Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Dota 2's player count has fallen by about a third since Steam's weekly maintenance on Tuesday 27 October, days after it set its highest peak since Octob...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
FURIA won PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 on Saturday 31 October, beating Nemiga Gaming 3-2 in the best-of-five grand final and taking $450,000 across PGL's priz...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Vitality won ESL Pro League Season 24, beating MOUZ 3-0 in the grand final at the Spodek Arena in Katowice on Sunday 11 October. The best-of-five went Cach...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve has partly reversed the Trove of Terror's gifting block. A notification headed "Trove of Terror Gifting Update" shipped in the client build ...
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 updated overnight, and Valve posted its Counter-Strike 2 Update notes at 00:54 UTC on 5 November 2026. The patch is aimed at Retakes: a defuse ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Dota 2 updated overnight on 3 November: the client took build 6970, its first new build in more than six days. It changed compiled client code plus a few suppor...
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
Magomed "Collapse" Khalilov has not formally left Team Spirit: since 21 September he has been on the club's inactive list, and Bohdan "Batyuk...
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
As of 6 November, three S-Tier tournaments are left on the 2026 Counter-Strike 2 calendar, and the first of them is already being played: IEM Beijing 2026 (2–8 ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
As of 31 October, the next big Dota 2 main events are 1win Essence III from 12 November, BLAST SLAM IX from 20 November and DreamLeague Season 30 from 2 Decembe...
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
Valve has published its 2 November Regional Standings, replacing the projections behind the PGL Major Singapore 2026 invitation race with an official ranking sn...
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...