Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Five teams have booked their place in the ESL Pro League Season 24 playoffs with one Swiss round left to play. Team Vitality and MOUZ are through at 3-0, with T...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Dota 2 updated again on the evening of 5 October, and again Valve published nothing to explain it. Steam's public application data for app 570 now lists bui...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve shipped a Counter-Strike 2 update on 5 October 2026 at 23:39 UTC — three items, all under a single [ MISC ] heading, with no gameplay, weapon, economy or ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Two weeks after Counter-Strike 2's crosshair overhaul, the tooling that reads old codes has split. csgo-sharecode, a long-running share-code library, shippe...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The BLAST SLAM VIII online phase ended on 3 October, and the playoff field is now locked at six teams. PARIVISION and Team Spirit won their seeding matches and ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Counter-Strike 2's first full day of October topped out at 1,177,785 concurrent players on Steam — a Thursday high 6.2% below the equivalent Thursday before...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Yandex won PGL Wallachia Season 9, sweeping Natus Vincere (NAVI) 3-0 in the Grand Final in Bucharest on 27 September. The win was worth $300,000 out of the...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Rush, the 3v3 queued mode Valve added to Counter-Strike 2 in the Rush Hour update on 22 September 2026, has been patched twice since. Valve's announcement c...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve shipped a Counter-Strike 2 update late on 22 September 2026, announced under the banner Rush Hour. It adds Rush, a queued 3v3 mode played across randomly ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Spirit changed their Dota 2 line-up on 21 September, a month after winning The International 2026. Offlaner Magomed "Collapse" Khalilov and coach...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Vitality won StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026, beating Aurora Gaming 3-1 in the grand final in Barcelona on Sunday 20 September to take the $200,000 first p...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The post-TI Dota 2 tournament calendar finally has a start line. PGL Wallachia Season 9 opens on 19 September and runs to 27 September at PGL Studio in Buchares...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 ends in Barcelona on Sunday 20 September. Six S-Tier tournaments are left on the 2026 calendar after it, running from 3 October ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The first two of the five players released by Team Falcons have found teams. Ammar "ATF" Al-Assaf joined Team Yandex on 17 September, one day after Ol...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Aurora Gaming rebuilt the top of its Dota 2 roster on 16 September, benching carry Egor "Nightfall" Grigorenko and signing two-time The International ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The next Counter-Strike 2 Major is PGL Major Singapore 2026, running 25 November to 13 December 2026. What decides who plays happens much sooner: on Monday 2 No...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Dota 2 patch 7.41f went live on September 15, changing item costs and adjusting heroes including Treant Protector, Shadow Fiend and Anti-Mage. The immediate tak...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
BetBoom Team announced a rebuilt Dota 2 roster on 14 September 2026, confirming three changes across two posts that morning: swedenstrong joins at position four...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Liquid have parted ways with offlaner Ace, the organisation announced on its official Dota 2 X account on 13 September 2026. The Danish player departs afte...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Legacy have won FISSURE Playground 3, sweeping G2 Esports 3-0 in the grand final in Suzhou on Sunday 13 September. The Brazilian side took Ancient 13-9, Mirage ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
G2 Esports and MIBR won Friday's quarter-finals at FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou, both without dropping a map, and the event is down to four teams. The sem...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
OG Esports have parted ways with three of the five players who represented them at The International 2026, leaving the roster with two active players. In a post...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve shipped a Counter-Strike 2 update on 9 September 2026 that encrypts in-game chat inside demo files — the format a third-party tracker had been mining to p...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Andreas "Cr1t-" Nielsen has announced an indefinite break from competitive Dota 2 and will not play the coming season. The Danish support posted the s...