ESports

The teams appeared at this years League of Legends Worlds World Championship has come to a close, with the North American and European League of Legends championship series taking place over the weekend, finalising the 24 teams that’ll be competing at Worlds. Worlds has grown from 16 to 24 teams …

GAMURS, the company behind esports website Dot Esports, has closed a $3.5m funding round, led by Aura Funds Management. The money is earmarked to “expand games coverage” and “go global”. GAMURS was started by founder Riad Chikhani when he was a teenager, and the company acquired Dot Esports in late …

In a blog post outlining the game’s new update, the PUBG team have shed light on the progress of vaulting. “There are some challenges to introducing the feature as soon as people are requesting,” said the blog post, written by the PUBG development and community team. “First of all, our …

A StarCraft 2 pro, Yum ‘Sea’ Bo Sung has been disqualified from South Korea’s Afreeca Starleague season four, for inappropriate behaviour while streaming.  Bo Sung, who was drinking at the time of the alleged incidents, was recorded live on his stream touching a female South Korean livestreamer repeatedly. Later, this …

Blizzard is reversing the synergy picks it implemented into Hearthstone’s Arena mode. The game’s 9.0 patch, released in August, made the first two rounds of the Arena draft offer up “synergy cards”, in addition to change the format of the Arena from Wild to Standard, with the new cards requiring …

A retail listing on Amazon France has hinted at a PC version of fighting game Injustice 2.  The listing that appeared is for the Injustice 2 Deluxe Edition, and gives no further information on a potential release date. It lists the game as a Windows version of the PS4 and …

EA has courted the esports crowd for a long time, with squad modes like Deathmatch, Rush and Obliteration offering a smaller scale vision of Battlefield’s 64 man squabbles more suited to competition.  Problem is, they’ve never really gained traction. Battlefield is a game about big fights: planes screaming overhead, tanks …

Danish CS:GO outfit North rack up their first championship title of 2017 this weekend, clutching a win at Dreamhack Montreal. North won out over the Brazilian CS:GO team Immortals, but the grand final was marred somewhat by Immortals forfeiting a match due to tardiness, the moment shown in this Twitch …

Gamescom is a swirling maelstrom of noise at the best of times, but the crowd here for Rainbow Six Siege’s Pro League finals is louder still, a cacophony of noise drowning out other booths at an event known for its sound and fury. Rainbow Six Siege has come a long …

KeSPA has announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Legacy Pro Law, an American legal company based in Los Angeles   This means that Legacy Pro Law will be available to offer legal counsel to players on KeSPA team, with the MOU outlining that …