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Digital game sales worldwide generated $6.7bn in revenue in November 2016, an increase of 13 per cent year-on-year, according to a new report from SuperData Research. Mobile, premium, PC, console and free-to-play MMOs all experienced year-year-on-year growth in November, but console games were the biggest winner, gaining 35 per cent …

The worldwide interactive entertainment industry generated $91bn in 2016, according to a new report from SuperData Research, with mobile gaming earning the highest amount of revenue. Consumers spent $41bn on mobile gaming this year between January and November, showing a growth of 18.2 per cent year-on-year. This surpasses the total …

Comic censored to avoid falling foul of infamous Russian "gay propaganda" laws

Wu posts photo to Facebook bearing slogan: "She fought the Alt.Right and won. Now she’s fighting for all of us. Fearless leadership for 2018.”

Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Run has been downloaded over 40m times since it launched on December 15th last week. It reached this milestone after just four days on the iOS App Store. This makes it the fastest app to reach this figure in such a short period of …

Team Dignitas has revealed its roster for the 2017 League of Legends Spring Split.  As previously announced Dignitas has secured Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho to play in the top lane and Lee "Chaser" Sang-hyun to play in the Jungle. Both players come off good splits over in Korea and are now …

A report from Slingshot eSports suggests that PEA will ban all teams that play in its league from competing in the rival ESL Pro League.  PEA will be running its own league in 2017 in a similar fashion to the Pro League, which makes the move somewhat understandable. However players …

Develop talks to the Isle of Man economic department about how the island is looking to grow in to the games development sector

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 …