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GWENT: The Witcher Card Game from CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series and upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, is coming to iOS! GWENT is a fast-paced tactical card game of two armies clashing on the battlefield, where skill is your greatest weapon.
Players can pre-order the game on AppStore now to get it on their devices immediately after it releases on October 29th.… Read the rest
The NUEL and Riot Games announced a renewal of their official partnership for the new academic year in the UK. The partnership will see Riot provide direct support for the League of Legends University Series – the premier UK university League of Legends tournament – as well as over 130 offline events taking place on campuses around the UK over the course of the year, with additional unique events to be announced.… Read the rest
Who’s got the skills, raw nerve, and competitive drive to be the last team standing in the biggest Apex Legends™ tournament yet? It’s time to find out! The next living legends will be named at the Preseason Invitational, where the best of the best – including X-Games Gold Medalists TSM, Fnatic, Virtus Pro, T1, MVP, and more – will battle it out in the arena for their share of a $500,000 prize pool.
French studio and VR operator smartVR announced the release of After-H on Steam Early Access (Windows) free of charge on September 23. With After-H, smartVR goes all out on VR esport. FPS fans will recognize classic FPS, but in total immersion. After-H is compatible with popular VR headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, WMR, and many others.… Read the rest
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
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
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
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Epic Games are continuing to collaborate with the upcoming launch of Fortnite: Darkfire Bundle, an all-new retail bundle that is set to release worldwide beginning Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.
As part of a worldwide retail distribution partnership for the gaming phenomenon Fortnite, the retail version of the Fortnite: Darkfire Bundle will have a MSRP of $29.99 and will include $80 worth of in-game content.… Read the rest