Astralis kept their IEM Kraków campaign alive with a 2-1 victory over the surprise BLAST Bounty winners PARIVISION in a lower-bracket clash. The international side recovered from an earlier upset in the season to advance and remain in contention at the event.

IO Interactive has published the official PC system requirements for 007 First Light and announced a collaboration with NVIDIA on the Windows version of the game. The studio released the hardware configurations and additional details on its official channels, describing how the PC edition will be optimized for current graphics technologies.

Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev, a member of BCGame's CS2 roster, commented on the team following a recent series of roster changes. His message was published on Telegram and highlighted the squad's intensive practice routine: the players are training about ten hours every day as they prepare for upcoming events.