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Activision’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare may be suffering year-on-year, but that hasn’t stopped it reclaiming top spot in the UK Top 40. Last week’s No.1, FIFA 17, drops a place this week ahead of fellow EA title Battlefield 1, which climbs one spot to 3rd. There are two new …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare suffered a similar High Street sales decline in the US as it did in the UK. CNBC reports that physical sales of the game were down by around 50 per cent in November compared to its predecessor Black Ops III. That’s virtually the same …

Deal being discussed valued at $955m

Co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team, Wes Edens, is in the final stages of buying a slot in the NA LCS from Cloud9, who owns two spots in the league. According to ESPN the deal is only pending approval from Riot, with the total figure for the sale hitting …

The White House is set to play host to a multi game event and Twitch stream next week that will feature some eSports show matches. On December 12th a four hour Twitch broadcast will air from the most important building in the USA in an attempt to raise awareness about …

After a month of waiting the final set of original maps are coming to the Call of Duty 4 remaster.  The new update coming to all platforms on December 13th will up the map count from 10 to all 16 original maps. For those that weren’t around to play the …

AD&D, a new partnership formed by UK agency Attention Seekers and US events giants Done & Dusted, has said it wants to do for competitive gaming what Sky did for football.  The firm has said that it wants to revolutionise how eSports is presented and make them more accessible to …

China has created new regulations that force developers to reveal the odds of each item drops in loot boxes.  May eSports, such as CS:GO, Dota and Overwatch all have some kind of loot box system, where you will get one random item when you open the box. Most games don’t …

EA has announced that Sea of Solitude will be the second game to benefit from its EA Originals program. Developed by Cornelia Geppert and her team at Jo-Mei Games in Berlin, Sea of Solitude was first unveiled last year via a series of online GIFs that depicted a young girl …

Dustin Browder has announced that he is stepping down as the game director for Heroes of the Storm.  He will now move onto other projects within Blizzard, and will leave Heroes of the Storm in the capable hands of Alan Dabiri who has been a software engineer for the last …