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The creator of Beyond Good & Evil, Michel Ancel, has taken to Instagram of all places to explain why the sequel to the much loved classic has taken so long. Earlier in the month Ubisoft confirmed that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is real, and is on track to actually …
Read More »Star Wars: Battlefront Ultimate Edition will launch next month
EA has announced Star Wars: Battlefront Ultimate Edition, which will include the base game and all of the season pass DLC at a reduced price. Currently the new disk bundle is only confirmed to be available in the States from November 18th, with a price tag of $39.99. EA told …
Read More »Samsung blocks video of GTA V mod that turns the Note 7 into a bomb
Samsung has issued a takedown notice to a video on YouTube showcasing a GTA V mod that replaces the game’s sticky bombs with the Note 7 phone. The mod for Grand Theft Auto V on PC replaces the model for the sticky bombs with a model of the Samsung Galaxy …
Read More »Gfinity to support both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare Remastered
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 …
Read More »KeSPA closes historic StarCraft league
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 …
Read More »Team Secret and Puppey respond to EternalEnvy’s blog
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 …
Read More »Former Eidos COO Jonathan Kemp is the new CEO of Team Dignitas
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 …
Read More »Lewis Hamilton gets a cameo appearance in Call of Duty
World champion F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton will appear in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Hamilton’s cameo appearance sees him play the role of an engineer aboard the Retribution, one of the United Nations Space Alliance’s last remaining warships, following a devastating attack on their fleet in the game’s opening …
Read More »Dan Harmon is making a scripted eSports comedy show for YouTube
Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, is making a comedy series based around eSports for YouTube Red. The series will feature six 30 minute episodes that follow a new team of eSports stars who are trying to make it big in the growing competitive gaming industry. Both …
Read More »CBS is making a Candy Crush TV show
Turns out that Candy Crush is still incredibly popular. So popular that US TV network CBS has decided to turn it into a TV game show. In the show two teams of contestants will compete to progress through giant interactive game boards. This will apparently take an entire hour, until …
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