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Esports Industry
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…
LoL Esports
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…
LoL Esports
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…
Apex Legends
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…
Esports Industry
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…
Fighting Games
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…
Esports Industry
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 –…
Apex Legends
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…
Overwatch 2
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…
LoL Esports
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.…
Dota 2
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…
Esports Industry
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…
Overwatch 2
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…
LoL Esports
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…
Fortnite
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…
Counter-Strike
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…
Overwatch 2
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,…
StarCraft Esports
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…
Fortnite
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…
Overwatch 2
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…
FIFA
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,…
LoL Esports
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…
Counter-Strike
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$…
Esports Industry
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…
LoL Esports
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:…
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