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Fortnite is giving players an early look at The Mandalorian and Grogu before cinemas
Fortnite is becoming a Star Wars screening room this week, but players will have more to do than stand in front of a giant video screen. Epic Games is opening a new in-game experience where fans...
Epic’s V-Bucks price increase changes more than the cost of Fortnite currency
Epic Games has confirmed a broad pricing reset for Fortnite’s in-game economy, with new V-Bucks values taking effect from March 19. The headline change is straightforward: the same real-world prices n...
Fortnite is tightening its tournament anti-cheat with deeper PC security checks
Epic Games has rolled out stricter anti-cheat requirements for competitive Fortnite on PC, expanding hardware-level security checks across all tournaments from February 19. The new setup requires Secu...
Fortnite’s 2025 Esports World Cup absence looks less like a snub and more like a format problem
Fortnite’s return to the Esports World Cup in 2026 has made one part of last year’s lineup easier to understand. The game was not left out because it lacked reach or name value. It was left out becaus...
Arteezy and qojqva’s all-time carry list is really a debate about what Dota 2 should reward
A tier list from Artour “Arteezy” Babaev and Max “qojqva” Bröcker has stirred up the kind of Dota 2 argument that never really goes away. The two ranked 25 carry players on a Team Liquid Dota video an...
Aurora’s FISSURE Universe win turned a promising roster into something real
Aurora Gaming’s 3-2 win over Team Spirit in the FISSURE Universe Episode 8 grand final gave the organization its first major Dota 2 title and ended the event as the one team nobody managed to beat. Th...
Dota 2’s arrival at Esports Nations Cup gives the event one of esports’ most natural national-team games
Dota 2 has officially been added to the Esports Nations Cup 2026 lineup, with the tournament set to run in Riyadh from November 2 to November 8 as part of the event’s opening week. The official compet...
Apex’s ImperialHal flip-flop charm looks real, and Respawn seems to know exactly why fans care
Apex Legends has spent the past few weeks teasing one of the stranger cosmetics to come out of the ALGS: a flip-flop weapon charm tied to Phillip “ImperialHal” Dosen. On first glance it looked easy to...
Apex’s mid-season patch is trying to change how three underused legends feel, not just how strong they are
Respawn’s Season 28 mid-season update, released with the Aftershock event on March 23, puts Gibraltar, Wraith, and Wattson at the center of the split. The official patch notes and the accompanying des...
Apex’s Aftershock event is doing more than selling a Fuse prestige skin
Respawn’s Aftershock event starts on March 31 and runs through April 21, but the event is bigger than its cosmetic headline. It arrives as Apex’s mid-season reset for Season 28, tying together legend ...
Rolol Gamos is spreading through League esports because it turns scene knowledge into a game of speed and memory
A small browser game on lolix.gg has broken out across the League of Legends esports community over the past week, not because it looks like a major new product, but because it understands exactly wha...
Caedrel turns down UK midlane role as national team plans move forward without him
Marc “Caedrel” Lamont has declined an offer to return to professional play as the United Kingdom’s midlaner for the upcoming Esports Nations Cup, confirming he will stay out of competition despite bei...
India’s League national team setup is taking shape, with KAKA reportedly lined up to coach for ENC 2026
India’s preparation for the Esports Nations Cup is starting to come into view as the country builds out its League of Legends setup for the new national-team event in Riyadh. The clearest reported mov...
FalleN stepping away from Counter-Strike is less an ending and more a reset for the scene
Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo’s decision to retire at the end of 2026 marks the close of one of Counter-Strike’s longest-running careers, spanning more than two decades across multiple versions of the game....
BLAST’s Singapore return in 2027 shows how important Asia has become to Counter-Strike’s calendar
BLAST Premier Open Singapore will run from March 15 to 28, 2027, with 16 teams competing for a $1.25 million prize pool, giving Counter-Strike one of its earliest major stops of the year in Southeast ...
Valve’s CS2 reload overhaul forces players to rethink one of the game’s oldest habits
Valve has pushed one of the most disruptive gameplay changes in Counter-Strike’s history with a redesign of how reloading works in CS2. The update removes a long-standing mechanic that let players kee...
Sentinels’ Blue Otter deal gives Game Changers something it badly needs
Sentinels’ decision to enter VALORANT Game Changers through a co-branded partnership with Blue Otter is not just another roster announcement. It puts one of the scene’s biggest brands into a circuit t...
Valve quietly brings CS:GO back while locking it out of esports
Valve has restored Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as a standalone listing on Steam, giving players direct access to the older version of the game after it was replaced by Counter-Strike 2 in 2023. T...
Valve’s answer to New York’s loot box lawsuit turns on one fight: whether CS2 and Dota 2 monetization is gambling or just optional game content
Valve has formally pushed back after New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the company over loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2. New York says Valve’s systems amount to ...
Canezerra’s VALORANT ban shows how little room rising pros have to get it wrong
A 12-month hardware ban and a contract termination have abruptly stopped one of North America’s most promising VALORANT careers before it reached the top tier. Alex “canezerra” Banyasz was widely seen...
VALORANT Game Changers is losing momentum as its role in the ecosystem comes into question
Riot Games’ Game Changers circuit was introduced to build a competitive pathway for women and marginalized genders in VALORANT, and for several years it delivered clear progress. It created its own st...
Riot’s new VCT plan could make top partner slots even more valuable in 2027
Riot Games’ new VCT structure for 2027 is being sold as a more open, tournament-driven system, with open qualifiers feeding into Masters and Champions and more events spread across more cities. On pap...
MrSavage’s Fortnite Icon reveal lands harder because it pulls Benjyfishy back into the picture
Epic’s latest MrSavage rollout is more than another Icon Series moment. The reveal has also sparked attention across Fortnite and wider esports because one of the cosmetic details appears to reference...
Clinkz is not dead after 7.40c, but the patch did kill the version of him people hated most
Valve’s 7.40c patch did hit Clinkz hard enough to change how the hero is discussed, but not hard enough to erase him from Dota 2. The bigger truth is that the patch killed off the most abusive part of...
Apex’s Gundam event was bigger than a skin drop, and that is why it stood out
Apex Legends’ Gundam crossover began on March 10, but the date only tells part of the story. Respawn did not treat this as a simple branded shop refresh. It used the event to reshape part of the game ...
Patch 26.9 is shaping up as a real League reset, not just another balance pass
League of Legends patch 26.9 is scheduled for April 29 and sits at the start of the game’s 2026 Season 2 rollout, which already makes it more important than an ordinary two-week update. Riot’s own new...
FNCS 2026 brings Fortnite back to duos as Epic rebuilds the season around more live events
Epic’s 2026 competitive reset is built around a familiar change with wider consequences. FNCS is back in duos, reversing last year’s trios structure and putting the main circuit around one of Fortnite...
Perú Rejects’ DreamLeague run turned a roster grudge into a real South American breakthrough
Perú Rejects did not just edge past HEROIC in one emotional qualifier series. The team beat HEROIC twice in the DreamLeague Season 28 South America closed qualifier and took the region’s only slot at ...
Apex’s Esports Nations Cup debut could split up some of the game’s best trios before they even reach Riyadh
Apex Legends joining the 2026 Esports Nations Cup was already a notable addition on its own, giving the inaugural national-team event one of the most international battle royale scenes in esports. But...
Riot’s Season 2 reset is smaller in scale than earlier overhauls, but it is aimed at changing how League feels every day
League of Legends Season 2 of 2026, branded as Pandemonium, is not built around one giant mechanical rewrite. Riot is treating it as a broad reset of the game’s texture instead, combining role quest c...