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Cult episodic game Life is Strange is being turned into a live action TV show. The series, to be distributed digitally, is being made in a collaboration between Legendary Digital Studios and Square Enix. DJ2 Entertainment’s Dmitri Johnson and Dan Jevons are handling production and development duties. The firm also …

Help: The Game features titles created in six days during a global games jam and costs £9.99, with all profits going towards charity

This week, MCV has taken a break, and in its place we have produced a one-off publication dedicated to eSports. In the first eSports Pro magazine, we speak to EA’s senior VP and GM of Competitive Gaming Todd Sitrin about the firm’s new eSports division. We also discuss regulation with …

Initiative far exceeds £25,000 target, will return in September 2017

Quantum Break studio teams with Korean dev to bring ‘unique blend of storytelling, memorable characters and inventive gameplay’ to free-to-play shooter

A new paper from a group of researchers at Indiana University has suggested that the treatment of female characters in games has drastically improved over the last ten years. "In the 1980s and early 1990s, a lot of the graphical integrity just didn’t allow for the characters to be sexualised,"explainedlead …

Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett is a Canadian CS:GO caster and, alongside Henry "HenryG" Greer, one of the most well-known personalities in the scene. Sadokist took the time to chat with theScore esports on the final day of the ESL One Cologne 2016 Major and talked about his third Major and how …

Is it esports?” This questions comes up, both honestly and facetiously, about a huge variety of games. Sometimes, esports is a groundswell, a way to mark the community that gathers around competitive games they’re passionate about. Other times, esports” seems more like a trope or a marketing tool. With each …

Over the course of a month, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, has been hit with arguably the biggest scandal in the game’s history and one which threatens to change the complexion of the professional scene forever. Read more on The Daily Dot >>>

On May 8, Riot Games permanently banned one of the top professional League of Legends teams in North America, Renegades, in one of the harshest punishments ever levied on an esports team. The move potentially cost the team and its two leaders, Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles and Chris Badawi, millions of …