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With IEM Oakland now over and done with all eyes in the LoL scene are turning to the final big event before the new LCS season kicks off, IEM Gyeonggi.  While a number of teams have already been confirmed for the event, such as ROX Tigers and Royal Never Give …

The Suning Commerce group has purchased the Korean League of Legends team Longzhu Gaming.  Suning Commerce is one of the biggest retailers in China that isn’t owned by the government, giving them the freedom to do what they want. With this freedom they decided to invest in the struggling LCK …

King launches contest for development using its Defold engine

"As long as the feedback from the gamers and the community is great, that means we have achieved our No.1 objective - the rest will come afterwards."

Glu are still working on other celebrity titles, with their next musician focussed title, Nicki Minaj: The Empire, currently in soft launch.

North American organisation Counter Logic Gaming has announced that it plans to field a team in the North American Challenger Series in 2017.  This new team will sit alongside it’s championship winning LCS team, and most likely act in a similar way to those of Cloud9 and Team Liquid. New …

Anne Blondel-Jouin has said that Ubisoft's success has largely been derived from being "very autonomous" and "super independent"

The Mars Dota 2 League will return in 2017 for at least one more season, after becoming one of the biggest LANs in the east.  Season five of MDL will return in May 2017, with the LAN event taking place between the 10th and 14th. No other details were given …

Extreme sports titles were a regular feature of turn-of-the-millennium gaming. Alongside the likes of Tony Hawk’s Skateboarding and Dave Mirra’s BMX, there sat snowboarding titles such as Amped, 1080 and, of course, SSX. EA returned to the latter franchise in 2012 but the genre has seen little activity of late. …

Legendary game creator Michel Ancel spoke out in defence of Ubisoft’s philosophy and track record last week. The comments were related to the development of the long-awaited Beyond Good & Evil 2 but could easily be seen as a plea to shareholders in the ongoing Vivendi-Ubisoft tussle for control of …