ESports

Gambit Esports, victors of the recent PGL Krakow Major in late July, announced late on Tuesday evening that they’ve signed Bektiyar ‘fitch’ Bakhytov from Kazakh CS:GO outfit Tengri. Bakhytov will fill the roster slot left after Danylo ‘Zeus’ Teslenko left the team to return to Natus Vincere with the team’s …

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, otherwise known as the NCAA, will be discussing esports at their next scheduled meeting in October, where the organisations board of directors will discuss what role the NCAA has in college esports. This is overseen currently by the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE), acting …

Former IBUYPOWER player Braxton ‘swag’ Pierce is returning to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to play competitively for the first time since a ban he picked up in January 2015.  Pierce was one of seven players banned by Valve at all competitive events. Since that time, he’s been streaming for Cloud9 and …

Blizzard have introduced a Public Test Realm for Warcraft 3, a first for the venerable real-time strategy title. Blizzard have stated that the PTR is primarily aimed at implementing a bunch of balance changes, in addition to updating assets and several other improvements. It’s poured fuel onto the raging fire …

The United States and United Kingdom have secured their spots at the Overwatch World Cup main event, taking place from November 3, during Blizzcon. The US and UK triumphed over Taiwan and Germany in the playoffs, with the UK remaining undefeated in terms of map score, Taiwan failing to score …

OpTic Gaming last night emerged as the winners of the Call of Duty World League Championship 2017, claiming a lion’s share of the $1.5m purse, one of the biggest prize pools in console gaming. OpTic, known as The Green Wall to their fans, beat out Team EnVyUs for the win …

Valve have announced two new heroes for MOBA Dota 2. The announcement came from The International, Dota 2’s biggest tournament of the year, and showed off two new characters, a zorro-esque mammal of some kind, and a red-skinned fairy, both of which will be coming in the forthcoming Dueling Fates …

This weekend’s Dota 2 International in Seattle saw many upsets, but perhaps none bigger than in an intermission before an LGD / Liquid match which saw Na’Vi star Danil ‘Dendi’ Ishutin get beaten by an AI. Not one of Dota 2’s famously poor bots, mind you. This bot is developed …

Overwatch’s fifth season of Competitive Play is coming to an end at the end of August, a little over two weeks away on August 29 at 1am in the UK. This means that players looking to snag a higher rank, or even compete for one of the top 500 player …

After a very slow first year of competition the Overwatch pro scene has exploded over recent months. Blizzard has finally woken up and realised that it had to actually talk about the Overwatch League if they wanted it to start this year, sending everyone, even the mainstream media, in a …