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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has claimed another impressive sounding statistic, as it just achieved a record for the fourth-highest peak player count in Steam’s history. There were 382,561 players charging around the fiction Eastern European wilderness shooting at each other, which put the game 22,000 players above the peak set by Grand …

Illinois College has announced it’ll be starting a competitive gaming team for League of Legends this September. The American university had to cancel a youth esports camp earlier this month due to a low number of sign ups however, according to the Jacksonville Courier, who broke the news, Illinois College esports …

ESL has announced two top-level hires as the company looks to expand into new areas. Rodrigo Samwell has been named as ESL’s new chief marketing officer, and Martin Hubert will take the role of chief revenue officer. “This is an exciting time for the global esports industry with ESL at …

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive outfit Astralis has signed a sponsorship deal with PanzerGlass, a Danish glass screen protection company. Dot Esports, reporting on the news, believe the deal to be worth somewhere in the region of half a million dollars. The deal will see PanzerGlass launching a number of products with …

Blizzard has unveiled details on its Overwatch League, with a list of team owners putting an end to a lot of speculation regarding who will be competing, but the lack of a date giving more fuel to the burning questions about when, exactly. Teams will be based in Boston, Los …

Tournament organiser PGL, hosts of the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major in Krakow Poland, will be rolling out a new and different map veto system for their Swiss system best-of-one group stage matches. As a comparison, the ELEAGUE Major involved five alternating bans, with the map then randomly decided between the …

A new Hearthstone patch has rolled out, and it’s delivered the Quest Rogue nerf that so many of the community were calling for. The nerf, which was revealed two weeks ago but has only now arrived on the main servers, centers on the Rogue’s class quest card: The Caverns Below. …

Injustice 2 continues to grow, with Mortal Kombat legend Sub Zero now available for those who’ve dropped the cash for Injustice 2’s ultimate or deluxe editions. The crossover makes sense, NetherRealm Studios are responsible for both Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2 after all, but it’s still cool to watch the …

Denial Esports CEO Robby Rignalda and Black Dog Venture Partners CEO Scott Kelly have teamed up for a new esports consultancy firm: Black Dog Venture Partners. The new firm will offer a variety of business coaching services, including branding, corporate and funding consultation, in addition to business development and sales …

Laser League is hard to explain without a host of cultural touchstones to hand. Think Tron, but not really. A MOBA, but not really. It’s perhaps even a little like Rocket League — but not really.  The most important thing to know about Laser League is that it’s good, very …