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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 …

Gfinity’s stock has risen significantly after a financial analyst for a national newspaper predicted that they will have a successful 2017. An article listing the “hottest stocks to grow your portfolio” sees James Coney suggest investing in Gfinity’s stock for big returns in 2017. I’m not entirely sure how he …

Some big surprises and some you might expect

Future points to gaze-enabled Oculus headsets