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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 …

Nearly everyone who’s buying a new Oculus Rift headset is also purchasing its Touch motion controllers, Oculus has revealed. Speaking at a Digital Dragons presentation in Krakow last week, Oculus’ publishing and developer relations for third party content Paul Jastrzebski told developers that the recent price cuts on both the …

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 …

HTC and Intel have teamed up to bring Intel’s WiGig wireless VR tech to the Vive, the companies announced today at Computex. HTC will also be taking on manufacturing duties for the WiGig wireless VR accessory. This isn’t the first wireless accessory that will be coming to the Vive, as …

Square Enix and PlatinumGames’ Nier: Automata has now shipped over 1.5m units worldwide on PS4 and PC, the publisher has confirmed. Announced via Twitter this morning, the figure includes both physical and digital sales of the game, marking another 500,000 copies sold over the last two months since Square Enix’s …

Senate Bill 240 may not sound like a particularly exciting bill, but the bill, dubbed the “esports betting bill” has enshrined into law the right for people to have a flutter on esports events in gambling capital Las Vegas. The bill, signed into law by Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, comes …

Far Cry 5 will be arriving on PS4, Xbox One and PC on February 27th 2018, Ubisoft has confirmed, and will include support for both the PS4 Pro and Project Scorpio. For the first time in the series, Far Cry 5 will take players in the depths of rural America, …

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. …

Boomeo, a training platform for popular competitive FPS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, announced over the weekend that they would be partnering up with CS:GO champs Astralis. Boomeo is a content portal for those looking to improve at the shooter in addition to a series of modified servers that replicate a series …