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In a significant legal move, Valve Corporation, the operator of the popular digital distribution platform Steam, is facing a collective action lawsuit in the UK. The lawsuit, filed on 5 June at the Competition Appeal Tribunal by digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt, claims that Valve has been exploiting its dominant market position to the detri...
So, with LCQ done with over the weekend, the question is who are we seeing at the ALGS Championship 2023 in Birmingham? We saw 30 teams qualify for the ALGS Championship after London's Split 2 Playoffs. The remaining 10 slots were filled over the weekend in which the ALGS Last Chance Qualifiers (LCQ) were held. All five regions went through LCQs...
Tier-one Apex, the Apex Legends Global Series Championship, returns in September for the final event of the season. The event will take place in Birmingham from September 6-10. This is the final and biggest event of the current esports season. The stakes are also doubled at the ALGS Championship, where the $1 million prize pools of the year’s ...
After 4 gruelling and tiring days of gaming, the Apex Legends Global series Split 2 Playoffs ends with team Darkzero as your champions. 40 teams from all over the world came together at the Copper Box Arena in London to fight for the chance to get a share of the $1 million prize pool. The Split 2 Playoffs is the last LAN before the ALGS Champion...
The Apex Legends Global Series Split 2 is underway, with the best Apex Legends players going at it for glory! Now that we've had 2 days of warm-ups and getting back into the groove,. The teams have finally been separated into the Winners and Losers Brackets. If you're new to the competitive side in Apex Legends, don't worry, I'll explain how it ...
We're almost at that time for high-level Apex Legends play; Split 2 Playoffs, baby! Teams from all over the world have been hard at work scrimming for weeks and weeks to be crowned the next champion. Don't worry, I've got you covered for what to expect and what we know for the Playoffs. What's different at LAN this time? ALGS Split 2 Playoffs...
So, Microsoft's plan to acquire Activision Blizzard for a whopping US$69 billion has been blocked by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over concerns that it would harm the growth of cloud gaming. This comes after the CMA provisionally opposed the deal in February due to similar concerns about cloud gaming. However, last month, the...
Microsoft isn't going down without a fight when it comes to its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, despite many objections from companies like Sony PlayStation. Case in point: its recent full-page advertisements in UK newspapers. As spotted by The Verge reporter Tom Warren, the ad appeared on the Financial Times and Daily Mail during the week, ...
EA and the Premier League announced the return of the ePremier League for the 2022/2023 season. FIFA 23 players will be competing for a prize pool of £100,000, with four competitors from the top two clubs earning spots in the EA Sports FIFA 23 Global Series Playoffs and Play-Ins. While the tournament is open to UK residents, the tournament will...
Police in the UK have arrested a 17-year old in Oxfordshire for suspicion of hacking; the kind that's tied to the recent Grand Theft Auto 6 hack as of late. The arrest took place on Thursday UK time; the suspect is still under custody. The culprit is also involved with a recent Uber security breach according to journalist Matthew Keys whose sour...
The British Esports Association (BEA) has announced it will open an esports performance and education campus at Riverside Sunderland, which will nurture and support the next generation of talent, as interest and engagement in esports grows in the UK. BEA has made a multi-million-pound commitment to the city of Sunderland, having acquired former ...
Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed its list of most-downloaded PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation VR games of 2021. Unfortunately for Asia, the list covers the North American and UK market, though in a way it is a good reference point to start on. With that said, here are the most-downloaded games for the PS5, PS4, and PSVR. ...
The British Esports Association, the not-for-profit organisation and national body set up to support grassroots esports in the UK, has announced an exclusive Higher Education (HE) university-level accredited partnership with the College of Esports. The College of Esports is the world's first university-level institution dedicated to university d...
To continue its global expansion, Call of Duty developers Sledgehammer Games will be expanding beyond its Austin, Texas location. The company will be opening a new studio in Guildford, United Kingdom, as part of its efforts to continue its global operations. Previously, Sledgehammer has opened a studio in Melbourne, Australia, and another studio...
It looks like the times might be a-changing. The Xbox Series X and S were the UK's best selling consoles in January 2021, outselling both the PS5 and the Nintendo Switch for the first time since launch. According to GamesIndustry.biz, overall console sales increased a whopping 148 percent in the UK, with the Xbox Series X and S selling the best,...
The latest FIFA 21 game may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it is a windfall for many football players who got in on the FIFA license. One of them is David Beckham. According to the Daily Mirror, the football icon who played for Manchester United, Real Madrid, and more, is paid £40 million over three years to appear as a gaming "icon" in FI...
Watch Dogs: Legion is out later this week, but if you're planning to buy the Xbox One version of the game, you may want to take note of this next bit of news. According to Eurogamer, the Xbox One X version of the game has a game-breaking bug that makes progress in its campaign impossible. The issue triggers in the 6+ hour mark where the game fre...
Hackers are responsible for using a kid's Microsoft account to purchase a whopping 36,000 FIFA points. Because of this incident, the mother of that kid, Lesley Urwin, kept in contact with Microsoft for 11 months. The company later ruled that there was no evidence of fraud. Still, the mother continues to claim that the hackers were the ones at faul...
Lootboxes have been a hot topic ever since EA's Star Wars: Battlefront II fiasco. That game had so much predatory elements built into its lootbox system that entire governments were demanding for investigation. Recently, England's National Health Service (NHS) has also taken a stand against gambling in video games, especially in the form of lootbo...
The Overwatch World Cup 2018 Semifinals and Finals is the best, the most interesting, & most entertaining series to date. I have seen team USA throwing the biggest upset in the World Cup history. I have witnessed the rise of team China crushing the community's perception that the China scene is not on par with the rest of the world due to S...
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