Wednesday morning, CLG tweeted out that former mid laner, Pobelter, would be re-joining the team as starting mid laner after a 1-7 start to the season. Pobelter replaces Crown, and will hope to help the team turn around their season. Read more here:
Riot Games released a developer update for Teamfight Tactics on Wednesday, February 19 to introduce Teamfight Tactics: Galaxies. TFT: Galaxies will take the place of Teamfight Tactics: Rise of the Elements next month. TFT Principle Game Designer Stephen 'Mortdog' Mortimer and Communications Strategist Blake 'Beernana' Edwards began the update by talking about the Elemental Hex system that was introduced as part of the seasonal update near the end of 2019.
Blizzard Entertainment has moved the next Hearthstone Masters Tour from Indonesia to Los Angeles due to the Coronavirus. On Tuesday afternoon the Hearthstone Esports team shared a message with the community explaining the decision.
Riot Games shared an interesting tidbit of information about the League of Legends European Championship today. Four weeks into the competition, they shared the leaderboards for teams and players when
Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, the legendary Mid Laner of T1 has made a big announcement today. The player has re-signed his contract, gaining partial ownership of T1 Entertainment and Sports.
The Home Series will take place from February 22-23 at the Gateway Center Arena, and will appropriately feature guest appearances from hometown rappers Lil Yachty and Offset, both celebrity partners of global esports organization FaZe Clan, as well as Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd.
E3 returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 9-11, with an industry day on June 9, followed by two days open to all badge holders.
The Sentinels are excited to announce their expansion into the Halo competitive scene, as well as the announcement of signing world champion roster, TOX Gaming...The team will be making their debut as Sentinels at Dreamhack’s Halo Series in Anaheim, starting February 21st.
As Riot Games promised, this week we'll see a far more impactful patch to Legends of Runeterra. After the previous one, which went live two weeks ago, addressed mostly bugs and other client-side issues, this one is aimed at keeping the meta balanced and fresh. In other words: card nerfs and buffs.
The first all-female organization in the world to join a top-level League of Legends esports league has been left out of the competition for the year due to its' poor performance. Organized by Riot Games Russia, the League of Legends Continental League starts on February 22nd, with a team ready to substitute Vaevictis.
Forget the New York Excelsior, the New York Subliners or the Madison Square Garden-owned team, CLG. If it's up to G2 Esports' founder Carlos "Ocelote" Rodríguez Santiago, it's his team that will sound synonymous with New York City. In a recent piece published by ESPN, the Spaniard shared more about his plans to conquer The Big Apple.
Set 2 is closing in on its end in Teamfight Tactics. As the developers announced in January, Set 3 will go live somewhere around mid-March. New champions, new traits and origins and probably new items will flood the auto battler. However, until then, the development team is mostly focused on tweaking Set 2 minimally. Keep things in check, as they say, and hope the meta stays fresh. In patch 10.4, which goes live later this week, Riot Games is making very few adjustments.
The bot laners of each region took their spots as the leaders of KDA in their respective regions. In the LCK, LPL, LCS, and the LEC, there’s an interesting trend in data (gathered up to the 17th), which is similar across all four regions. Bot laners of each region were in 1st place in KDA, and currently, there are two players that have a perfect KDA. In the LCK, All iN, the mid laner for Afreeca Freecs is a player that currently holds a perfect KDA. Previously known as SSUN, he only played two games in the league, so this data may not hold too much meaning. Even still, All iN played Pantheon in both of his games and with a total score of 5/0/13, he holds a perfect KDA.
After cancelling the homestands set for Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou in late January, Blizzard has announced the games will now be played in Seoul, both in studio and as potential extra games for the Seoul Dynasty homestand in Week 5. read more here:
G-Rex is making a sudden exit of the Pacific Championship Series due to a restructuring of its parent company.
Red Reserve (RR), one of the most famous eSports brands in the world, has re-launched under a completely new company & management, with a focus initially on mobile gaming and specifically PUBGM, RR aims to expand into all areas of eSports.
The DreamHack Expo’s confirmed 122 exhibitor booths will feature an incredibly diverse group of indie video game developers...
World of Warcraft Esports is moving to YouTube
The return of Konstantinos-Napoleon "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou to the League of Legends stage was celebrated at the start of the year. However, after just three weeks into the League of Legends European Cha
Epic Games has a new player in their team. Adam Sussman, former Chief Digital Officer at Nike will be taking on the role of president. The position had been open since Paul Meegan resigned in June 2019.
