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Counter-Strike Former fnatic veteran dennis officially joins Apeks By M Alzamora Counter-Strike FURIA tops Liquid, BIG reverses G2 in DreamHack Masters Spring By M Alzamora League of Legends Team Liquid beats Doublelift and TSM to start LCS Summer Split By Olivia Richman

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Fissure says Vancouver Titans cut him without contract payout Olivia Richman Overwatch League pro Baek “Fissure” Chan-hyung took to Twitch to publicly call out his former organization, the Vancouver Titans.  Fissure claimed that his team had “forcibly” removed him and the rest of the roster and have since avoided paying out his contract. He explained that he had attempted to play until the end of the season, even making an attempt to learn English, but the organization decided to cut the …

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TI10 Battle Pass Collector’s Cache voting features cool new sets Nina Forneloza Fans once again get to choose what items will appear in the TI10 Battle Pass Collector’s Caches. Valve encouraged fans to weigh in on the selection process of this year’s exclusive treasure with a voting system built into the game. Players can flip through the candidates and give them a thumbs up or thumbs down, which will be used to determine which items get included. Every year, the developer calls …

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The new Queen of Pain Arcana has a bug that ruins your games Steven Rondina “Pay to win” is a phrase that is thrown around a lot with any free-to-play game, but Valve actually flipped that around in Dota 2 by making the new Queen of Pain Eminence of Ristul Arcana a “pay to lose” affair.  The new premium cosmetic from the The International 10 Battle Pass significantly overhauled the game’s resident succubus, giving her a new color scheme, new weapon, and new voice. The …

Counter-Strike

CSGO visual update contains bug that lets players wall hack M Alzamora A recent Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update created a serious issue that can bestow a massive competitive advantage to some players. A Redditor showed off a bug that allows players to see the outline of enemies through Nuke’s B-site silo. The bug seems to be caused by Counter-Strike’s contrast update. The patch added a new contrast setting to the popular FPS and was meant to make player models stand out from …

League of Legends TSM names Parth head coach at Doublelift and Bjergsen’s request By William Davis News xQc gets banned from Twitch, again, for showing animal sex By Olivia Richman News Why Valve is likely to forgo CSGO sequel to focus on Source 2 engine update By Jared Wynne

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CIS ranking tournament Clutch Island announces groups and teams M Alzamora CIS’s second Regional Ranking tournament, Clutch Island, has announced its groups for stage one of the tournament’s closed qualifiers. WePlay!’s Clutch Island has released the teams participating in the tournament’s first stage of its closed qualifiers that will eventually lead to the main event. Five teams were automatically invited to the tournament’s closed qualifiers and will face off against the winners of Clutch Island’s three open qualifiers. The groups for …

League of Legends

Riot fires Ron Johnson for insensitive comments on George Floyd Olivia Richman After a few days of deliberation, Riot Games has fired Ron Johnson, the company’s global head of consumer products, over racially insensitive remarks regarding George Floyd.  The League of Legends developers announced the news in a press release, shared by esports insider Rod “Slasher” Breslau on Twitter. In the statement, Riot calls Johnson’s remarks “abhorent,” claiming the words “directly counter” the company’s values and beliefs.  “As we shared last week, …

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dev1ce admits he pukes from event stress, questions CSGO’s circuit M Alzamora Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been a stalwart of esports since the first version of the game was released in 1999, but its open tournament circuit now seems to be causing serious problems for its pro players. Over the past several weeks, top players including Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander and Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth have taken breaks from competitive CSGO. Their reasons are understandable: constant tournaments, hectic travel requirements, and unavoidable stress. Recently, …

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You can play tic-tac-toe on CSGO’s Inferno now, for real M Alzamora It has been a long time coming, but fans of CSGO’s Inferno map can really, truly play Tic-Tac-Toe in the attacking spawn. It has always been a pastime for the attacking team to engage in the friendly schoolyard game during warm ups, but Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s latest update has added the ability to play Tic-Tac-Toe for real, complete with X’s and O’s, winners, and losers. Previously, players were left to …

Fortnite Season 3 map could be underwater with buildings destroyed Olivia Richman Fortnite Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Season 3 is coming June 17, and data miners have already started digging around for clues and potential leaks.  Fortnite Season 2 was originally scheduled to conclude at the end of April, but Epic Games revealed they were extending its duration as Season 3 was being delayed. Season 2 was then set to end on June 4, but that also didn’t come to fruition and Season 3 …

shroud settles debate on whether CSGO or Valorant takes more skill Steven Rondina News Which game takes more skill, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Valorant?  According to popular streamer Michael “shroud” Grzesiek, the clear answer is CSGO. That isn’t all there is to the story though, as he gave his in-depth thoughts on what it takes to succeed in Valorant and where the game’s pro scene is likely headed. The discussion started when a fan asked him about the roster of T1 during a stream …

