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Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, is making a comedy series based around eSports for YouTube Red. The series will feature six 30 minute episodes that follow a new team of eSports stars who are trying to make it big in the growing competitive gaming industry. Both …
Read More »CBS is making a Candy Crush TV show
Turns out that Candy Crush is still incredibly popular. So popular that US TV network CBS has decided to turn it into a TV game show. In the show two teams of contestants will compete to progress through giant interactive game boards. This will apparently take an entire hour, until …
Read More »PS4 and PC title Dead Star is shutting down
Competitive online shooter Dead Star is switching off, despite being offered for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in April. Kotaku reports that Armature Studios is closing the game’s online servers on November 1st, and has already pulled the game’s store listing on both Steam and PSN. It was released last …
Read More »Watch Dogs 2 delayed two weeks on PC
Watch Dogs 2 has been delayed on PC by two weeks to make sure it runs well on all the different hardware variations. The PC version of Watch Dogs 2 will now launch worldwide on November 29th, while the console versions of the game will still launch on November 15th. …
Read More »Brexit is simulated in Football Manager 17
One of the new features in Football Manager 17 is Brexit, which can make life unbelievably hard if you are unlucky. Deciding to take the reigns of a British club opens you up to the possibility of having to deal with Brexit. There will be three types of Brexit that …
Read More »SKT vs. ROX Tigers is a fight for the future of Korean League of Legends
Welcome to the Korean breaking point. The 2016 League of Legends Worlds Championship semifinal match between the ROX Tigers and SK Telecom T1 could very well signal a new era for Korean League of Legends. Never before have two Korean teams facing off at Worlds played with such immensely different …
Read More »Seangares on Echo Fox, leaving Cloud9 and Infernew
Sean ‘seang@res’ Gares is one of the great American shotcallers in Counter-Strike. Over almost seven years of professional competition his name has appeared on the teamsheets of 14 ESEA seasons, many of which saw his teams in the top of the table. Now on Echo Fox, he’s continuing to aim …
Read More »An exhaustive interview with SFAT, NorCal’s #1 Fox
Rarely does a Melee player come along and beat multiple Gods in a single year. SFAT did it in 2016, though, taking several sets off of Hungrybox and Mango, most recently at Shine (Mango & Hungrybox) and The Big House 6 (Hungrybox). We sat down with the most promising American …
Read More »The final call: Cr1t steps up to the captain’s plate
The retirement of Peter Dager from competitive Dota left a vacuum in Evil Geniuses. As Dager moved into a management position, the burning question was who would take the helm in his place. His successor would have to perform in the shadow of a captain who had consistently led his …
Read More »Krepo talks about worlds surprises, H2K’s run and his own professional growth
Mitch Krepo” Voorspoels is one of the most well known and popular casters in League of Legends. He’s a former professional player and was one of the first high-profile examples of a player transitioning to the desk after retiring. Read more on Slingshot eSports >>>
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