Image credit: Valve There has always been a bit of a stereotype that FPS lobbies are filled with toxic 12-year-olds using a bunch of racial slurs and screaming obnoxiously until...

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Image Credit: Thomas Lefebvre and Axville When the stage lights go out, what remains? For retired esports professionals, that question is becoming harder to avoid....

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Image Credit: Riot Games The VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) is in the midst of its four regional Stage 1 events across EMEA, Americas, Pacific, and China. Each competition offers a...

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Faker and Gumayusi during MSI 2025 Bracket Stage / Image credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games Esports is full of passionate fans and players, so you’re bound to come across heated debates...

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Image Credit: Stephanie Lindgren for BLAST OG is no stranger to making some of the craziest roster moves in Dota 2, but they’ve really one-upped themselves with this one....

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Image Credit: Riot Games League of Legends players can’t seem to let go of the concept that women have a menstrual cycle. Most recently, an apparent coach claimed he tracks...

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Image Credit: The Slick Tony Street Fighter 6 has often seemed like it’s one fighting game title that’s broken free from the chains of the “struggling FGC” stereotype. The Capcom...

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Image credit: Wojciech Wandzel, Riot Games Following the conclusion of VALORANT Champions Paris in September last year, developer Riot Games dropped one of the most disruptive updates in the history...

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Gender-based discrimination in esports is often framed as a problem the industry is slowly outgrowing, and, in some ways, that is true. The scene is more diverse than it...

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Image Credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games Riot Games’ 2027 overhaul of the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) reads like a rebuke of its own recent past. The slogan is comically blunt: everything...

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