Japanese players dominate final brackets of SF6 Blink Respawn 2025

Street Fighter 6 News It’s a home tournament for MenaRD, and many top players are in it. Two EWC 2025 spots and one ticket to the Capcom Cup 12 are at stake here. Blink Respawn is an esports event in the Dominican Republic. It features quite a few tournaments for fighting games, shooters, and League of Legends. Most of them are rather regional, but Street Fighter 6 competition clearly stands out from the crowd....

July 24, 2025 · 4 min · 707 words · Amanda Bartlett

Kristen Bell's Hacks Season 4 Cameo Just Ended An 8-Year TV Career Streak

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Hacks season 4, episode 5. Kristen Bell’s surprise guest cameo inHacksseason 4, episode 5, “Clickable Face,” ended a TV streak that has lasted nearly a decade. As one of the manyHacksseason 4 guest stars, Bell plays herself shopping for groceries and gets approached by Jean Smart’sDeborah Vance to appear on her newly acquired late-night show. Although Bell is only featured for a brief scene inHacksseason 4, she adds an authentic Hollywood tone to the showbiz series that has increased with its primary location change from Las Vegas to Los Angeles....

July 24, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Nathan Blackwell

Master ninja Zeku and Sports costumes hitting Street Fighter V today

Season 2’s final warrior enters the ring Street Fighter Vwill go temporarily offline today for maintenance, allowing for the implementation of Season Two’s final DLC character, as well as a meager handful of DLC outfits. Zeku, master of Bushinryu and mentor ofFinal Fighthero Guy, joins theSFVroster, bringing with him a complex fighting style that ultimately makes him two characters in one. Mastering both halves of Zeku’s abilities will mean any opposition will have to prepare themselves for a full style shake-up once Zeku pops his V-Trigger....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 134 words · Anthony Fisher

Miami Heretics ¡Take My Vamos!, Spain is coming to take over the CDL

News Heretics… TAKE MY VAMOS! Esports organizations Misfits and Heretics have combined forces to field a fully Spanish team in the Call of Duty League called Miami Heretics, starting in 2024. The announcement of the partnership celebrated the seventh anniversary of Heretics as an organization. The team have been around in multiple esports in their existence but have been away from Call of Duty since 2019’s World League. ¡Vamos! A Spanish team is coming back to the CDL....

July 24, 2025 · 4 min · 769 words · Virginia Morgan

NitetTimeClasher becomes first ever signed Pokémon GO player

News A first for Pokémon GO and a first for NiteTimeClasher. Competitive Pokémon GO history has been made by NiteTimeClasher, as he becomes the first ever Pokémon GO player to be signed by an esports team. Eric “NiteTimeClasher” Wang was officially announced as Luminosity Gaming player ahead of last weekends Vancouver Regional Championships. NiteTimeClasher is one of the most recognisable Pokémon GO competitors. The American also has worked as a commentator while also being a very successful competitor....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 360 words · Rachel Spencer

Overwatch 2 Season 14 Battle Pass skins: Mobster Hazard, Odin Sigma, and more!

Overwatch 2 News Mobster Hazard and Cyber Scientist Moira? Yes, please! Here are all of the Overwatch 2 Season 14 Battle Pass skins! Blizzard has revealed the trailer for Season 14 of Overwatch 2, and it’s packed with lots of reveals for in-game cosmetics. In addition to the Thor Reinhardt mythic and bunch of gorgeous shop skins, the trailer also highlighted what players can expect in the Overwatch 2 Season 14 Battle Pass!...

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 285 words · Phillip Richardson

PMGC 2022 Grand Finals: Overall standings and points per Match

Mobile News Who will become the world champion in the PMGC 2022 Grand Finals? Check the standings here: The PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2022 Grand Finals took place from Jan. 6 to 8. The top 16 teams from around the world competed for a share of the $1.5 million prize pool and the title of world champions. ThePMGC 2022 Grand Finalstook place at the Jakarta International Expo in Jakarta, Indonesia....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Kelsey Walker

Radio the Universe demo is a gloomy, satisfying marvel

It’s been a very long time coming I’m not sure whenRadio the Universefirst caught my attention, but it didn’t look the way it looks now. The game’sKickstarter pagewent live in 2012, and backer rewards were expected to ship in 2014; that obviously didn’t happen, and in the years since, I’ve gone back and forth on whether or not I expect the game to release at all. Developer 6E6E6E’s updates have been infrequent and vague, and the last update tothe game’s itch....

July 24, 2025 · 5 min · 920 words · Sean Boyd

Renegades Malta: “The world is getting to a place where we are able to travel consistently for tournaments”

CS:GO News Renegades is the favorite to win the IEM Fall Oceanic tournament and secure its spot at the PGL Stockholm Major. IEM Fall 2021 kicks off with the Oceanic tournament starting on September 29. As the most dominant team in the region, Renegades are the favorites to win and secure the sole Oceanic spot at PGL Stockholm Major. The team is also fresh off a victory at DreamHack Open September 2021: Oceania with a 3-1 win over ex-Direwolves....

July 24, 2025 · 5 min · 1023 words · Matthew Bonilla

Riot shares full schedule for ERL and LEC Spring 2022. Still no in-person events next season

League of Legends News The LEC is coming back in full force for Spring 2022, though it still won’t feature an in-person Finals. Check out the dates including those for play-ins and playoffs. Today,LoL Esportsdelivered much-awaited news for European LoL fans. They’ve announced that the LEC start date for the 2022 Spring Split will be January 14th, just two weeks into the new year. Over the course of the season, there will be two Superweeks too, which have an extra day of games....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 364 words · Jesus White

Soon, you’ll be able to go to war with yourself in Marvel Rivals Clone Rumble

A new game mode forMarvel Rivals,namely “Clone Rumble,” that was originally leaked has now been confirmed by NetEase Games. Soon, every single member of the team will be able to choose the same hero. The devs have showered us with new Marvel Rivals content ever since it launched in December 2024. Season 1 started in January 2025, and now, we have confirmed news of a brand-new game mode to make the lobbies more chaotic and fun....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 267 words · Sheila King

The underrated players on each VCT Masters Copenhagen team

Valorant Opinion Taking a look at the most unvalued and underrated players on every team that qualified for VCT Masters Copenhagen. The idea of any of these talented players being considered “underrated” is a bit of an oxymoron. These are 60 of the best players in the world. Even if a player isn’t a name brand member of these teams, he’s still a world class VALORANT player. Here is the most underrated player on every VCT Masters Copenhagen team:...

July 24, 2025 · 8 min · 1638 words · Raymond Jones

Valve bans all games that force players to watch advertisements

Gaming News In a new page under the Steamworks Documentation titled"Advertising on Steam,“Valve will no longer allow games on its platform that force players to watch ads to continue playing. The new section lists what’s allowed and not on the Steam platform. One notable standout is the prevention of developers using paid advertising as a revenue model. Developers should not utilize paid advertising as a business model in their game, such as requiring players to watch or otherwise engage with advertising in order to play, or gating gameplay behind advertising....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Aimee Wallace