#4 Weekly Esports Gaming News Industry Trends Round Up

Post Malone brings star power to Apex Legends, FaZe Clan continues to dominate Halo, and The International 2023 playoffs are set. Epic is enticing developers to showcase their back catalogue on the Epic Games Store but controversy strikes at Tekken tournament as Just Stop Oil makes its mark. Streamers get new tech in the form of Elgato's new teleprompter and Mastercard launched an academy to promote diversity. New Valorant mobile leaks show map training modes and we share methods on how to break into the esports industry plus much more

Also in our weekly round-up:

• nouns stun Tundra Esports

• Caps from Europe to Korea to give Faker a pointed gift

• YaLLa Esports announces $450,000 ‘Compass’ CS2 tournament

• Twitch Stories - Everything to know

• Seekers of Skyveil the new LoL & Diablo-inspired RPG

• Asus adds new DDR5 overclocking option to Z790 ROG motherboards

• New Selling System coming to Fortnite Creative

• Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal will be a new lure for brands

• Ex-Sony, Apple exec joins The Sandbox as chief content officer

• Lords of the Fallen 10 tips to get started

Esports Players & Teams News 🏆

• FaZe Clan crowned 2023 HCS Champions

• VALORANT team comes in clutch, UTD Esports placed first in the Red Bull Campus Clutch qualifiers, then third in San Antonio

• nouns stun Tundra Esports to secure an upper bracket spot at TI12; will face Azure Ray

• ONIC Esports makes history as they win for a 3rd time in convincing MPL ID Season 12 grand final win

• Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius thinks some superstars are skeptical about CS2 and not putting in as much work

• eSports most popular team - The reigning champions of eSports

• Caps came all the way from Europe to Korea to give Faker this pointed gift

• Natus Vincere unveils new NAVI Junior academy roster, featuring youngsters aged between 16 and 18 years old

• Talon Esports secure an upper bracket slot at TI12; banish Gaimin Gladiators to the lower bracket

• Guild Esports Fortnite player ‘Chico’ wins $200k in FNCS final

• Reject wins PUBG Mobile Japan League Season 3 Phase 2, top two teams qualify for PMGC 2023

• Oakland esports Rocket League qualifies for CRL

• BGIS 2023: Team Gladiators conquer the finale, Olympic champ Neeraj Chopra congratulates winners

• Global esports roster finalized for VCT 2024 Season

• Man City esports complete signing of EA FC pro player Donovan ‘Tekkz’ hunt

• Post Malone is coming to Apex Legends for 'two weeks of mayhem,' may God help us all

• Arcully talks about CAG and their chances to qualify for the Six Invitational 2024

• VALORANT: What are we watching this week?

• Team BDS’ reverse sweep marks most epic end to Worlds 2023 Play-In Stage

• Solo queue might be depressing but to Kanavi, it’s a gold mine for pro play

• WoW Classic Hardcore squad clutches a world-first clear of Naxxramas after the heroic sacrifice of their guild leader

• DEV1CE extends Astralis contract which was set to expire in 2025, has been extended an extra year

• In 2018 Rémy "⁠XTQZZZ⁠" Quoniam helped build Vitality's Counter-Strike team, after two years away he returns as Head Coach

• Chel Community Showcase: Team Entourage

• BLAST R6 Major Atlanta Phase 1 groups have been unveiled

• A 2-0 loss to GAM Esports has condemned Movistar R7 to elimination, becoming the first side to crash out of Worlds 2023’s Play-In Stage

• Heroic sign Scrunk as assistant coach

• NIU named new home for the Illinois High School Esports Association

• Women’s CS and Valorant Interview with Winteriio and Ne0kai at Insomnia 71

• Entrepreneur calls play-by-play for esports - UTA student turns expertise in esports into lucrative side hustle

• Sri Lanka’s national esports teams powered by Dialog perform at IESF’s 15th world esports Championship Asian Regionals

• S1MPLE to miss IEM Sydney, Coach Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy will stand in for the Ukrainian star and Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius will take up AWPing

• Four CS:GO players who left lasting legacies without the biggest trophy cabinets

• SBJ Esports: MLB 9 Innings looks to create baseball communities

• More than a game: as the Panther eSports lounge in the Graham Center to level up

Tournament, League & Season News 🏅

• YaLLa Esports announces $450,000 ‘Compass’ CS2 tournament

• PUBG Mobile Global Championship – Schedule, how to watch

• Esports Presidential Cup to be held on Oct 21-22

• IMSA Announces 2023 IMSA Esports Global Championship

• What is the biggest eSports final?

• The International 2023: All teams qualified for the TI12 Playoffs

• DreamHack Winter 2023: Full events list and esports lineup

• Halo World Championship 2023 becomes title’s second most-watched event

• 2023 editions of the Clash of Clans World Championship and the Clash Royale World Finals are once again combining for the Clash Fest 2023

• FACEIT announces Rocket League OFFSEASON OPEN

• MPL MENA Fall Split Playoffs: Complete schedule, team list, and more

Industry News 🛡️

• Microsoft’s US$69bn Activision Blizzard takeover clears final hurdle with UK approval

• Mastercard launches the Mastercard Gamer Academy to boost diversity in esports and gaming

• Alcohol partnerships - where do they belong in esports?

