Charlotte Hornets to join NBA 2K League in 2020 It will be 22nd team in the league and will be competing in the third season. The NBA 2K League has announced that an affiliate of the Michael Jordan-owned Charlotte Hornets will be the 22nd team in the league, joining it for its third season in 2020. COMING 2020… ???? X ????????????https://t.co/Wu0S2nw1WOpic.twitter.com/LnAUjVvskW “We are excited to welcome Charlotte to the NBA 2K League as the first expansion team for our third season,” said Brendan Donohue, NBA 2K League Managing Director in theannouncement....

Cignal Ultra: We’re looking forward to playing against Reality Rift The team will need to defeat Reality Rift if they hope to qualify for the ONE Esports Dota 2 Jakarta Invitational. As the winners of the ONE Esports Dota 2 Jakarta Invitational Philippines Online Qualifier, Cignal Ultra, will be competing this weekend at the Malaysia Regional Qualifiers. ONE Esports caught up with the team to see how their preparations are going....

DFM Aria’s player name is actually inspired by MapleStory Taken from royalty. We’ve seen almost all sorts of esports player name and read stories about them, such as howCloud9 Ibrahim “Fudge” Allami’s player name is actually a low-key swear word, or howDetonatioN FocusMe Yang “Gaeng” Gwang-woo’s name came from a sweet Korean snack. DFM Lee “Aria” Ga-eul’s player name was taken from a game that existed long before League of Legends....

Double upsets Chikurin in the Taipei Major Tekken 7 grand finals The 139th ranked player kept his cool after badly losing the first set. Shoji “Double” Takakubo is your Taipei Major 2019 Tekken 7 Champion, but it wasn’t easy for the Japanese pro. Double made it to the grand finals undefeated and was fighting fellow Japanese player Yuta “Chikurin” Take, who had stomped his way through the losers bracket....

Dozens of free demos are now available at the Steam Game Festival More fun reasons to stay indoors this weekend! Video game distribution platform Steam has debuted the2020 Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition, which offers over 40 different demos available for free download. Gamers can choose from the titles that were supposed to be featured in the event’s Indie Megabooth, Wings Fund, Day of the Devs, and The Mix. These include promising titles like the vividly-colored dungeon crawlerGoing Underand first-person puzzlerSuperliminal....

Evil Geniuses sign 100T stars Ssumday and FBI to round out roster Time to live evil. Following the departure ofJeong “Impact” Eon-youngandmultiple coaches,Evil Geniusescompleted their 2023 roster with two star signings, top laner Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and bot laner Ian Victor “FBI” Huang. Ssumday and FBI previously played on100 Thieves, where they led the organization to its first-ever LCS championship back in 2021. The duo also had a taste of international play with two back-to-back Worlds appearances in the last two years....

Fallout 76’s Battle Royale mode is called Nuclear Winter You can play it for free for a week starting today. The Wasteland is getting its own Battle Royale mode for Fallout 76. Announced at Bethesda’s E3 event, the new 52-player battle royale mode sees the last one standing becoming the Overseer of Vault 51. Nuclear Winter will feature 4-player squads, roaming NPC beasts thatwill attack you, perk cards, camp B....

Filipino fan celebrates OG’s TI9 win by putting up a billboard Now that’s a true fan. TheInternational 2019is over, but one fan in the Philippines isn’t quite done celebrating. OG super-fan Jean Paul Julia, who also goes by Chu Julia, celebrated his favorite team’s back-to-back championship win by announcing the news on a giant billboard in Naga City, Philippines. The news broke when Dota 2 community man, Wykrhm Reddy posted a screenshot of Julia asking to use his OG layout forsaidbillboard....

Fortnite World Cup to host US$3M ‘Creative’ mode competition Aspiring creators will be able to design their way to a huge prize pool. If you’re good at building stuff and terrible at taking out other players, you can still win a share of a US$3 million prize pool that’s up for grabs. That’s because Fortnite: Battle Royale developer Epic Gameshas announcedthat they will also be hosting a World Cup competition for the game’s “Creative” mode....

Free Fire India Championship moves into the Finals stage with 12 qualifying teams Team Nawabzaade led the league with 4,455 points. The Free Fire India Championship 2020 has finally concluded its league stage with the top 12 teams qualifying for the finals. Team Nawabzaade took first place on the FFIC rankings, with a total score of 4,455 points. Runner-ups Dessert God came up right behind them with a close score of 4,180 while NAMOONEY grabbed third place with a total of 3,445 points....

Full list of English broadcast talent at Arlington Major 2022 Welcome to the Lone Star State. The stage is almost set for thePGL Arlington Major 2022, the second Major of this year’sDotaPro Circuit season. With this being the last Major beforeThe International 11and boasting the largest DPC point pool up for grabs, the stakes are higher than ever. Arlington also marks the first time the highest level of Dota 2 is heading to the US since the Boston Major in 2016 — and it will see the highly-anticipated return of two-time TI winnersAnathan “ana” PhamandSébastien “Ceb” Debs....

Gamers have watched over 33 million hours of World of Warcraft Classic on Twitch That’s almost catching up to Dota 2’s 34 million of hours watched. World of Warcraft fans can’t get enough of the new Classic server it seems. Released last Monday, World of Warcraft Classic has since clocked over 33 million hours watched on Twitch, reportedThe Esports Observer. The title had clocked 32.7 million hours watched over Monday to Friday morning, quickly catching up to the 34 million hours of Dota 2 watched over the previous week for The International 2019....

Gen.G Esports wins the PUBG Global Championship 2019 The Korean team’s victory even earned them a shoutout from ONE Championship star Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson. Korea’s Gen.G Esports outlasted 15 of the best PUBG teams from around the world to claim their first PUBG Global Championship this weekend. Gen.G took an early lead on day one of the tournament, and were able to hold on to their lead on Sunday to claim the title....