eSports Archives

The two have come in with a primary focus on the Latin American market, and join Steve Aoki and Imagine Dragons as co-owners of ReKTGlobal, the parent company of global esports team Rogue Here's a few quotes from this morning's announcement. In announcing the investment, Tainy said, "As a passionate gamer and supporter of Rogue, I'm[...]

This past Saturday evening, a shooting took place at an esports shop called Local Legends Gaming in Kansas City, leaving two shot and a third trampled According to KSHB, the event happened shortly before midnight during an under-21 event for college students at the gaming center Officers patrolling the areas heard the gunshots and investigated,[...]

According to The Blast who got the scoop, an unnamed source unaffiliated with Tfue leaked the paperwork to the contact showing that the esports star was only getting 20% of all his earnings, with FaZe Clan raking in the other 80%. credit//FaZe Clan Since then, FaZe Clan owner FaZe Banks has responded to the contract leak this[...]

Capcom may have just set a new president when it comes to Street Fighter V esports as they ban a Hit-Box Controller at Combo Breaker For years people have been of two minds when it comes to these customized controllers that people bring to tournaments, going all the way back to the first few years[...]

His main goal at the moment is to compete in the Fortnite World Cup, but even if he doesn't make it, it appears he's already got a major esports career on his hands as a member of the esports team NRG Here's a snippet from the article. credit//Epic Games 'My mum didn't think I was all that[...]

Earlier today, G2 Esports came out on top during the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational 2019 event to take the trophy during the grand finals against Fnatic Both of these teams had been running hard throughout the season and making an effort to make it this far with some of the top teams in the[...]

As we head into ESPN's inaugural Collegiate Esports Championship for 2019, we now have a full schedule for all the games involved this weekend Five different games will have qualifying matches as well as proper tournament bracket eliminations between May 10th-12th, including Hearthstone, Overwatch, Starcraft II, Street Fighter V, and Heroes of the Storm Check[...]

MSI has announced this week that the company formed a new partnership with the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) to help grow the program According to the info they provided, the goal of the partnership will be to promote collegiate esports across campuses by "providing industry expertise and guidelines on the right gaming hardware[...]

Magic: The Gathering Esports has laid down one of their strictest bans as pro-player Yuuya Watanabe has been banned from the game and kicked out of it's Hall Of Fame The organization released the press release below letting people know that after an investigation that determined Watanabe used marked cards during tournament play, which got[...]

The Zotac Cup is a $100,000 USD charity League of Legends tournament feautring popular LoL streamers and eSports pros Voyboy, Kaypea, Coolifegame, Zong Guan, Hao Kai, MMD, Eggroll, 7z, Weiwei, Toyz, and Gear. The tournament is being held to support charities like the Esports Foundation, Gaming-Aid, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Mercy Malaysia, and Oaktree[...]

This morning, Nintendo revealed their plans for E3 2019 to a certain degree, but the company has yet to reveal any game announcements for the event.

You can read more on the details here, but the short versions is that they will be holding esports tournaments in partnership with Smash.GG for weekly cash prizes in League Of Legends, Halo 5, and Paladins: Champions of the Realm All of which will culminate in championship games at E3 this year in the Mixer[...]

Puyo Puyo Champions has finally been released in the west, and with it comes a proper launch trailer for the game showing off all the esports glory The game has literally been designed to be an online competitive puzzler, and we'll see how long it takes for both SEGA and independent organizers to start setting[...]

Last night, 100 Thieves managed to capture the CWL London title, as Call of Duty World League announced two new events coming up this summer.

It seems Epic Games has yet to pay out for a Fortnite tournament that happened back in January in Australia, and competitors are not happy with it.