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Starbreeze Studios, the Swedish developer and publisher responsible for Syndicate, Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, has acquired 90.5% of Indian studio Dhruva Interactive for $8.5 million. Dhruva is one of India’s biggest development companies. Specialising in art production, Dhruva has provided its services to several studios …

Grue Games CEO John Lindon takes rule of President at Seismic

The Celtic eSports League is a new FIFA competition that features eight football clubs from the UK and Ireland. Crusaders FC, Dundalk FC, Hamilton Academical FC, Hibernian FC, Linfield FC, Shamrock Rovers FC, TNS FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are all on board and the first competition is already underway. …

Super Mario Run might be the top grossing app in eight countries right now, but Nintendo’s shares have fallen 5 per cent following its launch yesterday. According to Sky News, Nintendo’s market value fell by 1.6 billion ($2 billion) in Tokyo today, although it later recovered to a 4 per …

Twitch has announced a new section called IRL that allows streamers to broadcast non gaming related content.  Until now Twitch has only allowed gaming or creative content, although the introduction of the food section and the many Bob Ross marathons made this rule a little pointless. Now that rule has …

Dhruva, an expert in art production, will continue to operate under it's own brand.

Square Enix has revealed more details about FFXV’s upcoming DLC pack and free game update. Landing on December 22nd, all FFXV owners will be able to download a free update for the game that adds a New Game+ mode and new photo frame feature. The New Game+ mode will allow …

Team Dignitas has announced that it has signed both Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and Lee “Chaser” Sang-hyun.  Both players will play for the team in the 2017 North American LCS Spring Split, pending Riot’s approval.  Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho will be the team’s top laner, and is regarded as one of the …

The US video game industry doesn’t look particularly healthy at the moment, with the latest data from NPD showing an overall spending drop of 24 per cent year-on-year during the month of November. The industry generated just $1.97 billion last month, down from $2.6 billion in November 2015. Not only …

Earlier in the week it was announced that NRG Esports had sold its slot in the North American Challenger Series to J2K Esports and Technology, now the first members of the new team have been revealed.  The team from J2K Esports and Technology will be known as Gold Coin United, …