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Wild Rift Origin Series: How to Watch, Prize Pool, Dates

League of LegendsPhoto courtesy of Riot GamesLeague of Legends: Wild Rift has just announced its first inaugural esports tournament, League of Legends: Wild Rift: Origin Series. After achieving huge success in mobile gaming around the world, the mobile version of League of Legends is now giving teams around the world a chance to shine in a thrilling face-off.Origin Series is Wild Rift's first foray into international competition, and will include teams from Europe, Turkey, CIS, the Middle East, and North Africa. Sign-ups are open from today, May 20, 2021.Origin Series

Riot launches League of Legends Wild Rift: Origin Series as game’s first official tournament for Europe and MENA

It’s only been a few months since the release of League of Legends: Wild Rift in Europe, but the developers are already looking to establish the competitive scene in the region. Riot Games has officially launched the League of Legends: Wild Rift Origin Series as the title’s inaugural esports tournament for Europe and MENA with sign-ups opening today. Teams across Europe, CIS, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa will be able to compete in monthly tournaments over the summer, which will eventually lead up to the grand finals this

Team Nigma partners with Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is entering esports with a “long-term partnership” with Dota 2 organization Team Nigma. The news, announced today in a press release, follows Nigma’s relocation to Abu Dhabi at the end of March this year, where Etihad is also based. With LAN tournaments coming back into the fold after a long period of online-only competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Etihad will help Nigma “arrive, relaxed, refreshed and on time.” Nigma will be “the first esports team to be sponsored by

Riot Games MENA Partners With Challenge Arena for Arabic Broadcast of LEC Playoffs

Riot Games MENA has partnered with Challenge Arena to provide an Arabic-language broadcast of the LEC Spring Playoffs. Challenge Arena is a Saudi company leading esports in MENA that provides full end-to-end esports solutions in terms of broadcast and management. In addition, many known casters that have worked in past big events for Riot Games MENA including the Nexus Arabia in 2016 and the Intel Arabian Cup 2020 participated in this first edition. League of Legends is gaining ground in the MENA region in terms of statistics after a record

Former Dota 2 Champions Team Nigma Relocate to Abu Dhabi

Dota 2 organization Team Nigma will relocate its headquarters to Abu Dhabi. The move comes as part of the city’s initiative to drive gaming and esports industry growth – AD Gaming. Through this relationship, Team Nigma will establish its headquarters and training facility on Yas Island for the next five years. Team Nigma was formed out of the former Team Liquid roster which won The International in 2017. The team includes multiple players from the MENA region.  Coinsmart. Beste Bitcoin-Börse in Europa Source: https://esportsobserver.com/team-nigma-to-abu-dhabi/

NASR qualify for BLAST Premier Spring Showdown

NASR have joined the likes of Astralis, Liquid and Vitality in the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown after coming out on top of the Dune Cup, a BLAST qualifier for the MENA region. The team made it through the GSL groups with a 2-1 record before taking down HLTZINC and Divine Vendetta in the single-elimination playoffs to secure qualification to the Showdown event. BOROS led the way for NASR with a standout grand final showing The grand final opened up with Train, where NASR got revenge on Divine Vendetta for their

Riot to Launch Middle East VALORANT Servers, Add Arabic Language Support

Riot Games has announced that on Oct. 14 VALORANT will expand to the Middle East with the launch of dedicated servers and Arabic language support for the 5v5 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter. These new servers will be hosted in Bahrain and Arabic language support will become available universally across the world.  When the servers launch players will also be able to see one of the agents’ gameplay in Arabic and players around the world will receive a special in-game item in commemoration. VALORANT’s newest map “Icebox,” will be released on

Award-Winning Interactive Story ‘Shadow of Naught’ is Launching on iOS and Android August 18th

We’ve been enjoying the work of Fredbear Games on mobile for a number of years now, but for the past year or so they’ve been head down working with Taawoos Studios to bring their award-winning interactive story adventure Shadow of Naught to mobile platforms. The game originally started as a game jam project back in 2017 and actually won the Colossal Leap Award at Adventure Jam 2017. Shadow of Naught is a story that follows three different characters, Martin, Anna and Andrew, and it touches on some pretty heavy topics