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  Bluehole Inc., developer and publisher of PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds and the ESports League (ESL), announced that they're partnering up to bring the popular Battle Royale game to the world's largest video games and gaming convention The Gamescom PUBG Invitational Presented by Bluehole and ESL will take place at gamescom onAugust 23 – 26, 2017 in Cologne, Germany, and will feature eighty of the world's[...]

The story headed into the Grand Finals of the ESL CS:GO Cologne 2017 championship had some interesting twists and turns, but when it was all said and done, SK Gaming claimed the title for the second year in a row in the town they're based in Despite having a crowd that was vocally pro Cloud 9,[...]

Today, Ubisoft announced the For Honor Hero Series, an international tournament program organised in partnership with ESL, taking place this summer starting July 8th across all platforms in Europe and the United States.  Following the weekly competitions, 16 of the top players will participate in a live event on August 12th in Burbank, California where they will play[...]

At E3, Intel and ESL, the world's largest eSports company, have announced a technology deal that should have some interesting affects on the eSports community I know, it's been a real slow week for games news, huh? Try not to get the information overload get you down, though, because this is a pretty interesting business deal. As[...]

But that's not the only news coming out of the tournament as organizers are extremely happy with the turnout for viewership. The finals were the highest watched event for the ESL Pro League to date, which has to be making competitors and advertisers very happy coming off of the end results And some really awesome news for the[...]

Yesterday ESL announced that it came to an agreement with Facebook to start broadcasting Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments in an exclusive deal that will bring over 5500 hours of content to the platform. The partnership will have games broadcast in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German), all focused on the elite Rank S competitions, as well as ESL[...]

Buzzfeed broke the news last week that tournament organizer Munich Finest Gaming rejected several transgender players from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive "5on5 Female Open Summer 2017" event that was hosted by ESL The original action was taken because the players could be potentially penalized for "faking their gender" and that their applications were rejected based off photographs[...]

ESL UK, the UK arm of the world's largest eSports company, was announced today as the exclusive production partner for the Vainglory Spring Season Championships being held at Building Six at London's O2 from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 May I'm not a Vainglory player myself, but this is great news for the mobile gaming community, because[...]