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New sports and media agency Catalyst has launched with divisions for football, basketball and eSports, with eSports lawyer Bryce Blum leading the latter. Blum has been around the eSports scene for a while, serving as legal counsel for companies such as Unikrn and the Renegades team. He is also used …

Vivendi say they now hold 21.29 per cent of the voting rights to the company.

The ESL Pro League CS:GO competition will return for another two seasons in 2017, with $2 million on the line throughout the course of the year. The two million prize pool gives each season a prize pool of $1 million, which is a 25% increase on last season. ESL have …

goal of Reactor is "innovate and develop new applied games products and services to meet the future challenges facing society"

Daryl Koh "iceiceice" Pei Xiang, captain of the Faceless Dota 2 team, has said that streaming is destroying players’ careers in China. In an interview with Cnet iceiceice was asked about the lucrative streaming contacts that players can earn in China, and he had some controversial views on the subject. …

Tech Data will be showcasing the latest VR gaming hardware as an Expo partner at PCR Boot Camp North 2016, whichtakes place at the Renaissance Hotel in central Manchester on Wednesday, November 16th. The event will examine and celebrate the trends, opportunities and challenges facing the UK IT channel in …

Not the Xbox System updates though. You still can't use those.

Shopping on Steam has been given a facelift thanks to what Steam is calling ‘The Discovery Update 2.0′. On the face of it things don’t appear wildly different. Titles are presented slightly differently, with screenshots that enlarge when rolled over, while the sidebar provides faster and clearer access to a …

Streaming video giant YouTube has for some time supported 4K video, and now HDR output has been added to the mix. Both the recently released Xbox One S and the PS4 – both in original and PS4 Pro flavours – support the tech, which ups the contrast and lighting range …

One of the most interesting rhythm games to hit the market in the recent memory is Thumper from two-man studio Drool. Rather than having consumers play along to pop and rock hits, like in Guitar Hero, Thumper has players hitting buttons sparingly to a soundtrack that can only be described …