Virtus.pro have caused the biggest upset of EPICENTER 2017 after knocking out FaZe Clan, currently viewed as the world’s best CS:GO team, to reach the playoffs. Virtus.Pro went 2-1 against FaZe in a best of three matchup, coming back from behind after losing the first map, Mirage,16-2. While Virtus’ fate …
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Lawbreakers has, in gamer parlance, completely bombed. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Arjan Brusse, COO & co-founder of Boss Key, says that part of the company’s aims for reviving the troubled shooter revolve around esports and a service model. Brusse says that esports success is “the ultimate dream to achieve” for the …
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Update: 26/10: Blizzard continue to claim the bans aren’t the fault of third party software, although have unbanned several users, claiming that some bans were overturned upon “further review” of their PC security measures. This raises the important question of exactly what is throwing up false positives for Bungie’s big ol’ …
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Echo Fox has revealed its Call of Duty roster just shy of WWII’s launch. The esports organisation has signed a well regarded team, picking up Brice Faccento, Renato ‘Saints’ Forza, Adam ‘Assault’ Garcia and Peirce ‘Gunless’ Hillman. Each of the quartet had a string of individual successes, making Echo Fox’s …
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Mitch ‘Krepo’ Voorspoels has been announced as the new head coach of Schalke 04’s League of Legends team, it was revealed Tuesday. Voorspoels is a retired League of Legends pro player, who became a professional caster with Riot Games in 2015. Voorspoels ducked out of casting after nude photos of …
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QYOU Media has announced a new, daily, show of curated esports content entitled ‘Heads Up Daily’ which will be airing on Super Channel’s GINX Esports TV Canada. QYOU are best known as a curator of daily “Best-of-the-web” video for multiscreen distribution, and Heads up Daily will see a QYOU host …
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Blizzard have unveiled changes to their Heroes of the storm HGC event, with the second year sticking closely to a lot of the format and culture of this years inaugural year, although with a few tweaks. Here are some of the big changes, which will take effect when the HGC …
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DreamHack has signed a data and integrity partnership deal with Genius Sports. Genius Sports will now distribute data and video streaming from DreamHack’s esports events around the world to a global market of regulated betting outfits, but this data access will also see Genius Sports stepping in to ensure that …
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Have you ever fancied your chances as a cyberpunk sports star? Do you fancy taking a crack at Roll7’s new competitive multiplayer game? Do you have a PC? If you answered yes to the above, or at least two out of the three above, we’ve got just the ticket. We’re …
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North American esports outfit Cloud9 has raised $25m in Series A Investment, welcoming investment partners from across sports and entertainments. The fund was led by Founders Fund, made up of several Paypal funders, and it was joined by funding from San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence, the Beverly Hills Sports …
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