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ESL has partnered with Trion Worlds to run a series of Atlas Reactor competitions that feature more than $8,000 in prize money.  The Atlas Reactor Go4 series kicks off this weekend, and to celebrate Atlas Reactor will be free to play for everyone for the entire weekend.  Previously community focused …

Recruitment Agency Amiqus ask developers about the best way to monetise, particularly in the competitive free-to-play market

Dota 2 organisation Team NP has announced that its second sponsor is online betting site GG.Bet.  GG.Bet has sponsored the team and will receive branding across many areas of the NP organisation. NP fans can also take advantage of the new sponsorship when using GG.Bet by typing in the promo …

Wargaming bring mobile port of PC title back to the PC, with a few changes

The media firm has launched a new digital gaming channel called Waypoint. The editor-in-chief is Austin Walker (pictured, right), former head of Vice Gaming, who joined earlier this year. Before that, he was news editor at Giant Bomb. He will be running the brand from Vice’s headquarters in New York. …

Counter Logic Gaming has hired John Spiher as the organisations new director of business development.  Spiher is the former marketing director for DXRacer, the chair manufacturer, and is a program director for the Gamers Outreach Foundation charity, which creates gaming set ups and pods and donates them to children’s hospitals.  …

IO Interactive has movedto a new studio in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen. The Hitman developer describes this new office, which features an on-site motion capture studio, as ‘open, bright and ultra-modern’. Table-football tournaments and arcade machines are also amongst the perks, the firm revealed. IO also unveiled a new, fully adaptable …

So the PS4 Pro is here and the traditional hardware cycle has been smashed. Thanks to modern development tools and a PC-related architecture, Sony has evolved a truly backward-compatible console, one that plays the same games as its sibling but with enhanced graphical capabilities. It’s a fantastic achievement and a …

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Veteran designer joining King as VP of design