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VALORANT Masters Santiago, kicking off Feb 28 in Chile, will be the first VCT event to feature the substantial Harbor buffs from patch 12.02. In‑game leaders from Team Liquid and G2 expressed confidence that the reworked controller could see increased pick rates, citing longer Cove duration and larger High Tide. Conversely, NRG’s IGL Ethan argued the agent remains questionable, recalling mixed results from previous reworks. The tournament, with a $1 million prize pool, will reveal whether the changes shift the meta.
WLMouse unveiled the Ying Magnesium gaming mouse, tipping the scales at an ultra‑light 47 g (±2). The mouse combines a PixArt PAW3950 sensor, Nordic 52840 MCU, and 8 kHz polling with optional Omron optical or TTC Nihil transparent switches. Its magnesium alloy...
Bandai Namco released the Tekken 8 Season 3 trailer at the Tekken World Tour 2025 Global Finals, promising a “fresh start” after Season 2’s backlash. Developers clarified that “back to basics” means incremental refinements, not a major overhaul of the offensive‑heavy meta. Small...
The Orange Pi Neo-01 handheld, slated for a 2026 launch, has been put on hold as DDR5 RAM and SSD prices soar amid a global memory shortage. The device, which would have featured an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or 8840U,...
Corsair announced it will fully absorb Drop, closing the Drop.com storefront by March 31, 2026, with the final order deadline on March 25. The move follows Corsair’s 2023 acquisition of Drop, aimed at expanding its peripheral portfolio beyond core gaming keyboards and...
Razer announced the Kraken Kitty V2 – Hello Kitty Rose Gold Edition, a limited‑edition gaming headset created with Sanrio. The headset features metallic pink earcups, rose‑gold shimmer, Razer Chroma RGB lighting, 40 mm TriForce drivers, and a HyperClear cardioid microphone. It...
BC.Game topped ESL’s February Annual Incentive standings after its appearance at IEM Kraków 2026, posting the highest average viewership of 569,201 and earning eight Viewership Points. The squad advanced through the Play‑In round, beating Legacy and Ninjas in Pyjamas, but...
Malaysia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports, together with the Digital Ministry, announced plans to develop formal esports guidelines aimed at curbing online violence and extremist content among young gamers. The initiative follows concerns that in‑game chat can expose minors to...
Pokémon announced that the 2026 World Championship will run from August 28‑30 in San Francisco, with finals at the Chase Center. The event coincides with the inaugural Pokémon XP fan experience, featuring cosplay contests and workshops. Nearly 3,000 competitors will battle...
The British Esports Federation signed the Armed Forces Covenant on December 4, 2025, committing to support serving personnel, veterans, and their families. The pledge includes discounts on facilities, work‑experience opportunities, and access to supply‑chain partners. British Esports will collaborate with...
MOUZ has extended its strategic partnership with gaming hardware leader Razer for an additional two years, marking the longest‑standing collaboration in the German organization’s history. The renewal emphasizes joint local engagement initiatives, leveraging both companies’ Hamburg headquarters for smoother operations....
CHERRY XTRFY has appointed Counter‑Strike legend Emil “HeatoN” Christensen as a brand ambassador. In his new role HeatoN will represent the company at events, contribute to product development, and test upcoming gaming gear. The partnership builds on earlier collaborations, including...
Hanjin BRION announced the signing of former Cloud9 mid laner Lee “Loki” Sang‑min on a two‑year contract lasting through 2027. The 20‑year‑old will vie for a starting spot alongside incumbent Roamer as the team prepares for the 2026 LCK regular...
Electronic Arts unveiled a slate of nine creators, casters and channels that will host watch parties for the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Online Open 2026, which kicks off on February 28. The Americas will feature two streams – a...
Valve’s Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset that also supports wireless PCVR. In hands‑on testing it ran Half‑Life Alyx at 40‑50 FPS on low settings, aided by dynamic foveated rendering and eye‑tracking. The device offers a high‑resolution display, lightweight ergonomics,...
AMD is rumored to be developing a high‑end RDNA 5 GPU codenamed AT0, featuring up to 96 compute units, a 512‑bit memory interface, and possibly 32 GB of VRAM. The chip would mark a return to the $1,500‑plus enthusiast segment that AMD...
