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Diem could miss OWL opener due to health concerns Shanghai Dragons, a Chinese Overwatch League team have announced their star DPS Bae "Diem" Min-seong will be unable to participate in the opening fixtures of 2020 OWL due to a serious health issue that could see him ruled out of the professional play for at least a month. The OWL team made the announcement earlier this Monday, January 20, on their official Weiboo and Twitter accounts, where they unveiled Diem is undergoing medical treatment in Korea. While the team calmed the fans by claiming his condition is stable, Diem will,…

Dev1ce declared as the third-best CS:GO player of 2019 Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz has been declared as the third-best CS:GO, player of 2019 by the leading Counter-Strike: Global Offensive news website HLTV, due to his consistency and incredible results in the biggest tournaments of 2019. Dev1ce started his career as a CS player as a teenager when he was attending CS: Source LAN events in Denmark and was quickly spotted by Copenhagen Wolves who decided to sign him to their roster in 2011. Despite his incredible performances in CS: Source, it was not until CS:GO when dev1ce truly started to…

Epic Games and TikTok announce Fortnite dance emote contest This Saturday, Epic Games announced their collaboration with TikTok, to present the Fortnite #EmoteRoyaleContest, in which players and fans of the widely popular battle royale game will have a chance to have their own dance featured in the game as a new Fortnite emote. Fortnite unveiled a new exciting partnership with a video-sharing social networking service TikTok to introduce the #EmoteRoyaleContest, which will give Fortnite fans a chance to leave their own mark in the widely popular battle royale game. The #EmoteRoyaleContest, was announced on Fortnite's Twitter account and on…

Arcitys unveils a vision exploit in Modern Warfare The Call of Duty League is only a week away and while many would expect everything to be set and ready for what will be the biggest and most prestigious event in CoD esports history, it seems like Infinity Ward still has a lot of things to improve and fix, namely the newly unveiled game-breaking vision exploit. Alec "Arcitys" Sanderson, the main AR for the Chicago Huntsman shared a short clip on his official Twitter account unveiling a vision in-game bug he discovered during one of his Call of Duty matches…

Golden rejoins Fnatic as a permanent member Fnatic have officially signed their former In-Game-Leader Maikil "Golden" Selim as the permanent member of their CS:GO roster, after he spent four months as a loaned player from Cloud9. With his signing, Fnatic have completed their roster for 2020 season. The 25-year-old IGL joined Fnatic on September 16, 2019, on a loan basis alongside his former teammate Robin "flusha" Rönnquist, who both played for Fnatic in 2017-2018. The arrival of Golden and Flusha was in eyes of many a very questionable move from the Swedish esports organization and there were not a…

Valve update matchmaking for Dota 2 Valve unveiled the newest update directed towards Dota 2 matchmaking system, which has been hit with several updates in recent months, with the most recent making some much-needed changes to the scaling MMR based on relative skill and the ranked game modes. In the announcement, which surfaced on Thursday, January 16, Valve revealed they are removing the variability in the amount of MMR players gain and/or lose from a match, meaning there will no longer be games "that give results like +10/-40". Solo games which previously gave 25 MMR will now give 30…

North unveil a surprise return of MSL to their CS:GO team North, a Danish esports organization, unveiled the signing of their former member and IGL, Mathias "MSL" Sommer Lauridsen who has returned to the team after over one year as their newest addition and a crucial member in North’s ambitious plans for the 2020 season. North recently underwent a massive rebranding and are currently in the process of rebuilding their CS:GO roster for the 2020 season, in a bid to establish themselves as the biggest and most successful Scandinavian esports organization. The North's rebranding took place early in January,…

Envy bench FugLy, with more roster changes on the horizon Two weeks after announcing the benching of Bradley "ANDROID" Fodor, Team Envy released yet another roster update earlier this Wednesday, unveiling Jacob "FugLy" Medina has been removed from their active roster, while suggesting some major changes are set to take place in the team. The North American organization made a "CS:GO Update" post on their official Twitter account, unveiling they are moving FugLy from their active roster to the reserve roster as a restricted free agent while suggesting "additional roster change information is coming soon". FugLy has been a…

CoD Mobile surpasses 180 million downloads in three months since its launch Call of Duty: Mobile has surpassed 180 million downloads barely three months after its release on October 1, 2019, making it the most-downloaded game on both Google Play and App Store in Q4 of 2019, and the second most-downloaded game of 2019. Call of Duty: Mobile launched on Tuesday, October 1, and has since amassed a huge following of over 180 million players, according to Sensor Tower's Q4 2019 Data Digest. With those numbers, Cod: Mobile has had the second-best quarter of any mobile game in history, in terms…

Ninja gets his own Fortnite skin It was a long time coming, but Epic Games finally announced Richard Tyler "Ninja" Blevins will receive his own skin in Fortnite, which will be the first official Fortnite skin for a content creator and/or streamer and will set a precedent for streamers and content creators going forward. Richard Tyler Blevins, more commonly referred as his online alias – Ninja, is one of the most well-known online personalities and without a doubt the most recognisable name when it comes to Fortnite. Ninja has been heavily involved with Epic Games' prized battle royale game for…