eSports News & Gaming Events

With the four qualifiers over, PGL is getting ready to welcome 40 talented CS:GO players from all over Europe to the PGL Regional Minor Championship, taking place between January 29 and 31. The LAN event will be hosted in PGL’s brand new studios in Bucharest, Romania, and will feature a double-elimination group-stage followed by a …

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The Play Like a Legend Championship is the most premier FIFA eSports competition in Europe and we’re excited to share the official details surrounding the tournament. In announcing the news, Ben Wyer-Roberts, Xbox EMEA Esports Lead said; “‘Following the success of the programme in 2015, Xbox is very happy to be partnering with Gfinity to …

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Top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends teams to compete in the Barcelona CS:GO Invitational and ESL Masters Spain The world’s largest esports company ESL is once again partnering with the GSMA, the organizer of the world’s premiere mobile industry event, to bring esports competition to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.… Read the rest

After intense days of regional competitions worldwide, 30 teams from around the globe have successfully secured a coveted spot in the first ever Call of Duty™ World League (CWL) Pro Division presented by PlayStation®4. More than 800 professional Call of Duty™ eSports teams across North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand competed last week for the …

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We’re excited to announce that ESL is joining forces with Relic, the developer of the internationally acclaimed WWII RTS, Company of Heroes 2, to bring the game to the world’s largest esports company’s entry level tournament series: the ESL Go4 Cups. Three full months of Weekly Cups and Monthly Finals for North America and Europe …

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Intel® Extreme Masters will host the first of Blizzard Entertainment’s all-new 2016 StarCraft® II World Championship Series™ (WCS) Circuit Championships as part of the elite pro gaming tour’s World Championship event in Katowice, Poland. The ‘WCS Circuit Winter Championship will feature 32 of the best players from the WCS Circuit at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice …

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some of the greatest Madden NFL players in the world will go head-to-head for their shot to advance to the next round in the EA SPORTS Madden NFL Live Challenge*. Fans can tune in to twitch.tv/easports at 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT on Fri, December 18 to see eight of the all-time greats, including Eric “Problem” Wright, …

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Top 16 Players Will Fight For A $100,000 Prize Pool Over the last few months, competitors from all over the world have battled their way through the ranks in ESL’s Mortal Kombat X Pro League Season 2 presented by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Xbox. North American, European and CIS territory players have clashed for …

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Razer celebrates tournament organization tool support for League of Legends with a $50,000 prize pool for amateurs Razer™, a world leader in connected devices and software for gamers and a pioneering supporter of eSports, today announced that Razer Arena now supports League of Legends, the most popular PC game in the world.… Read the rest

Evolve Labs (#evolvelabs), makers of Evolve – the social collaboration platform for PC gamers (#pcgamers) – today launched a new eSports (#esports) arena called BlackFlag (#blackflag). Focusing on Riot Games’ League of Legends (#leagueoflegends) initially, teams of five will pay a $5 entry fee to compete with other teams of similar skills for cash prizes.… Read the rest

Europe’s largest and most-watched esports festival returns to the Commerzbank-Arena with ESL One Frankfurt for the third consecutive year. The premier esports competition on June 18-19 will feature eight of the world’s best Dota 2 teams and award over US$250,000 in prize money. Alongside this, the event’s festival elements will offer the world’s largest celebration …

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Joanna Duda ESL Intel Extreme Masters returns to Cologne on December the 18th to the 20th with a League of Legends tournament featuring six teams from around the world. One of the competing teams will be Cloud9, who won the North American fan vote. Cloud9 are no strangers to Intel Extreme Masters as they took …

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Ella McConnell ESL From December the 18th to the 20th, six League of Legends teams from around the world will gather at the ESL studios in Germany to compete for the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne title. One of these will be South Korean team Ever, who took first place in the 2015 KeSPA Cup and …

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We are thrilled to announce that Intel Extreme Masters will once again return to Taipei to bring the event’s last stop in Season 10 before the World Championship in Katowice, Poland! Intel Extreme Masters Taipei at Taipei Game Show will take place from the 29th of January to the 2nd of February 2016 and will …

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A weekend of Intel Extreme Masters Cologne action kicks off on Friday the 18th of December at the ESL studios in Germany, where six great League of Legends teams from around the world will battle it out for the Intel Extreme Masters trophy and their share of a US$50,000 prize pool.… Read the rest