Moving the Esports World Cup to Paris shouldn’t negate the concerns surrounding the event
Correction: The Esports World Cup reached out to state it's not funded by the PIF....
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“Easy to learn, hard to master”: How Highguard plans to shake up the live-service scene
Despite its lack of marketing, aside from being the final trailer at The Game Awards,...
How Marvel Rivals’ first major esports event exposed the meta
Following the conclusion of Marvel Rivals Ignite Mid Season Finals, the game’s first LAN international...
Why MSI 2025 was exactly what League of Legends esports needed
Over the past few years, numerous international League of Legends tournaments have drifted into predictability. ...
OWCS 2025 Midseason Championship preview: Can Crazy Raccoon go back-to-back?
The Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS) Midseason Championship 2025 is just around the corner, with the...
Teamfight Tactics could bring Magical Girls, Stand Users and Mechs to Set 15
When Teamfight Tactics players log in later this month, they will find themselves thrown into...
Marvel Rivals keeps making confusingly similar skins and players are getting fed up
Marvel Rivals players might be tempted to buy a skin from the in-game store to...
Five games that defined Uzi’s Hall of Legends career
Jian 'Uzi' Zihao isn’t just a great ADC — he designed the blueprint of what...
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Abandoning the Challenger Series could save grassroots European LoL
Grassroots League of Legends could potentially have received a massive boon yesterday with the latest news from Riot...
This week in esports: NA LCS, Pringles and HyperX
It's been a decidedly manic week in the world of esports this week, with the results of the...
The lost demographic of the female esports audience
As esports itself evolves so does the demographic of viewers. We're now beyond the point where esports fans...
Sponsorship and brands is the theme of this week’s Esports Roundtable Podcast
Brands, sponsorships and non-endemic engagement in esports; these are three of the hottest topics in the industry right...
Riot’s band-aid fix could spell the end of EU’s Worlds hopes
Last week, one of the world's best known sporting brands dropped out of the European League of Legends...
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