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Blizzard Entertainment
Due to a series of violations of Heroes of the Storm Global Championship (HGC) rules, Aaron ”erho” Kappes is being fined $1,500 and suspended for the rest of the year. In addition, erho’s team, Simplicity, has chosen to release him. Simplicity will use a substitute for Week 6 of HGC North America play, and will have until March 28 to choose a replacement team member.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
The Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) is on the move once again! This time, it lands in Taipei—hometown of 2017’s HCT World Champion, Chen “tom60229” Wei Lin.
This online-to-offline tour stop will have four online qualifiers, from which 16 finalists will emerge. They will move on to compete at HCT Taipei, held in the Blizzard Arena Taipei on April 27 and 29.… Read the rest
ELEAGUE
Turner & IMG’s ELEAGUE will explore how TEKKEN ® 7 superstar Stephen “Speedkicks” Stafford uses uniquely analytical tactics against opponents in BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America’s storied one-on-one fighting game, as ELEAGUE | TEKKEN Team Takedown returns to TBS with an all-new episode Friday, March 23. The second of four episodes – Semifinal Showdown – will air following the network’s live NCAA March Madness (approximately 10:30 p.m.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
Nation Wars is a fan-favorite StarCraft II tournament in which countries from all over the world pit their best players who were voted for by the community against one another in a unique format, and it’s coming back this year for a fifth installment! You won’t want to miss any of the action, so we made this handy survival guide for your viewing pleasure.… Read the rest
Dave Oliver, Blizzard Entertainment
The Global StarCraft II League (GSL) has already had an incredible first season of 2018, with some crazy upsets, close series, and a great foreign hope making it all the way to the quarterfinals. With this season wrapping up, only four players remain to make their run at the coveted title of GSL Champion.… Read the rest
By Official HCS
Open to teams in Mexico and South America, the HaloWC 2018 Mexico City Finals was a showcase not only of top-level Halo talent in the LATAM region, but also of the brilliant and passionate excitement these fans have for the Halo franchise itself. The turnout at the event certainly reflected these notions, with an outstanding increase in both participants and spectators alike over last year’s festivities.… Read the rest
Dutch publisher SOEDESCO is taking a line up of five surprising titles to Dutch Comic Con. Two of these are completely unannounced and are playable for the first time at the event. The event takes place on the 31st of March and April 1st in Utrecht, the Netherlands. SOEDESCO can be found at booth 11.21.… Read the rest
Broly and Bardock will join the fight as new paid content for DRAGON BALL FighterZ available on 28th March, 2018 along with the Commentator Voice Pack. In addition to the DLC release date, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment also today reveal more details about a free update scheduled to be live in Spring.… Read the rest
Noctis Lucis Caelum is now a playable character with TEKKEN 7 – DLC3: NOCTIS LUCIS CAELUM PACK including the exclusive stage “HAMMERHEAD,” the BGM “Stand Your Ground / FINAL FANTASY XV,” the BGM “APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS Remix / TEKKEN 7” and five Noctis costumes! Wielding his signature Engine Blade, Noctis is ready to deal heavy hard-hitting blows as he takes on the likes of Yoshimitsu, Devil Jin, Jack 7, and the rest of the TEKKEN 7 fighters.… Read the rest
Blizzard Entertainment
“I let them go on vacation for too long!” said Lee “Sake” Lee Jung Hyuk of his KSV Black teammates before the Eastern Clash began. A bumpy first half of Phase 1 meant arriving in Taipei for the Eastern Clash as the third seed from Korea, an uncharacteristic result for a team that just won a BlizzCon.… Read the rest
TEKKEN eSports
JDCR may have won more events than any other player during the 2017 TEKKEN World Tour, but Knee reminded the world that 2018 is a brand new year.
Knee used a variety of characters to win the TEKKEN World Tour Master event at Final Round 2018 on Sunday. His mix of Devil Jin, Paul, Steve, and Kazuya was too much for anyone else in the field to handle.… Read the rest
Smite eSports
Season 5 of the SPL is coming up fast, and we here at Hi-Rez are looking forward to what’s sure to be a very competitive Spring Split. With just a few weeks to go until our games kick off, our partner organizations are finalizing their rosters and revealing their lineups for the new season.… Read the rest
GamesAid released exclusive early bird tickets to the games industry for the live action text-based adventure interactive show The Dark Room. Organized as a London Games Festival fringe event and hosted by GamesAid, the UK games industry charity, in partnership with the BFI Certification Unit, this one-off show will be on 10 April at BFI Southbank.… Read the rest
CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, announce that Zehua “Huyahanachann” Zhao has won the March GWENT Open tournament.
Over the course of the weekend, the highest ranked players of GWENT’s Pro Ladder season battled for their share of the $25,000 prize pool and GWENT Masters Crown Points — ranking points of the official esports series of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game.… Read the rest
Razer™, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, and Spanish Team Queso, the first mobile-only esports team, today announced a new strategic partnership. The two-year deal will see Team Queso using the Razer Phone in their competitive games, as well as other Razer peripherals and equipment.
The Razer Phone, the world’s first smartphone designed for gaming, is the perfect handset for high-level mobile esports.… Read the rest