Riot Games announced the Ignition Series today, the publisher’s first step to build a thriving esport around its newly released competitive 5v5 character-based tactical shooter - VALORANT.
The following is a press release shared with Inven Global. Irvine, California – May 27, 2020 – Joycity announces the release of their renewed 2020 SummerSeason Battle Pass and Ranked Mode
EA announces Star Wars: Squadrons, an upcoming fighter pilot game featuring some of the most iconic ships in the saga, like the X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Watch the teaser trailer of the new title and read info on the upcoming game here:
On Monday, June 15, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled details regarding an upcoming event and content coming to Heroes of the Storm for the community to get their hands on as soon as possible. As the hero brawler recently celebrated its fifth birthday, the development team decided to thank the playerbase by returning a fan-favorite event and turn one of the most popular characters in the Blizzard universe into a playable Heroes of the Storm character.
A brilliant mind with a sunny disposition, Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou joined Overwatch to help solve the world's growing climate problems. Armed with a host of weather-altering technologies, Mei now fights to protect her friends and secure a future for a troubled world. To learn of her announcement, the return of the Nexomania II event (with new skins) and how Mother Nature is playing a part in the next Nexus Anomaly click here.
In a report by the Anti-Cheat Police Department on Twitter, former CS:GO player, ardiis, was accused of purchasing cheat software for VALORANT, based on information provided to them by a private cheat developer. Additionally, he has been accused of attempting to match fix as well. He was reportedly set to sign with G2 Esports for their upcoming VALORANT team. Here is the report so far:
'The Device' began at 11:00am PT on Monday, June 15, but some players have had trouble with the Epic Games launcher successfully launching . This has not only happened to Fortnite players looking to participate in the event, but also to gamers attempting to play any titles via the Epic Games launcher.
On the 15th (KST), SeolHaeOne Prince's mother company Absolute Power Esports announced that they signed top laner Jeon “ikksu” Ik-soo to a three-year contract. As the team renewed the
The following is a press release shared with Inven Global. [June 12, 2020] Epic Seven, a turn-based mobile RPG developed by Super Creative and published by Smilegate Megaport, announced the release of
Lee “GBM” Chang-seok, Lee “KaKAO” Byung-kwon, and No “SnowFlower” Hoi-jong have joined Papara SuperMassive. TCL's Papara SuperMassive announced that they've signed
Motorola signs their first ever esports partnership with Evil Geniuses after their incredibly successful debut back in the LCS this Spring, finishing 2nd in the regular season and 3rd in playoffs. Read more on the partnership here:
Just ahead of the 2020 Summer Split, Riot Games has announced a multi-year partnership with Verizon and the LCS. Verizon will be the official 5G provider for the league, and will sponsor various parts of the broadcast. Read more on the partnership here:
"Esports & Black Lives Matter: A Conversation" will go live on the Inven Global Twitter via Periscope, and will discuss the intersection between esports and modern day civil rights movement #BlackLivesMatter.
At this point in the six-year history of Blizzard Entertainment's collectible card game, Hearthstone, it's almost routine that long-time professional player and content creator David "Dog" Caero will, at one point or another, break the speed at which he plays. Back in 2018, Dog was known for mastering a one-turn-kill combo that required as much APM (action per minute) as it did brainpower to pull off. For a casual player tuning in to watch his stream on Twitch, it was mesmerizing and inconceivable to see so many moving pieces on a 2D board in a game that, by definition, aims to limit the number of actions a player can make in a single turn by having a mana cap.
On June 12th (KST), the media day for the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea Summer Split was held. T1's head coach Kim Jeong-soo spoke about the non-ADC champions that caused an issue during the
Riot Games has fired Ron Johnson and provided the following statement to Inven Global:
On the 11th, Battlestate Games enabled Twitch drops for Escape from Tarkov, to have the game peak at 270,000 viewers, according to Inven Global's datalab. The Twitch drops will be available from the
SK Telecom CS T1 will collaborate with Logitech G to open a League of Legends Academy competition, “2020 Logitech G Rookie Invitational” on the 14th (KST). This competition will be broadcasted
Earlier this year, TSM released plans for a new "Performance Center," a place where TSM pros would not only practice, but also eat, lounge, exercise, stream, create content, etc. They'll be playing their LCS games from the closed facility this Summer, with permission from Riot Games. Read more here:
Dignitas signed a few new players this off-season, opening up a potential 10-man roster. They've decided on V1per and Akaadian for the top side, keeping the rest of the Spring Split roster the same as well. But there may be changes in the future. Read here for more info on their 10-man squad:
