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Bigben Interactive has announced that Hyundai Motor will be the main partner for the 2017 eSports WRC Championship. The competition will be renamed to the eSports WRC powered by Hyundai, which will see the best WRC 6 players battle it out for the title of world champion. The competition is …
Read More »16 players qualify for PES Road to Cardiff event at Anfield
16 European PES players have managed to book a spot in the last regional competition in the PES League Road to Cardiff tournament. RoNeX, crazyFlash7, TRS_EL_MATADOR, his_wideness, Suprema_Ettorito, Teclis-88, IndominatorTV, Sam—, dNationPT, Neo_Lotfi, TioMiit_PW, joanfcb, AlexAlguacil_8, TBC, DexK and bad_boy_g_2011 will all head to Anfield to try and win a …
Read More »Finalists announced for the Women in Games Awards
The finalists for the Women in Games Awards have been announced, including those in the brand new eSports Contender category. For the first time at the awards the brightest female stars in the world of eSports are being honoured. Members from every corner of the industry have been nominated, with …
Read More »Team Dignitas moves away from Twitch exclusivity, will stream on Facebook as well
Team Dignitas has moved away from exclusively streaming on Twitch and will now stream on Facebook Live as well. The first Facebook Live stream from the team came last night, when League of Legends players Chan-ho “Ssumday” Kim and Sang-hyun “Chaser” Lee held an AMA on the platform. Later today …
Read More »Splatoon 2 launches in July
During the latest Nintendo Direct, which aired last night, it was revealed that Splatoon 2 will launch on the Nintendo Switch on July 21st. The title was revealed earlier this year when the Switch itself was shown off properly for the first time, but no release date was mentioned. Now …
Read More »ESL to launch 24/7 eSports channel on PlayStation Vue
ESL has announced that it will launch its esportsTV channel on PlayStation Vue in the coming weeks. Before the end of the month the channel will launch on PlayStations TV service in the States, just in time for a live broadcast of the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney CS:GO event taking …
Read More »Gfinity becomes global tournament partner for the Forza Racing Championship
Gfinity has been named as the global tournament partner for Microsoft’s Forza Racing Championship. The deal will see Gfinity organise and host the events in the competition, with the first event being the Forza Racing Championship 2017 New York Invitational Presented by Porsche. Wow that’s a long name. Anway, Gfinity …
Read More »HellRaisers CS:GO team sign two year contract extensions
The HellRaisers CS:GO team has been one of the rising stars of the scene over the past couple of months, and this past weekend they transitioned their incredible online form into a surprising top four finish at StarLadder. Off the back of that result all five players on the team …
Read More »Phoenix1 sign Smash player Duck
The Phoenix1 organisation has bolstered its fighting games lineup by signing Super Smash Bros. Melee player James “Duck” Ma. Duck was formerly a part of Denial Esports, but has now moved over to Phoenix1 to become the second member of its Smash team. The first member is Smash 4 player …
Read More »Esports Arena set to open new location in Vegas
Esports Arena, the company behind the permanent Esports Arena in California and Allied Esports have announced that they will open a new location in Las Vegas. The Luxor in Las Vegas will house the new arena, which is set to open in 2018. The team will convert the 30,000 square …
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