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Indie publisher TinyBuild has revealed that Punch Club has sold 300,000 units, as well as some alarming information about the degree to which the game has been pirated. The title has been illegally downloaded 1.6m times since it launched earlier this year. That breaks down as one million times on …

Forget basketball or baseball. These students are members of their school’s officialLeague of Legendsteam. And like many young esports hopefuls, their dream is to go pro. According toDaily EsportsandFomos(via tipster Sang), principal Bang Seung Ho ofAhyeon Polytechnic High Schoolin South Korea created an esports department (which was later renamed the …

Publisher Panic has expressed its gratitude for the way in which the video games community has made its recent narrative adventure title Firewatch such a great success. The company has revealed that in its first month Campo Santo’s game sold around 500,000 full-price units. Furthermore, it recouped the money spent …

The US Federal Trade Commission has agreed a final consent order with Machinima about the network’s future paid endorsements. In September last year the FTC ruled that Machinima was guilty of ‘deceptive advertising’ after it found that the network paid some YouTubers up to $30k to produce Xbox One videos …

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