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Raymond joins governing body for video games trade organisation
Read More »Jade Raymond joins AIAS board of directors
Twitch signs third-party broadcast deal for Blizzard’s Overwatch League, for a reported $90m
Late on Tuesday, Blizzard announced a two year streaming deal between Twitch and Blizzard’s Overwatch League that will see every match broadcast on Twitch’s streaming platform. The league, which kicks off on Wednesday 10 January, will be broadcast from Twitch.tv/overwatchleague, with Twitch becoming the third-party streaming provider for Overwatch League’s …
Read More »Indian publisher Nazara acquires majority stake in Nextwave Multimedia
Rise of the VRCade
Read More »Glu Mobile sells off Russian studio for $2.8m
Retaining rights to several games developed there
Read More »Steam hits 18.5m concurrent users
More people logged in than the population of Chile
Read More »Rebellion acquires Leamington Spa studio Radiant Worlds
Rebellion has started the year off by announcing the acquisition of Leamington Spa based studio Radiant Worlds. The acquisition went ahead for an unknown sum. Radiant Worlds was founded in 2013 will be renamed as Rebellion Warwick, transitioning onto Rebellion’s current projects, like the upcoming 1930’s title Strange Brigade. The studio …
Read More »Blizzard sells out 450-seat arena for first day of Overwatch League
The inaugural season of the Overwatch League is nearly here, and Blizzard has already announced that the first day is now officially sold out. The Overwatch League’s Twitter account announced the news late on Sunday night, revealing that they’d sold out for the day one match between San Francisco Shock …
Read More »Smosh Games personality Amra Ricketts leaves collective after accusations of sexual assault
Content warning for discussions of sexual assault and violence Amra ‘Flitz’ Ricketts, a regular contributor to YouTube network Smosh Games, has left the collective after several accusations of sexual assault. “I wanted to let all of you know that effective immediately, I’m leaving Smosh Games,” Ricketts wrote on Twitter yesterday. …
Read More »Nintendo Switch is the fastest selling console in U.S history
Nintendo has announced that their Switch console, the portable/console hybrid that launched in March, is the fastest selling console ever in the United States, beating the sales of their Wii console, which exploded in popularity in the U.S upon launch. This comes from Business Wire, who put the sales of …
Read More »Mad Catz returns from the dead, showing new products at CES
Mad Catz is dead, long live Mad Catz. The third party peripheral giant used up all nine lives and died in March last year, but is due to return under new management, showing a collection of products at CES 2018 next week ahead of a full relaunch. Mad Catz was …
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