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FACEIT has announced that it is bringing the finals of its ECS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition to Wembley Arena for the second time.  The first season of the ECS competition concluded at the Wembley Arena last year, with French side G2 Esports taking home the trophy. The season two finals …

Here’s some news we didn’t expect. Car manufacturer Subaru is hosting a $20,000 Counter-Strike competition in partnership with eSports agency Damage.  The 2017 Subaru Invitational will feature eight top CS:GO teams from North America battling it out for a share of the $20,000 prize pool on May 13th and 14th. …

After a long period of instability in the Fnatic Dota 2 camp, the organisation has finally announced its new roster, and on paper it looks incredibly strong.  With long time member of the team Chai "Mushi" Yee Fung leaving to join Mineski a few months back Fnatic was left without …

Activision has announced the next DLC pack for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and it includes a remake of one of the series’ most well loved maps.  The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Continuum DLC pack will add four maps and a new Zombies experience and will launch on April …

The 2017 conference's third keynote to be delivered by the NYU professor

Dutch developer Engine Software is no longer making Terraria spin-off Otherworld. Terraria developer Re-Logic has confirmed that Engine has been yanked from the project after what appears to have been a long and problematic development period, with little progress being made since the announcement of Otherworld in early 2015. Our …

World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer Blizzard has won a US lawsuit against bot maker Bossland. The German company has been ordered to pay Blizzard $8.6m having been found guilty of nearly 43,000 counts of copyright infringement. Bossland had tried to have the case dismissed but chose not to defend …

EA owned developer BioWare has outlined some immediate improvements on the way for Mass Effect: Andromeda. The studio has also identified aspects of the game that will be worked on over the next two months. Tomorrow (Thursday April 5th) a patch will be released that will not only improve performance …

Charts have arrived on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass is the first title to take the No.1 spot. The charts are based on the number of downloads from the last two weeks, and will be updated automatically, according to Nintendo’s Switch news post, giving players an …

Potentially super-niche RPG Nier: Automata has achieved some definitely not niche sales numbers. Square Enix has announced that it has shipped 1m copies of the game across both physical and digital. It is currently available on PS4 and PC. The RPG has done very well critically, too, hitting 89 per …