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Saudi Arabia ‘Sportswashing’ Takes Aim At The Biggest Fighting Game Tournament Of The Year
2.9.2025
Qiddiya Gaming uses Sony's exit from Evo to expand its reach
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Bitcoin.com Casino’s Weekly 1 BTC Tournament Has Already Paid Out 10 BTC – And It’s Just Getting Bigger
8.8.2025
As of August 4th, Bitcoin.com Casino has already given away a staggering 10 Bitcoin through its flagship 1 BTC Weekly Tournament – all paid out with no strings attached. Since launching earlier this summer, the tournament has quickly become a fan favorite among crypto casino players. Every week,...
First Look At Twisted Metal Season 2's Tournament Brings Back Video Game Favorites
9.6.2025
Ahead of Twisted Metal’s return, IGN gave a glimpse of a chaotic-looking second season featuring Calypso’s (Anthony Carrigan) tournament. We see less than two minutes of the upcoming vehicular carnage, but we learn a bit more about what to expect from the new season and how closely it may connect...
GeoGuessr Bails On Controversial Saudi Tournament After Map Makers Revolt: 'When You Tell Us We’ve Got It Wrong We Take It Seriously'
22.5.2025
GeoGuessr will not be one of the games participating in Saudi Arabia’s Esports World Cup this year, after criticisms of sportswashing and the country’s poor human rights record. The competitive guessing game that’s popular on Twitch had previously agreed to be part of the event alongside Riot...
Twisted Metal Season 2 Is Bringing Us The Tournament and Two Characters We've Been Waiting For
17.4.2025
After letting us process the first season’s half-naked murder clowns and sinister dollfaced thugs for two years, Peacock’s Twisted Metal series is returning with a deeper connection to the source material. On July 31, Anthony Mackie and the rest of the Divided States of America will be back for...
Epic Pulls Out All The Stops To Humiliate Fortnite Cheater
18.2.2025
Long gone are the days of companies quietly banning the players who cheat in their games. It’s become increasingly common for developers to name and shame those involved, though Epic Games recently escalated things even further. It not only sued a Fortnite pro who cheated while qualifying for...
Blastoise Is Finally Winning A Popularity Contest Over Charizard, And It Rules
7.2.2025
Being a Pokémon fan can sometimes feel like watching a neverending popularity contest. Pikachu is the mascot, so he gets all the attention and merch, but it’s Charizard—the original Fire-type starter from Pokémon Red and Blue on the Game Boy—who always seems to drive the most feverish fandom....
Why A Major Tennis Tournament Looks Like Wii Sports On YouTube
13.1.2025
The Australian Open, the first big professional tennis tournament of 2025, is happening right now in Melbourne. But depending on where you live or whether you have access to cable or not, it’s very possible that you can’t easily or freely watch matches. Don’t worry, the Australian Open has...
30 PlayStation 1 Games We'll Never Forget
5.12.2024
The original PlayStation was never supposed to happen. Sony had intended to team up with Nintendo on a disc-based, next-gen successor to the SNES. Then the Mario maker decided to stick with cartridges at the last minute, completely changing the console gaming timeline in the process. A new machine...
Crypto.com sponsors golf tournament with prize of $10M in CRO token
28.11.2024
Crypto.com is sponsoring the first golf tournament with a crypto purse on Dec.14 in Las Vegas
Two Of The Best Shooters Of All Time Are Now Free (And More Of The Week's Top Stories)
16.11.2024
This week saw the classic shootersUnreal and Unreal Tournament, with publisher Epic’s blessing, made permanently free and accessible via the Internet Archive. Meanwhile, Blizzard held a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, at which it revealed that the first two games in the...
Crypto Poker Site CoinPoker To Give Away $30k In Meme Coins, Host $1M ‘Meme Millions’ Tournament Series
5.11.2024
Popular crypto poker site CoinPoker is known for its frequent promotions and tournament series (such as its flagship CSOP event, the Crypto Series of Poker) and November is no exception. Starting next Sunday the decentralized poker platform is launching a ‘Meme Millions’ series...
Bandai Namco Reportedly Cancels Nintendo Project And Other Games
15.10.2024
Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project it was working on for Nintendo, as well...
Chess Pro Arrested After Allegedly Poisoning Rival With Mercury
13.8.2024
A Russian chess player is facing possible jail time and criminal charges after she allegedly used liquid mercury from a broken thermometer to poison a rival player during a large tournament earlier this month. Read more
Incredible New Elden Ring Glitch Is Letting Players Fly Through Shadow Of The Erdtree
31.7.2024
The Elden Ring speedrunning community is hungry for new exploits to crack the open-world FromSoftware game wide open and it might’ve just discovered one. As part of an ongoing $10,000 tournament, someone has found a way to displace the player character just enough to allow them to walk on air...
Mortal Kombat Tournament Pop-Off Goes Horribly Wrong
1.7.2024
It was the chair heard around the world, or at least around CEO 2024. Alex ‘’Dyloch’’ Ruiz had just cemented his place in the Mortal Kombat 1 grand finals at the Florida-based fighting game tournament when he decided to get up, grab his chair, and casually fling it into the audience in what might...
Bitcoin.com to Host $10k Crypto Giveaway In CoinPoker Freeroll Tournament
14.6.2024
Mark the calendars, as this Sunday is poker night. Bitcoin.com is pleased to announce an exclusive, free-to-enter poker tournament for its readers, featuring a total prize pool of $10,000 (paid out in USDT). To gain entry, use the password: BITCOIN2024. This huge crypto giveaway takes place...
Bitcoin.com to Host $10k Crypto Giveaway In CoinPoker Freeroll Tournament
14.6.2024
Mark the calendars, as this Sunday is poker night. Bitcoin.com is pleased to announce an exclusive, free-to-enter poker tournament for its readers, featuring a total prize pool of $10,000 (paid out in USDT). To gain entry, use the password: BITCOIN2024!. This huge crypto giveaway takes place...
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Just Hinted That Players Will Go On An Anime-Style Tournament Arc
31.5.2024
There’s just over a month left until Dawntrail, the next expansion for Square Enix’s hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, releases in early access. Yet we still don’t know too much about the next chapter of the game, beyond it being a kind of summer vacation for players. That mystery is intentional,...
CoinPoker Hosts The Top Poker Tournaments Of The Year In May – CSOP+
6.5.2024
The CSOP Plus (CSOP+) tournament series hosted by CoinPoker comes packed with $25 million in guaranteed prizepools, and runs from May 5-26. The event is a huge upgrade to the successful CSOP Spring which took place last month, and spans 14-18 daily events – with breaks on Fridays –...