Riot Games details League of Legends loot box odds

Follows Star Wars Battlefront II drama

• league of legends
• loot boxes

Football Manager firm Sports Interactive hires Disney vet Carroll as first COO

"A COO is something that Sega has been telling me that I've needed for a few years now," studio chief Jacobson says

• Job News
• football manager

New European digital charts debuting in France

First of 42 European regions to get ISFE's new rankings

• europe
• france
• digital charts
• game sales data

Kingdom Come: Deliverance holds Steam second place as Stellaris Apocalypse expansion debuts at No.3

Hunt Showdown from Crytek charts in fourth position

• Steam
• kingdom come: deliverance
• stellaris
• hunt showdown

Discord courts esports teams and communities with additions to verified server programme

Teams from the Overwatch and pro-gaming organisation Dreamhack on board

• esports
• pro-gaming

Vision Esports scores $38 million to invest in pro-gaming business

Plans to fund more companies in the space

• Investment
• esports

Gamers have to shell out $10 to make a new save in Metal Gear Survive

Which is bold

• microtransactions
• metal gear survive

Trump says America needs video games ratings after blaming them for gun crime

US commander in chief rambles about ratings system its games industry has had since 1994

• donald trump
• gun crime
• esrb
• game ratings

Half-Life's Gordon Freeman is coming to Final Fantasy XV

Pre-order bonus for the Windows Edition

• final fantasy XV
• final fantasy XC windows edition
• half life
• gordon freeman

Troy Baker and Emily O'Brien join Kojima's Death Stranding cast

Joining Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro and Mads Mikkelsen on the strange project

• development
• death stranding
• performance capture

Nope, there are no microtransactions in the upcoming Burnout Paradise Remastered

Listening on PSN made in error

• microtransactions
• burnout
• burnout paradise remastered

Diversity is essential to the growth of the games industry, Microsoft's Spencer says

Exec says that as the people playing games expands, it'd be prudent for companies to best represent their audiences

• diversity
• representation

Newzoo reckons esports will generate $906m in 2018

Up 38 per cent year-on-year

• data and research
• esports

British Games Institute one step closer to reality with National Videogame Foundation merger

Will operate out of the NVF's headquar

• Britain
• UK
• british games institute

Meet the Steel Media team at GDC 2018 and Game Connection

Journalists, ad sales, business development and our top execs are flying out to San Francisco