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Hold on a minute, haven’t we been here before? With just the grand final to go, the 2016 League of Legends World Championship knockout stage is looking remarkably similar to the previous year. Read more on Red Bull >>>

One of the standout performers at the 2016 League of Legends World Championship has been Samsung Galaxy top laner Seong-jin Cuvee” Lee. Playing in his first-ever Worlds, he helped lead Samsung to a surprising 5-1 group stage record and back-to-back knockout stage sweeps against Albus NoX Luna and H2K. Read …

It’s the second day of ELeague and two teams face elimination: Immortals, the second best team from Brazil, and Europe’s FaZe Clan, a team that just replaced Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey with former Astralis in-game leader Finn "karrigan" Andersen. Read more on ESPN >>>

With the announcement of direct invites to the next Dota 2 Major (in Boston, Valve’s first East Coast event) comes frustrations both new and familiar. In the past, there have been many complaints about the direct invite system, most notably from the triumvirate of Dota 2 statisticians, Ben Noxville” Steenhuisen, …

Blizzard has revealed the set up for Heroes of the Storm Global Championship 2017, which shares more than a few similarities with the LCS. After a somewhat lackluster competitive season over the last twelve months, which saw a lot of big names drop out of the scene, Blizzard has finally …

Studio located with new Twitch team, looking to hire local game development talent

Grants provide $160,000 in no-strings-attached funding

Nearly 90 people could be affected as Gameforge changes strategy

Meanwhile, the coalition of games companies strike back with press release claiming all demands were met

Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the prices of its business software and cloud services in the UK as a result of Brexit. Microsoft’s blog post revealed that the company will be raising business software prices by 13% and cloud service prices by a whopping 22% from January …