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There is a new top-dog in theRiot Gamesranks, with the company creating the role of chairman of theLeagueChampionship Series(LCS) and appointing Dustin RedBeard” Beck—but what exactly is his new job? Beck was the vice president of esports and merchandise at Riot Games. He was regularly seen hoisting the Summoner’s Cup …

Early bird tickets for San Francisco event still available with €350 discount, but expected to vanish within the next week

Xbox has announced that it is acquiring MinecraftEdu and releasing a new edition of Minecraft for schools. Entitled Minecraft: Education Edition, the title is being made in collaboration with Teacher Gaming. It is currently set for release this summer. The title is going to be building upon what MinecraftEdu does …

Blizzard are fronting $4m in total across this year’s spring, summer and fall seasons of MOBA Heroes of the Storm. The money will be split across the three seasons leading up to BlizzCon’s Global Championship in autumn, and shared among the seven regions of localised competition around the world. Joining …

A Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has become the latest eSports squad to self-organise and determine their own future. Since leaving Team SoloMid at the end of last year – citing the complexities of living in Europe while being managed from the US West Coast – the Danish team has …

Studio to offer full source code access to CryEngine for free to students and researchers

In the late ’90s and ’00s, Geraint Evans worked at Future on brands such as GamesMaster. Now he is head of marketing of publisher PQube. Here he shares how he made the transition from journalism to PR and marketing I started working in the game industry in 1999 at Future …

TinyBuild Games just announced that Punch Club has grossed over $1m (0.6m) in just 10 days, with more than 100,000 sales across all platforms. It follows the game’s unusual marketing push via the ‘Twitch Plays’ system. Punch Club was launched on Steam on January 8thand on iOS on January 14th. …

The writer of PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture picked up the games writing prize at the British Writers’ Guild last night. Dan Pinchbeck of UK studio The Chinese Room beat out competition from murder mystery game Her Story and Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea. The first person title is …

Developer Lazy Bear Games refused to release the PC and iOS title until it was completed via an audience-controlled live stream