ESports

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Wargaming and Facebook have come together today to reveal plans for Wargaming to provide more than 1,000 hours of live and on-demand video content for Facebook’s Facebook Live video service. The video content, available from Wargaming’s various Facebook Pages, will let players and fans check out live game streams, access …

Vertical Gaming’s Rainbow Six Siege roster led by former world champion George ‘KingGeorge’ Kassa, has departed the organisation after payment disputes and accusations “non-stop lying” on the part of the organisations co-owner, Marvin Renkas. In a video on Youtube, Kassa revealed that Renkas stopped paying the team after they challenged him over …

I would love to see top tier esports play out at the Olympics for Paris 2024, but sadly esports at the Olympics seems doomed to fail. This despite the attempts by the Paris Olympic bid committee and in particular Tony Estanguet, a three time olympic gold winning slalom canoeist, to …

Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has made waves this week, announcing Wednesday its first esports organisation sponsorship deals with Team SoloMid and Cloud9. The company’s sponsorship will take the form of T-Mobile becoming the ‘official cellular data partner’ for both organisations, according to announcements from both TSM and Cloud9. Cloud9’s announcement features …

Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has reworked the Counter-Terrorist’s Five-SeveN pistol in a new patch. Valve’s stated intention with the pistol reworks is “the goal of emphasising skillful use of the weapons”, and after the Tec-9 rework, the Five-SeveN is up on the blocks for changes, as seen in this …

Australian football club Melbourne City FC has announced the signing of their first esports player, FIFA player Marcus Gomes. Gomes is also the first player to be signed by an A-league team, Australia’s top flight football competition. Marcus will head to London for the FIFA Interactive World Cup Final from …