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Delays with the Steam Machines launch and Microsoft launching Windows 10 dealt blow to Valve's initiative.

MLG has invited eight of the best North American Overwatch teams to its Las Vegas event to compete for a share of $100,000. Team EnVyUs, NRG eSports, Cloud9, Fnatic, CompLexity Gaming, FaZe Clan, Team Liquid and Rise Nation have all been invited to MLG Las Vegas and will head to …

Components manufacturer Nvidia has spoken in revolutionary terms about Nintendo’s in-development Switch console. Nvidia is supplying the innards for the machine, which currently has a global release date of March. We’ve worked with them now for almost two years. Several hundred engineering years have gone into the development of this …

Nintendo Switch will launch without the help of popular adventurer Link. That’s according to established Nintendo tipster Emily Rogers. She has heard that localisation work for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has gone on for longer than anticipated, with a current ETA of December. However, once complete …

A list of projects affected by the US voice actors strike has revealed that Telltale Games is working on a Guardians of the Galaxy title. ComicBookMovie spotted an entry for the game, which on the aforementioned document was named ‘Guardians of the Galaxy – The Video Games aka Blue Harvest …

EA was the victim of a sophisticated hacking program that tapped into unearned FIFA coin funds. That’s what the FBI has claimed, Kotaku reports, after it came to light that it is taking four men to court for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. It is alleged that the defendants, who …

Five Ubisoft executives have been accused of selling stock in the company ahead of its announcement of two key game delays. Kotaku reports that CEO Yannis Mallat and four other executives sold shares ahead of the announcement on October 15th 2013 that both Watch Dogs and The Crew were being …

MIT CSAIL prototype is headset agnostic

OWN partner with Red Games for the match-3 puzzler

Wargaming has started a new publishing label called Wargaming Alliance. This a third party publishing label that plays to Wargaming’s strengths, aiming to give developers the tools and resources to get into free-to-play gaming. Today, in addition to announced the newly created publishing label, they’re announcing their partnership with Sega …