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The second season of the Rainbow Six Pro League is already underway, with a new $150,000 prize pool up for grabs across the four disciplines. Teams will be competing in one of four competitions, split between the Xbox One and PC, and European and North American regions. At the end …

Sean Murray confirms threats via Twitter as game is pushed back to August

Though Fable studio Lionhead has been closed, the iconic RPG franchise is not dead yet. As reported by IGN, the developer was secretly developing a free-to-play Fable digital card game called Fable Fortune. The firm had been working on this for 18 months before the studio was shut. Now that …

Swedish studio will control series futures, but a third of revenues for Payday 3 will go to 505 Games

Payday 2’s controversial microtransactions have been scrapped as part of a deal that sees developer Starbreeze assume complete control of the franchise. The Swedish studio has said that it has acquired the full rights to the game from 505, which itself acquired a financial stake in the developer in early …

The MD of UK developer Hello Games has revealed that he has received death threats following the confirmation that No Man’s Sky has been delayed until August. The game will now arrive in the UK on August 12th, two days after it rolls out in the rest of Europe on …

Blizzard’s new IP Overwatch debuts at the top spot in the UK. The shooter is the publisher’s fastest-selling console game to yet. 47 per cent of physical sales were for PlayStation 4; 36 per cent for Xbox and a sizeable 18 per cent of sales were for PC. Uncharted 4: …

Twitch has announced Clips; a new feature that allows viewers to save 30 second video clips from any live stream. When something amazing happens on stream, all users have to do is press the Clip button, this will save the previous 25 seconds of the stream along with the next …

ELEAGUE, the $1.4 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition, hit US TV network TBS for the first time on Friday and averaged 509,000 total viewers. According to ELEAGUE’S official stats, the show was the second most discussed program of the night on Twitter, with over 710 million impressions on the social …

Digital game sales around the world rose by five per cents, reaching $6.2bn according to research firm SuperData. The company says that digital console saw the fastest growth, with a 23 per cent spike in revenue year-on-year. Meanwhile, audience rose 15 per cent. Mobile, MMO and PC games also saw …