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Riot has released a 20 minute documentary that shows Rick Fox’s journey from first attending a League of Legends event with his son, through to starting up his own team. The documentary, which can be seen at the bottom of this post, starts with Rick and his son Kyle heading …

H2K Gaming has issued a statement detailing its thoughts on relegation in the LCS.  The issue has been a hot topic recently with many team owners sending Riot a letter, which was leaked, demanding that they remove relegation from the league, as it creates a lot of issues. H2K has …

Unity allowing developers to export directly to the Chinese app store

Creative England also offering non-financial help like good advice

The Overwatch Winter Premiere is the latest big money Overwatch tournament to be revealed, with North American teams getting a chance to shine over the Christmas period. The first stage of the event is four open qualifiers, with the top two teams from each qualifier making it into the next …

In news that will come as no surprise, Pokemon Sun and Moon were the best-selling titles in Japan for the week ending November 20th, according to data from Famitsu. As previously reported, the duo sold 1.9m units between them in their first week on shelves in the region. While impressive, …

Chester King, CEO of eGames Group, the company behind the eGames pop up event in Rio over the summer revealed that they initially wanted to run an Overwatch competition. While on a panel at the Future Games Summit (full disclosure: the event is ran by eSports Pro’s parent company New …

Sales of Sony’s PlayStation VR tech are on track to outsell the combined sales of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, according to data tracker GfK’s October consumer panel survey. The research firm says thatthe hardware’s PlayStation branding led to high expectations for the tech and ‘eradicated many concerns’ about VR. …

MCV speaks to GAME COO Guy Lister about how the High Street firm is approaching Black Friday this year and how the sales event has affected retail What are your expectations of Black Friday 2016? We’re expecting to see more retailers extend discounts over a longer period around Black Friday. …