2016 Proves eSports pays
What if I told you, you can make good money being a competitive gamer? You might not believe me. However, 2016 has proved that players can make a decent salary, but it comes with a catch... you have to win, everything.
Flamebait Friday Debate: Where do you draw the line on micro-transactions?
How much superfluous monetisation is too much when it coms to the retail games you play?
PlayStation Plus gets a sneaky North American price hike
The price of PlayStation Plus has increased in North America. There's no word on a similar hike in the rest of the world. Yet.
Eight StarCraft II pro players arrested in new match-fixing scandal
Regular sports and eSports aren’t that different really. After all, they’ve both got their own share of unscrupulous buggers. Just look at StarCraft II in Korea.
Superdata reports a $1.6 billion revenue for League of Legends in 2015
League of Legends has become the highest grossing digital game with a reported $1.6 billion profit from digital sales in 2015. Could 2016 be bigger?
PC beats out mobile to become 2015’s highest digital earner
According to digital tally specialist SuperData, PC gaming earns more money than consoles and mobile games - at least as far as digital revenue goes.
FFD: Can you justify spending over R1000 on a game?
With the exhcnage ride continuing its decline, it's safe to assume that we'll be paying quite a bit more for our games in 2016. Can you justify spending R1000 on a single videogame though?
One “popular” YouTuber wanted $22 000 to cover games from the Soul Axiom developers
Sponsoring a video isn’t unheard of, with some YouTubers even making a living off of that. Which is all well and fine, when such deals aren’t kept secret. And then you’ve got the tale of one YouTuber, who offered to cover a game in a video. For $22 000.
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