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Pokémon Go emerges as the most played mobile game, beating out Puzzle & Dragons and Monster Strike.

Former StarCraft II player Lee “Flash” Young-ho has claimed that salaries for players in Korea were capped at 70 million won, which is roughly $60,000.  The revelation came during a livestream on Afreeca TV, which was then translated by Yahoo eSports. In the video Flash claims that teams and organisation …

UK creative agency Attention Seekers and American events giants Done & Dusted are teaming up for a new venture called AD+D. This new firm will be based in Santa Monica with the aim of raising the profile of games industry events, including helping to get competitive gaming more into the …

After months of radio silence, developer Hello Games has announced a sizeable new update for No Man’s Sky. Called the Foundation Update, this was revealed via the studio’s blog, and it promises some considerable improvements to the sci-fi survival title. According the post, this is’a foundation for things to come’ …

OSVR technology now integrated into Steam platform

Both Felipe "Misterio" Patricio Torres Carvacho and Tse "Tse444" Wa Ping will not be able to compete at the Capcom Cup this weekend.  They will be replaced by Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley and Fujimura "Yukadon" Atsushi.  No reasons for the drop outs have been given, but as is usually the case …

Vienna based game reportedly lets go two thirds of workforce

The numbers are in for what looks to have been a massive Black Friday week. 1,936,636 games were sold for the week ending November 26th, according to GfK figures. That’s a nine per cent increase on last year’s 1,778,851 games. Meanwhile, 58.4m was generated in revenue for the sales period, …

Pokmon Sun and Moon technically failed to top the UK weekly charts for their first week.Pokmon Sun debuted at No.3 and Pokmon Moon entered the charts at No.4. GfK however says that combined sales for Nintendo’s latest titles would give them the top spot – so Pokemon is the biggest …

This year’s Black Friday retail event helped PlayStation 4 have its biggest week since launch. That’s according to GfK Entertainment’s commentary on the charts for the week ending November 26th. During its launch week, PS4 sold more than 250,000 units in the UK. The data firm says that Black Friday …