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Sony stormed the shores of France last weekwith their eyes set firmly on Paris Games Week’s centre stage. The company ignited the hearts of the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles crowd with a hearty press conference full of exciting games and an arsenal of mind-blowing tech. Amid a flurry of …

eSports betting service Unikrn has introduced a new “competitive integrity certification” program to better address the growing issue of match fixing and other forms of cheating pervading pro gaming events. Games Industry reports Unikrn’s program is meant to build a foundation of best practices to ensure the integrity of eSports. …

If you’re one of the those unlucky people who still don’t have access to theOverwatchbeta, you’re not alone. And there are 7 million reasons why you may still have to wait. That’s the number of people currently registered for theOverwatchbeta, according to Mike Morhaime, Blizzard’s president, who spoke to investors …

Publisher/developer seeking new indies to sign on November 12th

The future of series creator Hideo Kojima remains up in the air, but thoughts internally at Konami have apparently already turned to the next release in the Metal Gear series. Kotaku reports that the print edition of the latest Nikkei that Konami has already started ‘mulling over plans’ for a …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog blog shares some libraries you may not know you can access for free

Social games firm Zynga has announced the departure of its chief financial officer in spite of the publisher posting financial results exceeding its expectations. Zynga forecasted $155m to $170m for the quarter, and beat these predictions by recording bookings of $176m. This is an increase of $1m year-on-year – in …

Top fighting game competition the Evolution Championship Series will run fromJuly 15-17 next year in Las Vegas, lining up anotheranother weekend ofweekend of cheers, tears and clutch counters. It’s going to be great. The venue and gameshaven’t been announced yet, butKing of Fighters XIV and Tekken 7 lurk on the …

$176m in total bookings driven by growth in key mobile franchises

This month’s financial report will be the last time that Activision Blizzard confides subscriber numbers for World of Warcraft. The company has said it has made the decision as there are other metrics that are better indicators of the overall Blizzard business performance”. Which essentially means it doesn’t want to …