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The Week in Esports & Gaming
05/25/23: TSM looks to sell LCS slot; China approves Microsoft-ATVI; FaZe cuts 40% of workforce
- Team Vitality won the final Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major
- League Championship Series players will reportedly vote on a walkout
- The popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series is getting a reboot
- Male characters in role-playing games have 50% more dialogue than women
- Evil Geniuses has partnered with crypto casino platform Thunderpick
- Esports archive Liquipedia has added Formula 1 Racing content pages
- Gen.G and McDonald’s will continue their partnership
- TikTok took its first step into Counter-Strike esports
- FaZe Clan is cutting nearly 40% of its workforce
- Content creator-owned esports organization Disguised has its eyes on League of Legends
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive veteran Finn "karrigan" Andersen has no plans to retire
- Despite looking to sell its LCS slot, TSM is continuing business as usual for the summer
- Indian regulators have granted a three-month trial period for Battlegrounds Mobile India
- China has approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard
- A new report from New York University indicates a trend of extremist actors creating content on gaming platforms
- Activision-Blizzard has faced some ups and downs in the past weeks
