While EA as a publisher is responsible for a wide variety of games, its sports titles are some of the company’s most lucrative. The FIFA, NFL and UFC game franchise holder recently revealed that combined it has over 230 million people playing its sports games. Within the next 5 years …
Read More »Twitch issues 24-hour ban to streamer that broadcast UFC fight while pretending to play
Update: Over the weekend, a streamer managed to get away with streaming a UFC pay-per-view event on Twitch. He successfully dodged moderators at the time by pretending to play the latest UFC video game. The news quickly went viral and as you would expect, it caught up with him, with …
Read More »Conor McGregor has a part in the next Call of Duty game
UFC flyweight Champion and perennial mick taker Conor McGregor, has shown to the world that he has a part to play in the next Call of Duty game: Infinite Warfare. Following on from earlier pictures of the man himself in mo-cap hardware, he's now released a screenshot of his character, looking very …
Read More »UFC champion interrupted for drug test during Twitch stream… again
UFC Flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse,” Johnson is a pretty big gamer and he's been drawing a lot of fans in recent months by streaming his play. His streams have the potential to be interrupted by more than just SWAT teams though, as Mighty Mouse has once again been interrupted during …
Read More »Riot Games owner Tencent could be buying the UFC
Riot Games owner Tencent may be looking to make one more acquisition after its monstrous buyout of Clash of Clans maker Supercell, as rumours circulating around the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) have it that Tencent may be one of the interested parties. The suggestion is that a collection of firms, …
Read More »UFC Champion is blown away by Gear VR skiing
Putting on a virtual reality headset for the first time can be quite a disorienting thing, even if you're someone who's balance, mind and body and well tuned for some of the most stressful situations in the world. Take professional fighter and current UFC Light-Heavyweight champion, Daniel Cormier (DC), who …
Read More »UFC flyweight champion considers streaming full-time
Undisputed UFC flyweight champion, Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson, has dominated his weight class for the past three years and hasn't lost since 2011, but fighting is a young man's game and at 29, he's thinking about the future. And that future might revolve around video-games, as Mighty Mouse has said …
Read More »These guys want weapons back in combat sports
Combat sports like boxing or MMA, use the human body as a weapon, but back in the good ol' days, we used to see people beating each other to bloody messes with swords and spears. What happened to that? Apparently I'm not the only one asking that either, as the …
Read More »UFC’s Zuffa is gunning for illegal stream viewers
While the landscape for media pirates is a lot better today than it was a few years ago, there's still a lot of copyright lobby groups and firms that are happy to bring legal action against ISPs, individuals and site owners alike. One of those companies is Zuffa, the owner …
Read More »THQ suing EA and Zuffa over possible shady UFC dealings
It's down but not quite out. THQ, the publisher of many of the last decade's bigger franchises, including WWE, Dawn of War, Saint's Row and Company of Heroes, has filed a suit against both EA Games and UFC owners Zuffa, claiming that EA used internal THQ documents to undermine its …
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