Esports

Giant Arenas Capture The Beautiful Chaos Of 100-Player Battlegrounds

This weekend, scores of players in Busan, South Korea, will compete in a LAN pulled from Ready, Player One’s wildest dreams. Stacked up in double-decker computer hubs, 100 competitors at a time will drop onto the abandoned island of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and scrap, shoot, and crawl until only one person is left standing at the…

Esports Is A Mansion Of Butts, According To This Bizarre Ad

It’s a cliche at this point: Every esports experience starts with you sitting in your DXRacer gaming chair, watching some Dota 2 footage in Windows Media Player, with a half-eaten pizza and several print magazines on either side. Then, a redheaded babe wearing a peaked cap and stiletto pumps rings your doorbell to deliver your…

Competitors Battle For Love And Justice At Sailor Moon Fighting Game Tournament

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen (roughly, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Outdoor Brawl!? Star Scramble) is a fighting game that was developed for the Super Famicom in 1994. Although the game never officially left Japan, the competitive fighting game community has taken a shine to this anime-based release. And with a variety…

Moira, Overwatch’s new healer, has just gone live. The game’s latest update also includes some nerfs to Mercy’s resurrection skills, which means she’ll probably stop being every team’s number-one pick for support players.

NRG Esports Won’t Show Us Its “Zero Tolerance” Policy, But It Probably Sucks

On November 6, NRG Esports CEO and founder Andy Miller announced the firing of Overwatch team manager Max Bateman via Twitter, 14 hours after a woman said that he had sexually assaulted her. Miller tweeted that Bateman’s firing was “in accordance with NRG ESports zero tolerance policy.” Brett Lautenbach, president of NRG Esports and the…

Tekken Star Humiliates Hacker Into Rage-Quitting

Developing fighting games for PC is a risky proposition, as it often just makes it simpler for players to do silly things likeform an all-Ryu team in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 orshoot themselves to the top of the Street Fighter V rankings. World-class Tekken competitor Jae-min “Knee” Bae recently found himself matched up against…

Overwatch League has announced the full schedule for all of December’s pre-season games, as well as the first season, which starts January 10 and runs through June 16. The debut season has been split into four five-week stages, each of which culminates in a title match with a $125,000 prize pool.

British Soccer Writer Is Baffled By The Prospect Of Gamers Humping

In an article titled “Are eSports Going To Replace The Beautiful Game?” British GQ contributor Andy Mitten spins a yarn about going somewhere where there are no Manchester United fans. Where are all the sports-hungry young men, he wonders? This is where the esports hook comes in, a full twelve paragraphs after the article has…

Pro Gamers Should Use Their Real Names 

Here’s some helpful advice from me, a guy with a surface-level interest in esports, to you, the pro gamer: Use your real name instead of some gamer handle. I’m sure that you have heard this before, from some jerk looking down his nose at you, but let me assure you that I do respect games…

Squishy’s Ceiling Golazo Might Be The Best Rocket League Play Ever

Mariano “Squishy” “SquishyMuffinz” Arruda’s Cloud9 team only finished third at this past weekend’s Rocket League season four finals in Washington, D.C., so Mr. Muffinz will have to settle for what might be the best single shot ever made in competitive Rocket League history. There are multiple elements to break down here, so start by watching…

Rocket League Finals End In Nail-Biting Overtime

The season four finals of the Rocket League Championship Series ended in a European grudge match, as its top two teams Gale Force eSports and Method clashed again in the grand finals. Over the course of four games, Gale Force eSports cemented its throne atop the Rocket League scene with a 4-0 sweep of the…

When You’re At The Rocket League Finals But Still Binging Bob’s Burgers

Thankfully, Rocket League’s rules are a bit more straightforward. You can catch the season 4 championship series finals airing on the Rocket League Twitch channel right now

King of Fighters Match Comes Down To The Last Second

At Brooklyn Video Games, Fuerte Beatdowns III was keeping the spirit of old-school King of Fighters 2002 alive last night. One tense match between Darkwhip and Cimus came down to slivers of health as the timer ticked down. Old games are still hype.

Hearthstone Pro Leaves It All Up To One Card

Yogg-Saron is one of the most random cards in Hearthstone, a digital card game that loves randomness. Dropping it is usually—always—a gamble, so when Hearthstone pro Thijs Molendijk dropped it with one health against a stacked board, he was leaving the game up to one last chance. The way Yogg-Saron works is that when it’s…

Dota Scheduling Clash Leads To Two No-Show Forfeits

Multiple tournaments scheduled to take place on the same day, today, have led to two Dota 2 teams receiving forfeit losses after being unable to make their scheduled games. Dota production hub Moonduck TV announced today that HellRaisers and Mid or Feed have fallen to the lower bracket of the Captain’s Draft qualifiers after an…

Own Goals Happen, Even At The Rocket League Championship Series Finals

Most Rocket League players have scored an own-goal at some point in their life, but having that moment happen on the championship stage can be a little demoralizing. In game 3 overtime during yesterday’s match between Method and NRG at this year’s Rocket League Championship Series season four finals, Joonas”Mognus” Salo gave the ball a…

Alexstrasza’s True Dragon Form “Broke The Game,” Says Heroes Of The Storm Director

At Blizzcon 2017, the Heroes of the Storm team announced the debut of Overwatch’s Hanzo and World of Warcraft’s Alexstrasza with a cinematic featuring the two dragon-themed characters facing off. In it, Alexstrasza transforms into her massive red dragon form, towering over her measly human opponent. But Heroes of the Storm game director Alan Dabiri…

A charity Overwatch tournament is being held today in honor of Dennis “INTERNETHULK” Hawelka, who died this past week. Played on the PTR with Moira and featuring several notable teams, funds will go to the Hawelka family if needed, or otherwise go to a charity of their choosing.

The Weekend In Esports: Rocket League World Championships 

With the year winding down, so are most of the competitive gaming leagues. There are still a few big events left, however, and chief among them is the fall Rocket League championship. The $150,000 prize pool event kicked off Friday at the MGM National in Maryland. Featuring the top-tier competitors from the regular season, the…

Black Adam Player Proves Unbreakable At Injustice 2 World Championships

Ryan “Dragon” Walker was crowned the first Injustice 2 world champion during a special Eleague broadcast last night, in a 3-1 victory over FoxyGrampa in the grand finals. Walker had already taken the Evo title, and now boasting two major championships, it’s fair to say he’s the top player in Injustice 2 for the time…