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Until Snake’s near-miraculous run at the Regional Qualifier this year, the longest day of matches for any team in Chinese League of Legends esports was Sept. 8, 2013, the day Royal Club Huang Zu played nine straight games to qualify for the 2013 World Championship as China’s first seed. In …
Read More »Liquid’s ‘BuLba’: ‘All my favorite memories from Dota were from Liquid’
Switching roles can be a challenge for even seasoned Dota veterans. Moving from one lane to another means adjusting your positioning, your mentality, your entire playstyle. Kanishka Sosale, known to friends as "Sam" and the Dota world as "BuLba," hasn’t only changed roles this year; in fact, he has switched …
Read More »When hooliganism comes to esports, everyone loses
On Reddit, a salty fan of Cloud9 pointed out that VP fans at Dreamhack Bucharest appeared to be holding up signs reading THEY ARE A” and THEY ARE B.” While I’m a plenty salty C9 fan myself, I don’t believe that anyone in the crowd is capable of communicating the …
Read More »Fly on what’s next for the rebuilt OG
Another year, another International and another post-tournament roster shuffle – and OG’s one of the surprising teams to be shaking things up.Known for their stability and Major wins, OG didn’t quite hit the standards expected at this year’s International, but they’re not bowing out. Instead, the team has gone back …
Read More »Team Liquid announces new Dota roster and partnership with AOC
Team Liquid has announced its new Dota 2 roster along with bringing on AOC as a sponsor. The new Dota roster sees Lasse "MATUMBAMAN" Urpalainen, Ivan "MinD_ContRoL" Borislavov and Kuro "KuroKy" Salehi Takhasomi stay with the organisation, while Amer "Miracle-" Al-Barkawi and Kanishka ‘Sam’ "BuLba" Sosale have joined the team. …
Read More »Alliance and Evil Geniuses reveal new Dota rosters
Both Alliance and Evil Geniuses have revealed new Dota 2 teams, after rumours that both organisations were closing down. A few weeks ago it was rumoured that both Evil Geniuses and Alliance, two teams owned by Twitch/Amazon, would be closing their doors after founder Alex Garfield left the company. However …
Read More »3DS sales rocket in the US
Nintendo has said that "excitement for the Pokemon brand" is behind an ongoing resurgence in 3DS hardware sales in the US. Speaking of the North American NPD sales numbers for August, the platform holder has revealed that sales of lower-price 2DS, whose current RRP stands at just $80, were up …
Read More »Twitch Plays Chess beats a Grandmaster
And you thought Twitch Plays beating Dark Souls was impressive? As part of the promotional drive for Pure Chess, the hive mind of Twitch was pitted against British grandmaster Simon Williams, Rock Paper Shotgun reports. No contest, you’d think? Well, Williams won the first two games, the second of which …
Read More »Yoshida: No Man’s Sky PR strategy ‘wasn’t great’
The boss of Sony Worldwide Studios has admitted that mistakes were made in the marketing of PS4 and PC release No Man’s Sky. The much anticipated title has been beset by an unprecedented amount of criticism amid accusations that it failed to deliver on many of the promises made about …
Read More »Battlefield 1 beta breaks records
The recent open beta for DICE’s upcoming Battlefield 1 has broken EA records. The studio has revealed that the game was played by 13.2m people, making it the biggest in the publisher’s history. That also beats the numbers boasted by Blizzard’s record-breaker Overwatch (9.7m) and Ubisoft’s The Division (6.4m), as …
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