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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:…
Mobile Games
February 5, 2019

Red Bull M.E.O. was a brawl, a clash, an adventure!

The Red Bull M.E.O. Global Finals are over and done with – the biggest mobile gaming bash out there has finally happened. After several months of regional qualifiers worldwide, the…
Overwatch 2
February 5, 2019

All 20 Overwatch League Teams receive new Twitter hashtags for 2019 season

The Overwatch League has been taking steps to go above and beyond their competition to legitimize themselves as the next big esport league. In accordance with that goal, Overwatch League…
Overwatch 2
February 5, 2019

OWL Season Two preview: Atlanta Reign

The Atlanta Reign have the distinct honor of representing one of the most colorful and vibrant cities within the United States next year. To take on that massive task, the…
LoL Esports
February 4, 2019

NA LCS Week 3 Day 1 – TSM and C9 go head to head!

100 Thieves vs. Clutch Gaming 100 Thieves have had a disappointing start, clearly lacking their flair shown in 2018 despite their star additions of huhi, Ryu as sub and particularly…
Esports Industry
February 4, 2019

SIS pioneers a new way to bet on competitive gaming

The UK-based sports betting service, Sports Information Services (SIS), has announced that it is spearheading a new way to provide betting on competitive gaming for traditional bookmakers. This will feature…
Dota 2
February 1, 2019

DreamLeague Season 11 Qualifiers Preview

DreamLeague Season 11 is the 3rd Major of the Dota Pro Circuit for the 2018 – 2019 competitive season. It’s also one of the final 3 tournaments that really count…
Counter-Strike
February 1, 2019

New maps added to CS:GO competitive Map Pool

Valve just pushed out a new update to CS:GO that added two new maps to competitive matchmaking. We’ve taken a look at the new maps as well as other general…
Overwatch 2
February 1, 2019

Overwatch League’s Twitch just got a new feature

The countdown has begun – the new and much-anticipated Overwatch League Season is about to launch on Valentine’s Day aka February 14th. Just in time for that launch, and in…
Fortnite
February 1, 2019

Fortnite streamers caught cheating in Pop-Up Cup

The recent Fortnite Pop-Up-Cup has generated its fair share of controversy. The small in-game event has riled players up on multiple fronts. Most recently, two popular Fortnite streamers and aspiring…
LoL Esports
February 1, 2019

LEC Week 3 and “Spam that static…”

We welcome the LEC Week 3 with mixed feelings. European fan favorites are underperforming and the general sense after two weeks of play is that the League is weaker than…
Overwatch 2
January 31, 2019

Mangachu finds new Overwatch Contenders team, signs with Mayhem Academy

After an untimely detonation by NYXL’s Academy Team this offseason, Mayhem Academy wasted no time in picking up the pieces as they have now secured the services of Liam “Mangachu”…
Esports Industry
January 31, 2019

China approves esports careers as professions

Right after a controversial message from a German Olympic Sports Federation executive that esports apparently ‘don’t exist’, the nation of China swings the other way – they just made a…
Overwatch 2
January 31, 2019

OWL Season Two preview: Vancouver Titans

The Vancouver Titans are quite possibly the hardest team to quantify from a competitive level heading into their first season of the Overwatch League. The former RunAway Dynasty has traded…
Esports Industry
January 31, 2019

Understanding the success of Farming Simulator in esports

Whilst most of the iconic esports are first-person shooters, battle arena games, or battle royales, it seems that there’s a massive audience who prefer to get agricultural with a few…
Esports Industry
January 30, 2019

Bizarre phrase from Olympic Federation president – apparently ‘esports doesn’t exist’

There’s lots of things we don’t know for sure about. They may exist, they may not. There’s bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and things like aliens. Mostly, the reason we…
LoL Esports
January 30, 2019

League of Legends PBE 9.3 Patch rundown

Champion changes Akali – Health regeneration per second buffed from 0.7 to 1.2, making Akali’s lane sustain even stronger than before. Cassiopeia – W mana cost increased, formerly 70 mana…
Fortnite
January 29, 2019

TSM Myth calls for unionization after Fortnite backlash

Fortnite Professional Player Myth has called for Fortnite players to organise and unionize in response to recent actions by Epic. This comes on the back of a few recent missteps…
Esports Industry
January 29, 2019

A new beginning – esports in January

The new year is already a month in – hasn’t time passed quickly? So far, 2019 is looking like a pretty good year – at the very least for esports!…
LoL Esports
January 29, 2019

MSI 2019 to be held in Vietnam and Taipei

The 2019 Mid Season Invitationals, also known as this year’s MSI will be held for the first time in Vietnam and Taipei. What is the Mid Season Invitationals? MSI is…
Esports Industry
January 28, 2019

Samsung steps up their esports sponsorship campaigns

The South Korean tech brand, Samsung, has made two more sponsorship deals in the esports domain. By partnering up with the esports teams, Gen.G and Legacy Esports, the tech company…
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