ESports

The meteoric success of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is not happening in isolation – several games are suffering player declines in its wake. Chief among them seems to be Valve’s DOTA 2 which, as spotted by Game Debate, recently saw active players dip to its lowest number since 2014, falling to 214,155. That’s …

Method has picked up a team for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds roster, signing three new players to back up Anssi ‘AndyPyro’ Huovinen, who competed under Method’s banner at the Gamescom PUBG invitational event.  The new roster is Jamon ‘RaptorDRaptor’ Moretz, Ludvik ‘Aitzy’ Jahnsen, Mathias ‘EnergeticTurtle’ Nielson and Huovinen.  "I wanted Raptor on …

The $150,000 Gears Pro Circuit Mexico City has been delayed after natural disasters in the area. The event was scheduled to take place on October 13 to 15 at Mexico City’s World Trade Center, but a series of natural disasters has forced Coalition and Gears Esports to postpone the event …

Owen ‘Smooya’ Butterfield has been benched from Epsilon Esports’ Counter-Strike roster. Butterfield announced the news himself via a tweet on Wednesday evening.  Butterfield joined Epsilon in June alongside Lasse ‘maeve’ Elgaard and Cosmin-Mihai ‘CosmeeeN’ Butuc, replacing William ‘Draken’ Sundin and Henrik ‘REZ’ Sterner. Both players departed the team to join …

Immortal’s CS:GO team continues its slow implosion as Vito ‘kNg’ Giuseppe has announced he’s no longer on the team’s active roster after an internal suspension, and the Teles twins Lucas ‘LUCAS1’ and Henrique ‘HEN1’ Teles have reportedly asked to leave the team. This controversy has been steadily growing since the …

The Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) has hired esports veteran Nick Allen to head up its fledgling esports division, showing MSG’s continued push into the esports space. MSG own a string of venues and sports teams, and recently invested into esports outfit CounterLogic Gaming (CLG), allowing CLG to purchase an …

The 12 teams competing in Blizzard’s inaugural Overwatch League have been announced, and with it Blizzard has sent a clear message to regions existing outside of North America: you’re not wanted.  Much like Major League Baseball’s World Series, this international competition is centered firmly on North America. This is bad …

Blizzard has announced the start date for its Overwatch League.  The preseason will start on December 6, meaning that Blizzard’s Overwatch League is technically starting in 2017 as they’ve been claiming. The preseason will involve a series of exhibition matches between the 12 teams in the League. However, the real …

A huge rework to healer Mercy has come to Overwatch’s live servers after almost a month of testing on Overwatch’s Private Test Realm (PTR). The change reworks Mercy’s abilities, most notably her ultimate, to make her a little more active in play after Blizzard noted that a Mercy with her …

Ubisoft Montreal has revealed new changes to Rainbow Six Siege, with two operators getting buffed and the game’s recoil patterns being changed in a new patch appearing on technical test servers (TTS) on Wednesday, September 20.  Kapkan has been sped up, moving from a 3 armour / 1 speed operator …