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In the world of competitive gaming, you can have the sharpest mind, the fastest reflexes and be the greatest player alive in your bedroom—but it’s all for naught if you can’t perform under the spotlights of the big stage with thousands, sometimes millions, watching you. Read more at ESPN >>>

V1.10 of Serious Engine served as base for original 2001 shooter and its 2002 sequel

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has admitted that the number of Xbox titles making their way to PC may reduce the need for some corners of the market to buy into Xbox One. When pressed by Polygon on why a gamer with a decent gaming PC would need to buy Microsoft, …

Inkle Studios has rebuilt newly open-source tool from the ground-up in C# to support Unity

Former 343 Industries staffers hook up with DDM founder Jeff Hilbert to create multiplayer title for PC and console

The number of physical stores selling video games jumped up in 2015. 6,609 stores sold games in the UK last year, a rise of 1,337 over 2014. The data comes via GfK and retail trade body ERA. Every store type increased last year, including electrical chains (up by three stores), …

Ad mediation dynamically adjusts to player count in titles with low number of users

It’s the debate that will seemingly never die: is esports real esports? Should professional gamers be considered athletes, or even semi-athletes considering the amount of hours they have to train, research and prepare? Should video games even be associating the most proficient of its kind with the word sports at …

Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U title Star Fox Zero will work hard to ensure that it is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Development boss Shigeru Miyamoto told Time that the game will allow players to be invincible, the idea being that this will increase its appeal to kids. …

‘Rest assured that our passion to grow the world of EverQuest remains undiminished,’ adds studio president Russell Shanks