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It may be an old advertising slogan for the Mega Drive (or Genesis for American readers), but Sean Cleaver thinks the planned revival of Sega IPs could be great – if they are done properly of course
Read More »Opinion: To Be This Good Takes SEGA
Echo Fox picks up 80% of Team EnVyUs’s Gears of War roster
Echo Fox, the esports organisation owned by retired NBA star Rick Fox, has swooped in for four fifths of Team EnVyUs’ Gears of War roster. Jose ‘FraNChiS’ Mavo, Jamie ‘ToySxldier’ Rivera, Arody ‘Praized’ Dipre and Brian ‘Solurs’ Valenzuela are all leaving Team EnVyUs and joining Echo Fox, where they will play with Kyle Mason, the …
Read More »Former League of Legends pros back for one last job with three day Return of the Legends event
A three day event, Return of the Legends, promises to pit former Legends of the League scene together in a face-off between Asia and Europe. For Europe, Enrique ‘xPeke’ Cedeño Martínez, Lauri ‘Cyanide’ Happonen, Kevin ‘Kev1n’ Rubiszewski, Peter ‘yellowpete’ Wüppen and Manuel ‘LaMia’ Mildenberger will be representing the former pros, …
Read More »Ginx Esports TV to run live all-night esports broadcast ‘Fight Night’ on June 16th
GINX Esports TV has announced that it’ll be showing three live international esports events back-to-back on Friday 16th of June. The event, dubbed Fight Night and claimed to be the first ‘all-nighter’ on television to feature exclusively live esports content, will start at 9pm BST with OGN APEX Season 3 …
Read More »Sony PlayLink explained: More social gaming exclusively on PS4
Brighton-based Wish Studios will be making two games utilising the technology
Read More »Indie GoneGone – where are all the indies at E3 2017?
EA’s been marching to its own E3 drum for a couple of years now, but last weekend saw the publisher putting players at the heart of its event like never before. It not only had 300 content creators at its presentation, but also a barrage of YouTube co-hosts and an …
Read More »Phil Spencer wants to extend Xbox backwards compatibility to PC
The prospect of official emulation of original Xbox games on PC looks like it could be a realistic one. Microsoft announced this week that it is adding backwards compatibility with original Xbox games to the existing Xbox 360 compatibility already available on Xbox One. When asked by PC Gamer whether …
Read More »Riot Games opens New Delhi office
The League of Legends developer expands to India to grow local operations
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting an official Zombie mode
The ambitious plans for PC hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds continue to ramp up with confirmation of an all-new zombie mode. Last month a bunch of streamers hit the headlines by customising the game to offer a makeshift zombie mode. Now developer Bluehole has confirmed that the idea has been officially adopted. …
Read More »Yes, there’s a Mario Kart VR game for HTC Vive
Bet this wasn’t an announcement you were expecting this week. Bandai Namco has announced plans to open a large virtual reality arcade called VR Zone in Japan in Shinjuku, expanding upon the company’s previous installation. And curiously, among the games confirmed for the new venue is Mario Kart VR. Although …
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