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Dota Underlords releases the last update before Season 1 Valve have unveiled an update this Thursday, which will introduce a plethora of changes to the Dota-themed auto battler game Dota Underlord, including a new ranged hero with an exciting arsenal of abilities, named Enno. The announcement of the Dota Underlords update surfaced on Dota Underlords official Twitter account, where Valve unveiled the heavily anticipated auto battler game will come out of the Early Access on February 25, 2020, making it fully accessible by anyone. The announcement on Steam read: "As mentioned a few weeks ago, this will be our…

Ninjas in Pyjamas sign Lelis and Daxak to Dota 2 roster Ninjas in Pyjamas have announced the signing of Nikita "Daxak" Kuzmin and Rodrigo "Lelis" Santos who will round up NiP's new Dota 2 roster which will compete in 2019/20 season of Dota Pro Circuit season. Ninjas in Pyjamas entered 2019/20 DPC season hoping they can make an impact, however, failed to see the success they were looking for, which resulted in the organization's decision to let go of Nico "Gunnar" Lopez and Malthe "Biver" Winther in favour of Lelis and Daxak, who have become an official members of…

CS:GO update adds major changes to three maps Valve, the developer and publisher of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has released an update, which introduced some major changes to Train, Mirage and Dust II, which could have a significant impact on how the maps will be played, meaning it will also affect the competitive scene. The recent CS:GO update, which went live this Wednesday, January 29, introduced several adjustments to Mirage, while also opening up skyboxes outside B-side on Dust II and near Ivy on Train map. The said changes might seem like nothing ground-breaking, yet there is already concern how…

LGD.International reveals its Dota 2 roster After months of rumours and speculations, the LGD.International has finally revealed its fresh Dota 2 squad this Thursday, January 30, via Dota 2 Major and Minor tournament registration page. Rumours surfaced earlier in November 2019, which claimed that the new LGD.Int Dota 2 roster will be announced before the end of the year, however, things did not go as planned which resulted in a delayed announcement. Nonetheless, the wait has finally ended this Thursday, when the LGD.Int SEA roster was revealed to the public. Representing the team will be Christian "Skadi" John Abasolo,…

Overwatch League will introduce hero pool Season three of Overwatch League is rapidly approaching and it seems like it's about to get much more interesting, according to the recent announcement from game director Jeff Kaplan, who unveiled 2020 OWL will introduce Hero Pools feature, starting with OWL week 5. Jeff Kaplan announced the addition of Hero Pools to Overwatch beginning March 5, 2020. The said feature will also be implemented into the Overwatch League starting on March 7. With the Hero Pool system, Overwatch will remove one tank hero, one support hero and two damage heroes from the list…

Riot Squad part ways with coach weber Riot Squad Esports have announced mutual parting with their CS:GO head coach Brandon "weber" Weber after just over five months since his arrival at the North American esports organization. The British coach and analyst joined Riot Squad Esports on August 24, 2019, as a replacement for Josh "shinobi" Abastado, who transitioned Riot Squad Academy coach position. Unfortunately, weber's five-month tenure with the North American organization has come to an end this Wednesday, January 29, when Riot Squad announced the mutual parting on their official Twitter page. During his five-month stint with Riot…

Pokrovac becomes the world first Legends of Runeterra player to reach Master rank The Czech Hearthstone champion ikuláš "Pokrovac" Dio has become the first player in the world to reach Master rank in Legends of Runeterra this Wednesday, as announced by LoR official Twitter page. Legends of Runeterra (LoR), a Riot Games-owned free-to-play digital collectable card game has been live for barely five days, and it seems five days is all Pokrovac needed to climb the ladder and become the world-first LoR Master rank player. Since the game was released back on January 24, 2020, a lot of esports…

SumaiL joins OG Dota 2 team The two-time International champions OG have announced the arrival of Syed "SumaiL" Hassan as the third member of their Dota 2 roster, following the departure of three of their key players earlier this week. OG made a massive announcement earlier this Tuesday, January 28, unveiling the arrival of former Evil Geniuses member and 2015 International champion SumaiL, who will join forces with Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen and team captain Johan "N0tail" Sundstein in OG venture into 2019/20 Dota Pro Circuit season. "Once a rival who lived evil he’s now a precious ally who wants…

Overwatch League 2020 power rankings – Top 10 teams The 2020 Overwatch League is set to take off on Saturday, February 8, when we will get to see the top 20 OWL teams duke it out for the largest slice of US $5 million prize pool and the title of Season 3 champions. San Francisco Shock are entering the season as the reigning champions and the main favourites to do it again. While it's hard to forget their dominant run in 2019, the biggest question here is whether they will live up to the expectations and hoist the trophy again…

Dendi unveils his own esports organization B8 After months of waiting, Danil "Dendi” Ishutin one of the most iconic Dota 2 players in the history of the game, has decided to reveal the name and other details about his own esports organization B8 earlier this Monday. Dendi has announced he is planning to launch his own esports organization in September 2019 and later in December introduced the line-up for his Dota 2 team, while refusing to reveal any further details about what was soon to be his own esports organization until this Monday. Dendi's new esports organization B8 which…