Fans of tanks, massive destruction, and competitiveness get ready to battle across the internet with World of Tanks. The strategy game development team behind World of Tanks, Wargaming, announced their creation of Wargaming.net League. Wargaming hopes to run alongside the great eSports games of now and bring in new competitive players, fans, and professional eSports gamers. Scheduled to launch th...
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Sony Online Entertainment and Major League Gaming (MLG) have teamed up to bring Planetside 2 to the competitive gaming audience. This partnership will include Planetside 2 in broadcast programming, online competition, and MLG events. Planetside 2 is a free-to-play, massively multiplayer online first person shooter, so games are sure to be interesting. “PlanetSide 2 players are extremely loyal to t...
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Festival Teaches Game Design Games Britannia, last year’s recipient of the “Best University/Educational Initiative” honor at last year’s TIGA Games Industry Awards, is set to kick off its second iteration this month in South Yorkshire. On January 23rd and 24th Sheffield Hallam University will host a 24-hour game development and workshop marathon aimed at teaching students of all ages how to des...
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Mobile games developer and publisher Thumbstar Games have joined forces with Games Journalism Prizes, the new global prizes to recognise the best writing about videogames. Thumbstar have donated a prize of £1000, which will be awarded to the best piece of games journalism written in English and published for the first time between 1st January 1st and 31st December 2012. The winners will of the com...
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Epic Games is hosting a competition at the Gadget Show Live in April of 2013, called “Make Something Unreal Live.” The competition will feature four European studios using the Unreal Development Kit, a free version of Unreal 3, to make a game that will be shown at Gadget Show Live. The grand prize will be a full source Unreal Engine 4, helping the winning studio to become a commercial game develop...
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District 187: Sin Streets Tournament registration is now open. CJ Games Global and FraggedNation are teaming up to host a competitive, team-based, ladder tournament for District 187: Sin Streets. Clans will clash in team death match rules over the course of three popular maps in order to win exclusive in-game prizes provided by CJ Games Global. The shooting rampage extravaganza will take place on ...
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StarCraft II Tournament of Champions debuts Monday, December 3rd at 6pm ET with DongRaeGu vs Flash. Watch as the two time MLG Champion takes on the MLG/KeSPA Invitational Champion in the inaugural match up. The StarCraft II “Tournament of Champions” debuts Monday, December 3 at 6pm ET with DongRaeGu vs Flash. Watch as the two-time MLG Champion takes on the MLG/KeSPA Invitational Champion in the i...
Read More »The Pokemon Company announced that the top four winners in each age bracket from the 2012 Pokemon World Championship would be used as the basis for the Pokemon World Tournament. The events will begin on October 22 through the Nintendo wi-fi service. This tournament will allow players of Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 to fight against the teams used by world champions, including Masters Divisi...
Read More »eFusion MMOG have announced a new promotional competition to celebrate the launch of the free to play MMORPG ‘Dragon Nest’ this December. eFusion MMOG are holding a competition where players can enter for the chance to win a fully equipped BMW Mini Cooper S. The competition is aimed to appeal to a wide audience as eFusion have stated that it has a ‘fairly average level of d...
Read More »Epic Games, Inc. has announced the launch of Make Something Unreal Live (MSUL) 2013. It is a competition open to any students who have enrolled on a full-time course at any European higher education establishment, to make a game based on a theme. Interested? Read on. Make Something Unreal Live 2013 is being supported by the Wellcome Trust, Staffordshire University (Epic's educational partner ...
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