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Microsoft Forced to Use Xbox Dev Kits At Halo Tourny Due to No Stock!
With it being less than a week now until Christmas if you were still hoping that you’d be able to manage some kind of next-gen console within the next couple of days, well… While I wish you luck, I’d say that at this point you’d probably stand a better chance…
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Japanese Student Wins (and Loses) $46,000 at Gaming Contest
In recent years, the prize pools given at competitive gaming tournaments have gotten pretty amazingly high. At some competitions, you can win as much as 7 digit prizes for being the best at a particular game. This does, however, get a little more complicated if you’re entering an eSports competition…
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When and Where to Watch the Overwatch World Cup Finals
Which Teams are In the Playoffs? After having the Overwatch World Cup Group stage, eight countries will continue on to the playoffs at Blizzcon 2018. However, only one will be crowned victorious as the World Cup champions at the second year of the event. Normally, everyone expects South Korea to…
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Madden NFL Tournament Shooting Victims Identified
Gaming Community Mourns After Shooting The gaming community is mourning the loss of two lives following a shooting in a tournament in Florida. Several more were injured as well. The event was a satellite tournament for a nationwide Madden NFL 19 competition hosted in the GLHF Gaming Bar. The finalists…
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US Army Hosting Their Own Street Fighter V eSports Event
US Army Embraces eSports The United States Army has begun hosting their own eSports event over the weekend. It is the first in a series, pitting service men and women head to head in CAPCOM‘s Street Fighter V. Surprisingly, there are no shooting games in the mix, only the popular…
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Marvel VS Capcom Excluded From EVO 2018 Roster
Marvel VS Capcom Infinite It’s been a pretty rotten few weeks for Marvel VS Capcom and Capcom in general and things are not looking any rosier. Despite it being in the past a very popular game in tournaments past, Marvel VS Capcom Infinite has just been given a major snub.…
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FIFA and Electronic Arts Team Up for eWorld Cup 2018
FIFA and Electronic Arts Electronic Arts and Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known as FIFA are teaming up to launch the FIFA 18 Global Series on The Road to the FIFA eWorld Cup 2018. This takes competitive FIFA video gaming to the next level, increasing the scale year…
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DOTA 2 Tournament Hires Satellite to Stream Event from Cruise Ship
Not all gaming competitions are set on equal stages, and the latest DOTA 2 tournament is the perfect example of this. The Nanyang Cruise Cup will be set out in the Pacific, while the Chinese teams battle it out for a $50,000 prize pool. Of course, they’ll be playing via…
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How To Professionally Rage Quit
When it comes to professional gaming, you often find yourself on one of two sides. One where you realise that everyone can do the same things while the other side is when fantastic moves, set up and executed to near perfection by the team, leaves you wondering if you’ll ever be…
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Gamers For Giving Halo Tournament Cancelled
Contrary to popular belief many gamers enjoy getting out and about, nothing more so than when it comes to a charity tournament. Gamers For Giving Halo Tournament has been running for years now letting gamers play their favourite games with the event raising money for charity. Sadly this year though…
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Gabe Newell Personally Explains Why Dota 2 Commentator Was Fired
E-Sports is a large market for anybody, and with a $3 million prize riding on this weeks DOTA 2 tournament in Shanghai, it is no surprise that people have been annoyed by the range of problems that have come out of it. One of which has caught some heat though…
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Mad Catz Announces E.S.Pro 1 Tournament Grade Gaming Earbuds
Ear buds traditionally don’t come with the best sound quality and that is why most people opt for the larger full-size version in order to get that satisfying sounds. Mad Catz latest offering looks like it could mix that up a bit with the release of a the new E.S.Pro…
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CS:GO Gets TV Spot On Fox Sports 1
E-sports are becoming more and more of a publicly known event, it used to be that players would gather around with their friends and watch their teams fight out through their web browser. There have been documentaries about e-sports in the cinema and now tournaments are also backed by crowd…
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Latest Unreal Tournament Build and Pre-Alpha Season Trailer Released
I’m sure a few of you have already been enjoying the pre-alpha build of the new Unreal Tournament, I know I have! And so far, it’s been pretty epic. For those that have been and, of course, for those who have yet to download it, the latest build is now…
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DDoS Attack Puts a Stop to Valve’s Dota 2 Tournament
Well, Well, Valve’s Dota 2 international competition, The International 2015, is underway and this time things got a bit serious. The competition was reported to have suffered from a DDoS attack that blocked internet connection to the Dota 2 servers. The attack is said to have taken place when a…
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