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Echo Fox has been the talk of the professional Counter-Strike world for all the wrong reasons in the past week. Playing in ELEAGUE Season 2, Echo Fox had a brutal weekend in Group B play in winning only six rounds in three maps. Echo Fox was playing in a group …

Starting Monday, 20 of North American League of Legends’ top Challenger ladder players will have a chance to prove themselves in a combinelike competition called Scouting Grounds, hosted by League of Legends developer Riot Games. The competition will bring together four players from each of the five roles—top lane, jungle, …

At the League of Legends World Championship Finals in October, I got to sit down and talk to two members of the Spiral Cats cosplay team, Doremi and Tasha. The two, along with another team member in a full-body Bard cosplay, attended the last two stops of Worlds as guests, …

Predicted revenue in the region of $1.8b by 2020

Four new sponsors have joined the eSports Industry Awards as fan voting heads to its conclusion. Domino’s, Gillette, Omen by HP and Snugg have all sponsored the awards, joining the likes of Xbox, Windows 10 and Twitch as well as headline sponsor Now TV. With just over a week until …

A few weeks back eSports fans who play on the PS4 got excited when both Razer and Nacon announced new officially licensed controllers for the console that are design for pro players. Now more information on Razer’s offering has been revealed and it may put some people off.  The Razer …

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Caster Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles has revealed that Blizzard paid him more for two weeks work on the Overwatch World Cup than Riot did for a five week long World Championship.  In an interview with Yahoo eSports, which can be seen below, MonteCristo revealed that Blizzard was paying what he called …

After years of developing software to detect cheaters in online games of Counter Strike, ESEA has finally come up with a similar solution for games that are played on LAN.  The new ESEA LAN anti-cheat client uses similar tech to the online software to detect any players that are cheating …

Respawn do away with percentages and numbers to "avoid influencing player expectations."