EA returns to Steam, EA Access coming later this summer M Alzamora News Steam has been improving its selection of games for months now, but Valve has landed a much bigger fish this week as Electronic Arts returned to the platform after nearly five years away. A number of EA titles from the last five years launched on Steam including Mass Effect 3, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and Battlefied 1. There are still a slew of games from EA that haven’t made the …

Valve just added a new chat filter to battle toxicity in CSGO M Alzamora Counter-Strike A new update from the game’s developers has added a profanity filter to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. A recent update to CSGO added a new text filter to the game’s chat. Users can now turn the filter on and off in the game’s settings. The text filter comes several months after Valve announced that it would ban players from voice chat if they received repeated reports of toxicity from fellow gamers. …

Dignitas starts with Akaadian over Dardoch for LCS Week 1 matches Olivia Richman League of Legends Joshua “Dardoch” Harnett is having a rough start to the Summer Split.  Dignitas took to Twitter to reveal their starting roster for the opening week of the 2020 LCS Summer Split. Dardoch wasn’t in the accompanying picture, replaced instead by jungler Matthew “Akaadian” Higginbotham. The starting roster also included Omran “V1per” Shoura in the top lane, with mid laner Henrik “Froggen” Hansen, ADC Johnson “Jonhsun” Nguyen, and Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black …

PlayStation 5 revealed, new games and features detailed Steven Rondina News After months of questions and a few delays, Sony has officially revealed the PlayStation 5.  The next-gen console was revealed alongside a slew of different titles including Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Resident Evil 8, and many more. Sony made the reveal in an online event that was streamed on YouTube and Twitch, which garnered over 1 million live viewers across both streaming platforms. Response to the …

CSGO update adds visibility options that make players easier to see Steven Rondina Counter-Strike Valve is making character models a bit easier to pick out in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The “Enemy Spotted” update to CSGO has shipped, with the patch focusing heavily on making character models easier to pick out for players without fancy graphics cards or monitors. This includes new settings in the CSGO options menu, as well as some changes to problematic areas on certain maps. The centerpiece of the update is …

G2 Esports vs MAD Lions: 2020 LEC Summer Split betting analysis William Davis League of Legends G2 Esports and MAD Lions are playing in week one of the 2020 LEC Summer Split in a rematch of the spring semifinals. In its first split in the LEC, MAD achieved the unthinkable. The Spanish team took down G2 in the playoffs, forcing it to play from the loser’s bracket. G2 gained momentum in the lower bracket and when it was time for a rematch, MAD didn’t stand a …

Team Liquid vs TSM: 2020 LCS Summer Split betting analysis William Davis League of Legends LCS fans won’t have to wait long for the clash between Team Liquid and Team SoloMid. Two of the most popular teams in North America will meet in week one of the 2020 LCS Summer split. The offseason was all about Liquid and TSM because of the transfer of AD carry Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng from Liquid, where he had won four consecutive LCS splits, to TSM. It was a controversial …

TFT Galaxies mid-set patch 10.12 adds new traits, updates TFT Mobile William Davis League of Legends The highly anticipated TFT: Galaxies mid-set update is live with TFT patch 10.12, and it brings changes to every single element in the game. This is the only content update for TFT: Galaxies, so from now until the new set there won’t be new champions or traits. The mid-set update also includes Lightcharger, Nixie and Bellswayer, a trio of Little Legends. Galaxies Ranked Stage two has officially started with patch …

What types of companies are sponsoring esports teams? Jared Wynne News Esports has become tremendously popular in recent years, pulling in large viewership numbers across a variety of titles. And esports has proven to have a reach beyond the gaming industry. It has changed the way sponsors reach its prized demographic as esports are increasingly visible across streams, television, and elsewhere. The esports audience is growing at a rapid pace. Many fans already have favorite teams they’re loyal too. This has …

Riot Games investigates executive over problematic George Floyd post Steven Rondina League of Legends A Riot Games executive has been placed on leave after problematic social media posts were unearthed. Vice reported on a series of social media posts byRon Johnson, Riot’s global head of consumer products. Among them was a meme accompanied by a post that suggested the death of George Floyd was due to his “criminal lifestyle.” “There is no reason to condone his killing by the officer at all, which still …

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