5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (239+ words) Riot Games is building a new global stage for League of Legends, and it’s aimed squarely at the players about to break through. The inaugural 2026 World Star Challengers Invitational was announced this week, and it’ll bring 16 Tier 2 teams together from…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (985+ words) Tier: S-Tier, Valve Tier 1Location: Copenhagen, Denmark and Porto, PortugalPrize pool: $1.1 millionTeams: 16 BLAST Open Porto 2026 began on 26 August and closes the first weekend of September with its grand final in Porto on 6 September. The group stage was played in Copenhagen before…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (618+ words) G2 qualified for VALORANT Champions 2026 on 31 August after coming from behind to defeat Leviatán 2-1 in the lower bracket of VCT Americas Stage 2. The victory guaranteed G2 a place in Shanghai regardless of their remaining playoff results and extended their run to an…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (409+ words) BBL Esports have entered Counter-Strike 2 for the first time, signing the five-player Danish squad previously competing under the Echo banner. The Turkish organisation announced its move into CS2 on 30 August 2026, naming IceBerg, NickyB, Boye, leakz and salazar as its inaugural lineup....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (668+ words) Fnatic will miss Worlds 2026 after a 1-2 loss to GIANTX on 31 August eliminated them before the LEC Summer Playoffs, ending their last route into the League of Legends World Championship. The result leaves one of Europe’s longest-running international representatives absent from…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (775+ words) Karmine Corp enter 31 August 2026 as VCT EMEA Stage 2 champions after defeating Team Liquid 3-1 in the Grand Final, giving the French organisation its first VCT trophy and EMEA’s No. 1 seed for Champions Shanghai. KC won Sunset, Ascent and Summit, while Liquid’s…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (647+ words) MIBR have signed 22-year-old Argentine rifler Tomas “tomaszin” Corna from BESTIA, filling the starting spot opened when Breno “brnz4n” Poletto was moved to the bench earlier this week. The organisation announced tomaszin on 28 August and confirmed that his first event in…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (649+ words) The Rocket League World Championship Bundle will return revenue sharing for the 2026 season finale with a new system that sends 70% of net sales to teams and the remaining 30% to individual player awards. Rocket League Esports detailed the changes on 28 August,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (518+ words) Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras has been moved to Luminosity Gaming’s bench effective 25 August 2026, leaving the Counter-Strike 2 team with four active players less than two months into the organisation’s return to the game. Luminosity announced the change as effective immediately and thanked…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (474+ words) Bulkhead’s 100-player tactical shooter Wardogs pulled in nearly half a million unique players during its three-day closed beta on Steam, according to game director Howard Philpott, who shared the figure in a debrief video this week. PC Gamer reports that…...