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MCV's trade daily returns in 2018 to Europe's biggest trade and consumer show
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Attendance success for gamescom and inagural devcom
gamescom beats its own record for attendance and devcom will return in 2018
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Two new weapons are coming to Battlegrounds, map-specific weapons could be coming in the future
Talking to Esports Pro today at Gamescom, Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has confirmed that the next big content drop for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will bring not one but two new weapons to the game. While Greene wouldn’t reveal which exact weapons would be available for players to kill each other with, but …
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Team from open qualifiers emerge as victors at PUBG third-person Duo’s tournament
‘Suisse my Baguette’ has won the $30,000 grand prize from PUBG’s Gamescom Invitational third-person Duo’s tournament, emerging victorious over professional teams like Cloud9, TSM, and Liquid to clutch a win. Unfortunately, the series was marred by bizarre play, with a circle falling over water that saw a number of teams …
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: HOTS director Dabiri says to expect more ‘Heroes of the Storm 2.0’ level events in the future
In an interview at Gamescom, Heroes of the Storm’s game director Alan Dabiri has said that Heroes of the Storm’s is currently going ‘fantastically’ and that after the 2.0 release earlier this year had ‘an explosion of activity’, you should expect to see “A few more of those Heroes 2.0 …
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Blood Orchid hands on & exclusive footage, how will this affect the game’s meta?
Today at Gamescom Esports Pro got a chance to get our hands on the content coming to Rainbow Six Siege with the forthcoming Blood Orchid update. We played with the three new operators — the new attacker Ying, and defenders Lesion and Ela — in a bomb defusal match on …
Read More »Chancellor Merkel opens gamescom 2017
German Chanceller speaks to jounalists and invited guests as Europe's biggest games show opens its doors
Read More »Dingit.TV and the gamescom Indie Arena Booth
As the video on demand service becomes the Indie Arena Booth headline sponsor and indie competition judges, Sean Cleaver caught up with Dingit.TV's Claire Sharkey to find out why
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Bluehole and Nvidia bring ShadowPlay Highlights to PUBG
At an Nvidia event at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany,the developers of hit game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have revealed an update that’ll integrate with Nvidia’s ShadowPlay Highlights system. The integration is available now, and should kick in the next time you boot up Steam, and will allow players to automatically capture their …
Read More »Welcome to the heart of gaming: why Gamescom is more important than E3
Every year, Gamescom gets bigger. Not only does its 345,000 public attendees make E3’s 15,000 punters look positively paltry, but this year the show will also be accommodating over 900 exhibitors, marking a 20 per cent increase year-on-year. That’s over three times the number of exhibitors at E3 2016. That’s …
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