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This is the final part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Last time he spoke about Fnatic’s League of Legends team while today he jumps into the complex world of LCS relegation and franchising. Fnatic have been a stalwart of the European …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 5: Fnatic’s League of Legends ventures
Over the next few days will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Last time he spoke about Fnatic’s current Dota 2 team while today he jumps into the complex world of League of Legends. League of Legends has …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 4: Fnatic’s new Dota team
Over the next few days will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Last time he spoke about Fnatic’s CS:GO woes in 2016 and while today he jumps into the Fnatic Dota 2 teams recent roster changes. After the …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 3: Fnatic’s CS:GO woes
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s Overwatch roster and the upcoming Overwatch League while today he jumps into the Fnatic CS:GO team’s difficult 2016. Go back twelve months …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 2: Overwatch
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s new store in London while today he jumps into Overwatch. Fnatic certainly isn’t a stranger to supporting new games early on, but …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 1: the Fnatic store
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon, first up are his thoughts on the new Fnatic store located in central London. Fnatic is known as one of the largest eSports organisations in the world. …
Read More »Super Evil’s COO talks the first ever Vainglory World Championship
The first ever Vainglory World Championship kicks off later today over in Hollywood. Twelve of the best Vainglory teams from all corners of the globe will battle it out over the weekend to be crowned the first ever world champions. The action promises to be incredible, as teams meet for …
Read More »Martin Wyatt reflects on Gfinity’s vastly different 2016
Over the last few years Gfinity has looked like a company that can’t quite decide what it want’s to be. One month they are focusing on a massive self funded event like G3 and the next they are effectively a production company for hire. Then they might return with the …
Read More »Atlas Reactor’s William Cook talks developing a competitive game and becoming an eSport
Atlas Reactor isn’t like any other eSport. In fact there is only a few games from the last 20 years that even have a similar premise to Trion’s latest effort. Two teams battle it out in turn based combat to try and establish dominance, the team with the most kills …
Read More »A look at the debut of ECS one of the biggest new leagues of 2016
The first year of the eSports Championship Series has had its ups and downs. The first season of the league was generally considered to be a massive success, and a surprise win for G2 Esports added another contender for the major that was due to take place just after the …
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