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A few days ago, ESPN published a story outlining contract disputes between Luminosity Gaming’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team and SK Gaming. The story explained that the players signed a contract with Luminosity Gaming in December last year, but then entered talks with SK Gaming via email in February, which resulted …
Read More »Why Moscow deserves a Dota 2 major
This last month saw the conclusion of the first Epicenter, the first of its name and the biggest Dota 2 tournament put on by European production house Epic Esports Events. The five-man team who arranged and organized the entire tournament put on quite a show, with a massive Roshan on-stage …
Read More »Sascha Dikiciyan to score Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Artist will work alongside Human Revolution composer Michael McCann
Read More »SuperMassive talk MSI and big ambitions for Worlds
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 …
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