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  • Vela Games Raises $3.1M in Seed Investment Round

    Investment includes new partnership with London Venture Partners; Studio To Focus On Vision To Redefine Multiplayer Gaming Through Co-operative Play
    8 April 2020, Dublin: Vela Games today announced a $3.1M Seed investment round, led by Lvp, and with follow on investment from existing investor IIU. This round allows the Dublin-based studio to deliver their vision of redefining multiplayer gaming

  • Intel, NSE and ESL launches professional development initiative

    Offering UK students a unique leadership programme designed to enhance their careers
    The initiative builds on the successful partnership, forged in 2018 between Intel and ESL, to identify the next outstanding esports commentator. Now Intel and ESL have teamed up with National Student Esports (NSE) to offer the next Intel FutureGen programme, specifically designed to identify esports talent amon

  • New Format and New Name for Awards During Develop:Brighton; The Develop:Star Awards To Focus on Creative Excellence

    Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, GamesIndustry.Biz and Network N Confirmed as Partners
    Tandem Events has announced a new format for the development industry awards. The Develop:Star Awards will focus on honouring creative excellence, whilst at the same time bringing some fun back into the evening. The Develop:Star Awards will be decided and voted on by the development community and w

  • Biggest Mobile esports Tournament Ever Culminates at London’s Copper Box Arena on 3 December

    Tickets Available now for the Clash Royale Crown Championship
    Fans Can Attend In Person or Watch The World Finals Livestream on YouTube and Twitch
    The competition began in August with more than 27 million players, but this December, only one will remain. The Crown Championship, Clash Royale’s first-ever official global esports competition designed to find the best player in the world, will

  • Vinyl Pre-Orders Open for Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire’s Stunning Orchestral Soundtrack

    ArenaNet partners with lauded video game merchandiser iam8bit
    Bellevue, WA – October 26, 2017: Following the huge success of the soundtrack to the first Guild Wars 2 expansion Heart of Thorns, acclaimed publisher and developer ArenaNet™ has once again partnered with video game master merchandisers iam8bit to bring Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire’s orchestral soundtrack to the fans.
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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

  • (gamescom appointments) Focus Home Interactive & Talewords

    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 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

  • 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 convention. The

  • 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 devastating

  • Record attendance and digital engagement for ESL One Cologne 2017

    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

  • ESL Announces Key Global Executive Hires To Focus On Company's Next Stage Of Growth

    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

  • $500,000 Video Games Challenge Developing Beyond Reveals Finalists

    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

  • Advir Empowering VR&AR Developers to Monetise Through Unobtrusive Adverts

    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

  • ESL Announces European Grassroots Initiative Expanding Path to Pro League for CS:GO

    ​The world’s largest esports company, ESL, is today proud to reveal a new initiative to expand its path for aspiring Counter-Strike: Global-Offensive (CS:GO) players to rise through the ranks from the National Championship level onto the amateur ranks in order to qualify for the largest CS:GO league in the world, the ESL Pro League.

  • Develop:Brighton Announces Finalists in Seventh Indie Showcase

    ​Develop:Brighton, Europe’s leading game developers conference, today announced the shortlisted games to be on display as part of the seventh Indie Showcase, sponsored by Unity. Running on 12 and 13 July within the Develop:Brighton Expo, the Indie Showcase highlights independently-developed games selected by a judging panel of industry experts.

  • [E3 2017] Call of Cthulhu Embraces Madness in E3 Trailer

    Plunge into the troubled mind of private investigator Edward Pierce, as his perception of reality becomes more and more skewed the closer he gets to the Great Dreamer’s sphere of influence. Clutch to your withering sanity to discover the conspiracies, cultists and otherworldly terrors inhabiting the twisted universe imagined by Lovecraft…it is said madness is the only way to discover the truth.

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