Hearthstone News After 3 years, Hearthstone says goodbye to Grandmasters. Why does the program not align with Hearthstone goals, and what to expect for 2022? Hearthstone Grandmasters will come to an end in 2022. The program started in 2019 with the idea to create a highly engaged competitive system. Despite the many format changes and improvements, the Hearthstone Esports team decided to sunset Grandmasters in 2022. Esports.gg talked with Abar, Hearthstone Esports Lead, to bring you the reasons behind the change and how the transition will be....

Call of Duty Guides PC players have been dealing with an annoying issue in Black Ops 6 that makes their upscaling settings not save. While there are plenty of bugs and errors affecting players in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, one is directly making it so many PC players can’t play the game whatsoever. The upscaling setting in the graphics menu of Black Ops 6 is currently bugged, forcing players to use the FidelityFX CAS setting over DLSS and other options....

League of Legends News The LCS Championship is back this week with a monstrous match up in the second round of the upper bracket. LCS titans Team Liquid and TSM will go head-to-head. With the winner qualifying for the 2021 LoL World Championship, who will win? It is a battle between two giants of the LCS with TL taking on TSM. This is the first time fans get to see TSM in the postseason after securing the first seed in the regular season....

League of Legends News League of Legend’s latest champion is budget Invoker, and you won’t sway us otherwise. League of Legends has revealed its next champion, Hwei, and if you’re a fan of Dota, his mechanics are going to be highly familiar. Hwei, a mid lane mage has 10 different spells that must be queued up using multiple individual casts - almost exactly like the Defence of the Ancients hero Invoker....

Entouragestar Kevin Dillon has given ussome sad news today. James McCaffrey, known for his role as the voice of the titular character from theMax Payneseries has died at 65.TMZ reportsthat McCaffrey passed away as a result of a battle with multiple myeloma. McCaffrey first made his debut as a video game voice actor in 2001’sMax Payne. While he stayed close with Remedy, voicing roles in theAlan Wakegames andControl, he also acted as Edward Carnby in 2006’sAlone in the Darkreboot....

News Nati speaks exclusively to esports.gg. Natalie “Nati” Barnes is one of the fastest growing Apex Legends streamers. Her dedication and grind is paying off. January saw her break into the top 50 most watched streamers in the Apex Legends category. While Nati currently lives in the UK, and was born and raised in the North of England, she has a passionate desire to move to the United States. Now, she is working on jumping through all the hoops required to earn a VISA and move to the US....

Apex Legends News NRG reportedly played Series E anonymously in place of team Bad Boys. They placed 2nd, but who was on the NRG roster? NRG Apex supposedly made their debut with their new roster last night. However, they did this in secret. To viewers at the time, it seemed like Team Badboys were simply putting in a strong performance. Since the tournament has concluded, it has emerged that Team Badboys was actually NRG, featuring their new and unannounced third....

DOTA 2 News Misha spent nearly three years of his career in OG. OG and Dota 2 coach Mikhail “Misha” Agatov have gone separate ways, the organization announced on August 14. The Russian coach was part of OG’s coaching staff since March 2023, but he also played for OG between November 2021 and March 2023 and coached them previously from September 2021 to November 2021. Misha’s removal from OG’s Dota 2 staff comes after a string of mixed results this year as OG failed to impress in numerous tier-one tournaments such as BetBoom Dacha Dubai (9th-12th) in February, ESL One Birmingham (fourth place) in April, and more recently the Riyadh Masters 2024 (9th-12th) in July....

‘Cloaked in Silence’ DLC out March 15 Konami has dated theMetal Gear Onlineexpansion, “Cloaked on Silence.” It is coming out in two weeks, March 15. Quiet, who moves faster and has a temporary cloak, is bundled in the $3.99 piece of DLC, which includes three new maps (Coral Complex, Rust Palace, and Azure Mountain). A new mode, Survival, is launching April 7. It features teams of six competing on random maps and missions for the highest win streak to gain greater reward....

Dance through your Desktop While Good Smile Company’s catalogue ofdelightful Nendoroid toysis well into three figures, it is staggering to believe that WayForward’s cute genie gal Shantae was still yet to join the roster. After all, The Half-Genie Hero seems custom designed for such pint-sized stylization. Well, after years of longing, Good Smile has finally opened pre-orders on the new Nendo of the purple-haired wonder, ready to come dancing out of the screen and onto your toy shelf....

[Update: Trailer added. Perverts.] “Dangerous curves,” EA says. They’re talking about both the courses inNeed for Speed The Runand the curves on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 models, Irina Shayk and Christine Teigen. Both ladies will appear in Need for Speed The Run, according to an announcement today. Irina and Christine will be starring as best friends and professional racers Mila Belova and Nikki Blake, beautiful and ruthless competitors who will stop at nothing to reach New York City first and get their hands on the $25 million dollar prize....

Remember all those years ago when we first got a glimpse ofSkyrim? My word, but it was gorgeous. Jaw-dropping vistas of the colder parts of Tamriel were something to behold. Fast-forward some 13 years later and vanillaTES5has certainly aged to some extent. But there’s still life in the ol’ girl, yet. As noted byDSO Gaming, someone has created a version ofSkyrimwith a graphical kiss of life, so to speak. Specifically, someone has ported the game over to Unreal Engine 5, and you’re able to now play the demo of this fan project....

Esports Guides Join us as we break down some of the most important esports games releasing in 2023, from Street Fighter 6 to Stormgate!!! 2023 is set to be a massive year for game releases with hundreds of titles already on the horizon. But for esports alone, there’s at least a half dozen essential titles that are releasing this year. These cover multiple genres, including FPS, sports games, fighting games, and more....