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The developers behind The Witcher III: Wild Hunt and Her Story have emerged as this year’s big winners at The Develop Awards. Following a voting process by more than 90 influential industry figures, Polish studio CD Projekt Red took home four gongs tonight with The Witcher III earning the team …
Read More »Hero Limit: Why Not 6 Winstons?
Blizzard doesn’t want a hero limit although many players and tournament organizers do. What are the arguments on both sides of the debate? MOBAs follow the convention of only allowing one or two unique heroes on a map. Why is Overwatch giving free reign? After all, the character element came …
Read More »The top 10 players competing at Evo 2016
In two days, over 15,000 contenders will gather to compete in the world’s largest fighting game tournament: the Evolution Championship Series (Evo). This year, the event’s set of nine titles includes Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs. …
Read More »A basic comparison of champion select trends across five major regions
Until recently, draft phases had become homogenized internationally. Watching a game in a given major league followed the same patterns. Spectators expressed irritation that "everyone was just copying Korea." That seems to have changed this summer, as teams within leagues and leagues themselves have begun to prioritize different picks. Looking …
Read More »Regulating The Billion-Dollar ESports World Is Nearly Impossible
There’s a new Esports sheriff in town, ready to combat the influx of gamblers and would-be match fixers that have descended upon the burgeoning, soon-to-be $1.9 billion dollar industry, hoping to stem the tide of rigged games that have plagued the world of professional gaming of late. Read more on …
Read More »Valve finally breaks Counter Strike Go gambling silence
Sites that use Steam’s OpenID API for Counter Strike Go item gambling have been given a clear message form Valve – stop. Valve has to date remained silent about the gambling controversy that has surrounded both its team shooter and a number of YouTube stars. And while both TmarTn and …
Read More »Analyzing Clash Royale’s tournament feature: esports as a marketing tool
After creating a competitive mobile hits like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, and being valued at roughly $10 billion after the Tencent buy, we think Supercell has a pretty good chance of making quite a splash into the esports industry. And, as we said already, Clash Royale has the …
Read More »Pokémon Go finally launches in the UK
Having been released in other regions, Pokmon Go has finally hit the App Store and Google Play in the UK. This is one week after the free-to-play mobile hit launched in New Zealand and Australia. Pokmon Go is also available in the US and Germany. At the time of writing, …
Read More »CD Projekt Red and Sam Barlow storm 2016 Develop Awards
Full winners revealed from tonight’s awards ceremony in Brighton
Read More »ECS CS:GO league returns for season two
The Esports Championship Series is set to return for its second season in October, with open qualifiers for the league taking place next month. The competition, which is a partnership between FACEIT and Twitch, just wrapped up its first season at Wembley Arena, but plans for the next event have …
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