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Kim ‘Effect’ Hyun, a damage dealer for Team EnVyUs’ Overwatch roster, took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that he’s looking to start practicing Overwatch.  The tweet, in Korean, is embedded below, but was translated by Slingshot Esports.  In English: “I decided to play CS:GO during the pockets of time …

After clutching victory in both the Dreamhack Open and the ECS Season 3 finals, SK are looking like one of the strongest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squads in the world.  They’re currently on a summer break, a working holiday that’s seeing the team venture to Europe with the aim of smashing …

Team EnVyUs has announced that they have signed three Rocket League stars to create a competitive roster for the title. The three players signed: David ‘Deevo’ Morrow, Nicolai ‘Masetro’ Bang and Remco ‘Remkoe’ Den Boer are Rocket League Championship Series World Champions for Season 3 and used to play for …

Ninjas in Pyjamas has announced that they’re stepping away from Dota 2 for the second time, only a few months after acquiring what remained of Escape Gaming as their roster in January 2017. NiP’s team failed to make a big impact in Valve’s MOBA, failing to qualify for March’s Kiev …

With the Overwatch League looming teams have been dropping Overwatch teams all over the place. Now Rise Nation has become the latest org to drop it’s quad, creating quite the free agent talent pool. The team was never quite able to break into the top tier of North American teams, …

BAFTA has announced that it will honour League of Legends developer Riot Games with a special award at E3 in a few weeks. The award will be presented to co-CEOs and co-founders Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, on behalf of Riot Games at an event in West Hollywood on June …

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 …

Team YP, the esports team sponsored by adult website YouPorn, has signed Super Smash Bros 4 players Griffin ‘Fatality’ Miller. This marks Team YP reentering the world of Super Smash Bros, a world they entered for the first time by signing Smash players Jason ‘Bizzarro Flame’ Yoon in 2015, who …

Gillette has announced a sponsorship deal with Chinese League of Legends outfit EDward Gaming, making the popular team Gillette’s first. Gillette have some prior experience with esports. They are partners with the ESL and also sponsor League of Legends player / team owner Enrique ‘xPeke’ Cedeño. The sponsorship for EDward …

The Esports Integrity Coalition has handed out a two year ban to Conner Huglin, better known by his player handle of ZonC, banning the player from ‘all’ esports from 10 May 2017 to 9 May 2019. There’s no word on exactly what ‘all’ means in this case, however it’s probably …