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OpTic Texas are the defending champions. FaZe Vegas are the hosts. And the Michelob Ultra Arena is ready to witness the sixth edition of CDL Championship Weekend. The Call of Duty League 2026 season is building toward one of the most anticipated Champs weekends in the tournament's history.
From 77,000 hopefuls on the Pro Ladder to one man lifting the trophy — the FC Pro Open 2026 delivered everything competitive EA FC fans could have asked for, and then some. The world's premier virtual football competition has wrapped its Open stage, and the road to the World Championship is now wide open.
After a two-year absence, the most patriotic tournament in esports is making its triumphant return. Blizzard Entertainment announced on March 18, 2026 that the Overwatch World Cup will return as part of BlizzCon 2026, scheduled for September 12–13 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California — celebrating a full decade of competitive Overwatch with the largest national-team competition in the ga
PUBG esports enters 2026 with its most ambitious competitive calendar ever constructed. Two separate competitive ecosystems — PUBG PC and PUBG Mobile — are running simultaneously, with combined prize pools exceeding $10 million and a World Championship for each. Drop zone selected. Let's go.
The cars are flying, the boost is full, and the stakes have never been higher. The Rocket League Championship Series 2026 is the fifteenth season of the world's premier aerial football competition — and with a total prize pool of over $6.1 million and a World Championship in September, the entire season is building toward one defining moment.
Fortnite is back on the world's biggest esports stage — and this time, it's playing by entirely new rules. The Esports World Cup 2026 returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from July 6 to August 23, featuring 25 tournaments across 24 games and a record-breaking $75 million prize pool. And at the heart of it all, Fortnite makes its dramatic return — not as a Battle Royale, but as something faste
Thirty years ago, 40 players gathered in San Diego to battle over Street Fighter. In 2026, thousands of competitors from every corner of the world descend on Las Vegas for the most stacked EVO lineup in the tournament's history. The Fighting Game Community's biggest weekend is back — and it's absolutely massive.
Josef Fares once stormed The Game Awards stage and screamed "F*** the Oscars." In 2025, he let the game do the talking. Split Fiction is Hazelight Studios' magnum opus — a co-op masterpiece that arrived on March 6, 2025 and immediately rewrote the rules of what cooperative gaming can be.
Hideo Kojima has spent his entire career making games that divide audiences, defy genre labels, and arrive on their own terms. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is his most audacious statement yet — and for once, critics and fans are almost entirely aligned. This is a masterpiece.
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Your GPU and CPU get all the glory. But the truth is, peripherals are what you interact with most often, every single day — and the right keyboard or mouse will probably have a much bigger impact on how you work and play than swapping out internal components. Here's everything you need to know about the best gaming peripherals money can buy in 2026.
If there was ever a year to upgrade your monitor, it's 2026. The gaming display industry has just delivered its most exciting generation yet — 5th-gen QD-OLED panels, refresh rates that defy physics, and prices that have finally come down to earth. CES 2026 was, by every measure, a landmark moment for gaming screens.
The handheld gaming market in 2026 is the most competitive, most innovative, and most exciting it has ever been. Steam Deck 2 remains the device everyone is waiting for — but while fans hold their breath, Valve has been quietly building an entirely new ecosystem. Here's the full picture.
