Riot Games recently revealed a new League of Legends champion, Lillia, but it looks like she won't be the new champ on the block for very long. Yone has been confirmed as the 150th champion heading to Summoner's Rift, and on the morning of Tuesday, July 14, Yasuo's fallen brother's splash art was leaked for players to see him in all his glory.
Despite the unprecedented hurdles of COVID-19, Harrisburg University's Esports team, the HU Storm, displayed true commitment, passion, and resiliency by advancing to the Tespa Collegiate Overwatch National Championship set for 3 p.m. Saturday, July 18. Read more on their success here:
The Entertain Software Association (ESA) released a detailed report entitled "2020 essential facts about the Video Game Industry this week, confirming something many gamers already know. Video games are booming.
Wednesday morning, July 15, TSM announced that they were promoting Treatz to their League Championship Series squad, moving Biofrost to Academy. TSM is coming off their first 0-2 weekend of the Split and looks to bounce back with a fresh face. Read more here:
Riot Games has released a short animation based on the 150th champion, Yone. “The Path, An Ionian Myth” explores the story of Yasuo’s brother, and how he became a champion.
Despite that, from all 14 cards shown so far, the most interesting one was neither a dual-class card, nor one with the new keyword. Instead, it was Transfer Student — an epic-rarity 2/2 minion for 2 mana, which has different effects based on the game board you're playing on.
Last weekend, Overwatch revealed a new legendary skin and also mentioned that an in-game event would be accompanying the skin's release alongside other potential rewards. Through July 27, players can participate in Sigma's Maestro Challenge for a chance to win up to nine rewards, including the legendary Maestro Sigma skin. Players across PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch will be eligible to participate in the contest.
After crunching the numbers from 48 line-ups and 144 decks total, the Ezreal/Karma Control came out on top with a good lead. Second is the new Darius/Harrowing Aggro, which rose to prominence with Patch 1.4, followed by the revised Lucian/MF Bannerman Scouts.
Although students from around the world recently started their summer break, Hearthstone is headed back to school. On Tuesday morning, Blizzard Entertainment revealed their upcoming expansion for the long-time collectible card game, Scholomance Academy. The fifteenth expansion, set to launch in early August, introduces 135 new cards, including 40 Dual-Class ones that (as the name implies) can be used by two of the ten different classes to create unique playstyles, strategies, and mechanics shared by both.
According to a recent report by ESPN's Jacob Wolf, Origen have signed Jactroll as their new support, replacing Destiny who has played for the team since the start of 2020. Read more on the trade here:
Kim Min-ah, the hostess for the LCK analyst desk, has temporarily stepped down from the LCK.. On the 1st (KST), Kim has been under fire for saying sexual remarks against a minor on the official Korean
Plup reminded us all that, yes, the Melee gods really are that much better at you in Smash Bros.
UPDATE 7/13: Donald Trump's Twitch account has returned to the platform after the two-week hateful content suspension.
After a perfect 9-0 round robin in the first half of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split, Cloud9 has been made mortal. 100 Thieves handed the reigning LCS champion its first loss of summer.
League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), Playwire, and Overwolf to award Alienware Aurora gaming computers, in-game currency, and more
On July 12th (KST), in the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Summer Split, T1 faced Team Dynamics and Gen.G played Hanwha Life Esports. In game 1 of T1 vs Team Dynamics, Lee “Faker&rd
It has been long speculated that the rise of mobile esports will require a breakout hit that manages to appeal to the competitive crowd as well as the casual one: Brawl Stars appears to be doing just that.
Counter Logic Gaming is changing things up for week 5 of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split. CLG Academy Top Laner Alexey "Deus" Zatorski will be making his LCS debut in place of Kim "Ruin" Hyeong-min.
On the 11th (KST), day 19 of the 2020 LCK Summer split came to a conclusion. DragonX took down DAMWON Gaming with a set score of 2-1 in the first series of the day. This series was very important for
Epic Seven, a turn-based mobile RPG developed by Super Creative and published by Smilegate Megaport, announced the release of the real-time cooperative PvE mode “Expedition” on July 10.
