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Streaming companies Hitbox and Azubu have come together and relaunched as Smashcast, the largest independent esports broadcaster outside of Asia. Smashcast comes from a mergers between Hitbox and Azubu, with a new platform live at www.smashcast.tv. The platform is also available on the App Store and Google Play, boasting new …

Esports is the future; there’s no doubt about that. However, it’s also now the past. TaleWorlds Entertainment has announced Mount and Blade: Warband’s very first esports event, seven years after the game was first released on Steam in 2010. The esports series, entitled ‘The Battle of Bucharest’ will see Europe’s …

Developer Gunfire has described how the desire to make a third Darksiders game survived the collapse of THQ and the end of the series’ original developer Vigil. The journey to Darksiders 3 was interesting,” Gunfire president and Vigial founder David Adams told IGN. We actually finished DS2 and then a …

Allegorithmic have added to the Substance family by introducing Substance Source, a new high resolution asset library. So we asked them to tell us all a bit more about it.  What is Substance Source? Substance Source is a physically-based material library where artists can get high-resolution customisable assets for any type …

Bandai Namco has banned two players from the Tekken 7 UK Championships following accusations that they colluded to throw a match. Kotaku reports that it has been alleged that Justin ‘King Jae’ Nelson conspired with Charmel ‘C-Krizzle’ Miedji Koloko in their third round match in last weekend’s Birmingham qualifier. The …

It looks like Assassin’s Creed is not be the only big IP returning this year. Developer Ghost Games has confirmed that its new Need for Speed title will be out by year end. The last console NFS title was 2015’s simply titled ‘Need for Speed’. Ghost has also confirmed that, …

The demand for Tegra processors increased revenue by 108 per cent

Danish esports organisations North and Singularity have got into a dust-up over the purchase of a player. Singularity claim that North, the esports branch of soccer team F.C. Copenhagen, didn’t pay the buyout for player Nicklas Gade. Gade joined North’s academy on April 12th, and Singularity owner Atle Stehouwer claims …

Full story on MCV details the recent stats on VR headset sales

Google’s Daydream View headset sales are set to jump to 2.23m in 2017, according to IHS Markit, but Samsung’s Gear VR is still on track to become the market leader this year with sales of 4.1m. This is a more conservative estimate than SuperData’s recent report, which pegs the Gear …