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Florida Mayhem announces all-Korean roster going into Stage 2
Olivia Richman
Florida Mayhem is going into Stage 2 with an entirely Korean roster and staff. Before their first match took place, Florida Mayhem announced that they were parting ways with two members of its coaching staff and their remaining three Western players. This includes letting go of DPS player Kevyn “TviQ” Lindstrom, the last remaining player from the original Florida Mayhem roster. He’s also the player who infamously drove the team’s …
League of Legends
Fnatic continues LEC playoff roll with wild win over Splyce
William Davis
Fnatic is looking unstoppable in the LEC Spring Playoffs as the defending champion took down Splyce in round two. Fnatic came into the match highly favored after a convincing win against Team Vitality. Despite being the underdogs, Splyce put on a fight and exposed some of Fnatic’s weaknesses. In game one, Splyce tried to surprise Fnatic with a Zoe pick in the bottom lane. The strategy didn’t work and Fnatic …
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Kingzone DragonX stomp Damwon Gaming in LCK Spring Playoffs
William Davis
Kingzone DragonX is moving to round three after demolishing Damwon Gaming in three quick games. Kingzone is not playing around. The squad had one of the strongest performances of the season against Damwon and are now advancing in the LCK Spring Playoffs. Game one was all about the team fights. Kingzone drafted a team fight composition and executed the strategy to perfection. Damwon was relying on Jang “Nuguri” Ha-gwon to …
Counter-Strike
New Swole Patrol roster finds a sponsor in Lazarus Esports
Steven Rondina
One of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s most recognizable North American teams is no longer without an organization. North American staple Swole Patrol is now Lazarus Esports. The entirety of the team has transferred to the Canadian organization, which returns to men’s Counter-Strike for the first time since 2017. Originally founded in 2011, Swole Patrol has existed in many different forms over the years. In 2018 it became a proper team with …
Counter-Strike
Renegades angry with interfering fan during win over NiP
Steven Rondina
Renegades’ debut in the StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 7 playoffs was successful, but it didn’t come without controversy. Playing opposite Ninjas in Pyjamas, Renegades AWPer Sean “Gratisfaction” Kaiwai was seen flipping off the crowd following a key clutch round for his team. The reason? A fan of Ninjas in Pyjamas was shouting his location out in an attempt to help the Swedes. The incident has been clipped on Twitch. …
Counter-Strike
Shroud shows off X-rays from elbow surgery, discusses procedure
Steven Rondina
Michael “shroud” Grzesiek has been through a whole lot over the last few weeks. That was plain to see on the popular streamer’s latest broadcast, as he showed off x-rays featuring his surgically repaired elbow. Though he has been open about the severity of the injury, this shines a whole new light on just much work needed to be done to fix him up. The x-rays show off a lengthy …
Apex Legends
Data mining uncovers five brand new weapons in Apex Legends
Olivia Richman
Apex Legends may be releasing new weapons in the near future. While Respawn Entertainment has not officially announced any new weapons since the release of the Havoc Energy Rifle, data miners have uncovered some new weapons deep in the game’s files. These five weapons are called the EPG, Softball, Defender, Archer, and the ARL. The EPG is already a weapon in Titanfall 2, where it’s an extremely powerful energy weapon. …
Dota 2
Valve takes measures against fake free Dragonclaw Hook scam pages
Steven Rondina
After months of inaction, Valve is finally taking measures to combat one of Steam’s most aggressive phishing scams. In a news post on the official Steam Community page, Valve announced that it was changing its policies regarding the Dota 2 workshop. The workshop will now require users to take an extra email verification step. “First-time submissions to the Dota workshop will now require email verification before the item can be …
Apex Legends patch causes headaches for players and developers
Fariha Bhatti
Apex Legends
A number of big changes were mistakenly introduced into popular battle royale Apex Legends with the 1.1 patch launch. Players were shocked to find that they had lost progress after the new update, punished for leaving games, and finding new loot for items not yet in the game. When eager players logged into the game after the update, many were surprised to find that all of their progress with various …
Selfmade is rookie of LEC spring split, Guilhoto named top coach
William Davis
League of Legends
Riot Games announced jungler Oskar “Selfmade” Boderek as the LEC Rookie of the Spring Split and André “Guilhoto” Guilhoto as LEC Coach of the Spring Split. The votes are in and after a highly competitive season, SK Gaming’s jungler Selfmade was crowned the region’s top rookie. Selfmade received 123 points, surpassing Fnatic mid laner Tim “Nemesis” Lipovšek with 55 points and Splyce mid laner Marek “Humanoid” Brázda with 53. During …
