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Update (January 2022): Ubisoft has announced the Six Invitational 2022 will now take place in Sweden instead of […]

Read More… from UK Rainbow Six personalities criticise 2022 Six Invitational for having no live audience: ‘This event isn’t just about esports, it’s for the whole community to get together’

Update (November 18th): Coalesce won the tournament after beating Saw Youngsters 2-1 in the final: UK esports organisations […]

Read More… from Coalesce win Sigma Esports Cup LAN in Malta, as another UK CSGO team and Astralis Talent also take part

Britain has one of the highest proportion of female followers of streamers, YouTubers and gaming influencers in the […]

Read More… from Britain has one of the highest proportion of female viewers of gaming streams in the world, finds new report

League of Legends developer Riot Games says it will be making changes to rules around player contracts following […]

Read More… from Riot to change League of Legends esports player transfer rules after G2 block Perkz from joining Fnatic via contract clause, legal expert says ‘there may be an arguable breach of EU law’

PUBG Mobile has announced the teams who will be going head-to-head in both Season 2 of the Pro League Americas […]

Read More… from UK team Exquisite Decode to participate in PUBG Mobile Pro League European Championship, UK casters say they’re ‘undoubtedly capable’ of reaching PMGC

Riot Games has opened a one-off Hextech Expo storefront in London’s Oxford Street, as it goes big with […]

Read More… from Riot’s Hextech Expo pop-up store in London’s Oxford Street ‘vandalised’ as part of promotion for League of Legends Netflix show Arcane

Riot Games announced today the recipients of $300,000 in community grant funding, as a part of Progress Days […]

Read More… from Riot Games hands $300,000 in community grant funding to non-profit organisations including the UK’s Spear Islington and Ape Action Africa

Image credit: LVP Flickr / Hara Amorós Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco breaks down the recent news […]

Read More… from Barcelona enter Spanish League of Legends: Can the Superliga overtake the French LFL as the top European Regional League? Fnatic Rising have also left the UK/Nordics NLC to join the Spanish league, and Ibai and Gerard Pique have bought in too

The esports organisation of British Manchester United footballer Jesse Lingard – Jlingz Esports – have partnered with Australia […]

Read More… from Footballer Jesse Lingard’s organisation Jlingz Esports sign two-year partnership with The Chiefs Esports Club: ‘Together we’ll be able to create and offer something previously not seen which we can all be proud of’

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has again teamed up with London-based social action esports organisation, LDN UTD, […]

Read More… from LDN UTD partners with the Mayor of London and Cudos for All Access Gaming event at Samsung KX featuring Chelcee Grimes, the Vamps’ Connor Ball and other influencers to promote health and wellbeing

Ubisoft UK has today announced the next season of the Rainbow Six Siege UK Ireland Nationals (UKIN) Division […]

Read More… from Rainbow Six Siege UKIN Division Two season announced for 2022

UK Rocket League coach Mike ‘Gregan’ Ellis has tonight left his position as coach for Guild Esports’ Rocket […]

Read More… from Gregan looks to casting and hosting once more after departing Guild as Rocket League coach

Update (April 25th 2022): Ali Larsen is back streaming on his Gross Gore account and has seemingly ditched […]

Read More… from Gross Gore rebrands to ‘Woken Wolf’ after becoming first streamer banned by Streamlabs, Streamelements and Twitch, returns to League of Legends then leaves it again

For transparency: Esports News UK editor Dom Sacco used to work full-time for British Esports between September 2016 […]

Read More… from Rocket League Scottish College Cup returns this month

Photo credit: Mark Roe / Red Bull Content Pool Team Liquid have emerged victorious at the Red Bull […]

Read More… from Team Liquid beat Acend to win London’s Red Bull Home Ground in ‘a show for the ages’