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GAME recently published its financial results for the six months up to January 28th, including the key Christmas period. We all know that last year was tough for retail, as a number of key titles failed to chart over the key November release period, and more recently Ukie reported that …

RuneScape IP growth and investment sees the Cambridge studio achieve record performance

Sean Cleaver spoke to Slightly Mad Studios’ Andy Tudor about Project CARS 2, the improvements in their Livetrack technology and how the developer balances feedback

Company head leaves after just over a year in charge

The tech inside the next iteration of Xbox has been revealed to Digital Foundry

Microsoft has released a considerable amount of information on its next-gen console, Project Scorpio, through hardware experts Digital Foundry. The new console already had broad specs announced back at E3 2016 but today we can fill in some of the gaps. Without going too deep into the nitty-gritty, the new …

After expanding into Smash Bros and Counter-Strike, production company Beyond the Summit is returning to its roots with The Summit 7, a Dota 2 competition taking place this June.  The Summit 7 will run between June 14th and 18th at The Summit house just outside of Los Angeles. $100,000 will …

One of the UK’s biggest fighting game events has brought in some pretty big sponsors.  Hypespotting 6 is due to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 15th and 16th. The event will feature some of the best fighting game players in the world competing in titles such as Street …

American insurance company GEICO has renewed its sponsorship of ELEAGUE, after a successful first year working together.  GEICO was one of the first non-endemic brands to sponsor Tuner’s eSports competitions, and was featured heavily during all of the different events that ELEAGUE ran over the past 12 months.  While there …

Scuf Gaming has revealed two new PS4 controllers, one of which implements four paddles for the first time on the console.  The two new controllers are known as the SCUF IMPACT and SCUF Infinity4PS PRO. Both controllers feature the innards of the new PS4 controller, including improved wired connectivity options.  …