ESports

The Esports Integrity Coalition has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK Gambling Commission with the two organisations looking to pool information, a move which will put esports among traditional sports when it comes to betting and the preventative measures designed to prevent malpractice. ESIC also has an MOU …

Dominique “SonicFox” Mclean, ranked as the world’s best player in Mortal Kombat X, has claimed the title in the first major tournament for Injustice 2, which also served as the first tournament in Injustice 2’s $600,000 pro tour. SonicFox triumphed over Sayed “Tekken Master” Ahmed in the tournament’s grand final. …

Events management company Zenway Productions has acquired esports organisation DeadlyKittens. The news broke when the company revealed on their Facebook page that they’d acquired an esports team. More specifically, they note that they’d acquired their ‘first’ esports team, making Zenway’s intentions clear. DeadlyKittens are best known for their efforts in …

It’s a lovely day in sunny Britain, and if you’re not enjoying the outside for yourself, you can grab an ice lolly and watch the Tekken UK championship finals today, live from the MCM Comiccon in London’s Excel Arena. The show will be broadcast live on Twitch, meaning at 1pm …

Rainbow Six Siege was a phoenix from the ashes, a stellar FPS game that missed its audience upon its December 2015 release, but was subsequently “discovered”, with the amount of concurrent players rising with each update, and a slow increase in the number of people playing near constant. There are …

CD Projekt RED’s Gwent, a card game contained within The Witcher 3 that has now been spun out into a seperate product for people to play against each other, has entered open beta today. The standalone Gwent is the same beast as the single-player variant included in The Witcher 3, …

Riot Games announced yesterday that it was issuing Australian esports organisation Team Regicide with a $750 fine ($1,000 in AUD) for failing to provide a “conforming roster substitute by the deadline.” This deadline was on Monday, and Regicide will now have to pay the fine in addition to Riot handing …

Ha ‘Comeback’ Seung-chan, previously known as Hachani, has spoken about his time playing in the European LCS series for Vitality, saying that he had a lot of stress because “the food I ate overseas didn’t suit my tastes.” He said this in an interview with Fomos’ Kim ‘Kenzi’ Yong-woo, in …

Fnatic have dropped their CS:GO academy team after several tournament organisers have started to make noises about multiple-team ownership. Last week, the team secured a spot in the European CIS Minor, which acts as a pre-qualifier for the PGL Kraków major, which Fnatic’s core team have already qualified for. PGL …

IEM have ended their long-running associating with League of Legends, as IEM organiser Michal Blicharz announced on Reddit last night that IEM would be dropping League of Legends from the current season. According to the Reddit post, the reasoning is largely centered on scheduling. When League of Legends first appeared …