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Ubisoft, ESL, and Xbox have announced that the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Pro League will begin its first season in March, with the top teams in North America and Europe laying siege to one another for their share of a total prize pool of $100,000. Tom Clancy’sRainbow Six Siegewas built …

Publisher Bethesda is holding an E3 conference for the second year running. That’s according to a tweet from the publisher’s official Twitter account (below), which asks readers to save the date. Bethesda’s E3 Showcase is taking place on June 12th 2016 at 7pm PT (4am BST).It’s not yet clear where …

Former Develop columnist The Alpenwolf returns to discuss how to take your game from imitation to innovation

Greenlight and Kickstarter hit Superhot finally has a release date. The time-bending first person shooter, in which time only progresses when the player is in motion, will be released on PC, Linux and Mac on February 25th. Surprisingly, the game is also getting a limited physical release on the same …

Lee “Life” Seung-Hyun, the 2014 StarCraft World Champion, has been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of match-fixing. The 19-year-old was taken into custody for questioning on Friday, though it was officially announced that he had been arrested and charged on Sunday with ‘receiving money to match-fix’. A report from …

Mark Cubanis setting his sights on "League of Legends" domination—tellingTMZ Sportshe’s interested in starting his own team to compete against the best in the video game world. FYI, "League of Legends" is a HUGE business—with 36 MILLION people who watched the 2015 ‘LoL’ World Championship … and clearly, Cuban has …

Toy company Mattel is bringing a game developer Barbie doll to the market later this year. This is part of the firm’s ‘Career of the Year’ push, dedicated to the toy icon’s chosen field of a particular year. The previous year saw Barbie pursue her career of being a film …

In the world of eSports, it’s hard for a game to be – and stay – on top. One major difference between eSports and real sports” is that the latter stays remarkably static. People don’t often jump ship from watching football to baseball after a few years because they get …

2015 saw unprecedented growth throughout the year for the Dota 2 competitive scene, and all of it culminated in a record-breaking $18.4 million prize pool at The International 5, the world championships for Dota 2. By winning TI5, Evil Geniuses collected more than $6.6 million of the prize money. With …

Initiative launched in October 2015 provides new studios with grants of up to £50,000