Junior United States Senator (R-MO) Josh Hawley has introduced a bill to ban loot boxes and other pay-to-win practices in games. The "Protecting Children from Abusive Games Act" would ban pay-to-win initiatives in 'games played by minors'. The aforementioned label, Hawley states, includes games designed for children, but also games Hawley says, 'whose developers knowingly allow minor players to engage in microtransactions.'
On the 8th of May (KST), Hanwha Life Esports announced disciplinary action on Moojin. Recently, Hanwha Life Esports' jungler Kim “Moojin” Moo-jin's conversation with a fan on an online
SANDBOX Gaming extended the contracts of all their starting roster and coaching staff until 2020. On the 8th (KST), SANDBOX Gaming announced that they've extended the contracts of all their players
Yesterday, over 150 employees of American developer Riot Games staged a walkout in the employee parking lot at the company's office in Santa Monica, CA over forced arbitration. The walkout is part an ongoing saga that started with a report by Kotaku in August 2018.
For almost five years, PlayStation 4 owners have had to sit back and watch Electronic Arts (EA) offer their subscription-based gaming service, EA Access, to Xbox One owners. That changes in July. EA announced on Tuesday morning that their service will extend to PS4 owners this summer. Currently, EA Access costs $4.99 per month or $29.99 annually for the Xbox and that same offer will be on the table for PS4 players. EA's vault of games, which includes more than 50+ titles for the Xbox One, includes popular new and old titles such as: NBA Live 19, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Titanfall 2, Anthem, Battlefield V and many, many more.
Hearthstone esports has only just recovered from the World Championships, but the next adventure awaits already. Grandmasters, the highest possible level of competitive Hearthstone, is starts on May 1
On the 7th of May, the developers of 'League of Legends', Riot Games revealed various statistics regarding the viewership of their 2019 LoL Champions Korea(LCK).
Shortly after its elimination from the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational Play-In, TCL Champion 1907 Fenerbahçe has parted ways with Top Laner Kim "Ruin" Hyeong-min and Jungler Thomas "Kirei" Yuen. Ruin will be joining North American LCS franchise Counter Logic Gaming, while Kirei is headed to LEC franchise Misfits Gaming.
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In just four days, the Warcraft 3 offline tournament the 'Iron Couch' — here is what you should know before witnessing traditional Warcraft in its most competitive modern iteration.
On the 5th of May, the 2019 Mid Season Invitational (MSI) Play-In Stage Day 3 was held in Vietnam. With 5W - 1L Vega Squadron (VEG) finished 1st place in Group B and advanced to the Knockout Stage.
Epic Games was back at it again Saturday afternoon with Fortnite's most recent in-game event taking place that destroyed numerous iconic locations across the map and brought back a gun from the vault. Thirty minutes before the event was set to kick off at 3 p.m. EST, players could only play in a select game mode titled "The Unvaulting" and when the countdown timer in Loot Lake hit zero, the madness began.
Rick Fox told TMZ that he would be willing to remain in his current position with his esports organization Echo Fox if a certain investor would leave the company. The investor in question had previously made racist remarks to describe Fox and former CEO Echo Fox CEO Jace Hall, which resulted in Fox informing the organization of his intention to leave.
Supercell, the creators of Clash Royale, decided to give their players a math lesson to figure out when the next season of the Clash Royale League would begin. In a video released on their esports' Youtube and social media pages Friday afternoon, players were asked to solve a math equation to #CrackTheCRLCode. While the video did not explicitly say that the answer would spell out when the pro league would begin, fans were able to put together the pieces of the puzzle relatively quickly.
Regional events will be held in Australia, South Korea, Spain and Brazil World Finals will be held in the Dubai, United Arab Emirates, later this year The GIRLGAMER Awards will recognize inspiring wom
Early Friday morning, the Clash Royale team released details of the upcoming May balance update that is scheduled to go live on Monday. In the brief balance update video posted on their official Youtube channel and in-game client, six cards are seeing tweaks in the patch. Shortly after the videos went live, members of the development team took to the game's official subReddit to provide some context on the changes taking place.
Activision has annoucned the first five locations for the new Call of Duty esports league: Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; New York, NY; Paris, France; and Toronto, Canada. All five cities are currently home to franchises in Blizzard's Overwatch League.
Immortals plans to join the LCS by raising $30MM in Series B funding. According to an ESPN report, Immortals is told to have raised a total of $30 million USD in a Series B funding. Also, they have
In a report courtesy of Rod "Slasher" Breslau, sources told ESPN that the 2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals would be held in Philadelphia, PA.
In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Fortnite revealed the contents of their v.8.51 patch which went live before most were awake in North America. Upon waking up and checking Twitter and the Fortnite Battle Royale subReddit, players were met with a combination of excitement and frustration with the newest addition to the game: Smoke Bombs.
