eSports

For those obsessed with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a Hong Kong-based esports platform is now hiring people to play Nintendo‘s hit game. According to reports, Cyber Games Arena (CGA) is looking to hire gaming specialists for an unspecified role. Although no much is known about the job, the listing simply…

Logitech has sold gaming headsets for as long as they’ve been around. However, as plentiful as Logitech’s lineup is, most of the headsets have been rather average. The Logitech G Pro X reflects a change in pace as the company looks to up its game.This new headset draws on the…

Screenshot: Ubisoft After Ubisoft confirmed today that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will run on the Xbox Series X at a minimum of only 30 frames-per-second, people are wondering what they can expect from Microsoft’s new gaming console. The answer is not constant 60 fps gaming. “Developers always have flexibility in how…

May 8, 2020 6:55am by Barry Ritholtz My end of week morning train WFH reads: • There is no anti-lockdown protest movement (Vox) • Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground (BusinessWeek) • Esports doesn’t need a virus to overtake real sports (Financial Times Alphaville)…

Zenon, a very good Fortnite player from Brazil who also happens to be just nine years old, has received a four-year competitive ban from Epic after the company found out he was playing in paid tournaments while under the game’s minimum age limit.Only this week Zenon had entered, and placed,…

Photo: Stewart Volland (Blizzard Entertainment)Between covid-19 and countless other difficulties, Overwatch League’s make-or-break third season has gone as far off the rails as anyone could have imagined. Now, after losing a star player to Valorant last week, the league has lost one of its top teams. At least, temporarily.Today, the…

May 6, 2020Emily RandESPN When the Vancouver Titans announced that they had parted ways with the entirety of their 2019 Overwatch League lineup, what had already seemed inevitable became fact. Rumors had been swirling since various players removed the Titans name from their social media bios. The Titans dismissed the…

Editors USA TODAYPublished 9:11 AM EDT May 5, 2020Trump to visit Arizona mask plant amid push to lift coronavirus restrictionsPresident Donald Trump will travel to Phoenix on Tuesday, leaving the confines of Washington for the first time in more than a month as the administration begins pushing states to ease coronavirus restrictions…

It has been known for some time now that Esports could very likely make an appearance at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris, though to what capacity remains to be seen. There's no telling what games will be played, whether they'll be deemed worthy of medals, or if France's Hot…

Photo: Long Nguyen (Red Bull Content Pool)The fighting game community’s shift to online competition in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic has increased the scene’s vulnerability to problems that rarely proved serious in the past. Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament organizers learned this firsthand when a top player using a…