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by Jeff Gerstmann on January 22, 2021Something from your editor-in-chief about these 2020 video games. Jeff Gerstmann saw a dude skitching along the side of a minivan while he was going up the 5 this summer and it was the illest thing he's ever seen. You can send him questions…

Once hailed as North America’s brightest prospect, Kenneth “koosta” Suen has announced he will be retiring from competitive CS:GO and making the jump to Valorant. The explosive AWPer will be rounding out Gen.G’s Valorant squad as its fifth and final player. You know and love him from our CS:GO team,…

Whoops, turns out betting on your own CS:GO tournament matches will get you in a hell of a lot of trouble with the Esports Integrity Commission. Who knew? The ESIC has today announced sanctions against 35 Australian CS:GO players who breached its Anti-Corruption Code, hot on the heels of the…

It comes three months after the company secured US$100 million in a series B funding round led by Tencent.Read More

(Source: VSPN) Chinese esports solution provider VSPN (Versus Programming Network) announced Friday that it has raised a $60 million Series B+ financing round led by Prospect Avenue Capital (PAC). Further investors that participated in the round include Guotai Junan International and Nan Fung Group. In addition, Lighthouse Capital will continue…

The high school and college esports league will partner with BC School Sports Scholastic esports league PlayVS has acquired Vancouver-based startup GameSeta. The latter specialises in managing logistics and building infrastructures for esports leagues in high schools across Canada. With this acquisition, PlayVS expands its activity to the country, as…

The first “big” CS:GO event of the season kicks off today and it is going to set the tone for the entire spring season coming ahead. The BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 is the pinnacle of a year long online grind that challenged an entire ecosystem and tested even the…

Esports viewership is on the rise. Thanks in part to streaming services such as Twitch, the number of esports fans globally is anticipated to surge 59% over the next four to five years. This rapid expansion, coupled with the tendency for esports spectators to be younger and more receptive to…

Bren Esports coach Duckeyyy on M2: ‘Pressure is definitely out of the equation’ Photo from Bren Esports’ Facebook pageArmed with championship pedigree and vast experience, Bren Esports coach Francis “Duckeyyy” Glindro is strongly confident of their winning chances in the M2 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship in Singapore.  “One…

It wasn’t very long ago – only three months in fact – that Ukraine acknowledged cybersports (their official word for esports) as an official sport. While this has already happened in many countries around the world, the Ukrainian esports scene is still stuck in its infancy – but it’s evolving…