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The Miami Heat backed organisation Misfits has signed Armando "Angelic" Mejia, a fighting game player known for his Marvel vs Capcom skills. The move comes just months before Marvel vs Capcom Infinite is due to launch, with Angelic saying that he intends to compete in the new title.  Angelic becomes …

Swiss Football Club FC Lausanne-Sport has purchased the Qualitas Helvetica eSports organisation.  The org will now operate as Lausanne-Sport eSports, but outside of that little will change in the immediate future. The org has teams in FIFA, CS:GO, Overwatch Hearthstone and Rocket League, and may be looking to expand even …

Casters Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles and Erik "DoA" Lonnquist have announced that they are leaving Korea and will return to the US to work on the upcoming Overwatch League.  The pair are best known as the English language voices of Korean League of Legends. For years the pair were the main …

German organisation mousesports has returned to the Dota scene after a two year absence by signing the former Ad Finem roster.  After being a staple of the Dota scene for years Mouz has taken a break from the game in recent times, choosing instead to focus on its CS:GO squad. …

From its origins and the nichest of niche RPGs, Persona 5 can now credibly lay claim to being a mainstream hit. Publisher Atlus has announced that it has shipped 1.5m copies of the game worldwide. Around half a million of these were accounted for during the game’s Japanese launch in …

Media company IGN has announced that it will be Twitter’s official livestream broadcast partner for E3 2017 in June. A week’s worth of live online programming will kick off on June 10th and run until June 15th. Shows will broadcast directly from the expo floor and from IGN’s LA Studio. …

New studio ""Probably won't have much to announce in the near future as we hire, build our studio, buy a coffee machine and build Ikea furniture."

Retailer GameStop is investigating claims that credit card and customer data from its website is up for sale on the black market. GameStop recently received notification from a third party that it believed payment card data from cards used on the GameStop.com website was being offered for sale on a …

2000 AD recently hit its 40th anniversary and is still going strong. Judge Dredd continues to lead the charge and arguably remains the most recognisable British-created comic book character – Dennis the Menace aside, as he’s hardly an obvious draw for core gamers.  Behind him is a slew of popular …

PlayStation exclusive Persona 5 has debuted at No.1 in its first week in the UK Top 40. This is the first ever UK All Formats No.1 for Atlus, with GfK adding that the game enjoyed by far the biggest launch for a Persona title”. The title is published by Deep …