Next year, the innovative strategy game Battleforge from Electronic Arts will be released. You now have a chance to get a first glance at the upcoming hit RTS and give it a test. We have 2,000 beta keys to give away!

The sign-up deadline for our FIFA09 opening cup will now end a week on Sunday to give time to those interested to sort themselves out. The Opening Cup now has a prize for 1st place as we mentioned before, a slick looking Saitek Cyborg Mouse.

All Global Challenges are finished and we are ready to determine the participants of the Global Finals. First of all the Asian World of Warcraft teams get their chance. Twelve teams compete for $30,000 and two of them will qualify for the Global Finals. The ESL is of course on spot to cover it for our readers. Videos, pictures, blogs, live stream and much, much more are to be expected!

In a few days the doors will be opened for the first ever ESL Pro Series Scandinavia. Ten CS 1.6 teams and 10 WarcraftIII players will battle it out for an amazing 24.000Eu prizepool.

We recently unveiled the opening of our ESL UK FIFA 09 section along with an Opening Cup and a Amateur Series for the aspiring professionals. We've decided to add a prize for the winner of our Opening Cup and extended the sign-up period now there is an added incentive to take part.

The coverage for Seoul and Philadelphia will now go live! With all the Global Challenges put to the past, we move on to the even more interesting Continental Finals without hesitation. The World Cyber Games that took place this weekend will not be considered as the last event of 2008: Intel Extreme Masters is moving on! Read up on everything before the event starts! News, blogs, information, results, videos, behind the curtain information and much more!

All the Global Challenges are now over, hence the slot distribution for the Global Final is finalized. Europe claims the most, while Americas settles one extra, and Asia is still working with their automatically given ones. However, with a total absence of Asian teams and a majority of the professional European teams flying all over the world, the distribution might not be as unfair as it tend to look.

For those who think the departure of a team from the league means potential money out of the window, think again. We want to clarify what happens when teams receive major penalty points or depart from the EPS.