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Gun Woong Jang is a famously polarizing figure in South Korean esports. His sometimes controversial actions, epic plays and even more epic victory songs have gained him a healthy amount of fans and critics alike. More than anything else, though, "Woong" has been a builder. Read more on ESPN >>>

Saturday was supposed to be the day that Dominique "SonicFox" McLean’s reign as king of Mortal Kombat was supposed to end. There was just one problem: Someone forgot to tell SonicFox. Read more on Daily Dot >>>

For only being gone for five months, the professional League of Legends landscape sure did change during the absence of Diego Quas” Ruiz. Four North American League Championship Series teams – including NRG, for which he now plays – didn’t even exist when Quas left Team Liquid last November, and …

In the first two weeks of the EU LCS, it’s dangerous to make assumptions about which teams will top the standings. Yet teams that sift to the top do so for a reason, whether it’s an easy early-season schedule or a head start at understanding their strengths and weaknesses. G2 …

Bursting onto the North American scene as a team known as NetCodeGuides, the current four man core of Counter Logic Gaming, Tarik "tarik" Celik, Stephen "reltuC" Cutler, James "hazed" Cobb and Joshua "JDM" Marzano, rapidly rose through the ranks of the North American scene and, for brief periods of time, …

For all the talk of hardware that has dominated the show, Sony doubled down on its upcoming games library for this year’s E3. While its debatable whether the PlayStation firm lived up to its stellar showing last year, where the company announced The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy VII Remake AND …

‘I’m back,’ says Metal Gear Solid creator on-stage during PlayStation conference

Sony says more than 50 games will be released for virtual reality device by the end of the year

Sony’s E3 2016 press event will get going shortly and you can watch it from the comfort of your home right here. The firm is following a strong showing from Microsoft, which saw the Xbox firm announcing not just a new SKU of its Xbox One, but also its vision …

Ubisoft Reflections has produced a sequel to its quirkly 2015 platformer Grow Home. The new game, called Grow Up, sees players try and take BUD (that’s the hero) to the moon. The game features a few new gameplay elements, including the ability to drop seeds to create plants that can …