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Team Dignitas has announced the lineup of its new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squad, including the return of former player, Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel. The full lineup includes team leader Faruk "Pita" Pita, Ricardo "fox" Pacheco, Mikail "Maikelele" Bill and Jaocim "jkaem" Myrbostad, who will join ex-North player, RUBINO. "As we promised, …
Read More »MTV to broadcast India’s first eSports league
India’s first eSports league, UCypher, is set to be broadcast on MTV, confirms investor and organiser, Ronnie Screwvala. It was announced in January that Screwvala, an Indian media and entertainment entrepreneur, had plans to invest around $15 million in setting up an eSports league in the country through his company, …
Read More »MnM Gaming now sponsored by PC manufacturer Stormforce
Stormforce, a leading gaming PC manufacturer in the UK, has announced they are now sponsoring MnM Gaming. MnM Gaming, or Molotovs and Marshmallows to give them their full name, are a UK-based eSports organisation that compete across League of Legends, CS:GO, Overwatch and Hearthstone. Their recent achievements include League of …
Read More »Valve releases updates to Dota 2 and CS:GO on the same day
Valve is not one for communicating when they plan to do things, so it was a massive surprise when they dropped updates for their two biggest games last night. Dota 2 received the Bladeform Legacy update, the headline of which was the new Juggernaut Arcana cosmetic item that was announced …
Read More »PGL will host the next CS:GO Major in Krakow
Tournament organiser PGL has announced that it has been chosen by Valve to host the next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major in Krakow, Poland. The announcement comes just four months before the main event is set to take place, with the final stages of the competition due to take place in …
Read More »Ladykiller in a Bind: We need to talk about sex
Video games are one of our most interesting and engaging narrative mediums, so why do business plans appear to have such a problem with portrayals of sex and relationships? Alex Calvin speaks to Christine Love, the developer of 'kinky lesbian sex' visual novel Ladykiller in a Bind, to get her take
Read More »Gabe Newell: Valve is thinking how to distribute Source 2
" For our developers it works great, for other developers it’s not nearly as useful as Unity. So it’s sort of like, it’s here if people want it."
Read More »Valve announce new LG VR headset compatible with SteamVR
Showing new headset at GDC 2017
Read More »LG is making a Steam VR headset too
The HTC Vive is no longer the only VR headset designed to support Valve’s OpenVR platform. Road to VR reports that rival hardware manufacturer LG is also working on a device that will utilize both OpenVR and SteamVR Tracking. Valve’s OpenVR standard was always designed to create a level playing …
Read More »Digital Homicide’s Jim Sterling lawsuit has been dismissed
An attempt by PC developer Digital Homicide to sue games critic Jim Sterling has been thrown out of court. The studio had tried to sue Sterling, whose real name is James Stanton, for $10m after his scathing assessment of Steam release Slaughtering Grounds. All manner of accusations were thrown Sterling’s …
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