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Gfinity will be running competitions for both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered in November. Traditionally Gfinity, like most event organisers, has run tournaments for the major Call of Duty game each year, but with the launch of two games this year they have …

Over a year and a half after it was first announced, Nintendo will today finally give us the first look at the NX. A preview trailer for the console will go live at 3pm UK time today (October 20th). Rumours suggest that the short will only be three minutes long, …

Consortium brings together $850 million to complete $8.6 million deal

Playdigious looks to embed playable games in adverts

The Korean eSports Association has closed the StarCraft ProLeague and will no longer operate five of the teams that were a part of it. The ProLeague was the longest running eSports competition, having been going in one form or another since 2003. It originally started out with Brood War competitions …

Both Team Secret and team captain Clement "Puppey" Ivanov have released short statements after Jacky "EternalEnvy" Mao accused them of withholding payments. Last week Mao alleged that Team Secret was taking an unwarranted 10% cut of his winnings and that team captain Clement "Puppey" Ivanov had threatened to fight players …

But demand for new content is high for first 6 months of an apps lifecycle

Team Dignitas has appointed Jonathan Kemp as its new CEO after being purchased by the Philadelphia 76ers. Kemp is perhaps best known around these parts as being the former Chief Operating Officer for Eidos, although he has also worked in marketing and on the Olympics. His new role will see …

Japanese mobile publisher DeNA has dissolved DeNA Global and ngmoco LLC in a filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, informally announcing their retreat from western markets, DeNA Global was the company’s San Francisco based subsidiary, formed to oversee activities in the western markets. DeNA was one of the early leaders …

Company dissolves SF based DeNA Global