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ESL announced today the “world’s largest” Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will be held this August in Cologne’s LANXESS arena for a $250,000 prize pool. The tournament, from August 22-23, will tie for largest prize pool in CS:GO history along with the previous two DreamHack Winters and last year’s ESL One …

Norway’s largest commercial broadcaster TV 2 has agreed to broadcast a full eSports season. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, and StarCraft 2 will form the initial offer, Gosu Gamers reports. The program is being run in conjunction with events company House of Nerds. The majority of the broadcasts will …

ESL Legendary Series winner Hyerim ‘MagicAmy’ Lee is not a real person, according to accusation flying around the internet today. The Daily Dot reports that MagicAmy, who is signed to Andrey ‘Reynad’ Yanyuk’s team Tempo Storm, was accused in a Reddit post of being an online persona shared by multiple …

Digital indie PC hit Spintires has been hauled out of its development limbo. The game dabbled with the top of the Steam charts last summer and even passed the 100k sales barrier. However, a dispute between developer Pavel Zagrebelnyy and publisher Oovee saw work on the Kickstarted project grind to …

Monkey Island and Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer has criticised the recent treatment of Peter Molyneux online and in the press. I’d like to send our support to friend and fellow developer Peter Molyneux,” he said in a Broken Age Kickstarter update video, which you can see below. In the …

Tung Nguyen-Khac to head up online games firm from April onwards

Sony is to spin-off many of its businesses as PlayStation, Sony Pictures and image sensors are being repositioned as the core of its new structure. The company intends to split its audio and video (TV) divisions from its main operations in the same way it did its Vaio PC business. …

Free-to-play PS4 RPG Deep Down IS still in development, but has undergone some big changes since it was first unveiled. It looks like Deep Down will take just a little longer,” Capcom’s consumer games development boss Yoshinori Ono told 4Gamer, as reported by Siliconera. It also looks like some people …

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Ubisoft’s experimental PC Grow Home could yet brand out onto other platforms. Want to see Grow Home on consoles?” game artist at Ubisoft Reflections Jack Couvela said. We have to prove ourselves on PC first, so tell every PC gamer you know they have to buy it!” He also said …