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Media giant IGN has acquired the pay-what-you-want game bundle service Humble Bundle, the companies have announced. Exact terms of the surprising deal haven’t been disclosed, but Humble Bundle has said it will now have "more resources and help from IGN" going forward. Otherwise, it’s still very much business as usual, …

Jungsoo ‘Surrender’ Kim has emerged as the victor of the Hearthstone Championship Tour Summer Championship, which took place at the new Blizzard Arena in Burbank. The South Korean player won out over Swedish Jon ‘Orange’ Westberg in the finals, earning himself $60,000 of the $250,000 prize pool, but also a …

Xbox console exclusive Cuphead has sold over a million copies in just two weeks, Studio MDHR has announced. Released on September 29th for Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam, the 30s animation-style run and gun title received rave reviews from both critics and fans alike, and had been much hyped …

Wargaming Moscow to be headed up by former Mail.Ru studio head Andrey Zimenko

FaZe snagged $500,000 last night, securing victory in the ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier grand finals with a 2-0 victory over Astralis.  FaZe came back from a dominant opening on Cache that saw Astralis leading 12-3 at the start of the first half, from there, FaZe came into the game like a …

FIFA 18 has now been the top of the UK weekly physical charts for the third consecutive week. Sales for EA’s title were down 55 per cent week-on-week but that was not enough for Warner Bros’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War to overtake the football behemoth and take the top spot. …

The quarterfinal draw for the League of Legends 2017 World Championships has been made, producing a balanced list of competitors for the competition’s knockout bracket. The knockout stage starts on Thursday, October 19, featuring two teams from Europe, one from North America, one from China and three from South Korea. …

The developer addresses tweets from a former employee made public over the weekend

In this series of articles from Sumo Digital, the UK studio opens its doors to show us what they do and how you can get involved

ESL veteran Ed Tomasi has been hired by Big Block to head up their esports division. Big Block are a creative services company that also acts as a technology investor and IP accelerator. Big Block view esports as one of their core verticals, and CEO Seven Volpone believes Tomasi is …