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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 …
Read More »GitHub launches unlimited private repositories
Development site has also launched app-building Electron 1.0 platform
Read More »Mike Bithell: VR’s saturation means indie devs should return to mobile
‘Being away from where the herd is has always worked,’ Thomas Was Alone and Volume creator says
Read More »Indie community Game Jolt launches dedicated marketplace
Revenue split set at below 10%, with devs able to take home 100% if they choose to
Read More »Unity announces global Women in Gaming talks
Events across Netherlands, US and China to feature speakers including Fiona Sperry, Prof Tracey Fullerton and Prof Dana Carney
Read More »90% of Google Play revenue since 2012 has come from games
The number of downloads on Google Play has increased by 3.8 times since 2012, while revenue has shot up 35.7 times, in the last four years. That’s according to information from mobile analytics company App Annie, which also says that that games are the most popular category on the digital …
Read More »MarsTV and Perfect World join forces to host a $1 million Chinese Dota 2 league
MarsTV, Perfect World and the Chinese Sports Information Center of National Sports General Administration have partnered in order to create a $1 million Dota 2 league for Chinese teams. The first of two seasons of The Dota 2 Professional League, will start on May 18th and will feature 22 teams. …
Read More »Global Top Round accelerator offering first-time devs $40,000
Up to $90,000 in investment up for grabs in exchange for studio equity and 10% of a project’s revenue beyond $200,000 in sales
Read More »Gearbox is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Battleborn’s sales potential
Developer Gearbox has said that its new multiplayer shooter Battleborn is off to a steady” start that that it hopes lays the foundation for bigger sales in the future. Cautiously optimistic,” creative director Randy Varnell said on Twitch when asked how the studio felt about the game’s release. The launch …
Read More »Grey Alien partners with Power Up Audio on Shadowhand
Audio firm previously worked on Darkest Dungeon and Crypt of the Necodancer, winning the Best Audio prize at this year’s GDC Awards
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