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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Top female eSport champions what they play and what they earn

The top women focused their gaming skills primarily on the games Counter-Strike, Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, Starcraft and Halo.


The top earners among them were as follows:

  • Sacha Hostyn – The world’s foremost female Starcraft II player, Hostyn goes by the username “Scarlett”. She’s only 23 years old and has already won $197,172 on the game.
  • Katherine Gunn – Gunn, known as “Mystik”, players on a number of games, but with a focus on Halo: Reach. She’s part of Team EnVyUs, and has won $122,000 since she started playing. Notably, she’s the only woman in the top 11 who’s earnt more than a male Halo player of the same experience – Jason Brown, who’s earnt $45,200.
  • Ricki Ortiz – Ortiz plays for the major esports team Evil Geniuses, being a Street Fighter She says she hates playing online due to the lag, but has still managed to win $80,530 just on offline matches.
  • Marjorie Bartell – Marjorie “Kasumi Chan” Bartell isn’t just a Dead or Alive 4 She’s also a software developer for a financial services company (in her free time). She’s won $55,000 from her games.
  • Sarah Harrison – Like Bartell, British esports player Harrison, under the name “Sarah Lou”, has made her mark on fighting game Dead or Alive 4, where she’s won $50,000. Her older sister Ruth is also in the Dead or Alive esports scene.
  • Zainab Turkie - Zainab "zAAz" Turke from Sweden is a Swedish CS:GO player, formely a Counter-Strike 1.6 player. Now playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive She has earned $25,469.

6 million PS4 sold over Christmas and 56 million games...

  • PS4 has sold more than 5.9 million units during the 2017 Christmas season.
  • PS4 has now cumulatively sold through more than 73.6 million unitsworldwide.
  • More than 55.9 million PS4 games were sold during Christmas 2017 in retail stores worldwide and through digital downloads on PlayStation Store. 
  • Up to 645 million copies cumulatively sold as of December 31, 2017.

PlayStation Network continues to demonstrate spectacular growth, with the number of PlayStation Plus subscribers surpassing 31.5 million, and PS Store recording its largest-ever monthly content sales in December 2017. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to our community and our partners for helping us achieve such phenomenal milestones.

Xbox Deals 8 - 15 January 2018 includes Bloodbowl 2 @ £5.28 (UK)



  • Black Mirror £23.99 - Was £31.99 
  • Trove - All-Pine ArtisTree Pack £11.99 - Was £15.99 
  • Real Farm‌ £27.99 - Was £34.99 (Xbox One X Enhanced) 
  • Tour de France 2017 £13.20 - Was £39.99 
  • Blood Bowl 2‌ £5.28 - Was £15.99 
  • Blood Bowl 2: Official Expansion + Team Pack £20.09 - Was £29.99 
  • Blood Bowl 2: Official Expansion £13.39 - Was £19.99
  • Styx: Master Of Shadows £6 - Was £23.99
  • Rapala Fishing: Pro Series‌ £9.59 - Was £15.99
  • Elex £31.49 - Was £44.99
  • Battle Chasers: Nightwar‌ £15.59 - Was £23.99
  • Farming Simulator 17 - Platinum Edition - £29.99 - Was £39.99 (Xbox One X Enhanced)
  • Crypt of the NecroDancer £7.79 - Was £11.99
  • Deer Hunter: Reloaded £9.59 - Was £15.99
  • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II  £6 - Was £11.99
  • Thumper £10.71 - Was £15.99 (Xbox One X Enhanced)
  • Race Arcade £5.99 - Was £7.99

Monday, January 08, 2018

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter on Xbox One January 19th with new mode & 4K Support

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, will launch on Xbox One on January 19, including support for Xbox One X and a brand new mode to explore. In anticipation of its launch, the game is now available for pre-order through the Xbox Marketplace.


Originally released on PC in 2014, the game has since made a name for itself as an artistic wonder, winning BAFTA’s Game Innovation award for its use of advanced photogrammetry tech to create digital assets with unparalleled visual quality using 3D scans of real-life objects. Now, leveraging the power of Xbox One X, The Astronauts has included support for full 4K HD resolution, providing players with their clearest look at the game’s world yet!

