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Cologne 2026 introduced Souvenir-O-Matic, a system that lets CS2 players craft souvenirs from weapons already in their inventory. For years, CS2 souvenir skins were tied to a familiar ritual: buy or earn a Major souvenir package, open it, and hope the map, weapon, match, teams, and stickers lined up into something special. Cologne 2026 has made that ritual feel suddenly uncertain. Valve’s new Major Shop does not present souvenirs as the same package-opening experience players are used to.

Cologne 2026 changed the CS2 Major Shop from capsule-style sticker buying into direct token redemption with demand-based prices. Cologne 2026 stickers are not behaving like a normal Major drop. Valve changed the shop, players started watching token prices like a live chart, and the CS2 trading crowd immediately split into two camps. One side sees a possible low-supply cycle. The other sees FOMO, early hype, and a nasty reset if Valve adds a discount later. That is what makes this release unusual.

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Team Spirit is one of the big favorites in every Dota 2 tournament it plays in and Denis “Larl” Sigitov is among the big reasons why. Sadly, he won’t be able to play for his team in the upcoming Dota 2 tournaments for 2026. Team Spirit will begin the 2026 Dota 2 competitive season soon, but it seems like the squad will have problems. Earlier today, the organization announced that Denis “Larl”  Sigitov won’t be playing for the team due to personal reasons.

Valve has confirmed a major change to Counter-Strike 2’s Active Duty map pool: Anubis is returning and will replace Train once the current Premier season ends on January 19, 2026. This rotation continues Valve’s approach of shaking up the competitive landscape at the start of each Premier season, forcing players and teams to adapt their strategies as the pro scene gears up for events like BLAST Bounty, which starts on January 13, and IEM Krakow on January 28.

Riot has just released the first League of Legends update for 2026 a couple of days ago and it brings some interesting changes. One of them is more important than the rest and it is called the First Selection rule. It affects LoL esports and adds a new approach to the Pick & Ban phase during a match.

BIG has finalized its CS2 roster by adding Benjamin “blameF” Bremer and Josef “faveN” Baumann, completing the lineup for the 2026 season. BIG first announced blameF’s signing, then confirmed faveN’s return. These moves mark a major reshuffle as the team aims to return to the top of European Counter-Strike 2. BIG CS 2026.

DreamLeague Season 28 will be among the first major Dota 2 tournaments in 2026. The event will take place between February 16 and March 1 and will include 16 teams. We already know the names of some, but others have to go through the qualifiers, so it’s time to check all of them. North and South America will have their own Closed Qualifiers that will result in one team from each region attending DreamLeague Season 28.

We are over a week in 2026 and Dota 2 fans worldwide are slowly preparing for the first big tournament of the year. We already shared our Dota 2 2026 expectations, so now it is time to focus on the different Dota 2 tournaments we will see this year. We already have the schedule for the first half of the year, so let’s dive in. BLAST Slam VI will be the first Tier 1 tournament of 2026 and it will take place between February 3-15.

Beşiktaş Esports becomes the latest team to withdraw from the professional League of Legends. The organization has spent more than 10 years here, but it seems like things have to change. Kulübümüzden Açıklama pic.twitter.com/pJe5LrFmDt — Beşiktaş Esports (@bjkesports) January 6, 2026 Beşiktaş Esports decided to release a statement where it explained it had to make this decision following an internal review. It seems like there were sustainability concerns and other issues that led to this decision.