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Smartphone manufacturer HTC has made a big move into the eSports sector by sponsorting no less than three professional teams. The Verge reports that the Chinese company has sealed sponsorship deals with Team Liquid, Cloud9 and Team SoloMid. Walter Wang and Thomas Chen have also been named as HTC’s new …

There are still tickets left to our Women of the Year awards, which take place on the afternoon of February 19th. Just over a week ago we revealed our Top 100 Women in Games– and has proven to be one of the most popular features we’ve published. Later next month, …

Over two years on from its release, MMO Guild Wars 2 is to receive its first expansion. Heart of Thorns will, according to ArenaNet, represent a re-envisioning of progression in an MMO” that offers a new Mastery system that offers new abilities for high level players, rather than simply upping …

Sega’s European marketing director Amanda Farr is moving to Xbox UK. Farr will be serving as head of Xbox content and services in the UK from March 2nd, and will be reporting to Xbox UK director of marketing Harvey Eagle. In this role she will be overseeing the management of …

Homeworld Remastered Collection will be released next month. Gearbox’s HD remaster of its sci-fi classic will be released on PC on February 25th. The SKU includes both Homeworld and Homeworld 2, both in original and remastered forms. As well as its visual HD makeover, complete with brand new textures and …

Double Fine's Dev Plays series continues with one of the pioneers of the first-person shooter

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"No one has gained access to our mainframe," stresses Mojang

Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has embarked on a major recruitment drive as it begins work on a new entry in the franchise. Studio boss Randy Pitchford posted a string of tweets calling for devs that want to join the team to head to Gearbox’s website to find out more about …

Some users who purchased digital copies of Far Cry 4 from certain key resellers are logging in to Uplay to discover that their game has been deleted. Destructoid reports that a number of Reddit and Ubisoft forum users are complaining that the game has simply vanished from their Uplay PC …