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For Honor may have only been out for a matter of days, but it is already building up quite the competitive scene. Online competitions have proven to be very popular, and now one of the largest fighting game events in the world has included it in its game line up.  …

Millennial Esports has announced that it will open its eSports Arena in Las Vegas this week.  The grand opening will happen on Friday, March 3rd, with the North American Halo World Championship qualifier taking place on the same day at the venue.  The 15,000-square foot arena can hold up to …

Betway has announced the launch of the Betway Arena, a multi part eSports tournament series that kicks off with Dota 2.  The series starts off with top Dota 2 teams playing in a weekly king of the hill style competition. Each week one match will be played, with the winner …

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