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For the second week in a row, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age has claimed both of the top spots in the Japanese weekly chart, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. Once again, the 3DS version of Square Enix’s successful RPG is proving to be …

Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out, and to celebrate, we opened 51 card packs from the expansion to see what came out. My wrists hurt from opening all of those cards, and I found myself six adorable Snowflipper Penguins, each less adorable than the last. Our 50 …

Millennial Esports, an event management and technology firm that offers turnkey solutions for the esports industry, has picked up a controlling stake in Eden Games. Eden Games are a Lyon based developer best known for mobile title Gear.Club. Millennial Esports has acquired 82.5% of the company for €9 million, in …

Reported by Kotaku, Blizzard want to do more to increase under-represented people in workforce

Video chat and screen sharing are coming to chat platform Discord, the company has announced. Both features have been in hot demand from the Discord community and the idea is to build stronger connections between its nearly 50m users. Rolling out today to a select group of users and the …

Gamescom is almost here. In just over a week, the worldwide gaming industry will be packing themselves into Cologne’s Koelnmesse for another year of wall-to-wall meetings, press demos and hot new announcements. In this week’s issue, we talk to this year’s exhibitors to find out how important Gamescom is to …

New deep learning tools, called SC2LE, hope to benchmark AI performance against human counterparts

How does Testronic ensure that developer and publisher requirements are understood and addressed during on-boarding? How do you, as a developer or publisher, proceed with confidence if you don’t have a QA expert on staff? Testronic’s Head of Pre-Production Julian Mower takes a look…

Writer Greg Buchanan and Linx Agency’s Benjamin Ryalls, look at why your project needs a writer earlier

Six of the world’s best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams are coming together in Copenhagen’s Royal Arena for the BLAST Pro Series, with the teams playing on the main stage in front of a packed arena. The event is the biggest ever international esports event to take place in Denmark, and …