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Dota 2 team Natus Vincere has dropped three players after the team failed to qualify for the Boston Major competition.  Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev, Dmitry “Ditya Ra” Minenkov and Ivan “ArtStyle” Antonov have all left the team, leaving only Danil “Dendi” Ishutin and Victor “GeneRaL” Nigrini signed to the organisation.  Rumours …

Core Design Studios CEO Troy Horton talks about the increasing quality of the assets required by developers. Tell us about your company. We provide art production services to the game and movie industries. We are not developers ourselves, although game development is our original background. Our team has produced art …

Eastern Europe is a growing games market. Russia and its revenue of $1.4bn (1.14bn) still leads the region, which as a whole hit $3bn (2.45bn), according to research firm Newzoo. Inside this massive region, Latvia is of course pretty far from reaching Russia’s heights. Newzoo reports that the country generated …

Week One sales of Call of Duty have also taken a dive in Japan, according to data from Famitsu. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare sold 100,877 on PS4 in the region, compared with the combined 172,602 units of Black Ops III shifted on PS4 and PS3 last year. That’s a …

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Both Paul “sOAZ” Boyer and Maurice “Amazing” Stückenschneider have left the Origen League of Legends team in search of new opportunities. A statement released on the Origen website revealed that both players have decided to move on and look for other opportunities in the world of League of Legends. The …

A new trademark application suggests something Need for Speed related is on the horizon. VG247 reports that EA has filed a trademark registration for Need for Speed Arena with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The filing pertains to computer game software; downloadable computer game software via a global computer …

Microsoft was ready to announce and release a streaming Xbox device intended to launch shortly after E3. That’s the claim in a new report from Windows Central. Shortly before E3 this year reports suggested that Microsoft would announce three devices at the trade event – a slim Xbox One, a …