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Steam will undergo yet another tweak to its curation systems in an effort to ensure that better quality titles get the exposure they deserve. Having played about with its user reviews policies last year, Kotaku reports that Valve has told YouTubers including Jim Sterling and John Bain that the company …

If you’re in the market for an HTC Vive tomorrow will very much be the day to act. HTC has announced that to mark the one year anniversary of the virtual reality headset’s release, 100 will be shaved off the price of the Vive tomorrow (April 5th), bringing it down …

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. …