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To call it a showdown is understating it a bit. The first Rocket League Championship Series finals took place over the weekend, and it was a battle of the best – the most notorious names in Rocket League – as NA faced off against EU. The road to the grand …

Current Windows 10 exclusive Quantum Break will be released on Steam next month. The game, formerly believed to be an Xbox One exclusive, was announced for PC in February. Back then it was a Windows Store and Windows 10 exclusive. However, Xbox boss Phil Spencer did subsequently say that the …

Yesterday, Valve kicked off the first day of The International 2016 main event with an opening ceremony that was somehow both flamboyant and low-key. A large but unimposing figure in the shape of Gabe Newell, the company’s co-founder and managing director, strutted sheepishly onto the stage while Dota 2‘s theme …

11-day celebration of capital’s games industry aims to attract 50,000 visitors

In a month where Pokmon Go dominated the media, sales of boxed video games plunged to an all-time low. 21.4m was spent on physical video games in the UK during July – the lowest figure ever reported. The previous low happened in July 2013, when the market made just 23m. …

"If we win this, we’ll be one of the first who came in as the top dogs and actually won the whole thing," Tal "Fly" Aizik told me with his signature confidence ahead of OG’s Upper Bracket match this past weekend. "Like, Secret last year, they looked great, then failed …

In 1894, Pierre de Coubertin stood in front of a gathering of international sporting officials and proposed to change the world. Born into a French aristocratic family, Coubertin enjoyed the fruits of a high-class education. But instead of a career in politics or the military, he spent his life dedicated …

At over $20 million and climbing, the sixth International has the single largest purse in esports history. The International, Dota 2’s premier tournament, is essentially an esports World Cup. Teams gather from around the world to compete for the top prize—almost $9 million this year—and TI6 continues the tournament’s record-breaking …

Pokemon Uranium introduces more than 150 new monsters, three player characters, online battling and trading, and the new Tandor region

Engine firm will operate from city’s new tech hub CityView