British esports organisation, Fnatic, and McDonald’s UK have announced a brand-new partnership centred around special promotional events throughout the year.

To celebrate the start of the latest partnership between an esports organisation and a food brand, Fnatic opened their London HQ to promote the new McSpicy chicken burger with Frank’s RedHot sauce.

In attendance at this special launch event were numerous influencers and Fnatic staff, who were treated to the newest version of the McSpicy with an extra punch of spice from Frank’s RedHot.

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Australian content creator AussieAntics won the Fortnite Pro-Am with duo Peterbot over the weekend, as the pair took home a total of $50,000 from the prize pool.

The Pro-Am was bigger and better than ever this year with certain IMAX cinemas even showcasing the event in 2025.

With a total of $500,000 to be won at the Pro-Am, take a look at how the money was split and who finished where after the weekend.

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Counter-Strike 2 esports casters, hosts, interviewers, and content creators have all starred in a new series of comedy skits inspired by sitcom, The Office.

The content was created for ESL and was sponsored by international logistics and shipping company, DHL who also sponsor Manchester United, Coldplay, and Formula 1.

It has been produced by Chew Productions, a London-based production company founded by Tom Newman and Becky Williams.

ESL describes the show as a “quirky, offbeat comedy” in which a dysfunctional team runs a DHL Esports Logistics Division where “chaos is just part of the job.”

The three-episode series is available to watch on both DHL’s Inmotion website and ESL’s Counter-Strike YouTube channel.

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McDonald’s is launching its new summer menu and with it comes new Happy Meal toys, as Pokémon trading cards and toys will be available soon.

There are a whole host of new items coming to the menu this month with some past favourites also making their return ahead of the summer.

The menu will be trialled in 332 locations across the country before the new items are launched nationwide. The current proposed date for a nationwide rollout of the Pokémon Happy Meal is May 14 to June 17.

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In late 2024, Kieran Holmes-Darby was announced as the general manager of Los Ratones, the star-studded League of Legends team formed by streaming star Caedrel. The pair actually go back years – in 2018 Caedrel joined Excel Esports, an organisation Kieran founded over a decade ago.
So, what’s it like for them to be working together once more?

Continue reading Who is Kieran Holmes-Darby, the General Manager of Los Ratones? Get to know him in this in-depth interview on signing Caedrel as a player for Excel, his day-to-day work, and LR’s future

Canadian content creator xQc hosted a competitive Marvel Rivals tournament for fellow streamers last weekend which featured the game’s largest prize pool yet with $250k (£190k) on the line.

However, this prize pool will soon be beaten by the recently announced Marvel Rivals Ignite esports event, a global tournament with a total prize pool of over $3m (£2.24m).

As well as hosting the event and competing in it, xQc also commentated on most of the games alongside two esports casters he knows very well from his Overwatch League days, Mitch ‘Uber’ Leslie and Matt ‘Mr X’ Morello.

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The Scottish Esports League has returned after an absence of around two and a half years.

Scottish Esports League (SEL) 6 is finally going ahead later this year as part of a new partnership between new owners, eRena Sports, and Dundee and Angus College, which offers Scotland’s first-ever esports degree.

SEL 5 took place all the way back in November 2022, before its follow-up event was delayed due to Esports Scotland still owing money to teams, talent, staff and contractors a year later.

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EA Sports, alongside British-based developers Codemasters and Formula 1 (F1), have unveiled the ‘Driver Ratings’ for F1 25 ahead of the game’s release later this month on Friday, May 30th.

What are Driver Ratings?

Similar to other EA Sports titles, the Driver Ratings will affect how the in-game AI will perform, especially during the ‘My Team’ game mode.

EA Sports explained how the Driver Ratings are determined in a blog post, stating, “Combining historical sporting data, recent performances, and consultation from TV commentators and pundits”.

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Back in 2020, it was revealed on Twitter that Riot Games was working on an MMO set in League of Legends’ Runeterra universe.

Five years later, and no details, not even a screenshot, have been released.

That’s why it’s always a big moment when anybody from the company acknowledges that the ambitious project still exists. This time, it was the turn of Riot Games co-founder, Marc Merrill.

The MMO was mentioned very briefly by Merrill during a speech at the D.I.C.E Summit last month.

Continue reading Rare League of Legends MMO mention reveals what future game has learned from failed Riot Forge experiment

In possibly one of Overwatch 2’s biggest collaborations yet, Blizzard has unveiled new skins are coming to the game based on beloved characters from Capcom’s Street Fighter 6.

It was only last week that the game released its Gundam Wing skins, another anime collab after previously partnering with One Punch Man, My Hero Academia, and Cowboy Bebop.

However, the SF6 crossover is double the size of the last, with eight new skins revealed in the beautifully animated trailer.

Continue reading Overwatch 2 unveils EIGHT new Street Fighter 6 crossover skins