Sunday, January 07, 2018

Top 10 iPhone & iPad games for January 2018

1 - FTL: Faster Than Light
PC spaceship simulation game Includes the free expansion, FTL: Advanced Edition, which adds new ships, enemies, events, weapons, and more!
In FTL you experience the atmosphere of running a spaceship trying to save the galaxy. It's a dangerous mission, with every encounter presenting a unique challenge with multiple solutions. What will you do if a heavy missile barrage shuts down your shields? Reroute all power to the engines in an attempt to escape, power up additional weapons to blow your enemy out of the sky, or take the fight to them with a boarding party? This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.


2 - Don't Starve
Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition, brings the hit PC game enjoyed by over 4 million players to the iPhone and iPad. Now you can experience the uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic on the go!
Play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.
Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land.
Don't Starve requires iOS 8 and at least an iPhone 5, iPad 3, or iPad mini 2

Saturday, January 06, 2018

New Monster Hunter: World Trailer Introduces Elder Dragons, Plus DLC Details and Final Beta

New details and a trailer for the upcoming launch of Monster Hunter: World which is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 26, 2018. This new trailer introduces several new and returning favorite Elder Dragons.


The steel dragon Kushala Daora is a beast with a body covered in metal plates and has the power to keep hunters at bay by generating wind storms around itself. The flame king dragon Teostra is a brutal fiend that spits blazing fire and any hunter who faces this fierce and deadly monster is in danger of being engulfed in a hellish inferno. Another monster introduced in the trailer is Dodogama, a rock-eating wyvern that possesses a unique saliva that causes rock to become explosive, a hazardous mix it will spit at its foes to warn off attackers.

Injustice 2: Black Manta Enchantress Mystic Abilities - PC iOS Android

A new gameplay trailer for the newest addition to the Injustice 2 character roster, Enchantress. The trailer gives players their first glimpse at June Moone’s magic-wielding alter-ego Enchantress, in-action as she struggles to contain the mystical powers that have taken hold of her.


Enchantress will arrive on 9th Jan for players who have purchased the Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition, Injustice 2 Ultimate Pack or Fighter Pack No3, and will be available as a standalone purchase beginning 16th Jan from the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, Steam, and Microsoft Store.

Life is Feudal: MMO trailer from Hut to Castle

Life is Feudal: MMO is all about starting with nothing, and building up your world, with a little help, to something flourishing. In today's new Life is Feudal: MMO trailer, developer Bitbox shows how players start out as lowly peasants who gradually work their way up to proud owners of their own forest hut. As peasants begin to band together, they can construct a fortress, a place for players to create a fledgling medieval society, taking on various jobs in their newly founded kingdom as they enjoy the peace and comfort of a fully constructed castle.


Life is Feudal: MMO is a large-scale group-focused RPG, that places players in a highly realistic, non-fantasy, medieval world where danger lurks around every corner. Players need to work as a team to gather resources, build shelter, craft tools and form a fully functioning feudal society in an unforgiving archaic world. Players may find a place in society as a vassal, a knight, a farmer or even royalty, as their guild builds and expands their medieval societies.

Friday, January 05, 2018

Total War Saga - Thrones of Britannia Alfred the Great

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 Champions DLC Character Pack - PS4 XO Switch PC

The next downloadable Character Pack for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2. The upcoming pack, priced at £1.69 on PlayStation 4 and £1.59 on Xbox One, will add characters from Marvel Comics’ popular Champions comic book series, offering players the chance to unleash the limitless strength of Amadeus Cho and supersonic flight of Nova.


The pack also includes Ironheart, Devil Dinosaur, Moon Girl, Viv, Wasp (Nadia Pym), and Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), expanding the main game’s roster of over 200 Superheroes and Supervillains.

The Champions are a group of teenage Superheroes started by three Avengers disillusioned by the behaviour of their elders and the general state of distrust by the people towards super-powered beings. Eager to show the world what it truly means to be a Superhero, they formed their own team and soon recruited other teenagers with similar ideals to their cause. Together they are determined to change the world their own way!