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How the mobile developer wants to wow the world with Dawn of Titans

Twitch today announced that it has given control of both Evil Geniuses and Alliance over the the players and player selected management.  Previously both teams were founded and owned by GoodGame, a company that was purchased by Twitch a few years back. Because of the purchase this meant that Twitch …

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, first up are his thoughts on the new Fnatic store located in central London.  Fnatic is known as one of the largest eSports organisations in the world. …

4 of the 5 executives fined plan to appeal decision

Multiplayer will be key for the mainstream adoption of virtual reality, but comes with a fresh set of problems to surmount. Jem Alexander asks studios what stands between us and the perfect social VR experience.

Kelion joins CCP from nDreams,Scammell leaves VideoGamer and a new media and market development director forInnoGames. CCP hires new comms lead for its VR portfolio George Kelion has joined Eve: Valkyrie developer CCP as senior communications lead for VR games. He will be working from the firm’s new studio in …

"The acquisition of Eight Pixels Square is another exciting step forward for the business"

no further games planned from the long-lived publisher

The Halo World Championship is returning in early 2017, with qualifying events taking place all over the world.  Dates for the World Championship itself have yet to be revealed, although it is expected to be sometime in April. However a number of LAN events beforehand have been revealed.  First up …

Dota 2 finally got a new patch after more than six months and it changes almost everything we know about Dota.  The 7.00 patch is currently live on the test client and goes live in the main client tonight. The full list of patch notes can be seen over on …