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StarCraft 2 champion ‘Life’ arrested for alleged involvement with match fixing
In yet another blow to the Korean StarCraft 2 esports community, legendary player Lee “Life” Seung Hyun has been arrested for allegedly participating in match fixing in professional tournaments. Seung Hyun is ranked third in StarCraft 2’s ELO ranking system, and he has won a total of 10 professional tournaments in his career. This is the second year in ...
Loot Crate announces new subscription box geared toward gamers
This week at PAX South 2016, popular subscription box service Loot Crate, Inc. has announced a new service geared specifically for gamers called Loot Gaming. Loot Crate’s standard mystery nerd box has included plenty of video game items in the past, including merchandise for games like The Legend of Zelda, Fallout 4, and Pokemon. However, the company says the ...
Blizzard’s collegiate ‘Heroes of the Dorm’ tournament will return to ESPN this year
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its collegiate Heroes of the Storm tournament, which it calls “Heroes of the Dorm”, will once again return to ESPN for the second time. There tournament pits dozens of 5-person teams from colleges around the U.S. against one another for the chance to win scholarships of up to $75,000, and Blizzard said that ...
EA exec may have accidentally revealed how many Xbox One consoles have been sold
Microsoft has been increasingly vague about the number of Xbox One units have been sold since the console started lagging behind PlayStation, but a statement made by Electronic Arts Inc CFO Blake Jorgensen during a recent earnings called suggests that the figure may be around 19 million, a little more than half the total number of PlayStation ...
Sony tried and failed once again to secure the trademark to “Let’s Play”
Earlier this month, a few eagle-eyed NeoGAF users noticed that Sony Corp had filed paperwork to trademark the term “Let’s Play,” a phrase gamers use for fan made gameplay videos with commentary. Sony’s application was denied, but it seems that the company tried a second time and was again rejected. This week, the McArthur Law Firm, ...
GOG launches “Games in Development” storefront to compete with Steam Early Access
Online PC game seller Good Old Games (GOG) has announced the launch of Games in Development, a new storefront that allows consumers to purchase games before they are finished in a model similar to that of Steam Early Access. The library of available games is sparse at the moment, but GOG managing director Piotr Karwowsk says that ...
Electronic Arts pulls out of the E3 2016 show floor in favor of holding its own event
Game publishing giant Electronic Arts Inc has announced that it will not have a presence on the show floor at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), saying that it will instead be holding its own fan-oriented event called EA Play to showcase its upcoming games. EA Play will simultaneously take place in both Los Angeles and London ...
Blade & Soul’s loot auction system is the best and worst idea in the game
Korean MMO Blade & Soul made a big splash last week when it finally launched in the West, reaching over 1 million users in only a few days. The game has plenty of features that stand out from the dozens of World of Warcraft clones that have been released over the last 12 years, but one that is ...
Kickstarter’s Head of Games lays out how to run a successful video game crowdfunding campaign
Convincing people to back your Kickstarter campaign is tough, especially for products like video games, which could take several years to release and might not be able to include all of the features that were originally promised. Of course, there are games that are successfully funded through Kickstarter all the time, and in a recent article for ...
Google’s AI beat a professional Go player, and it’s kind of a big deal
AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program developed by Google’s DeepMind team, has become the first AI to successfully beat a professional Go player, a first for the field of AI design. The actual rules of Go are relatively simple, yet designing an AI to actually play the game at the same level as the top players has ...
