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Axle Motorsport has announced the eRacing Grand Prix SEA -Â Global Edition, which will see the "best simulator race car drivers from around the region take on the best drivers from the Asia Pacific region". The Grand Prix will have the GT3 and GT4 classes. GT3 will feature professional drivers like Edoardo Mortara and Arjun Maini, while GT4 is t...
Games publisher 2K, the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) have announced the NBA 2K Players Tournament, an esports tournament where 16 current NBA professional athletes will go head-to-head with each other in NBA 2K20 on the Xbox One. These include top NBA seeds Kevin Durant of the Brookly...
The Asian Electronic Sports Federation (AESF) has announced that it will officially be collaborating and working together with the International Esports Federation (IESF), one of the biggest esports federations in the world. Earlier today on 31 March 2020, IESF President Colin Webster and AESF President Kenneth Fok both signed a Memorandum of Unde...
Bleeding Edge is out now for everyone who owns either an Xbox One or a PC. And if you're in Asia, you probably own the latter. This latest title from Ninja Theory is a 4v4 online multiplayer action game in the veins of your competitive shooters and MOBAs, especially the latter, but with an action game twist. Remember PlatinumGames' Anarchy Reigns?...
Formula 1 has launched a new F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix series in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with several current F1 drivers featured. "The virtual races will run in place of every postponed Grand Prix, starting this weekend with the Virtual Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday March 22," says the announcement. "Every subsequent race weekend w...
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 affected by this pandemic. Various...
A week ago, the Overwatch League said that they would be cancelling some events but continue with their March matches. That's no longer the case. In a brief statement, the Overwatch League announced that those matches would be postponed. "For the overall safety and well-being of our players, teams and staffs, and in alignment with Californiaâ€...
Want to be the first to get your hands-on with Arc System Works' latest? Then jump on to the game's closed beta right now. The actual beta will take place from 16th to 19th April, which will lead to its eventual release later this year. The beta will give you access to 7 characters: Sol Badguy Ky Kiske May Axl Chip Zanuff Potemkin Faus...
Only last week, Blizzard cancelled homestand events for March and April 2020, but the company is now releasing a revised schedule for both months of online matches, all of which will be streamed live and on-demand on their official YouTube channel. According to Blizzard, the schedule was constructed to eliminate the need for travel while maintainin...
The two most prolific Japanese pro fighting game players recently duked it out in Street Fighter V to sort out a two-year long rivalry in first-to-10 battledom. The duo in question? Daigo Umehara and Tokido. These two fighting game legends are Japan's "god of fighting games": both Daigo Umehara and Tokido has been in the Street Fighter scene for a...
9 years or so after its release, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has cracked a million numbers for the first time in the concurrent player space. It's the PC shooter that just wouldn't die. https://twitter.com/CSGO/status/1238847976136536064 In fact, the past few years has been great for the multiplayer esports shooter. Earlier this year, CS:G...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic warning worldwide, EA recently announced that it has suspended all their live esports events. These include the first-ever Apex Legends Global Series, EA Sp9orts FIFA 20 Global Series, FIFA Online 4 Live Events, and Madden NFL 20 Championship Series. No rescheduling dates have been announced at this point in time. Here...
The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to affect video game events, with a few League of Legends and Dota 2 tournaments now taking hits. As PC Gamer reported, tTLegends European Championship (LEC) Spring Splits will be broadcast from studios and will not have any audience or press (via PC Gamer). Meanwhile, the ESL One Dota 2 Major has been p...
Most organisers and companies have opted to cancel their upcoming events in 2020 due to the threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, including major ones like E3 2020. However, others have chosen to hold their events in empty/vacant locations or go online instead. The ESL has announced that the upcoming ESL Pro League Season 11 CS:GO tournamen...
Can't wait for Riot's upcoming free-to-play shooter Valorant and got a cool username in mind already? Well, just reserve your user ID before the game releases. Riot's games allow you to reserve your ID in advance. You'll first have to create a Riot account (this username is separate from your game ID) on the League of Legends website. Then, hea...
The Coronavirus events-claiming & postponement continues. Bandai Namco announced online that the Tokyo Tekken Masters event of the Tekken World Tour is being delayed. The tournament will be delayed to a "later date in 2020". https://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1234584420893388800 Before all this, the tournament was supposed to be held du...
The grand finals of the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2020 Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament took place last weekend, setting a new viewership record for a non-major CS:GO event in the process. Who or what can attribute this success to? The Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak. According to statistics provided by Esports Charts, the to...
It looks like esports is about to get even bigger. According to a report released by Newzoo, global esports revenues will, for the first time, exceed $1 Billion sans platform revenue. "Global esports revenues will grow to $1.1 billion in 2020, a year-on-year growth of +15.7%, up from $950.6 million in 2019," reads the report. It also states that ...
Yoodo Malaysia is stepping up their esports involvement by recruiting a roster of new esports athletes. First up is a refresh to Malaysia’s most popular PUBG Mobile esports team; Yoodo Gank, with two new additions, including popular streamer Fredo (Ahmad Fuad Razali) and the 2019 PUBG Mobile National Championship winner Jumper (Muhamad Izzr...
A new organization centred on Europe's esports scene has leapt out of Brussels, Belgium. Launched just a few days ago on February 21, Esports Europe - The European Esports Federation (EEF) purportedly represents "100 million gamers". Here's what we've gathered about them so far. Their Goals and Values In addition to their claim of representing ove...
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