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This past July, while at Vegas Summer League watching his young Celtics get their fresh start in the NBA, Jonas Jerebko was up to something new himself sitting in the stands. Jerebko, who was with a business partner James O’Connor, texted Tobias Sherman, the IMG global head of eSports, We …

Thijs ‘Thijs’ Molendijk has proven himself one of Europe’s strongest Hearthstone talents time and time again. The Dutch prodigy is a regular fixture at the top of the podium on the EU leg of the Championship Tour, earning a spot at next month’s big one: the Hearthstone World Championship at …

After a terrible week one of Worlds, League of Legends fans had written off Europe. The region had only picked up one game, and every other region had comfortably tossed them around. When G2 was officially eliminated from their group, only picking up one win against Albus NoX Luma, all …

With his back against the wall, Joseph "Mango" Marquez managed to pick up his third win at the Big House 6. It wasn’t always smooth sailing; things looked nerve-racking for Mango as he narrowly squeezed into top-8 after a close five-game set with Ryan "The Moon" Coker-Welch. Read more on …

I think it is fair to say that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is not the Call of Duty game that the majority of the series’ hardcore fans are looking forward to most this year. That honour goes to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, a title that fans have …

After thousands of requests from players over the years Riot Games is finally adding a replay system to League of Legends. Currently players wanting to watch replays of their games must use third party software or simply record the action as they are playing. However this is a bit of …

ESL One New York, which took place in the Barclays Center last weekend, brought in six million unique viewers and broke engagement records. Online viewership peaked at more than 450,000 concurrent viewers, which is presumably split across both the CS:GO and Street Fighter V action. This translated into six million …

Yet another European football team is entering the world of eSports, this time it’s Paris Saint-Germain, the current French league champions. PSG has signed a partnership with the WEBEDIA group, which owns French organisation Milleniun and organises tournaments in the region. Through this partnership PSG will create its own eSports …

There are just a few sleeps now until we open the doors for the Games Media Awards 2016. The event, which takes place on Tuesday October 11th at London’s Sway Bar, will celebrate the very best of the UK’s games media – whether print, digital or broadcast. The Miller Report’s …

Tech services firm GlobalStep speaks to the women on its QA team to find out how they deal with stereotypes, inequality and more