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Rocksteady’s popular PlayStation VR launch title Batman: Arkham VR will be arriving on other virtual reality platforms later this month. The game will be released on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on April 25th. The motion controllers for both systems will be supported. Arkham VR differs from Rocksteady’s other …

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Forged in the fires of Ludum Dare, Pony Island went on to become a popular Steam release. Jem Alexander chats to developer Daniel Mullins about the game’s development

Isamu Kamikokuryo and Yoshinori Yamagishi depart at the end of the financial year

FirstBlood.io has announced a partnership with the Esports Integrity Coalition.  The new partnership will see the two groups work together to form standard rulesets across the eSports world and utilise the FirstBlood tech to gather and share stats with all ESIC members. FirstBlood’s tech can be used to log match …

Blizzard has opened its first eSports arena over in Taipei in preparation for its first Asian Overwatch competition.  The arena holds up to 250 spectators and is known as the Blizzard eStadium. It will be used for smaller scale tournaments and it’s probably a safe bet to assume it might …

With the Call of Duty World League Birmingham event just weeks away the broadcast talent for the event has finally been announced.  Alan ‘Bricey’ Brice will be hosting the event, with Phil ‘Momo’ Whitfield, Chris Tunn, Jonas ‘Oxygen’ Ferry, Jack Campbell and Chris ‘Stealth’ Curtis casting the main stage competition. …

UMG has announced a new $75,000 Halo competition due to take place in Florida this May.  The HCS Daytona by UMG tournament will take place at the Ocean Center Arena in Daytona Beach between May 12th and 14th, with $75,000 up for grabs in the main competition. To compliment this …

Hardware manufacturer and long time sponsor of the fighting games scene Mad Catz has filed for bankruptcy.  The company has been in financial difficulty for some time, mostly thanks to the failure of Rock Band 4, which Mad Catz published. Since then the company has let multiple staff go and …