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Bora "YellOwStaR" Kim has retired from professional League of Legends in order to become the manager of Paris Saint Germain’s eSports division. YellOwStaR has been a regular in the EU LCS since it’s inception, spending most of his time on Fnatic. After 336 professional games, and tons of European championships …
Read More »Nintendo puts a large focus on eSports in Switch reveal
Yesterday Nintendo showed off the Switch for the first time, and had a large portion of the reveal video focus on eSports. The three minute video was split into sub sections showing the different uses of the console, with the final section being focused on eSports. The clip sees two …
Read More »Gfinity to support both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare Remastered
Gfinity will be running competitions for both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered in November. Traditionally Gfinity, like most event organisers, has run tournaments for the major Call of Duty game each year, but with the launch of two games this year they have …
Read More »KeSPA closes historic StarCraft league
The Korean eSports Association has closed the StarCraft ProLeague and will no longer operate five of the teams that were a part of it. The ProLeague was the longest running eSports competition, having been going in one form or another since 2003. It originally started out with Brood War competitions …
Read More »Team Secret and Puppey respond to EternalEnvy’s blog
Both Team Secret and team captain Clement "Puppey" Ivanov have released short statements after Jacky "EternalEnvy" Mao accused them of withholding payments. Last week Mao alleged that Team Secret was taking an unwarranted 10% cut of his winnings and that team captain Clement "Puppey" Ivanov had threatened to fight players …
Read More »Former Eidos COO Jonathan Kemp is the new CEO of Team Dignitas
Team Dignitas has appointed Jonathan Kemp as its new CEO after being purchased by the Philadelphia 76ers. Kemp is perhaps best known around these parts as being the former Chief Operating Officer for Eidos, although he has also worked in marketing and on the Olympics. His new role will see …
Read More »Dan Harmon is making a scripted eSports comedy show for YouTube
Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, is making a comedy series based around eSports for YouTube Red. The series will feature six 30 minute episodes that follow a new team of eSports stars who are trying to make it big in the growing competitive gaming industry. Both …
Read More »FACEIT launches SMITE competitions
Third person MOBA SMITE has launched on FACEIT, allowing players to compete in multiple competitions. Both Xbox One and PC SMITE players can now use the FACEIT platform, allowing them to compete in daily and weekly competitions in the Americas and European regions. These tournaments offer up a range of …
Read More »22% of American males aged 21-35 watch eSports
A new report has revealed that 22% of male Americans aged between 21 and 35 watch eSports, which is more than watch ice hockey. The research from Newzoo finds that eSports is most popular with males in the 21 to 35 year old category, and that in this age group …
Read More »melty eSport Club shuts down after heavy investment in French eSports
French eSports organisation melty has closed its doors after increased investment in the French scene priced them out of the market. Traditionally melty eSport Club was a smaller player in the eSports world, although a strong European Overwatch team established them as a bigger organisation over the course of this …
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