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

WYLDE marks its return to the highest echelon of Rainbow Six: Siege esports as they qualified for the BLAST Europe Middle East and North Africa (Europe MENA) League 2025 – Stage 1, through the Challenger Series.

The team hasn’t competed in tier 1 Rainbow Six: Siege esports since the merger of the European and MENA regions.

This was due to the organisation opting to develop a rookie roster that could qualify for the main European league.

Continue reading Irish esports organisation WYLDE qualifies for BLAST Europe Stage 1 in Rainbow Six: Siege

Welsh national esports body, Esports Wales, will send its HADO team to compete in Shanghai, China, for the HADO World Cup 2025 on May 24th 2025. 

Alongside Scottish Esports and Esports England, the teams will compete for the grand prize of over £260,000 (¥2,500,000), with second place set to receive over £125,000 (¥1,200,000) and third place earning over £80,000 (¥800,000).

On top of the main prizes, there will be special rewards for the Golden Energy Award (individual) and Best Performance Award (team).

Continue reading Esports Wales heads to HADO World Cup 2025 held on bespoke barge in Shanghai

Microsoft has announced a huge development for the Gears of War series, with the currently Xbox exclusive game set to be released on multiple platforms.

Gears of War is being remastered for an August release date when the game will be made available on PC and Playstation for the first time as well as Xbox.

The news of Gears of War making its debut on Playstation and PC comes just days after Microsoft announced a price surge in Xbox products.

Continue reading Gears of War: Reloaded will be released on Playstation and PC as well as Xbox

Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) has dropped its second official trailer this week. However, the game is still not expected to be released for at least another year.

Rockstar Games has teased a second look at GTA 6 gameplay with fans getting a better look at some of the new characters.

GTA 6 drops second trailer 

The trailer gave fans their first insight into two new main characters in the game, with ‘Lucia Caminos’ and ‘Jason Duvall’ the main protagonists for the story mode.

Continue reading GTA 6 drops new trailer after delaying launch yet again

British games body Ukie has called upon the government to offer stronger backing for the UK’s gaming industry or risk losing out on £500 million.

Ukie’s new Press Start on Growth campaign states that without proper investment, the British games sector risks losing world-class talent, innovative ideas, and exciting IPs to better-backed competitors in other countries.

The gaming industry is booming in the UK as it has doubled in size since 2013, with £7.6 billion spent by consumers in 2024.

Continue reading Lack of investment in the UK games industry could cost £500 million

Esports legend Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok has recently been pulled into the upcoming South Korean presidential election, after his iconic pose was used in promotional material by the candidate Kim Moon-soo of the People Power Party (PPP).

T1 responds to the use of Faker’s image

The promotional post came out across the presidential candidate’s social media, with candidate Kim recreating Faker’s ‘silence’ pose. 

On Facebook, they went even further by using an image of Faker performing the same pose, using a line previously used by the esports legend, and tagging him directly in hashtags.

Continue reading Faker imitation sparks political controversy with a formal protest by T1