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StarCraft II pro player Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn is officially the highest earning female eSports player ever. The Guinness World Records has given Scarlett the record of Highest career earnings for a competitive videogame player (female),” with a total of $144,414 in winnings, as of October 5th 2016. Last year the …

Plans to use the money to staff up, market their first game and fund the second

Back in 2007, the team that would become Kiz Studios had a crazy idea. The developers wanted to merge the disparate sectors of physical toys and video games. Sound familiar? It should, as the studio was somewhat ahead of the curve in the toys-to-life format, which has seen players such …

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 …