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Since writingyesterday’s articleabout the violent altercation between CS:GO panelist Richard Lewis and Dota 2 pro player Jonathan ‘Loda’ Berg at DreamHack Winter 2015, I’ve been contacted by DreamHack offering further comment. "We can confirm that an incident did occur between both parties" writes DreamHack’s Michael Van Driel "and that at …

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 …