Last week, EA and FIFA announced the EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Stay And Play Cup, where professional football athletes would go head-to-head with each other, bringing together 20 of the most famous and historic clubs in Europe as they play FIFA 20 in an esports tournament from 16 to 20 April 2020. The tournament is now over,

The COVID-19 coronavirus has been affecting one esports tournament after the other, to the extent that such news is almost expected rather than surprising now. If you're wondering what got cancelled, postponed, or moved online, we've made a list of major tournaments (or tournaments involving major games) that got affe

Professional footballer Gareth Bale, who currently plays for the La Liga's Real Madrid FC and the Welsh national football team, has launched an esports team of his own called Ellevens Esports, in partnership with 38 Entertainment Group. Welcome to Ellevens, my new team! Follow @ellevensesports 🎮 for all updates

Recently crowned World Champions and reigning UEFA Champions League winners, Liverpool FC make the bulk of FIFA 20's Team of The Year lineup, with five players being included in the first eleven. Goalkeeper Alisson Becker, wingbacks Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson, living specimen Virgil van Dijk and my fa

Konami has announced the return of the eFootball League PES esports series for the 2019/20 season. It's a competition that includes the eFootball.Pro, a 3v3 regular-season league for pro players representing international clubs to compete in eFootball PES 2020. These are the ten teams confirmed the join the eFootball

Surviving in the esports industry is tough, especially if you are operating in a country that doesn't have a sustainable esports ecosystem. When it comes to the Southeast Asian region, it seems that Thailand's best League of Legends (LoL) team is suffering the consequences of that situation. MEGA Esports has been ba

Publisher Garena has announced that they will be hosting the first-ever regional Call Of Duty Mobile esports tournament in Southeast Asia (SEA). Clan Invasion will involve players from three SEA countries; Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Each of the three SEA nations will host its own national tournament, wi

After a two-day League of Legends tournament bout in The Philippines' annual  LoL fiesta Conquerors Manila, Philippines team Liyab emerges victorious. Liyab Esports won first place and the one million PHP cash prize in the event's SEA Invitational, beating out three other regional teams such as the SEA Serpents and

Around a month ago, the Malaysian Football League (MFL) announced that they will be partnering with Gamesbond to organise an esports football tournament in conjunction with the Malaysia Cup (Piala Malaysia) annual football tournament which is the nation's oldest football tournament. The tournament is officially called

Let's be real: Malaysia KFC is still the best KFC among all the branches in Southeast Asia. It's a fact; why do you think out neighbours down south come down to Johor? Apart from A&W? Anyway, turns out that KFC is really into gaming. Not just in the esports side of things, but also in other genre types. Dating sim

In a case of mistaken identity which can be easily forgiven due to ignorance, the Malaysian Overwatch World Cup Team was recently accused of "copying" a logo from an English football club when designing their 'alternate' jersey for the upcoming tournament in November. Former Rogue main tank and current Game Producer f

We're still well over half a month away until August 2019 but there are reports claiming that the PS Plus free games for next month have already been leaked ahead of schedule. Last month, subscribers received Detroit Become Human: Digital Deluxe Edition and Horizon Chase Turbo. According to the screenshots posted by G

Konami's football/soccer franchise is set to return with eFootball PES 2020, as the upcoming entry of the annual sports game series is slated to launch for the PS4, Xbox One and PC on 10 September 2019. That's almost two weeks earlier than FIFA 20's release date (27 September 2019). Here's everything we know about PES

With the Rise of Shadows out a few days ago, we figured it's best to help our fellow card-slingers and esports enthusiasts with a detailed guide on how to Hearthstone like a champ. So far, the meta is already flooded with great deck archetypes, but which ones are the most-sought-after? To help us with this arduous tas

This story is still developing... Liyab Esport's Arena of Valor team will be short of one person. Specifically, they'll be without one coaching staff member; JeeJay San Jose "Peaceboy" Ordiales is officially let go from his duties after he admitted to being directly involved with helping another team during the 2019

Good news, Tekken fans! The Tekken World Tour is now in its new season thanks to new info from Bandai Namco. For a span of a year, Tekken players will earn points from tournaments all around the world to qualify for the finals set in Bangkok, Thailand. The prize winnings are quite large: about US$185,000's worth. The

For Season 2 of the Overwatch League, we are previewing the franchises a bit differently from any other video games/ esports news outlets. Resuming our post last year where we paired the twelve Overwatch League franchises with their English Premier League counterparts, we have an easier (or perhaps tougher) task this y

Another year, another legitimate reason to watch pros attempt to like and struggle to enjoy their time with Street Fighter V. Forgive me for being a cynical old goat, but you start to wonder if this Street Fighter, as a game mind you, will still stand the test of time if the ginormous prize pool, marketing, and tournam

So we stayed up late (or woke up early - whichever of the two that sounds more appealing) today to catch the first of many E3 2018 press conferences, the one by Electronic Arts. Yes. The folks in desperate need of a 180-degree turnaround considering how their reputation nosedived in 2017. How was it? Well, read on. We

When the inaugural Overwatch League season kicked off last year, we predicted that this competition is set to grow and be one of, if not the largest esports tournament in the world. So what better competition to compare them with than the most-watched professional sports league in the world, the English Premier League?