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Starting Monday, 20 of North American League of Legends’ top Challenger ladder players will have a chance to prove themselves in a combinelike competition called Scouting Grounds, hosted by League of Legends developer Riot Games. The competition will bring together four players from each of the five roles—top lane, jungle, …
Read More »fREAKAZOiD on Echo Fox’s struggles, over-saturation and his time as a rugby player
Echo Fox has been the talk of the professional Counter-Strike world for all the wrong reasons in the past week. Playing in ELEAGUE Season 2, Echo Fox had a brutal weekend in Group B play in winning only six rounds in three maps. Echo Fox was playing in a group …
Read More »Demetrious Johnson on partnering with Northern Gaming: ‘I believe esports is the future’
Yet again, Demetrious Johnson stands alone. We’ve seen soccer clubs flock to esports. Basketball teams have begun to invest in the scene, and American football teams also appear to be taking notice. But the man known as Mighty Mouse, who is now affiliated with Northern Gaming, is the first MMA …
Read More »Spiral Cats talk cosplay in America and what gives them strength
At the League of Legends World Championship Finals in October, I got to sit down and talk to two members of the Spiral Cats cosplay team, Doremi and Tasha. The two, along with another team member in a full-body Bard cosplay, attended the last two stops of Worlds as guests, …
Read More »Northern Arena co-founder: ‘The Canadian esports scene right now is in its infancy’
Northern Arena is currently hosting their second event in Montreal, just over two months after their inaugural tournament in Toronto. Though the first event was focused solely on CS:GO, the organization has expanded their Montreal event to include a Dota 2 tournament, among other esports. Read more on theScore eSports …
Read More »Report: mobile games revenue to overtake PC games revenue in Southeast Asia by 2018
Predicted revenue in the region of $1.8b by 2020
Read More »ESEA launches anti cheat tech for CS:GO LAN events
After years of developing software to detect cheaters in online games of Counter Strike, ESEA has finally come up with a similar solution for games that are played on LAN. The new ESEA LAN anti-cheat client uses similar tech to the online software to detect any players that are cheating …
Read More »New add-on allows HTC Vive to go wireless
Having said just moments ago that wireless ‘full VR’ was surely nearly here, it’s just been revealed that indeed it is! UploadVR reports that HTC has just now announced an expansion for its Vive headset that allows the user to ditch the wired tether to the PC. Made by TPCAST, …
Read More »HTC open pre-orders for wireless HTC Vive adaptor
$200 dollar device makes your HTC Vive wireless for 90 minutes at a time
Read More »MSI’s VR backpack now available to pre-order
One solution to the problem of tethered VR headsets has taken a step closer to release. MSI’s VR One, which was announced in May, is a full PC housed in a backpack. The design tries to sidestep the problem of your VR headset being attached via a beefy cable to …
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