Today kicks off three weeks of Halloween-themed Overwatch fun by Blizzard Blizzard Entertainment’s Halloween-themed Overwatch event is back. Halloween Terror 2019 starts up today and will run for three weeks and will include the popular wave-based cooperative mode, Junkenstein’s Revenge and the standard spooky skins and sprays, as well as some new twists. The eSports […]

The squad took down the Overwatch Contenders Gauntlet this past weekend The Overwatch Contenders Gauntlet finals wrapped up yesterday and the South Koreans once again led the way. Element Mystic emerged victorious from their eSports battle against Atlanta Academy, marking its second high-profile tournament win after taking down the Pacific Showdown earlier this year. The […]

The League of Legends developer is going after the Riot Squad eSports group The Chicago-based eSports group Riot Squad should have been a little more choosy when it settled on its names. The organization has come under fire by a bigger, wealthier Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, for copyright infringement. The company […]

The names were found hidden on the league’s website Activision recently announced the name for a new Call of Duty eSports league that’s about to roll out and it apparently wasn’t feeling too creative. The name is simply the Call of Duty League and will include 12 teams operating from various parts of the US […]

Blizzard takes away gamer’s earnings and bans him from Hearthstone Just because you can speak your mind doesn’t mean you always should. A well-known eSports gamer found this out the hard way after comments he made related to Hong Kong led to his being stripped of his winnings and banned from the Hearthstone Grandmasters tournament […]

Daniel “Gods” Graeser is now a free agent Four days ago, the Overwatch League (OWL) revealed the contract status of each player in the league. According to that list, the entire roster for the Toronto Defiant was classified as “team option,” which is a way of stating that contracts were up for renewal. In the […]

The River Rumble eSports event proved extremely popular Oklahoma City, OK had a lot going on this past weekend. The Riversport Boathouse District saw everything from the OKC Thrive Outside Expo to the Oklahoma Regatta Festival, but it was something different that caught the most attention. An eSports event put together by Oklahoma City University […]

League of Legends apparently will now get its wings Riot Games and Red Bull have entered into a formal partnership of sorts after the eSports organization named the energy drink company its official energy drink partner for global League of Legends (LOL) events. This isn’t the first time the two have come together, with Riot […]

The Overwatch League 2019 Grand Finals finds a winner after a desperate battle The Overwatch League (OWL) 2019 Grand Finals were all set to be a huge showdown between two eSports teams that have had an incredible season. It didn’t disappoint, either. The Vancouver Titans and the San Francisco Shock, both of which have gone […]

Adam Lindgren is going to be inducted into the selective group The Esports Hall of Fame (EHOF) announced yesterday that it has a new gamer waiting to be inducted. Adam “Armada” Lindgren, a Swedish Super Smash Bros Melee player, was chosen for the EHoF after receiving the majority of votes from the eSports community, and […]

Competitions and tournaments are now legal in the Free State Maryland has become the latest state to fully embrace eSports and legitimize the activity. A state law has been signed that allows competitions and tournaments in the state to offer real money and merchandise as prizes. Legalizing eSports gives it more substance and the approval […]

The Seattle-based team gets the spot for less than what it would have originally paid When word got out that Echo Fox’s spot in the League of Legends North American Championship Series (LCS) would be made available, Seattle-based Evil Geniuses jumped at the chance to purchase it. The spot ultimately went to another eSports squad, […]

The old team with a new roster looks to make a grand re-entry It’s been a while since anyone heard anything about Obey Alliance, but the eSports group is back and hopes to be better than ever. It is about to make a reappearance in the Rainbow Six Siege realm, sporting an entirely new roster […]

The broadcast is a recap of this past July’s Mortal Kombat 11 event For those who can’t get enough eSports action, or who are looking to see what all the hype is about, TBS is giving you the opportunity to get caught up on a major tournament. This past July, the RTX Austin fan convention […]

Fortnite is now the second-highest paying eSports title Fortnite was released in July 2017 and immediately found success. It quickly moved from just a casual game to a major eSports title, with competitions being launched around the world. As it grew, so did the prize pools that were being offered and, per data from the […]