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Overwatch’s 1.12 patch has arrived, and it has brought several different changes to the game, including one particularly unannounced change that delivers a killing blow to colour-based aiming hacks. Aimbot is a dirty word in competitive gaming, but every game seems to have had its own struggles with cheat software, …

Betgenius and Unikrn announced Wednesday that they’ve signed a partnership that’ll see Betgenius provide the same esports market odds that it offers to Betway and Sky Bet. This means the esports focussed betting site will soon be able to take advantage of the company’s live markets for events. In a …

NBC Sports has announced it’s leaping into the esports arena, with a $100,000 open tournament for vehicular kickabout Rocket League. It’ll be partnering with FACEIT and Psyonix to launch the tournament, which will take the form of a 2 v 2.  The tournament is going to get a lot of …

The Anschutz Entertainment Groupe (AEG), an American worldwide sporting and music entertainment brand, have announced an investment into North American esports outfit Immortals. It’s not AEG’s first investment into esports, with the brand teaming up with ESL in September 2016 to make use of AEG properties for ESL events. The …

Ninjas in Pyjamas have released their Overwatch team, less than a month after they pulled the plug on their Dota 2 roster claiming they wanted to focus more on Overwatch, CS:GO and League of Legends. It seems for the organisations Overwatch roster at least, that dream has been NiPped in the …

KeSPA, the Korean Esports Association, has announced that it’s going to partner up with League of Legends stats outfit OP.GG to put together an offiicial database for Korean League of Legends players, and Korean FIFA pros, too. It could be a valuable tool for those looking to get up-to-date information …

The Gears of Wars esports organisation, known as Gears Esports, has handed out bans to three pro players for code of conduct violations during the first season of the Gears Pro Circuit.  The suspensions are for varying lengths and incidents, and paint a worrying picture of what goes on when …

Tencent, the monolithic Chinese internet giant, have shown off a five-year plan to invest $15b into the Chinese esports market. The plan was reported by Chinese media outfit Caixin, but hinted at in the company’s end of year financials for 2016 back in March. It’ll see Tencent supporting its own …

In an interview with Esports Pro, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has said that the company believe that “esports is going to continue growing.” Morhaime has also said that he ‘loves esports’, and although he watches many of the big events for Blizzard’s titles, he’s still a “huge” Starcraft 2 fan. …

SK Gaming has lifted the trophy on the CS:GO Dreamhack Summer tournament, beating out home team Fnatic in a tense 2-1 victory. It’s a good start to a summer campaign that’s going to see SK competing at the ECS Season 3 finals next week and the Krakow Major a month …