Karmine Corp ADC Caliste ‘Caliste’ Henry-Hennebert has been named the LEC 2025 Rookie of the Year.

The 19-year-old Frenchman was handed the award before KCorp battled with Fnatic in the LEC Summer Split Playoffs.

Caliste defeated stern competition, as a lot of rookies had very good debut years in the LEC this season.

This comes after the LEC Rookie of the Year award criteria changed to allow Summer debutants to compete in the following year.

Continue reading Caliste beats Skewmond to LEC Rookie of the Year 2025 award

Fnatic have progressed through the LEC Summer Playoff Finals and booked their place at the League of Legends World Championships.

The prestigious EMEA organisation qualified for LoL Worlds for the ninth consecutive year after defeating Karmine Corp 3-1.

This means LEC Winter Champions and First Stand attendees KCorp have been eliminated from Worlds contention and their season is over.

Fnatic will represent the LEC at the international tournament, but first will be focused on battling Movistar KOI and G2 Esports for the LEC title.

Continue reading Fnatic qualify for LoL Worlds 2025 and eliminate Karmine Corp

Team Liquid have finally announced the long-anticipated return of Jonathan ‘EliGE’ Jablonowski to the organisation following the return of Russel ‘Twistzz’ Van Dulken to FaZe.

Darragh Harbinson takes a look at the dynamics of EliGE’s return to his former organisation, and how he could help a Liquid roster who have struggled for much of 2025.

EliGE’s return to Liquid: A marriage of convenience

Let’s not kid ourselves, EliGE’s return to Team Liquid is not the result of a careful courtship, of years of planning to return one of North America’s brightest stars to a Liquid jersey in which he won a historic Intel Grand Slam.

Continue reading Opinion: Why EliGE marriage of convenience could be a perfect fit for Liquid

Popular streamer Ludwig Ahgren has announced the schedule for his Fast 52 event, occurring September 26-28 on YouTube and Twitch.

Continue reading Ludwig announces lineup for Fast 52: Which streamer will appear?

Team Heretic’s Valorant Champions Paris ambitions were dealt a severe blow as they fell 2-0 to a rampant mibr in the Upper Quarterfinals of VCT Champs 2025.

mibr were clearly not intimidated by the EWC Valorant champions, as an overtime victory on Corrode led to a dominant display on Heretic’s map-pick of Sunset.

Team Heretics fall to the #VALORANTChampions Lower Bracket after an 0-2 loss to MIBR

Heretics will face the loser of NRG vs GIANTX in their next match pic.twitter.com/6Z7257k7cV

— Valorant News (@ValorINTEL) September 26, 2025

Team Heretics, featuring British Fortnite legend Benjamin ‘benjyfishy’ Fish, were highly fancied to continue in the upper bracket after making it through the group stage in flawless fashion.

Continue reading Team Heretics upset by rampant mibr at Valorant Champions Paris

UK regulator Ofcom has proposed new online safety guidelines which could prevent teenagers from making a living by streaming.

The proposed rule changes are to help protect teenagers from being groomed online and stop the viral sharing of illegal content.

Ofcom wants to restrict under-18s’ livestreams, with no commenting, gifting, reacting to or recording of their livestreams allowed.

UK regulator @Ofcom has set out proposals to restrict content made by streamers aged under 18, which could mean no commenting, gifting, reacting to and recording their livestreams in the future.

Continue reading New Ofcom proposals would stop under 18 UK streamers from earning donations

Nintendo of America president and COO Doug Bowser has announced that he will retire at the end of the year.

Devon Pritchard will take over the position. A long-term executive at Nintendo of Americas, Pritchard is currently the vice president of revenue, marketing, and consumer experience at Nintendo of America.

Satoru Shibata will take the role of CEO. Having previously been the president of Nintendo of Europe, Shibata will work as CEO while continuing his existing roles of managing executive officer and corporate director.

Continue reading Bowser to step down as Nintendo of America president; Devon Pritchard to succeed

The viral Graham Potter faceswapping trend has spread to EA FC, with Twitter/X account WestHam_Central sharing an outrageous example of the trend.

The video shows one of the new celebrations added to EA FC 26, Thierry Henry’s iconic smirk; however, Henry looks a little different…

Henry’s face has been replaced by that of the under-fire West Ham manager, Graham Potter, smirk and all.

The viral trend has seen Potter’s face photoshopped onto many a celebrity, but the combination of Potter’s face and the in-game animation led users to respond, “Twitter has peaked.”

https://t.co/2CbPP2woEm pic.twitter.com/N5I9KZAQqm

— Central (@WestHam_Central) September 25, 2025

Whether this is truly the pinnacle of this trend or just the beginning remains to be seen…

Viral Graham Potter faceswap trend explained

People have been photoshopping Graham Potter’s face onto

West Ham are currently sitting 19th in the Premier League, in the relegation zone, after 5 games of the new Premier League season.

Continue reading Viral Graham Potter faceswap trend hits EA FC

There are only 40 days left until the year-long wait ends and the highly anticipated Football Manager 26 finally releases.

After the franchise took a break to develop the new engine, FM26 is looking like the most ambitious title yet.

Now, Sports Interactive have revealed what exactly is new with FM26’s match day experience in brand new gameplay.

The first Football Manager 26 trailer showed it was worth the wait with incredible 3D graphics using Unity.

Continue reading Football Manager 26 upgraded match day experience gameplay revealed

EA Sports FC 26 has been released with over 750 playable teams to choose from. However, there is a major lack of national teams.

For some reason, New Zealand have been removed and there are now only 28 international teams in the game.

That is especially concerning, considering EA FC 26 is expected to have a licensed World Cup mode.

There are not enough teams for a regular 32-team tournament, let alone for the 48-team format that will debut in 2026.

Continue reading EA FC 26 doesn’t have enough national teams for a World Cup