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It was the year of Donald Trump and Brexit and Bowie and Prince and political lies and mainstream racism, but it was Pokemon Go that got internet users hottest under the collar in 2016. Google has revealed that Pokemon Go was the most searched term on its site last year. …

MLG has announced that it has partnered with YouTube to broadcast the MLG Las Vegas Call of Duty and Overwatch tournament this weekend.  Matches, news, and analysis from the event will be shown on the MLG YouTube channel throughout the weekend, along with a stream on the MLG EVE player …

Internet giant Yahoo has admitted that around one billion accounts were likely compromised in a 2013 data breach. You may be thinking that you’ve read this story before. Yahoo confirmed a few months ago that around half a billion accounts were hacked in 2014, but it looks – astonishingly – …

Spanish football club Real Betis has signed three FIFA team captains in order to build a team for the upcoming VFO eSports league.  The league features three 11v11 competitions, one for PS4, one for PC and one for Xbox One. Betis has signed Antonio “Tasteya” Coto to lead the PS4 …

The Test Drive racing series has a new home. Bigben Interactive has announced that it has acquired the IP from Atari, with the intention being to develop new games in the Test Drive Unlimited series. Atari has retained the rights to sell existing games in the franchise. Bigben currently has …

Yakuza 6 has gone straight in at No.1 in Japan this week, according to data from Famitsu. The PS4 exclusive isn’t due in Europe until 2018, but Sega’s highly anticipated open world game sold 201,211 units in its first week. Naturally, PS4 hardware sales continued its lead from last week, …

Paris Saint-Germain has announced its starting roster for the upcoming EU Challenger Series split.  The team will feature Etienne "Steve" Michels in the top lane, Thomas "Kirei" Yuen in the Jungle, Jin "Blanc" Seong-min in mid, Hampus "sprattel" Mikael Abrahamsson as the support and Na "Pilot" Woo-hyung as the AD …

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 …