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Riot Games has revealed the changes coming to the North American LCS in 2017, and there isn’t all that much different.  The big talking point in that relegation has been tweaked, just like in Europe, so that only the bottom two teams will have to play in the promotion tournament. …

The graphics on Nintendo’s Switch won’t be as good as even those found on the now three-year-old PS4. That’s according to VentureBeat, which reports that two sources have told it that Switch will be built using Nvidia’s last-generation Maxwell architecture and not its new Pascal design, as the latter is …

Riot Games has announced the new format and broadcast schedule for the European LCS in 2017.  The big news is that after just one split playing best of twos the EU LCS will now transition to best of threes, which the NA LCS tried out last year. Riot said that …

Bethesda creative director to be honoured at 20th D.I.C.E awards

HTML5 developers to bring Valiant's comic characters to games

Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s Overwatch roster and the upcoming Overwatch League while today he jumps into the Fnatic CS:GO team’s difficult 2016. Go back twelve months …

Seed funding successful for the VR esports outfit

Here’s our take on the big events in the games industry this year. There were some very big releases this year; though some weren’t quite as big as hoped for. As we’ve discussed that ad nauseam in recent weeks, we’ll have no more talk of that here. We’ve picked out …

Recognising VR's potential to raise a smile, two creatives with very different background came together to form a studio that respects the power of silliness. The result? An accounting game.

As the year draws to a close everyone is looking head to the holidays, but for those that want to get into the christmas spirit right now you can jump into Overwatch, with its new holiday event.  The Winter Wonderland event sees a ton of new skins and cosmetics introduced, …