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Valve has revealed the first details of this year’s Dota 2 Short Film Contest, which will give the winner $25,000. The annual competition has become a regular feature in the run up to The International. Fans are challenged to create a 90 second video based on Dota 2. This can …

Riot has suspended professional League of Legends player Tu “Ben4” Xin-cheng after he was found to be making racist remarks in public games. Ben4, who plays for Chinese team I May, will be suspended for one best of three match in the LPL. A statement on Chinese social network weibo …

Blizzard has released a new map for Overwatch known as Horizon Lunar Colony, which as you may have guessed, is set on the moon. The new map is currently available on the PTR and will be added to the main game in the coming days. It is the first map …

The former Digital Chaos Dota 2 roster, who came second at The International 6 last year, have been signed by a new organisation called Planet Odd. The team, who have been playing under the name Thunderbirds for the last couple of months, left the Digital Chaos organisation earlier this year. …

German organisation mousesports has announced that it has brought in the German arm of telephone company Vodafone as its head sponsor. The deal kicks off today, and already sees the organisations CS:GO team wearing new jerseys with the Vodafone logo slapped across the middle. As well as the jersey sponsorship …

In what is perhaps the strangest Twitch Plays yet, someone has set up a bot that lets Twitch chat invest $50,000 on the New York stock exchange. Stock Stream has been set up with $50,000, with donations also adding to that total. This $50,000 is then invested in the stock …

Riot Games has announced that it will be hosting the finals of the North American League of Legends Championship Series in Boston, Massachusetts. The two day event will feature the third place play off match as well as the grand final of the Summer Split, a nine week competition that …

Valve has announced that Dota 2’s upcoming co-op campaign SlitBreaker has been delayed. After initially stating that the campaign would be out “this month” the team have no revealed that they have pushed it back a week. “We are currently finishing up the Siltbreaker campaign and will unfortunately need to …

SK Telecom T1’s mid Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok, widely acknowledged to be the greatest League of Legends player in the world, has also become the first to earn over $1m in prize money after SK’s recent win at the Mid-Season Invitational event. Sang-hyeok has competed in 35 tournaments so far, and …

UK Call of Duty team Splyce have become the first UK team to win a major international in the US, defeating a perceived Call of Duty ‘curse’ which has seen UK teams struggle to make an impact outside of Europe. They’re also the first European team to win any tournament …