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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 …

CEO Paul Wedgwood also sells back-end tech firm Fireteam and publisher Warchest

The FTC has lambasted Warner Bros after it was discovered that it paid hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars” to a number of YouTubers to praise its Lord of the Rings title Shadow of Mordor. Recode reports that Warner paid agency Plaid Social Labs to create sponsored videos for …

New video games expo GamerMania has been cancelled. It was set to take place between July 29th and August 1st at London Excel. The event was being organised by MCM, the team behind the successful Comic Con events in May and October. GamerMania was announced in September last year as …

UK gamers may not have long to wait to get their hands on the official release of Pokemon Go. The game’s rollout outside of North America and Australia/New Zealand was earlier described as being on hold as co-developer Niantic struggled to keep up with the server demands of the title’s …

Virtual reality and indie titles on show in Brighton this week

Having previously been due out at the end of July, Warner’s HD Batman collection Return to Arkham may be far further off then expected. Eurogamer has word from multiple sources” that the game, the shock delay of which was announced at the end of June, will not now be released …