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The $1.4 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition ELEAGUE starts later tonight, and the prize pool distribution has finally been announced. At the end of the 10 week season the winning team will walk away with a massive $390,000. Second place will grab $140,000 with third and fourth grabbing a still …

UK High Street retailers have dropped the price of 2K shooter Battleborn just in time for the arrival of Blizzard’s rival team shooter Overwatch. Supermarkets such as Sainsburys and Tesco have dropped the game to 30. Online retailers such as Amazon, GAME, ShopTo, Gameseek and GameStop have all dropped their …

So widespread is the rumour that Nintendo’s NX will be a hybrid home-handheld device that plenty just presume it to be fact. But fresh chatter online has suggested this is not the case. Twitter stats guru ZhugeEX has linked to a Japanese investor report that makes an interesting claim. It …

20 up-and-coming creators across games, TV and film will be given a 12-month programme of career development support, including mentoring from experts in their fields

Creative director Neil Druckmann has revealed how the Uncharetd 4 development team went about ensuring strong women were represented in the game. When I’m introducing and describing a new character to our lead character concept artist, constantly she will ask, ‘What if it was a girl?’ And I’m like, Oh, …

Hajime Tabata, the director of Final Fantasy XV, has admitted that he had a fight on his hands to implement the sort of modernisation needed to secure the RPG series’ future. Speaking to 4Gamer in an interview translated by Kotaku, Tabata talked of what he calls a ‘Final Fantasy disease’ …

Chinese giant rumoured to be interested in taking majority share of Clash of Clans dev

Hajime Tabata recalls that development team was inflicted with ‘Final Fantasy disease’ and he had to tell them: ‘We’re not special. Wake up’

Developer Psyonix has announced that Rocket League players will today be able to indulge in some cross-platform online multiplayer between Xbox and PC. It’s the first Xbox One game to offer the functionality, which was first revealed back in March. Psyonix has also said that Rocket League has to date …

Veteran developer says he will “pay real actual money” to reclaim his classic IP