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The Hollywood Hammers esports organisation has revealed that it’s releasing its Overwatch team, joining the long list of esports organisations stepping away from Blizzard’s first person shooter. However, this seems to be performance based issues instead of the usual concerns cited with Overwatch’s competitive scene. In this case, the Hollywood …

Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has taken to the update patch notes for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ 4th monthly update to defend the team’s inclusion of a crate and key system. “While our intention was and still is to add the full (crate and key) feature to the game when we move into actual …

Counter Logic Gaming has been sold to the Madison Square Garden Company, who have acquired a controlling stake in the company. Based in North America, CLG was founded in 2010 and has recently been in-form, notching up a series of impressive placements in CS:GO. They also have teams in League of …

Mike ‘Glaurung’ Fisk is someone to keep an eye on. The 20 year old is well regarded as one of NA’s best shotcallers, and in his role as a flex player for NA team Roll20, is playing for one of the region’s best teams, too. We spoke to Fisk directly after …

Natus Vincere G2A, better known to fans as Na’Vi, have expanded into Quake Champions, picking up Russian Quake pro Anton ‘Cooller’ Singov. Singov is a renowned Quake champion, with multiple international wins and over $300,000 in prize money accumulated over his career. He’s also a well known Overwatch personality, where …

League of Legends is the latest game to get a reality TV show, with a new Australian reality series, The Next Gamer, that is looking to find a single League of Legends player who could be a pro. It’s standard reality TV fare, with 40 gamers getting pared down to …

Dota 2 have made some changes to the game ahead of The International 2017, which is occurring this week, making the game more welcoming to new players ahead of the influx of rookies that try the game for the first time during Valve’s mega-tournament. The update, which launched last Thursday, …

Cloud9, the North American esports outfit, has signed a Rocket League team previously known as The Muffin Men. The three man team, who have just snatched a Rocket League victory at Dreamhack Atlanta 2017 last week, are comprised of Americans Kyle ‘Torment’ Storer and Jesus ‘Gimmick’ Parra, in addition to …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has the highest peak player count out of every game on Steam that isn’t published by Valve. PUBG has slipped into third place on the most played of all time list, leapfrogging Fallout 4’s peak player count of 481,291 just two weeks after it vaulted into fourth …

Doomfist, leader of antagonistic band of bad dudes Talon, is now in Overwatch proper, playable in the main game for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The Count of Monte Fisto has been in Overwatch’s public test region (PTR) since July 6, where it has transpired that just about …