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Gfinity says it has been ‘a brilliant first year’ sinceopening its eSports arenain London. The company transformed theVue Cinema Fulham Broadway multiplex into a dedicated 600-person capacity competitive gaming venue called the Gfinity Arena in March 2015. Speaking to PCR at theVainglory European Winter Championshipsthis weekend (which saw gaming pros …

Android and iPhone MOBAVaingloryhas already cemented its position as the most promising mobile eSport, but today the scene takes another big step towards professionalisation, with one of the game’s top teams announcing a partnership with Amazon. Ahead of the hotly anticipated Vainglory Winter Championship,SK Gamingare teaming up with Amazon AppStore. …

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North AmericanChallengersideEmberplans to release all of its players except one in the coming weeks, sources close to the team tell the Daily Dot. Emberis one of many teams in North America to benefit from a recent influx of investment money intoLeague of Legendsandesportsin general. But following a series of investor …

What appears to be concrete talk about an updated version of the PlayStation 4 is probably the most interesting thing to have come out of GDC last week. For those who missed it, Kotaku seems to have what sounds like pretty firm inside news on a new version of PS4 …

Company calls Unreal Engine ‘purest’ engine due to reliance on royalty from games, rather than profit from cloud services and advertising

David Diaz, VP of developer relations at mobile advertising tech firm Fyber, asks studios whether tvOS will be able to repeat the mobile success of iOS on TV

When the Sacramento Kings’ Golden 1 Center opens in October for the tipoff of the 2016-2017 NBA Season, the $507 million arena will have 1,000 Wi-Fi access points for 17,500 seats and an 84-foot-long 4K video board. While these features are great for NBA fans, Kings co-owner Andy Miller believes …

Of the three big players entering the VR fold this year, only one has a chance of being a mainstream hit. That’s according to DFC, which claims that the PS4 accessory will not only be the only successful VR player arriving this year, but also that it could propel the …

Isometric perspective, permadeath and procedural dungeon generation all detailed in pitch for Blizzard North’s seminal 1996 debut