ESports

ESL One Hamburg has been confirmed as Valve’s next official Dota 2 major. The event has previously been hosted in Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena for the last three years, but this year will be at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, inviting the world’s best Dota 2 teams to playoffs on October …

Tournament organiser Smash.gg has raised $11m in funding, led by Nabeel Hyatt, a partner at Spark Capital. Smash.gg was founded in 2015 and it is designed to allow organised esports events at a grassroots level, so spectators and players can create their own smaller events from the ground up instead …

ESL UK is bringing the Autumn Season League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finals of the ESL Premiership to the ESL Main Stage at EGX. There’s over £20,000 in prize money across the two finals, with the winning team for both qualifying for the opportunity to go on to …

ELEAGUE has partnered with GEICO to launch the GEICO ELEAGUE Amateur Series, a series of esports competitions aimed at amateur level players. The collaboration will kick off with a Street Fighter V tournament at Pax West, which runs from September 1-4 in Seattle. The event will be livestreamed on both …

Ever fancied gaming on a cruise ship? Ignore the sea-sickness and there’s an appeal there. It’s an appeal that the Gamer Gauntlet 2017 Cruise seems to have been taking a swing for. The trip, billed as the “Ultimate Gamer Cruise”, has been around for a year, promising EDM DJ’s, cosplay …

Daybreak Games have announced that the H1Z1 Invitational will return for the third year running, taking place at Twitchcon 2017. Twitchcon 2017 is taking place at the Long Beach Arena in California from October 20-22, and it is a time of rapid fire announcements for the Twitch streaming platform, which …

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 …