Esports

Any player who has been a part of the CS:GO community for a good amount of time will tell you that Valve does not take kindly to players accused of match-fixing. One of the most prevalent cases of this...

With the introduction of every new CS:GO operation, it’s customary for Valve to add a few fan-made maps along with the different varieties of new skins. More often than not, these maps accumulate hate from the community for their...

As of 5/1, the Wings Gaming lineup has disbanded. Four out of the five players will retire. Rumors suggest that only iceice will remain active. Wings Gaming might have been TI6 Champions, but bLink and company have found themselves in an unexpected...

It’s been a long time since the greatest finals of any Major Dota tournament, where Alliance paved their way to victory at TI3 with s4's infamous "Million Dollar Dream Coil."* Any newer Dota players should certainly go back and...

Virtually every single article about performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in esports takes the angle that these substances are inherently destructive and must be regulated heavily. This clear imbalance in literature leads to echo chambers of lazy thought. In modern esports...

Over the past year, Valve's updates to CS:GO have been few and far between, but while these patches lack in frequency, they've almost always been significant. In the time that's passed since the release of the R8 Revolver, Valve have...

Riot Games have concluded their ongoing investigation of Australian gaming organization Tainted Minds, and released a public statement with their findings and issuing a final verdict on the case. According to Riot, players on the team's roster informed Riot that their employer...

Every CS:GO Major is major, but some of them have been more...major than others. If you missed the first installment of our look back at the CS:GO Majors, check it out here. 5. ESL One: Cologne 2014 - The Original Kings Get...

Dota 2's Kiev Major kicks off in a weeks time and all signs indicate that we've got a phenomenal tournament in the works. There's a fresh new patch to level out the meta, plenty to teams with lots to prove,...

Valve’s most recent update to CS:GO on April 12th, 2017 was quite the doozy. After removing the R8 Revolver and Negev from competitive play for a while in order to rework the weapons, Valve have re-added tweaked versions of...

A Cloud9 vs. Team SoloMid grand finals. We've seen the matchup play out on five separate occasions, and still, games between the two most winning-est League of Legends franchises in North America have yet to be anything less than...

FaZe Clan’s recent victory at StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 3 was the organization's first CS:GO tournament victory, and, for many of the players on the team, their biggest tournmanet win to date. FaZe has gone through several different iterations...