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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…