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This weekend was an embarrassing moment for esports. The ESL Pro League Season 5 final was playing out as North and G2 Esports clash. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team North were facing a partisan crowd, G2 getting adoration as one of the most popular teams in the sport, and the situation …

Mojang and Telltale Games have announced the second season of Minecraft: Story Mode, with the first episode set to launch digitally on July 11th on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices. A retail launch is also planned for the game, but this won’t be released until the …

After leaked box art appeared on Amazon this morning, Square Enix has now officially confirmed that the next entry in its Final Fantasy brawling series, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, will be heading to PS4 in Europe and North America in early 2018. Developed in partnership with Team Ninja and Koei …

Mad Catz was one of the most recognisable names in games peripherals. Its history stretched right back to 1989 and incorporated other well-known brands such as GameShark, Joytech, Saitek, and Tritton. It sold peripherals for practically every console, including every generation of PlayStation to date. The company also made the …

Valve's VR HDK will allow for the use of two base stations

There’s a new game on the way from the makers of Sniper Elite. It’s called Strange Brigade, and is described as a third person adventure set in the 1930s. It can be played solo, but also supports up to four players. It will be released on PS4, Xbox One and …

Neuston want to create 'high quality social-action games'

While most UK studios are dependent on third party funding, many of the options available are not ideal. But there is much that can be done

It’s E3 next week, in case you hadn’t heard. Organiser ESA has thrown around some numbers ahead of the big event, claiming that the week will generate over $40m for LA. The ESA is also keen to highlight the new blood attending the show. There will be 79 new companies …

The Los Angeles Convention Centre has always been a place of peril as well as profit. Attending is something of a survival course: high-pressure meetings, late-late-late-night networking, cross-floor appointment dashes or the grinding endurance test of simply standing and smiling on the stand. But forget everything you think you know …