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Blizzard have announced a development league, entitled Overwatch Contenders, which the developer is terming a league for “aspiring Overwatch League professionals.” At the mention of Overwatch League, Blizzard reference the elephant in the room: Overwatch League is still being put together, and the vacuum in its absence is causing major …

Survive-em-up PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has revealed a new weapon: Russian-made sniper rifle the VSS Vintorez. The Vintorez will shake up the game, as a sniper rifle that comes with both a scope and a suppressor as standard, meaning the act of ‘building’ a sniper rifle out of different attachments is no …

Esports outfit Gfinity have recently named a date for their long-awaited Gfinity Elite Series event, after a series of delays marred the event. This led to some critics of the company to speculate about the status of the event after Gfinity didn’t come forwards with a new date. Regardless, looking …

Facebook have signed a livestreaming deal with ESL that will see Facebook streaming over 5,500 hours of esports via its Facebook Live service, including their IEM and ESL One events. Spotted by PCGamesN, Facebook will partner with ESL to create unique esports content for the platform, including backstage Q&A’s with …

The League of Legends College Championship is taking place in Los Angeles this weekend, from May 25 – 28. This event is the largest League of Legends College Championship, with eight teams competing this year — the winning team from four different regional divisions, a trio of wildcard slots, and …

Counter-Strike organisations will be allowed to field two teams in the upcoming Krakow Major and qualifying events, as long as they have unique branding. Recently, Riot Games ruled that multiple-ownership of teams was not okay, and that organisations that might be in a position to face off against each other …

North American team Cloud9 has been crowned the winner of the first ever Vainglory Unified Western Live Championships, held in Building Six of the 02 Arena in Greenwich, London this weekend. The tournament marks the end of several weeks of online competition on the mobile MOBA, with the Vainglory Spring …

Team YP, the esports team sponsored by adult website YouPorn, has signed Super Smash Bros 4 players Griffin ‘Fatality’ Miller. This marks Team YP reentering the world of Super Smash Bros, a world they entered for the first time by signing Smash players Jason ‘Bizzarro Flame’ Yoon in 2015, who …

In their most recent earnings announcement, Tencent have announced that they have made a little over $7b in Q1 2017, with $3.3b coming from the online games division. $3.3b is more money than most games companies will make in a year, but Tencent have the benefit of access to the …

This year for the first time, Milestone’s MotoGP game — in this case, MotoGP17 — will be taking on the world of esports, as Milestone have partnered up with Dorna Sports, MotoGP’s license holders to launch a MotoGP Esport Championship. In this instance it’s unusual because while Milestone have made …