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HTC Vive has announced the second wave of companies to join its global accelerator program, Vive X. Over 30 new companies will receive funding and support to help grow the VR and AR ecosystems even further, spanning businesses across San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. The Vive X program, which …
Read More »GameStop predicts Switch stock shortages throughout 2017
It might continue to be hard to find Switch consoles on the High Street for the rest of the year, retailer GameStop has predicted. VentureBeat reports that despite strong demand, the retailer says that any potential Switch success has not influenced its financial forecasts as it cannot be sure how …
Read More »European Splatoon grand finals take place this weekend
The finals of the ESL Go4Splatoon Europe competition are set to take place this weekend in Paris, France. The competition has been running for the past six months, with the best Splatoon teams from across Europe battling online for a shot at the finals. Now only four teams remain, with …
Read More »Team Liquid relegated from the NA LCS
After a difficult season one of the biggest names in League of Legends, or even all of eSports for that matter, has been relegated from the North American LCS. Team Liquid ended the regular season with a record of five wins and 13 losses, putting them in ninth place out …
Read More »Vainglory’s Spring Championship to be held at the O2 in London
Super Evil Megacorp has announced that it is bringing the Spring Season Championship to the O2 Arena in London. The event will see the top six teams from Europe and the top six teams from North America compete in both regional and inter regional matches to decide who the best …
Read More »Blizzard announces StarCraft Remastered
After months of rumours and speculation Blizzard has finally confirmed that it is working on a remaster of the original StarCraft and its Brood War expansion. Blizzard president Mike Morhaime made the announcement over in Korea, where Brood War was the catalyst for the start of the major eSports boom …
Read More »Witcher creator laments ‘stupid’ decision to shun game revenue share
The creator and author of the Witcher books has admitted that he turned down the chance to claim a share of the successful RPG series’ revenues. "I was stupid enough to sell them rights to the whole bunch," Andrzej Sapkowski told Eurogamer of his original deal with Witcher developer CD …
Read More »Super Mario Run did not hit Nintendo expectations
Nintendo has admitted that its first Mario smartphone game has fallen short of the mark. Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima has told Nikkei that revenues from the game "did not meet our expectations". It was revealed in January that the game had been downloaded some 78m times on iOS, but only …
Read More »YouTube faces advertiser exodus over hate speech fears
A growing list of major global brands are withdrawing their advertising spend on YouTube due to the fear of being associated with hate speech. The Google-owned company has been rocked in recent weeks by the increased awareness of the racist hate speech that has become alarmingly common among some of …
Read More »Mass Effect: Andromeda debuts at No.1
EA and BioWare’s RPG sequel Mass Effect: Andromeda has unsurprisingly shot straight to the top of the UK Top 40 in its first week of sale in the UK. The game becomes the third biggest launch of the year behind Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Horizon Zero Dawn, although it can …
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