During Blizzard’s keynote speech at Blizzcon, they unveiled their newest Hearthstone’s latest expansion: Kobolds & Catacombs. This is the third and final expansion park for 2017, Hearthstone’s Year of the Mammoth. It brings 135 new cards themed around, well, kobolds and catacombs. It’ll launch in December, but players logging in …
Read More »Niantic buys 3D animation app Evertoon to work on Pokemon Go
The Pokemon Go developer buys the developer behind the app that lets you put photos on to 3D avatars to make your own movies
Read More »Gigiantic developer Motiga is closed by Perfect World
The free-to-play MOBA will continue under a small support team but the development studio will close and jobs lost
Read More »1V1 me: Call of Duty: WW2’s social space hides a competitive delight
We’re still getting stuck into Call of Duty: WW2, but tucked away in the game’s Normandy Beach social space is a bizarre esports treat: the 1v1 pit. The Pit, situated out on the beach and sealed in from the player-soldiers running around on the beach by impassable wooden barriers and …
Read More »Video games accounts for $3.7 billion of Canada’s annual GDP
New stats from ESA Canada shows the growing impact of the games industry in the country.
Read More »FACEIT’s Michele Attisani talks sustainability, the ECS and it’s Cancun experiment
The Esports Championship Series, better known merely by the acronym ECS, is becoming an institution in the worldwide Counter-Strike calendar. With the news that the finals for ECS Season 4 are taking place in a luxury hotel in Cancun, instead of the crowded Wembley Arena, we spoke to Michele Attisani, …
Read More »US games industry reacts to ESA endorsement of Tax Reform
The move is supposed to encourage growth in the US tech industry but has been met with criticism over other issues within the reform around low income
Read More »FaZe clan unveils new look CoD WW2 roster
FaZe Clan has confirmed their Call of Duty roster for the WWII season, announcing the full lineup this Thursday. The lineup will see Preston ‘Priest’ Greiner and James ‘Replays’ Crowder joining Dillon ‘Attach’ Price and Tommy ‘ZooMaa’ Paparatto. It’s a big step for the team, with this being the biggest …
Read More »Apple could become world’s first trillion-dollar company as shares hit record high
The release of the iPhone X has propelled Apple close to the point of becoming the world’s first ever trillion-dollar company. Apple’s share price hit an all-time high on Wednesday after a 19 per cent surge on news of record pre-orders for the iPhone X. The news came as a …
Read More »Consoles games market is nearing 50% digital tipping point
The move from physical to digital is happening faster than most analysts had predicted. A report from Games Industry shows that in some instances, triple-A console titles are seeing as much as 45 per cent of their sales being claimed by digital. Indeed, Activision just yesterday revealed that digital sales …
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