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Esports and video game broadcaster Level Up Media has launched a new channel for premium video games footage. TheGamer.TV will apparently live alongside Level Up’s esports-centric Dingit.TV and is being pitched as “the world’s first dedicated destination for audiences seeking the latest and greatest premium videos from blockbuster franchises like …

FACEIT has announced that it has teamed up with the Capcom Pro Tour and Milan Games Week to host Street Fighter V’s EU Regional Finals at the event this weekend. Taking place on Sunday October 1st, the FACEIT-organised event makes it three years in a row for the cherished fighting …

Esports Pro’s sister publication TVTechGlobal, which is the leading resource for media and entertainment professionals, has released a special issue dedicated specifically to esports. The magazine was first made available for attendees of the recent IBC 2017 trade conference in Amsterdam last week. It was designed to give broadcast professionals …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole has stated that its public grievances with Epic Games are specifically related to the pair’s business relationship. Last week Bluehole’s VP and executive producer Chang Han Kim slammed Epic for its introduction of a new battle royale game mode in Fortnite. Some were quick to question …

The global worth of the mobile games market exceeded that of the console and PC games market for the first time in 2016. That’s according to a new report from DFC Intelligence, which says that overall mobile game revenues grew 32 per cent in 2016. Unsurprisingly the driver of this …

We now have what should hopefully be a final release date for PS4 racer Gran Turismo Sport. The game will skid into retail in Europe on October 18th, a day after it crosses the North American finish line on October 17th. That’s two weeks after Forza Motorsport 7, incidentally. The …

22cans’ smartphone title The Trail will be released for PC on Steam this summer, publisher Kongregate has said. The game was released on iOS and Android late last year, and must have done reasonably well to warrant a port. The PC version has apparently undergone a complete redesign and rebuild, …

Following its launch in November, the Gameslab Leeds program from Creative England has now awarded grants to nine developers. In total that represents 157k worth of investment, safeguarding nearly 40 jobs and creating another 18. Another 75k is looking to be invested by the end of the year, and applications …

VR will make a big stride towards the mainstream in 2018 when Oculus releases a $200 standalone VR headset. That’s according to Bloomberg, which says that the new headset is designed to bridge the gap between cheaper entry-level smartphone based VR and high-end headsets that plug into PCs. Not only …

Blizzard’s insistence on having city-based teams for its new Overwatch League has contributed to the League’s stuttering start, but some concrete details are now at last emerging. Seven teams have now been confirmed, the owners and locations of which are as follows: Robert Kraft, Chairman and CEO of the Kraft …