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You've probably received the marketing emails and promoted social media posts already. It's #videogamesday. But where did Video Games Day come from?

By some strange decree, September 12th (today) has been named National Video Games Day, and to celebrate, retailer GAME has dropped the price of the Nintendo Switch to 259 for one day only, making it a great time to pick up the console if you haven’t already done so. That’s …

Ubisoft’s Reflections studio has announced it’s releasing a brand-new PC game in just over a week’s time. Entitled Atomega, the online multiplayer FPS has seemingly come out of nowhere, joining Gunpoint dev Tom Francis’ new title Heat Signature (which also launches next week) in a number of surprise release announcements …

The London-based BAFTA Award-winning Bossa Studios has raised $10m in Series A investment funding, the company has today announced. The round was led by Atomico, with participation from existing investors London Venture Partners. Atomico co-founder and partner Mattias Ljungman and executive-in-residence Alexis Bonte will also join Bossa’s board as part …

Led by Atomico, the funds will help Bossa to attract the best talent internationally to the studio and focus on A.I. development

A StarCraft 2 pro, Yum ‘Sea’ Bo Sung has been disqualified from South Korea’s Afreeca Starleague season four, for inappropriate behaviour while streaming.  Bo Sung, who was drinking at the time of the alleged incidents, was recorded live on his stream touching a female South Korean livestreamer repeatedly. Later, this …

Blizzard is reversing the synergy picks it implemented into Hearthstone’s Arena mode. The game’s 9.0 patch, released in August, made the first two rounds of the Arena draft offer up “synergy cards”, in addition to change the format of the Arena from Wild to Standard, with the new cards requiring …

A retail listing on Amazon France has hinted at a PC version of fighting game Injustice 2.  The listing that appeared is for the Injustice 2 Deluxe Edition, and gives no further information on a potential release date. It lists the game as a Windows version of the PS4 and …

The Sneaky Bears developer ends a new investment round with CEO of Shard Capital joining the board

EA has courted the esports crowd for a long time, with squad modes like Deathmatch, Rush and Obliteration offering a smaller scale vision of Battlefield’s 64 man squabbles more suited to competition.  Problem is, they’ve never really gained traction. Battlefield is a game about big fights: planes screaming overhead, tanks …