Denial eSports has signed Five Angry Men, bringing the team back into the world of Smite esports. Denial had a team in the first season of Smite, but dropped out for Season 2. They are now looking to make a return on the heels of the highly successful Smite World Championship.

Denial.Smite will consist of:

• Macetodaface- Mid/Mage
• TheBest- Solo/Warriors & Mages
• Shadowq- Support/Mage
• Shing- Jungle/Assassin
• Madmanmarc22- ADC/Hunter
• Rushed- Coach

Look for more as Smite gets Season 2 under way in the coming months.

Colour is used quite extensively in many games to notify all kinds of things, most usually good, hostile, neutral characters in RPG, MMO and other games that require fighting. World of Warcraft is one of those games. However, it’s a fact that some people aren’t easily able to tell between some colours due to having been born with one of the types of colourblindness that has an effect on vision. Because of that, Blizzard’s next patch for their long-running MMO will contain some new options to help those with colour vision issues be able to determine things that are usually shown through use of colour.

The patch will contain three new sets of filters in an Accessibility menu, made to help players with protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia. Each set of adjustments will be available via a dropdown selector and will have a ‘strength’ slider so you can tailor the filters, with the right removing more problematic colour wavelengths as it goes further to the right hand side.

Also, the rarity of items that is usually denoted by colour can be switched to instead show this information in text instead through the accessibility options, so ‘Rare’ and ‘Epic’ as well as the other rarities will actually show up in a form that is easier to see for those with colour blindness.

In the last few years eSport has taken off in a big way. It’s big business already in East Asia and North America where stadiums are booked for tournaments and thousands fill the seats in them to watch pro gamers play competitive games at the highest level. Now the UK is set to join the eSports boom, with the opening of the UK’s first eSports arena in London.

A partnership between VUE cinemas and Gfinity has transformed part of the Vue Fulham Broadway into a dedication 600 person eSports venue that will be named the Gfinity Arena. It has seating for over 1000 people over a weekend and 25,000 throughout a season, and will include a player lounge big enough for 50 gamers, its own entrances, a ticketing hall, automated tickets machines and a confectionery stall.

It’s due to open next month and will kick off with what’s being called the “2015 Gfinity Champtionships” which will include within it such popular eSports games as Hearthstone, FIFA and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. There’s around a combined $500,000 in prize money put up for grabs for the highest scorers in the championships.

If the Gfinity proves to be successful, we could see more eSports arenas being set up all the way across the UK.

A recently registered trademark that covers computer and consoles games, as well as “on-line gamin services” has just been registered by a mystery company. However, given that the trademark is for “Elite: Deadly” chances are, it’s Frontier Developments that has registered the trademark as part of the future of their massive game Elite: Dangerous.

The trademark was spotted by Neogaffers and while the visible listing for the trademark on an EU registration site doesn’t have a company name listed as having been behind it, there is a representative listed, Maguire Boss.

As of yet it’s not sure what Frontier are planning to use this name for, if indeed it is them who has registered the trademark. It could be part of an expansion, a DLC, a sequel (although at this point that’d be premature) or maybe even a tie-in app for the game. All that can be done now is to sit back and wait until more news surfaces before we find out what the ‘Deadly’ in Elite shall be.

An updating game client is responsible for the disqualification of a League of Legends pro team from the Challenger Series for the Spring 2015 split in what has to be one of the mostly costly cases of impatience ever.

The team in question is Cloud9 Tempest, and thanks to not having updated his client before a live-stream match one of the team, Ritchie “Fade” Ngo, was unable to log on for the check-in. The team came together to decide what they wanted to do and decided to have their analyst, Tim “Timokiro” Cho, be a replacement for Fade by logging into the pro player’s account and pretending to be him so that there would be no delay in the match time. The team could have alerted the officials of the patching problem but chose instead to take this action, which actually falls foul of the rules for the tournament and the game itself.

Section 9.1 of the rulebook states that ‘ringing’ or playing using someone else’s account is a breach of the unfair play rules, and the punishment is disqualification for the players involved. This has manifested in four different ways – the time itself is disqualified from the Challenger Series for the during of the Spring split; all of its players are suspended from all Riot-sponsored LoL competitions until the time of the Summer split; the team’s manager, Danan “Kaniggit” Flander, is also suspended until the time of the Summer split and Cloud9 cannot sponsor a Challenger team until the Summer split.

The investigation found that the team made the decision to throw Timokiro into the game as a replacement themselves and that team manager Kaniggit was not involved in the making of the decision. He did find out during a team call during the matches, but allowed the matches to take place and play out rather than alert officials and therefore in Riot’s eyes implicated himself. The team’s substitute player, Jonathan “Grigne” Armao, was not found to have had any hand in the decision and was unaware of what was going on and has escaped any penalties himself. The team will not be made to pay any fines.