We have prepared a digest of the main news stories for Players readers for June 25, 2026. NAVI unveiled their updated VALORANT roster Ukrainian player r1nkle replaced SunPayus in G2's roster Study: Around 400 million Generation Z representatives are regular esports fans God of War Laufey expected to be released in the first quarter of […]

Valve has officially launched the new multi-part event, "Dark Carnival," in Dota 2. The first chapter of the event is already available in the game. Similar to Crownfall, the content will be released in several chapters. The event features a large-scale storyline accompanied by a comic book. Here's how the developers describe the beginning of […]

Esports organization FaZe has announced changes to its CS2 roster. Helvijs "broky" Saukants has been removed from the team's active lineup. There had previously been rumors that the organization was interested in signing Gentle Mates player Antonio "MartinezSa" Martinez. However, insider Sébastien "KRL" Perez now reports that FaZe will sign Ryan "Neityu" Aubry and Jason […]

Esports organization NAVI has announced changes to its VALORANT roster. The information was published on the club's official website. David "Filu" Czarnecki has left the team after representing Natus Vincere since December of last year. He has been replaced by Clément "CyvOph" Millard, who previously played for Vitality and Fnatic. Together with NAVI, Filu finished […]

According to Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, the upcoming God of War Laufey could launch in the first quarter of 2027. The insider expects the release to happen around February or March, adding that the game is already “almost finished”. God of War Laufey was revealed in early June during Sony’s State of Play presentation by […]

Deltarune Chapter 5 is now available, and fans have massively returned to the beloved RPG. At the time of publication, 74,731 players were active in the game through Steam alone. The previous peak concurrent player count was 133,930 during the game’s initial launch on the platform, so the new result shows a major surge of […]

Esports organization G2 has announced the signing of Ukrainian AWPer Artem "r1nkle" Moroz. The announcement was made on the club's social media channels. The player joins from Ninjas in Pyjamas, replacing Álvaro "SunPayus" García, who has been moved to the bench. Meanwhile, the Swedish organization Ninjas in Pyjamas has replaced the Ukrainian by signing Martin […]

The Female Pro League Season 2: Emerald Diva, a women's Mobile Legends: Bang Bang esports league, is entering its final stage. Tournament operator ESEL has announced the schedule for the final matchday, which will determine the top three teams and crown the champion of the second season. The matches will be streamed on ESEL's YouTube […]

Sony has launched a marketing campaign to celebrate the start of global pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6. The title, promoted as "the biggest and most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series," has received a marketing push of unprecedented scale for the PlayStation platform. Immediately after turning on their PS5 consoles, users are […]

Around 400 million members of Generation Z (20% of this age group) regularly follow esports. These findings come from the large-scale international study, "The Esports Generation: Who They Are & Why They Spend," conducted by ESL FACEIT Group (EFG), Hero Esports, and Niko Partners. The study is based on a survey of 8,000 esports fans […]

Popular streamer IShowSpeed has been added as a playable character in FIFA Heroes. Players can add the content creator to their team and use his unique abilities during matches. FIFA Heroes is a 5v5 arcade football simulator developed by Solace in partnership with FIFA. The project is aimed at the mobile audience. Matches in the […]

Riot Games is introducing the Vanguard Pre-Check feature, which allows League of Legends, VALORANT, and 2XKO players to enable the Vanguard anti-cheat only while playing. From now on, the kernel-level driver will no longer launch together with the operating system and will instead run exclusively when launching Riot games. The new feature became possible thanks […]

The CS2 roster of esports organization Vitality earned $2.8 million during the first half of the 2026 season. This amount includes player MVP bonuses, club share payments, and player prize winnings. During the first half of 2026, Vitality won six tournaments. The club also claimed victory in the ESL Grand Slam, which brought in an […]