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The brain is a muscle, right? Whether or not a court agrees with this could decide whether eSports takes another big step towards a perceived legitimacy as a sport. The Daily Dot reports that the English Bridge Union is currently contesting a Sport England’s decision to exclude bridge as a …
Read More »Woolworths workers fail in compensation bid
The European Court of Justice has backed government calls to exclude workers at stores with fewer than 20 employees from the right to redundancy consultation. Employees who lost their jobs in the Woolworths collapse of 2008 have been arguing through the courts that they are due a payout thanks to …
Read More »PC gaming finally gets its own E3 press conference
PlayStation and Microsoft (and possibly Nintendo?) will this year be joined on the E3 stage by a conference dedicated solely to PC gaming. AMD has teamed up with PC Gamer to host the PC Gaming Show on June 16th, bringing with it speakers including Dean Hall and Cliff Bleszinski as …
Read More »Valve gives developers the power to ban Steam users
Valve has widened the ability for players to be banned on Steam by granting developers the right to direct player bans directly. Playing games should be fun,” Valve said. In order to ensure the best possible online multiplayer experience, Valve allows developers to implement their own systems that detect and …
Read More »Games can now be embedded directly into Twitter
A number of classic video games can now be played directly via Twitter. This isn’t due to any functionality that the social media platform has introduced, The Guardian reports, but is instead as a result of The Internet Archive’s release of 2,600 MS-DOS games. These were actually designed to e …
Read More »Amazon ups Super Saver Delivery charge to £20
As of today the price of free delivery on Amazon products has been increased. In July 2013 Amazon introduced a minimum 10 spend requirement to qualify for Super Saver Delivery, although a number of items such as books, DVDs and, crucially, games were exempt. These exemptions were then scrapped in …
Read More »505 is publishing Starbreeze’s The Walking Dead game
There’s another game based on The Walking Dead on the way, this time from Starbreeze and 505 Games. Following on from 505’s acquisition of a stake in Starbreeze last month, it will now handle next-gen publishing duties for The Walking Dead from Starbreeze-owned studio Overkill, which is the team behind …
Read More »Modders rally in support of premium Steam mods
The founder of one of the world’s largest mod communities has argued that paid mods may be a vital revenue source for games in an increasingly hostile digital marketplace. Our reluctance to pay for anything digital, is forcing the music, movie and games industries to adapt,” ModDB founder Scott Reismanis …
Read More »Intel’s Skylake CPUs will outpace Haswell by around 15%
Leaked benchmark tests of Intel’s upcoming Skylake CPUs suggest users can expect performance improvements of around 15 per cent compared to current processors. PC Gamer reports that the Skylake i7-6700K benches at around 15 per cent ahead of the existing Haswell i7-4790K. That’s pretty much in line with the sort …
Read More »Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor gets Game of the Year Edition release
Warner Bros has announced a Game of the Year release for its Lord of the Rings outing Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. As is the way with such things, the SKU will contain the main game and all of its post-release DLC including The Lord of The Hunt and The Bright …
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