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With the news that the Spanish soccer club Valencia CF is entering esports, marking the fourth such organization to do so, one may wonder why their North American athletic counterparts are not doing the same thing? Read more on PvP Live >>>
Read More »The Truth About E League Viewership
We’ve now completed Week 2 in Turner’s grand experiment into eSports. Immediately after launch there were the standard, un-investigated headlines like E League Debut Should Have Other Professional Sports Concerned”. As expected the headlines don’t come close to telling the full story. If that works for you, stop now. If …
Read More »Does Hearthstone need a rulebook?
More than 50 million people played Hearthstone in May, according to Blizzard. That’s impressive, given that none of them have ever read the rules for Hearthstone—because you can’t. There’s no rulebook for the wildly popular digital card game. Should there be? Read more on Daily Dot >>>
Read More »Genvid Technologies aims to create ‘revolutionary esports broadcasts’
Genvid Technologies is coming out of stealth today with the ambition of creating revolutionary esports broadcasts.” It wants to make esports broadcasts more compelling to watch, bringing multiple camera angles and interactivity into the live streams of furious game matches. Read more on Venturebeat >>>
Read More »Seize the day: OG at the Manila Majors
Don’t call it a comeback for OG. The surprise victors of the Frankfurt Major are coming into Manila with a chip on their shoulder after a seventh/eighth place finish in Shanghai. In the weeks and months since that, all eyes have been on this team to see which OG will …
Read More »How a gaming ‘Fnatic’ built an eSports empire
It’s crunch time. The clock is ticking down, the score is all wrong and the majority of the 16,000-strong crowd starts to cheer against them. The world’s best team is up against it. Led by the world’s best player, they somehow pull off a comeback—of course, they do—and defeat the …
Read More »Faker: "In either of today’s games, I didn’t think I was going to die once."
SK Telecom T1 demolished KT Rolster in a 2-0 win in Saturday’s League Champions Korea match, and almost as expected from the undisputed king of League of Legends, Lee Faker” Sang-Hyeok walked away as MVP for both games. Dealing three times the damage of nearly every other player in the …
Read More »Battleborn is a cautionary tale for developers jumping on the esports bandwagon
Maybe Battleborn was doomed from the start. It seems every developer on Earth is developing a fun, colorful arena shooter with MOBA elements and a lot of esports aspirations. It’s just that with Battleborn, Gearbox had particularly bad timing, releasing its game right alongside Overwatch. Blizzard’s giddy, tactile first-person shooter …
Read More »Let’s not write Heroes’ eulogy just yet
It’s been a day of hot takes. Spurred on by a disheartening interview with MVP Black’s coach Kim where he discusses the possibility that the current World Champions will stop playing Heroes, opinions have flooded in about the future of the game’s competitive scene. HotS esports is dying, some said. …
Read More »What Overwatch needs to succeed as an esport
No doubt about it: Overwatch is a great competitive video game. It’s spectacularly polished, boasts a huge, well-balanced cast of colorful heroes, and features modes built perfectly for nail-bitingly close endings. But I’m not certain it will be able to sustain itself as an esport. Read more on Yahoo eSports …
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