SK Gaming triumphed over Virtus.Pro to be crowned victors of EPICENTER 2017 at the grand finals in St. Petersburg, Russia. SK has been a dominant force this year, with the EPICENTER win being the team’s sixth championship win of 2017. They played with a stand-in, Ricardo ‘boltz’ Prass, but were …
Read More »Astralis announced C7 Brands as their new hydration partner
Astralis has signed a deal with C7 Brands that will name C7 as Astralis’ official hydration partner. C7 Brands have said they’ll be providing Coco Fuzion 100, a carbonated coconut water to the team. Coco Fuzion is the UK’s first carbonated coconut water, and are looking to leap into the …
Read More »Airbus sponsors League of Legends team Out Of The Blue, probably
Image credit: Clément Alloing Airbus, a european company that designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aircraft, has unexpectedly returned to esports, announcing their sponsorship of new League of Legends team Out Of The Blue. There’s no information on the sponsorship and what that entails yet, as the news broke on Friday …
Read More »Vainglory opens pre-registration for 5 v 5 closed beta tests
Vainglory has opened global pre-registration to allow players to sign up for a chance to play Vainglory’s forthcoming 5 v 5 mode. Currently the mobile MOBA only supports six players in 3 v 3 matches, however Super Evil Megacorp has claimed that it’s 5 v 5 mode has been created …
Read More »League of Legends pro Li ‘Vasilii’ Wei Jun banned after assaulting his girlfriend while livestreaming
Li ‘Vasilii’ Wei Jun, a professional League of Legends player for Newbee, has been fired from his team and banned from playing the game after he livestreamed himself assaulting his girlfriend. Wei Jun was streaming League of Legends last night and his stream captured his girlfriend criticising him for repeatedly …
Read More »FIFA Interactive World Cup scores own goal, renames itself to eWorld Cup
EA has announced that it’s renaming the FIFA Interactive World Cup to the FIFA eWorld Cup for 2018. While they’ve taken a recognisable and interesting name and turned it something wholly more unfortunate, with a new name comes a new format and that’s also been revealed. For 2018, qualifying will occur …
Read More »Digital Extremes “hit the pause button” on hero shooter The Amazing Eternals
Digital Extremes has announced the cancellation of their F2P competitive hero shooter The Amazing Eternals, euphemistically stating that they have “hit the pause button on development at this time.” Refunds are to be issues to those who paid into the founders program for a 72-hour period that starts today. Digital …
Read More »Amazon’s competitive hero brawler Breakaway is on “indefinite hiatus”
Sources suggest that Amazon Game Studios’ hero brawler Breakaway has been canned. Probably. Kotaku reported sources claiming that Breakaway, Amazon Game Studios’ highest profile project, announced on September 29, 2016, was essentially cancelled, with the game on indefinite hiatus and developers moving on to other projects within the company. Shortly …
Read More »Destiny 2 custom competitive matches planned for early 2018
In their weekly state of the game post, Bungie has announced that they’re working on private matches for the competitive community, making Destiny 2’s esports dream a real possibility. In the blog post, the team say they’re targeting early 2018 for the release of private lobbies, which will allow teams …
Read More »Evo 2018 to return to Mandalay Bay Hotel, a month later than usual
Evo, the fighting game community’s annual jolly in Las Vegas, has had its 2018 details revealed, showing that it will return to the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino from August 3 to August 5. This is a little later in the fighting game calendar, arriving a month later than it’s …
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