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Microsoft kicked off its Windows Mixed Reality event with a bang last night, announcing it had acquired social VR app startup Altspace VR. The firm had been struggling earlier in the year, and had even announced it was shutting down in July after a new funding round fell through. Only …

505 Games’ recently announced partnership with Quantum Break and Alan Wake studio Remedy Entertainment will take the publisher "to the next level." That’s according to Raffi Galante (pictured far right), CEO of 505 Games’ parent company Digital Bros.  "The partnership with Remedy is a huge opportunity for us," he told …

The social VR platform and Microsoft's mixed reality programe will work together to benefit both technologies

After the Dreamhack Montreal controversy that tore up Immortals’ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster, the organisation has started to rebuild, filling one of its empty slots with the signing of João ‘Horvy’ Horvath. Horvath comes into a tumultuous period for the team, with Vito ‘kNG’ Giuseppe benched and then released, and …

In this month's print and digital editions, we speak to Machine Games about how the first person shooter genre has evolved and take a look at VR one year after its mainstream launch

Reports from Bloomberg, picked up by IGN, suggest that the deal may extend by another six months, potentially delaying a PS4 release

Over 200 games were taken down from Valve's platform following user reports of "asset flipping"

A Nielsen study entitled “The Esports Playbook: Maximizing Investment Through Understanding The Fans” has revealed some interesting facts on numbers.  The headline is that while 71% of respondents believe that esports will become a mainstream activity in the near future, only 53% consider esports to be an actual sport.   Nielsen’s …

The audience analytics firm looks at the ways fans are consuming esports content and general audience behaviour in its 'Esports Playbook'

Updated with comment from Exertis at 13.54 on 3/10/17. Microsoft’s upcoming console is looking to be in extremely short supply, based on independent retailers that MCV has spoken with. One retailer told us that its allocation for the new console was just five units, way short of the hundred units …