ESports

ESL has notified several staff that they’ll be made redundant, multiple sources have told Esports Pro. Reaching out to ESL for confirmation, the company responded with this comment, presented in full: "ESL is realigning resources and expanding its organization to drive innovation in the esports market, including creating opportunities in …

Starting this week Twitch will be giving its Affiliates the chance to offer a subscription service and earn a cut of the revenue, similar to the deal Twitch Partners are currently offered.  Affiliates will be able to offer $4.99, $9.99 and $24.99 subscriptions, similar to the tiers offered to Partners. …

Ubisoft announced a heap of changes for Rainbow Six’s esports tournament, the Rainbow Six Pro League, on Wednesday. First, the announcement that the Rainbow Six Pro League finals for Season 2 of Year 2 will occur at the ESL Arena in GamesCom. This will probably also comprise a reveal for …

Blizzard have changed the way Hearthstone’s card pack system works in China, probably in response to Chinese laws that now require games companies to disclose the exact odds of receiving each class of item in any sort of loot box. This includes Heathstone’s card packs, which fall foul of China’s …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has released its third monthly patch, full of new content and balancing changes. In the patch notes, Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene himself talked about the continued improvements to server performance which are taking place during the weekly optimisation patches as a preface to the patch notes themselves, adding that …

This weekend sees the return of the Summer version of Games Done Quick, and the semiannual speedrunning event has released its schedule, meaning you can decide which games you want to see ‘done quick’  It’s also a big deal for those in the games business, because it’s an event that’s …

Vodafone Spain will launch an esports channel on streaming service Twitch this Friday, entitled eSports Vodafone. The channel, currently exclusive to Twitch, will broadcast content from 16:00 to 00:00 Spanish time and feature a variety of gaming news, entertainment and general interest programs well-suited for fans of esports, or those …

Master X Master is doing a lot of things different in the MOBA space, introducing deep social features, and a more action-heavy focus. Perhaps most interestingly however, they’re also looking to add a fully featured player versus enemies (PVE) mode shortly after launch.  We spoke to Sean Orlikowski, NCSoft’s Master …

Quake Champions full release will be made available on Steam, a developer Q&A has revealed, meaning that even though the beta is only playable via the Bethesda.net app, the game will launch on Steam, opening it up to many more competitive players on PC.  This is a big deal, as …

Fast food giant McDonalds last week announced a partnership with Blizzard to plaster their trademark Golden Arches across the Starcraft II World Championship Series in Australia. Mcdonald’s will have naming rights, branding, content integration and on the ground content activations, although the specific format that activation will take hasn’t yet …