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Scottish eSports player Stephen ‘Snoopeh’ Ellis has said that he envisages a time where a union for professional video game players may become a necessity. Ellis, who has played League of Legends professionally for four years, has admitted in a Reddit AMA that he has now retired and sees his …

An episodic video game adaptation of the recently-concluded FX drama Sons of Anarchy is now available on Apple’s App Store. The first episode – dubbed Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect – arrives just a couple months after development of the game was announced by developer Orpheus Interactive. Sons of Anarchy: …

15 years ago, another woman on this Brit List – Lis Naylor – put Amanda Farr forward for a role at GT Interactive. The company was looking for a marketing manager for their back catalogue of products. Suffice to say, Farr got the job and she has since gone on …

Grand Theft Auto V took the top spot for the second straight week, and Dying Light earned two top ten finishes on this week’s Steam best sellers chart. Techland’s survival horror game finished in the runner-up spot, while its aforementioned ultimate edition grabbing seventh place. Sony’s H1Z1 continues to hang …

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Shelly Pearce has been one of the faces of Nintendo for over 16 years. She began as UK PR manager for THE Games – Nintendo’s UK distributor – in 1998, just after the launch of Goldeneye, and went on to handle the arrival of Pokmon in Britain. From there she …

As the end draws near for Club Nintendo, the American branch of the reward program has added a host of new options to its catalogue. Nintendo Life reports that new physical rewards include a Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle and a Majora’s Mask 3D ‘messenger bag’. There are also over …

A new and faster Raspberry Pi 2 model has been made available for sale at the same price as the previous B+ version. The $35 micro-computer features a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, which the organisation claims makes it six times more powerful than other models. As a result of …

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