ESports

Competitive PES has always been a thing, but in recent years it has struggled to keep up with the expansion that many other titles have seen. This year however Konami is pushing eSports hard, and the new version of the PES League is an obvious indicator. The competition has already …

Plays.TV, the service that can be used to record, replay, and relive games and streams, has received massive investment from multiple parties.  The company has raised $15 million in Series A funding, with an investment fund associated with the owners and executives of the San Francisco 49ers and basketball star …

SLIVER.tv and ESL will create the world’s first VR eSports stadium experience at the Intel Extreme Masters. The stream will sit viewers in a massive stadium, recreating the experience of actually being at the event in person. They will be able to see the avatars of other people who are …

Orbit Esport has announced that it will no longer function as an organisation, instead becoming an investment firm.  However it will still own teams, by holding a majority share of Red Reserve. Red Reserve will absorb all of Orbit’s current teams, including its highly successful Call of Duty team who …

A mod for CS:GO called Classic Offensive has been greenlit on Steam and will be released on Valve’s distribution platform.  The mod aims to bring back Counter-Strike 1.6 style gameplay in the new CS:GO engine, and while it can’t quite make it a perfect 1.6 recreation it aims to bring …

Italian football club AS Roma have announced a partnership with Fnatic, that will see the two launch a FIFA division.  The new partnership sees Roma sign FIFA players Sam “Poacher” Carmody, Aman “Aman” Seddiqi, and Nicoló “Insa” Mirra, who will represent the club going forward.  While Roma’s name will be …

G2 Esports will compete in the League of Legends competition at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event.  The top team in the EU LCS will be replacing Cloud9, who dropped out of the competition over fears that some staff may not be allowed back into the US due to current …

ESL UK and Varsity Games have announced Derby Series Leicester, a university team show match that gives students a chance to do everything.  The event will see Leicester University face off against De Montfort University in League of Legends, but the real interesting part of this is that students will …

Ding It was once trying to be a competitor to Twitch, but in recent times has shifted its focus to on demand content. Now it’s senior management has created Level Up Media, which will be the parent company of Ding It, and will launch two new sites. The Ding It …

Stunlock Studios have announced the Enter the Arena Battlerite tournament, a $10,000 competition that will be hosted by Beyond the Summit.  A series of open and closed qualifiers will decide eight of the teams that make it to the main competition, with the first matches kicking off later this week. …