Genshin Impact – Where to buy fish and crab
Time is money (or at least Primogems and Mora) in Genshin Impact, and sometimes the effort of swimming after those pesky fish and running down…
Sam "Initia1ise" Hapgood
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K/DA drop new track More with League of Legends champion Seraphine
K/DA’s latest track “More” has debuted with a classy new music video alongside new and old K/DA collaborators. The original Pop/Stars vocalists Madison Beer, Jaira…
10 years, 10 Worlds: A countdown of League of Legends’ 10 greatest esport moments
From Season 1 in Phreak’s basement, to Season 7 in the Bird’s Nest Arena in Beijing, and now, in the wake of a global pandemic,…
Alphari in talks to move to Team Liquid
Former Origen top laner Alphari is close to agreeing to a deal with NA’s Team Liquid, according to a recent report from ESPN. BREAKING: @TeamLiquidLoL…
Worlds 2020 Semi-finals primer – LPL heavyweight bout between TES and SN
TOP versus Suning. Karsa versus SwordArt. This matchup is filled with an incredible amount of storylines: former Flash Wolves teammates now pitted against one another,…
Worlds 2020 Semi-finals primer: the G2 v DWG grudge match
Four teams remain, and the race for the title is only heating up in Shanghai. G2 and DWG face off in a quarter-finals rematch from…
New Genshin Impact event Sparkling Steps goes live today
Genshin Impact’s latest event, Sparkling Steps, is set to go live at 6pm server time. With it, drop rates of 5* “Fleeing Sunlight” Klee (Pyro),…
Overwatch star Gamsu announces return to League of Legends
In an announcement made on Twitter, Dallas Fuel’s Gamsu has voiced his intention to return to League of Legends. I’m very grateful for the past…
Leagues’ Tyler1 joins T1
In one of the most brand savvy moves Imaginable, esports organisation T1 have signed on infamous streamer Tyler1 onto their brand. That’s right folks, T1…
K-pop superstars Twice join K/DA artist roster, Jaira Burns and Maddison Beer return
K-pop superstars Twice have been announced as the latest artists to be featuring on the upcoming K/DA EP. Nor is it the only major announcement,…
Genshin Impact – Best DPS, tanks and healer builds
Latest Twitch sensation Genshin Impact has been a pleasant surprise – a free-to-play RPG in the vein of Breath of the Wild with a healthy…
Seraphine ability guide – Piltover’s superstar answer to Sona
With her insane ultimate skin already teased as part of the upcoming K/DA event – and what a release skin that is poised to make…
Genshin Impact – what makes the latest Twitch sensation so appealing?
Genshin Impact has taken the Twitch community by storm. There are a number of reasons the JRPG come gacha game has been so successful, but…
TSM go winless at Worlds in embarrassing exit for them and North America
It has been a rough year at Worlds for North America. Liquid’s heartbreaking 3rd place finish on Thursday had already set the tone, and now…
Oceanic Pro League to dissolve, players to be considered native NA talent
In a statement posted on the LoL Esports website, Malte Wagner, Managing Director of North America & Oceania, and Tom Martell, Global Esports Director of…
How to destroy Squadrons’ Capital ships: System locations, weak spots, strategies, and tips and tricks
The end goal of any Fleet Battle in Star Wars: Squadrons is the destruction of the enemy flagship. The problem is, that means taking a…
Star Wars: Squadrons – The complete guide to Fleet Battles
Fleet Battles are Star Wars: Squadrons flagship game mode (no pun intended), and take a little getting used to beyond the already fairly rigorous requirements…
Worlds 2020 Play-ins Knockouts: Your guide to when, where, and how to watch
Team Liquid and PSG Talon have secured their spots in Groups, V3 Esports and INTZ are heading home, but for the rest of the Worlds…
Worlds 2020 Group B Round-Up – PSG’s substitues excel, LGD’s last gasp spares blushes, and V3 sent home
It was messy, it was a bloodbath, but Group B has been resolved – at least for now. LPL 4th seed and favourites for the…
Riot’s Champion Roadmap: Seraphine, a Noxian Support, and The fabled Ruined King coming to league?
Samira’s hunts for S-ranks – both style and solo-queue varieties – are still the talk of the Rift, but Riot has already released a new…
V3 Esports: An exhaustive guide to Japan’s Worlds 2020 hopefuls
(Disclaimer: the author is also part of an unofficial English broadcast of the LJL. While that provides certain benefits in terms of knowledge of the…
League of Legends Team Draft Showdown #4: schedule, format, teams, prize pool, and how to watch
Twitch Rivals ever-popular League of Legends Showdown is back, and bigger than ever! The Showdown is scheduled to kick off on the 22nd of September…
Cyberpunk 2077 adverts featuring women criticised for being “hypersexualised”
Are Cyberpunk 2077’s in-game adverts too sexualised? Or perhaps more saliently, are those adverts focussing too heavily on the depiction of women over men and…
Night City’s Districts: A guide to Cyberpunk 2077’s urban wilderness
Cyberpunk is set to be an immense game, by sheer virtue of size alone. The latest Night City Wire episode started giving us an idea…
Cyberpunk 2077 system requirements and file size revealed
The specs for Cyberpunk 2077 have been released, and the low end is surprisingly modest. Windows 7, 8GB of RAM, an older graphics card, and…
Samsung Galaxy players have allegedly not received their cut of Worlds skin sales after three years
In a concerning clip that has found its way to Twitter, former SSG toplaner, CuVee announced that he, Park “Ruler” Jae-hyuk and Kang “Ambition” Chan-yong…
Worlds 2020 Group Draw preview: The winners, the losers, and some spicy hot takes
The Worlds 2020 groups have been decided! Pending the addition of play-ins teams, at least. With the group stage match-ups now mostly solidified, it’s time…
LPL English casting team left out of Worlds 2020
It was always going to be a technical challenge to pull off Worlds this year in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, but it still…
Deficio to leave Origen, now Astralis, and xPeke to step back
Today has been a day of major announcements for the Astralis Group, not least for its League of Legends team. The LEC team is rebranding…
Origen and Future FC to come under Astralis brand
The Astralis Group has launched a rebrand of all of their subsidiary teams today, with their League of Legends squad and FIFA team to rebrand…