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Read More »CS:GO map creator FMPONE talks design, exploits, and updates
Shawn FMPONE” Snelling is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive level designer and community contributor. Snelling has had five levels in CS:GO, including his most recent project, Santorini, which was included in Operation: Wildfire. Snelling also collaborated with original authors Ted McIlwain on Season and Salvatore Volcano” Garozzo on Cache. Yahoo …
Read More »Esports Employment Law : Considerations and Risks
A few weeks ago Dylan Walker of Yahoo eSports spoke a bit about the distinction between independent contractors and employees in eSports. As the world of eSports has slowly become more legitimate and professional, teams and companies have started to contract with their workers. Some teams have unwittingly been classifying …
Read More »What to expect from World of Tanks’ Grand Finals
It’s that time of year again: the World of Tanks Grand Finals are almost upon us. The world’s best teams are rumbling down the streets of Warsaw, Poland, where they’ll face off against each other over the weekend of April 8-9 for a slice of the $300,000 prize pot. The …
Read More »The Evolution of Hax$
The year is 2008. Baltimore is playing host to Pound 3, a major event boasting over 200 players. Legends of the day are doing their best to traverse through the bracket. Jonathan "Plank" Graybeal is running the event, making sure people report for their next match. Names such as PC …
Read More »Twitch and FACEIT to launch team-owned Counter-Strike league today
The race to create the world’s premier Counter-Strike league is well and truly underway, and Twitch are the latest to announce their effort. Twitch has partnered with tournament organizer FACEIT to create the Esports Championship Series (ECS), a $3.5 million Counter-Strike league which will launch later today. The league, which …
Read More »Harmonix cancels Rock Band 4 PC, ‘disappointed’ game missed crowdfunding goal
Developer Harmonix has ditched the PC version of Rock Band 4. The firm announced this on its Fig page for the project, observing that there isn’t a large enough audience to make developing for this platform viable. This follows Harmonix’s crowdfunding effort for Rock Band 4 and the Rock Band …
Read More »Dev says American gun law frustration means guns will never be added to Subnautica
The developer of underwater survival adventure Subnautica has explained why the game does not equip players with guns to defend themselves. I am sorta confused at all the non-lethal items that are in the game to fend off predators and the only lethal thing I know of is the knife,” …
Read More »UK government backs the Olympics of eSports
Today the International eGames Committee, which is backed by the British government, announced the eGames, a new international eSports event. The first outing of the eGames will be a two day pop up event in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympic games. Players from across the world will represent …
Read More »Execution Labs helping dev create ‘video game show’
Incubator-turned-investor enters partnership with Robot Loves Kitty for Upsilon Circuit
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