There was going to be a last-place; in every competition that pits competitors against each other in a battle to determine who is the best, a last-place is as guaranteed (although more readily forgotten) as the first place. It’s...
The Epic Games Store has been an interesting foray into the banalities of marketing and advertising on all sides; titles that advertised their arrival to Steam to drum up support for their Kickstarter campaigns, such as Shenmue 3, then rescinded...
MIBR is competing in the European region during the currently ongoing ESL One Cologne 2020 Online; a move that perplexed some due to their poor showings against Tier 2 teams as of late. The stars were not in their...
Astralis is currently ranked at #17 in the world after the burnouts from Gla1ve and Xyp9x left the Danish team considerably lacking in fragging power. Gla1ve is back, but not playing in the current ESL One Cologne 2020 Online...
A low-cost monthly subscription that gives you access to a myriad of titles on your preferred PC gaming platform; this seems like a shoo-in for Steam to find victory with, and many have been waiting for quite some time...
ESL One Cologne 2020 Online has officially kicked off this morning, offering two weeks of high-stakes Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament that will be played online due to COVID-19 offering travel restrictions that even the most thorough staff couldn’t surmount in...
The pandemic rages on and esports are one of the very few competitive fixes we can get right now; add onto that the idea that pros were struggling with the beginnings of burnout at the end of 2019 within...
Online games would be a lot more fun if it weren’t for cheaters and general toxicity; many cheaters feel as though they ‘belong’ in a higher-skill bracket than they are at, somehow justifying their decision to intentionally skew the...
World rankings are taken relatively seriously within the CS:GO scene; it offers an at-a-glance understanding of how various teams have been performing matched up against their competitors and runs the gauntlet that is many tourney scenes. Add on that multiple...
Mark your calenders, as today is one of the few days where matchmaking inside of Valve‘s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive should be far less cancerous than it typically is; at least for a short while. A monumental VAC ban wave just...
Expectations were high that Lukas Rossander is returning to the Astralis team roster in time for the ESL One Cologne 2020 tourney, an event that many were hoping would host a return to offline competition that ultimately resulted in...
It’s not something that is typically seen inside of professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, regardless of how long you’ve been watching the scene, and what tier you prefer to make your home at. In the August 10th Dreamhack match that pitted...
Team Liquid threw the presiding idea, that rosters aren’t going to be shaken up until teams get back into the offline tourneys, with reckless abandon as ‘Nitr0’ stepped down from his five-year tenure within the team to give way...
BLAST Premier sided with Saudi Arabia for a bizarrely outlandish new city that will apparently be the ‘heart of innovation’ named Neom. The project of a Saudi Arabian prince finding himself with too much money, the idea is unironically...
