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FaZe Clan Fans Rally Around Member Disavowing Its Gay Pride Post
3.6.2022
FaZe Clan is one of the biggest names in gaming. The group of professional influencers counts Drake, Pitbull, Snoop Dogg, and many others among its investors. Its CEO has described it as “the Dallas Cowboys meets Supreme meets MTV.” And currently its social media mentions are a full-on culture...
Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Shaken Up By Its Own Wave-Dashing Moment
2.6.2022
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans are obsessed with ranking the game’s extensive, crossover cast of video game characters in tier lists. Tier lists constantly change to reflect alterations to the game’s meta, caused by balance updates released by Nintendo, but also players finding new techniques....
French Institution Bans English Words Like 'eSports' And 'Streaming'
2.6.2022
For centuries now, the Académie Française has basically overseen the entire French language, being responsible for everything from grammar to publishing French dictionaries to acting as the “official authority on the language”. An important part of that role in recent decades has been to ward...
Fortnite Pro Spouts Racial Slur, Shows Off Gun Stockpile In Widely Condemned Video
24.5.2022
An esports pro has been lambasted after a video surfaced online in which an individual, who is allegedly Fortnite Champion Series Grand Final contender Sin, shows off a fully stocked weapons closet and states, in the year 2022, that the stockpile of firearms is “just in case there’s ever a zombie...
Blockchain, crypto set to take sports industry beyond NFT collectibles
21.5.2022
Deloitte expects an eventual rise in blockchain-enabled innovations; as a result, “The use of NFTs, crypto, fan tokens, and ticket innovations will grow and evolve.”
Halo Infinite Pro Player Fined After Cursing Out Shooter’s Rocky Second Season
9.5.2022
Whatever your opinions of Halo Infinite, you can rest assured knowing you won’t take a financial hit for airing them. The same can’t be said for one of the best Halo players on the planet, who was recently fined after he shared some pointed criticism of the game’s ballyhooed season two update.Read...
Ninja Says He Wanted To Gift Evo $500,000 For Smash, But Nintendo Ghosted Him
3.5.2022
Massive streaming personality Tyler “Ninja” Blevins claims that he tried to give the prestigious Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament (also known simply as Evo) a bonus $500,000 for its Super Smash Bros. prize pool years ago, only to get shut out by Smash developer Nintendo.Read...
Russian DOTA 2 Player Dumped Over Alleged In-Game Support Of Ukraine Invasion
2.5.2022
An otherwise unremarkable (at least for the wider public) weekend of DOTA 2 action got a lot more controversial on Saturday when Virtus.pro’s Ivan ‘Pure’ Moskalenko was caught allegedly drawing a symbol of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the in-game minimap.Read more
Everything You Need To Know About That New Overwatch 2 Scoreboard
29.4.2022
Overwatch had a nontraditional approach to keeping score. Typically, competitive shooters like Apex Legends and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds keep a running list of kills, points, and team ranking on a shared scoreboard. Overwatch, instead, used a less specific system that awarded an individual...
Now Is The Best Time To Build Bad Hearthstone Decks
15.4.2022
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‘Suspended’ Valorant Pro Sinatraa Announces Return To Competition
13.4.2022
Ousted esports player Jay “Sinatraa” Won, who was suspended from his Valorant team the Sentinels last year for six months due to sexual assault allegations and failure to cooperate with an investigation, announced a return to the competitive scene. While he hasn’t signed to a team, Sinatraa...
Twitch Pauses 'Boost' Feature After Porn Sneaks Onto Front Page
1.4.2022
Twitch just can’t seem to scrub porn off its platform. Thanks to the “Boost This Stream” feature the Amazon-owned company introduced last October, viewers are paying to promote, or “boost,” sexually explicit content onto the platform’s front page. Unsurprisingly, Twitch has paused the boosting...
Crypto and NFTs at F1: What are firms bringing to the races beyond sponsorships?
23.3.2022
Are crypto companies sponsoring F1 for the glitz and glamor, or will NFTs demonstrate important use cases behind these partnerships?
After Watching Dr Disrespect Play Chess, Hikaru Nakamura Gets Banned On Twitch
23.3.2022
Popular chess streamer and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura thought it would be okay to watch Dr Disrespect play chess on Twitch. He was wrong, it seems. A chess prodigy, the five-time US champion is one of the best in the world. At age ten, he was then the youngest American to beat an International...
Report: Two Months Before Return, Overwatch League Still Has No Sponsors
19.3.2022
In less than seven weeks, in May, the fifth season of Activision Blizzard’s official Overwatch League starts, kicking off with a large live event in Texas. However, this close to the start, the league still lacks any sponsors. Officials claim there are “ongoing discussions” happening with various...
CSGO Pro Loses Tournament, Gives $33K To The Ukrainian Army Like A Champ Anyway
28.2.2022
Prominent CSGO streamer and pro esports player Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev has donated one million Ukrainian hryvnias (or a little over $33,000 USD) to the Ukrainian army, according to a post on his Instagram Stories. This comes just after s1mple gave an emotional plea for unity during the Intel...
Nintendo Won't Allow Super Smash Bros. At Evo 2022
26.2.2022
Super Smash Bros. won’t be featured at Evo 2022, the biggest fighting game event of the year. The Sony-owned esports organization announced the loss of the platform fighter in a statement on Twitter today, and appeared to blame the decision on Nintendo, which has historically tried to tightly...
Valorant Twitch Streamer Accused Of Dodging, Muting Women
24.2.2022
Jason “JasonR” Ruchelski, a former CS:GO player and full-time Twitch streamer, is under fire for reputedly dodging Valorant games in which women are present. He’s also defending himself in the worst way possible, saying he can’t disrespect women if he never interacts with them. It’s not a good...
Ubisoft Moves Rainbow Six Tournament After Fans Protest
23.2.2022
Until today, Ubisoft had been planning on holding a “Six Major”, a major competitive event for Rainbow Six Siege players, in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. After a massive fan protest on social media, though, the publisher has now decided to move the tournament to another...
Pro Gamer Fired After Making Disparaging Remarks About Men's Height
17.2.2022
Professional Tekken player Tanukana has been booted from Osaka-based esports team Cyclops Athlete Gaming for remarks she made in a livestream. Read more