Team Liquid announced the launch of their new community outreach platform, Liquid+, which will change the way fans interact with their favorite team and players. Steve dove into the idea behind the platform, read what he has to say about its inspiration and social impact here:
This article aims to explain why the uproar against this deal was so loud and so widespread. What is Neom? Who’s building it, how, and why does it lay on "blood and bones"?
Esports veteran and desk host Paul "Redeye" Chaloner announced Monday he's stepping down as Managing Director of talent agency Code Red Esports and that he's leaving the esports industry for good, fol
Mykles has more than 15 years of esports experience, including serving as a broadcaster across five different titles. He’s also served as a professional team owner, coach and consultant while starting up multiple esports and media businesses.
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:
Evil Geniuses announced a return back to their roots, revising the crest to "pay homage to the org's history and look ahead to the future." Additionally, Evil Geniuses is also announcing a partnership with LG UltraGear, one of LG's newest gaming monitors. Read more on their brand update here:
DraftBuff is a fantasy esports app that allows players to compete in standard season long fantasy leagues as well as a short-lived, salary style fantasy tournament called Draft Royales. Both forms of competition feature premiere esports leagues from four of the largest team-based esports in the world.
In tough times like this, gaming has proven to be an adequate time killer, dare I say, an escape from the daunting reality of the world. With most of us required to stay at home, Steam, the popular game distribution service has seen a rise in its users.
It is a dark day for one of esports oldest competitive communities.
VALORANT is about carefully sneaking around a small map waiting for a brief but explosive moment of action and danger. Players die within seconds and "abilities" are just extra perks that ultimately enhance vicious and precise gunplay. Winston mains are going to have a very rough time hopping over to VALORANT.
MiBR has dismissed long-time coach Wilton "zews" Prado after months of losses for the team and less than satisfactory event finishes.
ESL today made the difficult decision to reschedule the ESL One Rio Major to November. This decision was backed up by Valve, who have said that the prize pool for the event will be increased to $2 million to compensate.
Flashpoint, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's newest league announced a delay in its scheduled matches, following the transition to an online format.
ESL and Dreamhack have announced that they have sold the Norweigan media rights to the ESL Pro Tour to TV 2 Norway. The value of this TV rights deal was not disclosed by ESL or TV 2 Norway.
The Group Selection show for Flashpoint 1 has concluded, and we now have our three groups for the first iteration of the team owned league. After plenty of banter, the groups shook out as follows.
According to a report from 1pv.fr, FunPlus Phoenix is set to enter CS:GO, and the new team owned league FLASHPOINT, by acquiring the roster of Heroic.
After retiring from CS:GO last week and claiming he wanted to focus his career on upcoming Riot Games FPS, VALORANT, swag changed his name to Brax, and signs with T1. Read the story here:
Complexity managed to clutch out a victory in the EU Minor qualifier after a last-minute replacement gave them a new chance at a berth.
ESL has announced that Mad Lions have been forced to withdraw from the EU Minor Qualifier for ESL One due to their benching of Nicolai "Hunden" Petersen.
FLASHPOINT, the newly founded team-owned CS:GO league, has just announced its response to the ongoing COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) outbreak - it will head entirely to Los Angeles in a studio.
