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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. …

The Joy-Con Grip gamepad that comes in the Nintendo Switch box will not charge the machine’s Joy-Cons. In order for gamers to be able to charge their Joy-Con controllers, they will need to purchase an extra 24.99 – on Nintendo’s official store; 27.99 on Amazon – special Charging Grip. The …

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ShopTo has announced its annual results for 2016 and it’s been a pretty successful year for the online UK retailer. Total sales were up 13.2 per cent year-on-year, thanks to the company increased focus on securing new customers at the start of their gaming life cycle,” the firm said in …

New studio to work on games, VR and books

Traditionally Nintendo has not been the biggest supporter of eSports. The Smash Bros scene has seen a bit of support from the publisher and competitive Splatoon is something they have always been interested in, but outside of that Nintendo has mainly stayed clear of the industry. But that all changed …

It’s been four years since we last sunk our teeth into a numbered Resident Evil game, but the latest entry in Capcom’s survival horror series, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, is finally just a few short weeks away from release. After the glut of big winter releases in 2016, it’s more …

The Nintendo Switch doesn’t have any bundled games as it would have made the console too expensive, Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime has revealed. Speaking in an interview with GameSpot, Fils-Aime said the company wanted to give consumers as much choice as possible when it came to choosing which …