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August 4, 2023
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 13, 2020
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,…
June 11, 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…
July 24, 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…
June 17, 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…
July 23, 2020
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,…
October 6, 2020
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…
August 4, 2023
“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$…
June 11, 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…
June 18, 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:…
June 9, 2020
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…
October 21, 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…
June 18, 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…
September 23, 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…
July 3, 2020
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…
June 18, 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…
February 2, 2024
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…
June 18, 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…
July 24, 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…
July 9, 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…
June 18, 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”…
June 11, 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…
June 18, 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…
November 4, 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…
August 3, 2020
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…