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After anemotional interviewfollowing H2k’s win over Fnatic on Thursday, FORG1VEN announced an imminent nine-month absence from the European League Championship Series in order to fulfill his military obligations for his home country, Greece. Considering H2k is embroiled in a heated, three-way battle for first place on top of the EU …

A partnership between ESL and Intel is hoping to improve and support the diversity around competitive gaming with the launch of the AnyKey initiative this week. The core goal of the program is tocreate more opportunities and inclusive spaces in eSports, and advocate for underrepresented members of competitive communities, such …

A smartphone game inspired by Dark Souls sounds like a dream come true, but Bandai Namco’s Slashy Souls is quite possible not entirely what you expected. The free-to-play game is not developed by From Software, but does carry plenty of in-game messaging encouraging players to buy Dark Souls III from …

DingIt, the eSports-centric streaming platform, has finished its first year of broadcasting with 80m viewers under its belt. The site, which insists that the current model for eSports streaming is broken and wants to fix the problems inherent to games broadcasting, currently sees 20m montly unique viewers. To date, the …

Some of the functionality missing from Windows Store versions of PC games will be added in the future, Microsoft has said. It was reported last week that Steam and Windows Store versions of the same game are not equal, with the former missing some key functionality. For instance, the Store …

Next month will see developers finally get their hands on Microsoft’s augmented reality platform, HoloLens. An announcement accidentally posted ahead of embargo on Fortune (since pulled, viaReddit) revealed that the HoloLens Development Edition will open for pre-orders later today (February 29th) ahead of a March 30th release date. The kit …

As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Game Campaign award Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft Ubisoft brought the London-based title to market with public events, scale creative activations and big budget livestreams at …

With 8m units now shipped to retailers, the makers of the Raspberry Pi are now proclaiming that the machine can claim the crown of the best-selling British computer ever made. Sales of the unit should also pass the 8m figure this month, taking it past the current title holder – …

The UK games industry has paid tribute to Fergus McGovern, who tragically passed away at the weekend at just 50. An influential man in the business, Fergus has many friends at the top end of the games industry. In fact, he had given many of them their first jobs. A …

The in-development Zelda title for Wii U will also be released on NX, according to rumours online. So what, you may think? It’s easy to post anything you like on the internet. However, this particular rumour suddenly has a lot more weight behind it. Earlier this week a Neogaf poster …