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Outlet founder by former Blizzard dev reportedly suffers financial and legal woes over unreleased MOBA projects

The Vainglory Summer Season Championships will take place in Seattle and Cologne this September. Eight of the best North American Vainglory teams will head to Seattle to compete for the title of summer champions between September 2nd and 4th at the Amazon event center. The Battle in Seattle” event will …

The eSports Advertising Bureau has been founded to help brands enter the world of eSports sponsorship and advertisement. The group will offer tools to marketers that will help them understand eSports and it’s potential marketing opportunities, as well as help eSports companies with direct advertising issues. Elsewhere it will coordinate …

Yes, it does. Of all the criticisms thrown at the Wii U regarding design and cost, the accusation that the system ‘doesn’t have any games’ has perhaps haunted it the most from the off. Nintendo has now released official data on the number of physical titles released for every console …

Just days before the biggest Dota 2 event of the year starts, two of the competing teams have been given US visas. TnC and Execration, two teams that made it through the South East Asian qualifier, have been granted US P-1 visas after initially being denied. Both teams initially applied …

Learn everything from game mechanics to audio mixing in this eight-part series

PlayStation VR will need a fairly large clear space, according to documents that have cropped up online. Videogamer reports that a PS VR document uploaded to Reddit states a required area of 3 x 1.9 metres. Users are also required to be 0.6m back from the PlayStation Camera. This seems …

The semi finals and grand final of ELEAGUE will be broadcast live on Twitter over the weekend. The social network will host the full stream of all three matches from across the final weekend. The stream will host the observer feed of the event, meaning panel segments with on air …

The GeForce 970 was not quite the card it was made out to be, and Nvidia has agreed to pay out as a result. While the 970 was legitimately for a time the best bang-for-buck high-end graphics card on the market, the internal specs didn’t quite match up to the …

Month-long festival kick off with video games focus on August 8th and 9th