ESports

Marvel vs. Capcom trailer reveals new additions to the game’s roster

Capcom pushed out a new trailer for cross-universe beat-em-up Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite on Monday during Sony’s E3 press conference, showing off some of the story and a handful of new characters. The trailer is below, and features several new characters for your punching pleasure, in addition to a suitable …

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PUBG introduces new weather, a new weapon, and the ability to climb, vault and leap

Brendan Greene, the PlayerUnknown behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has just taken to the stage to show off upcoming changes to the game. Stability and server performance improvements are promised, but Greene also showed off a few big changes in the form of weather — with vision impairing fog to hamper snipers …

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Bethesda to host $1m Quake World Championship, with finals at QuakeCon in August

Bethesda have announced The Quake World Championships, a huge esports tournament for the publisher’s forthcoming Quake Champions. Announced during the Bethesda E3 2017 press conference, the tournament is set to kick off in June, with competitors around the world fighting to qualify for a final event during QuakeCon in Dallas, …

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ELEAGUE announces $250,000 Injustice 2 World Championships for October

ELEAGUE have announced a $250,000 Injustice 2 World Championship this October, which will air on cable network TBS in the US in addition to being livestreamed on Twitch. The tournament, announced during an E3 stream on Sunday, will comprise an open qualifier, which will take place on October 21 and …

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Overwatch pro Daniel ‘Dafran’ Francesca gets a time-out from Blizzard after trolling stream

Overwatch pro Daniel ‘Dafran’ Francesca has had a rough night. Last night on stream he admitted to deliberately throwing ranked games, while getting himself killed repeatedly, streaming animated porn over his gameplay and other general unsportsmanlike content. Francesca is known for two things: his tracking and aim talents, and his …

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League of Legends’ North American Challenger Series changes to best-of-three format

Riot Games have announced that League of Legends’ North American Challenger Series is going to be adopting a best-of-three round-robin format, effective immediately. The Academy League is expected to take over in 2018, and so the NA CS is being prepared for the transition and responding to feedback from Challenger …

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OpTic Gaming and Twitch announce exclusive partnership deal

OpTic Gaming have announced a deal with Twitch that will see that stream exclusively on the platform. The move is a positive one for Twitch and OpTic. Twitch can count on the support of OpTic Gaming’s huge social following with OpTic’s fanbase, called the “Green Wall”, lending their support to …

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Valve’s first monster VAC ban wave arrives, banning nearly 5000 Steam accounts

Yesterday saw the first big VAC ban wave of 2017, as Valve brought the hammer down on nearly 5,000 Steam accounts after detecting a number of new cheat programs for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The eagle-eyed team at Dot Esports noticed the spike, which mostly affected users on Linux and Windows …

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How do you solve a problem like ghosting?

This weekend was an embarrassing moment for esports. The ESL Pro League Season 5 final was playing out as North and G2 Esports clash. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team North were facing a partisan crowd, G2 getting adoration as one of the most popular teams in the sport, and the situation …

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K0nfig winds up the crowd at CS:GO ESL Pro League finals, leading to ghosting and insults from crowd

Kristian ‘K0nfig’ Wienecke, a rifler for CS:GO team North, got the ire of the crowd this past weekend, casting himself in the role of villain after telling an ESL commentator at the ESL Pro League Season 5 finals that he was going to “crush” G2 and show them that they …

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