CS2 Esports News

From April 13 to 19, several of the world's top CS2 teams will head to Brazil to compete in IEM Rio 2026. Here's how and where to watch the action live.

Disney+ has announced an expanded partnership with the Korea e-Sports Association (KeSPA) to livestream a wider slate of Korean and pan-Asian esports competitions globally throughout 2026, building on an initial deal signed in September 2025.

The field is complete. Following the VRS cutoff on April 6, all 32 teams heading to IEM Cologne Major 2026 are officially confirmed, and the lineup is already generating noise well before a bullet is fired.

Lynn Vision Gaming’s route to IEM Cologne 2026 has been paved not with clutch rounds but with controversy, forfeits, and a VRS system that continues to invite manipulation.

ESL has officially revealed the two groups for the Group Stage kicking off on April 13, and the matchups are already determined.

PGL Bucharest 2026 will see 16 CS2 teams compete at the PGL Studio in Romania from April 4 to 11. With several big names absent, all eyes are on just a handful of teams.

On April 1st, 2026, Counter-Strike 2 received a major beta build shipping Animgraph 2, a full upgrade to the game's animation system that touches nearly everything you see when watching other players move

FaZe Clan are officially out of the IEM Cologne Major 2026 picture, eliminated by Fnatic in the lower bracket of Digital Crusade DraculaN Season 6, ending a Major attendance streak that stretched all the way back to 2016

Today, the Esports Foundation (EF) announced the selected 40 esports clubs for the 2026 Club Partner Program. The program, a $20M dollar initiative, provides funding and support for all the selected clubs. Now in its 3rd year, over $100M has been reportedly invested to date.

ESL has announced the renewal of IEM Krakow, an expanded prize pool, a format and structure update for the ESL Pro League, and several other changes for the 2027 season.

Team Vitality defeated Natus Vincere to win BLAST Open Rotterdam, solidifying their top spot in the Valve Regional Standings and earning $150,000.

Team Vitality and Natus Vincere will face each other in the Grand Final, with $400,000 and a massive chunk of BLAST Premier circuit points on the line.

There is a cruel irony at the heart of Team Falcons' CS2 project. Hand someone from 2022 their current roster sheet — NiKo, m0NESY, TeSeS, Kyxsan, kyosuke, all under the tutelage of five-time Major-winning coach Zonic — and they would confidently declare this team the undisputed best in the world. And yet, here we are in March 2026, watching Falcons get knocked out of BLAST Open Spring in the quarterfinals by PARIVISION.

A CS2 developer has confirmed that nearly 1 million accounts have been banned in one of the largest VAC waves of recent memory. The bans were issued and carried out within a single day against confirmed farming bot accounts, marking it as one of the most monumental efforts by Valve to clean up their game’s ecosystem.

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The 2026 BLAST Open Spring Rotterdam playoffs kick off this Friday, March 27, and the stakes don't get much higher