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  • ESL to bring the second installment of ESL One powered by Intel® to Hamburg, featuring six tournament days and sixteen Dota 2 teams

    ESL One Hamburg powered by Intel, Europe’s largest Dota 2 festival, will return to Barclaycard Arena on October 26-28, 2018. After its successful first edition last year, ESL One Hamburg 2018 will not only increase the duration of the tournament up to six days, including group stages and playoffs, but also double the number of participating Dota 2 teams. Only the world’s best sixteen teams will ge

  • University of York to Pioneer Education in Esports Content Production

    University of York’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television, in close collaboration with ESL, the world’s largest esports company, will launch the world’s first industry-backed module on esports content production, teaching students how esports action can be translated into captivating experiences for the more than 300 million esports fans worldwide.

  • Submissions Open for Develop:Brighton’s Eighth Indie Showcase

    Develop:Brighton Conference & Expo; 10-12 July 2018 – www.developconference.com
    1 May 2018: Develop:Brighton’s annual search for the next big thing in independent games development is underway, with submissions now open for the eighth Indie Showcase at www.developconference.com.
    It’s free to enter the competition, which will see a panel of experts judge the submitted games and draw up a

  • H1Z1® To Launch Free-To-Play on PlayStation® 4; OPEN BETA Begins MAY 22

    H1Z1 on PS4 Features New Weapons, New Weapon Progression System, and Revamped UI
    SAN DIEGO – April 24, 2018 – Daybreak Games® today announced that H1Z1®, the original standalone battle royale game, is coming to PlayStation® 4. Open Beta begins May 22, 2018.
    H1Z1 on PS4™ is designed specifically for the console and focuses exclusively on the core elements that make battle royale exciting. The

  • Become the Cutting Edge in The Surge with new, free Weapon and Armor DLC

    Battle your way to CREO's most advanced prototypes and equip them today!
    Dystopian Action RPG The Surge is preparing to unleash its latest free DLC for Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC players: the Cutting Edge Pack, and as good news always comes in pairs, the game and all of its DLCs are up to 75% off on Steam, PlayStation Europe and Xbox One.
    The Cutting Edge Pack DLC will grant 3 new armor

  • ESL presents League of Legends European Masters 2018

    As presenting partner, ESL will run splits across Europe starting in UK
    (London, UK) 9 April, 2018 - ESL, the world’s largest esports company, will run the new League of Legends European Masters tournament, launching this April with the first Spring split in the UK. 26 teams will compete for a prize pool of €150,000 with matches broadcasted live in ten languages at:

    The new European Mas

  • UK Esports Awards to be live streamed from ESL Studio 1

    ESL UK to provide production for brand new event
    ⦁Awards take place June 30th
    ⦁New website now live at www.ukesportsawards.com
    April 9th 2018: The UK Esports Awards, the new event designed to recognise the people who go above and beyond to improve the domestic esports scene, has confirmed its venue.
    The event will be livestreamed by broadcast partner ESL UK and hosted at its state-of-

  • Masters of Anima is available today! Watch its launch trailer!

    Download the game today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
    The world is in peril and only you can save it in Masters of Anima! The new indie gem from Passtech Games, the makers of Space Run, is available today onPlayStation®4, Xbox One®, Nintendo®Switch and PC! Follow Otto in his quest against the forces of evil in strategic, action-packed battles, where your ability to make ta

  • Bossa Studios’ Chet Faliszek Announced As First Develop:Brighton Keynote

    Super Early Bird deadline ends 25 April
    Tuesday 10 April: Chet Faliszek, creative director at Bossa Studios, was today announced as the first keynote speaker for this year’s Develop:Brighton conference and expo.
    Delivering a talk entitled, ‘The Future of AI in Games Creation’, Chet Faliszek will expand on the impact of AI not just on the narrative of games but also deep in their core design

  • Fear the Reaper and dive into a strange new world in Vampyr's Story Trailer

    Vampyr, the upcoming action-RPG from DONTNOD Entertainment, will release June 5 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The game's wider narrative arcs are unveiled today in a captivating Story Trailer, brought together with an eerie cover of (Don’t Fear) the Reaper. Returning from the frontlines to a London devastated by war and disease, Dr. Jonathan Reid awakens to a once-hidden world of ungodly crea

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