ESports

Evo, the fighting game community’s annual jolly in Las Vegas, has had its 2018 details revealed, showing that it will return to the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino from August 3 to August 5. This is a little later in the fighting game calendar, arriving a month later than it’s …

Virtus.pro have caused the biggest upset of EPICENTER 2017 after knocking out FaZe Clan, currently viewed as the world’s best CS:GO team, to reach the playoffs. Virtus.Pro went 2-1 against FaZe in a best of three matchup, coming back from behind after losing the first map, Mirage,16-2. While Virtus’ fate …

Lawbreakers has, in gamer parlance, completely bombed. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Arjan Brusse, COO & co-founder of Boss Key, says that part of the company’s aims for reviving the troubled shooter revolve around esports and a service model. Brusse says that esports success is “the ultimate dream to achieve” for the …

Mitch ‘Krepo’ Voorspoels has been announced as the new head coach of Schalke 04’s League of Legends team, it was revealed Tuesday. Voorspoels is a retired League of Legends pro player, who became a professional caster with Riot Games in 2015. Voorspoels ducked out of casting after nude photos of …

Blizzard have unveiled changes to their Heroes of the storm HGC event, with the second year sticking closely to a lot of the format and culture of this years inaugural year, although with a few tweaks. Here are some of the big changes, which will take effect when the HGC …

DreamHack has signed a data and integrity partnership deal with Genius Sports. Genius Sports will now distribute data and video streaming from DreamHack’s esports events around the world to a global market of regulated betting outfits, but this data access will also see Genius Sports stepping in to ensure that …

North American esports outfit Cloud9 has raised $25m in Series A Investment, welcoming investment partners from across sports and entertainments. The fund was led by Founders Fund, made up of several Paypal funders, and it was joined by funding from San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence, the Beverly Hills Sports …

Heroes of the Storm’s esports league keeps rolling, but organisations still aren’t interested. What’s going on with Heroes of the Storm’s esports scene?  BlizzCon 2014 saw the first iteration of Heroes of the Storm esports on stage. At that time Heroes of the Storm was still in technical alpha and …

The British Esports Association has partnered up with the Enemy of Boredom Esports Academy (EOB), a series of workshops for young people interested in esports which is backed by the Prince’s Trust. The EOB Esports Academy offers educational programmes for 14-30 year olds. These workshops are designed to help young …

Every Western team is out of League of Legends worlds championship, after a weekend that nearly saw reigning world champs SK Telecom T1 (SKT) knocked out by European team Misfits. The biggest upset of the weekend, and arguably of all time for competitive League of Legends, saw Misfits up 2-1 …