Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
PGL Wallachia Season 9 opened its Swiss group stage in Bucharest on 19 September, and all eight Round 1 series are done. Going into Round 2, eight teams sit at ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 reaches its final day in Barcelona on Sunday 20 September, and Aurora Gaming are already through to the grand final. Aurora beat...
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...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The MongolZ are out of FISSURE Playground 3. Mongolian rivals 5star eSports beat them 2-0 in the Group A lower-bracket quarter-final on 9 September, sending one...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Falcons have left competitive Dota 2. The Saudi Arabian organisation confirmed the exit on 6 September 2026 and released the five players who won The Inter...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Spirit won BLAST Open Porto 2026, beating MOUZ 3–1 in the CS2 grand final in Porto on Sunday 6 September to take the $250,000 top prize. Danil "donk&q...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Both BLAST Open Porto 2026 semi-finals were decided on Saturday 5 September. The grand final is set: Team Spirit vs MOUZ, starting at 15:00 WEST (14:00 UTC) on ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Xtreme Gaming have released four of the five players who represented them at The International 2026. In an announcement posted to the organisation's officia...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
1win Essence III has been postponed. The tournament was scheduled to run from 2 to 14 September, and its organisers pulled it on the morning of 2 September, the...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The 16-team field for FISSURE Playground #3 was completed on 3 September, when Mongolian side 5star eSports beat Chinggis Warriors 2–0 in the Asia Closed Qualif...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve stopped selling The International 2026 supporter bundles on 2 September at 07:00 UTC, ending 33 days of crowdfunding and locking the TI15 prize pool at $3...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Counter-Strike 2 closed August 2026 with a peak of 1,331,274 concurrent players, its lowest monthly high-water mark since January 2024. The month's average ...