• Working in esports -How to break into the esports industry

• The most active fan-run esports tournaments and events game revealed

• Saudi Arabia to Host Annual Global Gaming and Esports Conference

• Just Stop Oil Vandalise EGX 2023 Tekken 7 Tournament

• Brawlhalla World Championship joins forces with Make-A-Wish Georgia

• Mobile Global Esports gets extension to comply with Nasdaq minimum price rule

• Insurance for gamers? FWD has a tailored plan in special collaboration with MPL PH

• HLTV Awards Show 2023 heads to Belgrade to celebrate Counter-Strike

• Team Vitality announces Tradeit as official skin marketplace partner

• Epic turns on the money hose to lure game devs into releasing their golden oldies on the Epic Games Store

• Twitch streamer banned due to Hateful Username 

• WinZO enters Brazil market, allocates $25mn for expansion and also aims to offer more games catering to the Portuguese market

• Twitch Stories - Everything to know about the platform's TikTok-style feature

• CD Projekt Red used AI to include a deceased actor's voice in Cyberpunk 2077 DLC

• Gamer Pakistan subsidiary ‘K2 Gamer’ announces first major sponsorship from 313 Mobiles for Super Mega Pakistan Universities Esports Championship 2023

• KIA continues League of Legends takeover with Cloud9 partnership

• How 28% Tax can be the death knell for India's gaming industry

• G2 Mimi breaks her silence on Sexism Speculation

• Simracing.GP partners with Chillblast

• UC Berkeley and SKS Partners unveil $2B R&D space hub at NASA Ames

• MPL Indonesia breaks 100m hours watched for Season 12

• D’Youville unveils new esports arena for gaming competitions

• Esports project nominated in Scottish Games Awards 2023, with Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf set to open the ceremony

• Lenovo gift elevates Electronic Competitive Sports Program

Gaming News 🕹️

• The Modern Warfare 3 beta shows just how important it is who makes Call of Duty

• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review: The rare game that's both bigger and better

• When does The Haunting start in Warzone - and the Doom Shotgun is tweaked for better or worse

• Lords of the Fallen 3 player co-op, explained

• Epic Is Killing ‘Rocket League’ trading for a terrible reason

• New Valorant mobile leaks reveal agent MVP animations, map training modes, & more

• Support your favorite teams with the now available Worlds 2023 Renekton skin

• TI 2023 Emergency Patch: Valve Fixes Gameplay and Dota TV Issues

• Riot Games shares updates on the Skarner VGU in the latest developer blog post, reveals new abilities and a revamped look of the LoL champion

• What happened to real-time strategy games?

• Seekers of Skyveil is a new LoL & Diablo-inspired RPG from Blizzard and Riot Games veterans

• Build your own digital D&D dungeons and let your players explore them in first-person with this clever new tool

• Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted'

Level Up Your Hardware 🎧

• Radeon Golden Rabbit Edition GPU is on its way but this time it's not an RDNA 3 card

• Steam Deck only now dropping off Valve's Top 10 chart after a year and a half shows the staying power of the wee handheld gaming PC

• Best OLED gaming monitors in 2023

• Elgato's new teleprompter is designed for streamers

• Asus adds new DDR5 overclocking option to Z790 ROG motherboards for hunting down more fps and better stability

• The Stream Deck MK.2 is on sale for just $130

• ROG launches MLBB-themed phone ahead of M5 World Championship

• Intel hits 6GHz (again) with its 14th-gen desktop CPUs

Trends 📈

• New Selling System coming to Fortnite Creative

• Esports are the next big thing in afterschool activities 

• Brain Stimulation & Performance in CS:GO

• Scrollbars are becoming a problem

• Microsoft Xbox Mobile store coming in 2024: Report

• LoL Worlds to feature game-changing win probability data thanks to AWS

• How AI and other tech are accelerating game development - Steven Collins interview

• How Google Cloud is setting the gaming scene in Vietnam

• Malaysia promotes Esports Development Hub with RM30 million to encourage international developer studios to invest in the country

• Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal will be a new lure for brands

• How do broadcasters deliver what different generations want from live sports?

• Esports: Team Liquid’s Masters of Data

• How one gun company partnered with Call of Duty to attract 'young potential shooters'

Web3 Gaming 🎲

• Delabs Games preparing to launch Rumble Racing Star: pre-registration underway

• Azra Games: An NFT Project by the creator of Galaxy of Heroes

• Gods Unchained: all you need to know

• Ex-Sony, Apple exec Nicola Sebastiani joins The Sandbox as chief content officer

• Ape Accelerator is live to boost ApeCoin adoption

• Climate change game Zeedz goes live on app stores with $1 million investment

Guides, Tips and Tricks 🗝️

• Tier 7 Minions explained: Hearthstone Battlegrounds Guide

• Lords of the Fallen 10 tips to get started 

• Forza Motorsport 7 top cars from each class

• Mobile Legends Mathilda guide: Best build, skills, emblems, combos

• Best SMG and Attachments in MW3 Beta

• Honkai Star Rail updated character tier list – Best To Worst

• How to unlock the vault at Mega City in Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 4

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