eSports News, Live eSports On Twitch & Gaming Event News
Eight high-level Summoners War players and influencers will face off in an elimination tournament for their share of a $25,000 USD prize pool at the Prudential Center in New Jersey tomorrow from 1pm – 6pm EDT.
The players are set to compete in a high pressure PvP format, and those who lose a match will be given a chance at redemption by achieving the quickest time in a speed running segment called “The Revival Challenge: Dungeon Run.”… Read the rest
LAN events are a gamer’s idea of heaven, and now the rAge team – who have been delivering South Africa’s biggest LAN for 15 years – are hosting the first ever Winter NAG LAN at Rush this July. Running over the last weekend of July school holidays, the NAG LAN is the ideal way to spend some quality time with online mates before the reality of “all work and no play” sets in once again.… Read the rest
Aniplex of America has announced today that it will host a Launch Celebration for the English-language release of Fate/Grand Order at the upcoming Anime Expo in Los Angeles, CA. The event will be held on July 1st at 3:00 pm local time in Petree Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, and will open admittance to approximately 2,000 show attendees.… Read the rest
Breakaway’s hitting the high seas with the Royal Dutch Navy, Red Bull Esports, and AMD, as teams from Echo Fox and Rogue prepare to face off in the first-ever esports match (at least, that we’ve heard of!) on a battleship at sea.
Check out the announcement video, which shows exactly what it’d be like to play Breakaway on a friggin’ frigate
Set sail and tune in on Monday, June 26th at 12 PM Pacific Time on the Red Bull Esports Twitch channel to watch the exhibition match between Echo Fox and Rogue.… Read the rest
NBC Sports Group announced today that it will launch a new esports tournament this summer that will utilize FACEIT’s competitive gaming platform, and numerous NBCUniversal and Comcast regional, national and international assets, to allow gamers of all skill levels to compete in a 2v2 Rocket League tournament for a $100,000 prize pool.… Read the rest
Local independent game developer and publisher The Behemoth will be exhibiting at San Diego Comic Con International for the 15th consecutive year!
Along with their ever popular custom built arcade cabinets for Pit People, BattleBlock Theater, and Back Off Barbarian, the game studio has invited several other independent game developers to showcase their video games with them at Booth 229.… Read the rest
With the group stage of the 2017 Overwatch World Cup on the horizon, the national committees of the 32 qualified countries have been hard at work, crafting the perfect teams to represent their nations in a series of live events around the globe. These teams will be descending on four cities, where they will fight for glory and the eight spots in the Overwatch World Cup playoffs at BlizzCon in November.… Read the rest
Rice Digital is excited to announce that Revolution returns this October for the fifth edition of the premier fighting games tournament in London. Sponsored by Rice Digital and organized by NGI, Revolution 2017 will take place at the Rocket Complex at London Metropolitan University on October 6-8, 2017.
Check out the Revolution 2017 website here:
http://ngi-revolution.co.uk/… Read the rest
From now through November, ROG Masters 2017 is set to engage CS:GO and Dota 2 communities in every continent simultaneously in a monumental tournament designed to advance the ROG Masters mission: seeing the potential of esports realized in every corner of the world.
This year, organizer ASUS Republic of Gamers is ramping up the fierceness of the competition by packing the schedule with esports legends – teams with countless victories and championships between them – as well as fine tuning the competition format.… Read the rest
The next WCS Circuit event is just around the corner, as StarCraft II returns to Sweden for DreamHack Summer. From tomorrow, June 17 to Monday, June 19, 80 top players will battle it out at WCS Jönköping for a share of $100,000 USD. Up for grabs are also plenty of WCS points—vital for earning the chance to compete at the WCS Global Finals later this year.… Read the rest
The genre-defining exhibition of art, design, film & literature
Barbican Centre, London, UK
Saturday 3 June – Friday 1 September 2017
Media View, Thursday 1 June 2017, 10am –1pm
#intotheunknown
www.barbican.org.uk/intotheunknown
Opening in June 2017, major Barbican exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is a genre-defining exploration of one of popular culture’s most celebrated realms.… Read the rest
On 23 August, Cologne will be again the place to be for interested business representatives from all industries, as well as creatives, educators, politicians and researchers. How credible is influencer marketing? How does a long-haul flight become a multiplayer session? What are computer games doing at MoMA? Why are games important for training journalists?… Read the rest
Scotland’s biggest gaming festival, Insomnia X Resonate, is in Glasgow from 21 to 23 July for a weekend of all things gaming featuring a new Virtual Reality Zone and the first Scotland v England YouTubers battle.
The action-packed festival takes place at Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow from 21-23 July.
The new VR Zone will allow visitors to experience the latest headset and games through virtual reality; the Retro Zone is an old-school throwback to classic games and the Indie Zone is an interactive area where guests can play, compete and watch up-and-coming games before they are released!… Read the rest
Organizers of MEGASHOW: Games. Music. Art., a new traveling event series dedicated to indie communities and produced by the creators of Indie MEGABOOTH, have opened early bird and VIP ticket sales for the first edition of the festival taking place in Atlanta, GA on July 15. The one-day event being held at the Tabernacle will bring together niche creative indie communities from game developers to musicians and visual artists, to throw a “MEGA” indie event.… Read the rest
After more than four years of R&D, Logitech G, a brand of Logitech, announced the launch of two technologies that make the dream of high performance wireless gaming a reality. Logitech G POWERPLAYTM is the world’s first wireless charging system for gaming mice providing continuous charging while both playing games and at rest – completely eliminating the need to dock or park their mouse to recharge.… Read the rest