Fnatic’s Jake ‘Boaster’ Howlett returns to talk with Esports News UK. After just over a year since our last interview, we caught up with the Fnatic in-game leader to summarise the past year and his aims for the 2025 season.
Playfully insisting on being called the ‘handsome IGL for Fnatic’, Boaster comments on the 2024 season, the new team dynamic, casting stunning spells against rivals FUT Esports, response to technical issues plaguing the tournament, his secret to being the best clutch player in EMEA, reducing the pressure and expectations, teasing new walkout routines, and explaining his ‘Wall of Good Looking [Stuff]’.

Continue reading Interview with Fnatic Boaster on enjoying Valorant again, thoughts on EMEA tech issues, stupefying FUT Esports, unravelling the ‘Wall of Good Looking [Stuff]’, and potential Sinners inspired Irish river dance

The National Esports Federation has made the shortlist for an Edufuturists Award, which recognises the development of an academic pathway in esports.

British Esports, the UK’s national esports body, has been nominated for Most innovative Education Project at the Edufuturists Awards, which honour key contributions to the future of education.

The awards are held annually and spotlight individuals and organisations advancing education through forward-thinking approaches. This year’s ceremony will be held at 53two in Manchester on June 26th.

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In the first match since their first-ever loss in the Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) 2025 Spring Playoffs to Nord Esports, Simon ‘Baus’ Hofverberg was shocked to see many of his signature champion picks taken by the enemy team.

The UK team, owned by British streamer Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont, faced off against Venomcrest Esports (VNC) in a best-of-five Fearless Draft.

Continue reading Los Ratones top-laner Baus perseveres through target picks to win match in NLC since first ever loss

After eight years of development, community mod project ‘Classic Offensive’ has shut down with Valve issuing a cease and desist just hours before launch.

Classic Offensive was a community-led idea that had developers remaster some of the best elements off the original Counter-Strike game.

Valve initially allowed developers to run the project when it was proposed in 2017 but after eight years of work they have done a complete U-turn and called a halt to the idea.

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British Twitch streaming superstar and new Red Bull athlete Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont believes there’s a chance his League of Legends team, Los Ratones, may not exist come the end of the year.

Caedrel has previously stated that the team won’t be paying €20m for an LEC spot and had previously talked about moving regions.

While reacting to the news of serious workplace allegations against the LEC’s Movistar Koi, Caedrel said “losing Ibai would be a horror” for LoL’s esports scene.

Continue reading Caedrel says Los Ratones may not exist by the end of the year but “nothing to worry about yet”

G2 Hel, the sister League of Legends team to G2 Esports in the LEC, have earned promotion to Liga Nexo, making them the first all-female team to compete in the league.

In fact, as confirmed by journalist Rigas, G2 Hel are the first all-female team to earn promotion into Tier 2 of a European Regional League (ERL). The roster of toplaner “Zeniv”, jungler Marta Mesas “Shiina” Garrido, midlaner Rym “Rym” Salloum, botlaner Maya “Caltys” Henckel, and support Ève “Colomblbl” Monvoisin are now all history-makers.

Continue reading G2 Hel become first female LoL team to qualify for Tier 2 of an European Regional League

The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) has launched a first of its kind esports league exclusively for members of the UK Armed Forces.

The league will launch in June, with players looking to take part in the event going through tournament qualifiers until the end of July before an in-person Grand Final to wrap things up in September.

BFBS launches UK Armed Forces esports league

The esports league will be based around the hugely popular Rocket League game with gamers from all sorts of different backgrounds invited to sign up for the event.

Continue reading For the first time ever an esports league has been created for the UK Armed Forces

Megan ‘megsoundslikeegg’ Garner, aka Fnatic Meg, is no stranger to the spotlight in the esports and streaming world. With over four years of content creation under her belt and a proud tenure as a content creator with Fnatic for the past 2+ years, she has become a passionate and familiar face in gaming spaces that are steadily becoming more inclusive.
Recently, Meg took on a host role at the Red Bull Instalock 2025 Women’s Valorant event held on May 2nd and 3rd at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in London, which saw four of the world’s best women’s Valorant teams compete in a head-to-head bracket with a unique twist on traditional team composition.

Continue reading Fnatic Meg on hosting Red Bull Instalock, Valorant, and empowering women in gaming: “Always speak up. Always use your voice.”

Team Vitality have welcomed British sports and exercise psychologist Edgar “Psych-Chek” Chekera as the team’s new performance coach ahead of the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) EMEA Stage 1 Playoffs.

Psych-Chek is a vastly experienced mental performance coach in esports, having worked with Guild Esports, Giantx, Fnatic, Falcon Esports, Manchester City esports/City Football Group and Global Esports.

He is another British member of Vitality’s first-person shooter ranks, joining Counter-Strike 2 pro William “mezii” Merriman who recently helped Vitality win BLAST Rivals Spring 2025.

Continue reading Team Vitality sign British sports psychologist Edgar “Psych-Chek” Chekera as VCT performance coach

Content creator, sim racing driver, and self-proclaimed “degenerate sim racing YouTuber”, Jimmy Broadbent, has partnered with Scottish-based sim racing equipment provider GT Omega.

The partnership will see Jimmy Broadbent use and promote GT Omega’s various sim racing accessories. Likewise, the brand will support the content creator in his endeavours as a sim racing content creator and racing driver.

Broadbent and GT Omega have also hinted at exciting new projects together, which have been teased to be revealed later this year.

Continue reading Britannia rules the track as sim racing star Jimmy Broadbent becomes brand ambassador for GT Omega