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The teams appeared at this years League of Legends Worlds World Championship has come to a close, with the North American and European League of Legends championship series taking place over the weekend, finalising the 24 teams that’ll be competing at Worlds. Worlds has grown from 16 to 24 teams …

GAMURS, the company behind esports website Dot Esports, has closed a $3.5m funding round, led by Aura Funds Management. The money is earmarked to “expand games coverage” and “go global”. GAMURS was started by founder Riad Chikhani when he was a teenager, and the company acquired Dot Esports in late …

Developers are still figuring out the virtual reality market, just as users are figuring out how it fits into their lives. Tanguy Dewavrin, CEO of social VR company Atom Republic, discusses VR’s social potential

In a blog post outlining the game’s new update, the PUBG team have shed light on the progress of vaulting. “There are some challenges to introducing the feature as soon as people are requesting,” said the blog post, written by the PUBG development and community team. “First of all, our …

UPDATED: Nintendo of Europe has since confirmed on Twitter that the Classic Mini: NES will also be returning to Europe next summer in addition to the US. Nintendo’s highly-sought after Classic Mini: NES is to go back into production, Nintendo of Japan tweeted this morning. The tweet, which Eurogamer has …

Nikki Lannen, CEO and founder of Dublin-based studio WarDucks (pictured right), speaks to MCV about her studio’s transition from mobile to console VR.  Virtual reality is the future. That looks pretty certain. The hardware is evolving, and adoption will almost certainly continue to increase. I work in a virtual reality …

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 …