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“I’m off to new adventures,” he says cryptically of future plans

$8.2 million raised in first half of this year versus more than $20 million in the latter half of 2015

Blizzard is looking for someone to head up its Diablo franchise following the news that game director Josh Mosqueira has left the studio. Mosqueira joined Blizzard in 2011 and took over responsibility for the gothic RPG series two years later, replacing Jay Wilson. Wilson himselfexited Blizzard in June after 10 …

Karl Magnus Troedsson joined Battlefield studio as producer in 2001 before rising to become VP of group strategy at publisher parent

Warner Bros’ LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens has debuted at the top spot in the UK charts. The title is the fourth biggest LEGO game of all time, and the ninth LEGO game to debut at No.1 in the UK. It is also the fourth biggest launch for a …

Announcement follows recent exits of former Diablo III director Jay Wilson and designer Leonard Boyarsky

Trio from Guitar Hero developer, former Lionhead design lead and pair of comms hires bring Sea of Thieves studio’s additions over last three months to 13

ESL One Cologne, the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major, has sold out the LANXESS arena. Just under a week before the action is due to kick off in the largest sports stadium in Cologne the last ticket was sold, meaning over 14,000 spectators will be watching the best CS:GO players …

The top eight of the Street Fighter V tournament at EVO will be broadcast live on ESPN2. Earlier today it was revealed that over 5,000 people have signed up the for SFV competition at EVO, but once that has been whittled down to just eight the action will be shown …

Registration for EVO, the largest fighting game event of the year, just closed with 5,065 people signing up for the Street Fighter V tournament. Co-founder of EVO, Joey Cuellar, tweeted out the official numbers for the event earlier today, showing that Street Fighter V has more competitors than both Super …