ESports

SK Gaming have continued their run of dominant performances with their third big offline win this month, sweeping Cloud9 3-0 to win their second ESL One Cologne tournament in a row.  SK have been competing in Europe for the past month, winning first the Dreamhack Open in Jönköping, Sweden and …

Paris based data outfit PandaScore has just announced a successful $2.8m seed funding round, led by Alven Capital. The news was spotted by Esports Insider, and the funding is intending to help PandaScore expand their efforts in esports, and PandaScore are looking to leverage the current need for reliable data …

After yesterday’s leak revealed Hearthstone’s expansion could be a little chilly, Blizzard have revealed the full details on the next expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne. The expansion, due to release in August, will take players to Northrend, where a free single player adventure will let you face off against …

Hoplon and ESL Play announced last week that they would be hosting a €10,000 European tournament for Hoplon’s vehicular MOBA Heavy Metal Machines. Registration for its Esports European Championship opened on 1st July 2017 via ESL Play. It’s a bold move in Europe for Hoplon, who are well known as …

On Wednesday, Ubisoft announced the For Honor Hero Series, an international tournament program, organised with esports outfit ESL, which will kick off on July 8. It’s open to all in Europe and the United States, and will see weekly online 1v1 Duel tournaments across all three of For Honor’s platforms. …

Rocket League, the vehicular game of kickball that took the world by storm when it launched on PlayStation Plus to little fanfare in July 2015 turns two this month. In two years, it has established itself as one of the breakout esports successes of this generation, a poster car both for …

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 …