#2 Weekly Esports Gaming News Industry Trends Round Up

Bleed esports makes waves by signing one of the top VALORANT players, history was made in the Overwatch League as talented 17-year-old becomes the youngest player ever named Rookie of the Year, FaZe Clan’s Nate Hill provides insights into the state of esports and the path ahead, whilst the South Korean team secures an esports gold medal and military exemption at the Asian Games. Gaming studio Bethesda stealth launched a new Elder Scrolls, SteamVR 2.0 just dropped, LoL reached $1B due to quick match and touch enhancements and we look into how web3 can build stronger communities for esports. This is a big one you don’t want to miss.

Also in our weekly round-up:

• Last year’s winners plus 5 others will not be at LoL Championship 2023

• Crosskill team member banned due to hack at BGIS 2023

• S Korean win a gold medal and military exemption at Asia Games

• Video games releasing in October 2023

• Acer unveils accessible Nitro V 15 gaming laptop

• Navigating the Esports Boom: Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

• Exploring the sponsorship restrictions and hurdles in esports

• Esports has seen growth but is mobile being overlooked?

• Counter-Strike 2, the best tips for getting started from CS:GO pros

• Esports tournament organiser Blast secures €12.7m in latest funding round

Esports Industry, Players, & Team News 🏆

• Bleed Esports unveil yay signing, yay’s time with Envy/OpTic helped him carve out his stake as one of the greatest players in VALORANT history

• Overwatch League has its first 17-year-old Rookie of the Year, the youngest player to ever get an award in league history

• The defending champions and 5 other teams will not be at League of Legends World Championship 2023

• OG are the only team to have ever won The International twice, where are the 2018 and 2019 champions now?

• Crosskill Esports’ CKxKinG banned during BGIS 2023 Losers Bracket due to hacking

• Antaryami Gaming joins Revenant Esports

• FGCU esports teams prepare for upcoming seasons

• Ludwig wants Moist x Shopify Rebellion to challenge the top teams

• Sparg0 wins back to back coinbox ultimate tournaments

• Ninjas in Pyjamas have appointed Björn "⁠THREAT⁠" Pers as their Counter-Strike division's new General Manager

• Gamerlegion part ways with Anzhar "⁠NeaLaN⁠" Iskhakov and is no longer a part of the starting line-up

• T1 to face G2 and more EU teams in offseason LoL event

• Ranking the regions ahead of TI 12: War For Supremacy

• Business Beyond the Game: FaZe’s Nate Hill Talks State of Esports

• Marc Robert “Caedrel” Lamont has been one of the best additions to the LEC broadcast team but retires as LEC shoutcaster to focus on

• Andrew Perlmutter appointed as first-ever NBA 2K League CEO

• Team Spirit's manager Dmitry "Korb3n" Belov spoke on the future of Shopify Rebellion's carry player Artour "Arteezy" Babaev suggests the possibility of retirement after TI12

• Revenant Esports signs female content creator, Play Like Incognito

• S Korean esports team wins gold at Asiad, secure military exemption

• First South American esports championship to be held in Sao Paulo

• 9mobile, Gamr Africa partner on esports tournament

• Upcoming ESL Pro Tour, ESL Impact tournaments to be played in CS2

• Women’s League of Legends tournament PATHFINDERS partners with Logitech G

• With LoL Worlds 2023 fast approaching, take a look at how the pros coming from abroad are doing in the Korean solo queue

• MAAC a pioneer in the high-end Game Design partners with TWOB for a first-of-its-kind Gaming Tournament titled, "MAAC Gaming League"

• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League Invitational 2023 is here, and it’s even bigger and more exciting, we list all the qualified teams

• When Does Valorant Champions Tour 2024 Start?

• Valve Cracks Down on TI12 Compendium bug abusers

• Apex Legends pro ragequits scrims after hilarious argument

• China is set to compete in the Mobile Legends M5 World Championship Wildcard

• Polish legend returns to top-tier CS competition with GamerLegion

• Mihai "⁠iM⁠" Ivan says Natus Vincere's improved form comes down to a good team atmosphere- all members are more comfortable with our goals

• NAVI and MOUZ qualified for ESL Pro League Season 18 Grand Finals

• Ziehl-Abegg levels up Royal eSports Masters with Pokémon Unite Addition

• PUBG Mobile Global Championship to begin on November 2, a total of 50 teams will compete in for a total prize pool of $3 million USD

• Free Fire World Series 2023 is set to return to Bangkok after a grand edition last year-has a $1million prize pool, but it’s much less than last year

• Epic Games esports operations manager shares frustrations with layoffs ahead of massive Fortnite event

• Esports can create compelling new academic experiences for students to develop real-world skills, heres’ how to get started with an esports programme

• League of Legends’ salary cap: Why does it matter?

