Rules of Survival – first world championship with a total prize pool of over $650,000

Rules of Survival, a battle royale game on mobile developed by NetEase Games, has immediately gone viral since its official debut on 14th November. This PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds-like mobile game has ranked top on App Store in more than 22 countries such as America, France and Germany. It has also rocketed to the top of game ranking in Google Play Store, expanding its popularity on a global scale.… Read the rest

Vainglory 5v5 MOBA mode to be released February 2018

Super Evil Megacorp, the creators of Vainglory, the world’s leading mobile esport, revealed its anticipated 5V5 mode on the last day of the Razer 2017 Vainglory World Championship held in Singapore, and announced that the mode will be launched as part of its 3.0 update in February 2018. Vainglory 5V5 is an entirely new game mode built on Super Evil Megacorp’s proprietary E.V.I.L… Read the rest

Minkonet and PUBG Introduce 3D Replay and Killcam for “PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS”

Minkonet, a prominent Seoul-based gaming technology company, today announced its partnership with PUBG Corp. to deliver 3D replay functionality in the online gaming phenomenon, “PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS” (PUBG). The robust 360-degree data capture technology powers the 3D Replay and Killcam features that will debut in PUBG’s upcoming PC 1.0 release.

“Building replay systems for battle royale, open world and massively multiplayer online games that typically feature huge maps and many objects interacting in real time presents many technical challenges,” said Peter Kim, co-founder and CEO of Minkonet.… Read the rest

FaZe Clan Takes Home The $250,000 Grand Prize At The Esports Championship Series Season 4 Final

The Esports Championship Series (ECS) has crowned FaZe Clan as the champions of Season 4 of the popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) competition. After three days of exciting matches between the world’s best CS:GO teams, FaZe Clan proved too much for the competition and took home the grand prize of $250,000 USD and the title of ECS Season 4 champions.… Read the rest

Frederick “Freddybabes” Bird is the new GWENT Challenger champion!

CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce that Frederick “Freddybabes” Bird has won the December 2017 GWENT Challenger tournament, which took place this weekend in Moszna castle, Poland.

Fighting for their share of the $100,000 prize pool were 8 of the best players of GWENT Masters — the official esports series of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game.… Read the rest

Vainglory 5V5 ‘King of the Hill’ Announced: SEA vs Korea vs NA

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The global unveiling of Vainglory 5V5 at the World Championship in Singapore just got that much more special. The first teams to set foot live on 5V5 in a competitive setting will be representing their respective regions in a “King of the Hill”-style tournament.

First, Southeast Asia, represented by a powerful Renegades 5-man roster, will battle Korea’s world champion Rox Armada.Read the rest

SCORE WARS: Galaga World Championship

Nationally-renowned art collective Meow Wolf announces its first-annual live streamed video gaming event, SCORE WARS, kicking off with a Galaga World Championship that will bring together the best Galaga players on the planet for an epic four-day throwdown to smash world records and crown a new world champ.

SCORE WARS: Galaga World Championship takes place Thursday, March 29 to Sunday, April 1, 2018 at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, NM – home to the phenomenal immersive arts experience, the House of Eternal Return.… Read the rest

Brasil Game Show 2018 – Howard Scott Warshaw, maker of Atari’s epic E.T. tie-in game

Brasil Game Show (BGS) announces its second international guest to be present at the 11th edition of the event, which will take place on October 10-14th, 2018, at Expo Center Norte, in São Paulo. He is Howard Scott Warshaw, one of the first electronic games developers and creator of several famous games for Atari, such as Yars’ Revenge, considered one of the best games of the legendary console; Raiders of the Lost Ark, a game based on the movie “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark”; and E.T.… Read the rest