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A group of industry pros including video game and eSports lawyer Ryan Morrison, head of Multi-Channel-Network Paragon Sebastien Delvaux, executive man Trevor Snowden, eSports agent Barry Lee, and law firm partner Jason Greenglass has created the Evolved Talent Agency and aims to represent eSports stars.  The agency will, according to …

Nintendo hardback The Art of Splatoon has confirmed for a 2017 release in the US. The Dark Horse published 320-page book has been a hit overseas, and is now available to pre-order on Amazon for $39.99 ahead of its June 13th 2017 release date. There’s no word yet on UK …

Forza Horizon 3 players now have the option of buying cars with real cash instead of earning it in game. A new range of microtransactions starts at 79p – that gets you 100 tokens. This then steps up to 2.49 (325 tokens), 4.19 (575), 8.39 (1,250), 16.74 (2,700), 41.74 (8,000) …

Misfits has announced its entry into the world of Hearthstone by signing three top players. Stanislav “StanCifka” Cifka, George “Georgec” Connolly and Mikulas “Pokrovac” Dio are the three players to be signed to the organisation. All three have played across multiple high level tournaments and done reasonably well. The move …

Danish football side FC Copenhagen are looking to enter into the world of eSports according to a report from Danish publication Finans.dk. The report states that the team is looking to try and enter more than just FIFA, with them looking to pick up teams in CS:GO and Dota 2. …

Game developer and pioneering equality campaigner Brianna Wu has said she is assembling a team in preparation for running for congress in 2018. Wu confirmed to VentureBeat that while no campaign has officially been launched, she has every intention of running for the US House of Representatives. While an image …

Earlier in the week it was reported that the Dignitas CS:GO team will leave the organisation when their contracts expire at the end of the year. Now a new report suggests that the team will be heading to Danish football club F.C. Copenhagen. F.C. Copenhagen have recently entered the world …

Among Niantic’s many successes with this year’s Pokemon Go is most definitely the fact that it got an entire generation playing games on the move. In a new video the studio has revealed that since launch the game’s players have walked a collective 8.7bn kilometres in hunt of Pokemon. You …

A Christmas Overwatch comic released yesterday is not available in Russia because of the country’s gay propaganda laws. Blizzard has said before that the game contained gay characters, and the new short graphic novel confirmed that iconic gunner Tracer is among them. However, Russia’s dated gay propaganda laws – that …

Super Mario Run has had a bit of a bumpy start on iOS. It might have been downloaded over 37 million times worldwide over its opening weekend according to analyst AppAnnie (almost 2 million of which occurred in the UK alone), but it seems the wider market isn’t so confident. …