• EU court rejects Valve appeal against €1.6 million fine for 'geo-blocking' Steam games, says policy existed to protect publisher royalties and 'the margins earned by Valve'

• Looks like NVIDIA got raided by French antitrust authorities as the Autorité de la concurrence carried out a dawn raid

• Online used car retailer Carvana has joined with esports and gaming company NRG in hosting a skills challenge event to find the world’s next Rocket League pro

• University launches £1.6million esports and market research facilities

• Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, announces its strategic acquisition of AcceleratXR, a provider of

• Inclusivity, ambition and charity – Esports prepares for new season

• Future for esports looks bright for Malaysia after silver finish

• Underdogs help switch more people on to esports

• The Jamaica Esports Initiative National Esports League Grand Finals ignite the Mona campus

The International 2023 🏅

• The International 2023 coming back to its roots - Twenty teams competing for glory

• 5 legends making a comeback at The International 2023

• Tundra partners with Ballantine’s for The International

• Dota 2: The International 12’s Prize Pool is at ~$2.5M just a day after the compendium

Gaming News 🕹️

• VALORANT Mobile’s leaked practice maps are another feature PC players desperately want

• Video games releasing in October 2023

• EA Sports introduces new era of football esports with EA Sports FC Pro

• iFlicks talks about the potential impact of Valorant Mobile on BGMI 

• Final Fantasy 7's gacha game is making its way over to PC

• Modern Warfare 2 & Warzone Season 6 full patch notes

• Marius “Veigar v2” Aune who is the strategic coach for Cloud9 states that each day that goes by, LoL becomes softer and softer

• A longtime favorite skating game arrives on Steam this week

• MK1 marks another win in the studio’s almost 30 years of near-flawless victory - Mortal Kombat 1 review

• Sega abruptly scraps extraction FPS Hyenas inches from the finish line blaming Lower profitability in Europe

• Cities: skylines 2 delayed until next year on consoles

• Expect a more interactive Tekken 8 Story Mode with the addition of this new feature

• Bethesda just launched a new Elder Scrolls title without telling anyone

• 12 years since release, The Binding of Isaac is getting proper online co-op soon

• CS2 is really bad at the moment, but it's our job to accept it as professional players states Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer

• Prime Gaming members get Ghostwire: Tokyo, Dead by Daylight content, and more in October

• The Talos Principle 2 is coming in November, and this time there's a whole gang of robots to deal with

Level Up Your Hardware 🎧

• AMD Zen 5 and 6 CPU details and performance 'leak' and slightly disappoint

• Meta Quest 3 hands-on: A proper successor to the most popular VR headset

• LG Gram Pro 17 review: a Gram with more gusto

• Acer unveils accessible Nitro V 15 gaming laptop

• CRKD Nitro Deck hands-on: The Switch has never felt this good

• Huzzah, the new anti-melting 12V-2x6 GPU power connector duly doesn't melt in initial testing

• Logitech's new racing cockpit is a $299 foldable chair -You can fold the Playseat Challenge X up and stow it away when it's not in use

• The best bit about SteamVR 2.0 is no longer having to take your headset off every 5 minutes

Trends 📈

• League of Legends: Wild Rift reaches $1 billion across 111 million downloads - data suggests the milestone was reached through optimisation of touch controls and quick matches

• Navigating the Esports Boom: Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

• Women’s esports are stronger than ever, next comes the hard part

• Exploring sponsorship restrictions in esports - the hurdles faced by esports organisations in the sponsorship sphere explained

• Learning points: Benefits and ethical challenges of AI in gaming

• Game On! The Top 10 Video Game Trends In 2024

• Fable devs say modern games are too risk averse

• The gaming industry undergoes remarkable expansion

• This base builder sits at the bottom of your screen, which means nobody knows I've been playing it during meetings

• Join the future of gaming with the Blockchain Game Alliance

• Shenandoah University holds an esports ergonomics and injury prevention worskhop

• The integration of esports in education in Africa, Chrisland Schools

• Esports has seen significant growth over recent years but is mobile being overlooked-the industry needs to start taking mobile esports more seriously

• Why esports and gaming is leading more students toward STEM education and careers

Web3 Gaming 🎲

• Web3 Gaming with NFTs: 10 Reasons to Join the Trend

• How web3 can build stronger communities for esports

• Once app stores change their policies and when we see a favourable economic model for developers as well as players, the web3 game market will flip

• Web3 adventure game Big Time poised to kickoff its player-owned economy’

• An underserved user base willing to play the game not just for fun, but to earn, how a gaming studio uses blockchain

• Much more appealing’ than just collectibles: web3 gaming’s potential

• Gala Games reveals launch date for Blockchain Business Simulation

• ESE Entertainment notches collaboration for Web3 Game Arena

• Dappicom’s bid to reinvent Web3 gaming as it is the world’s first and only attempt at classic Nintendo emulation in ZK

• Top 10 web3 innovators who transformed the web3 gaming industry

• Banxa and Animoca Brands to provide seamless NFT Transactions for Sports FansDfinity foundation and the game company partnership revolutionizes gaming on decentralized

• 18 blockchain games listed on Sui’s Play Beyond hub

• Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo jump on web3 space, who else has joined them? We look at the data

• Planetarium Labs goes Omnichain, launches BNB Chronicles

• Era Games unveils exciting new features and gameplay for its NFT-Based WEB3 Game

Guides, Tips and Tricks 🗝️

• Counter-Strike 2, the best tips for getting started in from CS:GO pros and Competitive vs Premier in CS2: What’s the difference?

• The 5 most watched World of Warcraft streamers on Twitch

• 5 best recoil-control tips for beginners in PUBG Mobile (October 2023)

• EA FC 24 Ultimate Team: the top 5 tips to take your game to the next level

• Dead by Daylight slugging guide: How to slug like a pro

• Silent Hope all base camp facilities, explained

Investments and Raises 💵

• Esports tournament organiser Blast secures €12.7m in latest funding round

• Zakazane raises $1M for game studio packed with Eastern European veterans

• Aug X Labs raises $3.1M to use AI to democratize video production

• Qor Gaming, LLC Secures Major Investment from TTI Gaming Holdings, LLC as Lead Investor

• Nexgami secures $2m seed financing

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