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With the second season of ELEAGUE getting underway late last week, Turner has announced a new sponsor for the competition in the form of SNICKERS. SNICKERS is now the official chocolate bar of ELEAGUE, but the sponsorship doesn’t end there. SNICKERS will also sponsor the pre game show airing on …
Read More »Nintendo’s Esports Switch: How and why Nintendo can use Smashers to save itself
This week’s Nintendo Switch announcement spawned dizzying fanfare thanks to the inclusion of a short clip that featured the visual language of esports: players in jerseys marching into a packed stadium to compete in a competitive Splatoon match. The fact of the matter is that Nintendo, a company that has …
Read More »What does another Korean win mean for Worlds?
Hold on a minute, haven’t we been here before? With just the grand final to go, the 2016 League of Legends World Championship knockout stage is looking remarkably similar to the previous year. Read more on Red Bull >>>
Read More »SSG Cuvee talks H2K win, final vs. SKT, top lane matchups
One of the standout performers at the 2016 League of Legends World Championship has been Samsung Galaxy top laner Seong-jin Cuvee” Lee. Playing in his first-ever Worlds, he helped lead Samsung to a surprising 5-1 group stage record and back-to-back knockout stage sweeps against Albus NoX Luna and H2K. Read …
Read More »Karrigan: ‘I actually have a team again where I feel reborn as an in-game leader’
It’s the second day of ELeague and two teams face elimination: Immortals, the second best team from Brazil, and Europe’s FaZe Clan, a team that just replaced Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey with former Astralis in-game leader Finn "karrigan" Andersen. Read more on ESPN >>>
Read More »Stop looking for the logic to Valve’s invites to the Boston Major; there isn’t any
With the announcement of direct invites to the next Dota 2 Major (in Boston, Valve’s first East Coast event) comes frustrations both new and familiar. In the past, there have been many complaints about the direct invite system, most notably from the triumvirate of Dota 2 statisticians, Ben Noxville” Steenhuisen, …
Read More »Blizzard reveals LCS like set up for Heroes of the Storm in 2017
Blizzard has revealed the set up for Heroes of the Storm Global Championship 2017, which shares more than a few similarities with the LCS. After a somewhat lackluster competitive season over the last twelve months, which saw a lot of big names drop out of the scene, Blizzard has finally …
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin studio
Studio located with new Twitch team, looking to hire local game development talent
Read More »Epic Games reveal 6 new recipients from latest round of Unreal Dev Grants
Grants provide $160,000 in no-strings-attached funding
Read More »Gameforge pulls out of mobile, lays off 1/5th of staff
Nearly 90 people could be affected as Gameforge changes strategy
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