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February 14, 2019
Vainglory’s esports future uncertain
Super Evil Megacorp’s mobile MOBA game Vainglory didn’t take long to expand into an esport – the game expanded in more than one way, actually – from 3v3 matches to…
February 14, 2019
NA LCS Week 4 Day 2 Predictions
Last week saw a resurgence of some of the lower seeded teams as 100 Thieves and Golden Guardians both pulled off 2-0 weekends. Heading into Week 4, the objective remains…
February 14, 2019
Tales of the east: LCK in Week 4
While most of the media drama is about the LCS and the LEC, week in and week out the premier regions in the East give us some of the best…
February 14, 2019
Apex Legends is already launching a competitive scene
Apex Legends has barely been available a week yet, but it is already pushing its way into the Esports market. The new shooter combines elements of a Battle Royale with…
February 13, 2019
Pinnacle boosts the accuracy of their esports betting statistics
The popular online bookmaker, Pinnacle, have made moves to ensure that esports fans get much greater accuracy on the gaming statistics that they bet on. By teaming up with the…
February 13, 2019
EVO Japan is about to start in Fukuoka
Short for Evolution Championship Series, EVO is the largest and longest-running fighting game tournament series in the world. There have been events all over the world of course, and the…
February 13, 2019
KittyPlays partners with Allied Esports
Esports partnerships are pretty commonplace these days – it seems like every other day a new company joins the ranks of happy esports sponsors, but this is something else –…
February 12, 2019
Apex Legends overtakes Fortnite in streaming
This week saw the launch of EA’s Apex Legends, a team-based Battle Royale game that has been labelled a Fortnite killer. The big launch of this free-to-play game has certainly…
February 12, 2019
Overwatch League 2019: Week 1 Day 1 Preview
Overwatch League action returns to the centerfold this week with the first day of competitive play set to start this Thursday, February 14. With this years format, teams are competing…
February 12, 2019
NA LCS Week 4 Day 1 Predictions
Considering the recent performance of all the NA teams at the NALCS, most of the matches in week 4 will be pretty close with the exception of GGS vs. TL.…
February 12, 2019
ESL One Katowice 2019 Predictions
ESL One Katowice 2019 is getting closer and closer. The event is scheduled to take place between February 22nd – 24th in Katowice, Poland. ESL One Katowice 2019 brings together…
February 11, 2019
Coca Cola teams up with the Overwatch League
All Overwatch fans will know that the second season of the Overwatch League kicks off on 14 February, and you can look forward to seeing a new brand enter the…
February 11, 2019
OWL Season Two preview: New York Excelsior
The New York Excelsior organization kept fans busy with their high highs and dismal lows over the 2018 season. In regular season play, there was no team more dominant on…
February 11, 2019
EU LEC Week 5 Day 1 Predictions
Week 4 of the EU LEC has just concluded, with G2 Esports standing undefeated while Rogue continues to struggle having to get a single win. Fnatic vs. Splyce Fnatic are…
February 8, 2019
5 Fortnite Players to watch in 2019
2019 is an exciting year for competitive Fortnite. Epic are pumping resources and time into creating a much more vibrant scene. However, Fortnite is a fairly unique Esport that lacks…
February 8, 2019
First IEM Katowice Matches confirmed
The first matches for the IEM Katowice Major have now been confirmed. Take a read through this article to see how things have been seeded and what we expect to…
February 8, 2019
Hit or miss? Community reacts to new Paris Overwatch map
It’s been one week since the first new Overwatch map of 2019 has been released on PTR Servers. The new assault map, taking root in the illustrious city of Paris,…
February 8, 2019
StarCraft 2 is still going strong as an esport in 2019
StarCraft 2 was released just under a decade ago, another decade after the original StarCraft came out. All in all, the game’s popularity and lifespan has far exceeded that of…
February 8, 2019
Epic addresses Fortnite’s aim assist exploit
Epic has acknowledged the recent exploit that was found in Fortnite. When performed properly, the bug allowed players to take out others with near super-human accuracy. The assistance given to…
February 7, 2019
Overwatch Contenders is making changes this year
Last year, Blizzard expanded the Overwatch Contenders series into a global tournament series that also doubled as a pathway for players to go pro. There’s no better proving grounds for…
February 7, 2019
Looking forward to FIFA’s upcoming eClub World Cup
This month marks one of the most exciting events in sports-based competitive gaming when the FIFA eClub World Cup kicks off. After a gruelling period of online qualification in January,…
February 7, 2019
State of the LEC coming into Week 4
An entire day after I “bashed” the LEC for having uneventful matches and one dimensional picks; We got served one of the best LEC weeks since the start of the…
February 6, 2019
“ICE ice baby!” All the action at the CS:GO event sponsored by GG.bet
The ICE Challenge hosted by GG.BET at the ExCeL Convention Center in London kicked off February 5th featuring two CIS and two Danish squads battling in the Octagon for 50,000$…
February 6, 2019
New Topgolf – Super League partnership rolls out
It’s an interesting combination, these two – sports entertainment company Super League Gaming has just announced their new partnership with Topgolf. Such partnerships are normally pretty standard, except this one…
February 6, 2019
League of Legends Patch Notes 9.3 Rundown
A pretty significant patch as Riot reprices a wide amount of items, changed some item effects, and even introduced a new AD item, the Spear of Shojin. Champion changes Akali:…