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Valve have announced two new heroes for MOBA Dota 2. The announcement came from The International, Dota 2’s biggest tournament of the year, and showed off two new characters, a zorro-esque mammal of some kind, and a red-skinned fairy, both of which will be coming in the forthcoming Dueling Fates …

This weekend’s Dota 2 International in Seattle saw many upsets, but perhaps none bigger than in an intermission before an LGD / Liquid match which saw Na’Vi star Danil ‘Dendi’ Ishutin get beaten by an AI. Not one of Dota 2’s famously poor bots, mind you. This bot is developed …

Overwatch’s fifth season of Competitive Play is coming to an end at the end of August, a little over two weeks away on August 29 at 1am in the UK. This means that players looking to snag a higher rank, or even compete for one of the top 500 player …

Daniel ‘dandaking’ De Sousa has qualified for the Quake World Championships. De Sousa, also known by his handle Astroboy, made headlines last month when he qualified for a US-based Quake Champions tournament while playing from his native Australia with a ping of over 200ms. The story here is largely the …

Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out, and to celebrate, we opened 51 card packs from the expansion to see what came out. My wrists hurt from opening all of those cards, and I found myself six adorable Snowflipper Penguins, each less adorable than the last. Our 50 …

Millennial Esports, an event management and technology firm that offers turnkey solutions for the esports industry, has picked up a controlling stake in Eden Games. Eden Games are a Lyon based developer best known for mobile title Gear.Club. Millennial Esports has acquired 82.5% of the company for €9 million, in …

Six of the world’s best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams are coming together in Copenhagen’s Royal Arena for the BLAST Pro Series, with the teams playing on the main stage in front of a packed arena. The event is the biggest ever international esports event to take place in Denmark, and …

Esports players could be competing for Olympic medals in 2024. Tony Estanguet, the co-president of Paris’ Olympic Bid committee, has told the Associated Press that he’ll be looking to organise talks between esports representatives and the International Olympics Committee about esports joining the 2024 Olympics program. Paris will be hosting …

Danylo ‘Zeus’ Teslenko has returned to Natus Vincere after a year-long stint as Gambit Esports in-game leader that culminating in the team being crowned as PGL Major winners. In a Twitlonger, Teslenko talked about why he left Gambit, and it all seems to come down to coach Mykhailo ‘Kane’ Blagin, …

The Overwatch League has today announced two new teams, with a second time setting up shop in Los Angeles, and one settling right here in London Town. Cloud9 has set up shop in Blighty, with Cloud9’s founder Jack Etienne picking up the London slot, while Stan and Josh Kroenke, who own …