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Swedish CS:GO team GODSENT have dropped out of the $1.5 million WESG tournament less than 24 hours before it was due to start.  The competition kicked off in the early hours of this morning, however it was only revealed late last night that the team would not be competing. GODSENT …

The format and groups for the 2017 EU LCS Spring Split have been announced, with the competition due to start next week.  The ten teams have been split into two groups of five. For the first three weeks teams will play against everyone in their group. Then for weeks four …

Two beloved indie creations are finally getting the mobile treatment. One of them is Edward McMillen’s The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, which has finally landed on iOS yesterday. The Nicalis-published title is priced at 10.99, but doesn’t include expansions Afterbirth (which launched in late 2015) or Afterbirth+ (which released earlier …

She'll be working on mobile hit Subway Surfers

The headline news from games retail in 2016 is much the same as the year before – less money was made from video games software and hardware sales, but peripherals and accessories remain an area of growth. According to GfK Entertainment, 1.78bn was made from boxed games, hardware sales (not …

Rocket League has surpassed more than 25m players, developer Psyonix has announced. The news comes just days after Sony named it as the best-selling game on the PlayStation Store in 2016. According to Psyonix, over 1bn games have been played since the game launched in July 2015. Of those 1bn …

Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy titles will be getting two more Ubicollectible figurines, the company announced today. Both figurines will be arriving in March. One Ubicollectible is lined up for Tom Clancy’s The Division, while the other will be tied to Ubisoft’s upcoming open world game, Ghost Recon Wildlands. Each one is …

"Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like it was ever actually meant to be"

Bellevue studio to close, Long Beach a potential second target

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