The ESL is among the longest-running esports organisations in the world. We talk to its UK chief, James Dean, about its operations in the UK and the opportunities for publishers The ESL has been around for 17 years, making it something of the old man of esports. It’s been highly …
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A popular streamer has gotten the boot from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds after teamkilling a random player live on stream, violating the game’s terms of service. Dr DisRespect, who has 651,114 followers on Twitch and had 22,000+ at the time of his ban, killed a fellow player because there wasn’t space on …
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The lineup for the inaugural EVO Japan, which will take place in Toyko between January 26-28. Seven games will be playing during the event, with Arms, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Guilty Gear Xrd, King of Fighters XIV, Tekken 7, Super Smash Bros 4 and Street Fighter V being the official lineup. …
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has claimed another impressive sounding statistic, as it just achieved a record for the fourth-highest peak player count in Steam’s history. There were 382,561 players charging around the fiction Eastern European wilderness shooting at each other, which put the game 22,000 players above the peak set by Grand …
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Illinois College has announced it’ll be starting a competitive gaming team for League of Legends this September. The American university had to cancel a youth esports camp earlier this month due to a low number of sign ups however, according to the Jacksonville Courier, who broke the news, Illinois College esports …
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Tournament organiser PGL, hosts of the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major in Krakow Poland, will be rolling out a new and different map veto system for their Swiss system best-of-one group stage matches. As a comparison, the ELEAGUE Major involved five alternating bans, with the map then randomly decided between the …
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A new Hearthstone patch has rolled out, and it’s delivered the Quest Rogue nerf that so many of the community were calling for. The nerf, which was revealed two weeks ago but has only now arrived on the main servers, centers on the Rogue’s class quest card: The Caverns Below. …
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Laser League is hard to explain without a host of cultural touchstones to hand. Think Tron, but not really. A MOBA, but not really. It’s perhaps even a little like Rocket League — but not really. The most important thing to know about Laser League is that it’s good, very …
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A Quake competitor from Australia has managed to qualify in a US regional qualifier for a tournament with a $1m prize pot. The kicker? The competitor, Daniel ‘dandaking’ De Sousa, managed to do this while still in his native Australia, competing in the online tournament with a ping of over …
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Gfinity has hired former Syco executive Matt Brittain as chief commercial officer, hoping that he can bring his experience on commercially successful projects like Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor to Gfinity’s esports programming. It’s the latest in a long string of hires from around the entertainment industry which has …
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