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Riot Games has introduced new rulesets regarding penalties incurred by their top players in the League of Legends professional community. The changes comprise of a new penalty index, to more easily determine the severity of an infraction, and a penalty tracker which shows the public all rulings made throughout a …
Read More »Street Fighter V smashes Evo registration record 4 days into sign-ups
Street Fighter V is looking all set for a strong opening year in the competitive scene after breaking Evo’s registration records only four days after they began. Last year’s sign-ups saw the highest number of entrants to a single discipline as Ultra Street Fighter IV received 2,227 registrations ahead of …
Read More »£19,000 on the line at UK’s Insomnia57 March tournament
This March, Birmingham’s NEC will play host to tournaments for six games totalling £19,000 in prize money for UK gamers. The Insomnia57 event over the March 25-28 weekend will also be one of the first Street Fighter V tournaments on British soil, with £1,000 on the line. As the festival …
Read More »VfL Wolfsburg signs English 22-year-old for FIFA eSports team
Bundesliga team VfL Wolfsburg has signed an English youngster to play as part of its FIFA eSports team. The BBC reports that David Bytheway from Wolverhampton is now an official employee of the club, and is one of two players signed to compete for it in FIFA tournaments. He even …
Read More »NBA makes leap to eSports with $250,000 Road to Finals
NBA 2K16 will be the first game in the basketball franchise to offer an accompanying eSports tournament, to begin on February 15. The Road to Finals will run alongside this year’s NBA season, culminating in the Finals in June, and run on both PS4 and Xbox One versions of the …
Read More »StarCraft World Champion arrested on match-fixing charges
Lee “Life” Seung-Hyun, the 2014 StarCraft World Champion, has been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of match-fixing. The 19-year-old was taken into custody for questioning on Friday, though it was officially announced that he had been arrested and charged on Sunday with ‘receiving money to match-fix’. A report from …
Read More »Final Dota 2 Major to be held in Manila
The last of three new Valve-hosted Dota 2 Major events is to be held this June in Manila, in the Philippines. With a few weeks still until the second Major begins in Shanghai, Valve made the announcement that the final event will be held in the South-East Asian region. The …
Read More »Tencent takes full ownership of Riot Games
League of Legends developer Riot Games has sold the entirety of its remaining shares to Tencent. “Riot’s approach to compensation has always been about aligning the incentives of the company with Rioters, and also about ensuring that we compensate our talented team of professionals well,” the company said. “As a …
Read More »ESL announces next $250,000 Dota event to be held in Philippines
ESL have declared that their next stop on the worldwide Dota 2 tour will be in the underserved region of South East Asia at Manila’s Mall of Asia Arena in the Phillippines. ESL One, to arrive in the country April 23-24, will bring with it a $250,000 prize pool and …
Read More »SK Gaming go mobile with Vainglory team acquisition
One of Europe’s oldest multi-discipline eSports organisations is moving into mobile by picking up a top Vainglory organisation. R3D Gaming has won almost every single tournament they have competed in since the launch of the tablet-based MOBA last November. The franchise consists of three teams of three players, all of …
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