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Successful social game Roblox has concluded a round of funding with investment totalling $92m. The game currently boasts 48m active monthly players, with some 1.7m creators adding content to its platform. And some of these do pretty well out of it, making as much as $50k a month selling their …

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has found Apple guilty of fixing the price of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 in the country. Russia first opened investigations into the issue last autumn, at which time Apple denied the accusations and insisted that retailers were solely responsible for setting the price of …

ESL has partnered with TEG Live, a major live events company operating out of Australia, to run the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney event.  The partnership will see the two companies collaborate on the CS:GO competition that is set to take place at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on May …

Hi-Rez has announced a Paladins “Console Wars” competition that is due to take place at DreamHack Valencia.  The competition will pit the best Xbox One and PS4 Paladins teams against each other, as they compete for a share of the $50,000 prize pool. The Xbox finals will take place first …

Car care company Turtle Wax has announced it has extended its sponsorship of OpTic Gaming.  The deal was originally formed back in early 2016 and has seen the two companies work together on content, and of course keep the cars of the OpTic stars looking fresh. The expansion will see …

The World Esports Association has announced a new set of rules for its competitions that restrict one company owning or having a financial stake in multiple teams in the league.  A statement released by WESA states that “no team is permitted to be completely or partially owned or controlled by …

Here’s a surprise – an upcoming VR game from one of Sony’s experimental divisions is in development for HTC Vive. UploadVR reports that Sony’s Wow Factory, which is a set of projects from the company’s innovation labs, unveiled a title called Gold Rush VR at the SXSW festival. Innovation lab …

Blizzard has announced that Blizzcon 2017 will take place on November 3rd and 4th 2017 and will once again return to the Anaheim Convention Center.  The two day event will, as ever, feature panels with developers discussing all aspects of their games, hands on with new updates and potentially entire …

The co-founder of YouTube channel Kinda Funny has quit the group after being drawn into a row about a sexist tweet. Colin Moriarty left IGN to form Kinda Funny in 2014. However, after tweeting about enjoying the peace and quiet on International Women’s Day, he has faced severe criticism both …

The launch of the Nintendo Switch earlier this month saw all major US retailers enjoy a boost to their online traffic. VentureBeat reports that data from analyst SimilarWeb shows that both GameStop and Toys R Us saw monthly traffic peaks on the day Switch launched – March 3rd. Traffic from …