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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 …

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 …