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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…