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Valve has taken a more direct role in Dota’s eSports calendar by announcing three more officially sponsored championships to join The International. The new tournaments will be held during each season of the year, with the first Dota 2 Major Championship, to take place this Fall after The International. The …

The long-awaited movie adaptation of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft franchise has slipped again, this time to the summer of 2016. Until today its latest release had it pegged for March 11th 2016 – which itself was a delay from the originally announced December 2015. Now it won’t arrive until June …

Developer Tripwire has included a clause in the end user license agreement for Steam title Killing Floor 2 that gives it the right to ban players who are abusive. We also will not tolerate anyone using the game, or any servers or forums provided for the game, to be continually …

The first run of a recently released Wii U game in Japan has included an unusual extra – boxed copy of the same game for the Wii. Kotaku reports that Rodea the Sky Soldier was originally made for Nintendo’s first motion-controlled console. However, despite being complete its original publisher Kadokawa …

Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Dishonored – Bethesda has produced some of the most talked-about titles in games. MCV investigates the publisher’s impressive repertoire In terms of commercial and critical success, there are few publishers that can match up to the creative output of Bethesda. Founded in 1986, the company’s perhaps …

Day one for Steam’s new paid mods from the Steam Workshop is not going well. As reported this morning, Steam has for the first time allowed mod makers to charge a fee for their efforts. Skyrim is the first title to offer premium mods. However, just hours after going live …

When Lionhead Studios made the decision to turn its latest entry in the long-running Fable franchise free-to-play, it knew one thing: not everyone was going to love it. The outlet announced back in February that upcoming co-operative action RPG Fable Legends wouldn’t cost a penny on either of its release …

Zynga’s second-in-command Clive Downie has resigned from the social gaming company and taken on a new role at Unity Technologies. The chief operating officer joined Zynga over a year ago from DeNA West, but now takes up the position of chief marketing officer at Unity, according toGamesBeat. His departure comes …

Start-up aims to change the way reward-based ads work in mobile games

In the first in a series of articles delving into VR design, nDream's Patrick O'Luanaigh discusses the importance of player position in virtual experiences