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The second half of the finalists for this year’s inaugural eSports Industry Awards have been announced. The event, run by NewBay Media and MBN Events, will be held at London’s The Brewery on Monday, November 21st. The first wave of finalists were announced back in July, and now the remaining …

Sci-fi shooter has been purchased by at least 1 in 5 HTC Vive owners

The general public can now vote for their favourites in three categories ahead of November 21st event

Digital Homicide might have committed digital suicide after going to war with Valve. The studio has already taken legal action against video personality Jim Sterling after the Brit heavily criticised many of its titles in his Jimquisition series. Now it has alleged that an organised group formed on the back …

Studio behind Iron Maiden mobile RPG believed to have closed, devs already re-hired elsewhere

2K Games had a big week at UK physical retail last week with two brand new titles in the Top 10. BioShock: The Collection – a compilation of the original three BioShock games for PS4 and Xbox One – debuted at No.1 in the UK charts. Meanwhile the publisher’s basketball …

Switching roles can be a challenge for even seasoned Dota veterans. Moving from one lane to another means adjusting your positioning, your mentality, your entire playstyle. Kanishka Sosale, known to friends as "Sam" and the Dota world as "BuLba," hasn’t only changed roles this year; in fact, he has switched …

On Reddit, a salty fan of Cloud9 pointed out that VP fans at Dreamhack Bucharest appeared to be holding up signs reading THEY ARE A” and THEY ARE B.” While I’m a plenty salty C9 fan myself, I don’t believe that anyone in the crowd is capable of communicating the …

Until Snake’s near-miraculous run at the Regional Qualifier this year, the longest day of matches for any team in Chinese League of Legends esports was Sept. 8, 2013, the day Royal Club Huang Zu played nine straight games to qualify for the 2013 World Championship as China’s first seed. In …

A year and a half ago a small team at Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, were set to release a board game. But one fateful meeting with an outside consultant took the project in a new direction. In the end, it would require more than double the …