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Reported by Kotaku, Blizzard want to do more to increase under-represented people in workforce
Read More »Blizzard “global diversity and inclusion initiative” leaked in email
Discord introduces video chat and screen sharing
Video chat and screen sharing are coming to chat platform Discord, the company has announced. Both features have been in hot demand from the Discord community and the idea is to build stronger connections between its nearly 50m users. Rolling out today to a select group of users and the …
Read More »Ubisoft, Take-Two and the BGI headline MCV’s Gamescom issue
Gamescom is almost here. In just over a week, the worldwide gaming industry will be packing themselves into Cologne’s Koelnmesse for another year of wall-to-wall meetings, press demos and hot new announcements. In this week’s issue, we talk to this year’s exhibitors to find out how important Gamescom is to …
Read More »Blizzard partner with DeepMind to explore AI using StarCraft II
New deep learning tools, called SC2LE, hope to benchmark AI performance against human counterparts
Read More »Testronic Talk – Pre-production: Helping Developers get what they need, not just what they want
How does Testronic ensure that developer and publisher requirements are understood and addressed during on-boarding? How do you, as a developer or publisher, proceed with confidence if you don’t have a QA expert on staff? Testronic’s Head of Pre-Production Julian Mower takes a look…
Read More »Opinion: Narrative design: Why and when?
Writer Greg Buchanan and Linx Agency’s Benjamin Ryalls, look at why your project needs a writer earlier
Read More »RFRSH announces $250,000 CS:GO tournament, BLAST Pro Series
Six of the world’s best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams are coming together in Copenhagen’s Royal Arena for the BLAST Pro Series, with the teams playing on the main stage in front of a packed arena. The event is the biggest ever international esports event to take place in Denmark, and …
Read More »Publisher Kongregate announces $10 million fund for indie developers
The new initiative is designed to help developers by funding projects for the cross-platform publisher
Read More »Esports could feature in 2024 Paris Olympics
Esports players could be competing for Olympic medals in 2024. Tony Estanguet, the co-president of Paris’ Olympic Bid committee, has told the Associated Press that he’ll be looking to organise talks between esports representatives and the International Olympics Committee about esports joining the 2024 Olympics program. Paris will be hosting …
Read More »Danylo ‘Zeus’ Teslenko leaves Gambit Esports to return to Na’Vi
Danylo ‘Zeus’ Teslenko has returned to Natus Vincere after a year-long stint as Gambit Esports in-game leader that culminating in the team being crowned as PGL Major winners. In a Twitlonger, Teslenko talked about why he left Gambit, and it all seems to come down to coach Mykhailo ‘Kane’ Blagin, …
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