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Forbes has released its 30 under 30 list for gaming, and multiple eSports players, personalities and business owners have been included.  Team SoloMid owner Andy "Reginald" Dinh is this year’s featured honouree, with Immortals CEO Noah Whinston and and Tempo Storm owner Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk also being included.  A few …

"We knew going in that most startups don't make it, and as an indie game studio we hoped we would be the exception to that rule, but as it turned out we weren't."

If you are pretty nifty at FIFA then you could lift the FA Cup at Wembley later this year.  The Emirates FA Cup gaming tournament, Every Gamer’s Adventure, which yes is its actual name and very ridiculous, takes place on May 6th and mimics the format of the real FA …

Deadline date approaching for 15th annual MCV Award ceremony

Dell has signed on as ELEAGUE’s new hardware partner and becomes the latest major company to sponsor the competition.  ELEAGUE competitions will now use the Alienware Aurora with Dell 24-inch 144Hz gaming monitor, starting with the ELEAGUE Major at the end of this month. And of course you can expect …

Project IGI to be pulled out of retirement for one last mission

Company suggest they are owed $2.2m

CEO of Evil Geniuses, Peter “PPD” Dager, has announced his return to competitive Dota 2 with a new team.  Known as WanteD the team features PPD as captain with former CompLexity player Rasmus "Chessie" Blomdin, former MVP Phoenix player Kim "QO" Seon-yeop and former Rave/Archon player Jio "Jeyo" Madayag also …

At the end of 2016 it was revealed that Dignitas’ highly successful CS:GO team would not be resigning with the organisation. We now know where that team has ended up, and it’s a bit of a surprise.  Rumours speculated that the team would sign with Danish football club FC Copenhagen, …

ESL has announced the ESL Hearthstone Trinity Series, a $150,000 Hearthstone league for teams to compete in.  The competition will kick off later this month, with eight teams playing each other once across seven weeks of league play. The competition will then conclude at ESL’s California studios.  Virtus Pro, Tempo …