eSports News, Live eSports On Twitch & Gaming Event News
IndieCade has announced the official festival nominees and lineup for its 2019 North American independent games celebration, hosted October 10-12 in Santa Monica. This year’s festival will return to the Center for Media and Design at Santa Monica College and will feature a diverse and curated selection of the industry’s most innovative, creative and thought-provoking independent titles.
Last season, the two Grand Finalists, Team Vitality and FURIA, were Pinnacle Cup qualifying teams, and we can’t wait to see how this season’s teams perform.… Read the rest
The TEKKEN universe is home to a diverse cast of characters. Some have been featured in different chapters in the franchise’s long history. With TEKKEN 7 Season Pass 3’s arrival of Zafina, it’s the first time she’s joined the battle since TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2. Now she’s back in action for players in the Americas to enjoy on their PlayStation®4, Xbox One, or PCs via STEAM®.… Read the rest
CCP Games, the creators of the in-depth and uniquely player-driven spaceship MMO game EVE Online, have announced that tickets are still available for G-Fleet 2019 in Berlin, the next stop on the EVE Invasion World Tour and running September 13-14. Tickets for this unmissable are event obtainable by following this link, priced from €9 and up.… Read the rest
Com2uS announced that Summoners War: Sky Arena successfully ended its global eSports tournament SWC 2019 Europe Cup with front-runner ‘Rosith’ from France winning the cup and ‘Baus’ from the UK taking second place. Both players now advance to the World Finals held on 26th October 2019.
The Europe Cup saw 8 players advance from the group stages (which were held early July) after competing in the single elimination tournament.… Read the rest
Already one of johannesburg’s biggest and most exciting interactive events showcasing the best in gaming, cosplay, geek culture, tech and esports, Vodacom rAge 2019 has added another first to its growing list of exciting attractions. For the first time, the World Robotic Olympia SA (WRO SA) will be setting up shop to host their top teams.… Read the rest
After three months of online selection, six Online Challenges, three Pro Drafts and as many as four million kilometres covered by the best gamers around the world’s most spectacular tracks, the final phase of the 2019 MotoGP™ eSport Championship is finally here.
The Global Series will be contested between 12 of the world’s fastest gamers across three weekends, held at existing MotoGP™ rounds, and will comprise of six races.… Read the rest
Harris Rubenstein – NBA 2K League
Player protections and retention figure to be hot-button NBA 2K League topics every single year and this offseason is no different. All teams besides one have publicly announced their player protections with some interesting calls along the way. An early trend you will notice is a pointed attempt to keep competent point guards, leaving plenty of talented wings and bigs up for grabs during the Expansion Draft.… Read the rest
The Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) is almost back and that means that Oceanic Rocket League is returning with it! This time we’re partnering with Let’s Play Live (LPL) to bring you the LPL Rocket League Oceanic Championship! This tournament will be Oceania’s official road to the Season 8 World Championship.… Read the rest
BoomTV, a leading esports entertainment platform, has acquired the American Video Game League (AVGL), one of the largest producers of collegiate esports events, content, and community initiatives, for an undisclosed sum.
BoomTV is primarily known for its popular bi-weekly event series Code Red, which reaches more than 5MM monthly users and aggregates 30MM+ watched minutes through participation from top influencers across Twitch and YouTube.… Read the rest
Fresh off of an electric first showing at the Season 7 Rocket League World Championship, South America’s Grand Series will return for its second rendition! We’re once again teaming up with Rocket Street to give the best players in South America an official path to the Season 8 Rocket League World Championship.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
Twitch Drops will be returning for the remainder of Grandmasters Season 2! Running on the Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone channel exclusively during the designated time frames, we’ll make it rain Saviors of Uldum card packs–at random, once an hour, we’ll drop 1,500 packs to viewers who have linked their Twitch and Battle.net… Read the rest
Since its launch in 2015, TEKKEN 7 has seen numerous updates and improvements that have kept TEKKEN 7 at the top of its game. Those improvements continue with the start of Season 3 in the Americas for the PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PCs via STEAM®.
TEKKEN 7 is pulling no punches with today’s updates.… Read the rest