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Paris Saint-Germain has announced its starting roster for the upcoming EU Challenger Series split. The team will feature Etienne "Steve" Michels in the top lane, Thomas "Kirei" Yuen in the Jungle, Jin "Blanc" Seong-min in mid, Hampus "sprattel" Mikael Abrahamsson as the support and Na "Pilot" Woo-hyung as the AD …
Read More »NA LCS prize pool increased, relegation tweaked
Riot Games has revealed the changes coming to the North American LCS in 2017, and there isn’t all that much different. The big talking point in that relegation has been tweaked, just like in Europe, so that only the bottom two teams will have to play in the promotion tournament. …
Read More »Nintendo Switch won’t be as powerful as the PS4, report claims
The graphics on Nintendo’s Switch won’t be as good as even those found on the now three-year-old PS4. That’s according to VentureBeat, which reports that two sources have told it that Switch will be built using Nvidia’s last-generation Maxwell architecture and not its new Pascal design, as the latter is …
Read More »EU LCS goes to best of threes, has a new group stage format
Riot Games has announced the new format and broadcast schedule for the European LCS in 2017. The big news is that after just one split playing best of twos the EU LCS will now transition to best of threes, which the NA LCS tried out last year. Riot said that …
Read More »Todd Howard to be inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame
Bethesda creative director to be honoured at 20th D.I.C.E awards
Read More »Big Viking partners with comic outfit Valiant Entertainment
HTML5 developers to bring Valiant's comic characters to games
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 3: Fnatic’s CS:GO woes
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s Overwatch roster and the upcoming Overwatch League while today he jumps into the Fnatic CS:GO team’s difficult 2016. Go back twelve months …
Read More »Drifter Entertainment announces $2.25m in seed funding
Seed funding successful for the VR esports outfit
Read More »MCV’s Review of the Year – Part 2: Games of 2016
Here’s our take on the big events in the games industry this year. There were some very big releases this year; though some weren’t quite as big as hoped for. As we’ve discussed that ad nauseam in recent weeks, we’ll have no more talk of that here. We’ve picked out …
Read More »Studio Spotlight – Squanchtendo
Recognising VR's potential to raise a smile, two creatives with very different background came together to form a studio that respects the power of silliness. The result? An accounting game.
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