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Esports Boxing Club from UK dev Steel City Interactive to feature esports tournaments, with physical belts awarded to winners

August 7, 2021E-SportsNewsUK

Article contains affiliate link Esports Boxing Club (ESBC) is hoping to not only become a serious contender in the world of boxing video games, but to have its own esports structure too. From football to sim racing and basketball, there are a host of competitive sports simulation games out there with their own tournaments for professional gamers, but there hasn’t been a big realistic boxing title since EA’s Fight Night Champion ten years ago. Continue reading Esports Boxing Club from UK dev Steel City Interactive to feature esports tournaments, with physical belts awarded to winners

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Riot Games parent company Tencent to acquire major UK games developer

July 19, 2021E-SportsNewsUK

Riot Games parent company Tencent is set to purchase one of the UK’s well-known game development studios. Chinese gaming giant Tencent has made a bid worth almost £1bn to acquire Sumo Group, which owns Atomhawk, Pipeworks Studios and Secret Mode, as well as Sumo Digital, which consists of several UK studios including Sumo Nottingham and Sumo Sheffield. Sumo Digital has produced a range of games over the years, including LittleBigPlanet 3, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Crackdown 3, several Forza titles and most recently Hood: Outlaws & Legends. Continue reading Riot Games parent company Tencent to acquire major UK games developer

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Ireland’s Vela Games raises £12.5m in funding from Ubisoft, London Venture Partners and Novator

June 30, 2021E-SportsNewsUK

Vela Games, a Dublin-based studio with industry veterans from Blizzard, Epic, Riot Games, EA and Moon Studios, has today announced it’s secured $17.3m (£12.5m) Series A investment. The funding comes from lead investor Novator, with additional investment from Ubisoft and London Venture Partners, to fuel development of its breakthrough Multiplayer Online Co-Operative (MOCO) title, an MMO/MOBA hybrid codenamed Project-V. Founded in 2018 by Travis George, Brian Kaiser and Lisa Newon George, Vela Games previously raised $6.9m in funding rounds, to establish a team of over 25 developers and flesh out their design. Continue reading Ireland’s Vela Games raises £12.5m in…

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Super Squad playtest and interview: UK dev Bad Fox Studios aims to shake up MOBA genre with new 5v5 team shooter

May 4, 2021E-SportsNewsUK

We might not feature the game development sector all that much on Esports News UK, but the UK is home to a host of dev talent that often gets overlooked. Bad Fox Studios is one such developer, which has built Super Squad, a new 5v5 MOBA-like team shooter that the studio is calling a Multiplayer Online Shoot-‘Em-Up (MOSH). Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco catches up with three members of the team to interview them while playtesting Super Squad at the same time. Continue reading Super Squad playtest and interview: UK dev Bad Fox Studios aims to shake up MOBA…

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Anthem director, Jonathan Warner, has left BioWare

March 28, 2021VG247

By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 28 March 2021 10:43 GMT Anthem director Jonathan Warner has left Electronic Arts Studio BioWare after nearly a decade at the studio.Warner has left the studio shortly after it was revealed that EA would not be continuing development on Anthem Next because “not everything [EA] had planned as a studio before COVID-19 can be accomplished without putting undue stress on [its] teams.”“So, today is my last day at BioWare, I’m moving on to do new things,” Warner tweeted. “BioWare has been home to my grateful heart for nearly 10 years and I want to wish them all…

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