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Two years after we first learned that plans for the game were in place, Titanfall 2 has at last been officially announced. All we have for now is a short teaser, pointing to a full reveal in June. What do we know for sure? That the game is in development …

Audio services firm now has two facilities in the region

EEDAR believes that almost 3,500 titles hit the PC marketplace last year

The UK games industry will gather at the end of the month for a ten-pin bowling tournament. The charity event, named Strike Club, will take place on Wednesday, April 27that the Ham Yard hotel in London. The evening’s goal is to raise over 30,000 for Special Effect, with the support …

Jennifer Ann’s Group looking for designers who can raise awareness and provide support to those affected by violence in teenage dating

‘We understand that you may now be a gender that you don’t identify with in real-life. Technically nothing has changed, since half the population was already living with those feelings.’

Publisher Wargaming is planning to create a union of pro players, said the firm’s head of European eSports Nicolas Passemard. Speaking to eSports Pro at Wargaming.net’s League Grand Finals, Passemardsaid: We are thinking about creating a pro player union, so the players will be able receive assistance from us. We …

In March, the organizers of NorCal Regionals 2016 suddenly announced that their title sponsor was Avyd, a company no one had heard of before. Shortly after, Avyd announced a $100,000 fighting game championship series featuring Street Fighter V, Mortal Kombat X, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Wii U, Guilty Gear …

Following the success of several coaches at the Shanghai Major, there’s been a lot of talk around the subject of coaching in Dota 2. However, too little of the discussion gets past the point of praising particular individuals while surrendering to the fact that there simply aren’t enough people qualified …

What to do if you run the most popular (and financially successful) game in the entire world? Well, either you sell it to Microsoft and start buying houses out from the under the nose of Beyonc, or you get busy building monolithic representations of your characters and coming up with …