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DreamHack has announced that it has teamed up with BlueHole, the developers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, to run competitive matches at DreamHack Summer. Anyone who takes their PC along to the massive LAN party will be able to play the game for free during the weekend. Everyday the BlueHole team will …

German organisation mousesports has announced that it has brought in the German arm of telephone company Vodafone as its head sponsor. The deal kicks off today, and already sees the organisations CS:GO team wearing new jerseys with the Vodafone logo slapped across the middle. As well as the jersey sponsorship …

In what is perhaps the strangest Twitch Plays yet, someone has set up a bot that lets Twitch chat invest $50,000 on the New York stock exchange. Stock Stream has been set up with $50,000, with donations also adding to that total. This $50,000 is then invested in the stock …

Riot Games have announced that they are overhauling the runes and masteries system within League of Legends and will make them all free. Despite doing very similar things, giving small buffs to champions depending on which are selected, the two systems have been in League for years. If players want …

Riot Games has announced that it will be hosting the finals of the North American League of Legends Championship Series in Boston, Massachusetts. The two day event will feature the third place play off match as well as the grand final of the Summer Split, a nine week competition that …

Valve has announced that Dota 2’s upcoming co-op campaign SlitBreaker has been delayed. After initially stating that the campaign would be out “this month” the team have no revealed that they have pushed it back a week. “We are currently finishing up the Siltbreaker campaign and will unfortunately need to …

At Insomnia last week, we sent Mike Stubbs to chat to GAME’s Belong and esports platform manager Jay Smith about the company’s efforts to get new players engaged with esports using grassroots tournaments and the retailer’s chain of venues. How did GAME get involved with esports, and what’s next? Mike …

The main Misfits LCS team may be playing in the postseason of the LCS right now, but their sister team has already booked a place in the same competition for the Summer Split. Misfits Academy managed to beat Fnatic Academy to secure a spot in the EU LCS for the …

Arguably the biggest name in professional Overwatch has quit his team in order to focus on streaming.  Brandon "Seagull" Larned rose to fame when his Twitch stream exploded during the early days of Overwatch. He became one of the best players in the west and was signed to the NRG …

So this is a weird one. Two NASCAR drivers have some beef, and want to settle it in Halo.  Erik Jones of Joe Gibbs Racing and Clint Bowyer of Stewart-Haas Racing have teamed up with Evil Geniuses and their new sponsor Hisense to hold a Halo show match at the …