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The Swiss games industry had a turnover of 226m CHF (178m) in 2015, according to the latest report by the Swiss Interactive Entertainment Association (SIEA). The market has declined by 7.6 per cent compared to 2014, due to a ‘rise in online sales’ (which are not included in the study). …

Free-to-play adventure game appears on iTunes in the Philippines after two years of development

The Overwatch MGA 2016 Championship Presented by MSI has been announced with a $75,000 prize pool and a LAN final at the Gfinity arena in London. Four of the world’s best Overwatch teams will compete at the Gfinity arena on December 7th and 8th for the title of MGA world …

The Coalition studio director Rod Fergusson hassaid that he suggested offering players the ability to choose between a male and female character in the the first Gears of War’s co-op multiplayer mode. When I first joined Epic, one of my first ideas I had for Cliff [Bleszinksi] was ‘Hey, how …

22Cans’ mysterious The Trail, which we’ve been aware of but known little about for quite some time, has suddenly appeared on the Apple App Store. The game does not yet appear to have launched proper, with its page only showing in some regions, and the app itself not yet available …

‘It’s not a free choice,’ says The Coalition studio director, citing technical hurdles such as the amount of dialogue required

Expansion packs were always planned for Ark: Survival Evolved

How do you spot a cheat? How do you look at a match and say with certainty that it’s been fixed, that the results could not have been the outcome of a fair competition? How does a player watch a match between, say, the mediocre Russian Dota 2 organizations Fantastic …

It is fair to say that The International 6 will go down as one of the greatest eSports tournaments ever. The venue was incredible, the production was some of the best we have ever seen and, of course, the in game action was on another level. Wings may have come …

Thirty minutes earlier, Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon sat in stunned silence at his desk, his face covered up by his hands. After going 17-1 and 16-2 in two consecutive splits, Immortals failed cinch the final seed for the World Championships after a one-sided loss to Cloud9 in the Regional Qualifiers. Read …