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DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 accrued over $400m last year

PC graphics specialist Nvidia has confirmed that it is helping Rocksteady and Warner Bros in their efforts to fix Batman Arkham Knight. "We’re fixing a ton of things that are not necessarily related to us," Nvidia’s Tom Peterson told MMORPG.com, as reported by Polygon. "Some of it may be related …

Riot has given one of League of Legends’ heroes a visual makeover, and its boards are alight with protests from fans. As the game’s roster evolves rapidly, it is quite normal for Riot to revisit existing Heroes and give them a rejig to keep them thematically consistent and competitive in …

One of the biggest eSports organisations has teamed up with two drugs testing bodies to help address the growing concern about performance enhancing drugs. eSports companies queued up earlier this week to express their concern about the problem, which came to light following an interview with former Cloud9 player Kory …

I’m not going to patronise you by going on too much about the success of Minecraft. Much has already been written about Mojang’s runaway hit. Everyone has seen the sales figures. And we can’t miss the piles of merchandise and books in every retailer: from GAME to Primark. Earlier in …

Nvidia has named Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as the next game to be bundled for free with its graphics cards. For a limited time the Konami title will be offered for free with purchases of GeForce GTX 960, 970, 980 and 980 Ti-based graphics cards as well …

The Amazon-owned streaming site has redesigned its video player, with half of the player now using HTML5. In a blog post, Twitch said that the controls for the video players will be using HTML5 and JavaScript rather than Flash. However, videos themselves will still be using Flash. But Twitch says …

Is there a doping problem in eSports? That’s the prospect many of the sector’s leading companies are now facing up to following recent claims from one player about widespread drug use. Counter Strike player and former Cloud9 member Kory ‘Semphis’ Friesen caused a storm last week when he claimed that …

eSports tournament Vulcun Deckmasters has been cancelled, despite only launching last month. Gosugamers reports that Vulcun launched the competition with the promise of a $100k prize pool over two seasons. However, time will be called on the whole thing once it draws to a conclusion tomorrow (Friday July 17th) after …

Develop MomoStorm Entertainment has caused a stir on Steam by saying it will hand out free game currency to those who post a review of its game Epic Cards Battles on Steam. Diamonds rewards for Steam reviews,” an in-game message is titled. We wish to express our deepest thanks to …