Tag: gaming
London team to join Call Of Duty esports league
A London-based team will be a part of the first Call Of Duty esports league when it begins next year, organisers have confirmed. A new competitive tournament based around the popular shooting game is due to start in 2020 and will see city-based teams host esports matches in each of their home cities during the…
Regulate loot boxes under gambling law and ban them from children, MPs say
Loot boxes in video games should be regulated under gambling law and banned from being sold to children, MPs have argued. The feature appears in some games as packs of virtual objects players can buy using real money, but the contents of a pack are randomised and not known until after purchase, which has led…
Telltale Games makes comeback
Telltale Games is being revived, almost a year after the name behind games such as The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us shut down. Remnants of the brand have been acquired by two veteran gaming executives, Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle, who plan to re-release some of Telltale’s previous titles, as well as developing…
The new era of online gaming
As technology becomes more advanced, the way we play games and interact with one another is set to change even more dramatically. Technology is changing everything, from the way we interact with one another via social media instead of talking face-to-face to the way we work using online tools and apps rather than pen and…
Betting firms ‘targeting children with esports adverts’
The Fortnite World Cup was recently held in New York (Epic Games/PA) Betting firms are flouting advertising regulations by encouraging children to engage with gambling adverts for esports tournaments, according to a new report. Researchers found children under the age of 16 made up a quarter of online users who…
New FIFA 20 details expected at Gamescom
Popular forthcoming video games Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare and FIFA 20 are expected to be among those on show at Gamescom in Germany this week. The five-day gaming trade show opens in Cologne on Tuesday. Nintendo and Xbox are among the giants showcasing new products at the event, which allows fans an early chance…
2019 Modern Warfare Reboot to Feature Cross-Platform Multiplayer Mode
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is set to be released October 25 this year, a date that marks a ground-breaking moment for the long-running series as its sixteenth instalment becomes the first to support cross-platform multiplayer. In an interesting juxtaposition, 2019's Modern Warfare will be steeped in the past at the same time as…
Twitch apologises to Ninja for pornography promotion on old channel
Streaming site Twitch has apologised to gaming star Ninja after it emerged that his dormant channel page was used to recommend pornography. The American Fortnite gamer, whose real name is Tyler Blevins, recently jumped ship from Amazon-owned streaming giant Twitch, to Microsoft’s Mixer platform. Since leaving at the beginning of August, Ninja’s former streaming space…
Gaming star Ninja leaves Twitch for Mixer
Fortnite superstar Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has left Twitch and is taking his video game live streams to Microsoft’s Mixer platform. Blevins’ move ends a hugely profitable partnership with Twitch, a live streaming giant owned by Amazon. “I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunities Twitch has provided me,” Blevins told The Associated Press. “But as I looked…
Gambling Commission shares concern over video game loot boxes
The UK gambling regulator has said it shares concern about loot boxes in video games but warned that the current law makes it hard to define them as gambling. Neil McArthur, chief executive of the Gambling Commission, told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that loot boxes “could be a form of gambling but…
