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The big eSports of the world may be hogging almost all of the spotlight right now, especially with the likes of Counter-Strike jamboree ESL One Cologne and Dota world cup The International 6 dominating the summer tournament landscape, but quietly, a mobile revolution is building, and leading the charge is …

Professional League of Legends is still a reasonably young entity, but it’s been around long enough that a line of players have come through the game who have served as role models, reference points and sources of inspiration for the current batch of pros. Read more on Slingshot eSports >>>

Competitive gamers from around the world were in Las Vegas over the weekend for the Evolution Championship Series (EVO), the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, competing in titles like Mortal Kombat XL, Killer Instinct and Street Fighter V. On Saturday, I found myself slouched over a barstool at …

The crowd erupted in Las Vegas, 15,000 fighting game fans clapping, cheering and booing as Infiltration suplexed his way to a victory over Fuudo, becoming Evolution 2016’s Street Fighter V champion. Read more on Mashable >>>

Major league sports teams are recruiting a new kind of player: one who can score with a joystick. In the past two months, Manchester City and West Ham United, two of the top English Premier League soccer teams, have signed professional video gamers to represent the clubs when playing FIFA, …

New arm of middleware firm will concentrate on producing digital ‘puppets’ which can react to humans instantly

For the fifth episode of The MCV & Develop Podcast, we are joined by two experienced writers from the video gaming world. Ed Fear is currently the lead writer at London-based studio Mediatonic, where he has penned the plot behind Heavenstrike Rivals and assisted with the translation of pigeon dating …

The scribes behind Tomb Raider, Mirror's Edge, Overload, Heavenstrike Rivals, Hatoful Boyfriend and more discuss advances in video game storytelling

Award will be given to the best unreleased game developed by a British studio

Less than a week after Twitch said it would take action against the streaming of Counter Strike gambling on its network, one leading streamer has been banned. Kotaku reports that PhantomL0rd’s channel has been pulled. It now simply carries the message: The community has closed this channel due to terms …