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Chiefs to step away from CS, Dire Wolves and Paradox release teams

Three Australian organisations have stepped away from the game following the release of their teams in the last week. The early-season changes have left squads without organisations to represent them in the ongoing ANZ Championships and ESEA Premier S38. The blow comes following a year of issues in the region including the 35 additional ESIC-sanctioned players following the original seven in late 2020, as well as ongoing COVID-related restrictions, impacting travel both domestically and internationally. Australia's Premier IEM event has been cancelled two years in a row due to COVID

Golden: “I want to be back in the server”

Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim returned to fnatic in September of 2019 after spending a year in Cloud9 and was a crucial component in the Swedish team's victories at DreamHack Masters Malmö 2019 and ESL Pro League Season 11 Europe, but as the coronavirus pandemic went on he and his teammates took a hit, slowly dipping in the rankings throughout the latter half of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. The poor results ended up in the 27-year-old's benching, as well as that of Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell, going into the summer break.

ALEX: “mezii is an IGL’s dream; he’s an overall amazing player to glue a team”

fnatic announced a substantial change to their composition at the start of August, departing from an all-Swedish lineup — which they have housed since 2013 — and transitioning to an international roster with the addition of former Cloud9 duo Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin and William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman. The team is set to make their first official appearance on Friday at 16:45 , and will have a trial by fire as they will face Natus Vincere in their opening match-up. ALEX sung his praise for mezii Ahead of their debut, HLTV.org briefly

Aqua: “Every one of us wants to play at the top events one day, like the main team playing ESL Pro League”

The first match of the WePlay Academy League Season 1 Finals is ready to kick off with BIG Academy facing off against mouz NXT in the opening series of the tournament. Ahead of the bout, we spoke with one of the key players in BIG Academy's third-place finish in the group stage, Nico "⁠Aqua⁠" Kembitzky, who ended up as the team's highest-rated player in the round robin stage with a 1.09 rating across 14 maps played and crucial performances in the squad's early victories against NAVI Junior, Astralis Talent and

MTG Arena major backend update plagued with bugs resolves ‘error uploading data’ issue

One of the largest Magic: The Gathering Arena updates in the digital card game’s history has caused more than a few headaches and bugs within the system.  Uploaded on Aug. 24, the “major backend” update for MTG Arena did not go as smoothly as Wizards of the Coast had hoped. The patch was initially scheduled to take place on Aug. 10 but moved to Aug. 24, providing the MTGA team with additional time to work out kinks. Resolution towards solving these issues began today with a fix to the “error

tabseN: “Since XANTARES is gone, we’ll all have to get more frags”

Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz took part in the HLTV Confirmed show on Monday where he talked about BIG's 2021, Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş' departure, the addition of gade, and where he sees the team in the future. Ahead of their first official with their new signing at ESL Pro League Season 14, tabseN revealed why they picked gade to join the team, how the roles will work in the squad, and which issues plagued them in the year so far. tabseN is expecting BIG to get more easy kills The summer break

forZe take down Virtus.pro for second win at Pro League

forZe have won the CIS bout against Virtus.pro 2-1, giving Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov's squad their second victory in ESL Pro League Season 14 group B. They let Dust2 slip from their grasp after an 11-8 advantage but took Mirage and Overpass convicingly to claim the series victory. "How Virtus.pro approach the Dust2 CT side is still a mystery to me," Jerry admitted in the post-match interview, explaining that their plan to target Sanjar "⁠SANJI⁠" Kuliev on Long didn't work out as intended. Nonetheless, the all-Russian side was clearly the better

5 Pokemon We Want to See in Pokemon UNITE

PokémonPokemon UNITE's roster is booming following the Pokemon Presents digital event. / Game Freak, Tencent, The Pokemon CompanyPokemon UNITE's roster is booming following the Pokemon Presents digital event.With the announcement of Gardevoir and Blissey on the official Pokemon UNITE social media, followed by Mamoswine and Sylveon heading to the game with the mobile drop, we've been wondering what other Pokemon Game Freak and Tencent have planned. Pokemon now has 900 unique creatures to choose from, so there's no shortage of options.Here are our top five picks for who we think

Heroic overrun Spirit for second win in ESL Pro League

Heroic beat Spirit in the second round of matches at ESL Pro League Season 14, 16-8 on Overpass and 16-9 on Inferno. The result ties them with Vitality for the top of the group, with a match against the French team following on Wednesday. In the post-match interview, Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller was asked about their final result before the break, a 7-8th finish on LAN at IEM Cologne, which was perceived as disappointing by many. "In all fairness, I don't think we had the best chances to perform," the in-game

Dead Space Remake – 5 Issues it Needs to Address

As many of us now know, it appears that EA has indeed heard our cries for some sort of revival for the Dead Space franchise and they are finally giving us just that in the form of a total remake of the original game. While that is perhaps playing it a bit on the safe side, and a more ambitious true 4th game in the storyline would have perhaps been preferable – especially seeing how well the original game still holds up – at this point, any form of a