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  • Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition's Content Reveal Trailer enters the pitch!

    The Legendary Edition will be available as a stand-alone game for newcomers, and as an affordable expansion for all Blood Bowl 2 players
    The Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition’s release is just around the corner! The highly anticipated Legendary Edition will bring in September a wealth of new content, notably all the official races and Star Players from the original board game! To celebrate this m

  • Toy Fair 2018 95% sold out

    Greenhouse area extended and fully booked
    09 August 2017: Toy Fair 2018 is set to replicate the success of the 2017 show, with just 5% of the overall space remaining. The exhibition is almost sold out nearly six months in advance of the show opening on 23rd January, with space in the popular ‘Greenhouse Area’ already completely sold out. 
    This year the Greenhouse Area, dedicated to helping s

  • ESL One Hamburg confirmed as $US1 million Dota 2 Valve Major

    ESL One Hamburg powered by Intel, Europe’s largest Dota 2 festival, has been confirmed as the next official Valve Major. The event, which has found a new home at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg after being hosted in Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena for the past three years, will welcome the world's top eight Dota 2 teams at the playoffs on October 28-29, 2017. The teams do battle not only over quali

  • ESL UK Brings Esports to EGX with Premiership Finals

    Autumn Season League of Legends and CS:GO Finals to take place on ESL Main Stage
    2 August 2017: Today, ESL UK announced the live finals of the UK’s National esport league, the ESL Premiership will be held at EGX for the very first time, with over £20,000 in prize money.
    Two ESL Premiership Autumn Season finals will be held during the four day event: the League of Legends Finals and Counter S

  • ArenaNet Reveals Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire™ The Second Expansion to Guild Wars® 2

    Mount-up and return to iconic Crystal Desert and Elona on September 22
    Pre-purchase from today for bonus items
    Bellevue, WA – August 1, 2017: ArenaNet™, publisher and developer of the acclaimed Guild Wars franchise, today announced Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire™, the second expansion to Guild Wars 2, which will launch September 22, 2017. Watch the new teaser trailer here:
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  • ESL Arena at gamescom 2017 to feature 5.000 m² of esports action, eight games, two competitive stages, community playground and more!

    The ESL Arena returns to gamescom’s Hall 9, bringing the largest esports production the world’s biggest gaming convention has ever seen. With more than 5.000 m² of exhibition space, ESL Arena will offer the best of esports to over 350,000 fans that are expected to attend this year’s event. Two Esports Stages fully packed with live competitions, and an Esports Zone for live demos, giveaways, meet

  • Bluehole and ESL Announce Gamescom Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Invitational

    Top Eighty Players and Influencers to Compete in First LAN Invitational


    SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA AND COLOGNE, GERMANY – July 25, 2017 – Bluehole, Inc., developer and publisher of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) and ESL, the world’s largest esports company, announced today they’re partnering up to bring the popular Battle Royale title to the world’s largest video games and gaming conventi

  • ESIC Statement on Appropriate Sanction for Cheating in Esports

    The Esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) has today closed its survey canvassing community opinion on the appropriate sanctions for those caught cheating in esports. The headline results are set out as an appendix to this statement below.
    “Esports is primarily about the community around each game – the players, fans and teams that participate and watch - and it was entirely appropriate for us to c

  • Skulls for the Skull Throne!

    Focus Home Interactive collaborates with Games Workshop on a new Steam sale and event!
    Today marks the beginning of the Games Workshop's event "Skulls for the Skull Throne", a weekend-long event during which games from the Warhammer world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe are enjoying time-limited discount offers on Steam, as well as additional content themed around the Blood God, Khorne, the l

  • Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition - Pre-order now open on Steam, and new races unveiled in screenshots

    The Legendary Edition will release this September on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
    Blood Bowl 2, the sequel to the video game adaptation of Games Workshop's classic tabletop game combining American football with the Warhammer fantasy world, will greatly expand in September with Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition! Available for pre-order starting today, we are happy to unveil screenshots of the new races an

  • Survive a few hours of cult hit The Surge in the new demo

    July 19th 2017 Survive a few hours of cult hit The Surge in the new demo
    The world took up the challenge to survive hardcore action-RPG The Surge from Deck13 for PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 4 Pro, Xbox® One, and PC when it launched in May, and now you can jump in too.
    Play the game from the very beginning as you start your battle through CREO, a megacorporation that has been hit by a devas

  • Develop:Brighton Announce Record Attendance Figures

    Organisers Tandem Events Announce Dates for Develop:VR
    19 July: Today, Tandem Events, organisers of Europe’s leading game developer conference Develop:Brighton, announced record attendance figures with a 7.5 per cent year on year increase.
    The conference and expo which included sessions from industry visionaries including Brenda Romero, Graeme Devine, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and John Romero had

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