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One of the most popular Hearthstone streamers has finally ascended to the higher ranks of the game’s ladder system. Followers of the game’s streaming scene will probably be surprised to hear that Octavian ‘Kripparrian’ Morosan has never hit the rank of Legend in the game before, but that was actually …

MCV takes a look at the best accessories heading to UK retail. This week, Creative blasts out its latest headset and PowerA helps Amiibo fans show off their collection Creative Sound BlasterX H5 Creative has launched a brand new range of gaming audio peripherals, dubbed the Sound BlasterX series. The …

A menagerie of robots, animals, ghosts and squid battled it out at the top of the Japanese games charts last week. Bandai Namco’s next instalment in its long-running Super Robot Taisen turn-based strategy series blasted to the number one spot in the software rankings, knocking Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: Happy Home …

Insomniac, Ubisoft and Astronauts devs offer advice via viral hashtag

More than 27m unique viewers watched Fnatic claim their third Major title at last weekend’s ESL Cologne CS:GO finals as all competitors tested negative for drug use. The Swedish team became the first to take back-to-back victories in front of an 11,000-strong crowd on both days in Germany’s largest indoor …

Rovio will lay off up to 260 staff as it aims to completely restructure the firm and reinvigorate its falling revenues. The redundancies will apply to the entire organisation. This excludes employees working on the upcoming Angry Birds Movie. Rovio CEO Pekka Rantala said in its current financial condition, the …

Redundancies to affect staff across entire organisation

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Indie publisher takes on former Gameloft exec as chief product officer

Start-up set to hire more staff and develop multiple new titles