eSports News, Live eSports On Twitch & Gaming Event News
By Blizzard Entertainment
To help get you ready for the 2019 Overwatch League season, we’ve assembled previews for all 20 teams.
Joined Overwatch League: July 2017
Division: Atlantic
Academy Team: Uprising Academy
2018 RECAP
Boston’s roster was originally constructed with the idea of assembling players that are coachable and aligned on winning as a team.… Read the rest
BY Leah ‘SpiNN’ Jackson – League of Legends
The 2019 competitive League of Legends season is coming up soon. See below for when the games begin for every league.
Watch live video from Riot Games on www.twitch.tv… Read the rest
College students, rejoice! University-level SMITE esports opportunities are coming your way in early 2019.
Hi-Rez Studios has partnered with NACE (the National Association of Collegiate Esports) for another round of collegiate SMITE action. Last Fall, we joined forces to bring you the NACE SMITE Championships that fed directly into HRX at DreamHack Atlanta.… Read the rest
By Official HCS
In November, we kicked off the HCS Grassroots program and the response from the community thus far has been immense. Almost 500 applications (and counting) are currently being reviewed for content creators and tournament organizers alike. Additionally, the first HCS Grassroots-supported event, the Halo Classic by UGC, is shaping up to be the biggest Halo event in recent years with over 128 team passes sold.… Read the rest
In Season 6, there are some major changes coming to the SPL format. We are moving away from online play, meaning that all SPL matches will be played live on LAN at the Skillshot Media studio in Atlanta, GA! This is a big change for the league, and with it will come a few other adjustments to the format:
Powered by the all-new NVIDIA Turing™ architecture, the GeForce RTX™ 2060 GPU brings gaming realism to a whole new level with Real-Time Ray Tracing, delivering lifelike lighting shadows, and reflection technology to offer the best gaming experience yet. With up to 6x the performance of previous generations, this new addition to the XLR8® and PNY® GeForce RTX™ lineups is designed to provide gamers with crucial features such as VR support, 4K display and Nvidia Ansel for an in-game experience going far beyond gamers expectations.… Read the rest
ORIGIN PC announced their new laptops equipped with new NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 20-series GPUs: the new EVO16-S, the all-new EVO17-S, and the upgraded EON17-X. These new laptops introduce real-time ray tracing technology to the ORIGIN PC laptop lineup perfect for gamers, content creators, developers, and professionals.
The new EVO16-S comes equipped with a 16.1” 1080p 144Hz narrow bezel display in a portable 15” chassis weighing 4.5 pounds with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 GPU with Max-Q design.… Read the rest
Razer announced a new range of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model gaming laptops. This update to the award-winning Razer Blade 15 is centered around increased graphics performance with the inclusion of new NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 20-series GPUs, delivering a whole new way to experience gaming on-the-go.
All models are powered by the latest 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-8750H 6 core processor, feature 16GB of dual-channel system memory and up to 512 GB of fast SSD storage, in addition to a new Windows Hello-capable IR camera for easy and secure login via facial recognition.… Read the rest
NetEase Games’Identity V, an asymmetrical mobile game, kicked off its Identity V [Call of the Abyss II] Global Festival (3rd,Jan,2019). All Detectives can participate in this meaningful and historic event by simply registering as a club. The event features three stages: Steam City, High Tower, and Road to Abyss. Detectives from International Servers will compete across five competing regions: Japan, Hong Kong & Macau & Taiwan, South East Asia, NA-EU, and South Korea.… Read the rest
Dedicated esports company WIN has successfully concluded the debut season of WINNERS League. 720 teams participated in the Counter Strike: Global Offensive competition on the FACEIT platform. These teams were split between an open Starter Division and an elite Invite Division featuring some of the best Counter-Strike talent in Europe.
In the Invite Division, Sweden’s X6tence Galaxy took home a first-place prize of $7,000 USD, with Bpro Gaming taking second place after a hotly contested final.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
Contenders is trialing a new chat moderation program that requires users who wish to participate in Twitch chat to link their Blizzard Battle.net and Twitch accounts.
The program will be trialed during 2018 Season 3 quarterfinals matches across all regions, from Dec. 28, 2018, through Jan. 12, 2019. The Path to Pro team then will evaluate the program’s overall effect on creating a more positive viewing experience.… Read the rest
Ubisoft
As we’ve announced previously, Pro League Season IX of Rainbow Six was due to resume on December 12th. Due to technical issues in our latest patch, Pro League action will now kick off on January 8th in consideration of the holiday break. We’ve also made some changes to the Six Invitational and Challenger League qualifier dates.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
StarCraft II esports—the competition and the community—impressed and inspired us more than ever before in 2018, and today we are excited to shed some light on what 2019 will look like. We are still working out the details so some of this may be subject to change. Both WCS Korea and the WCS Circuit will continue in 2019, and we look forward to sharing the full details of both programs next year.… Read the rest
PAX South 2019, taking place Jan. 18-20, 2019 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX, has revealed its exhibitors list, which is now available via the official PAX Guidebook app.
PlayStation, Capcom, and Bandai Namco are among more than 160 exhibitors showcasing new and upcoming projects like Days Gone, Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5, and Jump Force.… Read the rest
Codemasters revealed a new video feature for F1 Mobile Racing, its latest free-to-play mobile title, in which the Sauber F1 Team 2018 driver line-up of Charles Leclerc and Marcus Ericsson put the game through its paces.
Following on from Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen and Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly taking each other on in F1® Mobile Racing earlier this year, Codemasters® visited the Sauber HQ in Switzerland to let two more of motorsport’s finest check out the game.… Read the rest