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EA calls off esports events over health concerns News Mar 16th, 2020

EA calls off esports events over health concerns

Both first- and third-party competitions pulled

Blizzard cancels all Overwatch League events for March and April News Mar 12th, 2020

Blizzard cancels all Overwatch League events for March and April

Due to coronavirus concers

Capcom shakes up its esports business Job News Mar 9th, 2020

Capcom shakes up its esports business

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono takes on new pro-gaming role

Former Counter-Strike pro receives 116 year prison sentence for fraud News Mar 5th, 2020

Former Counter-Strike pro receives 116 year prison sentence for fraud

She's appealed the decision

Esports Players League secures $1m in funding News Mar 5th, 2020

Esports Players League secures $1m in funding

Led by VC 500 Startups

Logitech and Herman Miller team up to make, erm, 'gamer furniture' News Feb 27th, 2020

Logitech and Herman Miller team up to make, erm, 'gamer furniture'

Collaboration wants to provide the tools for esports players and streamers

EA permanently bans FIFA pro Kurt0411 News Feb 25th, 2020

EA permanently bans FIFA pro Kurt0411

Follows initial ban in November 2019

ESL and DreamHack secure deal with top esports teams News Feb 19th, 2020

ESL and DreamHack secure deal with top esports teams

The Evil Geniuses, FaZe Clan and Team Liquid are amongst the squads

Ubisoft shakes up the Rainbow Six Siege esport format News Feb 18th, 2020

Ubisoft shakes up the Rainbow Six Siege esport format

The Asia-Pacific region will now have two divisions

Report: 79% of League of Legends players have faced harassment News Feb 18th, 2020

Report: 79% of League of Legends players have faced harassment

And almost all have been insulted in a game

Activision Blizzard YouTube esports deal worth in the region of $160m News Feb 17th, 2020

Activision Blizzard YouTube esports deal worth in the region of $160m

Google Cloud functionality part of the deal, too

Report: There was an 87% increase in esports jobs in 2019 News Feb 10th, 2020

Report: There was an 87% increase in esports jobs in 2019

The US were behind 56.36 per cent of the opportunites

Rainbow Six Siege hit 55m players in 2019 News Feb 7th, 2020

Rainbow Six Siege hit 55m players in 2019

Game has attracted 20m new users since June 2018

A new team-owned CS:GO esports league is launching News Feb 6th, 2020

A new team-owned CS:GO esports league is launching

Various esports firms came together to create it

2020 is a critical year for PUBG as an esport according to pro players News Jan 20th, 2020

2020 is a critical year for PUBG as an esport according to pro players

Scoom used to play for Team Liquid before joining Rec

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