Manchester City have announced that they have signed a professional eSports player to represent Manchester City in gaming events.

Manchester City become one of the latest football teams to invest into eSports, following the likes of Manchester United, West Ham and Schalke.

Kieran ‘Kez’ Brown is the new signing for the club. Kieran is a young professional FIFA player who recently finished runner-up in the Spencer FC Game Academy, a competition for young professional FIFA players on YouTube.

In Kieran’s first interview he said, “It’s exciting, it’s something new for the Club and it’s something new for me. I’m going to livestream on twitch, I’m going to be making videos for Manchester City’s YouTube channel and I’m going to be playing some City fans and representing City in future tournaments, which I’m looking forward to. This is an opportunity which not many people get the chance to do and I couldn’t turn it down.”

With Man City now moving onto the eSports scene, how long before your favourite club signs up a professional gamer?

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As you Halo fans already know it is just a few more days to go until Halo 5’s biggest – ever Warzone Firefight expansion launches on June 29 and 343 has now shared loads more new information about it.

The pictures which have leaked has given players a great insight of what the new maps are going to be like, also a rough scale of how large the maps are really going to be like. 343 has been giving weekly updates with stuff such as insights from the developers point of views and one major thing they have recently updated us about is the new game mode Warzone Firefight and how it has changed since the beta in April.

First thing 343 did was go over the fan feedback from the beta they released not so long ago, 343 have taken measures to make sure players objective are clear. “We added a brand new splash feed that shows up at the beginning of each round. It shouts, loud and clear, the round number and what you need to do to succeed. It’s front and centre and literally comes in with a ‘splash’” 343 said.

They also announced that the mini scoreboard in the bottom-right of the screen now shows your team’s progress towards current objectives. Before this scoreboard only showed your personal score.

“Depending on the goal, the scoreboard will look and act different in order to inform your squad as to how the round is shaping out,” 343 said. “For instance, if the goal is to eliminate 100 Grunts, a red bar will fill from right to left as your team takes each one out. Or if, for example, your team needs to defend the Armoury, a blue bar will slowly shrink from left to right as the enemy AI captures the base.”

343 also confirmed there will be six maps, one of which is new, for Warzone Firefight. The beta only had one. These include:
• Escape from A.R.C.
• March on Stormbreak
• Raid on Apex 7
• Skirmish at Darkstar
• Urban
• Attack on Sanctum (new)

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Splyce, who are worldwide known for their amazing Esports teams within different departments of gaming have recently signed an Overwatch team.

The organisation have signed the former Fine, I’ll Go MsCree roster, who have been playing which each other since the beta was released. They have yet to post any top results in significant events, however Overwatch is fresh to the Esports scene and we are sure they will come up with some major results as the game is played more in the competitive scene. The team is based in North America and will now play under the Splyce banner at all upcoming events.

The roster of the new Splyce team includes: Bradford ‘PYYYOUR’ Ross, Josh ‘Steel’ Nissan, Eric ‘Papasmurf’ Murphy, Matt ‘Flame’ Rod, Matt ‘clockwork’ Dias and Jan ‘cozen’ Lacosta.

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With the end of week 3 of the Halo Championship Pro League, Counter Logic Gaming are still standing at the top with an amazing 6-0 win to loss ratio. The way CLG play as a team is just unbelievable, their strategies are just out of this world and the opposition can just not get a grasp on how to beat this outstanding team.

However Team EnVyUs are not standing down as they are only one win behind them and it is obvious they are not going to give up that easily. It will be interesting to see if EnVyUs are going to be able to catch CLG If they slip up in an upcoming match.

Thank you for watching this week's #HCS Pro League action! Here's a look at the standings in North America. pic.twitter.com/zWRFAXmodH

— Halo Esports #HCS (@HCS) June 18, 2016

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With the end of week 2 of the HCS Pro League, it can only be described as one of the most action packed Halo weekends to ever take place. We see the former champions at the top with an amazing winning streak of 4-0.

However we saw the Optic Gaming and Team Allegiance finally get their first wins of the competition. It is going to be hard for anyone in this championship to actually deal with CLG and it will be amazing to see an someone actually bring them some heat to the playing field.

This is how the tournament currently stands:

With week 2 in the books, let's take a look at the current standings in North America. #HCS pic.twitter.com/FeWjFNbtEj

— Halo Esports #HCS (@HCS) June 11, 2016

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It has only been two weeks since seeing the release of Overwatch, however ESL are happy to welcome the game with open arms to give the game its official Go4 Tournament series. This officially kicked of yesterday. It is no surprise that Overwatch was welcomed into the competitive gaming world after the amazing figures they pulled of so very quickly after actually releasing the game. The game has had a very happy response with fans and it is easy to see how interesting how teams actually put themselves together to make the ultimate team.

The Go4 series are put together so there are 4 to 5 cups each month were teams can pick up cash throughout the month. The prize pool will be share between the top two of the monthly finals, where the best eight teams will clash once. The prize pool will be €600 for the winner and €300 for the runner up.

Overwatch are definitely going to compete to become one of the largest Esports games and is going to really show teamwork and skills of individual team members with their different characters.

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Looking back at the action from week 1, it was pretty certain that reigning champions CLG are showing of their skills once again. They are tied 2-0 with Evil Geniuses and Renegades. Interestingly the first match to kick of week 2 is going to be CLG and Evil Geniuses going head to head to take the first place space. The schedule can be seen below:

Our second week of NA #HCS Pro League action begins in an hour! Here’s a look at today’s matches. Any predictions? pic.twitter.com/byEeJJFTd9

— Halo Esports #HCS (@HCS) June 9, 2016

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The first two days of the Halo Championship series: Pro League are finally over and it is just what the fans were expecting. A total of eight matched was played over the course of two days. It was pretty obvious the teams who have brought their A – Game this year as they all stand at the top 2 wins to 0 losses. Yes! The three teams to stand at the top supreme and ready for more action are the former Halo Championship winners Counter Logic Gaming alongside Evil Geniuses and Renegades.

That'll do it for #HCS Pro League action tonight. Here are the current standings in North America! pic.twitter.com/DTp6kCqDOJ

— Halo Esports #HCS (@HCS) June 4, 2016

Staying at the top for any team in this sort of competition is going to be one hard battle. It just seems like CLG are just unstoppable and the power force they bring to this competition is unbelievable. However we the next game which is going to kick of week 2 is going to one tough ride. As Evil Geniuses take on Counter Logic Gaming we will see who really wants this championship!

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