Despite holding a number of the first televised videogame battles again within the ‘80s, esports has been all however nonexistent in Japan. This is as a result of cheerily named “Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations,” a legislation which was mainly aimed toward curbing the rising Yakuza pursuits in video poker however which had...
Blizzard’s swanky Overwatch League kicks off on Wednesday, with 12 groups representing cities throughout the globe, and what sport can be full with out flogging costly merch? Blizzard at this time launch “jersey” skins, letting Overwatch characters put on your favorite staff’s clobber for $5 every. Five dollars! If you identical to fairly skins, hey,...
Valve have stopped supporting an upcoming Dota 2 event over considerations that the Philippines authorities would make “unreasonable infringements on the privacy” of gamers getting into the nation. Valve don’t elaborate on why they’re dropping the Galaxy Battles 2018 tourney, which was because of run January 15-21, however it appears necessary authorities drug testing for...
To promote the launch of the HTC Vive this week (our review is on the way), Valve has put up a few montages of different demos and games on the SteamVR page. Most of these excerpts are stuff we’ve already played, but one of them stands out: a glance at what appears to be a VR spectator mode in development for Dota 2....
Happy Lies Day, everybody! Hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful day of lies. It’s time to bring the festivities to an end, however, and settle in for a weekend of extremely serious and definitely happening digital sports. CS:GO is hosting the week’s highest-profile clash, but there’s plenty of LoL, Dota 2, Smite and fighting to go...
The Ark: Survival Evolved mod Survival of the Fittest was spun off into a free, standalone game earlier this month, as the first step in establishing the competitive esports Survivor League. Today, developer Studio Wildcard revealed how its new esports league, which will award cash prizes to the game’s top 40 players each month, will...
Photo credit: Riot Games The very last best-of-one match in professional League of Legends has been played, at least for the NA and EU LCS, and thank goodness for that. As has been noticed by casters, community figures, and the teams themselves, a single IEM event can have a western team play enough games to...
Whispers of the Old Gods is the new tentacle-themed expansion for Blizzard’s fantasy-themed slot machine simulator. The new set is due for release sometime between late April and early May, and will see 134 cards added to Hearthstone. At the same time, the “constructed” version of the game will be split into two formats, with old sets The Curse of Naxxramas and...
Harvard University is one of the most respected educational institutes in the United States, with a storied history that stretches all the way back to the mid-17th century. It has produced eight US Presidents, more than any other school in the country, and has one of the top Nobel Laureate affiliation rates in the world....
The Overwatch beta patch that came out a couple of days ago made some big changes to the game, including the addition of an intriguing new game mode called Weekly Brawls. Similar to Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, they’ll feature unique, and sometimes very unusual, rules that will be rotated on a weekly basis. Blizzard mentioned two...
