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Nielsen Esports will look at the competitive gaming scene and offer bespoke services, alongside its Esport24 tracker

Sold Out the digital and physical publisher today announced that industry marketing veteran, Sarah Hoeksma is joining the team as marketing director. Hoeksma has previously spent time with Ubisoft and EA before her tenure at Eidos and Square Enix Europe where she headed up brand marketing across the company’s Western …

We think it’s fair to say that the UK games industry was largely opposed to Brexit. While the EU wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, the alternative is far less palatable – businesses like to make plans and that’s kind of tricky when the currency is volatile. Your staff might want …

This year’s Golden Joystick Awards will take place on November 17th at an all-new venue, event organiser Future Publishing has announced, with comedian Danny Wallace making a return to hosting duties. Situated this year at London’s Bloomsbury Big Top, over 25 award categories will be up for grabs this year, …

Nintendo Switch sales rose by 10 per cent week-on-week in Japan last week, according to the latest figures from Famitsu, showing the appetite for Nintendo’s new console is still as fierce as ever despite a lack of new releases. The console sold another 77,000 units last week, taking its cumulative …

Sony DADC is making its first strategic move into the games peripherals market having signed a deal with US firm Dreamgear. The idea being to diversify DADC through its new Consumer Sales business unit. The exclusive partnership will bring a number of Dreamgear’s peripheral brands to the UK That includes …

Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has made waves this week, announcing Wednesday its first esports organisation sponsorship deals with Team SoloMid and Cloud9. The company’s sponsorship will take the form of T-Mobile becoming the ‘official cellular data partner’ for both organisations, according to announcements from both TSM and Cloud9. Cloud9’s announcement features …

Gearbox Publishing will be bringing indie sensation We Happy Few to retail, developer Compulsion Games has announced. The studio’s psychedelic title will hit shelves on April 13th 2018, for PS4, Xbox One and PC. We Happy Few will also get the collector’s edition treatment, with a ‘Collector’s Set’ (see picture …

Crackdown 3 is to miss its Xbox One X launch window, as Microsoft has confirmed the game’s now been delayed until Spring 2018. In a statement to Polygon,Microsoft Studios Publishing general managerShannon Loftis said the game needed more time to the finishing touches to its ambitious open world action title. …

Deep Silver is to publish Shenmue 3, the publisher has announced. Developed by Yu Suzuki’s YsNet studio, the global publishing deal will cover the release exclusively on PS4 and PC and will be arriving in both physical and digital editions. Shenmue 3 is currently expected to release in the second …