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Apple has just announced that prices on the UK App Store will rise as a reaction to the falling exchange rate between the dollar and the pound. Where a $0.99 app in the US used to cost 79p in the UK, it will now cost 99p. As far as Apple …

Top North American Overwatch side Cloud9 has made a roster change just days before APEX Season 2 is due to start.  Kyle "KyKy" Souder has left the Cloud9 team, and will serve as a temporary coach for rivals Team EnVyUs while they play over in South Korea.  His replacement is …

Reitman joins from CI&T, CCP Games appoints Target’s Douglas and Dovetail strengthens management team. New board advisor for Green Man Gaming David Reitman has been appointed as board advisor at Green Man Gaming. He’s currently vice president of digital solutions and global strategic alliances for tech consulting firm CI&T, but was previously involved …

StarCraft II players Kevin "Harstem" de Koning, Juan Carlos "MajOr" Tena Lopez and Julian "Lambo" Brosig have left the Invasion eSport organisation, claiming that they are yet to be paid owed prize money.  Harstem was the first to leave the team, announcing on Twitter that he was owed prize money …

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Pokemon’s Go massive success in 2016 didn’t come at the expense of its biggest rivals in the mobile space. According to app ecosystem analyst App Annie the game hit $950m in revenue by the end of 2016, yet its competitors weren’t notably affected by this massive haul. The report stated: …

Developer Gearbox Software has revealed that it was in talks with Nintendo to bring the next instalment in the Borderlands franchise to Switch, but the platform’s holder didn’t carry on with the discussion. That’s according to Gearbox’s founder Randy Pitchford, as spotted by IGN, who was asked on Twitter to …

South Korean organisation ROX, best known for its LCK side the ROX Tigers, has announced that it has signed its first Overwatch team.  The squad is known as the ROX Orcas and features Kyeong-hoon “Aloha” Cho, Tae-wook “Try” Kang, Gwang-ho “Le1gend” Cha, Chang-gyun “Melee” Chung, Dae-min “Daemin” Kim and Joon-hwan …

The qualifiers for the Dota Asia Championship have been revealed, with the format and participants being announced.  The qualifiers will be split into four regions, as the China qualifiers have already been played. North America, Europe, SEA and CIS will all get one slot at the tournament with eight teams …

Co-founder of Valve, the publisher behind both Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Gabe Newell is set to do a rare AMA on Reddit later today.  It’s not often that Newell speaks publicly, so this opportunity for fans to ask him literally anything has got a lot of people excited. …