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Both Afreeca Freecs and CJ Entus have released their League of Legends teams after disappointing years. CJ Entus have released all nine of their players while all five of Afreeca Freecs’ players have also been let go.  The former CJ Entus roster consisted of Mingi "MadLife" Hong, Sangmyeon "Shy" Park, …

League of Legends world champions SK Telecom T1 have signed Han "Peanut" Wang-ho to be their new jungler.  Peanut was a member of the ROX Tigers during the last season, where he made it to worlds as the top Korean seed and then made it to the semifinals. His Tigers …

In this guest blog from KamaGames, the gaming team look at the impact of VR and AR in the online casino space

Nintendo’s NES Classic Mini has been a big hit. Less well received, however, has been the length of the wires that connect to its controller. While various workarounds exist, the fact remains that the controller included in the box has a ridiculously short wire, forcing users to sit right up …

Developer Ninja Theory has confirmed that Hellblade will now not be released until 2017. While a 2016 release had already started to look unlikely, this is the first official confirmation of the slip. In the video below the developer reveals that an unspecified project cancellation let to some set backs, …

A new NBA 2K17 tournament run by 2K gives European players the chance to win an all expenses paid trip to the NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The European All-Star Tournament will take place online on December 10th and 11th. Teams will battle it out on PS4 over …

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The latest entries in the Pokmon franchise, Sun and Moon are once again the best-selling games in Japan, according to data from Famitsu. The duo sold 442,346 copies in their second week on shelves, a drop of 78 per cent week-on-week. Combined with its launch sales of 1.9m, that brings …

That’s right – on the biggest digital PC games store front in the world, over a third of its total catalogue was only released on the service in 2016. Steam Spy has revealed that so far in 2016 there have been an incredible 4,207 games released on Steam. That’s 38 …

Nintendo’s latest Pokemon game has broken an American sales record. Combined sales of Pokemon Sun and Moon reached 3.7m units in the Americas. That’s an 85 per cent increase over Pokemon X and Y and makes it the fastest selling Nintendo game ever in the region. It was revealed yesterday …