ESports

A sick player for Astralis has meant that Counter-Strike 1.6 legend Danny ‘zonic’ Sørensen, the team’s coach, will step in for the first match of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament IEM Oakland. Sørensen will play the team’s first match against Ninjas in Pyjamas, according to a tweet from the Astralis account, …

McLaren has hired Ben Payne as their head of esports. Payne comes from Microsoft, where he worked in multiple roles, most recently involved with marketing, partnerships and events for Xbox EMEA. This is the first esports director role at a Formula 1 team, and has been announced during the last …

Konami have announced a partnership with esports outfit eFootball.Pro to create an international Pro Evolution Soccer league The new league will be broadcast globally, and it’s aiming to attract players from all around the world. However, aside from this details for the league are thin on the ground. Last year, …

It’s been a week or since a shooter has revealed its own battle royale mode, but to save us from panic, Crytek’s Warface has announced it’s own fight-to-the-death-with-scavenged-weapons ‘em up mode that will enter the Warface with the next update. Warface’s update seems to include all of the staples of …

Gale Force Esports has lifted the trophy on the Rocket League season four World Championship, taking home the majority of the $150,000 prize pool. The team beat Method 4-3 to send them to the losers bracket, before beating them again in the grand final 4-0, a clean sweep that earnt …

Four teams will compete at this weekend’s tournament final of the 2017 Blitz Twister Cup, which fans can watch live online. The competition, taking place on November 11th, centres around Wargaming’s free-to-play World of Tanks: Blitz, which can be downloaded across assorted smartphone formats. Four regions will take part – …

Team Liquid has confirmed the passing of hugely popular Overwatch coach Dennis Hawelka. ‘INTERNETHULK’, as Hawelka was known, was a coach across a number of titles including Overwatch and League of Legends, the latter of which he was coaching for Team Liquid at the time of his death. He reportedly …

Free-to-play car-combat MOBA Heavy Metal Machines is to star in its very first university tournament. It will take place in Brazil’s Florianópolis, the home city of developer Hoplon, on November 11th. The tournament will take the form of a college championship at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí. Hoplon has held …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has joined Fortnite in the 20m sales club. Creator Brendan Greene’s tweet dropped in the fact that the game hit the milestone at the weekend, just to be sure we all know that it wasn’t beaten to the punch by Epic’s Fortnite, which also hit 20m this weekend. …

Teams from South Korea were over the weekend crowned the world champions in three top esports. As previously reported, firstly Samsung Galaxy (SSG) claimed the League of Legends Worlds tournament after defeating fellow South Korean outfit SK Telecom T1 (SKT) 3-0. SSG had to come through a tough bracket to …