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ESL FACEIT Group announced this past week that they would bring back DreamHack Dallas for 2025, as the event will be pushed up by two weeks The event will return to the Key Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas from May 23-25, 2025, as the main event and IEM Dallas will once again share[...]

Organizers for DreamHack Stockholm have confirmed a new addition to the lineup this week, as The Sidemen will join the event this November This is basically a chance for those who are attending the event in person to not just see a showcase featuring three of them but to actually compete against them live on[...]

With less than two weeks to go before DreamHack Atlanta kicks off, organizers for the event have decided to highlight the non-esports programming you'll be able to take part in The event will see the return of cast members from Dropout's Dimension 20 with several guests, as well as other tabletop activities, The LEGO Group[...]

Organizers for DreamHack revealed they have partnered up with Def Jam to present an all-new "Legendary" Hip Hop Showcase during DreamHack Stockholm The event will take place on the first day, November 22, and will feature several hip hop performers and artists from the Swedish music scene The content comes in as part of their[...]

Organizers behind DreamHack Atlanta have revealed the full slate of esports tournaments they will be holding this October, as several games will bring about $1.1m total in prize pools to the event Some of the major highlights will be the Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship, the ESL Pro Tour for Counter-Strike 2, and Warhammer[...]

This past weekend, we're at DreamHack Dallas 2024, live at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas As part of our coverage of the event, please enjoy our second photo gallery from the main floor, showing off indie games, BYOC, LAN parties, the Tabletop section, several esports tournaments, many of the booths, and[...]

This weekend, we're at DreamHack Dallas 2024, live at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas As part of our coverage of the event, please enjoy our photo gallery from the main floor, showing off indie games, BYOC, LAN parties, the Tabletop section, several esports tournaments, many of the booths, and more, all[...]

DreamHack organizers revealed this week that they will be coming back to Sweden with DreamHack Stockholm 2024 The festival originated back in 1994 in Sweden, so to see ESL FACEIT Group bring it back home for the 30th anniversary is a sight to be seen The event will take place from November 22-24, and while[...]

DreamHack Winter 2023 is currently happening at the Elmia Congress Center in Jönköping, Sweden, as day two of the event has started up Organizers revealed all of the remaining esports events players and fans will be able to compete in and check out today, which we have for you below. Credit: DreamHack ESL R1 Crowns The Champion[...]

ESL FACEIT Group revealed this morning that they have hired Guy Blomberg to take over as DreamHack's New Event Director of Americas Blomberg has had a ton of experience running events for ReedPop all across the United States, as well as being involved with multiple other gaming-related organizations and entities Blomberg will take over the[...]

ESL FACEIT Group and presenting partner Elgiganten's confirmed this past week that DreamHack Summer will be returning to Sweden! The event will take place from June 16th-18th (LAN June 16-19), 2023, at the Elmia Congress Center in Jönköping, Sweden The event will have several regional and global competitions across multiple games, many of which you[...]

Organizers behind DreamHack Dallas 2023 have revealed their entire lineup of esports tournaments they will hold this June Those looking to attend next month will be treated to a number of finals and championships to be settled under one roof, as Halo, CS: GO, Rocket League, Fortnite, and multiple fighting games, will be on hand[...]

DreamHack organizers revealed today that they will be holding a special Fortnite tournament with a $750k prize pool, and a major finals event with a bigger take Working together with the ESL FACEIT Group, it was revealed they will be bringing back the popular DreamHack Open featuring Fortnite tournament series Each of these events will[...]

ESL FACEIT Group announced that they will be holding the Snapdragon Mobile Masters during DreamHack's return to Japan in May 2023 The inaugural event, which will be sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, will be taking place from May 13th-14th at DreamHack Japan It's an interesting addition to the lineup as they will be a part of[...]

Organizers behind the Snapdragon Pro Series announced today that they will hold their Mobile challenge Finals at DreamHack San Diego The group revealed that they will host a pair of Mobile Challenge finals at the first-ever San Diego event for the esports convention, taking place from April 8th-9th, 2023 Right now the plan is to[...]

