Games

This weekend saw the second Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) regional final take place in Anfield, with 16 players coming together to compete for one of four qualifying places at the Cardiff final of the year’s PES esports calendar, which will award the winner £200,000. We spent the weekend at Anfield, …

At Insomnia last week, we sent Mike Stubbs to chat to GAME’s Belong and esports platform manager Jay Smith about the company’s efforts to get new players engaged with esports using grassroots tournaments and the retailer’s chain of venues. How did GAME get involved with esports, and what’s next? Mike …

StarCraft has just received its first patch in eight years, and celebrated the occasion by making StarCraft and it’s expansion, Brood War, free to download too. None of this is entirely unexpected. In 2016 a StarCraft patch labelled 1.17 appeared on Blizzard’s FTP site, vanishing before it ever went live. …

A new League of Legends server has emerged in China, admitting only the chosen few that have attained Diamond rank in the game. Currently, this prestigious server is only available in China, due to the game’s client operating differently in the region. While most regions will drop you straight into …

A new League of Legends trailer has emerged on several Riot social media feeds, teasing a Dark Star-themed game mode for League of Legends. It’s expected that this new mode could show up in Patch 7.9, which is expected shortly. As two heroes have already been released in Patch 7.8, …

Chinese internet giant Alibaba has partnered with the Olympic Council of Asia in a bid to bring esports to the 2018 and 2022 Asian Games. The Asian Games, known as Asiad, are the second largest multi-sports event after the Olympic Games, and so the partnership between the OCA and Alibaba, …

The latest update to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has added a ton of new content including a Method Man voice pack.  Method Man is best known as a rapper for his work in the Wu-Tang Clan, however he has also been a prolific actor, appearing in many movies and …

Blizzard has finally added new Overwatch hero Orisa to the game’s competitive modes.  After launching on the PTR a few weeks back Orisa is finally available to pick when playing the game’s ranked modes, which are the modes that most people play.  This tactic is one that Blizzard hasn’t used …

Leaked images of promotional material have revealed that the next Call of Duty title will be set in World War II. After years of constantly pushing the series further and further into the future, developer Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind Advanced Warfare, is set to make a return to the …

After months of rumours and speculation Blizzard has finally confirmed that it is working on a remaster of the original StarCraft and its Brood War expansion.  Blizzard president Mike Morhaime made the announcement over in Korea, where Brood War was the catalyst for the start of the major eSports boom …