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Esports Industry
October 1, 2025

Loot Boxes and Skins Gambling Face Regulatory Scrutiny As Countries Warn Of Underage Gambling

Loot boxes have drawn rising regulatory attention because they resemble gambling and disproportionately affect young people. The boxes, commonly found in many video games, enable users to pay money or…
FIFA
September 30, 2025

FIFA World Champion Reveals Key Problem With FC 26 and It’s Not Manual Defending

FIFA world champion Spencer “Huge Gorilla” Ealing has explained why manual defending isn’t the key problem with gameplay in EA SPORTS FC 26, but it’s something similar that makes stopping…
Esports Industry
September 30, 2025

Rivalry Concludes Strategic Review By Announcing Private Placement and Debt Restructuring

Toronto-based esports and sports betting operator Rivalry has announced a major financial reset to conclude its strategic review. The company announced a C$5.52 million ($3.9 million) private placement alongside a…
Counter-Strike
September 30, 2025

Liquid Pulling Out of Fragadelphia Sparks Huge VRS Competitive Integrity Concern

Having played their five necessary games to be able to field Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski at the StarLadder Budapest Major during the Birch Cup 2025, Team Liquid have dropped out of…
Valorant
September 29, 2025

Riot Boss Hits Back at Complaints Over Valorant Sponsoring Twitch Subtember

In September, Valorant has been supporting Twitch’s “SUBtember” campaign by gifting subscriptions to channels, causing some frustration for Valorant esports fans who want more money invested into the scene. Now,…
Esports Industry
September 29, 2025

What Does EA Acquisition Mean For its Esports Titles? Apex Legends, FC 26, Madden, More

Electronic Arts has announced Monday, 29 September, that it is being acquired by a group including the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF) for a fee in the region of…
Counter-Strike
September 29, 2025

rain Denies CS2 Retirement Plans After Leaving FaZe

After almost 10 years and 3541 days as a member of the team, one of the longest tenures across any esport, Havard “rain” Nygaard has been benched from FaZe Clan’s…
Dota 2
September 29, 2025

Pure Leaves BetBoom After Dota 2 TI as Tundra Links Grow

The post-The International roster shuffle in Dota 2 has seen another major change, with Ivan “Pure” Moskalenko officially parting ways with the BetBoom Team. The 21-year-old carry has been moved…
Counter-Strike
September 29, 2025

Virtus Pro Risk Missing CS2 StarLadder Major After ESL Pro League Travel Issues

Virtus.pro will be absent from ESL Pro League Season 22 after being turned away at the Swedish border, and their hopes of attending the StarLadder Budapest Major may now be…
Call of Duty
September 27, 2025

OpTic CEO H3CZ Questions Rumors of 8-Team Call of Duty League Major: ‘Not the way’

OpTic Gaming CEO Hector “H3CZ’ Rodriguez has called out the idea of the Call of Duty League hosting an eight-team Major, saying that it is not the solution to whatever…
Counter-Strike
September 26, 2025

FACEIT Flies Out CS2 Prodigy Nocries to HQ Amid Cheating Accusations

Nocries, the Counter-Strike 2 phenom who has been hit with rampant cheating accusations as he dominated the NA FACEIT leaderboards, has been flown out to FACEIT HQ to be monitored…
Counter-Strike
September 25, 2025

CYPHER Explains Why he Wants Counter-Strike to Return to RMR for Majors

With fnatic now out of Exort the Proving Grounds Season 4 and losing big Valve Regional Standings (VRS) points in the process, their hopes of making the StarLadder Budapest Major…
Counter-Strike
September 25, 2025

EliGE rejoins Team Liquid CS2 team after 2 year absence

One of the most successful players in the history of North American Counter-Strike, Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski, has re-joined Team Liquid just over two years after departing the organisation for their…
Counter-Strike
September 25, 2025

FUT Esports Win First Counter-Strike 2 Event Since Acquiring Team

Turkish organisation FUT have won their first event since their entrance to Counter-Strike 2 in July of this year. With strong run in the online cup Exort The Proving Grounds…
LoL Esports
September 25, 2025

Jinx, Draven and Brand Buffed Ahead of League of Legends World Championship

The League of Legends Worlds patch notes have been released, and could be pivotal in altering the meta ahead of the biggest tournament of the year. Draven, Jinx, and Caitlyn…
Fortnite
September 25, 2025

Fortnite pro MrSavage ICON skin revealed with homage to Valorant star Benjyfishy

Fortnite legend Martin “MrSavage” Foss Andersen has officially joined the ranks of creators and celebrities immortalized in Fortnite’s ICON Series with his very own in-game skin. He follows in the…
Counter-Strike
September 24, 2025

KSCERATO on Brazilian teams moving away from local players: “It’s about seizing opportunities”

After strong performances since the addition of Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis and Daniel “molodoy” Golubenko, FURIA have won their first ever tier one Counter-Strike tournament at FISSURE Playground 2, beating The…
Counter-Strike
September 24, 2025

CS2 finally fixes frustrating movement bug in September 24 update

Movement is one of the most important aspects of Counter-Strike 2, and the latest update to the game has addressed some pretty serious bugs that players have been experiencing in…
Counter-Strike
September 24, 2025

BC.Game wins first Counter-Strike event with s1mple

On July 28, Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, moved from the NAVI bench to the BC.Game roster. Less than two months later, and BC.Game is celebrating its first tournament win with s1mple…
Esports Industry
September 23, 2025

PrizePicks Gains CFTC Approval To Expand Esports Offerings To Prediction Markets

PrizePicks has gained approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which enables the platform to expand its product offerings, including esports, into prediction markets. The DFS operator, which offers…
LoL Esports
September 23, 2025

Impact Reveals Possible Retirement Thoughts After Team Liquid LoL Exit

League of Legends world champion Jeong “Impact” Eon-young has revealed possible considerations of retiring as a professional player after announcing his departure from Team Liquid. Impact joined Liquid in 2024…
Counter-Strike
September 23, 2025

Gaimin Gladiators returns to CS2 with full Brazilian roster

Canadian esports organization Gaimin Gladiators dipped into the Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) esports scene in April 2024 with an all-Danish roster that lasted less than a year. Fast forward a few…
Valorant
September 23, 2025

VALORANT Champions Paris Playoffs Matches Set After Huge Upsets

As the dust settles over the grueling VALORANT Champions Paris group stage, eight teams have advanced to playoffs. With a double-elimination bracket looming, the remaining teams share the same initial…
Esports Industry
September 23, 2025

GRID Acquires Bayes Esports Assets Following Liquidation

GRID has announced that it has acquired Bayes Esports assets following the company’s liquidation. Bayes went into administration in May this year, and a court in Germany declared the company…
LoL Esports
September 22, 2025

Peanut to take a step back from pro League of Legends for military service

Han “Peanut” Wang-ho, the prolific jungler for Hanwha Life Esports, has announced that he will have to take a step back from the pro League of Legends scene as he…
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