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Sydney-headquartered cloud management software provider Fluent Commerce has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round, with the funds to be used to drive sales and marketing and continue development of its growing suite of unified omnichannel solutions.

The second Melbourne Esports Open will be held on 31 August and 1 September.

The details of 2.5 million gamers, who had accounts on Xbox360ISO.com or PSPISO.com, have been exposed on the Internet, having been hacked in late 2015.

This is no poker bluff, but a YouGov survey finding that "less than 40% of respondents in APAC were Pokémon fans but today almost 70% in APAC find the concept of Pokémon Go interesting".

Pokémon Go is a huge craze sweeping the world attracting millions of players but here in Australia the mobile gaming phenomenon has also attracted the interest of the telecommunications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, with a warning on the risks for Pokémon-playing mobile phone users.

Australian online retailer Klika has been stoked by the poking of Pokémon GO players, not only click-and-collecting their orders but catching all the Pokémon lurking around their Melbourne HQ.

Reports are emerging of increasing theft of smartphones from Pokémon GO players and selling of Pokémon accounts – a level 21 player's account can earn US$600.

The Pokémon craze is enough to send people mad and want it to go away, but for others it’s a reason to go and buy a power bank.

Nintendo and Niantic Labs, originally a division of Google, released their new augmented reality smartphone game, Pokemon Go, for iOS and Android devices today.

It’s not just Apple that can get thousands of people to queue for new products, with Nintendo’s launch of two new Pokémon titles and brand new versions of the Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL attracting huge crowds!

Nintendo's latest Pokemon efforts - Pokemon X & Y - have beaten Nintendo's own sales records in Australia to become the company's fastest selling titles down under.

iPhone app Super Monster Bros has emerged as possibly the biggest rip-off in the whole mobile gaming industry.

Although some wouldn't poke Pokemon with a ten-foot barge pole, mon, preferring Pacman instead, the Japanese game is still a big hit for Nintendo, with the company releasing two new Black and White Pokemon games.