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Professional Gaming has come a long way since its beginnings in 1980, when more than 10,000 gaming fanatics gathered to compete in theSpace InvadersTournament. Today, the number of competitors and spectators runs into the tens of millions worldwide. With the stakes much higher, professional gamers can now make a living …

Nintendo has successfully taken an Italian seller of devices designed to allow pirated games to run to court – and won. The decision was made by the First Instance Tribunal of Milan against an importer and seller of so-called ‘circumvention devices’, with game copiers and mod chips given as two …

Nate Wells joins studio behind Ultima Underworld successor

It’s been three weeks sinceBlizzard’snewest franchise went into beta and already one of the oldest Americanesportsorganizations is planning to build a team in the game. CompLexity Gaming is looking to put together anOverwatchteam by talking toTeam Fortress 2players, founder Jason Lake told the Daily Dot. The organization already has a …

Adult video site Pornhub has said that the release of Fallout 4 caused a temporary dip in its traffic. The site told VentureBeat that traffic among its gaming users fell 10 per cent upon the game’s release. Traffic first started falling at around 5am US time on the day of …

The crowdfunded spiritual successor to adventure titles Myst and Riven has attracted the original composer for those games. Robyn Miller confirmed on Twitter that he will score the soundtrack for Obduction, adding that the game looks amazing”. Obduction was crowdfunded via Kickstarter back in 2013, with a launch this year …

Testronic Labs has signed on as the headline sponsor of this year’s Develop 100. First published in 2005, The Develop 100 celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and returns to print for the first time since 2011, included with the upcoming December/January issue of Develop magazine. This year, we will …

Newly-formed position goes to latest recruit Kathy Astromoff, founder of Blink

A kids game for handhelds that involves capturing fantastical creatures, then battling them against rival monsters. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. No, it’s not Pokmon we speak of, but newcomer Yo-Kai Watch. Like Nintendo’s critter-catcher, the ghost-hunting series has taken Japan by storm, crossing from 3DS into …

Upstairs and out of the way at BlizzCon were a series of rooms where Blizzard developers from a variety of teams were hidden away. Inside one of these rooms was Hamilton Chu, Executive Producer for Hearthstone, and we took the opportunity to have a frank discussion about the nature of …