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It seems that less game content is going to be locked away behind Ubisoft’s DLC paywalls in the future. VP of live operations Anne Blondel-Jouin has told Games Industry that the model it has implemented in Rainbow Six: Siege – which sees base game content expansions offered to everyone for …

GameStop has said that Pokemon Sun and Moon has been its best performing game of 2016. The RPG, which came out last week in the US and is out in the UK today, also attracted the highest pre-order numbers the retailer has seen for five years, GameSpot reports. This bodes …

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 …

Riot Games looks set to sell the streaming rights for its League of Legends Championship Series to Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The deal, which was originally reported on by Richard Lewis and Sports Business Daily, seems to be in the final stages of negotiations after a report from the …

Dream Team is selling its place in the North American League of Legends Challenger Series to Tempo Storm. A report from ESPN’s Jacob Wolf first broke the news, with theScore eSports later confirming that the deal is in place. According to Wolf the deal is worth roughly six figures”, with …

Earlier this month the Street Fighter V team launched a new DLC stage called Skies of Honor, but it has now been banned in pro play. The stage takes place on the wings of a flying plane, the wings, which are the foreground, remain static but the background sees the …

This past weekend saw the Intel Extreme Masters head to Oakland for the first time, with the event pulling in almost half a million concurrent viewers. IEM Oakland reached a peak of 490,000 concurrent viewers across the globe with broadcasts in 14 different languages. Online viewers ended up watching almost …

Streaming platform Twitch has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with both Team SoloMid and Cloud 9 to collaborate on many areas related to sponsorship and sales.  According to the press release Twitch will now represent both teams in “sponsorship sales and [will] further fuel the growth of …

Dream Team is selling its place in the North American League of Legends Challenger Series to Tempo Storm.  A report from ESPN’s Jacob Wolf first broke the news, with theScore eSports later confirming that the deal is in place.  According to Wolf the deal is worth "roughly six figures”, with …

Ginx eSports TV has announced a brand new daily show called The Bridge that will see industry professionals discussing the latest goings on in the world of eSports. The dedicated eSports channel has managed to secure former ESL caster and host Alex “Machine” Richardson, ESL stage host and BBC reporter …