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After a petition linked to William "Leffen" Hjelte’s denial of a US P-1 visa hit 100,000 signatures, the US government has issued a statement on whether or not eSports players are considered athletes. Earlier in the year the Free Leffen campaign was started in an attempt to help secure Leffen, …

Activision claims that Trek Industries’ shooter Orion has been using assets from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare. The weapon art in question includes the M8A7 rifle, the Haymaker rifle, and the Bal-27 rifle," stated Activision’s request. As a consequence, Orion has been removed from Steam for …

Nightdive Studios is trying to bring cult title System Shock back to life. The studio just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a remake of the iconic FPS title. The team’s goal is to raise $900,000, $360,000 of which has already been funded. The campaign will end on July 28th. …

In 1999, PC-focused Criterion Studios asked Fiona Sperry to set up a new development arm within the company. The result was Criterion Games, a step into the brave new world of console. Its first title was TrickStyle, a Dreamcast game published by Acclaim. The project was signed by one Alex …

Major devs including CD Projekt Red, Sam Barlow, DICE, The Chinese Room, Remedy and more nominated for this year’s celebration

The number of subscribers to Sony’s PlayStation Plus online mode has nearly doubled in the last year. In January 2015, the company boasted of 10.9m paid users on the service; that figure has now risen to 20.8m, according to a presentation by Sony Interactive Entertainment chief Andrew House at Sony’s …

19 years ago, System 3 partnered up with publisher Acclaim to release city-building title Constructor. The game became a cult hit, launching on PlayStation, PC and Mac, and went onto sell over 5m units. Now System 3 is bringing the series back, releasing a new HD version. It’s launching later …

Intel Developer Blog: The Multi-OS Engine supports the creation of native apps on both iOS and Android

Platform holder Microsoft has announced that it ditching its Fitness app on the Xbox One. Writing on the Microsoft Studios website, marketing and social media specialist Erica Bell said that the company has opted to scale back its support for Xbox Fitness due to the realities of having to update …