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Studios currently only invest 12 per cent of budget in promotion, with recommended ratio 1:1

Clash of Clans and Boom Beach creator teams up with Apple to offer charitable (RED) in-game purchases

Psyonix’s car-football hit Rocket League appears to be on its way to Xbox One. That’s according to the Taiwanese games rating board – thanks again – as reported by Gematsu and Twitter user Lifelower. Earlier this year, VP of marketing and communications Jeremy Dunham said that Rocket League was ‘100 …

Positions include rendering programmers, senior animators, character artists and audio designers

ArenaNet has partnered with ESL to launch a new global eSports structure that spans a pro league, a farm team system, and a minor league for ‘Guild Wars 2.’ NCSoft-owned game developer ArenaNet originally launched its massively multiplayer online (MMO) game,Guild Wars 2, in August 2012 as a $40 game …

The numbers are finally in for what appears to have been a blockbuster Black Friday. 86 per cent of all consoles sold last week were PlayStation 4 and Xbox Ones, an increase the 75 per cent that were sold during the same period last year. Software for those platforms made …

Most traditional sports haven’t always been considered true sports. When American football was invented in 1869, it was considered a game. It wasn’t until 1920 when the NFL was founded that the game of football was officially christened a sport. Basketball followed a similar path, as James Naismith invented the …

We need your entries for the MCV Awards 2016 to be submitted to us by Wednesday, December 16th – that’s just two weeks away! For a full list of categories and how to enter, click right here. To recap, the way the awards are being judged has been changed. They …

One of Europe’s oldest multi-discipline eSports organisations is moving into mobile by picking up a top Vainglory organisation. R3D Gaming has won almost every single tournament they have competed in since the launch of the tablet-based MOBA last November. The franchise consists of three teams of three players, all of …

US digital and satellite cable network Disney XD will air an hour-long special featuring Mario Kart 8 competitions next week, Nintendo has revealed. Dubbed Clash of the Karts: Mario Kart 8, the show is scheduled for December 5th at 8pm in both US Eastern and Pacific time zones. Clash of …