Former Invictus Gaming support Baolan reportedly lost his 2018 world championship medal in a livestream PK battle, then said he had only lent it out. The incident has focused Chinese esports fans on how much a trophy is worth as content.
A frontline director of overseas AI short dramas says the hardest shots are the suggestive ones, where large language models refuse or fumble and the work falls back to hand-written prompts and edits. Just as he learned the craft, platforms began banning the content.
After DK were swept 0-3 by BLG in the 2026 League of Legends Worlds quarterfinals, mid laner ShowMaker and jungler Lucid gave separate post-match interviews explaining a run that fell far below the roster's own expectations.
A Chinese strategy game guide lays out the most cost-effective way to level a roster to 48 using Xu Yu and Lu Xun, stored experience and high-level resource tiles. It's a window into how deeply players optimize these seasonal campaign modes.
At League of Legends Worlds 2026, iG mid laner Rookie gave a playful interview about heroes and teammates, while TES's JackeyLove confirmed his team's exit after losing to iG in the quarterfinals. The two moments capture a Chinese scene split between hope and farewell.
Honor of Kings' farm mini-game now lets players stack land into nesting plots, and the first tier-three plot reportedly needs 6.7 billion in savings. Most players sit in their 80s and 90s, with top accounts past level 101.
Chinese CS2 team TYLOO were swept by TL at IEM Beijing, ending their home tournament, while Falcons fell to NAVI in the lower-bracket final. NAVI advanced to the playoffs after eliminating B8 and Falcons.
Riot's official Worlds 2026 prediction game has no perfect bracket left after the Swiss stage, with only three players worldwide nailing the full Swiss slate. The best score sits at 155 of 160 points.
IEM Beijing's first group day ended with Chinese side TYLOO beaten by MOUZ and Falcons swept by NAVI, while Black Panther staged a reverse sweep over FaZe. The tournament's opening results set up a brutal bracket for the home crowd.
Two years after T1 beat BLG 3-2 at London's O2 Arena to win a fifth League of Legends world title, the anniversary lands as Chinese fans confront a fresh loss at IEM Beijing. The ZOFGK era's last stand remains a defining esports moment for both regions.
A Chinese player's learning note shows how a 76MB LoRA layered on Alibaba's Qwen-Image 2.1 compresses realistic body proportions into the big-headed, thick-outlined look of Zenless Zone Zero. The write-up includes settings, trigger words and an Apache-2.0 license.
Young Chinese users are paying monthly for AI partners, memory packs and top-ups, with prices climbing from a few yuan to hundreds. The niche answers a real need for someone to talk to, but it also draws scrutiny over minors and suggestive content as platforms tighten review.
A pairing that never existed in either classic novel — the Monkey King and the sickly poet Lin Daiyu — has exploded online, helped by AI tools. Fans are debating what happens when a private hobby collides with traffic, money and outsiders.
MKOI opened the Worlds 2026 Swiss stage at 2-0, then lost three straight BO3s and were eliminated by KC, matching G2 in 2023 and DK in 2024. Meanwhile six quarterfinal places are set, with BLG and HLE to decide the last LPL or LCK spot.
Chinese game studios are reading thousands of job listings for clues about their next hit, and the signals point away from anime-style gacha titles and toward social play. A new essay argues the industry's five-to-six-year cycle is turning again.
Bilibili Gaming lost to Top Esports in the S16 Swiss stage, dropping the pre-tournament favorite into a 2-2 bracket where one more defeat ends the run. Substitute top laner Flandre and star Bin both pointed to mid-game team fights rather than laning as the problem.
Invictus Gaming, seeded fourth from the LPL, beat LYON to reach the League of Legends Worlds 2026 quarterfinals. Players and Korean commentators say the low seed gave IG freedom, while favorites BLG and TES carried the heavier expectations.
Ahead of a decisive Swiss-stage match at the League of Legends World Championship, four IG players were logged into North American ranked queues late at night, while top laner TheShy was again in ARAM. Chinese fans read the split as either veteran wisdom or a warning sign.
Mimic Party, a voice-imitation party game from a Vietnamese studio, has topped app charts across Southeast Asia and pulled 11 million downloads a month after a Japanese voice actor's gameplay video passed 15 million YouTube views. Its hook is an AI judge that scores how closely players match random audio clips.
