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Ubisoft has unveiled its post-release plans for Assassin’s Creed Origins, including the Season Pass and free add-on content that will be available to all players.  The Season Pass, which is included in all Gold Editions of the game and available to buy separately, will be split into two main sections. …

The Rocket League Championship Series has detailed its season four world finals, revealed the date, place and the event’s $150,000 prize pool.  The event will take place between November 10-12 in Washington D.C. with 10 teams coming together to compete for the lion’s share of the prize at the MGM …

Fortnite’s new Battle Royale variant has only been around for a couple of weeks, but Epic Games took to Twitter yesterday to announce that the mode has already hit 525,000 concurrent players.  Fortnight Battle Royale is a completely free mode that’s anyone can download and play, only tangentially related to …

Immortals have signed Lucas ‘destinyy’ Bullo, bringing their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster back up to four players.  Bullo joins from fellow Brazilian outfit Tempo Storm, and he’ll be taking the role of entry fragger for Immortals, playing alongside fellow new signing Joao ‘Horby’ Horvath and original players Ricardo ‘boltz’ Prass …

The industry veterans join the now mobile game developer as COO and creative director respectively

Data firm Nielsen has published its usual rankings of the most anticipated games for the upcoming holiday season (from October to December 2017). Nielsen measures anticipation based on awareness, purchase interest and consumer rating, among other key metrics. This gives a percent value (called Game Rank) reflecting “how strong the …

South African football club the Orlando Pirates has announced a FIFA team as its first venture into esports.  “For the first year, Orlando Pirates will focus its esports energies on Electronic Arts franchise FIFA and will later look to moving into the more popular esports segments such as Counter-Strike, League …

The studio who develop free-to-play licensed games has downsized to increase focus on projects

Indie developer Byron Atkinson-Jones is going on stage to tell jokes in the name of charity. This month, he gets some advice from fellow games industry member, Claire Sharkey

Green Man Gaming has launched two new local language websites in Latin America today as part of the company’s internationalisation strategy, the e-retailer has announced.  Following the success of its English and German ecommerce websites, Green Man Gaming customers in key markets such as Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Mexico …