Riot Games: Teamfight Tactics has more than 33 million players per month Teamfight Tactics has been hitting all the right notes. Besides the major game updates revealed through the recently releasedTeamfight Tactics (TFT) 9.19 patch notes, Riot Games also confirmed that over 33 million players are playing TFT every month. Even more amazing is how the game managed to collectively rack up 1.725 billion gaming hours since its launch. Of that total value, 720 million hours were from the last 30 days alone....

Riot opens end-of-year Prestige store, confirms better paced champion release schedule for 2020 League of Legends is still going to be big in 2020. As an an eventful year for League of Legends comes to a close, Riot Games gave fans of the hit MOBA title a couple of big news to anticipate in 2020. First is the opening of the game’s Prestige shop, along with news of a more deliberately paced release schedule for the game’s newest champions....

Riot’s League of Legends Esports Manager will let you manage your own LoL esports team Can you build a team and take them to Worlds? Along with a bevy of other games, including a card game,a tactical shooter,a fighting game, andmobile versions of TFTand League of Legends, Riot Games also announced a sports management game that will let you build and manage your own LoL esports team. Similar to other sports management simulators, Esports Manager will let you sign players, negotiate contracts, and build your ultimate dream team as you try to take your squad to Worlds....

Riot’s single-player League of Legends spinoff, Ruined King, will launch in early 2021 Get your controllers ready for Runeterra. League of Legends developer Riot Games, is stepping out of its comfort zone with its new game, Ruined King: A League of Legends Story. While the game was teased a few months back, Riot recently announced an early 2021 launch date along with a new cinematic trailer. Ruined King will be a turn-based single-player game set in the world of Runeterra....

Roger wins Hearthstone Winter Championship He swept his opponent, Raphael “Bunnyhoppor” Peltzer, 3-0. Luo “Roger” Shengyuan swept HCT Summer Champion Raphael “Bunnyhoppor” Peltzer, 3-0, to win the 2018 Hearthstone Winter Championship and the US$50,000 grand prize. Roger hit the ground running in the Grand Finals, easily winning a Hunter mirror match to take Game 1. While Bunnyhoppor tried to respond with a Hunter deck again for Game 2, Roger’s Quest Rogue overwhelmed his opponent with a deluge of 4/4 minions....

Rookie team Work Auster Force surprises in MPL PH playoffs opener Is Work Auster Force the team to beat? Work Auster Force look to be a major threat in the lower bracket as they defeat fan favorites Nexplay Esports, 3-1, on the first day of theMobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional LeaguePH Season 7 playoffs. The squad, led by coach John Laurence “Lift” Ruiz, looked dominant throughout the series. Work Auster Force lost game one to Nexplay Esports, before winning the remaining three in the best-of-five series....

Shroud is thinking about competing in Fortnite World Cup Superstar streamer set to join the Fortnite World Cup? Former CS:Go pro Michael ‘shroud’ Grzesiek is thinking about the US$30 million Fortnite World Cup, but it’s not about the money. A competitive player through and through, shroud has revealed that he is considering joining the Fortnite World Cup qualifiers, if only to prove he’s among the best when it comes to FPS and battle royale titles....

The SicKth man. Sentinels have finallyannounced their complete rosterfor theVCT 2023season. After months away from competition, Hunter “SicK” Mims is returning to the team as their sixth man. SicK is now the only remaining player from the original Sentinels roster that was formed in 2020, when Jay “sinatraa” Won was still on the team. SicK stepped down from the roster in the middle of VCT NA Stage 2 Challengers, following a family emergency and mental health struggles....

SoNNeikO has parted ways with Ninjas in Pyjamas The Ninjas in Pyjamas Dota 2 squad will no longer be playing with its captain. Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev has announced that he is no longer a part of Ninjas in Pyjamas’ (NiP) Dota 2 team. “I am out from NiP! Thanks to my teammates for good days,” SoNNeikO said in a shortstatementon his personal Twitter account. While the NiP has yet to issue their own statement regarding SoNNeikO’s departure of the team, NiP’s position 4 support player, Adrian “Era” Kreyziu, thanked his now-former teammate in a reply on his tweet....

Steam now uses machine-learning to tell you what game you should play next The perfect addition for anyone addicted to Steam Sales. Valve is introducing an exciting new Steam Labs experiment to Steam. Experiment 008, officially titled “Play Next,” is a simple feature that uses machine learning to tell you what game you should play next. “Using machine learning to make informed suggestions, the feature is designed to help users with extensive libraries decide which of their games to play next,” stated Valve inits official blog....

SumaiL joins Team Aster on loan from Nigma Galaxy King to A. One of Dota 2’s Western superstars will be joining a Chinese team for the first time in his career. In a somewhat unusual arrangement in the Western pro scene, Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan is officially loaned to Team Aster,announced yesterday by the organization. “SumaiL’s exciting performance at the Berlin Major was clear for all to see. After internal discussions within the org, as well as further conversations with Nigma Galaxy and SumaiL, we’ve confirmed that he will be loaned to Aster until this year’s The International,” Aster wrote in their announcement, as translated by ONE Esports....

Super Evil Megacorp pulls plug on support for Vainglory esports It will let partners and the community take on leading roles for esports instead. While many in the videogames industry, and those from the outside even, are speaking about boosting their efforts for esports, the developers for Vainglory are taking a step back. Super Evil Megacorp confirmed it is shifting its focus away from esports and going back to the original intention when they first worked on Vainglory — to build a deep and immersive gaming experience on mobile, said the developers in ablog post....

Team Envy is the first team to qualify for the NA First Strike semifinals FNS dropped 22/14/5 in Game 2 on Ascent. Riot Games’ highly-anticipated First Strike tournament series started today in North America. And the first team to advance to the semifinals was Team Envy, who defeated Immortals 2-0 in a quarterfinals match. Immortals surprised Envy and fans alike when they picked Icebox as the first map of the tournament....