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
LONDON, UK — August 8th 2017 — Today Ubisoft®, together with ESL, the world’s largest esports company, announced that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege will kick off three months of Go4 cups in the UK from 15th August 2017 until 28th November 2017. The competition will be open to UK players on Xbox One™ and the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and will feature weekly prizes of £100 per p
We are taking appointments for Focus Home Interactive and Taleworlds (Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord) at gamescom. Details for each below:
Focus Home Interactive
Vampyr
45 min presentation slots with developers Phillipe Moreau and Vincent Eustache
15 min interview slots also available
Call of Cthulhu
30 min presentation with Diane Quenet and Romain Wiart
Limited number of
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
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
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:
youtube.com/watch?v
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
Players will begin their hunt for Balthazar and face an epic conclusion at the end of their journey through Season 3
The finale Episode of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns Living World Season 3, “One Path Ends,” is live today. This episode promises to be a memorable one as players will experience the conclusion of an epic story arc.
Episode 6 also introduces Siren’s Landing, the sixth open worl
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 convention. The
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
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
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
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 devastating
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
The key to tracking down the god Balthazar may be lurking in the ruins of Orr
The epic conclusion of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns Living World Season 3 is almost here! “One Path Ends,” the grand finale of this incredible season, arrives live in-game on Tuesday, July 25, and wraps up a story arc packed with shocking revelations.
As the season began, the heroes celebrated their victory over
Cologne’s LANXESS arena was once again host to ESL’s flagship independent Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event in the ESL One series. The world’s best CS:GO teams battled for a share of the $250,000 prize pool in a six day long competition that concluded on July 9, when Brazilian team SK Gaming was crowned the champions of ESL One Cologne 2017. This win is also the first that will count towards
Develop:Brighton returns 10-12 July 2018
13 July 2017: The winners of the seventh Indie Showcase, sponsored by Unity, have been announced at the Develop:Brighton. They are: People's Choice award as voted for by attendees:
Abandon Ship (PC)Fireblade Software
Abandon Ship is a single-player PC game where you take command of a ship and her crew, exploring a procedurally-generated world, ta
Leadership Team Adds Global Chief Marketing Officer and Global Chief Revenue Officer
Cologne, Germany -- July 13, 2017 –ESL, the world’s largest esports company, today announced several key global executive hires with extensive experience in their respective areas. As part of the new management team, Rodrigo Samwell has been named Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Martin Hubert as Chief Revenue
Games exploring life on Mars, plant breeding and the legacy of the Black Death have made it to the final of Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development competition created by Epic Games and Wellcome.
July 12, 2017 - Three game development teams have won a place in the final phase of the Developing Beyond challenge, each earning $60,000 in funding after impressing a panel of esteemed jud
CEO to Demonstrate Advir Capabilities at Develop:Brighton
LONDON, 6 July 2017: Advir, the world’s first company to provide programmatic immersive advertising in VR and AR, is set to demonstrate a unique, new method to enable developers to monetise their upcoming titles at Develop:Brighton.
Advir’s key objective is to give developers the best tools to monetize and grow the industry – to this
