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Valve has announced that Dota 2’s upcoming co-op campaign SlitBreaker has been delayed. After initially stating that the campaign would be out “this month” the team have no revealed that they have pushed it back a week. “We are currently finishing up the Siltbreaker campaign and will unfortunately need to …

Ever since it launched in April last year, the HTC Vive has come with a couple of free games to get new users started with their new virtual reality headset. As of today, that bundle will now include Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft’s latest VR multiplayer experience. The game, which …

Sega Europe has announced a new publishing parternship with Two Point Studios, the Surrey-based studio headed up by industry veteran Gary Carr and Lionhead co-founder Mark Webley. The duo, who were previously responsible for titles such as Theme Park, Black & White and Fable, already have a new sim title …

Publisher Wired Productions has launched its own online store to support to launch of its upcoming titles, Victor Vran: Overkill Edition and The Town of Light. The store will mainly specialise in special collector’s editions, with the collector’s editons of both titles being some of the first products on sale. …

SK Telecom T1’s mid Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok, widely acknowledged to be the greatest League of Legends player in the world, has also become the first to earn over $1m in prize money after SK’s recent win at the Mid-Season Invitational event. Sang-hyeok has competed in 35 tournaments so far, and …

UK Call of Duty team Splyce have become the first UK team to win a major international in the US, defeating a perceived Call of Duty ‘curse’ which has seen UK teams struggle to make an impact outside of Europe. They’re also the first European team to win any tournament …

Nearly everyone who’s buying a new Oculus Rift headset is also purchasing its Touch motion controllers, Oculus has revealed. Speaking at a Digital Dragons presentation in Krakow last week, Oculus’ publishing and developer relations for third party content Paul Jastrzebski told developers that the recent price cuts on both the …

The Esports Integrity Coalition has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK Gambling Commission with the two organisations looking to pool information, a move which will put esports among traditional sports when it comes to betting and the preventative measures designed to prevent malpractice. ESIC also has an MOU …

HTC and Intel have teamed up to bring Intel’s WiGig wireless VR tech to the Vive, the companies announced today at Computex. HTC will also be taking on manufacturing duties for the WiGig wireless VR accessory. This isn’t the first wireless accessory that will be coming to the Vive, as …

Square Enix and PlatinumGames’ Nier: Automata has now shipped over 1.5m units worldwide on PS4 and PC, the publisher has confirmed. Announced via Twitter this morning, the figure includes both physical and digital sales of the game, marking another 500,000 copies sold over the last two months since Square Enix’s …