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Not many will be surprised by Turkish team SuperMassive’s finishing place at the bottom of May’s Mid-Season Invitational, not even the team themselves. League of Legends is dominated by the core regions of NA, EU and South-East Asia. However at least one of their results in Shanghai did raise eyebrows, …
Read More »Miitomo decline proves downloads alone are not enough
Strong week one downloads aren’t enough to guarantee long-term success for your mobile title – that’s the conclusion of a new analysis by SurveyMonkey Intelligence that looks into the launch and subsequent decline of Miitomo. The data compares the social game to King’s Candy Crush Jelly Saga and Supercell’s Clash …
Read More »Xbox One VR announcement tipped for E3
Microsoft may have yet another surprise announcement up its sleeve for E3. It has already been suggested that the company will announce a new Xbox One Slim, an upgraded Xbox One and possibly even a streaming device (or two). Now is being suggested that Microsoft will also use E3 to …
Read More »Rainbow Six Pro League returns for Season 2 with $150,000 prize pool
The second season of the Rainbow Six Pro League is already underway, with a new $150,000 prize pool up for grabs across the four disciplines. Teams will be competing in one of four competitions, split between the Xbox One and PC, and European and North American regions. At the end …
Read More »Former Lionhead devs launching Fable card game on Kickstarter
Though Fable studio Lionhead has been closed, the iconic RPG franchise is not dead yet. As reported by IGN, the developer was secretly developing a free-to-play Fable digital card game called Fable Fortune. The firm had been working on this for 18 months before the studio was shut. Now that …
Read More »Starbreeze buys Payday rights from 505, scraps microtransactions
Payday 2’s controversial microtransactions have been scrapped as part of a deal that sees developer Starbreeze assume complete control of the franchise. The Swedish studio has said that it has acquired the full rights to the game from 505, which itself acquired a financial stake in the developer in early …
Read More »No Man’s Sky delay confirmed, leading to death threats for developer
The MD of UK developer Hello Games has revealed that he has received death threats following the confirmation that No Man’s Sky has been delayed until August. The game will now arrive in the UK on August 12th, two days after it rolls out in the rest of Europe on …
Read More »Overwatch shoots straight to No.1, is Blizzard’s fastest selling console title
Blizzard’s new IP Overwatch debuts at the top spot in the UK. The shooter is the publisher’s fastest-selling console game to yet. 47 per cent of physical sales were for PlayStation 4; 36 per cent for Xbox and a sizeable 18 per cent of sales were for PC. Uncharted 4: …
Read More »Twitch unveils new Clips feature to challenge Oddshot
Twitch has announced Clips; a new feature that allows viewers to save 30 second video clips from any live stream. When something amazing happens on stream, all users have to do is press the Clip button, this will save the previous 25 seconds of the stream along with the next …
Read More »ELEAGUE debuts on TBS, brings in over 500,000 viewers
ELEAGUE, the $1.4 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition, hit US TV network TBS for the first time on Friday and averaged 509,000 total viewers. According to ELEAGUE’S official stats, the show was the second most discussed program of the night on Twitter, with over 710 million impressions on the social …
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