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The world’s largest fighting game championship, the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) in Las Vegas, is going full esports for the 2016 event with new games, a bigger venue and an arena to watch the finals. Evo co-founder Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar announced Tuesday night this year’s game lineup, featuring nine …

Readers of the PlayStation Blog are used to posts highlighting new deals and quoting prices in pounds and euros. That, however, is now a thing of the past. From now on gamers will have to actually click through to Sony’s online store to discover the price of a game. That’s …

One billion Apple devices active

The business of eSports (video game competitions)is on pace to explodein 2016, which is reinforced by recent reveals of eSports platforms onTwitterandESPN. Brands are starting to catch up to the hype surrounding eSports and companies are seeking to find ways to exploit major growth in the space. One such enhancement …

Sony’s strategic joining of its Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment divisions represents a seismic shift in the gaming landscape. More important then the seemingly logical melding of games and internet was Sony’s decision to uproot PlayStation HQ from its long-term home in Tokyo and move it all the …

The remake of the first game in Sega’s Yakuza franchise – Like A Dragon in Japan – debuts at No.1 in the region’s Top Ten, according to data from Famitsu. Yakuza: Kiwami sold 174,665 units across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. The PS4 SKU took the lead with 100,647 units …

Tech giant Apple has posted its results for the first quarter of the year, with the firm reporting a record-breaking $18.4bn in net income. This is the highest ever profit ever recorded by a public company for a single quarter,beating the also record-breaking $18bn in profit Apple reported for Q1 …

EA has detailed four expansions on the way to Star Wars Battlefront for Season Pass holders. The first, called Outer Rim, will arrive in March and sees players fighting among the locations Tatooine and Sullest. That will feature Jabba’s Palace of Return of the Jedi fame. In the summer Bespin …

Echo Fox on Tuesday announced an expansion into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with Mohamad"m0E"Assad and Sean"sgares"Gares leading the charge. The expansion into Counter-Strike comes just more than a month after Echo Fox’s League of Legends branch was announced on Dec. 18. Speaking to ESPN, Echo Fox owner Rick Fox, a former …