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Australian sports outfit the Adelaide Crows have made history by being the first mainstreams sports organisation in Australia to buy an esports team. Surprisingly, the team they’ve purchased aren’t for a sports game, which is the more standard route for sports organisations to get involved, but a league of legends …

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Two years after its inception, voice and text chat app Discord has announced that it has now reached 45m users. Mashable reports that concurrent users have hit a peak 4m, with daily active users standing at a massive 8.9m. As of July 2016 Discord had only 11m users, meaning that …

A new UK event has been launched that aims to ensure that the growing virtual reality sector starts from a position of diversity. The VR Diversity Initiative offers support and workshops for groups who are typically underrepresented in the tech sector, including women, LGBT, black, asian and minority ethnic professionals. …

The new game from Keiichi Yano and Masaya Matsuura is to revise its Kickstarter strategy after criticism about one of its stretch goals. The campaign had set up a stretch goal to bring the title to Nintendo Switch, but fans winced at the required total – $4.95m. The campaign originally …

Paradox Interactive is to open a new studio completely dedicated to mobile game development, the publisher announced today. The new studio will open inMalm, Sweden – the home of Little Nightmares developers Tarsier Studios and Massive Entertainment – and will be populated with a small team of developers led by …

Shortly after banning a player for two years yesterday, the Esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) has released a survey, looking to canvas opinions with regards to the appropriate sanctions for those caught cheating. It’s unusual for a governing body to attempt to crowd-source justice but the ESIC has had a lot …

Little Big PR’s CEO Alex Verrey discusses why the peripheral industry should "embrace quality". The gaming industry has been good to me. In fact, it’s all I’ve known. I left school to present a series of video game shows and somehow segued into gaming PR. I’m still here now and …

The Trading Card system will be locked away from new releases on Steam until they have have proven themselves to be real games. Many games offer Trading Cards which can be sold by players on the Steam marketplace. Their value is typically low, often around 10p or less, although some …