ALGS Year 4 Championship preview: Schedule, Format and teams to watch out for
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LTA 2025 Split 1: Schedule, Teams, Format and all there is to know
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LEC 2025 Winter Split: Format, Teams, Schedule and all there is to know
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The best esports advertising campaigns of 2024
With the end of 2024 drawing near, Esports Insider is once again looking back at...
Gaming gear deep dive: Razer
Founded in 2005, Razer is one of the oldest esports and gaming peripheral brands in...
Who are the highest-earning esports players of all time?
In the past, esports was seen by many outside of the community as a way...
Western esports organisations that have entered Southeast Asia, Korea and China
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Creating goliaths: Esports’ biggest mergers
Mergers are part and parcel of business and are common occurrences across entertainment, media and gaming. Mergers are...
What is NBA 2K esports?
When 2K Games started its operations back in 2005, its executives probably did not foresee just how big...
Becoming an Esports Coach
Esports coaching has become a crucial part of the competitive esports ecosystem. Many esports players — professional and...
The biggest esports events to take place in the UK
Although the UK has not hosted the same volume of major esports events as the likes of China,...
Best of British: A guide to UK esports teams
As the UK esports scene has grown, so too has the number of teams from amateur, to semi-pro...
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