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The US games industry spend shrunk in January 2017, according to the latest report from NPD, showing a decline of 4 per cent year on year. Total industry spend reached $611m in January 2017, with a decline in hardware sales being the main factor behind the lack of growth. The …

“Better than expected” has become an accidental catch phrase for Take-Two when it reports its financials.  Despite being behind the company responsible for the unstoppable Grand Theft Auto V, it continues to be surprised by just how well that title has done.  The base game has shipped 75m units – …

Ginx eSports TV has signed a deal with premium Canadian broadcaster Super Channel that will see the pair create Canada’s first 24 hour eSports channel.  The channel will be part of Super Channel’s four multiplexed channels and will launch across Canada in the spring/summer of 2017. Interestingly the channel will …

Seems they have it Fig-ured out

YouTube superstar Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg has published a video in which he apologies for remarks people found offensive. In the post (below), the personality admitted that a previous video one which saw him pay two men to hold a sign saying ‘Death to All Jews’ above their heads, went too …

Milewski joins from Techland, Future’s Daniella Lucas joins OXM and Fandom adds Sam Loveridge as UK gaming editor. Dead Good Media strengthens its international PR team UK PR and creative agency Dead Good Media has expanded its international PR team with the appointment of Paul Milewski as media consultant. Previously international PR and marketing manager …

Crowd-funding and investment platform Fig has announced the Fig Finishing Fund to help developers put the final touches to their games in light of the imminent demise of Steam Greenlight. Starting from today, Fig is committing up to $500,000 to help developers overcome the final hurdles standing between them and …

Twitch has released its annual recap and revealed that Overwatch was the most popular new game on the streaming service in 2016 among a ton of other stats.  In total there was more than 292 billion minutes of content watched on Twitch last year, with more than 2.2 million unique …

Competitive PES has always been a thing, but in recent years it has struggled to keep up with the expansion that many other titles have seen. This year however Konami is pushing eSports hard, and the new version of the PES League is an obvious indicator. The competition has already …

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 …