Image credit: Beyond Gaming / PCS Taiwanese esports organisation Beyond Gaming has shut down and exited the Pacific Championship Series (PCS), League of Legends’ Asia-Pacific competition. The news was shared by PCS’ social media platforms and Beyond Gaming’s channels, with the latter highlighting a lack of funding and increased costs as the main reasons for the closure. Keep Reading ESI Events announces GeT_RiGhT as ‘An Evening With’ guest League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics join the Esports World Cup OpTic Texas to host 2024 Call of Duty League Championships Based in Taiwan, Bey ..read more

ESI Events, Esports Insider’s events arm, has announced legendary Counter-Strike player Christopher ‘GeT_RiGhT’ Alesund as its guest for An Evening With. An Evening With is ESI Events’ community-focused event tailored towards Counter-Strike fans. It takes place on June 13th in London alongside the BLAST Premier Spring Final. Keep Reading Esports Insider announces ESI London 2024, including new ‘An Evening With’ Esports Insider heads to Portugal for ESI Lisbon 2024  An Evening With, ESI Events’ first B2C event, offers attendees the opportunity to meet and engage with GeT_RiGhT ..read more

Image credit: Call of Duty League North American esports franchise OpTic Texas will host this year’s Call of Duty League Championships. The event, set to run July 18th – 21st, will take place at the Credit Union of Texas Event Centre in Allen, Texas. Keep Reading OpTic Gaming partners with Italian football club Juventus Call of Duty League eliminates franchise entry fees following major structural change Not just any chess: Anichess brings power-ups to the classic game The Call of Duty League Championship is the last tournament of the competitive CoD season. Since Call of Duty franch ..read more

Image credit: Riot Games, via Flickr The CBLOL — Brazil’s tier one League of Legends league — has broken its peak viewership record. CBLOL 2024 Split 1’s Grand Final saw LOUD beat paiN Gaming 3-2 with the match-up reaching just under 460,000 peak concurrent viewers, according to analytics platform Esports Charts. Keep Reading LCS Spring 2024 shows positive viewership growth ahead of MSI LCK Spring 2024 breaks all-time viewership record MSI Chengdu 2024 venue announced As well as gaining a new concurrent viewership peak, the league also saw its greatest number of hours watched with a ..read more

Image credit: Team Liquid North American esports organisation Team Liquid has announced plans to continue its Eve Ascension series in 2024. The game-agnostic series will focus on World of Warcraft and features two tournaments aiming to raise awareness of communities for marginalised gender gamers. Keep Reading Team Liquid partners with Loadout to analyse esports and gaming audiences Team Liquid secures multi-year deal with Sui to build loyalty platform Team Liquid looks to bolster partnerships with Shikenso Analytics deal In collaboration with gaming PC brand Ailenware and World of W ..read more

Image credit: Alliance Swedish esports organisation Alliance has revamped its visual identity, including a new logo and overall design language. The new branding will roll out across all of the company’s assets in multiple regions. The logo will remain a stylised letter A, but the overall design is more in line with a simplistic style that many in esports have adopted. The main colour is bright green, but white and grey are also used. Keep Reading Esports Around The World: Sweden Alliance teams up with Redd+E India’s Maharashtra Government awards Asian Games 2022 esports athletes with pr ..read more

(ESI Illustration) Brian Chan (Left) and Sebastian Kuhnert (Right). Image credit: Chess.com, Animoca Here are a couple of statements that truly highlight one of the world’s most renowned games: chess is still a very popular sport, despite being thousands of years old. Chess is also a very popular digital game and an esports title with thousands of viewers.  The FIDE World Championship had more than 500,000 peak viewers in 2023, which is an impressive number not just for chess, but any ‘real’ esports title. Chess, being a thousand-year-old game, is not an esports title in the same sen ..read more

Image credit: Shutterstock Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) athlete Nik ‘Dominus’ Muhyyiddin has been suspended for attempted match-fixing by MPL Malaysia, the country’s Mobile Legends Bang Bang league. MPL Malaysia also found the Bountee Esports player guilty of offering financial incentives to Bountee Esports players to throw a match. Keep Reading MOONTON partners with Nigeria Esports Federation to support MLBB ecosystem MOONTON partners with IO Esports for Malaysian MLBB academy league Mobile Legends: Bang Bang expands global esports ecosystem with Snapdragon Pro Series As a resul ..read more

Image credit: eFuse, National Esports Collegiate Conference Esports event production and infrastructure company eFuse has announced a partnership with the National Esports Collegiate Conference (NECC), a North American collegiate esports tournament operator. The NECC will license eFuse’s Collegiate Carball Association and College CoD properties to provide Rocket League and Call of Duty tournaments on its platform. Keep Reading eFuse lays off 30% of workforce, postpones Creator League Collegiate esports event CECC 2024 announces several new partners Collegiate esports non-profit organisat ..read more

Image credit: GameSquare North American esports and gaming company GameSquare has released its financial report for 2023, ending December 31st. The company reported record revenues of $52m (~£41.75m), marking a significant jump from the previous year’s $28.1m (~£22.56m). According to the company, the surge was mainly attributed to the recent acquisition of Engine Gaming and organic growth. However, despite revenues increasing, the company has recorded a net loss of $31.3m (~£25.13m), increasing from its $18.1m (~£14.53m) loss in 2022. Keep Reading GameSquare shareholders approve FaZe C ..read more