Delta Force's security team helped Guangdong police dismantle a major DMA cheat operation, arresting 16 people and seizing more than 20 million yuan in value. The case highlights how hardware-based cheats are becoming gaming's toughest anti-cheat problem.
Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment says the Division series has passed 50 million cumulative players. A third instalment is still in development, but its gameplay and release date remain unannounced.
Chinese Counter-Strike team TYLOO were eliminated from PGL Bucharest with a 1-3 Swiss-stage record after losing to FURIA, while MOUZ came from behind to beat Spirit and reach the playoffs.
Phantom Blade Zero, a wuxia action game from Beijing studio S-Game, is one of 12 titles nominated for Ultimate Game of the Year at the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards. Voting closes October 30 and the winner is announced in London on November 11.
SCS Software will release the Iceland expansion for Euro Truck Simulator 2 on November 10, 2026, adding 14 cities and settlements, including Reykjavik and Akureyri. The new map follows the island's ring road through volcanoes, waterfalls and remote terrain.
Four teams — LCK's HLE, LEC's G2 and KC, and the LCP's CFO — have fallen into the 1-2 bracket at the League of Legends World Championship, where a third loss ends the run. Only BLG's win over KC kept Chinese hopes of a deep Swiss run alive.
DK survived a chaotic best-of-three opener against MKOI at the 2026 League of Legends World Championship Swiss stage, capitalizing on a fatal Ice Bird misplay by Jojopyun. The win moves DK within one series of the knockout rounds.
iG beat HLE in the 1-1 Swiss round at the 2026 League of Legends World Championship, with TheShy saying his team had practised against HLE more than anyone. The win lifts iG to 2-1 and leaves HLE at 1-2, one loss from elimination.
TES beat G2 in the Swiss stage of the 2026 League of Legends World Championship, and with the win JackeyLove's career series record against G2 at Worlds reached 4-0. The result lifts TES into the 2-1 bracket while G2 drop back.
China's top-seeded AL fell to 0-2 in the Swiss stage at League of Legends Worlds 2026 after losing to TES, leaving the LPL champion one best-of-three from elimination. Jungler Tarzan said the team is 'in chaos' and has to fix every part of its game.
G2 beat LOS in the second round of the League of Legends World Championship Swiss stage, pushing the underdogs to 0-2 while climbing to 1-1. With best-of-three elimination matches next, every remaining series carries the season.
At League of Legends Worlds 2026, Europe's MKOI beat China's BLG in the Swiss stage, handing the LPL its third straight loss and triggering a wave of anger from fans, casters and pundits.
China's League of Legends league opened the Swiss stage of Worlds 2026 with three straight defeats, as iG, TES and BLG all fell to open their campaigns and slipped into the 0-1 bracket.
EA has shut BioWare, ending a 30-year run that produced Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age. Fans on Reddit are now cataloguing the roughly 20 games the studio made, including forgotten titles like a Sonic spin-off.
Capcom says unauthorized access to its Capcom ID service exposed details of over 11.7 million accounts, including email addresses and login records. The company has blocked the intrusion and is still investigating the full scope of the leak.
A developer has demonstrated a software-only jailbreak for Nintendo's Switch 2 on the latest firmware, running modified content in Mario Kart World. The hack enables homebrew and mods but vanishes after a restart.
A Capcom US Halloween promo has fans dissecting clues they believe point to a Resident Evil Code Veronica remake and Chris Redfield's return. Capcom has confirmed nothing, but the trailer's T-shirt badge, background characters and a French voice line have revived a long-running rumor.
Riot's Valorant Champions Tour has confirmed 32 partner teams across four regions for a two-year 2027 cycle, each region getting eight slots. The shake-up hit hard: Korean side DRX, left off the list, announced that its entire coaching staff and roster would depart.
A Japanese celebrity player says the newest Fire Emblem game may be his favorite in the series, precisely because money is tight and recruits are slow to join. The struggle, he argues, is what makes the payoff feel earned.
Nvidia's new 621.01 driver brings Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to GeForce cards, pre-compiling shaders at install so PC games start faster. It follows AMD's lead and could end one of PC gaming's most annoying rituals.
Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai says AI tools and cheap imitators are swelling storefronts with lookalike games, burying original work. Steam now sees more than 19,000 releases a year, up from 275 in 2010.
