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Franchise creator agrees to license Pocket and PC versions for region

With regular tournaments giving all the new Overwatch teams practice during the closed beta, we’ve seen plenty of strong sides emerge who we expect will continue to impress once the game is fully launched. We’re sure to see new sides switch over to Overwatch from other first-person-shooters once the game …

ESPN calls it the next big esports. Organisations like Cloud9, Team Liquid, and Luminosity Gaming have fielded teams. Tournaments get announced every second day, in fact, audio giant Dolby just recently entered esports with a $10,000 Overwatch tournament. Overwatch esports is already a thing, even though the game is still …

We’re into the endzone here, folks. Overwatch is mere weeks away from becoming an actual, released game that people can buy and play for as long as they want without stopping for food or because Blizzard says it’s time to go home and see your families. What comes with that …

Three of the biggest personalities in Dota 2 are analyzing a game that’s just finished in the Stockholm studios of DreamHack, the legendary esports and gaming events company. That’s when the lights in the studio suddenly start blinking and an alarm blares. Read more on the Daily Dot >>>

The last time that William Leffen” Hjelte played Super Smash Bros. in North America, he swept Juan Hungrybox” Debiedma in the Grand Finals of HTC Throwdown. Just a month later, a visa issue kept him from competing in NA competitions for eight months, and by the time he got back, …

Dev hires PokerStars’ Daniel Kashti and former Team17 PR Sam Forrest

Founder Hideo Kojima jokes about the importance of a good kitchen at studios based on EA DICE’s ’40 microwaves’

Suite of tools for authoring 3D and 360-degree sound rebranded as Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End looks on track to be a fitting commercial send off for the series. Sony has said that combined physical Blu-ray and digital sell-through of the game worldwide since its launch last week has hit 2.7m units. The game is the fastest selling first party PS4 …