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The ESL UK Premiership, arguably the largest competition in CS:GO and LoL for UK based teams, is coming to its final stages and now we know the teams that will be battling it out for the title of champions. FM ESPORTS and MnM Gaming have qualified for the CS:GO finals, …

Cinedigm and The WHAM Network Inc have announced a new eSports focused digital channel that will broadcast content 24/7. Specific details of what the channel will involve are thin on the ground, but we do know that it will a digital streaming affair that will be available on all major …

ESL and DreamHack have announced a new deal with Twitter that will see action for both company’s events streamed on the social network. The deal will kick off with the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event being streamed on Twitter this weekend. Following on from that multiple other events, including ESL …

" For our developers it works great, for other developers it’s not nearly as useful as Unity. So it’s sort of like, it’s here if people want it."

IHS Markit has forecasted the Nintendo Switch will sell 4.4m units by the end of 2017, with the vast majority of buyers being either existing Nintendo console or handheld owners or general early adopters. That’s a slightly more conservative estimate compared to SuperData’s earlier report, which stated the research firm …

Hyper Light Drifter also wins big

Inside and Firewatch also big winners

We’ve seen plenty of surprise partnerships in the games industry over the years. Valve teamed up with phone maker HTC to create Vive, for example, and even the once staunchest of platform rivals, Nintendo and Sega, are now working side by side – except during the Olympics, of course.  But …

Could be a slow start due to initial launch line-up

Over at GDC Japanese mobile game developer Cygames announced that it has sponsored three of the biggest names in fighting games.  Cygames has quickly risen through the mobile game ranks in Japan, becoming one of the biggest publishers in the market. They now have so much disposable cash that they …