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Turner Broadcasting is launching a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eSports league in partnership with WME | IMG talent agency. The league, to be televised over two 10-week seasons per year on Time-Warner-owned American channel TBS, is set to begin in 2016. TBS currently hosts live Major League Baseball coverage and other …
Read More »FACEIT ports $20,000 monthly Pro League to CS:GO
FACEIT have today launched the CS:GO FACEIT Pro League, where the best European players will compete for $20,000 of prize money each month, including non-professionals. The league follows on from April’s launch of a similar league in Dota 2, and has also been set up with the same level of …
Read More »All League of Legends ranked matches taken offline after huge bug discovered
A game-wide bug has forced Riot to temporarily disable ranked League of Legends matches as it works to fix the issue. Players initially began to notice something curious with the hero Riven, with the champion able to cast the ‘Recall’ spell – which teleports the player character back to the …
Read More »ESL and ESEA join forces for $1m CS:GO league
ESL and ESEA, the largest North American Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league provider, are working together on a league with a prize pool of $1million. The ESL ESEA Pro League, set to begin on May 4, will consist of multi-month seasons punctuated by a Valve-sponsored Major title. This year there will …
Read More »FACEIT launches elite 10,000 league for pro gamers to practice
FACEIT, the competitive platform that gives players a chance to earn points and prizes, is adapting their league to suit pro Dota players needs, too. The league format, which organises matches for players of similar skill in order for them to earn FACEIT points, has been used with the help …
Read More »No domestic Brazilian league teams for FIFA 15
The Campeonato Brasileiro will not feature in EA’s upcoming FIFA 15. The publisher has announced the failure to reach an agreement for the licence for the Brazilian domestic league, although the national team will still feature. Due to some changes in the ways players are licensed in Brazil domestic leagues, …
Read More »EA wants to gauge interest in possible women’s football inclusion in future FIFA titles
You think that women’s football should be a feature of future FIFA titles? Then let EA know. That’s the message from the publisher, whose GM of Sports Matt Bilby told Polygon that the company first looked into the possibility five years ago, only to discover that there was little interest. …
Read More »Amazon tops online rankings list
Amazon UK and Argos have stayed at last year’s number one and two spots respectively, while Tesco has knocked Play.com off the number three spot, moving it down one place to number four. Experian said that one of the fast moving sectors were department stores and John Lewis was one …
Read More »New video games league debuts
The best UK gamers can win up to 30,000 in a new video game league. Play the Gamer kicked off earlier this month, and is run by events agency Living It Loving It – better known for its live poker and crime scene nights in the UK, US and Europe. …
Read More »Rugby League 3 heading to Wii
Alternative Software has revealed the release date of Rugby League 3 – it will arrive in stores on April 16th. Alternative Software managing director Roger Hulley said: This is the latest game in the Rugby League franchise, which has previously made it into the GfK Chart-Track Top 40 mutliformat chart.” …
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