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NBA 2K16 will be the first game in the basketball franchise to offer an accompanying eSports tournament, to begin on February 15. The Road to Finals will run alongside this year’s NBA season, culminating in the Finals in June, and run on both PS4 and Xbox One versions of the …
Read More »StarCraft World Champion arrested on match-fixing charges
Lee “Life” Seung-Hyun, the 2014 StarCraft World Champion, has been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of match-fixing. The 19-year-old was taken into custody for questioning on Friday, though it was officially announced that he had been arrested and charged on Sunday with ‘receiving money to match-fix’. A report from …
Read More »Final Dota 2 Major to be held in Manila
The last of three new Valve-hosted Dota 2 Major events is to be held this June in Manila, in the Philippines. With a few weeks still until the second Major begins in Shanghai, Valve made the announcement that the final event will be held in the South-East Asian region. The …
Read More »Tencent takes full ownership of Riot Games
League of Legends developer Riot Games has sold the entirety of its remaining shares to Tencent. “Riot’s approach to compensation has always been about aligning the incentives of the company with Rioters, and also about ensuring that we compensate our talented team of professionals well,” the company said. “As a …
Read More »ESL announces next $250,000 Dota event to be held in Philippines
ESL have declared that their next stop on the worldwide Dota 2 tour will be in the underserved region of South East Asia at Manila’s Mall of Asia Arena in the Phillippines. ESL One, to arrive in the country April 23-24, will bring with it a $250,000 prize pool and …
Read More »SK Gaming go mobile with Vainglory team acquisition
One of Europe’s oldest multi-discipline eSports organisations is moving into mobile by picking up a top Vainglory organisation. R3D Gaming has won almost every single tournament they have competed in since the launch of the tablet-based MOBA last November. The franchise consists of three teams of three players, all of …
Read More »New Disney XD show to feature Mario Kart 8
US digital and satellite cable network Disney XD will air an hour-long special featuring Mario Kart 8 competitions next week, Nintendo has revealed. Dubbed Clash of the Karts: Mario Kart 8, the show is scheduled for December 5th at 8pm in both US Eastern and Pacific time zones. Clash of …
Read More »Nasty players won’t be able to get new League of Legends loot
Toxic League of Legends players will be locked out of new content for the MOBA thanks to a new update. Included as part of Riot Games’ 2016 additions to the title – said to be the biggest in six years – the new loot system provides players with chests and …
Read More »Unikrn creates ‘Team Unikrn’, an all-female CS:GO team
Unikrn have today announced their first foray into team ownership with an all-female competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. The team, comprised of five European women from the UK, France, Greece and Germany, was formed in conjunction with Luxbet, a division of Unikrn’s global partner and wagering service Tabcorp. The formation …
Read More »Fnatic begins crowdfunding new line of team-branded hardware
Fnatic, one of Europe’s largest multi-game eSports organisations, is turning to Indiegogo to crowdfund a new line of team-branded peripherals. The Swedish team, which has top-flight teams in CS:GO, League of Legends and Dota 2, previously had a line of headphones, mice and mouse mats under the SteelSeries line of …
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