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LoL Esports
August 30, 2019

LEC Final Regionals spot up for grabs and a Juggernaut fiesta

The “Juggernaut” and the LEC final regionals contender will be decided during the next two days, as we are down to the last week played at the Berlin Studio until…
Esports Industry
August 30, 2019

Mobile esports revenue: the rise of esports on mobile

Mobile gamers are often disparaged as not being ‘real’ gamers – this is nonsense anyway, but if we take a look at numbers, mobile gaming is one of the most…
Esports Industry
August 29, 2019

ESport Manager game comes to the Nintendo Switch

This week has seen the release of ESport Manager for the Nintendo Switch. The game has been available for PC gamers since June 2018, but now Nintendo fans will be…
Esports Industry
August 29, 2019

Betway offers $1,000 prize for StarLadder Major betting

The popular betting site Betway have revealed a generous new competition for the StarLadder Major CSGO tournament. This promises to give the winner $/€1,000 in cash as well as the…
Fortnite
August 28, 2019

Has the v10.20 Fortnite patch been enough to appease the competitive community?

Fortnite’s latest update is patch v10.20, it comes with an impressive Borderlands crossover but more importantly, those balancing changes that players have been crying out for. It is Epic’s second…
Rainbow Six
August 28, 2019

Six Master 2019 Finalists announced & new season for 2020 confirmed

Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege – a favourite among esports fans worldwide – just announced that its Six Master 2020 for the ANZ regional would return next year. Alongside this announcement…
Counter-Strike
August 28, 2019

Entering the New Legends Stage at Starladder Berlin Major 2019

The Berlin Major enters the New Legends Stage. For over a week now Starladder’s first CS:GO Major is going down without a hitch. There were a few surprises for us…
Fortnite
August 27, 2019

Fortnite Melbourne Esports Open 2019, new Click Esports series announced

The Melbourne Esports Open has announced plans to expand, launching a new Click Esports Fortnite series. The Fortnite Melbourne Esports Open will take place over September 1st and 2nd, with…
LoL Esports
August 27, 2019

HBO Ballers and Esports – a genius combo

Popular HBO show Ballers, featuring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson just announced that their latest and final season is going to be featuring esports. More specifically, it will feature League of…
LoL Esports
August 27, 2019

All you need to know about LoL Worlds 2019 Tickets

Are you looking for information about LoL Worlds 2019 Tickets? While the full League of Legends World Championship scheduled has yet to be released (September 23rd), Riot has already revealed…
Counter-Strike
August 26, 2019

FURIA eliminated from StarLadder Major – What happened to the best Brazilian CSGO Team?

Whoever played StarLadder Berlin Major Pick’em is very angry right now. I think all of us had FURIA to advance through and we were expecting them to dominate most of…
Overwatch 2
August 26, 2019

Overwatch League Playoffs: Play-Ins playout

The conclusion of the KIT KAT® Rivalry Weekend in LA gave us the 6 Playoffs and 6 Play-In spots for the OWL Playoffs stage. The six playoffs spots went to…
LoL Esports
August 26, 2019

Team Liquid lift the trophy: 2019 NA LCS Summer Split overview

LCS Regular season The top three teams in the NA LCS Summer split, Team Liquid, Cloud 9 and Counter Logic Gaming were all looking rocky in the first three to…
Dota 2
August 26, 2019

OG wins TI9, becoming the first Dota 2 team to win The International twice

One year after winning TI 8, OG has managed to win The International 2019. Once again, they did it in spectacular fashion, as complete underdogs, at the end of a…
Esports Industry
August 23, 2019

To pay or not to pay – Scandals in the esports world

Employment is a pretty straight-forward deal. The employee performs a task as part of their job, and their employer pays them for it. So far so easy – except that…
Dota 2
August 23, 2019

The International 2019 Semifinals Preview – Will OG go home with the Aegis of Champions for the second time round?

The International 2019 is about to enter a stage where only the best of the best are left in the race. Practically, we’re down to the final five teams and…
Esports Industry
August 23, 2019

Esports and the Real Estate Paradox

The esports industry is taking on an importance that could rival cinema at any time. The social impact is overwhelming. In this way, just as the Rialto Theater represented a…
Counter-Strike
August 23, 2019

United Masters League Season 2 announced – Unikrn to power this $150,000 CSGO event

Even though United Masters League Season 1 did not attract a lot of attention, I firmly believe that this will change now that the second season of UML has been…
LoL Esports
August 23, 2019

LEC Playoffs & the path to Worlds

After nine grueling weeks of competition the LEC Summer Playoffs kick off later today with teams Splyce and Rogue taking on the Summoners Rift. Last week’s mind-breaker scenarios saw SK-Gaming…
Counter-Strike
August 22, 2019

Terminator Blast Off – An explosive partnership

The Blast Pro Series: Moscow 2019 is a pretty big name in the CS:GO world. The Russia-based tournament has a prize pool of a cool quarter million USD. They will…
Fortnite
August 22, 2019

Valkyrae discovers game-breaking Fortnite glitch during Twitch Rivals

This week the 100 Thieves player Valkyrae came out on top of a Twitch rivals game, but not through skill or use a mech. In this game, an accidental, but…
Counter-Strike
August 22, 2019

Fnatic roster changes – What’s next for the Swedish CSGO Roster

After not qualifying for the upcoming StarLadder CSGO Major 2019, Swedish esports organization decided to revamp their roster and look for new talents from their region. To be honest, it…
Sports Games
August 21, 2019

An esports team of young monks got up at the Khon Kaen University’s Nong Khai competition

In a “Speed Drifters” esports competition held at the Khon Kaen University’s Nong Khai campus over from 15th to 18th August something “unusual” happened! A small group of monk apprentices…
Esports Industry
August 21, 2019

Ford launches Frodzilla, their own Motor Racing Team of Esports

In a new leap into the virtual world, on August 19, 2019, Ford Motors announced its incursion into the world of esports by putting its own team behind the digital…
Esports Industry
August 21, 2019

The Netherlands’ first dedicated esports stadium is coming!

In Europe, there are several big esports nations – the UK, Germany and France… the Netherlands doesn’t quite measure up. Still, like anywhere else, there are lots and lots of…
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