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Wildly ambitious indie title No Man’s Sky has shot straight to the top of the boxed UK charts. According to GfK Entertainment, this is the second biggest PlayStation 4 launch for Sony behind Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which hit shelves earlier this year. It is also Sony’s biggest new …
Read More »Wings Gaming win $9.1 million at The International 6
Chinese team Wings Gaming managed to win The International 6 after beating Digital Chaos 3-1 in the final. The win sees the young side walk away with $9,139,002 and of course the title of the best Dota 2 team in the world. Second place Digital Chaos took home $3,427,126, while …
Read More »NRG eSports disbands its League of Legends team
After being relegated from the NA LCS just a few days ago, NRG eSports has lost all of its League of Legends players. According to a report from ESPN, NRG’s contracts permitted lawful termination if the team was relegated. This means that NRG currently has no League of Legends players …
Read More »Team YP signs Overwatch team
Controversial eSports organisation Team YP has signed its first Overwatch roster. The new team features members of the former Team YP Evolve team, who were widely considered to be one of the best in the world. Team captain Chairil Nightwane” Djoehana, Ronny Roon” Feuz and David Spanners” Morley all made …
Read More »Xbox One sales spike 75% during S launch week
The 2TB version of the new Xbox One S has already completely sold out in the UK, boosting sales of the console by more than 75 per cent last week. UK retailers told MCV that stock for the machine was tight, although Xbox will release more 2TB machines in the …
Read More »Fil’ Your Boots: The growth of games development in the Philippines
One of the most populated countries in the world, the Philippines is seeing local studios break onto the global games stage – even as the industry continues to struggle to gain traction back home. Develop catches up with developers, service firms and industry organisations in the country
Read More »How To: Implement Hybrid Frustum Traced Shadows
Nvidia senior developer technology engineer Jon Story explains the method behind the graphics specialist’s new shadow technique and reveals how devs can make use of it in their own games
Read More »Minecraft is the only premium app in the US 50 top-grossing
$6.99 Pocket Edition comes in at number 31 behind Clash of Clans, Pokémon Go, Hearthstone and more
Read More »Twitch’s battle to remain the top dog of eSports streaming
In the face of growing competition, Twitch is still the streaming space’s market leader and this is helped by its pro-gaming content. We speak to eSports boss Nick Allen about staying at the top How would assess 2016 so far for Twitch? With the eSports partnerships we’ve entered into this …
Read More »Firefly Games raises $10m to make mobile movie spin-offs
Developer-publisher also looking to expand into virtual reality and eSports
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