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Here’s something fun to do while you wait for that clock to hit 5pm and the weekend to officially start. Red Bull has released the 2nd episode of its Away From Keyboard series with StrifeCro going racing.  StrifeCro is of course a Hearthstone player for Cloud9, but for this episode …

North American LCS team Echo Fox has signed former League of Legends world champion Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok for its 2017 roster.  The announcement was made over on Yahoo eSports, where they revealed that the former member of the world championship winning Samsung White team would be heading to the NA …

Scott Downie from Tag Games takes us through the struggles and realisations of developing for VR in their recent game jam

Former Fnatic player Fabien "Febiven" Diepstraten has signed for H2K, pending Riot’s approval.  Febiven has replaced former H2K player Yoo "Ryu" Sang-wook, who was part of the team that made it to the semifinals of the World Championships.  The news was announced on The Bridge, the daily three hour talk …

NBA team the Houston Rockets has hired Sebastian Park as director of eSports development.  Park was formerly the CEO of Team Archon, before leaving that position and being a consultant for the last few months. According to a report from Bloomberg, Park will assess how the Rockets and owner Les …

The groups for the upcoming Dota 2 Boston Major have been announced, with more than a few exciting matches set for the early stages.  Group A features The International 6 champions Wings Gaming along with WarriorsGaming.Unity, LGD.Forever Young and the team that Wings Beat in the TI6 final, Digital Chaos.  …

Games have always been happy to experiment when it comes to revenue streams. They started with pure retail sales, but then DLC came along, subscription models worked for MMOs, episodic content still has its place, while microtransactions are very much in vogue – both on console and mobile titles. The …

Riot Games has announced that NA LCS sister teams that qualify for the promotion tournament in the Challenger Series will not be allowed to play in it.  Over recent splits many teams have had one team in the LCS and one team in the Challenger Series. Some teams have seen …

Last night Fnatic announced its new League of Legends roster at its new pop up store in London. We were in attendance and spoke to Patrik “cArn” Sättermon, CGO at Fnatic, about the team, when he revealed that they are all on multi year contracts. “The ambition with these guys …

Nelson Rodriguez, senior industry marketing manager for Games at Akamai, explores the good and bad of friction in games