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Mad Catz reveals pro gaming controllers

Mad Catz Major League Gaming pro controllers

Mad Catz is producing a new line of Major League Gaming controllers for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Both will be available before this Christmas. They will be officially unveiled at the MLG Pro Circuit at the Raleigh Convention Center in the US this weekend from August 26th to 28th.

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ECL heads to Arsenal’s Emirates, rebrands

Arsenal Emirates stadium

The European Console League has rebranded in style with the help of Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates stadium.

Now known as European Gaming League, the E-sports event organiser will host its next tournament EGL4 at the North London stadium from October 29th to 30th.

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Call of Duty XP tickets go on sale

Call of Duty XP tickets

Tickets for the Call of Duty XP event have gone on sale, with $1m in cash prizes available for its Xbox 360 pro gaming tournament.

32 teams of four will battle it out in deathmatch knockout rounds to take the $400,000 top prize. There’s space for 28 pre-qualifying teams and four on-site qualifying spots, with teams flown out by Activision to Los Angeles to compete.

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BlizzCon gets pro gaming tournament

BlizzCon 2011

There’s almost $300,000 in prize money up for grabs at this year’s BlizzCon expo (Cosplay ladies not included).

The event is sold out but those with a Battle.net online account can watch matches of Starcraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm live.

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Team Mad Catz cleans up at ReveLAtions

Team Mad Catz at ReveLAtions

Street Fighter pro Daigo Umehara took home $10,000 after winning the 2011 ReveLAtions game tournament undefeated last month.

It was a sweet victory for Team Mad Catz as Daigo’s team mate TOPANGA.Mago finished in second place with $3,000 winnings.

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Raptr launches personalised news feed

Raptr new news feed

Video game friend tracker and game discovery platform Raptr has just launched its own personalised news feed.

This is ideal for reading the latest news on the games you care about. Find out more below and follow Leet on Raptr now.

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Leet Games Blog joins The Games Tribe

The Games Tribe logo

Leet has joined forces with online media firm The Games Tribe to reach out to more players who want to get better at gaming.

Eurogamer, IGN, GameSpot – watch out. ‘The era of big gaming sites is coming to an end.’

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Festive cheer?

GAME has increased the price of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and other new games in the run up to Christmas.

On Saturday December 18th it was advertised for £39.99 – today it costs £42.99. Cheeky buggers.

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Noby Noby Boy creator: “Japan is a zombie”

Keita Takahashi Games TM

The creator of arguably the world’s weirdest game Mr Keita Takahashi has hit out at the Japanese games industry by describing it as a zombie.

He revealed his views in an interview with Games TM after quitting his post at Namco Bandai, where he produced weird and wonderful titles such as those in the Katamari series. Now he is working freelance with his wife on projects like building playgrounds in Nottingham. But where does that leave the Japanese industry? Leet shares its views.

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Vanquish blows up your house

Sega has released a clever little piece of viral marketing for action shooter Vanquish that puts the viewer’s road in the thick of the action.

It works by integrating Google Street View after the viewer has entered their postcode. It’s a cool touch and caught us completely by surprise when we first watched it. Check it out for yourself and ‘Get Vanquished’ by viewing the official Vanquish trailer. The game is out now on Xbox 360 and PS3.