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Vehicular MOBA Heavy Metal Machines has launched several new mods and features, chief among this is its first ever Esports European Tournament, which will see €10,000 up for grabs for lucky teams. This tournament has been unveiled by Brazilian developers Hoplon, who we spoke to about the process of designing …

SK Gaming has beaten FaZe Clan in the ECS Season Three finals in London, notching up their second LAN victory in as many weeks during their European summer holiday. SK beat out Astralis in a drawn-out match to get to the finals, while Cloud9 fell to FaZe Clan to give them …

The  UK Gaming Tours (UKGT) Counter-Strike tournament has been cancelled before the end of its first season, after a series of long gaps in communication and complaints from players had led to the UKGT attracting a lot of negative buzz in recent weeks. The UKGTours Twitter account, currently offline, posted …

Team EnVyUs has announced that they have signed three Rocket League stars to create a competitive roster for the title. The three players signed: David ‘Deevo’ Morrow, Nicolai ‘Masetro’ Bang and Remco ‘Remkoe’ Den Boer are Rocket League Championship Series World Champions for Season 3 and used to play for …

After NBC earlier this week announced it’d be working with FACEIT and Psyonix to produce a $100,000 Rocket League tournament, reaction to the news was met with confused enthusiasm. People are happy that NBC are getting involved in esports in a big way, but many commentators and fans were confused …

A new Overwatch patch in the Private Test Realm (PTR) has unveiled changes to Loot Boxes and highlights, in addition to the long awaited ability to customise player crosshairs.  The customisation option runs deep, with players able to customise crosshairs for each individual hero, meaning you can set Soldier76 up …

Just three months since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds launched on Steam’s early access program, it’s sold four million copies, Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has revealed on Twitter. The game released on March 23, and since then it’s only improved in popularity, sitting in the top five games live on Twitch and clinging onto …

Hearthstone’s card packs are being revamped in the next expansion, with the system changing in a way that could cause substantial changes to the game’s economy. Hearthstone is the big earner in the card game space, with Superdata estimating Hearthstone made $394.6m in 2016. Most of this comes from the …

Astralis and Turtle Beach have signed a partnership that’ll see the star Counter-Strike:Global Offensive team use Turtle Beach’s Elite Pro headset as their official gaming headset. In addition, the current world champions will be involved in the future development of a new line of PC gaming headsets as part of …

Blizzard’s first ever Wild Hearthstone tournament has run afoul of visa issues, with players invited from China having trouble securing a visa to travel to the Californian-based finals.  The problems with the Hearthstone Wild Open finals have been picked up by Dot Esports, who have discovered that although Shenhaiyuyi and …