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It’s not easy to form a competitive League of Legends team – you need to consider player roles, team dynamics, leadership, shotcalling and more. In this article, former ManaLight head coach Will "Frozen Dawn" Burgess (pictured with the team, third from left) offers advice to coaches, managers and players who …

Ubisoft has rolled out our first glimpse of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie in motion. The trailer (below) debuted last night on American talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live and shows us what we can expect from the forthcoming release. The film tells the story of Michael Fassbender’s Callum Lynch who …

‘We want to be the Ubisoft of VR publishing,’ says firm behind Oculus and PlayStation VR title The Assembly

Japanese publisher Sega is assessing whether it can make HD remasters of Shenmue 1 and 2. On the firm’sSega Centralchannel, Dan Sheridan – Sega Europe’s community manager – said that the firm is wants to release the aforementioned remasters. He did not, however, that licensing issues may put the brakes …

Tool for building tools now builds more tools

Over one million people have used Samsung’s Gear VR headset in the last month. That’s according to Oculus’ blog, which says that in the six months since its mobile VR headset hit shelves over one million people used the new tech. Note – this does not necessarily mean that one …

Publisher Paradox Interactive has urged fans to stop lambasting IGN for what some feel is an unfair review of Stellaris. The space strategy title, which is off to an incredibly strong start, has a Metacritic rating of 78 per cent. IGN awarded the title a 6.3/10, saying that sections later …

At the start of the year, nDreams announced that it was going to be publishing third-party virtual reality games. Now it has announced its first partner in this new venture – Paw Print Games and its currently-unnamed VR title.We talk to nDreams CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh about this new deal, as …

The eleventh season of the Intel Extreme masters has been announced and will feature a prize pool of more than $1 million. Players and teams in League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and StarCraft II will battle it out over three events during the course of the year in an …