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Michael French, head of games at Games London, discusses the return of the London Games Festival last year, what we should expect from this year’s edition, kicking off today, and tells us more about next week’s Games Finance Market. Why bring the festival back in 2016? This isn’t a return of …

Oculus and Samsung claim to have started over with their smartphone-based Gear VR as the sector’s focus once again shifts to mobile. Both Oculus and HTC have alluded to a shift of priorities away from their high-end headsets and toward the more financially accessible smartphone market, and this new Gear …

The developers of new RPG Mass Effect Andromeda have told fans that their concerns are being listened to. The BioWare RPG has had a bit of a rough time of it since release, with parts of the fanbase complaining about the character models and animation. Character’s eyes, in particular, have …

Evil Geniuses has announced that electronics manufacturer Hisense is the latest company to sponsor the organisation.  The deal sees Hisense become the exclusive TV provider for Evil Geniuses, and will see the two parties working together on promotional events.  “We are thrilled for Evil Geniuses to join the Hisense family …

Gfinity has announced four of the eight organisations that will be fielding teams in its Elite Series competition.  Team Infused, Excel eSports, Reason Gaming and Prophecy are the first four teams to be announced for the competition, with the final four expected to be announced in the coming days.  All …

The 2017 Halo World Championships that took place last weekend have become the biggest Halo event ever in terms of viewership.  At its peak the streams for the Halo World Championships hit over 135,000 concurrent viewers across Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and Beam. Beam is Microsoft’s Twitch competitor if you were …

After a long qualifying process the final teams have been locked in for the $1.5 million ECS Counter-Strike League.  In Europe both Fnatic and Virtus Pro managed to retain their spots in the competition after beating North and Space Soldiers respectively in the promotion tournament. This means that North, who …

Blizzard has announced that the Overwatch World Cup will return for the second year.  The competition will see national teams formed, and they will compete for the title of Overwatch World Champions. The competition first debuted at Blizzcon last year, with South Korea unsurprisingly taking the win. However many assumed …

Former rivals GameStop and GAME come together

GAME has published its financial results for the six months up to January 28th, including the key Christmas period, and what have we learnt? Well, very little in fact. The figures largely tie with those we had from GAME back in January, when it updated us before its AGM. In …