ESports

Kim ‘Geguri’ Se-yeon has signed with the Korean Overwatch team ROX Orcas, making her the first female player to compete in the OGN Overwatch Apex tournament. Se-yeon is perhaps best known as the Zarya main so good that she was accused by several players of using hacks in June 2016, …

Multiplay’s I62 event has been delayed, the company have announced. A forum post from Michael ‘Geosnipe’ Lambert reveals that Insomnia 61, which takes place in 3 weeks, would be the last event of the year, with the expected Insomnia 62 Winter Event to be delayed. “We worked incredibly hard to …

Mobile esports outfit Skillz has announced that it has been issued two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Reported by Esports Insider, the patents are exclusive to Skillz. U.S. Patent 9,479,602 relates to the technology powering Skillz Arena, the company’s event platform for organising, hosting and …

Allegiance, once known as the highest grossing team in console esports. has announced on Thursday that it will be shutting its doors today, closing the book on the company after just 22 months in operation. The organisation formed in October 2015, and rose to prominence when the organisation’s original Halo roster of …

Valve has always been famous for ‘Valve Time’, the glacial pace at which the company behind Steam and countless games actually release things. The company are famous for it, but the development team behind Dota 2 have made it clear that they want to get past the image and increase …

Ubisoft is testing out upgraded servers for Rainbow Six Siege on the game’s Technical Test Servers. This comes from a Reddit post from community manager Matt Shotcha. “During the last two months we redesigned our systems to support a different scheme of CPU partitioning over the new generation of game …

ESL One Hamburg has been confirmed as Valve’s next official Dota 2 major. The event has previously been hosted in Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena for the last three years, but this year will be at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, inviting the world’s best Dota 2 teams to playoffs on October …

Tournament organiser Smash.gg has raised $11m in funding, led by Nabeel Hyatt, a partner at Spark Capital. Smash.gg was founded in 2015 and it is designed to allow organised esports events at a grassroots level, so spectators and players can create their own smaller events from the ground up instead …

ESL UK is bringing the Autumn Season League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finals of the ESL Premiership to the ESL Main Stage at EGX. There’s over £20,000 in prize money across the two finals, with the winning team for both qualifying for the opportunity to go on to …

ELEAGUE has partnered with GEICO to launch the GEICO ELEAGUE Amateur Series, a series of esports competitions aimed at amateur level players. The collaboration will kick off with a Street Fighter V tournament at Pax West, which runs from September 1-4 in Seattle. The event will be livestreamed on both …