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The world’s best known fighting game video game championships takes place in Las Vegas this weekend. The Evolution Championship Series 2015 will feature some of the biggest names in eSports fighting and a host of title including Ultra Street Fighter IV, Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Tekken …
Read More »Vulcun cancels its one month old Hearthstone league
eSports tournament Vulcun Deckmasters has been cancelled, despite only launching last month. Gosugamers reports that Vulcun launched the competition with the promise of a $100k prize pool over two seasons. However, time will be called on the whole thing once it draws to a conclusion tomorrow (Friday July 17th) after …
Read More »Smash Bros. EVO broadcaster refuses to show player’s YouPorn sponsor tag
Twitch broadcasters VideoGameBootCamp have refused to allow a Smash Bros. player to use the in-game tag of their sponsors, YouPorn. Melee player Jason "Bizz" Yoon, who was signed by the "Team YP" eSports branch of the popular adult video streaming site last month, declared the situation last night over Twitter. …
Read More »Hi-Rez announces Smite Xbox One invitational alongside SWC 2016
The Smite World Championships 2016 will comprise of both a PC and Xbox One tournament when it returns to Atlanta’s Cobb Performing Arts Centre on January 7-10 . Hi-Rez Studios revealed the championships, now renamedSmite World Championship Presented By Xbox One, will test players of the original PC title and …
Read More »‘Incidences of homophobia, sexism and racism in League of Legends have fallen to 2%’
Riot claims to be winning the battle against toxic player behaviour. The studio’s lead game designer of social systems Jeffrey ‘Lyte’ Lin has in a post on Re/Code argued the effectiveness of League of Legends’ Tribunal system. As a result of these governance systems changing online cultural norms, incidences of …
Read More »Nintendo executive set to compete in Super Smash Bros tournament at Evo 2015
It seems that Nintendo’s hesitance over promoting Super Smash Bros as a competitive fighting series is coming to an end. The firm has long struggled with its fans’ desire to play entries in the ensemble brawler franchise at pro-gaming tournaments, attempting to halt the streaming of Super Smash Bros Melee …
Read More »ESL One Frankfurt attracts over 1m viewers
Dota 2 tournament ESL One Frankfurt 2015 attracted over 1m online viewers, with numbers sharply up year-on-year. Peak concurrent viewing numbers hit 1,061,441, up 79.8 per cent from last year. Over 15,000 attended the event in person. We are immensely proud of what we were able to create in Frankfurt …
Read More »Trump wins his first Hearthstone tournament
It may be a surprise to hear that one of the most recognisable names in Hearthstone has never actually won a tournament. Until now. Jeffrey ‘Trump’ Shih this weekend won the HTC Recharged tournament, beating the likes of Cloud9’s Jan ‘Ekop’ Palys and CompLexity’s David ‘Dog’ Caero in the process. …
Read More »Hi-Rez capping Smite World Championship prize pool at $1m
The total prize pool for Hi-Rez Studios’ Smite World Championships has been capped at $1m, according to President Stewart Chisam. The $1m limitation is less than half of the total from this year’s SWC – which awarded $2.6m in prize money to eight top teams in January – and also …
Read More »DreamHack brings $40,000 eSports Open to London in September
DreamHack, the originally Swedish LAN party that has evolved into a premiere stop on the eSports calendar, is coming to London’s Copper Box in September. The weekend of the 19-20 September marks the first time DreamHack has set foot in the UK, making the country the seventh outside of their …
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