eSports Archives

The League made it's premiere back on April 4th at Madison Square Garden with 17 teams drafting six esports players each to form all the lineups. Twitch is set to provide "live streams of up to 199 games throughout the season, including weekly matchups, three in-season tournaments, playoffs and the NBA 2K League Finals The live[...]

After having what would be considered a successful inaugural year in 2018, Blizzard announced today that they would bring back the Overwatch World Cup for 2018 today.

We're about to dive into the prime season for fighting game tournaments around the U.S. with events like Dreamhack and Evo set to be some of the biggest draws of the year, and with it comes the yearly fascination from average gamers for proper arcade sticks. 

The Japan eSports Union (JeSU) has just approved Puyo Puyo to be their first game in their league, meaning there will soon be esports tournaments for the game in Japan The news originally broke from Inside Games and later confirmed by Siliconera that the game met all of the requirements to join and can now issue Pro Gamer licenses[...]

Considering how toxic some of the Overwatch community can be in esports arenas, the league shouldn't be surprised by any of this as a walk through any Twitter feed of player reactions from previous tournaments can show a bevy of poor choices in responses Don't be surprised if you see teams part with players moving into[...]

Over the weekend, Bandi Namco made the official announcement that the Tekken World Tour would be returning to the world of esports competition with a 2018 tournament, and revised the website with brand new dates for 2018 This year's set of events will have tournaments happening across the globe with a final tournament set to take[...]

FACEIT has officially announced that it will be holding the largest esports event in the UK this September with the FACEIT London Major 2018 for CS:GO happening this September Apart from the fact that this is one of the bigger tournaments on the CS:GO circuit with a prize of $1M prize pool on the line, the[...]

It will be a little interesting to see if they can fill the stadium because if they can, it would be one of the biggest esports live audience records anyone ever set. credit//343 Industries Having the Halo World Championship Finals here in Seattle is going to be huge, literally At CenturyLink Field Event Center, we'll be able[...]

After playing three rounds of matches over 10 hours and 14 different games, the London Spitfire emerge as the champions for Stage One of the Overwatch League, beating the top-seeded New York Excelsior in the finals. 

The Twitch Partner was dropped from his Fortnite eSports team, HavoK, after reports of his suicide-baiting comments made headlines. Jordan "Scubby" Selleck (JScubby on Twitch) said on a stream that if he knew someone was suicidal, "I would dare them to do it, and then I would never talk to them again." Late last night, Scubby's streams were dropped[...]

The final score on that match left Hostyn leading 4-1. Hostyn is the most well-known woman StarCraft II player, and happens to be the biggest woman eSports champion period, having raked in over 120K in tournament prizes before her latest match This is despite the staggering 718% pay-gap between men and women in eSports, which makes Hostyn's[...]

#burnblue pic.twitter.com/26ffHaPPEz — Dallas Fuel (@DallasFuel) January 20, 2018 While this may look like adequate punishment to some in esports circles, there are many on social media who are calling for the team to fire Lengyel from the team, hoping that somewhere in his contract there's a morality clause that will give Dallas a door to kick[...]

You might have noticed the fact that there aren't many women in esports, especially in the big leagues like the recently launched Overwatch League Some of that might come down to the fact that, even in 2018, gaming is still coded as a male-dominated industry — despite the fact that the percentage of female gamers[...]

Both companies announced this morning that they have signed a multi-year media partnership, "ensuring that every match of the world's first major global city-based esports league will be readily available to fans across the globe." Below are a couple quotes from the release sent out this morning, but the short version is that the games will be[...]

Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene has admitted that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is not quite ready to premiere in the esports realm. While the game has held tournaments this year, the director of the game has told PCGamesN that he doesn't think it's ready for serious pro-play In an interview, he said quite plainly: "We are nowhere near esports ready yet." That[...]