eSports

This weekend Riot Games took to Taipei, Taiwan for its annual League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational (MIS) leading up to Worlds 2019. Following a pair of upsets which saw favored teams Invictus Gaming and SK Telecom T1, Team Liquid and G2 came together for…

Are the glory days of Captain Olimar the proud, first of his name, numbered? Or are they just beginning? Well have a better idea after this weekends big Smash tournament. The Pikmin protagonist has some very powerful attacks while also being skilled at zonin…

Mary Altaffer/Associated Press A number of the top esports players in the world met at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, California, on Thursday for the Overwatch League 2019 All-Star Game. Teams from the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions put their skills to the test…

Gameloft and Xiaomi’s gaming-focused Black Shark brand today announced the “Asphalt esports Series,” a new esports tournament for Asphalt 9: Legends players. This is Gameloft’s first esports tournament for its long-running Asphalt series. These are the espor…

Last year she became Overwatch Leagues first female player. By Colin StevensKim Geguri Se-yeon, an Overwatch League pro, has been named a Times 2019 Next Generation Leader. Announced by Time, the 19-year-old South Korean professional eSports player is part…

Well, it looks like playing Mario is an esport now. At the end of Nintendo's Super Mario Maker 2 Direct, the company announced a tournament will be held on June 8. The 2019 Super Mario Maker 2 Invitational falls on the same day of some of Nintendo's other E3…

Today, Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast announced that it had signed two new players to its fledgling Pro League, including the leagues first woman. While it has been a galvanizing decision for many players, especially female ones, some fan…

Unikrn launches streamer betting and Unikrn Virtual, a way to bet on randomly selected old matches, for markets outside the US where gambling is legal (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Thanks largely to two trends -- modernization and automation -- the job market has arguably changed more in the last decade than in the previous half-century. Some professions have changed drasti…

The British show the world how a proper esports tournament is hoisted with an amazing, lively crowd and a production team who are able to bounce between gameplay and camera action to get the most out of the in-house experience. There's a riot ... at Riot Gam…