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With the Overwatch League looming teams have been dropping Overwatch teams all over the place. Now Rise Nation has become the latest org to drop it’s quad, creating quite the free agent talent pool. The team was never quite able to break into the top tier of North American teams, …

Total worldwide shipments of VR and augmented reality headsets reached 2.3m in Q1, according to the latest data from IDC (via SeekingAlpha), with VR headsets representing over 98 per cent of those sales. Around 1.53m headsets were mobile headsets, including Samsung’s Gear VR, Google’s Daydream View, and TCL’s Alcatel VR, …

UPDATE:Soedesco’s Aerea is now a timed-exclusive on Steam, launching today (June 2nd) ahead of its boxed and console launch at the end of the month. The Steam version of Aerea will also launch with additional DLC in the form of the game’s soundtrack, which you’ll see below is composed by …

After a surprising victory for European team Splyce at the finals of the first stage of the Call of Duty Global Pro League the group draw for the second stage has been made, and the champions have a tough draw. Splyce have been drawn in the yellow group, alongside American …

Many eyebrows were raised when Nintendo announced that Switch owners would have to use their smartphones for voice chat when playing games online as part of its paid subscription service (which has now been delayed until early 2018, Nintendo announced this morning), but peripherals manufacturer Hori is likely to raise …

Founders Brandon Beck and Marc Merill will accept the award on Monday June 12th

BAFTA has announced that it will honour League of Legends developer Riot Games with a special award at E3 in a few weeks. The award will be presented to co-CEOs and co-founders Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, on behalf of Riot Games at an event in West Hollywood on June …

After a busy day announcing franchising for the NA LCS, Riot Games has also announced that the upcoming League of Legends: League of Origin tournament will be streamed on Twitter. The competition will run on June 3rd and 4th at the ESL Studio in Sydney, Australia. Players from across the …

India studio moves to new premises in Pune as Sumo Digital expansion continues

Creative marketing agency Substance Global has two new hires in its social media and project teams, as well as one promotion, the firm has announced. After six years at GameSpot, Sarah Lynch (pictured left) joins as project manager to support the team’s work on its entertainment clients, including Netflix, and …