As the holiday season approaches, two prominent global phenomenons will be releasing their next installments in the gaming industry on Friday, November 15 with the hopes of entertaining, inspiring, and bringing in a whole lot of money. Set to release at the end of the week, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Pokémon Sword and Shield have millions upon millions of eager fans (and skeptics) looking to see what each franchise has in store next. From the grassy knoll of the Galar region to the forests of Kashyyyk, both Nintendo and Electronic Arts, respectively, will have their hands full taking players on journeys through known and unknown worlds while working to fight off the competition.
Earlier today, fast fashion brand Forever 21 released a collection in collaboration with Blizard's Overwatch. The launch contains eleven pieces varying from shirts, sweaters, hoodies and socks. Can't miss some gamer socks.
100 Thieves have welcomed Tony "Zikz" Gray as their new head coach in an announcement video with new GM Christopher "PapaSmithy" Smith. Zikz and PapaSmithy will build out their roster and plan for new growth moving forward.
As reported by Jacob Wolf and ESPN on November 11th, Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon has reached a verbal agreement with Team Dignitas for a two year contract extension totaling $2.3 million guaranteed.
Hanwha Life Esports signed Kezman as their head coach. On the 11th (KST), Hanwha Life Esports signed Son “Kezman” Dae-young as their head coach. Kezman started his LoL coaching career from
Before the conclusion of the 2019 Worlds Finals post-game broadcast, it was announced that the Finals of Worlds 2020, which will take place in China, would be hosted by Shanghai Stadium.
Despite not being favored against G2 Esports, FPX outclassed the conquerors of Europe in every way imaginable. A 3-0 victory at the Accorhotels Arena earned FunPlus PhoeniX rights to the Summoner's Cup.
Tian is the 2019 LoL World Championship Final MVP. In the grand finals of the 2019 LoL World Championship held in Paris, FunPlus Phoenix shutout G2 Esports 3-0 and became the season 9 champions. In
True Damage debuted its first single, 'Giants' with a live performance to open the Worlds 2019 Finals in Paris. The accompanying animated music video was released shortly after the performance on the official League of Legends Youtube channel.
Despite both Norskeren and Splyce agreeing that the former's conduct was completely out of line, the League of Legends community discourse continues to split down the middle on the issue even nearly two days after the controversy came to light.
The NASEF model will be adopted in Japan, as esports is recognized as meaningful method of connecting learning and play.
According to a report by ESPN Esports' Jacob Wolf, Evil Geniuses is set to acquire Jungler Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen and Support Tristan "Zeyzal" Stidham from Cloud9 ahead of the 2020 LCS season.
Wadid joined FlyQuest in the 2019 LCS Summer Split, where he started at the Support position until the conclusion of the team's season in the 2019 LCS Regional Final.
Jeff Kaplan, top Overwatch developer for Blizzard, said that blitzchung's suspension should be "reduced more eliminated" in an interview with the Washington Post.
Activision Blizzard's take on the popular auto-chess genre, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, has only been live via early access for three days but that hasn't stopped the game's community from debating over what (or who) is best. With 24 different heroes to choose from, all of which have a unique hero power that is intended to keep gameplay fresh, there are bound to be some that are better than others at any given time depending on the meta.
Supercell revealed the booth design for G-Star 2019 which will be held in Busan BEXCO from the 14th to 17th (KST). As a main sponsor, Supercell prepared many different events for G-Star 2019 with their
Pearl Abyss announced the official names of their new games, PLAN 8, DokeV, Crimson Desert, and opened a teaser website for each game. Through the teaser websites, the names of the games were confirme
PUBG Corp announced that people will be able to meet many features of Battlegrounds at the G-Star 2019 scene from the 14th of November to the 17th (KST). First, in the PUBG (Krafton) booth in the B2C
Lee “Duke” Ho-seong announced through his Weibo that he will be leaving Invictus Gaming. Duke debuted in kt Rolster Bullets. He later played in Najin Black Sword, Najin e-mFire, SK Telecom
Coco Joins SANDBOX Gaming as a Coach On the 8th (KST), SANDBOX Gaming announced that they've signed Shin “Coco” Jin-yeong as a coach. Coco had been active as a player until 2018, and now
