Earlier today the eSports Integrity Coalition was announced, which aims to end match fixing, doping and cheating in general in the eSports world. ESIC is a non profit association that has been formed to try and prevent cheating in eSports, and more specifically any kind of cheating or fraud that …
Read More »ESL One Cologne sells out the LANXESS arena
ESL One Cologne, the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major, has sold out the LANXESS arena. Just under a week before the action is due to kick off in the largest sports stadium in Cologne the last ticket was sold, meaning over 14,000 spectators will be watching the best CS:GO players …
Read More »ESPN to broadcast EVO’s record breaking Street Fighter V tournament
The top eight of the Street Fighter V tournament at EVO will be broadcast live on ESPN2. Earlier today it was revealed that over 5,000 people have signed up the for SFV competition at EVO, but once that has been whittled down to just eight the action will be shown …
Read More »EVO’s Street Fighter V tournament registration closes with over 5,000 competitors
Registration for EVO, the largest fighting game event of the year, just closed with 5,065 people signing up for the Street Fighter V tournament. Co-founder of EVO, Joey Cuellar, tweeted out the official numbers for the event earlier today, showing that Street Fighter V has more competitors than both Super …
Read More »Twitch adds premium ‘cheering’ emotes as a way of supporting streamers
Cheering is the latest way to financially support your favourite Twitch streamers, by adding premium emotes to your chat messages. Bits emotes can be purchased in bundles of 100, 500,1500, 5000, 10000 and 25000, with 100 costing $1.40. The bigger bundle you purchase the bigger discount you get, so 25,000 …
Read More »Key reseller G2A agrees to pay devs auction royalties and introduce anti-fraud measures
Move follows heated criticism from studios including TinyBuild and RageSquid over sale of allegedly illegally-gained codes
Read More »FC Schalke 04 signs multiple FIFA players
After signing a League of Legends team last month German football club FC Schalke 04 has signed three FIFA players. The team is made up of Joshua Krone” Begehr, a former world champion, Mario Viska, who has seen success over in Germany and Cihan Yasarlar, who has been competing at …
Read More »RageSquid backs key reseller criticism: ‘We’d rather players pirated our game’
'Just torrent it instead of putting money in the wrong hands,' says founder Lex Decrauw
Read More »No Diggity Dota 2 team signed by Escape Gaming days before TI6 qualifiers
Escape Gaming has signed the No Diggity Dota 2 team, just days after the squad was invited to the European qualifier for The International 6. No Diggity has been playing together for some months now, placing fourth at DreamLeague and qualifying for events such as EPICENTER. The team’s strong performances …
Read More »PC game Hadean Lands comes with £27 DLC… for a certificate
Consumers purchasing PC title Hadean Landshave the option of shelling out 27 for a digital certificate. As reported by Kotaku, this digital piece of paper – available as either a PDF or JPG and viewable below – asks consumers to promise to finish the notoriously tough text adventure game without …
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