ESports

Coaching platform Gamer Sensei raises $4m in funding round

Esports coaching outfit Gamer Sensei has raised $4m in a new funding round. Gamer Sensei is a service that tries to link up coaches, often professional competitors, with players in a range of competitive games for one-on-one virtual lessons to help them improve. They now offer coaching in Overwatch, League …

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GAMESCOM 2017: Designer Kyle Dates talks about creating the heroes of HOTS

“Kel’Thuzad is one of the most requested heroes to date," says Kyle Dates, a hero designer on Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm. I’ve just asked him why Kel’Thuzad is Heroes of the Storm’s newest hero, and his answer is clear. Still, with so many heroes coming out, it wouldn’t surprise me …

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Team Leviathan returns to NA Dota 2 in post-international roster changes

The post-international roster shuffle, a yearly event as reliable as Christmas, is well underway, but it seems to have brought back an organisation that’s long been absent: Team Leviathan. Team Leviathan was a well known North American team that last competed in 2016, failing to reach The International 2016’s regional …

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Gareth ‘GaRpy’ Marshall and Aaron-Anton ‘Hell’ Jones from Myztro talk Quake, the universe and everything

While most of the industry is recovering from Gamescom, Myztro are just warming up. The UK-based Quake Champions team are competing at Quakecon this weekend. Before they took off, we took the opportunity to ask Gareth ‘GaRpy’ Marshall and Aaron-Anton ‘Hell’ Jones about how they got their start in esports, …

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Overwatch’s 1.15 patch is on the PTR, includes reworks for Mercy and D.Va

Overwatch’s 1.15 patch is now on the private test realm (PTR), and brings total reworks of both Mercy and D.Va, in addition to several other small tweaks. It’s also believed that escort map Junkertown is coming with this patch, although it hasn’t been put into the PTR yet. Still, with …

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GAMESCOM 2017: Team from open qualifiers emerge as victors at PUBG third-person Duo’s tournament

‘Suisse my Baguette’ has won the $30,000 grand prize from PUBG’s Gamescom Invitational third-person Duo’s tournament, emerging victorious over professional teams like Cloud9, TSM, and Liquid to clutch a win. Unfortunately, the series was marred by bizarre play, with a circle falling over water that saw a number of teams …

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OpTic gaming forfeit slot in ELEAGUE’s CS:GO Premier after roster changes

OpTic Gaming have forfeited their Group D spot in ELEAGUE’s CS:GO Premier after adding Adam Friberg, Aleksi ‘Allu’ Jalli and Emil ‘Magisk’ Reif to their roster yesterday. ELEAGUE’s rulebook has a rule, several in fact although only 4.4.15 is relevant here, which states that teams must retain three of their …

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CD Projekt Red reveal trio of Gwent tournaments, with $850,000 in prizes

CD Projekt RED have announced a trio of tournaments for recently released Gwent: The Witcher Card Game,with a combined prize pool of $850,000. This is a pretty big amount of money for the fledgling CCG, with it’s closest competitor Hearthstone handing out $250,000 for their seasonal championships. The three tournaments …

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GAMESCOM 2017: Blood Orchid hands on & exclusive footage, how will this affect the game’s meta?

Today at Gamescom Esports Pro got a chance to get our hands on the content coming to Rainbow Six Siege with the forthcoming Blood Orchid update. We played with the three new operators — the new attacker Ying, and defenders Lesion and Ela — in a bomb defusal match on …

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Gfinity to produce first ever Formula 1 Esports Series, starting in September

Gfinity has announed today that it is the first official esports partner for Formula 1. Gfinity will be delivering the Formula 1 Esports Series, a first for Formula 1 that will see players from all over the world duke it out to prove themselves the best virtual F1 drivers in …

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