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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...
A seven-year-old girl from Singapore has earned herself the title of 2020 Oceania Pokémon VG Junior Champion via Pokémon Sword/Shield for the Switch. https://twitter.com/playpokemon/status/1231416426944024576 As IGN reported, Simone Lim earned her title after beating last year's Pokémon Oceania Junior Championship winner Justin Miran...
I'm no esports aficionado, but Ubisoft's plans for Rainbow Six Siege's esports program sound rather interesting. The company revealed recently that after the Pro League Season XI Finals in Sao Paulo this May 16 and 17, it will adopt a regional structure for its multiplayer shooter's esports scene beginning mid-June. Under the new structure, each r...
Why break walls with hammers or explosives when you can just use your good old fists? Rainbow Six Siege's upcoming Operation Void Edge will kick off Year 5 of the multiplayer shooter, and it's bringing with it two new Operators. The first is Oryx, a Jordanian defender so strong that he can smash Siege's destructible walls and knock down enemies ...
Last month, it shook the esports scene when the Overwatch League cancelled all its matches which were scheduled to take place in China for the next two months. Now Blizzard has announced that they are planning to reschedule the matches, which will now take place in Seoul, South Korea. According to Blizzard, the purpose of this action is "to protec...
Earlier today, Domino's Pizza Malaysia held a special prize-giving ceremony to honour the national esports athletes who participated at the 2019 SEA Games, which took place from November to December 2019. Malaysia grabbed our first-ever esports Gold medal when Dr. Yew Weng Kean won first place in Hearthstone. Domino's will grant an entire decade's...
The third season of the Overwatch League kicked off last weekend with Dallas Fuel and New York Excel respectively playing hosts in their home arenas. In New York, the Excelsior welcomed Toronto Defiant, Paris Eternal, London Spitfire and Boston Uprising while in Dallas, the Fuel saw all three California-based teams - LA Valiant, LA Gladiators and r...
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the car-slash-football game Rocket League. What if I told you that there's an upcoming game that replaces the futuristic cars with wizards riding on broomsticks ala that one Hogwarts University sport? Enter Broomstick League, which is basically the multiplayer online PC Quidditch game we needed since, well, t...
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 #TimeToPlay pic.twitter.com/R...
Thanks to the recent Chinese Coronavirus crisis, Blizzard has recently cancelled all Overwatch League matches scheduled to take place in China for the next two months. Initially, there were supposed to be OWL matches scheduled in Shanghai, Foshan, and Hangzhou between February and March. Here's a short statement from the company that was publishe...
Esports is becoming mainstream. It hasn't reached the point where it's fully accepted yet by society at large but there's no denying that more people are aware of its existence now compared to two or three years ago. One strong evidence that we're still far away from total acceptance of esports is the recent issue regarding Fortnite being banned f...
eGG Network has announced that they will be the official broadcast partner of the Piala Presiden Esports 2020, the Grand Finals of which event will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia on 1 and 2 February 2020. The tournament will feature top teams and players of Garena Free Fire and eFootball PES 2020 from Southeasian countries, including ...
We're still in January and 2020 is already shaping up to be one hell of a depressing year. Just yesterday we lost Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and a few other people in a helicopter crash and as we speak, a new strain of coronavirus dubbed the 2019-nCoV is infecting people in almost every major country around the world. [caption id="attachment_52346...
2019 was a mixed bag when it comes to video games and pop culture, at least for me. The year went by with a mixed bag of ups and downs - surprise hits and big disappointments. So without further ado, here are my top happenings of 2019 - the good and the bad, in no particular order. #1. Ace Combat 's glorious return What a joyous way to start the...
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