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ESL has partnered with the Australian Cyber League to strengthen eSports’ community presence in the Oceanic region. The ACL, founded in 2006 and operating a technical events agency since 2011, has previously collaborated with Riot Games and Blizzard to run the publishers’ World Championship qualifiers in the Oceanic region. The …

Sony has announced that a rather fetching Aqua Blue version of its PlayStation Vita handled is to be released in the US. The $199.99 device will be exclusive to GameStop, which is already taking pre-orders. It’s the first time the slim version of the machine has been available in any …

Learn how to use the new tech with this handy series of tutorials

Team17 boss says: "There's simply far too few women at the top level of our industry"

Intel Developer Blog: A short tutorial showing you how to get started with compiling a Cocos2d-x demo to run on Android and Windows

Hacking collective Lizard Squad has targeted the website of the UK’s National Crime Agency in retaliation to a number of arrests made last week. VentureBeat reports that the group has claimed credit for a DDoS attack that took down the NCA website for about an hour. The action took place …

Gears of War creator opens up on his decision to leave Epic

Retailers have confirmed a release for Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode on disc. GAME has listings for the PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the title. The PS4 and Xbox One SKUs have a release date of November 11th, while the old-gen titles are said to be coming …

Outspoken developer Tomonobu Itagaki has again accused the press of getting it wrong in its critical mauling of Wii U shooter Devil’s Third. Having previously blamed poor previews on journalists’ collective lack of skill, and subsequently claim that the game will be a breakthrough for the industry” that is going …

Mark Taylor replaces Ciara Smyth, who has left the role after two years