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Valve has reiterated their decision not to host a single world championship for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive despite the success of last week’s Dota 2 finals. The International 5 concluded at the weekend, reaching a massive audience with several million watching across five official language streams, with American team Evil Geniuses …

Rocket League has again came out ahead on Steam’s latest top ten sellers chart for yet another consecutive week. Like the past several weeks, Ark: Survival Evolved and GTA V finished in order right behind the hit mulitplayer game. The trio have been unmovable from the top three spots for …

Moon Studio’s hit platform adventure game Ori and the Blind Forest is getting a Definitive Edition, complete with a new expansion. Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, better known as Major Nelson, announced on Twitter that the expansion content is coming to Windows 10 and Xbox One later this year.” Gematsu further reports …

Roll7’s skateboarding sequel OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood is heading to PC platforms next week, publisher Devolver Digital has announced. The game is set to launch on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms on August 11thvia Steam, GOG and Humble Store. The PC version will cost $14.99 – matching the PlayStaiton …

Breakout multiplayer hit Rocket League looks likely to make the move onto Xbox. The game has been a smash hit on PS4, where it was a free download for PlayStation Plus members, and has also topped the sales charts on Steam. It has to date been downloaded over 5m times. …

League of Legends players came in for a bit of a shock this week when it was discovered that one of the game’s heroes has been killed off. The news was a particular blow for those who had paid cash to play as the pirate Gangplank, or to access any …

Spectators of the upcoming Intel Extreme Masters tournaments at Gamescom will now see the action from their favourite player’s point of view within minutes of the match ending, thanks to Plays.tv. The video-capture and sharing platform has partnered with ESL to have their technology installed on every computer players compete …

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Mega Man Legends spiritual successor Red Ash has been funded and confirmed for PS4 and Xbox One in addition to PC, thanks to a new publishing deal with Fuze Entertainment. VG247 reports on the news, which was announced by developer Comcept in an updated on the game’s in-progress Kickstarter campaign. …

Rocket League has hit 5m downloads in only a matter of weeks, developer Psyonix has announced. Polygon reports on the milestone, which is made up by the combination of PC and PS4 purchases with PS Plus downloads. According to the studio, the figure doubles the lifetime downloads of Supersonic Acrobatic …