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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has announced its next big esports event, with a $200,000 invitational taking place at IEM Oakland. The event will take place on November 18 and 19 in Oakland’s Oracle Arena, home of NBA’s Golden State Warriors.   The tournament, unlike previous large events which have shown off a …

Rumours of VR’s death have been greatly exaggerated, argues Climax Studios’ CEO, Simon Gardner. While niche now, the technology only paves the way for the ubiquity of AR and a new iPhone could be the catalyst

Scottish retailer Games Centre celebrated its 25th anniversary last month. We caught up with managing director Robert Lindsay (pictured right) to discuss its industry milestone. What’s changed the most in games retail over the last 25 years? The internet and digital have created the biggest changes in games retail. How we …

Immortals have named Ari Segal, a long time NHL executive, as their president and chief operating officer.  Segal’s role will see him reporting directly to Immortals CEO Noah Whinston, and will serve as a “non-voting board adviser” while his day to day responsibilities will involve him overseeing the business operations …

Gears Esports and The Coalition have announced that the second season of the Gears Pro Circuit will have an $2m prize pool, which, if hit, would double the $1m pool for season one.  Gears Esports have said that the addition of new regional events, grassroots tournaments and prize pool crowdfunding via …

Sony will be bringing a ‘Complete Edition’ of Horizon Zero Dawn to retail later this year – according to a tweet from the official account last night. The ‘game-of-the-year’ style release will include the original game, with all the additional ‘Digital Deluxe’ content, plus the upcoming Frozen Wilds expansion that …

Ubisoft is to buy back 4m of its own shares, the publisher has announced. In a short statement to investors, it said it had granted a mandate to a currently unknown investment services provider with a view to repurchasing up to an aggregate amount of four million shares starting from …

After the Minecraft Limited Edition Bundle, Microsoft has now announced two new bundles to boost sales of its Xbox One S. These new bundles will release alongside Assassin’s Creed Origins on October 27th, Microsoft announced on Xbox Wire. The 500GB version will include a download code for Ubisoft’s upcoming title, …

After several players from PENTA have departed the organisation in the last three months, the esports organisation has decided to step away from CS:GO, leaving the remaining three players teamless.  This information comes after the team lost Kevin ‘HS Tarn and Miikka ‘suNny’ Kemppi in August, while Niko ‘naSu’ Kovanen, …

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