ESports

Baseball giants the New York Yankees announced Thursday that they are making a move in the world of esports as they enter an investment partnership with Vision Esports, the largest shareholder of three esports companies, including Echo Fox. Vision Esports are the largest shareholder of Echo Fox, Twin Galaxies and …

HyperX has announced its first NBA team sponsorship today, becoming the official headset partner of the Philadelphia 76ers and the 76ers owned esports organisation Team Dignitas. HyperX, a division of Kingston Technology Company, will be working with the 76ers and Dignitas in a range of activations. With the 76ers they’ll …

Riot Games are the headline sponsors for Esports Pro’s Esports Workshop, a name we wouldn’t encourage anyone to try and say too fast. Mark ‘General_Coxy’ Cox is Riot’s UK Head of Publishing and the driving force behind the company’s new London office, one of several satellite offices the company is …

Denis ‘Seized’ Kostin has departed from Natus Vincere’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster, and will be replaced in forthcoming ESL Pro League matches against North and GODSENT by Aleksey ‘1uke’ Zimin from Spirit Academy. This comes from a post on Russian social media site VK.com, but the news isn’t surprising after …

A new series of esports events are coming to the UK as the result of a partnership between new outfit Ultimo Hombre and nightclub chain Deltic. Ultimo Hombre’s aim is to make esports accessible to everyone, and to that end they’ll be putting on ‘Gamerdays’ over the next 18 months …

Monolothic sportswear outfit Adidas has filed opposition to a trademark application of Turner Sports’ ELEAGUE. ELEAGUE has been around for 18 months now, and has quickly earned a reputation for top tier events with tournaments across a variety of different games. Adidas’s opposition isn’t to esports in general, indeed they …

“The United Kingdom has always been a powerhouse for video games,” says Andy Payne, the chair of the British Esports Associations advisory board, finishing up a potted history of 35 years of game development history. “We always punch above our weight globally, but our esports scene has been patchy, to …

Bluehole have filled in their development roadmap for the rest of 2017, paving the way for the game’s 1.0 release on PC and an Xbox Game Preview release by the end of the year. Bluehole, acknowledging their promises to deliver a full release to the PC by the end of …

Jungsoo ‘Surrender’ Kim has emerged as the victor of the Hearthstone Championship Tour Summer Championship, which took place at the new Blizzard Arena in Burbank. The South Korean player won out over Swedish Jon ‘Orange’ Westberg in the finals, earning himself $60,000 of the $250,000 prize pool, but also a …

FaZe snagged $500,000 last night, securing victory in the ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier grand finals with a 2-0 victory over Astralis.  FaZe came back from a dominant opening on Cache that saw Astralis leading 12-3 at the start of the first half, from there, FaZe came into the game like a …