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We’re proud to announce that our new sister site eSports Pro has launched – we’re confident it will become your favourite information source site for all things eSports. eSports Pro will be publishing news, views and analysis on the world’s most exciting place to work and play. Here on MCV …

Atlas Reactor isn’t like any other eSport. In fact there is only a few games from the last 20 years that even have a similar premise to Trion’s latest effort. Two teams battle it out in turn based combat to try and establish dominance, the team with the most kills …

The first year of the eSports Championship Series has had its ups and downs. The first season of the league was generally considered to be a massive success, and a surprise win for G2 Esports added another contender for the major that was due to take place just after the …

The live stream of the first ever eSports Industry Awards will be re-broadcast on Twitch tonight with an on demand VoD being available immediately after. Starting at 7pm GMT on Wednesday November 23rd the broadcast will be available on the eSports Industry Awards Twitch channel, which can be seen at …

The live stream of the first ever eSports Industry Awards is now available to watch on demand on Twitch Originally broadcast on Wednesday November 23rd the star-studded show is now available on The eSports Industry Awards Twitch channel, which can be seen at the bottom of this page. After the …

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The latest patch to go live on the Overwatch PTR has reworked Symmetra and given her an extra ultimate.  Symmetra’s teleporter ult is still around, and has been slightly buffed with more shields making it harder to get rid of. However as the teleporter is incredibly situational and a bit …

Luton to take up senior product manager role

According to tweet from Wall Street Journal journalist

To say that Niantic’s first year as an independent company was special would be massively underselling it. In October 2015, the firm spun itself out from tech giant Google, where it had been run as one of the company’s start-ups. The following July, Niantic released Pokmon Go. The title brought …