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The first season of ELEAGUE, Turner’s CS:GO league, concluded on Saturday evening and pulled in some incredible numbers. There was more than 168,500 concurrent streams on Twitch for Saturday’s final, with approximately 48 million gross minutes of video consumption across TBS and Twitch. The final was also responsible for 2.9 …
Read More »Gamer drops $1,300 on early copy of No Man’s Sky
The game is out in less than two weeks, but for one gamer that was simply too long to bare. A Reddit user going by the name Daymeeuhn has paid out a truly mind blowing $1,300+ to land an early copy of No Man’ Sky. He then proceeded to dump …
Read More »Gamers will be able to come to this year’s Golden Joysticks
The 34th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards will be open to the public for the first time ever. Starting today, balcony tickets are being sold to attend the ceremony, which is once again taking place at the Indig02 at London’s O2 Arena on November 18th. The tickets cost 10 …
Read More »Sound matters: What does the player need to hear?
John Broomhall kicks off our Audio Special by asking sound designers to question the most important part of their work
Read More »Disney Infinity server shutdown timetabled
The clock is ticking on the online services for the Disney Infinity series. Having announced its abandonment of the franchise in May, Disney has now revealed a systematic timetable of server shutdowns that will see the series turned off on every format. Polygon reports that the first of these changes …
Read More »38 Studios dodges criminal charges after four-year fraud investigation
Kingdoms of Amalur creator accused of deceiving investors over $75 million loan after declaring bankruptcy in 2012
Read More »Ikinema debuts voice-activated animations for VR and AR
Project Intimate links a library of motions to ‘natural language words’
Read More »Frontwire Studios’ Star Wars spin-off Galaxy in Turmoil shut down by EA and Lucasfilm
Developer previously announced publishing deal with Valve and reassured fans classification as ‘parody’ would avoid legal complications
Read More »Ghostbusters dev Fireforge files for bankruptcy
Fireforge Games has declared bankruptcy three days after releasing its Ghostbusters spin-off title. Founded five years ago by former Blizzard dev Tim Campbell, the studio’s first (and, now, presumably last) full in-house release wasGhostbusters – although the studio worked on multiple MOBA projects with partners including Razer and Tencent. As …
Read More »LEGO Star Wars manages fifth week at head of the UK charts
Warner Bros’ latest LEGO title, The Force Awakens, has claimed its fifth consecutive No.1 since launch. In doing so, it is neck and neck with LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes as the LEGO title with the most consecutive weeks at the top of the UK charts. LEGO Batman 2 …
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