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Joshua ‘Dardoch’ Hartnett has departed from Counter Logic Gaming to rejoin his former outfit, Team Liquid. The reasons for Hartnett’s departure from CLG’s League of Legends roster seem to be largely behavioural, as seen in this quote from CLG’s announcement. “Over the course of the split, we found that Joshua …

Chinese ecommerce outfit Alibaba have revealed that they lost "60 to 70 per cent" of their $20m investment in the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG). This comes via an interview with the South China Morning Post, a newspaper that Ali Baba owns, and was picked up by the smart crowd …

Peripheral company Logitech has announced its acquisition of headset and sound outfit Astro Gaming in a deal worth $85m in cash. While Logitech are known primarily for their PC peripherals, Astro has strong brand awareness in the console space for their headsets, and by acquiring them Logitech has put itself …

Tricked Esport has announced its new Counter-Strike lineup, with the team signing the former Team Singularity roster amidst rumours that sprung to life after the team were spotted Velje last month, the same town as Tricked’s headquarters. Back in May Tricked Esport announced they wouldn’t be renewing the contracts of their …

“Penalties for boosting and throwing are about to increase dramatically.”  That’s the message from Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan, as he’s taken to the game’s forum to reveal the company’s distaste for practices that fiddle with the game’s internal metrics for ranking players.  Dot Esports spotted the post on Overwatch’s …

Jonathan ‘Loda’ Berg is stepping away from competitive DOTA 2 play, and the Swedish legend will be taking a break from competing with the team until after The International 7, Valve’s next tournament. Berg is well known to fans of The International for his victory with Alliance at TI4 in …

Mountain Dew has announced partnerships with Team Dignitas, Splyce and Team SK Gaming. The partnership will see the esports organisations providing exclusive content and streams over at Mountain Dew’s Twitch channel. “We are excited to expand our support of esports through these partnerships with three world-class teams,” says Manos Spanos, …

Staffordshire University has become the first education establishment in the United Kingdom to offer a degree on Esports. Those choosing to study the course will graduate with a BA (Hons) in Esports, a course that, according to its outline, “focusses on the business of eSports. You will learn how to …

Today is the day of our third Women in Games event, a collaboration between Esports Pro, Develop and MCV to honour the successes and achievements of women in the UK games industry. You can watch the event, which will hand out an award for Best Esports Contender, live on Twitch …

It’s finally time to see Destiny 2 in action, and at 6pm BST / 10am PT / 1pm ET you can see it all play out below. We’ll bring bringing you a post with all of the details tomorrow and watching the 6pm announcement in the office ourselves, but for …