Prince Harry says Fortnite is addicting, should not be allowed
Steven Rondina
Fortnite
Lots of celebrities are big fans of Fortnite, but Prince Harry is not among that lot. Speaking at a YMCA event in London, the British royal railed against social media and video games. Discussing Fortnite in particular, he stated the game was causing strain on families and labeled it addicting. “That game shouldn’t be allowed. Where is the benefit of having it in your household,” the prince asked, per BBC. …
A flurry of coaching changes hit OWL prior to start of Stage 2
Fariha Bhatti
News
A number of teams in the Overwatch League are making changes to their coaching staffs just in time for the start of Stage 2. Paris Eternal, Washington Justice, Toronto Defiant, and Dallas Fuel have all lost coaches this week, with the announcements being made just before the next round of matches are set to begin. The head coach of the Paris Eternal, Julien “daemoN” Ducros, is among those coaches to …
Chovy named LCK MVP as Griffin dominates spring split awards
William Davis
League of Legends
Riot Games Korea has announced Griffin’s Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon as the regular season MVP of the LCK Spring Split, as the mid laner narrowly surpassed bot laner Kim “Deft” Hyuk-kyu. After an intense regular season, Chovy was crowned as the MVP of the season with 1,300 points, equivalent to 13 MVP awards. The mid laner was tied through the majority of the split with Deft from Kingzone DragonX, who finished …
Rookie im37 to Toronto, is now quickest path to pro player to join OWL
Fariha Bhatti
News
With just one day to go before the start of Stage 2, Toronto Defiant has announced a new addition to the team’s roster. DPS player Jin “im37” Hong joined the team having completed the path to pro program from the Open Division to the Overwatch League in under one month’s time. As a DPS player, Jin specialises in heroes such as McCree, Widowmaker, and Genji. He has also shown proficiency …
Apex Legends patch 1.1 makes life easier for most players
Fariha Bhatti
Apex Legends
A new patch has been released for Apex Legends and is available to players after updating game clients. Patch 1.1 focuses on quality of life improvements, offering a few UI updates, extra settings, and various stability updates. A new feature has been added to enable teams of players combined through matchmaking to continue playing games with the same squad. When completing a match and returning to the lobby, players will …
Faker the only esports player on Forbes 2019 Asia 30 Under 30 list
Olivia Richman
League of Legends
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok was recently named 30 Under 30 in Forbes Asia 2019 list. Named among athletes, musicians, and artists, Faker was the only esports player on Forbes “entertainment and sports” category. “Nicknamed god of computer game ‘League of Legends,’ Faker is generally regarded in the gaming community as the greatest LoL player of all time,” reads the official description. The listing goes on to list the 22-year-old gamer’s accomplishments, …
Butcher’s Bridge in ARAM, Urgot and Kayle nerfed in LoL patch 9.7
Steven Rondina
League of Legends
The latest League of Legends update brings changes to several runes, a handful of items, a dozen champions, and gives ARAM a big shakeup. Patch 9.7 has launched in the game and is highlighted by the return of Butcher’s Bridge in place of ARAM. It also brings larger overhauls to champions Kayle and Urgot. Butcher’s Bridge returns for the third year in a row, surfacing for the first time since …
Latest CS:GO update brings big changes to Vertigo, Abbey
Steven Rondina
Counter-Strike
When people claimed that the latest addition to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map pool wasn’t fit for high-level play, they were right. That’s what Valve seems to think, as Vertigo received another set of tweaks in the latest update to the game. This is the fourth set of adjustments to the map since March 19. For the most part, the tweaks to the skyscraper-themed map were minor fixes including remedying …
PUBG designer Brendan Greene said he is done with battle royales
Olivia Richman
News
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds designer Brendan Greene is done with battle royales. “The last man standing concept is great, but I’m done with that. I don’t really intend to make PUBG 2,” Greene told Game Industry Biz. Based in Amsterdam for the past few months, Greene has instead moved on to PUBG Corp’s new Special Projects division. While no concrete concept has been announced for the team, Greene’s initial announcement said they …
Boston Uprising and Atlanta Reign make moves beefing up for Stage 2
Fariha Bhatti
News
With the start of Stage 2 of the Overwatch League just around the corner, many teams are adding to and changing their rosters in hopes of improved success. The Boston Uprising and Atlanta Reign have both hired new team members from outside the Overwatch League ranks. Boston announced on April 2 that Zion “Persia” Yang had been signed to the team as an additional support player. Before joining the Uprising, …
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