ESports

Toshiba has partnered with esports team Panda Global, in a deal which will see Panda Global athletes using Toshiba technology both in tournaments and during streams.  “Toshiba understands the unique needs of gamers and we are constantly striving to deliver high performance SATA and NVMe solid state drives to empower …

The Overwatch exodus continues as Team-LDLC has announced it will be dropping its roster after they failed to impress in the Overwatch Contenders qualifiers.  In an update to their website entitled “Overwatch, the end of the story”, LDLC outline that the Overwatch players’ contracts have expired at the end of …

The International, Dota 2’s biggest tournament, is just a month away and the crowdfunded prize pool is now at over $20m dollars.  According to the Dota 2 prize tracker, there’s currently a prize pool of $20,279,254, with just $491,206 to go until it eclipses last year’s prize.  This is almost …

It’s long been said that only two things are a constant in life: death and taxes. Since Dota 2’s pro scene has started to pivot around the gargantuan The International event in Seattle each year, you could add ‘Dota 2 teams disbanding in the wake of The International’ to the …

League of Legends fans in the UK are being hit with a price hike, after Riot has confirmed it’ll raise the price of Riot Points in the country as a result of Brexit. The price hike will kick into effect on 25 July, where people looking to escape the harsh …

Tricked Esport has announced its new Counter-Strike lineup, with the team signing the former Team Singularity roster amidst rumours that sprung to life after the team were spotted Velje last month, the same town as Tricked’s headquarters. Back in May Tricked Esport announced they wouldn’t be renewing the contracts of their …

Fnatic announced on Monday that it was parting ways with long-time Counter-Strike coach and manager Viktor ‘Vuggo’ Jendeby, who was currently serving as the manager of the Counter-Strike Global Offensive team. “My two and a half years in Fnatic have been an amazing time, a journey with a lot of …

EVO organiser Joey ‘Mr. Wizard’ Cuellar has revealed the number of entrants at EVO for several different games, revealing that many games have seen huge drops in the amount of registered partipants. EVO is one of, if not the biggest, fighting game events on the international stage, and so a …

It’s all change in Dota 2, with Valve announcing a complete overhaul to the way the competitive season will work after The International in Seattle next month. Dota 2’s competitive scene at the moment hinges on several Major tournaments. These tournaments are backed by Valve, and in addition there’s an …

Russian Football Premier League team FC Anzhi Makhachkala has closed down its esports division — Cyber Anji — after just four months, amidst allegations that they haven’t paid their their athletes.  At the start of March, FC Anzhi Makhachkala announced it would be opening an esports division and formed a …