Esports

Valorant — The newest VALORANT patch lets you bet on esports matches, fixes aim assist on console, and makes Abyss less annoying VALORANT 9.01 is out with tons of fixes, and Riot is teasing the next premium weapon bundle.

Image of Valorant on Xbox. — I never expected this popular PC esports shooter to come to Xbox, and I couldn't be more excited Valorant coming to Xbox was absolutely the biggest surprise of Summer Game Fest 2024, and it seems Riot is doing it right.

Image of the Microsoft Excel World Championship — "If you use incorrect data to train an AI model, then the AI model will give you wrong results, but it will also pretend as if it's really confident about those wrong results." Andrew Ngai, World Champion of Excel, states AI still has a long way to go Andrew Ngai is the undisputed world champion...of Excel and believes AI isn't smart enough to replace humans yet.

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Halo Infinite competitive settings revealed, includes Battle Rifle starts

By Brendan Lowry published 14 October 21

343 Industries has revealed Halo Infinite's competitive settings that will be active in the game's ranked playlists and esports tournaments. Here's everything you need to know.

Halo

Future of Microsoft 365 concept showing Excel formula suggestions

Microsoft Excel is an esport: Watch the pros throw down on June 8

By Robert Carnevale published 7 June 21

Rainbow Six Seige, Overwatch, Microsoft Excel. These are the esports you care about.

Gaming

Killer Instinct World Cup announced for 2021, cash prizes and worldwide events

By Zachary Boddy published 7 January 21

A world competition for all Killer Instinct players.

Xbox

Halo MCC Pro Series announced, begins May 23

By Brendan Lowry published 9 May 20

The Halo MCC Pro Series, a series of tournaments for amateur and pro players alike, has been announced. Here's everything you need to know.

Halo

2020 NBA 2K League Draft set for Saturday in NYC

By Nick Tylwalk published 21 February 20

The NBA 2K League will fill out the rosters for its 23 teams in its 2020 Draft, and we've got the details on when it is and how to watch.

Gaming

Hearthstone esports isn't quite dead yet as Blizzard pulls out its trump card

By Rich Edmonds last updated 15 January 20

2019 is set to be the year for Fortnite esports as Epic Games sets aside a huge sum of money for prize pools. Oh, and Hearthstone esports isn't over just yet.

Gaming

Esports juggernaut Cloud9 touts Microsoft Azure partnership with goofy videos

By Dan Thorp-Lancaster published 14 October 19

Esports team Cloud9 is teaming up with Microsoft, tapping Azure to help its players strategize and analyze enemy teams.

Gaming

You'll soon be able to experience gaming turned up to 11 at Razer's upcoming store in Las Vegas

By Rich Edmonds published 25 August 19

For gamers. By gamers.

Gaming

FNATIC esports got its Twitter account wiped for being 'underage'

By Rich Edmonds published 18 August 19

Someone at FNATIC decided to change the birthday on the Twitter account, not realizing that Twitter auto-bans users retroactively for being underage when the account was created. Whooops!

Gaming