Month: March 2021

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Evo is returning this year as Evo Online

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (“SIE”) and RTS, a new venture born out of Endeavor’s esports business, announced that they have acquired the assets and properties of the Evolution Championship Series (“Evo”), the world’s largest fighting game event, from Triple Perfect, Inc., through a joint venture esports partnership.

Through this new partnership, Tony and Tom Cannon, co-founders of Evo, will continue to be closely involved as key advisors to ensure that Evo remains a one-of-a-kind, grassroots competitive platform for fighting game players and fans around the globe.… Read the rest

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PUBG Mobile, a billion downloads & partnership with ‘Godzilla vs Kong’

PUBG MOBILE has surpassed the groundbreaking milestone of one billion accumulated downloads, announced as part of the game’s ongoing three-year anniversary celebration. In addition, PUBG MOBILE will soon be partnering with Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ upcoming epic action adventure movie Godzilla vs. Kong for an exclusive in-game event. And later this week fans around the globe will witness the kick-off of the highly-anticipated PUBG MOBILE Pro League Spring Split 2021, followed by the new All-Talent Championship on Friday, March 26.… Read the rest

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SMITE: Battleground of the Gods, North America West Coast servers online

Hi-Rez Studios has brought SMITE servers to the West Coast of North America with its latest update on March 23. This follows the game’s most successful year in terms of number of players, and answers the popular demand for western US servers.

Those new servers better accommodate the wave of new players by ensuring low in-game latency for SMITE’s action-packed, third-person MOBA gameplay.… Read the rest

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PUBG GLOBAL INVITATIONAL.S (PGI.S) – March 27-28, 2021

After weeks of fierce competition, PUBG GLOBAL INVITATIONAL.S (PGI.S) comes to an end with Week Six, which are scheduled for March 27-28, 2021. Please see below for a recap of last week’s competition and key storylines to monitor during the finals this weekend.

PGI.S Week Five Recap
While we look forward to the drama of the final weekend, the penultimate week of competition was not without its standout moments.… Read the rest

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GCN & Van Wagner, The Largest National Collegiate Esports Tournaments

GCN, Inc. (Gaming Community Network), an independent media group dedicated to gaming and esports, and Van Wagner announced a groundbreaking tournament series that will be the most-comprehensive, large-scale national esports tournaments to reach the collegiate marketplace including fans and players. Each event in the series will feature teams from 10 NCAA conferences, with the top two finishers of each conference tournament advancing to play into a national tournament to crown an overall champion.… Read the rest

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Mettlestate and nxD, partnership to expand Africa’s eSports

Mettlestate announced recently that the esports and gaming authority has officially partnered with nxD – a Next Gen digital media agency. The significant financial and resource investment into Mettlestate has produced a collaboration that is great news for gaming as more esports cups will be coming our way!

Coming off the back of a difficult year globally, the team really see the value in the growth of esports and gaming and are determined to amplify the esports scene in this country.… Read the rest

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DIRT 5, Stadia version is here

Codemasters® celebrates the launch of DIRT 5™ on Google Stadia. DIRT 5 offers a diverse mix of game modes from traditional racing across multiple terrains, arena creation through Playgrounds and a host of multiplayer features including three competitive party game modes.

DIRT 5 delivers high-octane racing across 70 routes, 10 locations and 13 vehicle classes.… Read the rest

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United Gamers’ Free eSports Health & Training Software For LoL Players

Spanish start-up company United Gamers has release their esports health and training software for players of League of Legends.
The objective of this software is to improve the performance of players by optimizing the “Last Hit”, which is the most relevant skill at League of Legends.
Later they want to develop training for other skills, as well as new functionalities of the tool.
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PUBG, Paramo Map Comes Back For Season 11

KRAFTON, Inc revealed PUBG Season 11. This newest season reintroduces Paramo, the popular 3×3 map set in the highlands of South America that features terrain changes throughout its battleground. Survivors can drop into Season 11 when it releases for PC on March 31 and on consoles on April 8.

Originally introduced during Season 9 in October 2020, Paramo returns with new ways to play.… Read the rest

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Sentinels To Commemorate VALORANT Masters Crown – Limited Edition NFT

Fueled by collaborative play and creative strategy from the five-man roster featuring Michael “dapr” Gulino, Shahzeb “ShahZaM” Khan, Hunter “SicK” Mims, Tyson “TenZ” Ngo, and Jared “zombs” Gitlin, the Sentinels earned the most illustrious victory in competitive VALORANT history Sunday claiming championship glory in the first-ever VALORANT Masters event.

Sentinels have reached the finals in each of Riot Games’ first three VALORANT Champions Tour events, winning the first VALORANT Challengers event of the year in February and now defeating FaZe Clan in grand finals of VALORANT Masters Stage 1 in a 3-0 sweep.… Read the rest

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Guild Esports’ First Online Gaming Festival – March 28th

Guild Esports, the global esports organization co-owned by David Beckham, is proud to announce an elite line-up to join its first Super Stream Sunday – taking place on the 28th March, 5-10PM GMT on Twitch & YouTube. Super Stream Sunday is Guild’s first online gaming festival – where headline names will compete alongside its roster of professional gamers and content creators.… Read the rest