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Splyce has announced the signing of Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez, a professional Street Fighter player.  Filipino Champ is the first fighting game player that Splyce have signed, but if their previous history is anything to go by he probably won’t be the last.  As one of the top players in …

Team Dignitas has signed the former Selfless Female CS:GO team.  The team, which features Emmalee “emuhleet” Garrido, Amanda “rain” Smith, Mounira “Goosebreeder” Dobie, Carolyn “artStar” Noquez and Catherine “Cath” Leroux, will now play under the Team Dignitas banner. Their first event under the new name will be the Intel Extreme …

The Video Game History Foundation won't be a museum, but will preserve games digitally

It could be an Unrealy good stream

Key features include beta support and publishing to Chinese marketplace

Just one day after it was announced Avatar 2 is going into production, Ubisoft has revealed that it’s made a deal with Fox Interactive and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment to create a ‘cutting edge’ game based inthe Avatar universe. Massive Entertainment has been handed development duties, which are presumably well …

Encouraging next generation of designers to get involved with the industry early

Not every developer is happy with Amazon's record on indie developers

The Nintendo Switch is a platform of many firsts, but it will also be the first time Nippon Ichi Software’s Disgaea series has arrived on one of Nintendo’s home consoles.  The very first title in the strategy RPG franchise, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, arrived on the Nintendo DS back in …

Showing new headset at GDC 2017