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ESL has announced that it will run a tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the next four years. ESL One New York will return on September 16th and 17th 2017, and then will come back again in 2018, 2019 and 2020, although exact dates for those events are …
Read More »NRG Esports sells its spot in the NA Challenger Series
After a poor first year in League of Legends NRG Esports has sold its spot in the North American Challenger Series. J2K Esports and Technology is the party buying the spot, and they will be fielding a team known as Gold Coin United in the Challenger Series Spring Split. J2K …
Read More »COGnitive Gaming to shut down at the end of the year
COGnitive Gaming has announced that it will be closing its doors on December 31st. The organisation has been around for a few years, initially getting involved with the Smite scene back in 2013. They stuck with Smite, even fielding two teams at the 2015 World Championships, where they took both …
Read More »PPD named CEO of EG, Loda and Akke own Alliance
After Twitch announced that it handed control of Evil Geniuses and Alliance over to the players yesterday we now know who is in control. A press release from Evil Geniuses revealed that former Dota 2 team captain and winner of The International 5 Peter “ppd” Dager will act as the …
Read More »Twitch gives Evil Geniuses and Alliance their independence
Twitch today announced that it has given control of both Evil Geniuses and Alliance over the the players and player selected management. Previously both teams were founded and owned by GoodGame, a company that was purchased by Twitch a few years back. Because of the purchase this meant that Twitch …
Read More »A conversation with cArn part 1: the Fnatic store
Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon, first up are his thoughts on the new Fnatic store located in central London. Fnatic is known as one of the largest eSports organisations in the world. …
Read More »Halo World Championship returns in 2017
The Halo World Championship is returning in early 2017, with qualifying events taking place all over the world. Dates for the World Championship itself have yet to be revealed, although it is expected to be sometime in April. However a number of LAN events beforehand have been revealed. First up …
Read More »Dota 2 gets massive 7.00 patch that changes everything
Dota 2 finally got a new patch after more than six months and it changes almost everything we know about Dota. The 7.00 patch is currently live on the test client and goes live in the main client tonight. The full list of patch notes can be seen over on …
Read More »Swiss football team FC St. Gallen sign FIFA player
FC St. Gallen, the oldest football team in Sweden, has signed a FIFA player to enter the world of eSports. Sandro “Neysk11L” Poschinger is the player they have gone all in on, and will now play for the club. He will represent them in tournaments and will most likely be …
Read More »Riot removes LAS casters from All Star cast after racist comment
This past weekend saw the annual League of Legends All Star event take place. Players from each of the major regions headed to Barcelona to fight for regional pride and for their team of Ice or Fire. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing. During segment discussing the performance of Bae …
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