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Today Gfinity and Gillette have announced the Gillette Championship, a Pro Evolution Soccer tournament with a £15,000 prize pool. The competition will see the best players of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 on PS4 battle it out across 24 qualifiers and a live finals that will be held in London. The …
Read More »Gfinity set to host the Gillette Championship, a £15,000 PES tournament
Today Gfinity and Gillette have announced the Gillette Championship, a Pro Evolution Soccer tournament with a 15,000 prize pool. The competition will see the best players of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 on PS4 battle it out across 24 qualifiers and a live finals that will be held in London. The …
Read More »Battleborn is a cautionary tale for developers jumping on the esports bandwagon
Maybe Battleborn was doomed from the start. It seems every developer on Earth is developing a fun, colorful arena shooter with MOBA elements and a lot of esports aspirations. It’s just that with Battleborn, Gearbox had particularly bad timing, releasing its game right alongside Overwatch. Blizzard’s giddy, tactile first-person shooter …
Read More »Let’s not write Heroes’ eulogy just yet
It’s been a day of hot takes. Spurred on by a disheartening interview with MVP Black’s coach Kim where he discusses the possibility that the current World Champions will stop playing Heroes, opinions have flooded in about the future of the game’s competitive scene. HotS esports is dying, some said. …
Read More »Seize the day: OG at the Manila Majors
Don’t call it a comeback for OG. The surprise victors of the Frankfurt Major are coming into Manila with a chip on their shoulder after a seventh/eighth place finish in Shanghai. In the weeks and months since that, all eyes have been on this team to see which OG will …
Read More »How a gaming ‘Fnatic’ built an eSports empire
It’s crunch time. The clock is ticking down, the score is all wrong and the majority of the 16,000-strong crowd starts to cheer against them. The world’s best team is up against it. Led by the world’s best player, they somehow pull off a comeback—of course, they do—and defeat the …
Read More »Faker: "In either of today’s games, I didn’t think I was going to die once."
SK Telecom T1 demolished KT Rolster in a 2-0 win in Saturday’s League Champions Korea match, and almost as expected from the undisputed king of League of Legends, Lee Faker” Sang-Hyeok walked away as MVP for both games. Dealing three times the damage of nearly every other player in the …
Read More »Strategy card game Faeria gets monthly $3,000 tournaments
Upcoming strategy card game Faeria will have monthly tournaments where the best players will compete for a share of $3,000. Despite only being in early access developer Abrakam is already starting up a regular eSports scene with the new tournaments. Each month 32 players will compete for the $3,000 prize, …
Read More »ESL’s CS:GO Pro League Season 3 sees 44% growth
The third season of the ESL Pro League saw a peak year-on-year growth of over 44% for online content consumed, making it the most successful cycle to date for the competition. Viewership for the season broke records once again with more than 61 million online sessions throughout the nine week …
Read More »MVP Black, the best Heroes of the Storm team in the world may quit the game
MVP Balck, who are generally regarded as the best Heroes of the Storm team in the world, may leave the game at the end of the year. Team coach, Gwang Bok Kim, said in an interview with Korean eSports site DailyEsports that his team are not happy with multiple aspects …
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