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More than 50 million people played Hearthstone in May, according to Blizzard. That’s impressive, given that none of them have ever read the rules for Hearthstone—because you can’t. There’s no rulebook for the wildly popular digital card game. Should there be? Read more on Daily Dot >>>

We’ve now completed Week 2 in Turner’s grand experiment into eSports. Immediately after launch there were the standard, un-investigated headlines like E League Debut Should Have Other Professional Sports Concerned”. As expected the headlines don’t come close to telling the full story. If that works for you, stop now. If …

With the news that the Spanish soccer club Valencia CF is entering esports, marking the fourth such organization to do so, one may wonder why their North American athletic counterparts are not doing the same thing? Read more on PvP Live >>>

Riot has announced that the finals of the NA LCS Summer Split will be held in Toronto, Canada on August 27th and 28th. The Air Canada Centre will host the event that will see the top teams from the NA LCS Summer Split battle it out to become split champions, …

Publisher Ubisoft has given us some more details about the sequel to its 2014 hacking action title Watch Dogs. The rumours are indeed correct about Watch Dogs 2’s San Francisco setting and November 15th release date. In a video, the team behind the title provided more information about what we …

Remedy, the Finnish studio behind Max Payne, Alan Wake and Quantum Break, is currently working on two projects, but neither of them are Alan Wake titles. As reported by Polygon, the studio says that one of these titles is a brand new triple-A IP. Furthermore, it is not being published …

Activision’s celebration of all things Call of Duty is making a comeback later this year. Call of Duty XP is being held in Los Angeles and is taking place between September 2nd and 4th. The event features the Call of Duty World League Championship. Attendees will also be among the …

Zero tolerance seems to be very much the flavour of the month. After Blizzard last week told cheaters that they would face a lifetime ban from Overwatch if caught bending the rules, Ubisoft has unveiled its own no-holds-barred cheating policy. We are introducing a permanent ban on first offense for …

The leak was true: there is a sequel to 2013’s Injustice: Gods Among Us on the way. Publisher Warner Bros has revealed that a sequel – simply called Injustice 2 – is set for a 2017 launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The title is being developed by NeverRealm, …

Mobile platform allows players to compete in classic games such as Tetris and Pac-Man to win real money