Blackpink Island is real: YG Entertainment to open Animal Crossing Blink haven Coming to your area real soon. In celebration ofBlackpink’sfifth-anniversary debut, YG Entertainment has announced the launch of Blackpink Island inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. It will be officially called “In Your Area Island” and will feature all sorts of designs and items made especially for Blinks, Blackpink’s fandom. The new Blackpink Island in Animal Crossing will take you a trip down memory lane Blinks will surely be delighted upon visiting the virtual island....

Blizzard partners with ESL and Dreamhack for Starcraft II and WC3: Reforged esports events RTS esports is all set for a comeback this year thanks to this new deal. Blizzard Entertainment has inked a three-year deal with ESL and Dreamhack to host esports events for both Starcraft II (SC2) and the upcoming remake to their classic game, Warcraft III: Reforged (WC3: Reforged). The deal will create ESL Pro Tour events for both SC2 and WC3: Reforged, with Blizzard providing a combined US$4....

BTK shows up at last minute, wins thrilling best-of-five showmatch at RMC Season 6 What a series. North America’s BTK proved that they still have what it takes to go up against some of the best, after outlastingSIBOL’s Mobile Legends: Bang Bang team3-2 at ashowmatchduring therealmeMobile Legends Cup Season 6 (RMC Season 6) grand final yesterday. SIBOL’s MLBB squad is composed ofBlacklist Internationalmembers who recently won the gold medal at the 31st Southeast Asian Games....

Complete rosters for every team competing in MPL Indonesia Season 7 Who will reign in Indonesia? The seventh season of MPL Indonesia is just a few weeks away and its eight participating teams have officially announced their rosters. With teams shuffling players around for the best possible squad, will there be a rising team who will dethrone the two-time defending champs of RRQ Hoshi? Let’s take a look at the complete team rosters of MPL ID S7....

Disguised Toast’s Valorant team goes 7-0 to qualify for NA Challengers League From Among Us to Valorant. Streamer, content creator, and OfflineTV member Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang made waves in the esports scene when his newly formed Valorant team, Disguised (DSG), qualified for the NA Challengers League on January 13. Toast, who co-streamed all of his team’s matches, got emotional after his squad qualified for Challengers Split 1. “I’m just very happy, and I hope they are happy as well,” said Toast after his team defeated Oxygen Esports in the upper bracket semifinal match....

No rest for the winners. There’s no rest for the winners. The 20th season of DreamLeague commences as the penultimate event of ESL’s first Pro Tour for Dota 2. There are no Dota Pro Circuit points on the line — and no stakes for The International qualification — but there’s a lot of money to be won. What is the Dota 2 DreamLeague 20 tournament? The 20th season of DreamLeague is the second tournament of the inaugural ESL Pro Tour....

Dota Summit 11 Minor: 11 incredible plays you might have missed All the best plays from the first Minor of the DPC 2019-2020 season. The first Minor of the 2019-2020 DPC season is over, and it wasInvictus Gamingwho walked away with the trophy and the last spot at the MDL Chengdu Major. It was an amazing weekend of Dota with plenty of noteworthy individual plays, incredible team fight coordinations, and a thieving courier that helped the eventual champions win a thrilling game....

DRX stax after playoffs victory: ‘We didn’t treat FPX like Masters champions’ DRX remain undefeated. DRXremain undefeated atValorant Champions 2022after a hard-fought 2-0 victory in their upper bracket semifinal match againstMasters Copenhagen champions FunPlus Phoenix. The last time the two teams faced one another was in the lower bracket quarterfinals atMasters Copenhagen, where FPX handed the Korean squad a convincing 2-0 loss. DRX ultimately got their revenge against FPX in Istanbul, with an epic 19-17 overtime win on Ascent – the longest game of the tournament so far....

EDG Flandre evaluates top lane Graves: ‘It’s not a very good pick’ But he has a perfect KDA on this champion? Day 2 of the Worlds 2021 Group Stage opened with a clash between LPL first seed Edward Gaming and LCK third seed T1, two teams that have a long history that peaked at Worlds 2017 in China. During the draft phase, EDG blind picked Graves for Li “Flandre” Xuan-Jun on red side, the same champion that he made his debut on yesterday when the team defeated 100 Thieves in their first match at Worlds 2021....

Will the day ever come? Gamers have always desired to seeesports in the Olympics. While numerous critics have already argued about the inclusion of esports in the Olympics, here’s our list of video game titles that we think have a high chance of making it to the prestigious event (should the day ever come). Before esports in the Olympics, there was esports at the SEA Games Esports first appeared as an official medal category at the30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2019 in the Philippines....

EVOS Laevateinn: What it’s like going pro in just 6 months These rookies aren’t playing around. EVOS Laevateinn is a young Pokémon UNITE team from Indonesia looking to make a splash in the Asia scene. Less than a year old, EVOS Laevateinn have impressed for such a new roster. Several Asian esport organizations recently entered the Pokémon UNITE competitive scene and EVOS Esports, known as one of the biggest esport teams in Southeast Asia, finally made the plunge into Pokémon UNITE....

Exclusive: How Yinsu took lessons from League of Legends host Laure and upped Valorant’s game Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Before becoming a familiar face onValorant esports broadcasts, Yinsu “Yinsu” Collins was working behind the scenes as aLeague of Legends esportsjournalist. Going from print to screen, she’s picked up a new set of skills since she made the big career change in 2020 whenValorantwas first released, holding down the desk during broadcast segments and interviewing pro players — in English and Mandarin with live translations — during tournaments....

Exclusive: Learn how to lurk like a Valorant pro from nAts himself Sneaky Beaky like. Ayaz “nAts” Akhmetshinis one of the best professional Valorant players who achieved international success whenhe won Masters Berlin together with his Gambit Esports teammatesin 2021. It ultimately was his breakout tournament, where he clutched out multiple rounds that looked unwinnable against G2 Esports in the semifinals of the playoffs. His heroics eventually led to the first-ever 13-0 blowout victory in an international LAN event, making history....