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Video games are demonised by a government filled by people who don’t understand them, according to one Australian senator. David Leyonhjelm, a senator for the Liberal Democratic Party in New South Wales, has appealed to the Senate this week to allow Australian adults to decide for themselves what video game …

DreamHack has announced that it will continue its partnership with Twitch for the ninth year running. The renewed agreement will mean that events and eSports competitions at the computer festival will continue to be streamed on Twitch throughout 2017. This continues the deal established back in 2009 between DreamHack and …

Company has now raised $5m in investment

PSVR owners eagerly awaiting some new titles are in for a treat after Sony announced a fresh batch of new games for its virtual reality system. UploadVR reports that the titles have all come from Sony’s China Heroes Project, which supports the country’s rapidly booming VR industry. Nine PS4 games …

Srinivasan is currently program director for education at Carnegie Corporation

Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership has unveiled a new strategy that aims to grow the video games industry within the region. A new report from the organisation, compiled in partnership with Ukie, says that around 130 UK games businesses are located in the area, many of which can be …

A Switch Joy Con returned by Nintendo after a repair has hinted at how Nintendo intends to fix its left controller problem. The platform holder has today said that a manufacturing variation” was to blame for what it says are a small number” of reported problems. This has apparently now …

Platform holder Nintendo has insisted that there are not inherent hardware problems with the Switch, but has admitted that it has changed how it manufactures the left Joy Con. Until now Nintendo’s only statement on the left Joy Con problem – which sees some users suffer from poor connectivity between …

Winning teams to exhibit at Birmingham EGX event, and several events around globe

Tencent, the Chinese tech behemoth, and owner of League of Legends developer, Riot Games, has reported it made $21.9 billion in revenue for 2016. Diving deeper into thefinancial report for the year 2016, which was released today, Tencent report that “online games revenues grew by 16% YoY [year on year]” …