangerous to make assumptions about which teams will top the standings. Yet teams that sift to the top do so for a reason, whether it’s an easy early-season schedule or a head start at understanding their strengths and weaknesses. G2 …
Read More »Quas on returning to the LCS: "When I left the scene, I wasn’t planning on coming back immediately."
For only being gone for five months, the professional League of Legends landscape sure did change during the absence of Diego Quas” Ruiz. Four North American League Championship Series teams – including NRG, for which he now plays – didn’t even exist when Quas left Team Liquid last November, and …
Read More »SonicFox wins a third ESL Pro League title and takes home the largest cash prize in Mortal Kombat history
Saturday was supposed to be the day that Dominique "SonicFox" McLean’s reign as king of Mortal Kombat was supposed to end. There was just one problem: Someone forgot to tell SonicFox. Read more on Daily Dot >>>
Read More »The team builder of South Korea: Woong and Overwatch
Gun Woong Jang is a famously polarizing figure in South Korean esports. His sometimes controversial actions, epic plays and even more epic victory songs have gained him a healthy amount of fans and critics alike. More than anything else, though, "Woong" has been a builder. Read more on ESPN >>>
Read More »E3 2016 PLAYSTATION ROUNDUP: Sony goes big on software
For all the talk of hardware that has dominated the show, Sony doubled down on its upcoming games library for this year’s E3. While its debatable whether the PlayStation firm lived up to its stellar showing last year, where the company announced The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy VII Remake AND …
Read More »PlayStation’s E3 event kicks off at 2am UK time right here
Sony’s E3 2016 press event will get going shortly and you can watch it from the comfort of your home right here. The firm is following a strong showing from Microsoft, which saw the Xbox firm announcing not just a new SKU of its Xbox One, but also its vision …
Read More »Grow Home sequel Grow Up is out in August
Ubisoft Reflections has produced a sequel to its quirkly 2015 platformer Grow Home. The new game, called Grow Up, sees players try and take BUD (that’s the hero) to the moon. The game features a few new gameplay elements, including the ability to drop seeds to create plants that can …
Read More »Ubisoft’s Trials of the Blood Dragon mash-up is out now
Ubisoft has announced that it is combining the worlds of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon with its Trials motorcycle series. Trials of the Blood Dragon combines the motocross platforming of Trials with a full narrative with a 1980s twist. It was unveiled on stage during Ubisoft’s E3 press conference. It …
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