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If you ask people who are not into competitive gaming where you can watch eSports matches, there’s a high probability only one name will be cited: Twitch. But there’s actually much more out there than just the Amazon-owned streaming platform. Azubu, DingIt, YouTube Gaming, MLG.tv, Facebook, the BBC, Ginx… These …
Read More »Revolution co-founder Charles Cecil joins Pewter Games as exec producer
The Little Acre developer signs to Curve Digital for Greenlit adventure game
Read More »Tarsier Studios partners with Bandai Namco to turn Hunger into Little Nightmares
Studio behind Vita version of LittleBigPlanet originally revealed horror adventure title in early 2014
Read More »Nordic Games rebrands as THQ Nordic
Two years after purchasing the THQ name, Nordic Games has reincorporated as THQ Nordic. According to CEO Lars Wingefors, this is due to the fact that the current Nordic business is so focused around franchises it purchased from THQ in 2013. The firm purchased several IP from the now-defunct publisher …
Read More »Remedy takes on RedLynx veteran as new CEO
Tero Virtala takes over from interim boss of Quantum Break studio, Markus Mäki, who returns to leading studio production
Read More »Opinion: eSports needs to grow up
SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen discusses the challenges that could hold back competitive gaming It’s not often that you get a chance to be part of an emerging industry before it becomes mainstream. Today, 214m people worldwide regularly watch competitive gaming, and the market is worth $892m, made up of 74 …
Read More »Opinion: Mainstream brands are at risk of being left behind by the digital generation
ESL UK’s co-managing director Spike Laurie discusses the new media behavior of the next generation, and why mainstream media and brands must pay very, very close attention I still take some relish when I reel off the statistics of this phenomenal industry, despite it being the umpteenth time I’ve invoked …
Read More »Mauricio Pochettino is the face of Championship Manager 17
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has been named as the cover star of Square Enix’s Championship Manager 17. The traitorous swine* Pochettino appears as the licensed front for the F2P iOS and Android game, which is released today. The title features over 450 clubs across 15 countries and 25 leagues, as …
Read More »Online play icon was removed from No Man’s Sky retail packaging
The discovery of a change to the UK packaging for No Man’s Sky has fuelled the heated conversation about the game’s online functions. Pictures have appeared online of a sticker placed on the rear of the game’s box. It pictures a PEGI 7 logo and violence warning. Removing it reveals …
Read More »Curve Digital to publish Charles Cecil’s The Little Acre
Greenlit adventure title The Little Acre has got itself a publisher, and one of the genre’s top producers. Industry legend Charles Cecil has been signed by Pewter Games as executive producer. Furthermore, Curve Digital will now publish the game, which will be released on PS4, Xbox One and PC later …
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