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Students at Kingston university now have access to a selection of virtual reality technology thanks to an investment in the institution’s tech facilities. 53k has been pumped into the new Centre for Augmented and Virtual Reality Environments (CAVE) at the university’s games lab at the Penrhyn Road campus, which offers …
Read More »YouTube caught up in LGBT restriction anger
Video service YouTube has been criticised for restricting access to videos that contain references to same-sex relationships. YouTube does not activate its restricted access filter by default, but users are able to activate it in their settings menu. It is designed to automatically filter potentially inappropriate” content which YouTube says …
Read More »Persona 5 mistake saw orders cancelled for being ‘dangerous’
Publisher Atlus has been forced to clarify that the Premium Edition of Persona 5 does not contain ‘dangerous materials’. Polygon reports that some US customers who had ordered the steelbook edition of the upcoming RPG from Amazon recently received emails telling them that their orders had been cancelled – and …
Read More »Team Dignitas sign new CS:GO roster
Team Dignitas has announced the lineup of its new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squad, including the return of former player, Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel. The full lineup includes team leader Faruk "Pita" Pita, Ricardo "fox" Pacheco, Mikail "Maikelele" Bill and Jaocim "jkaem" Myrbostad, who will join ex-North player, RUBINO. "As we promised, …
Read More »No Blizzard games for WCA 2017
There will be no Blizzard games at WCA 2017 after organisers failed to secure licences from the developer. Titles such as Warcraft 3, Hearthstone and StarCraft II have made appearances at the event in the past, which has been running since 2014. However, there will be no repeat showings for …
Read More »Pokémon developer Game Freak hiring for new console RPG
Is Pokémon making the leap to consoles?
Read More »MTV to broadcast India’s first eSports league
India’s first eSports league, UCypher, is set to be broadcast on MTV, confirms investor and organiser, Ronnie Screwvala. It was announced in January that Screwvala, an Indian media and entertainment entrepreneur, had plans to invest around $15 million in setting up an eSports league in the country through his company, …
Read More »Machinima CEO Chad Gutstein to leave the company, to be replaced by Russell Arons
Arons will take the role of general manager at Machinima
Read More »Wooga names Hermione Mckee as new chief financial officer
Mckee joined the company in January 2016
Read More »Overwatch claims eSports Game of the Year award at SXSW
Blizzard’s immensely popular competitive shooter, Overwatch, has won eSports Game of the Year at the SXSW Gaming Awards. The game’s lead story writer, Michael Chu, was in attendance to accept the award for Overwatch, which held off competition from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Gears of War 4, Killer Instinct: …
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