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League of Legends pro player Lu ‘Leyan’ Jue has been suspended for two matches and fined $6000 for his on-stream behavior.

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The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so entrenched in the now can learn from its past. So to refresh our collective memory and perhaps offer some perspective on our field's history, GamesIndustry.biz runs this monthly feature highlighting happenings in gaming from exactly a decade ago.

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The Pokemon UNITE India Open 2023 marked a significant milestone in India's eSports field. This mobile MOBA tournament was organized by Skyesports and The Pokemon Company. It boasted an amazing prize pool of Rs. 10 lakhs which made it the largest esports event for the game to date in India. Team True Gravity won the Pokemon Unite India Open 2023 by defeating the team Forge Your Legacy in the Grand Finals by 2-0. The team showed a dominating run through the Upper Bracket, lowering the likes of Revenant Esports and Team Griffin and became the Indian champions.

When Blizzard announced the Overwatch League in 2016, there were plenty of questions about how the esports league would actually work – but at the very least, you couldn’t fault the ambition.

Earlier this year, Activision Blizzardlaid off around 50 people and announced that after the current Overwatch League season ended, teams would have to agree to updated, amended agreement terms in order to continue operating or take a $6 million cancellation fee. Now, the Overwatch League days are over.

Activision Blizzard has announced the end of the Overwatch League.

Esports and gaming organisation 100 Thieves has announced another round of layoffs.

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would organise an eSports World Cup starting next year, the latest boost to a sector Riyadh hopes will create tens of thousands of local jobs.

The world's best gamers who can identify a location anywhere in the world after seeing an image in less than a second face off Saturday in a world championship in Stockholm. A picture of a sunny paved road appears on a computer screen, bordered by trees and bushes. A red dirt road crosses the paved road, in what appears to be a tropical landscape. "We're going to be in Indonesia because of the sticker on this pole," Trevor Rainbolt of the United States tells AFP.

The hottest sports ticket in Asia-Pacific right now isn't for a soccer match, an NBA exhibition game or even a swim meet. It's for the medal event debut of competitive video gaming, or esports. The milestone moment is taking place at the quadrennial Asian Games — sometimes referred to as an “Asian Olympics.” Leading up to this week's games, at least 5 million people applied for the right to buy a pricey ticket to the futuristic purpose-built esports arena in Hangzhou, China, the host city. No other event, from basketball to table tennis, had near the demand, much less a ticket lottery.

Thailand made a piece of Asian Games history when they won the first medal ever in eSports as China's gold rush momentarily came off the tracks in cycling on Tuesday.

ESports' inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.

Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq, FaZe Holdings Inc. threw an exclusive party at a San Diego nightclub, hiring the rapper Travis Scott to promote its stable of video-game stars and YouTube personalities.

The world of online gaming takes its place this year at the Asian Games as an official event for the first time, with gold medals in play across seven top titles.

The Valorant Champions is one of the most awaited events of all time. We are now into day 10 of the gameplay and the battle is getting intense and dramatic among teams and players. The playoff is kicking off and the excitement is high. The best teams are struggling to maintain their positions as this year teams are empowered with more tricks and improved action. This elite group of eight teams are fighting for the highly prized title of being the greatest in the world.

Riot Games is hosting the third official tournament circuit known as the Valorant Champions Tour 2023. After Grueling combats fights, sixteen teams will match for playoffs. In the upcoming rounds, viewers will get to experience the never-seen-before battles and great thrills and excitement are expected. Check out all the details about the Valorant Champions 2023 tour, schedule, format, teams and much more.