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Orbit Esport has announced that it will no longer function as an organisation, instead becoming an investment firm.  However it will still own teams, by holding a majority share of Red Reserve. Red Reserve will absorb all of Orbit’s current teams, including its highly successful Call of Duty team who …

Team YP, the eSports organisation owned by YouPorn, has announced that it will add Valentin “Valmaster” Petit to its Overwatch roster. Valmaster is better known as a Street Fighter player, but is looking for a new challenge and is picking up Overwatch. He will join the rest of the team, …

A mod for CS:GO called Classic Offensive has been greenlit on Steam and will be released on Valve’s distribution platform.  The mod aims to bring back Counter-Strike 1.6 style gameplay in the new CS:GO engine, and while it can’t quite make it a perfect 1.6 recreation it aims to bring …

Fnatic will start up a new gaming house in Los Angeles for its Overwatch team when they return from Korea.  In an interview with Yahoo eSports Fnatic founder Sam Mathews revealed the news.  “It’s unannounced, but our Overwatch team is American and currently they’re in Korea,” said Mathews. “Esports is …

Newzoo, the firm that predicts all things eSports, has released a new report that states the eSports economy will break $1.5 billion by 2020.  The report suggests that this year alone revenue in eSports will hit $696 million, with further brand investment pushing the economy to $1.5 billion in three …

Italian football club AS Roma have announced a partnership with Fnatic, that will see the two launch a FIFA division.  The new partnership sees Roma sign FIFA players Sam “Poacher” Carmody, Aman “Aman” Seddiqi, and Nicoló “Insa” Mirra, who will represent the club going forward.  While Roma’s name will be …

G2 Esports will compete in the League of Legends competition at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event.  The top team in the EU LCS will be replacing Cloud9, who dropped out of the competition over fears that some staff may not be allowed back into the US due to current …

The former REUNITED Overwatch team, which has been looking for a new organisation since the start of the year, has signed with eUnited.  The team has been a free agent since REUNITED closed its doors in January, and now four members of that roster have signed with eUnited. Thomas "Morte" …

FaZe Clan paid a massive $500,000 to mousesports in order to sign Nikola “NiKo” Kovac according to a report.  Dot eSports reports that sources close to the deal are touting the $500,000 transfer fee, making it the largest transfer deal in CS:GO history that we know of. The previous record …

A Russian investment firm known as Strongbow Investments has purchased the M19 League of Legends team.  The squad was previously known as Albus NoX Luna and managed to place in the top eight at Worlds last year, becoming the best performing wildcard region team ever.  This new investment sees them …