Sascha Heinisch

Ten OWL insiders weigh in on the developing meta

Overwatch 2: Invasion has added a lot of new features to the competitive landscape. How are Overwatch League teams adjusting to the changes?

OWL adds Flashpoint to new map rotation, adds third place match to Playoffs

With a lot of changes hitting the live game with Overwatch: Invasion, the Overwatch League is set to update too, announcing a new map rotation. A third-place match has also been added to the Playoff schedule.

'Pointless to stay on the server': Three-times major winner flusha retires from CS

Controversial CS:GO Legend and three-times major winner, Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist, has announced his retirement from active play.

Two agents remained untouched at VALORANT Masters Group Stage

A concerning trend in a lack of agent diversity is slowly creeping up on VALORANT esports. Fans of agent meta diversity might soon have a problem on their hands.

Overwatch 2's Aaron Keller says Season 6 is stacked with content by design

Overwatch 2: Invasion or Season 6 might be the biggest content upgrade the game has ever received even including the version switch. Game Director Aaron Keller shares why this was a decision very much done by design.

Overwatch 2 devs have disappointing update on map voting system

While some FPS games in the industry allow their players a clear selection of the maps they want to play on, this has not been the case in Overwatch's matchmaking. Unfortunately, it's not in the planning either - for good reasons.

Overwatch devs reveal why controversial mode was cut from Overwatch 2

The Overwatch 1 mode Assault or "2CP" was a polarising topic in the community. With Overwatch 2, the dev team got rid of it after multiple tries to make it work. For the first time, Game director Aaron Keller went into detail about why that decision was made.

Overwatch 2’s Aaron Keller on lessons learned since controversial launch

It's been 10 months since the launch of Overwatch 2. Since then, many lessons have been taught and learned by the development team. Game Lead Aaron Keller talks about the most important ones.

IEM Cologne: The last rites in the Cathedral of Counter-Strike

Change is imminent in the Counter-Strike scene. The future is unknown and all that mattered in Cathedral of Counter-Strike was the moment. These are CS:GO's last rites.

NiKo on HooXi proving critics wrong and G2's future in CS2

At the penultimate moment of CS:GO, G2 Esports' NiKo finds redemption at the cathedral of Counter-Strike. Is his team's dominance shown at IEM Cologne going to last in CS2?

Dycha: "I think our mental is on point right now"

They're here again. After a nail-biter of a series again Team Vitality, ENCE makes it to another final of the Intel Extreme Masters circuit. Dycha explains what it took.

Spinx on new Cloud9 team: "They are definitely contenders for winning tournaments"

After a hard-fought match at the cathedral of Counter-Strike in Cologne, Germany, Spinx talked about their nail-biter victory against C9.

Faker comeback ends T1 loss streak before LCK playoffs

Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok is back after a four-week-long injury and immediately had a transformational effect on the play of his team, T1.

Overwatch 2's 'worst' Hero has unbelievable win-rate at Pro level

Lifeweaver might be considered the weakest hero in Overwatch 2, but somehow, he has a ridiculously high win-rate in the Overwatch League.

T1 in freefall without Faker, loses another series against bottom-ranked team

In the absence of Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok, T1 has struggled and looks to be in freefall going into the LCK Summer Playoffs - losing twice against bottom-ranked DRX.

Layoffs at Version1 and Esports Engine shake the esports industry

Further layoffs have shaken the esports industry. This time around, it has hit esports organisation Version1, CDL team Minnesota ROKKR, and production company Esports Engine.

Overwatch League experts argue it’s the right time for hero bans

It's time to talk about hero bans in Overwatch again. This time, a panel of esports experts shared their opinions, suggesting a vision on what kind of system could help facilitate

OWL Team Head confesses to causing historic Shanghai Dragons technicality win

President of Esports of the Florida Mayhem, Albert Yeh, has revealed new information about the technicality that broke Shanghai Dragons' losing streak.

Overwatch League future in limbo as franchises are offered $6 million to leave

According to a quarterly report, the Overwatch League's future is being put up for a vote. Franchises wanting to leave the league are offered up to $6 million USD to leave, setting the total number at over $100 million if all teams were to exit.

Overwatch League Grand Finals heads to Toronto in 2023

The Overwatch League has announced the event location and dates for its sixth season playoffs, with the competition heading to Toronto in 2023.