ESports

You might not have heard about Arena of Valor yet, but soon enough you’ll be hearing about it non-stop. The mobile MOBA, also known as Kings of Glory and Strike of Kings, is already China’s biggest mobile game and gaming monolith Tencent has taken it worldwide, with a European launch …

Fnatic have signed up for the third season of Gfinity’s Elite Series, as the London-based esports competition grows from eight to ten teams. It’s great news for Fnatic, who operate out of their Shoreditch Fnatic Bunkr on the other side of London. We spoke to Patrik Sättermon, Fnatic’s chief gaming …

Gfinity has announced that FIFA 18 will be joining the Elite Series for season three. The third season of the Gfinity Elite Series kicks off on March 2018, and is an official EA Sports FIFA 18 Global Series qualifier, meaning that top performers here can earn a spot to compete …

Defending champion Du ‘NuckleDu’ Dang has bowed out of the Capcom Cup 2017, a surprising absence by the dominating Street Fighter V player. Dang earned automatic qualification to the Capcom Cup final after winning a $230,000 prize for his win last year but would also have qualified on his performance …

As we recently announced, Esports Pro is being merged into MCV as NewBay evolves all of its games properties into a single, specialist brand. This change will mean greater resources and higher-quality esports content. However, change can be scary, and we want to make you aware of a few things …

Tencent will be the exclusive Chinese publisher for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. It’s a coup for the monolithic games company, but this isn’t a case of Tencent getting their name on a splash screen and raking in all that lovely money. Tencent will be using their local knowledge to assist PUBG developer …

Riot last night announced the ten winners of slots in their new-look LCS league, which is doing away with relegation and promotion and promising franchised teams revenue sharing from 2018. There were over 100 applicants for the league, but the final 10 teams taking place in the league are: 100 …

Overwatch’s new support hero Moira is now available on the live server, and her introduction to the game has come with changes to her support colleagues, too. Moira entered Overwatch’s Private Test Realm on November 6. She’ll be available to all players during the upcoming free weekend which starts today …

The Paladins Premier League Fall Finals kicks off today with several of the world’s top teams competing for a chunk of the $50,000 prize pool. One of these teams is Team Renegades, playing today against G2 Esports. Renegades are unique in the esports scene because they met on Paladin’s Facebook …

NVIDIA has revealed five new screens of PlayerUnknown Battleground’s forthcoming Desert map, showing a landscape that’s altogether more varied than the now-familiar Erangel. The screenshots show a city area that has a variety of multi-storey buildings in various states of construction in an area that looks somewhat run-down. There’s also …