Riot’s founders, Brandon Beck and Marc Merill, are changing their roles so that they’re more in touch with active development at the company. This was revealed in a blog post entitled ‘Founders’ Lane Swap’, where the pair talk about the early days of Riot Games, 11 years ago, mentioning that …
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In this week’s media and marketing special issue, we talk to IGN’s co-founder and chief content officer Peer Schneider about the constantly evolving platforms it must harness to build its audience and how IGN became a video first business. As Facebook has become a key component of any modern marketing …
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The developer who has been involved with almost every Bioware game since Jade Empire says its time to "move on"
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The composer has become a regular feature in video game music and he returns to the horror genre to recreate the iconic sound of Friday 13th
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The British Esports Association has appointed Ed Vaizey MP as Vice Chair. The government backed not-for-profit was set up to support grassroots esports in the UK. We reported this week that the organisation had joined up with UK games trade body UKIE, and they’ve been doing work with a number …
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The pair are moving away from management roles to "jump back into the trenches"
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The American basketball league will be the first to support a full season of live games on Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream
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Citing the risk of the Overwatch esports league and the frequency of top titles from Take-Two, analyst firm Cowen warns of potential underperformance
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Replay Events has announced the full line-up of games and publishers that will be attending this year’s Play Expo Manchester at Event City. Taking place this weekend (October 14th-15th), the event will see the likes of Ubisoft, Jagex, Techland, PQube, Lucid Games and more showcase their latest titles at the …
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Epic Games has announced that its controversial Battle Royale mode for Fortnite has already hit 10m players in just two weeks. The game also peaked at 525,000 concurrent players on Monday, with 3.7m active users on that day alone. To celebrate the milestone, Epic released an infographic, detailing (among other facts) …
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