Gfinity, a leading international esports entertainment group, today announced that football team, esports organization and YouTube channel, Hashtag United, has signed-up to the Elite Series for Season 3. Hashtag United will line-up against esports heavyweights including Fnatic, Vitality and Team Envy, battling it out for part of the £250,000 prize-pool when the tournament kicks-off on Friday 9th March at the Gfinity Esports Arena in London.… Read the rest
FNATIC Debut’s New 2018 Team Jersey
FNATIC, one of the world’s leading global esports brands, revealed its new 2018 team jersey, which will be worn by players across all eight of FNATIC’s professional teams. This year’s jersey, designed and created with British graphic design studio Accept & Proceed, pays homage to FNATIC’s winning heritage within the esports industry since 2004. … Read the rest
League of Legions – FOX’s Comeback Against TSM
The Breakdown with Zirene: FOX’s Comeback Against TSM (NA LCS Spring Week 2)
This week on The Breakdown we’re taking a look at the team fight that turned the tide of the game in FOX’s favor.… Read the rest
League of Legions – This or That: Brought to You by the Number 7
Jatt and Kobe decide what was better – this, or that – as we head into week 3 of the League of Legions NA LCS.… Read the rest
Overwatch League – Each team’s probability of making the Stage 1 Finals
By Spencer Moran, Blizzard Entertainment
On Saturday, Feb. 10, at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles, the top three teams in the standings will battle it out for $125,000 in prize money—and bragging rights—after the conclusion of that day’s matches.
Stage Finals take the form of a seeded playoff where the second- and third-place teams face each other first, the winner of which will take on the top-seeded team in the title match.… Read the rest
Rainbow Six: Siege – Year 3’s content almost here
UBISOFT® revealed the first details of “Operation Chimera” and “Outbreak Event”, the opening content of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege Year Three. Two new operators, specialists in biohazard situations and playable in adversarial multiplayer, will have to face a major threat in the game’s first co-op event, Outbreak.
This time, the Rainbow team faces an entirely different threat: an infestation of unknown origin is attacking the small town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.… Read the rest
League of Legends – Annie, now has a hand-painted trailer
Riot Games is thrilled to reveal an exciting new vision for one of their original League champions, Annie. You can watch the brand new cinematic, simply titled “Annie”
The end of 2017 saw Riot Games start down a path of re-imaging their champions with striking and emotionally charged new backstories, deepening the lore of their beloved and iconic creations to extend outside of the game and deeper within the hearts of the LoL community.… Read the rest
Call of Duty World League to offer new Arena Clash 2018 prizes
GAME has announced that its recently launched Arena Clash Spring 2018 season will feature brand new prizes through a partnership with the Call of Duty World League (CWL).
The players that make it to the playoff stage in the Call of Duty WWII competition will win a free CWL Birmingham team ticket, giving access to the live action hosted at Insomnia62 over the Easter weekend.… Read the rest
Team Liquid and Renegades qualify for IEM World Championship Katowice
IEM World Championship – ESL Gaming
Eleven out of sixteen teams are now confirmed for the CS:GO tournament at Intel® Extreme Masters World Championship Katowice taking place during the first weekend of March. Top teams from around the world will compete for a share of the US$500,000 prize pool, as well as a win counting towards the Intel Grand Slam.… Read the rest
10 thoughts going into Week 3 of the LoL NA LCS
Kien Lam
LoL eSports
At the end of Week 2, Counter Logic Gaming and TSM have combined for… two wins! As they say, you hate to see it. We’re already in peak Worlds form just two weeks into the season. Aside from that, we have one undefeated team (Echo Fox) and one winless team (Golden Guardians).… Read the rest
Tekken – Famous fighting franchises flies forward for mobile fans
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment announced the global release dates for TEKKEN, the first fighting mobile game genre based on the iconic fighting game franchise. Starting 1st February 2018, players around the world will be able to experience the fast paced action that TEKKEN is famous for. Players can duke it out in various game modes and compete online through the Dojo mode.… Read the rest
Call of Duty: WWII – ‘The Resistance’ DLC pack is available
Players can join the Resistance starting today as Call of Duty®: WWII – The Resistance, the first DLC pack for the No. 1 top-selling console video game of 2017 in North America, is out now, available first on PlayStation®4. Packed with new multiplayer content, The Resistance DLC pack delivers three new Multiplayer maps and an all-new War Mode multiplayer mission themed to reflect the spirit of the citizen soldiers who fought for freedom during World War II.… Read the rest
LoL – The Penta: Week 2
LoL
The top 5 plays from across the world during week 2 of the LoL Spring Split.… Read the rest
Seasoned Veterans and New Strategies Clash in WCS Leipzig
Dave Oliver, Blizzard Entertainment
The first event of the World Championship Series (WCS) Circuit has come and gone, and we were witness to some amazing games of StarCraft II. After some intense series and a handful of upsets, Joona “Serral” Sotala claimed his first premier championship and took home the first of four Circuit trophies for 2018.… Read the rest
ELEAGUE’s Second CS:GO Major in Two Years Sets New Twitch Record for Single Channel Concurrent Streams During Grand Final
ELEAGUE
Turner and IMG’s ELEAGUE set new Twitch records and generated unprecedented levels of engagement with its cross-platform content throughout its second Major Championship – The ELEAGUE Major: Boston. Sunday’s Grand Final of The ELEAGUE Major: Boston – Cloud9’s historic win over FaZe Clan – peaked with more than 1,130,000 viewers, an all-time Twitch record for single channel concurrent streams. … Read the rest