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This week, we investigate the ESA’s latest move, with E3 opening its doors to 15,000 members of the public for the first time in 2017. Will it make or break the show? The answer is in this week’s MCV. We also talk to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick about the publisher’s …

Over half of the companies staff laid off

Plays.TV, the service that can be used to record, replay, and relive games and streams, has received massive investment from multiple parties.  The company has raised $15 million in Series A funding, with an investment fund associated with the owners and executives of the San Francisco 49ers and basketball star …

New video games-focused licensing agency Bits and Pixels says it is aiming to get Overwatch-licensed goods into supermarkets as well as specialist retail. The new agency, set up by Konami veterans Sandra Arcan and Su-Yina Farmer, says this is possible due to the PEGI 12 age rating of Blizzard’s team …

The Japanese publisher of recently-released action RPG title Nioh says the game has helped expand its audience. Speaking to MCV, the firm’s president Hisashi Koinuma said that while the publisher takes pride in its more traditional Japanese line-up, which includes the likes of the Warriors series and Nobunaga’s Ambition, its …

SLIVER.tv and ESL will create the world’s first VR eSports stadium experience at the Intel Extreme Masters. The stream will sit viewers in a massive stadium, recreating the experience of actually being at the event in person. They will be able to see the avatars of other people who are …

Team Kinguin has announced a new sponsorship deal with Runtime, the company that makes nutritional drinks and supplements aimed at the eSports market.  The deal sees Runtime become an official partner of the organisation and will provide performance nutrition products to Team Kinguin’s CS:GO and League of Legends teams. In …

Ubisoft has announced that the open beta for its upcoming open world title Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands will be available next week between February 23rd and February 27th for all players, with pre-load starting next Monday on the 20th. The open beta will see players romping around two of …

New studio to work on mid-core mobile titles

Increasingly, developers can import a model of a real-world city into their games, rather than designing it themselves. But what does that option really bring to the table, and isn't it a little creatively stifling?