NVIDIA pulled the GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 after users reported black screens, system crashes, unstable clock speeds, and fan‑control failures, especially on RTX 50 series GPUs. The driver was intended to optimize Resident Evil Requiem and embed DLSS 4 MFG and Ray...
Microsoft released DirectX Shader Compiler version 1.9, adding production support for Shader Model 6.9. The update focuses on substantial SPIR‑V backend enhancements, including improved layout, ABI correctness, expanded type‑system support, and more reliable code generation. These changes tighten interoperability with Vulkan...
Lenovo unveiled a Legion Go Fold concept at Mobile World Congress, featuring a foldable pOLED screen that measures 7.7 inches when closed and expands to 11.6 inches unfolded. The device runs on an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor with 32 GB LPDDR5x memory and integrated Arc 140V...
Humble has launched two new bundles aimed at game developers and 3D artists: the Ultimate Game Development Courses Bundle and the JRO 3D Artist Tools Bundle. The courses tier ranges from a $2 entry level covering Blender basics to a...
Chess.com has rebranded its Global Championship as the Chess.com Open, positioning it as the largest open chess tournament of 2026. The event runs from March 14 to April 26, featuring a $250,000 prize pool and three direct berths to the...
ESL Pro League Season 23 runs March 1‑15, 2026, featuring 24 Counter‑Strike 2 teams in online Swiss stages followed by LAN playoffs in Stockholm’s Annexet. The tournament offers a $275,000 prize pool, with the champion earning $100,000 and a spot...
Tickets for the PGL Major Singapore 2026, scheduled Dec 10‑13 at Singapore Indoor Stadium, were released on Feb 25 and have drawn sharp criticism for steep pricing. Single‑day tickets start at $144 and rise to $369 for the final day,...
Unstoppable Domains and SuperVerse have launched the .super on‑chain domain, designed for the SuperVerse gaming ecosystem. The .super name serves as a unified digital identity across games, marketplaces, creators, and community initiatives, replacing wallet addresses with human‑readable names. Each domain...
Esports will make its medal debut at the Gay Games Valencia 2026, featuring Overwatch and EA Sports FC 26 in both individual and team tournaments. The competitions run on July 3rd in an open format that does not separate participants by gender, guaranteeing...
Saudi‑based Geekay Esports announced its return to the Rainbow Six Siege Europe MENA League as a BLAST affiliate for the 2026 season, after a dominant 2025 campaign in the Tier‑2 European circuit. The organization captured three Tier‑2 titles – Saudi eLeague...
Japanese esports powerhouse ZETA DIVISION announced the revival of its Apex Legends roster for the 2026 season, entering the APAC North region’s Online Open on February 28. The new line‑up features former Fnatic star YukaF, alongside veterans Mike and satuki,...
Choi “Lucid” Yong‑hyeok has re‑signed with Dplus KIA, extending his contract through the 2027 season. The renewal follows Dplus KIA’s dramatic reverse sweep of T1 in the LCK Cup playoffs, where Lucid earned series MVP honors. Lucid, a main‑roster jungler...
Nintendo revived its notorious Virtual Boy by adding seven titles to the Switch Online + Expansion Pack on Feb 17 2026. The lineup includes the Japan‑only horror game *Mansion of Innsmouth*, a full‑featured *Wario Land* platformer, and other experimental titles like *Red Alarm* and...
OptiScaler’s test build 0.9.0‑pre10 adds FSR 4 support to Vulkan games by routing the upscaler through a DirectX 12 bridge, effectively bypassing AMD’s official limitation to RDNA 4 GPUs and DX12 titles. The community‑driven implementation works in titles such as Doom: The Dark...
ASUS unveiled the 2026 ROG Zephyrus Duo, the first dual‑screen gaming laptop designed for practical use rather than a novelty. It features two 16‑inch 3K OLED panels with 120 Hz refresh, an RTX 5090 GPU running at 135 W, and a five‑mode hinge...
Supercell announced a new tiered reward system for the Brawl Stars Championship 2026, featuring Chaos Drops, Legendary Drops and exclusive LAN titles. Players earn Chaos Drops every third win in the Championship Challenge and through each round of the Monthly...
