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Ubisoft has announced a new reward scheme called Ubisoft Club. That’s according to a trailer released by the publisher today (below), which details the scheme. Ubisoft Club applies to Ubisoft games, and lets players earn experience points, badges and units. Players across many platforms can play to earn extra content, …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Justice are conducting a probe into whether fantasy sports operators are violating federal law. Operators such as DraftKings and FanDuel have recently expanded their offerings to include eSports, with the former acquiring AlphaDraft last month. The investigation, in which the FBI …

Nexon has sold off its 15 per cent stake in South Korea publisher NCSoft. As reported byBusiness Korea, sales of the shares were worth $533.7m in cash. During the sell-off, NCSoft CEO Kim Taek-jin increased his stake in the companyfrom ten per centto 12 per cent by acquiring 440,000 shares. …

Mac owners who have invested early in Valve’s recently released Steam Controller and upcoming Steam Link have been told that neither device will currently work with their machine. Unfortunately, there are some temporary software issues that prevent the hardware from functioning with Macs,” Valve said in an email to customers, …

Russian eSports organisation Virtus.pro has received investment that could total over $100m from a company owned by one of Arsenal’s controlling figures. Virtus is Russia’s largest eSports group, organising tournaments, running a vast network of recording studios and hosting an eSports community that has over 7.6m subscribers. Its content was …

With excitement high around VR, SuperData's Joost van Dreunen considers the next step

Fantasy eSports firm,Vulcun, have announced that they are withdrawing their services from the state of Nevada, and have moved to bar all state residents from playing in its paid fantasy leagues and tournaments. Read more at SBC News >>>

Trion Worlds to continue development and add new content

Publisher aims to sign more games at November 12th event

The tie-in Defiance MMO will continue ‘exactly as before’, the CEO of Trion Worlds has pledged, following the cancellation of its TV counterpart. The sci-fi show has been dropped by US network Syfy after three seasons, having premiered in April 2013 – two weeks after developer Trion Worlds’ interconnecting MMO …