Esports News

The wallets of VALORANT esports fans, and their resistance to the draw of shiny cosmetic items, are about to be tested. Riot Games has revealed the Champions 2025 Collection bundle, featuring the golden Vandal and Butterfly Knife, along with some lovely accessories,...

Krafton, the Korean gaming developer behind Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), has announced plans to increase investment in the country. The company plans to invest $50 million a year after India’s government gave a boost to esports as part of the Promotion &...

Team Heretics fans celebrated a tense qualification for VALORANT Champions Paris after Team Liquid’s title-winning VCT EMEA Stage 2 success. Those of a Heretics persuasion were stunned after their team was knocked down to the Stage 2 lower bracket by BBL Esports and...

NAVI will not be gracing the BLAST Open London stage with its presence after a shock CS2 defeat to massive underdogs M80 in the online Group Stage. Sixteen teams competed online with one goal in mind: to earn a podium finish in their respective group (eight teams,...

Ontario reported gross gaming revenue (GGR) of CA$311 million ($226 million) in July, a 29% increase from last year. GGR was up 1% from June, but just below May’s record revenue of CA$338 million. The province’s gambling regulator, iGaming Ontario, published the...

The Esports World Cup 2025 saw a 51.3% increase in overall watch time, with over 183 million hours watched across 1,700 hours of broadcast content. Interestingly, three of the top five game titles by concurrent viewership peaks were held by mobile titles. Esports...

AVULUS has officially disbanded its Dota 2 roster after a string of disappointing results throughout the 2025 season. Despite qualifying for multiple S-Tier LAN events in the year, the team rarely advanced beyond the bottom places. Still, the organization says it...

Dota 2’s The International always comes with surprises, but only a few expected one of the world’s top teams to withdraw from the event entirely. After the Gaimin Gladiators announced it would miss the event, Valve has selected an official replacement who will take...

Brazil’s newly regulated gambling market attracted 17.7 million bettors in the first six months of the year. Brazil enacted Law No. 14,790/2023 (the “Law of Bets”), which established a federal regulatory framework for fixed-odds sports betting in January of this year....