ESports

ESL UK has announced the promotion of senior product manager Rob Black to the role of chief operating officer with immediate effect. Black, who joined the company two years ago as a product manager, and was promoted to the role of senior product manager just six months after joining the …

The Hollywood Hammers esports organisation has revealed that it’s releasing its Overwatch team, joining the long list of esports organisations stepping away from Blizzard’s first person shooter. However, this seems to be performance based issues instead of the usual concerns cited with Overwatch’s competitive scene. In this case, the Hollywood …

Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has taken to the update patch notes for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ 4th monthly update to defend the team’s inclusion of a crate and key system. “While our intention was and still is to add the full (crate and key) feature to the game when we move into actual …

Counter Logic Gaming has been sold to the Madison Square Garden Company, who have acquired a controlling stake in the company. Based in North America, CLG was founded in 2010 and has recently been in-form, notching up a series of impressive placements in CS:GO. They also have teams in League of …

Natus Vincere G2A, better known to fans as Na’Vi, have expanded into Quake Champions, picking up Russian Quake pro Anton ‘Cooller’ Singov. Singov is a renowned Quake champion, with multiple international wins and over $300,000 in prize money accumulated over his career. He’s also a well known Overwatch personality, where …

League of Legends is the latest game to get a reality TV show, with a new Australian reality series, The Next Gamer, that is looking to find a single League of Legends player who could be a pro. It’s standard reality TV fare, with 40 gamers getting pared down to …

Dota 2 have made some changes to the game ahead of The International 2017, which is occurring this week, making the game more welcoming to new players ahead of the influx of rookies that try the game for the first time during Valve’s mega-tournament. The update, which launched last Thursday, …

Doomfist, leader of antagonistic band of bad dudes Talon, is now in Overwatch proper, playable in the main game for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The Count of Monte Fisto has been in Overwatch’s public test region (PTR) since July 6, where it has transpired that just about …

Next week is the next monthly update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and this one is a big one, adding first-person servers, cosmetic microtransactions, and a beefy new DMR rifle. The new gun is an Mk14 EBR, which will use 7.62 ammo and has a bipod which can be deployed while laying down …

CD Projekt RED are bringing card game Gwent to Gamescom for one of its first major tournaments. The game launched in open beta back in May, but is slowly becoming more and more polished as CD Projekt RED flesh out the game beyond its roots as a diversion in its Witcher …