Esports & Gaming Articles

Interested in Asian Hearthstone? Follow the Chinese NEL league on GosuGamers

<p>The Netease E-Sports League has gathered the cream of the crop of Chinese Hearthstone as ten of the leading teams of the country are off to the races for $30,000. Now, there&#39;s a convenient way to follow all that action.</p>

Reigning VGVN champion Amaz out as Thijs, Hyped rule day two [decklists inside]

<p>The second day of competition at the VGVN Naxxramas Release tournament saw the downfall of Liquid&#39;s Jason &quot;Amaz&quot; Chan and the reigning champion will not be defending his crown today.</p>

GosuCup champion Faramir joins DKMR

<p>Jan &quot;Faramir&quot; Engelmann expands the roster of the US-based Don&#39;t Kick My Robot. Engelmann is the second European to enter the ranks of the DKMR, after the team picked Powder in July.</p>

Secret Team replaced by Na'Vi in WEC LAN finals due to visa issues

<p>The newly formed Secret Team will be unable to attend the upcoming WEC offline finals in September, due to their Chinese visa requests getting denied. Instead, Natus Vincere will be joining Cloud9 and Evil Geniuses in Hangzhou, China for the event.</p>

Kolento rules day one of VGVN, Trump follows him into playoffs [decklists inside]

<p>The Cloud 9 star and constructed innovator Aleksandr &quot;Kolento&quot; Malsh finished undefeated in Group B of VGVN #2. The Ukrainian will be joined by TSM&#39;s Jeffrey &quot;Trump&quot; Shih, who&#39;s steadily climbing the rankings, enjoying a successful tournament August.</p>

Live blog: StarSeries X LAN finals Day 1

<p>Day one of the StarSeries Season X Finals has arrived, featuring four of the best teams in Europe fighting for a total prize pool of $30,000. Here you will find live updates for each of the matches, map by map.</p>

Techies to be released next week

<p>Tonight, Valve has updated its Dota 2 Blog and announced the release of Techies. Alongside the new hero, Valve intends on adding several new features, such as trophies for completed challenges, the new All Random Deathmatch game mode and a few compendium goals such as Mega Kill banners.&nbsp;</p>

Jay-Bimbo to be IAP.XctN's new mid

<p>Inter Active Philippines Execration, fresh from a 4-0 sweep at the Starladder Season X Southeast Asian Round Robin, has recently picked up former Mineski captain, Ryan Jay &#39;Bimbo&#39; Qui.</p>

Team Liquid parts ways with Qoqjqva and Bulba

<p>Two months after TI4, Team Liquid announces the departure of both Bulba and Qojqva. The two of them have found a new home in Team Tinker, whereas Team Liquid leave their future in the Dota 2 scene uncertain, leaving also TC&#39;s future out in the open.</p>

HellRaisers signs Team Relax

<p>The Russian organization HellRaisers has acquired the new Relax squad, which is lead by the returning captain Ivan &#39;ArtStyle&#39; Antonov. The team will return to action today for their StarSeries battle against Virtus.Pro at 19:30 CEST.</p>

CS:GO Legends Series, a new weekly tournament to feature NiP and Virtus.pro

<p>Counter-Strike:Global Offensive welcomes another weekly tournament, CS:GO Legends Series. The first match is set to beging on September 1st, where ESL One Cologne champions, Ninjas in Pyjamas, will clash with EMS One Katowice champions, Virtus.pro.</p>

Ars-Art retires, replaced by PGG

<p>Only a few weeks ago, Ars-Art was announced as part of the new Moscow Five line-up. Now the Russian organization announces that AA, also known as Smile, will step back from the competitive scene. The team has found a replacement in an old friend of M5: PGG.</p>