On the 15th, the groups draw for the 2020 LoL World Championships took place. After the groups draw, the head coaches for each LCK representative, Gen.G, DRX, and DAMWON Gaming, joined the LCK broadca
On the 15th (KST), Riot Games revealed detailed information with regards to the 2020 LoL World Championships (Worlds). Each year, the best professional LoL teams from all around the world gather to co
This change will affect the League of Legends team previously known as Origen and the FIFA roster known as Future FC, who will be operating under the brand of Astralis Group.
According to several posts on Weibo, EDG will make changes to their staff following a poorly handled sexual harassment case within the organization. Read more on the story here:
On Monday morning, HeroesHearth, daughter company of Wisdom Gaming Group and creator of the upcoming Heroes of the Storm Community Clash League announced the eight organizations that will be rostering teams for the upcoming event.
T1 announced on the 13th that the head coach for their League of Legends roster, Kim Jeong-soo has parted ways with the organization. Kim was originally s
The official US Navy went live on Twitch and featured character names that glorified the World War II bombing of Japan and a racial slur. These names were never condemned by the Navy, and people were banned from chat after repeatedly bringing up the issues with those names. Read more on the story here:
When the Heroes of the Storm development team first designed Gazlowe (or Tinker, as he was initially called), the game was completely different than it is now. What heroes could do, how maps were designed, and how the game was "meant" to be played has changed dramatically over the years. So when Gazlowe was introduced into the title back in 2014, his kit worked well for the time period. He could split push lanes, clear mercenary camps efficiently and his team-fighting ability wasn't that bad. Fast forward to the year 2020 (and two reworks later), the development team felt it was time to give his kit another look after his most recent overhaul in 2017.
Team Vitality’s Support player Labros "labrov" Papoutsakis was awarded Rookie of the Split for his dominant performance in the Spring Split. In a chat with Inven Global’s Lara Lunardi, he discussed joining the team, the beginning of his career, and what the change of environment to a first-tier league has been like.
Justin Wharton spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie earlier this summer to recall how his path as a career artist intersected with esports and to discuss the unique challenges a professional artist faces in the gaming industry.
The third trial of Kim “cvMax” Dae-ho and Choi “Sword” Sung-won was held on September 10. The accuser, Sword, attended as a witness and the interrogation went for approximately
DAMWON Gaming is leaving for Shanghai, China to participate in the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. Due to the COVID-19 situation in Korea, we weren't able to catch up with the players at the
According to Sports Seoul, T1's head coach, Kim Jeong-soo has decided to resign. It is said that his decision to resign was due to the result of the summer split and failing to reach the 2020
Nerd Street Gamers and Spectacor Gaming are partnering with Riot Games to make the largest all-women VALORANT tournament even bigger; expanding the original one-day, eight-team event to a three-day, twelve-team tournament and raising the stakes from $10,000 to a $50,000 prize pool over the course of September 11-13. In addition to T1 Entertainment & Sports and G FUEL, The Official Energy Drink of Esports®, Riot Games j
Part of this initiative included servicing champions that had a significantly smaller amount of skins and attention over the years, including Ornn and Skarner, who just got brand new looks added to the shop.
Juked.gg, the one-stop-destination for esports entertainment, announced the launch of its crowd equity fundraising campaign via Republic.co/juked today which enables anyone to invest in Juked for as little as $100. With crowd equity, Juked is sidestepping traditional venture capital and opening up to the esports community at large. This fundraising round will give Juked the resources necessary to accelerate development of its core pr
Professional streamer and gaming superstar Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announced he is coming back to Twitch with a multi-year deal to livestream exclusively at www.twitch.com/Ninja. He celebrates his return with his first live stream today, September 10th at 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET.
The collaboration will see both companies exchange data and insights, resulting in an enhanced view of the ever-evolving esports market.
For male Korean nationals, military service is compulsory. For esports pro gamers, especially, pausing your career for two years is a huge amount of time, and therefore the timing of the enlistment is
LPL team Vici Gaming has parted ways with head coach Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun, the organization announced Thursday on Weibo. According to Chinese media, kkOma's wife is currently pregnant an
