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Dota 2
August 31, 2024

What’s Going on in the Group Stage of BTS Pro Series: Southeast Asia?

BTS Pro Series: Southeast Asia is the SEA twin brother of BTS Pro Series: Americas. The tournament started on April 10th, is taking place online and will last until April…
Esports Industry
August 31, 2024

BMW partners with top esports teams

Non-esports related brands investing in esports or partnering with esports teams isn’t anything new – there are plenty of partnerships with energy drink providers, hardware manufacturers and more. Car manufacturers…
Dota 2
April 16, 2020

Team Liquid – Poor ESL One performance showcases the Champions downfall

Team Liquid suffers a whopping 5 losses out of 6 series at the ESL Los Angeles 2020. It’s an unsightly outcome for fans as the org’s immortalized title as the…
LoL Esports
April 29, 2020

Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies Championship Announced

Riot Games is back with more good news – after continuously making headlines with their new games for weeks and months, With Valorant making noise on one side, they are…
Esports Industry
December 7, 2024

Uptick in Gaming and Esports spells good news for Bookmakers

Around the world people are distancing and spending more time home. Traditional sports events are cancelled, the Olympics has been postponed. Esports tournaments too have been cancelled but that’s less…
LoL Esports
October 5, 2022

LoL Playoffs around the World

The League of Legends Spring season has been pushed back in some regions, especially Korea and China in particular. The LEC and LCS Playoffs Finals will commence on the same…
Dota 2
April 13, 2020

Virtus.pro – The Major Kings are back

Virtus.pro, the CIS squad is on a 5-win streak at the EU & CIS regionals of ESL One Los Angeles 2020 online tournament. On top of that, Virtus.pro just took…
Dota 2
April 10, 2020

Why Cloud9 Will Win the Title at BTS Pro Series: Americas

BTS Pro Series: Americas promises to be a fun event to watch. And it’s a great chance for Cloud9 to prove its worth in this new and improved formula. Much…
Valorant
January 19, 2022

Why Are so Many Overwatch Pros Switching to Valorant?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you’ve probably heard of the big new shooter game; Valorant. This new title is only in its closed beta, but…
Counter-Strike
August 4, 2023

Many Roads to ESL One Rio 2020

For the first time since the creation of the 2-Majors-per-year policy, the professional CS:GO scene will see a big change. The first Major of the year has been cancelled due…
Dota 2
May 13, 2020

A look at EternaLEnVy, DOTA2’s most infamous player

Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao is one of the most popular players in DOTA 2 pro scene, but always for the wrong reasons. Known for unjustifiably kicking teammates and his toxic behavior…
Sports Games
April 7, 2020

iRacing – the next big thing?

Given the current situation, a lot of events, esports and otherwise, are severely hampered. Amidst tons of cancellations and postponed events, it seems like nothing is happening anymore – but…
Sports Games
May 18, 2020

NBA 2K20 Players Tournament – Everything you need to know

In “normal” times the beginning of April would signal the NBA season coming to a close. Some end-of-season matches would be played across millions of TVs throughout the US and…
Fortnite
September 18, 2020

Does Fortnite Have a Pay to Win Skin?

Fortnite’s latest skin is a fun suit made of recycled cardboard. To some, this is just another light-hearted Fortnite skin, possibly made up to resemble how kids would make use…
LoL Esports
June 23, 2022

2020 LoL Wildcard regions – Lighting Recap

Wildcard regions have long been stigmatized as not standing a chance compared to teams from majors regions like the LCS, LEC, LPL and LCK. However, given the sharp rise of…
Dota 2
August 14, 2024

5 Shocking Stories at ESL One Los Angeles 2020

Premier level Dota 2 is back and teams are getting caught off guard left right and center. The ESL One Los Angeles Online edition brought massive turmoil in the global…
Valorant
May 9, 2024

The Valorant Beta is coming!

For a long time, all of Riot Games’ horses were hitched to one wagon – League of Legends. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing – the company was, after all,…
Overwatch 2
March 27, 2020

Overwatch Week 4 Hero Pools Bans 4 DPS Heroes

Overwatch’s experiment with hero pools has had its weirdest week yet, with 4 DPS heroes, a support, and a tank all being disabled. This is a particularly heavy week for…
LoL Esports
March 27, 2020

MAD Lions draws the LEC Schedule short straw for Week 9

Week 9 of the LEC kicks off today with a second attempt at the online format. Teams are already locked for Playoffs, but there is some leeway in the standings…
Dota 2
March 26, 2020

Anathan: The two-time champion who watches Gordon Ramsay videos instead of practicing

The news about a 20-year-old Australian boy who won 15 MILLION dollars twice is astonishing to most people. While there is truth to that, Anathan “ana” Pham accomplished it with…
Fighting Games
October 16, 2020

Amuka Esports acquires tournament organizer Incendium Gaming

The Canada fighting tournament community has gotten a little bigger recently, as two major organizers have merged to combine and extended their resources in bringing you major tournaments. Amuka Esports…
LoL Esports
October 6, 2020

LCS, LEC slated to return online this weekend

After a tumultuous few weeks that have rocked the schedule for international LoL across the globe, a slight return to normalcy will occur with LEC and LCS being reinstated after…
Dota 2
March 19, 2020

Dota 2 update 7.25 brings overpowered and broken features

The DOTA 2 dev team dropped the update version 7.25 for millions of active players at home. The large update was initially scheduled to go live after the Los Angeles…
Counter-Strike
August 4, 2023

ESL Pro League Season 11: Changes, Structure and Favorites

The 11th season of ESL Pro League is set to begin today with a brand new (old) format. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Denver finals and Malta events were…
Esports Industry
February 3, 2022

SoftBank Backed Game Revolution is Failing but Blockchain Isn’t

In 2017 Improbable Worlds Ltd raised $502 million in an investment round led by SoftBank. The gaming startup, founded seven years ago in the UK, appears to be struggling and…
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