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The NBA, hot on the heels of announcing their own esports league with NBA franchises taking part, have set their sights on China. NBA China’s CEO David Shoemaker was talking to CNBC about the NBA’s expansion and how he’s optimistic that esports expansion to China has great potential, when he …

OpTic Gaming have announced a deal with Twitch that will see that stream exclusively on the platform. The move is a positive one for Twitch and OpTic. Twitch can count on the support of OpTic Gaming’s huge social following with OpTic’s fanbase, called the “Green Wall”, lending their support to …

Yesterday saw the first big VAC ban wave of 2017, as Valve brought the hammer down on nearly 5,000 Steam accounts after detecting a number of new cheat programs for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The eagle-eyed team at Dot Esports noticed the spike, which mostly affected users on Linux and Windows …

PwC’s 2017 Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report has projected that eSports revenues will go from $108 in 2016 to $299 million in 2021, making it one of the fastest growing segments of the entertainment and media industry. It’s hard to disagree, with the prize pools, events and esports ‘scene’ …

This weekend was an embarrassing moment for esports. The ESL Pro League Season 5 final was playing out as North and G2 Esports clash. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team North were facing a partisan crowd, G2 getting adoration as one of the most popular teams in the sport, and the situation …

Death comes quickly in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and it’s often senseless. There’s no fanfare, just the boom of gunfire and your body hitting the ground in a dirty building, or quiet woodland. Players dig it, with an average of 200,000 concurrent players and around 3m copies sold. However, it’s also incredibly …

Can you hear it? There’s a sound travelling around the internet like thousands of angry Reddit fans being silenced at once. Rainbow Six Siege’s 2.2.1 patch notes have been released, and Glaz is getting the nerf many have claimed he needs. Glaz’s rebalance is the only operator shuffle to take …

Kristian ‘K0nfig’ Wienecke, a rifler for CS:GO team North, got the ire of the crowd this past weekend, casting himself in the role of villain after telling an ESL commentator at the ESL Pro League Season 5 finals that he was going to “crush” G2 and show them that they …

Daybreak Games have announced a H1Z1 Elite Series, debuting with both solo and team events at DreamHack Atlanta in July. The series is for H1Z1’s King of the Kill variant, which ditches the zombies and hardened survival for shootouts in a battle royale setting. This announcement comes the week after …

To celebrate Twitch Prime’s expansion to 200 new territories, Twitch and Bluehole have teamed up to offer exclusive cosmetic items in the South Korean developer’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Only Twitch or Amazon Prime subscribers can get their hands on the loot, which consists of a t-shirt, balaclava, jeans and a pair …