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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 …

Eichenwalde, the first new map in Overwatch, has now wended its way from the PTR to the live servers. The German castle brings a unique flavour of attack and defence to the game’s Hybrid mode, affording defenders the opportunity to rain hell from on high and attackers the opportunity to …

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This week brings us patch 6.18, which is the patch that Worlds is going to be played on. There are some huge changes in here for champions that are big in the competitive scene as well as the release of Yorick’s rework. This patch is very obviously focused on the …

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Ambitious RPG Witcher 3 could be outscaled by the next release from its developer CD Projekt. The studio has said via an interview translated on Neogaf that there are currently more game developers working on Cyberpunk 2077 than on The Witcher 3 in its most intensive month”. Other details on …

The decision to release premium DLC for Ark: Survival Evolved while the main game remains in Early Access is consistent with realising the game’s early vision. That’s according to developer Studio Wildcard, which has reacted to the disquiet that greeted its recent announcement of the 15 Scorched Earth expansion. We …