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We need your entries for the MCV Awards 2016 to be submitted to us by December 16th – that’s just four weeks away. Two additional categories have been added for 2016 (which make a return from previous years): Mainstream Retailer and Events Team. For a full list of categories and …

In the first in a new series of interviews, we find out what a developer would ask a publisher

High Street retailer GAME says that this coming Black Friday period will be its biggest yet. Black Friday this year falls on November 27th, with GAME’s deal continuing through to the following Monday, November 30th. As a part of this, GAME is sending Black Friday Daily deals straight to consumer’s …

Fnatic, one of Europe’s largest multi-game eSports organisations, is turning to Indiegogo to crowdfund a new line of team-branded peripherals. The Swedish team, which has top-flight teams in CS:GO, League of Legends and Dota 2, previously had a line of headphones, mice and mouse mats under the SteelSeries line of …

SuperData’s Joost Van Dreunen on the indiepocalypse and planning your game’s development

An investment group led by Sacramento Kings co-owners Andy Miller and Mark Mastrov has bought a spot in this year’s League Championships Series (LCS). The team to fill the spot, NRG eSports, is currently being filled with talent including former SKT World Champion Jung “Impact” Eon-yeong and Lee “GBM” Chang-seok. …

Intel Developer Blog: Essential reading for studios working on Android games

One of the largest multi-discipline eSports organisations in China closed its doors yesterday as Team DK chose to disband all its squads. The Chinese organisation, which had premier teams in Dota 2, League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm made the announcement via social media site Weibo. In the …

Ubisoft’s survival horror title Zombi is set for a boxed release. The publisher has announced that it will bringing the roguelike horror game to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in a physical release on January 21st, 2016. The game was initially a Wii U exclusive, entitled Zombi U, and …

Games industry analyst Michael Pachter has said that third-party support is vital to the success of Nintendo’s next home console. Writing in a column published by SIFTD (and then reported by Nintendo Insider), the Wedbush analyst said that the NX would be ‘doomed’ from the off if it fails to …