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Rocket League has hit 5m downloads in only a matter of weeks, developer Psyonix has announced. Polygon reports on the milestone, which is made up by the combination of PC and PS4 purchases with PS Plus downloads. According to the studio, the figure doubles the lifetime downloads of Supersonic Acrobatic …
Read More »Sega partners with GameSessions for PC rental and game trials
A number of Sega’s PC properties will soon be available on a ‘try before you buy’ basis. The publisher has teamed up with GameSessions to offer titles such as Football Manager 2015, Company of Heroes 2, Sonic Generations and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine via the online service. Should users go …
Read More »Steam top nine sellers: July 19-25
Rocket League is at the peak of Steam’s best sellers chart again this week, beating out Early Access hit Ark: Survival Evolved for the top spot. Grand Theft Auto V continues to do its thing in third, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and The Elder Scrolls Online rounding out the top …
Read More »Fnatic finishes League of Legends season undefeated
For the first time in eSports history a League of Legends team has finished the season undeafeated. The Daily Dot reports that Fnatic won all 18 matches of its League Championship Series season. The previous best season performance was posted by Cloud9 in 2013 when it finished the season at …
Read More »Steam revenues hit $1.5bn in 2014, report claims
Valve made more than $730m in revenue from Steam and its own games in 2014, according to a report. Market data firm SuperData providedThe Knowwith estimated revenues for both Valve’s digital marketplace and its top three games DOTA 2, Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike Global Offensive.Those titles were said to …
Read More »Valve made more than $730m in 2014, report claims
DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 accrued over $400m last year
Read More »Nvidia says gamers will be ‘delighted’ with Batman Arkham Knight re-release
PC graphics specialist Nvidia has confirmed that it is helping Rocksteady and Warner Bros in their efforts to fix Batman Arkham Knight. "We’re fixing a ton of things that are not necessarily related to us," Nvidia’s Tom Peterson told MMORPG.com, as reported by Polygon. "Some of it may be related …
Read More »Fans in uproar over cosmetic changes to League of Legends’ Fiora
Riot has given one of League of Legends’ heroes a visual makeover, and its boards are alight with protests from fans. As the game’s roster evolves rapidly, it is quite normal for Riot to revisit existing Heroes and give them a rejig to keep them thematically consistent and competitive in …
Read More »ESL introduces eSports drug testing policy, to debut at ESL One Cologne
One of the biggest eSports organisations has teamed up with two drugs testing bodies to help address the growing concern about performance enhancing drugs. eSports companies queued up earlier this week to express their concern about the problem, which came to light following an interview with former Cloud9 player Kory …
Read More »‘Our mission is to make Minecraft the most amazing game we can’ – Mojang on following-up the biggest game on Earth
I’m not going to patronise you by going on too much about the success of Minecraft. Much has already been written about Mojang’s runaway hit. Everyone has seen the sales figures. And we can’t miss the piles of merchandise and books in every retailer: from GAME to Primark. Earlier in …
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