Category: eSports

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro player Simon “smn” Beck from team Alternate banned for cheating

A professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro player who goes by the name Simon “smn” Beck was recently banned by the ESEA for cheating. Until recently, Beck was on the official CS:GO roster of Alternate, one of the best teams in Germany at the moment. Alternate had a pretty good run in the European ESEA Main division this past ...

Categories: eSports, NEWS, TRENDING GAME NEWS

Tags: banned, cheating, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, CS:GO, ESEA, Simon “smn” Beck, team Alternate

FaZe adds Aches and Slasher to their Advanced Warfare roster

A lot of changes are currently happening on the Call of Duty Advanced Warfare eSports scene, with more than a few teams racing to complete their rosters before MLG Columbus kicks off. The latest major team to announce their full roster is none other than FaZe, who was two players short until recently. The organization ...

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Tags: Aches, Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty, Evil Genius, FaZe, MLG Columbus, Optic Gaming, roster, Slasher

League of Legends third-party software victim of security breach, info of 130,000 users leaked

More and more League of Legends players are now using various third-party software programs that provide boosts to their gameplay performance and allow them to climb the ladders faster. One such piece of software goes by the name of Bot of Legends and is arguably the most popular program of this kind, or at least it ...

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Tags: Bot of Legends, hacked, League of Legends, Leaguesharp, security breach, third party software, user information

Team Newbee manages to win the IeSF World Championship

The 6th annual IeSF World Championship concluded earlier today with Newbee taking home the title. The Chinese team faced off in the final against a team comprised out of some of the best Dota 2 players from Romania and managed to defeat them with a clean 3-0. While the outcome of the whole championship isn’t ...

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Tags: Dota 2, IeSF World Championship, Meepo, Newbee, Team Ro, w33ha

Halo is not ready to return to eSports just yet, but it will be soon

Halo will have to wait a bit longer before it will be able to step back onto the eSports scene as 343 Industries announced that the Championship Series has been delayed. The Halo Championship Series is a new league created with the release of the Master Chief Collection and was supposed to kick off today, November ...

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Tags: 343 Industries, Championship Series, eSports, Halo, matchmaking issues, Patch, The Master Chief Collection, Update

Optic Gaming officially announces that Crimsix and Formal have joined their Advanced Warfare team

Optic Gaming now has one of the most powerful Call of Duty Advanced Warfare rosters out there thanks to a couple of recent acquisitions. About a week ago, there were rumors saying that the organization will be bringing in two very talented players soon: Matt “Formal” Piper and Ian “Crimsix” Porter. There was also sufficient evidence that these ...

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Tags: Crimsix, Evil Geniuses, Formal, Optic Gaming, Optic Nation, roster, teams

There’s a good reason why Heroes of the Storm doesn’t allow bans in Draft Mode

Pretty much every MOBA out there features several game modes, each with its specific rules and restrictions. If you’re a Dota 2 or League of Legends player, you’re likely already familiar with some of the Draft Modes. These modes allow teams to take turns picking their heroes (or champions) before the actual game begins. In some of ...

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Tags: Balance, ban phase, Blizzard, Draft Mode, Heroes of the Storm

LGD and Invictus Gaming will not make it to the DreamLeague due to visa issues

The best Dota 2 teams from all over the world will compete in the ASUS ROG DreamLeague tournament this Monday. At least, that was the original plan until ASUS announced that two of the best teams from China will not be able to make it unfortunately. Both LGD and Invictus Gaming will not be able to ...

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Tags: Asus, DreamLeague, Invictus Gaming, LGD, Prize Pool, teams, visa

The first ever Dota 2 hack is being dubbed “Insta-Hex”

Hacks are not a common occurrence in competitive online games as developers make sure to provide players with a fair play experience. Sure, there have been many attempts in the past to create hacks for some of these games, most notably for World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2. A more recent example can also be ...

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Tags: Blink Dagger, cheat, Dota 2, Hack, hacking, Insta-Hex, Nature's Prophet, Scythe of Vyse, Templar Assassin

Player toxicity in League of Legends is now a thing of the past, for the most part

Remember when League of Legends was infamous for having one of the worst player communities of any game out there? And remember when Riot vowed to turn things around and show that LoL can have a friendly and helpful community? Well, it seems like the company managed to keep its promise of not tolerating player ...

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Tags: bans, community, League of Legends, player toxicity, restrictions, reward, Riot