The International eGames Committee has launched an initiative to add the missing ingredient to live esports events: national pride. The eGames will be a non-profit, medal-only competition to which every country is invited. Currently, ‘eTeams’ Britain, USA, Brazil and Canada are in the running (clicking?). It’s inspirations are clear—honestly I’m surprised it wasn’t dubbed the eLympics. The first...
The League of Legends hero Taric has been around for almost as long as the game itself, but he hasn’t been what you’d call popular with the players for a while. But that may soon change, as Riot is making some big changes to the character, who will soon hit the PBE with an all-new look,...
There is an ongoing debate whether players should be assigned roles in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Some argue that there are no roles and that each player has his or her own way of playing the game—that a team’s success comes down to chemistry and individual skill. Others, myself included, believe that roles help you to...
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 biggest event in the Dota calendar looms once again. Tickets for The International 2016 will go on sale April 7 at 10am PT and 10pm PT (April 7 at 6PM BST and April 8 at 6AM BST) ahead of the main event at Seattle’s KeyArena August 8-13. This year there are two ticketing options: the Midweek ticket gets...
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...
Very few games have had as significant an impact on the current state of gaming as Warcraft 3. Blizzard’s RTS sequel was a great game in its own right, but the legacy of its modding scene is unparalleled. Only the great FPSes of the 90s come close. It’s not hyperbole to say that without Warcraft 3,...
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...
