Free Fire Champions Cup and Free Fire World Series in 2020

 Free Fire, the world’s most popular mobile battle royale game, has lined up its major esports tournaments and milestones for the year ahead, creating even more opportunities for its global community of gamers to get involved. Building on a successful 2019, Free Fire will host up to 4 international esports tournaments for 2020, with up to $2M in total prize pool up for grabs.
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World of Tanks, New update adds “double-barreled heavies”

World of Tanks welcomes the first update of 2020: 1.7.1. The new version features, among other things, a trio of heavies brandishing a couple of large-caliber guns each. Here’s what you need to know before rushing to research them to take these formidable armored vehicles for a spin.

The double-barreled newcomers are all Soviet, sitting at Tiers VIII, IX, and X in an all-new branch stemming from the KV-3 at Tier VII.… Read the rest

Activision Blizzard And Google – Multi-Year Strategic Relationship

Activision Blizzard and Google announced a multi-year strategic relationship to power new player experiences. Google Cloud will serve as the preferred provider for Activision Blizzard’s game hosting infrastructure and YouTube as its exclusive streaming partner worldwide, excluding China, for live broadcasts of its popular esports leagues and events — including Overwatch League, Call of Duty League, Hearthstone Esports, and more.… Read the rest

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, lunar new year stuff announced

CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce a special event for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, celebrating the start of the new lunar year. The event brings the opportunity for players to claim gifts, and purchase festival-themed items on Windows PC and iOS.

The Lunar New Year Festival, which begins today and will run until February 7th, gives players the chance to earn Red Envelopes by winning matches.… Read the rest

Turtle Beach’s partnership with Chicago Huntsmen CDL Franchise

Turtle Beach announced a new working partnership with the Chicago Huntsmen CDL Franchise. Owned by NRG Esports and led by Co-CEOs Andy Miller and esports luminary Hector “H3CZ” Rodriguez, The Huntsmen have an incredible roundtable of expertise in the traditional sports and tech industries, with investment from the likes of Shaquille O’Neal, Tiesto, Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, and Marshawn Lynch.… Read the rest

2020 Pokémon World Championships, ExCeL London – August 14–16

The Pokémon Company International confirmed that this year’s Pokémon World Championships will be held at ExCeL London from August 14–16, 2020. The best Pokémon Trading Card Game and video game players from around the world will be invited to compete, with fans welcome to purchase spectator passes and witness the excitement of the most prestigious event in the Pokémon Championship Series.… Read the rest

PUBG Season 6 brings Karakin and a new high tension map

PUBG Corporation  announced that Season 6 and Survivor Pass: Shakedown are now live! The update includes a brand new 2×2 map that is sure to bring intense and high tension combat right from the drop. Karakin also introduces breach points on buildings, sticky bombs, penetrable walls to shoot through, and the Black Zone, which takes away the safety of buildings by destroying them utterly.… Read the rest

Overwatch Lunar New Year 2020

Celebrate the Year of the Rat with friends, teammates, and the rest of the Overwatch family! Lunar New Year 2020 is now live on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. Brand-new rewards are available this year, so don’t forget to log in from now until February 6 to bring good fortune to your cosmetic collection.… Read the rest

Anime Ascension 2020, Samurai Shodown one of the featured titles

Aksys Games announced that Samurai Shodown will join the roster of featured titles at the fifth Anime Ascension tournament scheduled for February 14th through the 16th, 2020 at the Atrium Hotel in Irvine. The other games include Guilty Gear Xrd REV2, BlazBlue Central Fiction, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st], BlazBlue CrossTag Battle, Melty Blood Actress Again and Guilty Gear XX Accent Plus R.
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2020 CHEL Showdown, eSports tournament hosted by Calgary Flames

The Calgary Flames to host the second annual 2020 CHEL Showdown presented by Scotiabank.

This year’s new and improved format has taken the tournament to a whole new level. Taking place over a two weekend span (February 1 – 2 and February 8 – 9, 2020) CHEL players ages 14 and up, will have a chance to face-off and compete in an online tournament, powered by WorldGaming Network.… Read the rest

PUBG Season 6, Season begins with Update 6.1

PUBG Corporation has revealed the next release of seasonal content; Season 6 and Survivor Pass: Shakedown! The season begins with Update 6.1, which adds a brand new 2×2 map that is sure to bring intense and fast-paced combat right from the drop.

Players can also interact with this new map like never before with breach points into buildings, bullet penetration through certain walls, and underground smuggler tunnels to avoid or ambush your enemies.… Read the rest

POWER RANGERS: Battle for the Grid League to Kick Off in January

POWER RANGERS: Battle for the Grid invites the best players from across the country to come together to see who reigns supreme! nWay, in partnership with Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and global content leader Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), today announced the POWER RANGERS: Battle for the Grid League.  Starting in January 2020, nWay is teaming up with local fighting game communities to discover who is the best POWER RANGERS: Battle for the Grid player in the country.… Read the rest