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FaZe Clan paid a massive $500,000 to mousesports in order to sign Nikola “NiKo” Kovac according to a report.  Dot eSports reports that sources close to the deal are touting the $500,000 transfer fee, making it the largest transfer deal in CS:GO history that we know of. The previous record …

Paradox Interactive has released its end of year report for 2016 and the Swedish games publisher is in rude health. Revenue for Q4 increased by 56 per cent year-on-year, reaching 198.4m Swedish Krona [17.8m], while operating profit for Q4 increased by 96 per cent year-on-year, reaching 85.9m Swedish Krona [7.7m]. …

A Russian investment firm known as Strongbow Investments has purchased the M19 League of Legends team.  The squad was previously known as Albus NoX Luna and managed to place in the top eight at Worlds last year, becoming the best performing wildcard region team ever.  This new investment sees them …

ESL UK and Varsity Games have announced Derby Series Leicester, a university team show match that gives students a chance to do everything.  The event will see Leicester University face off against De Montfort University in League of Legends, but the real interesting part of this is that students will …

Maker Studios, a division of Disney, has severed ties with YouTuber PewDiePie after he posted a video with anti-Semitic remarks. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, who contacted Disney yesterday about the video in question. The video was originally posted on January 11th, and featured two men laughing as …

Print and digital editions out now, bumper 80-page issue looking forward to GDC

Just last week, we learned that Adventure Time’s Frederator Studios will be bringing Castlevania to Netflix later this year as an animated series. However, it now seems that won’t be the only video game animation adaptation the studio’s got up its sleeve. Announced on Frederator’s websiteyesterday, the studio will also …

Ginx has announced that its eSports TV Channel is available in Israel through Partner’s 4GTV app.  The channel is currently available in the app, but will also launch on Partner’s TV service in the next few months, meaning that millions of people will have access to the channel.  Michiel Bakker, …

Horizon Zero Dawn is easily one of the most anticipated games of the year, if not the most anticipated PS4-exclusive of 2017. Of course, it’s still early in the year and E3 could bring its own share of surprises, but so far the Guerrilla-developed title ranks very high on the …

Frontier has removed the standalone version of Elite Dangerous: Arena from sale due to a lack of players. Frontier’s senior community manager Edward Lewis made the announcement on Frontier’s forums, stating the game will be removed from sale on Steam, the Frontier store, and the Xbox Store. "We’ve been looking …