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Pokemon Go co-creator Niantic has said that it is not accessing iOS users’ entire Google accounts. It emerged yesterday that, if a Google account is used at sign-in, the iOS version of the game grants itself complete access to the associated user account upon installation. This led to fears that …

Perhaps the biggest and most surprising roster change in Counter-Strike this year was the transfer of Markus Kjaerbye” Kjrbye from Team Dignitas to Astralis and Rene cajunb” Borg going in the other direction. At the time, both sides were struggling and seemed to be in need of some kind of …

We’re just a week out from Evo 2016, but trying to pick the Super Smash Bros. Melee favorite heading into the event is difficult at best. The events at WTFox 2, which wrapped up on July 3, makes it even more confusing. In an odd sequence of events, Joseph Mango” …

Microsoft and Creative England offering up to £50,000 in funding

SK Gaming claimed their second back-to-back CS:GO Major this weekend after defeating Team Liquid in the ESL One Cologne finals. Though under the Luminosity Gaming banner for April’s MLG Columbus, the same Brazilian squad have cemented their place at the top of the pack as we head into a new …

Splyce has heard it all before: the jeers from North American fans and the disinterest from analysts when the discussion inevitably shifts to the Call of Duty European scene. For Splyce’s shot caller Joshua-Lee "Joshh" Sheppard, it almost becomes second nature. "It’s a topic that always comes up in conversation …

I’ve never understood American professional sports. The franchising system, the cornerstone of most U.S. sports leagues, makes teams permanent members of a league, rewarding mediocrity and penalizing success. This is vastly different to most European sports leagues, which feature promotion, relegation, and little-to-no connection between organization and league. As such, …

Splash Damage, the developer behind the likes of Brink, Quake Wars and Gears of Wars 4’s multiplayer has been bought by Chinese poultry firm Leyou Technologies. The UK studio, owned by founder and CEO Paul Wedgwood, is being bought for a sum ‘not in any event to exceed $150m’. This …

Battlefield is the latest game to be given the TV show treatment. Paramount Television and production company Anonymous Content, which recently worked on TV series The Knick, have acquired the rights of EA’s title, Variety reports. It’s actually not the first time that a Battlefield TV series has been announced …

Recently released free-to-play game Pokmon Go is going to make a lot of money, research firm App Annie claims. The company says that Pokmon Go could potentially generate $1bn a year, on the condition that the game no longer suffers server issues, is out worldwide and has further social and …