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April 29, 2020
Will Gaming and Esports Startups Survive the Coronavirus Crisis?
The video game and esports industry was booming before the coronavirus crisis took hold. In 2019 the video game market likely achieved a value of $150 billion. Esports was worth…
April 28, 2020
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Update is coming
The newest Call of Duty Modern Warfare update is bringing all sorts of new content to PC, Xbox One, and PS4 players this week. The new patch is going to…
April 28, 2020
LPL 2020 Spring Playoff Finals Prediction – Who will be crowned new king of 2020 LPL?
The 2020 Spring Season for the League of Legends Pro League, also regarded as the LPL, is soon coming to its end. The third place match between IG and FPX…
April 27, 2020
Evil Geniuses and Fnatic are your BTS Pro Series Champions
Evil Geniuses and Fnatic are crowned as regional champions of BTS Pro Series. In Americas regional, Evil Geniuses defeated Quincy Crew in a clutching 3-1 finals. Meanwhile, Fnatic took an…
April 27, 2020
$2 Million FNCS Invitational Announced – More Entertainment than Skill
Speculation about what comes next after the last season of FNCS wrapped out didn’t have to last very long. Just after the conclusion of the last event, Epic has announced…
April 26, 2020
LPL Semifinal Preview – FunPlus Phoenix vs JD Gaming
With the conclusion of the match between Invictus Gaming and Top Esports, the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) 2020 Spring split now has its first finalist. Top Esports finally…
April 26, 2020
LPL Semifinal Preview – Invictus Gaming vs Top Esports
The League of Legends Pro League (LPL) is coming to a close for its 2020 Spring season. Of the starting 17 teams, there are now only four teams left to…
April 26, 2020
LCK Finals Recap – T1 sweeps Gen.G to complete three-peat
T1 won the 2020 Spring League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) earlier today in a clean 3-0 sweep over Gen.G. In doing so, T1 earned the 100 million Korean won…
April 24, 2020
Blast Premier announces Blast Rising
Popular tournament organizer Blast just announced a new online tournament – Blast Rising is going to be the latest in a series of FPS tournaments worldwide. More specifically, it’ll be…
April 24, 2020
BTS Pro Series: Americas – Playoffs Day 2 Predictions
BTS Pro Series: Americas has entered its Playoffs Stage and on day 1, only one of the favorites won their match. The other one was bested by a determined and…
April 24, 2020
Fortnite Travis Scott Event Shows Popularity but Not For Competitive
Fortnite is showing as much popularity as ever, with 12.3 million people showing up to watch a small concert in-game. This Fortnite Travis Scott event shows the game still has…
April 24, 2020
Call of Duty joins the DraftKings fantasy lineup
Draftkings has a pretty solid fantasy drafts lineup already, but as of next week, a new league will be joining their DFS product series. Specifically the Call of Duty contests…
April 24, 2020
Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship Announced
Mobile games have been up and coming for years – they’ve always quietly made up the majority of earnings when it came to video game sales, but now they’ve also…
April 23, 2020
Former champion, PPD retires from DOTA2
On 21st April 2020, Peter “ppd” Dager, former captain of team Evil Geniuses, the International 2015 Champions, retires from competitive DOTA2. The announcement came as shocking news to the DOTA2…
April 23, 2020
PUBG Esports changes once again with PUBG Continental Series
PUBG Esports has seen its fair share of changes this season. First, the competitive ecosystem had a complete overhaul with regional leagues being discontinued. The change came in favor of…
April 22, 2020
ESL One: Road to Rio – North America Preview
ESL One: Road to Rio – North America is one of the six qualification tournaments for ESL One: Rio 2020, which will be the biggest CS:GO event of the year.…
April 22, 2020
CSGO and Apex pros dominate the ESPN Valorant Invitational
Riot Games’ brand new title Valorant has just seen its very first tournament – although the game itself isn’t released to the general public yet, there’s already a tournament underway.…
April 22, 2020
Echo Ban in Hero Pools Baffles Fans and Players
Week by week, Overwatch’s hero pools continue to push boundaries and find innovative new ways to completely confuse players and fans. The system seems to lurch from weird decision to…
April 21, 2020
ESL One Road to Rio – Europe Preview
ESL One: Rio 2020 will be a monumental event, perhaps the most epic CS:GO tournament in recent memory. It’s a Major, but it’s not just a Major. Two Majors have…
April 21, 2020
Premier League footballers about to join esports tournament
The latest of several sports leagues to go “e”, the Premier League, is setting up an esports tournament. Previously, Formula 1, MotoGP and similar events have already taken this step…
April 20, 2020
Virtus.pro – The Major Kings reclaim their throne at ESL Los Angeles 2020
Virtus.pro defeats two-time champion, team OG, in a gruesome 3-2 victory in a best-of-5 grand finals of ESL Los Angeles 2020. Along with the hefty 60,000 USD winnings, Virtus.pro also…
April 20, 2020
FNCS Season 2 Finals – What Went Wrong?
The Season 2 FNCS finals were finally held over the weekend, but the latest competitive event has gone out with a whimper rather than a bang. The event seemed pretty…
April 19, 2020
LCS 2020 Spring Finals Preview
A champion from bygone days takes the stage to try for the trophy that slipped from their fingers so long ago and has yet to be reclaimed. Across from them,…
April 19, 2020
LEC 2020 Spring Finals Preview
Old kings. New kings. Legacy. There are two reasons these words come up so often when discussing Europe and those reasons are Fnatic and G2 Esports. The League of Legends…
April 17, 2020
Nevada to Allow Call of Duty League Esports Betting
After months of deliberation, the Nevada Gaming Control board has approved betting platforms to allow bets on the Call of Duty Modern Warfare esports league. Esports betting in Nevada is…