The stream that was sitting at just under 100,000 views was being displayed on Polygon, the Verge, SB Nation and Eater.

By Chris ‘Sargon’ House The third season of the Evetech Champions League concludes this weekend. Four of the top South African Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) teams will compete against each other for a share of the R50,000 prize pool. This is after Goliath Gaming, Energy Esports, Big 5 Esports, and Sinister5 proceeded to the ECL Finals after successful group stage …

I’m not going to debate whether or not pro-gamers and esports stars are athletes. If you stick with dictionary definitions, then they very probably aren’t. English, however, isn’t some immutable thing. It’s a living, constantly evolving language – and it seems that the word “athlete” is slowly being redefined.

This year will be only the second rAge in the expo’s existence that I won’t be attending. I’ll be sipping cocktails and eat street food on a beach somewhere over the weekend, which means that I’ll be missing the Asus Republic of Gamers CS:GO invitational. Of course I’ve never really watched any CS:GO so I’m not especially saddened by this. Still, it seems like it could be a bit of fun.

As a ranked mode was recently introduced into the game, it only makes sense that Respawn and EA would announce the game’s push into the competitive esports scene. Apex Legends is the battle royale game that nobody knew they so desperately wanted. With many believing the genre to have reached a saturation point and massive titles like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and …

The game that has currently transcended popular culture to become a full-blown phenomenon dished out million-dollar prizes for the winners of the game’s various divisions. I’m always so tempted to start articles about Fortnite with the classic, “Ever heard of Fortnite? It’s pretty big right now” and it takes all of my self-control to restrain myself from using such a …

Feeling cocky and with a huge health bar lead over his opponent at a recent Samurai Shodown tournament,one player decided that it was time to show off as he threw his weapon aside and went in for the kill. And let me tell you something brother, the next ten seconds were beautiful.

The “excitable humans from NAG” as they so lovingly describe themselves are no strangers to hosting gaming events, especially considering they have multiple rAge expos under their belt. Rush has been going on for a couple of years now and was formed as the esports arm of rAge. This was my first year attending and whilst I only attended Day …