D7VK 1.4 has been released, extending the open‑source layer that translates Direct3D 5‑7 calls to Vulkan on Linux. The update introduces depth write‑back support, color‑key transparency, and a consolidated legacy DDraw interoperability path. Compatibility for older Direct3D 5 and 6 titles has been...
iRacing has opened time‑attack trials for the fourth‑season eNASCAR College iRacing Series, running February 24 to March 5 on the virtual Martinsville Speedway. The fastest collegiate racers will qualify for the Old Dominion Classic tournament, where 120 drivers compete for a share...
Unity announced a strategic shift in its graphics architecture, deprecating the Built‑in Render Pipeline in Unity 6.5 and effectively ending active development of the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). The company will concentrate on the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), promising faster...
Sportradar’s 2025 Integrity in Action report monitored roughly 100,000 esports matches and flagged 34 as suspicious due to abnormal betting patterns, lowering the suspicion rate to 0.03%. This represents a 17% decline from 2024 and makes esports one of the...
Gaming journalism is pivoting from large, ad‑driven operations to lean, subscription‑focused models. Mothership reached 2,000 paying subscribers within a week of launch, while worker‑owned sites like Jank and Aftermath are gaining traction with modest fees. The contraction of legacy outlets...
Community feedback highlights that the Mageslayer component of Bloodthorn has become overly dominant in late‑game scenarios, granting excessive magic resist to carries. This power spike penalizes heroes such as Sand King, Leshrac, and Death Prophet, while also providing an outsized...
HP’s Omen Max 16 launches with three GPU options—RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090—and two CPU choices, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375. Priced from $2,099, the Intel‑based RTX 5080 configuration garners the most praise for its OLED 2.5K 240 Hz display and effective Tempest...
The article outlines a step‑by‑step guide for squeezing maximum FPS out of Counter‑Strike 2 on low‑end PCs. It recommends lowering resolution, switching to fullscreen, and setting every graphics option to low while disabling ambient occlusion and HDR. Additional tweaks include turning...
Team Vitality announced it will exit the RENNSPORT R1 series and shift its sim‑racing focus to the upcoming ERL VCO championship while building a dedicated division. The French esports group retained R8G Esports as manager and added three drivers—Kaj de Bruin,...
National Student Esports (NSE) has named student‑accommodation provider Vita Student its headline partner for 2026. The partnership will back the British University Esports Championship and enable NSE to deliver more content, competitive events and enhanced player experiences throughout the academic...
Epic Games announced Rocket League Season 22 for March 11, 2026, and the teaser trailer displayed a potential boost‑timer UI that counts down pad respawns. The visual cue shows a pad shifting from white to gold with a ‘3, 2,...
Gigaverse introduced GIGABIT, a new in‑game currency that anchors its first‑generation ecosystem, Gigaverse 1.0. The token operates on a fixed 100 GIGABIT‑to‑$1 exchange rate, with a redemption value of 0.80 USDC, and allocates 0.15 USDC per transaction to a rewards pool. GIGABIT supports...
Professional Apex Legends player Miron "Effect" Novikov has transferred from Alliance to Aurora Gaming. He will compete in ALGS Year 6 events alongside former world champion Hiarka and returning player ojrein. Effect spent four years with Alliance, winning the 2024 Esports...
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) has named VALORANT 2025 Champions MVP Brock “brawk” Somerhalder as its newest brand ambassador, positioning him to promote the ROG Ace esports hardware line. The move follows ROG’s earlier partnership with CS2 star ZywOo and...
AMD has apparently ceased driver updates for its 2023‑era Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU used in handheld consoles, leaving devices like the ASUS ROG Ally on drivers dating back to August 2025. The pause affects OEMs such as Lenovo and ASUS, which must validate drivers against...
The episode reviews AOC's new Q27G4ZD gaming monitor, a 27‑inch QD‑OLED panel that sits between the brand's 240 Hz and 360 Hz models with a 280 Hz refresh rate and QHD (2560×1440) resolution. It highlights the third‑generation QD‑OLED technology delivering 0.03 ms response, up...
Embark Studios announced a temporary halt to its outbound esports activities for The Finals after community concerns about player conduct surfaced. The studio said it consulted external legal counsel and concluded its actions were appropriate, but chose to pause to...
FC Online has been chosen as the sole title for the esports medal event at Korea’s 55th National Youth Sports Festival, scheduled for May 23‑24 at Busan Esports Stadium. This marks the first time esports will award medals at the...
