Toxicity, financial irresponsibility, total esports illiteracy: What went wrong with Guild Esports?

A toxic workplace culture rife with bullying and allegations of antisemitism and misogyny. A focus on corporate hires who constantly got in the way of those with any esports knowledge. Flippant overspending, including millions for a celebrity endorsement from a celebrity who barely endorsed it. Guild Esports was a car crash, and most esports fans saw it coming from the start.

eChampions League holder Nicolas Villalba: 'For now, I'm better than Messi'

Nicolas Villalba bears all the hallmarks of a bona fide superhero. When we meet him via Zoom from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, he's in Clark Kent mode: polite and unassuming, with a gentle smile. But put a PlayStation controller in his hand and load up a game of EA SPORTS FIFA to see a man transformed: nicolas99fc steps up, striking fear into the hearts of his opponents – not to mention goals into their nets.

How mistaken identity led a teacher from Leicester to become a gaming superstar

An English school teacher was mistaken for a famous professional esports player and ended up becoming a part of one of the biggest gaming communities in the world. By day, Emily Perkins, 39, is a secondary school science teacher at Bosworth Academy in Desford and Countesthorpe Academy in Countesthorpe. But now in the evenings when she isn’t marking, Perkins can be found online streaming herself playing League of Legends (LoL) to the world.