The Capcom Pro Tour makes it to the UK this weekend at Hypespotting V in Glasgow. Running for its fifth year and bigger than ever before, I spoke with tournament organiser Walter ‘VS Affro’ Fraser about this year’s event, the Pro Tour, and the future of what has become a marquee European FGC event. “Hypespotting...
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....
Sky Temple brings Heroes of the Storm back to more traditional MOBA action, with a more typical layout and map objective than Blackheart’s Bay. Teams fight NPC guardians and each other for control of temples which, when controlled, attack enemy structures. A large three lane map, with five mercenary camps scattered between lanes, Sky Temple...
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...
Image from CS:GO Austin Dreamhack site. It’s an interesting balance this weekend, as Blizzard’s biggest esports ramp up for some high-level competition while Valve’s largest games both have qualifiers for huge tournaments in May. Hearthstone and Starcraft II have international tournaments held in Europe in the form of the second Truesilver Championship and the Gold Series...
Photo credit: ESL/Steffie Wunderl. Three Lane Highway A column documenting Chris’ complex ongoing relationship with Dota 2. To read more Three Lane Highway, click here. It’s been a dramatic week. The arrival of this year’s Spring Cleaning update has been roundly overshadowed by the professional scene’s most recent rosterpocalypse. If you were trying to figure out...
With a new card from Hearthstone’s Whispers of the Old Gods expansion being revealed almost every day, and over 100 still to go, I decided to hold off analysis until seeing more of the set. But it’s worth making an exception for each of the Old Gods themselves, as they already seem like the most...
Photography credit: Riot Games via Flickr The regular season has finally ended after nine weeks of play, and the Renegades’ victory over Team Impulse marks the last-ever match under the NA LCS’s old best-of-one format. The top six teams are now settling plans for a glamorous trip to Las Vegas to decide the North American...
Blizzard has announced some big changes coming to Heroes of the Storm in the next patch. Draft lobbies are being given an “epic visual overhaul” in the next patch, including new background art, animated hero models and portraits, and updated selection animations, and hero bans in ranked play and custom games are finally on the...
Last week we looked at how to defend on Dust2. This time we’ll talk about why Dust2 is an excellent map for split pushes, how to take control over the map and how to deal with different financial situations. Dust2 is a map that can be played in so many different ways. Mid doors, tunnels,...
