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The largest eSports tournament ever held on America’s East Coast will take place this October. Organised in collaboration between streaming giant Twitch, eSports body the ESL and New York Super Week organisers ReedPOP, ESL One will see eight Dota 2 teams battle for $250,000 in prize money. Like last year’s …

High Street retailer GAME has detailed a series of midnight events planned for the launches of Batman: Arkham Knight and The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited. 76 stores will be opening their doors on June 8th at 11:59pm for the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online. Meanwhile on June 22nd …

Marmalade’s Ivan Beliy on why the cross-platform tool provider is now offering support for Google’s Native Client

With an exist from Steam Early Access still a long way off, players seem to be abandoning online zombie game DayZ. The game came form nowhere to emerge as the big success of Christmas 2013 – despite being incomplete and receiving zero marketing. However, while it went on to sell …

'I had no idea this was coming,' says head of developer relations

Retail giant opens 70 positions across its game development teams

Several members of Driveclub and Motorstorm developer Evolution Studios have departed in order to set up their own venture. The new company Secret Sorcery is based in St Helens in the North West of England, and will be focused entirely on virtual reality games, according toGamesIndustry. The team is led …

Fire TV looks as if it may not be the final frontier for Amazon Game Studios. A job listing from the company on Gamasutra suggests that the developer is working on a new PC title. The team is made of former Portal, World of Warcraft and BioShock creators, and we’re …

Secret Sorcery now hiring, will show off early work to industry partners at E3 next week

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