FACEIT, the organizers behind the ESL and DreamHack, announced today that the event will be coming to San Diego in April 2023 The event, as we're writing this, is currently set to be taking place at the San Diego Convention Center from April 7th-9th, 2023 The team didn't have a ton of details as to[...]

Organizers behind the esports extravaganza DreamHack have announced they will be returning to Atlanta in mid-November For the first time in three years, the event will make a grand return to the Georgia World Congress Center, taking place from November 18th-20th, 2022 The event has already started selling tickets as they have "early bird" pricing[...]

DreamHack revealed that next week, they will be holding their own online festival event which they are calling DreamHack Beyond The event will kick off on May 27th and run all the way until June 2nd, giving esports fans a little something of everything for those who can't attend Dreamhack Dallas in person This will[...]

DreamHack announced new additions to their event happening in Dallas next month as they have more tourneys and a cosplay contest The team is going all-out to make their first major event in the U.S in-person again feel like a major deal as they've now added more content to the three-day event happening from June[...]

Wizards of the Coast, the tabletop game company that is the driving force behind its premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, and DreamHack, an ESL Gaming brand, have announced their partnership for upcoming Regional Championships and Qualifiers thereof for organized Magic play This partnership will culminate in the Magic Pro Tour and the World Championships. The full[...]

DreamHack has announced this week they're going to attempt another return to in-person events with a new one this Summer The organization, along with ESL Gaming, have been trying to bring back the esports event a few times over the past year, and keep getting shut down due to changes happening with the pandemic This[...]

Originally the event was set to be held at DreamHack Anaheim as one of the major focal points for the returning event However, those plans were scrapped the minute DreamHack decided to cancel the event entirely back in mid-December 343 decided to press on with the event regardless of DreamHack's plans and chose to do[...]

DreamHack organizers have revealed their first set of events for DreamHack Anaheim happening in February 2022 Right now the event is still set to take place from February 11th-13th at the Anaheim Convention Center, provided the pandemic doesn't interfere, making it the first event from the company in the U.S in two years Today we[...]

DreamHack announced this mornign that they're going to attempt to bring back DreamHack Anaheim in person this February The event will take place from February 11th-13th, 2022, at the Anaheim Convention Center, marking the first in-person event from he company in the United States in two years Those looking to attend as spectators can get[...]

DreamHack announced this morning that they are officially postponing DreamHack Atlanta, which was set for November, until 2022 For a period of time, especially with events like PAX West and Gen Con happening this month, it looked like the esports event might actually have a chance of happening in person at the Georgia World Congress[...]

This summer they will be running what is to be called the DreamHack Open, which will feature Fortnite as part of the lineup The launch of this new tournament series will include a monthly prize pool of $250k, with a grand total of $1.75 million throughout the entire event, which will be broadcasted live on[...]

With COVID-19 essentially putting an end to all things 2020, the upcoming tournaments that would have taken place at DreamHack events have been taken out of the convention centers and put online So now, the ESL Pro Tour will now be held online across three seasons for the remainder of the year A StarCraft II[...]

This week, both the ESL and DreamHack announced they have entered into a new streaming agreement with Twitch Both companies have entered into a three-year deal to bring esports events to the social-streaming platform, which will see some of the biggest esports tournaments organized by both organizations through at least 2022 That's a pretty major[...]

DreamHack announced they will be launching the new Northern League Of Legends Championship (NLC) along with Riot Games The league will operate out of Europe, supported by a new competitive ecosystem in Telia Esports Series TES is expanding from Finland to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, which features national leagues and DreamHack-operated UKLC in the UK[...]

Along with the Hearthstone news today, Blizzard Entertainment announced they have entered a three-year esports deal with DreamHack and the ESL The short version of the deal is that they will be presenting Warcraft III: Reforged and StarCraft II tournaments moving forward as part of their major events This means that they will take over[...]