Esports

McLaren’s Lando Norris has announced a charity $25,000 Minecraft Twitch Rivals tournament, set to take place on March 3. The competition will feature some of the top gamers from around the world, while Formula 1 is also well represented. Of the names confirmed so far, Norris is joined by Red Bull reserve and test driver…

Electronic Arts have completed their takeover of developer Codemasters. The deal represents the biggest shakeup yet to the F1 game series, which has been produced by Codemasters since 2009. The F1 game’s recent success hadn’t gone unnoticed as at the end of 2020, rumours began to emerge of EA’s interest in potentially acquiring Codemasters outright….

Exactly as expected, Milestone have announced MotoGP 21 and confirmed that the game will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, in addition to the usual PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC versions, MotoGP 21 will launch on 22nd April 2021. As with the previously released and updated games MXGP 20…

Formula One driver Lando Norris said in a recent interview that he wants his new esports organization Quandrant to include teams for individual games, including one for Call of Duty in the CDL, sometime in the near future. After officially getting fully invested in the esports industry with the launch of his organization Quadrant a…

George Russell celebrated his return to F1’s Virtual GP series on Sunday, the Williams driver edging Alex Albon at Silverstone after the Red Bull driver was hit with a time penalty. Russell, who won last year’s Virtual GP series winner but was unavailable to take part in last week’s opening round in Austria, launched his…

One of the few positive developments due to the coronavirus pandemic was F1 drivers competing with each other virtually in front of a big audience and this alone led to F1, through their official channels deciding to continue with virtual racing up to date. This Sunday, the second virtual Grand Prix of 2021 is already…

Formula 1’s official video game developer Codemasters is set to be bought by Electronic Arts in a deal worth $1.2 billion.The British-based Codemasters company, which uses Motorsport Games for its Esports activities around the DiRT Rally franchise, had recently been linked with a takeover deal by American video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. But…

Codemasters, the official Formula 1 video game developer, is the subject of a $973 million buyout offer from American videogame publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.British-based Codemasters uses Motorsport Games for its esports activities around the DiRT Rally franchise, currently hosting the 2.0 World Series and following on from the World RX Esports Series, which attracted…