Rainbow Six Siege’s 2.2.1 update is now on the technical test servers ahead of its launch tomorrow, and the big change is that you can’t shoot the GSG operators in the headgear anymore. It’s part of a two-step hitbox restructuring, with Ubisoft revealing in a blog post on their website …
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Rocket League is celebrating its second birthday in July. Don’t worry if you forget to get them anything, because the car-based sports-em-up has you covered, with it’s anniversary event bringing a host of new features. Firstly the event, launching on July 5, brings an end to Competitive Season 4 as …
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Overwatch players are in a sombre mood after the game’s Anniversary patch seems to have worsened an issue with character Sombra’s translocator. Worse, while Blizzard know it’s happening, the company hasn’t yet worked out how it’s happening, or how to fix it. A post on the Battle.net forums by a …
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Ninjas in Pyjamas has announced that they’re stepping away from Dota 2 for the second time, only a few months after acquiring what remained of Escape Gaming as their roster in January 2017. NiP’s team failed to make a big impact in Valve’s MOBA, failing to qualify for March’s Kiev …
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SK Telecom T1’s mid Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok, widely acknowledged to be the greatest League of Legends player in the world, has also become the first to earn over $1m in prize money after SK’s recent win at the Mid-Season Invitational event. Sang-hyeok has competed in 35 tournaments so far, and …
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UK Call of Duty team Splyce have become the first UK team to win a major international in the US, defeating a perceived Call of Duty ‘curse’ which has seen UK teams struggle to make an impact outside of Europe. They’re also the first European team to win any tournament …
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The Esports Integrity Coalition has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK Gambling Commission with the two organisations looking to pool information, a move which will put esports among traditional sports when it comes to betting and the preventative measures designed to prevent malpractice. ESIC also has an MOU …
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Senate Bill 240 may not sound like a particularly exciting bill, but the bill, dubbed the “esports betting bill” has enshrined into law the right for people to have a flutter on esports events in gambling capital Las Vegas. The bill, signed into law by Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, comes …
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Dominique “SonicFox” Mclean, ranked as the world’s best player in Mortal Kombat X, has claimed the title in the first major tournament for Injustice 2, which also served as the first tournament in Injustice 2’s $600,000 pro tour. SonicFox triumphed over Sayed “Tekken Master” Ahmed in the tournament’s grand final. …
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Boomeo, a training platform for popular competitive FPS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, announced over the weekend that they would be partnering up with CS:GO champs Astralis. Boomeo is a content portal for those looking to improve at the shooter in addition to a series of modified servers that replicate a series …
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