Esports

Today’s League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals games are just getting started. It’s Korean powerhouse SKT 1 playing against Taiwanese team ahq e-Sports club. SKT 1 has even brought out its star player Faker for this one. My main question is: does ahq stand a chance? Watch Worlds on YouTube or Twitch.

Legendary Dota 2 Team Na’vi Disbands

The longstanding Dota 2 pro team Na’vi announcedthis morning that their current team roster is officially calling it quits and saying “GG” for the last time. And so ends the storied career of one of the longest-standing and most beloved teams in Dota 2’s eSports history. Na’vi’s decision to jettison their current roster and start…

Cool Custom Counter-Strike Map, Inspired By Quake

Map design that resembles classic deathmatch maps? Check. Lava? Check. Red-clouded skies? Check. Grey stone walls? Check. Zool’s custom CS:GO map, F4ST Castle, is a pretty good attempt to recreate everything that made Quake good. Looks like a fun place to mess around where even enabling auto bunny hop would be acceptable. To contact the…

The Pentakill That Won The Latest League Of Legends World Championship Game

Taiwanese League of Legends team Flash Wolves was widely expected to beat European opponent Origen today in the World Championship quarter finals. The first game has probably changed some people’s perspective on the match up, thanks to an Origen landing a pentakill so efficiently they made it seem…casual. 30 minutes into the match, Flash Wolves…

America’s Biggest League Of Legends Team Just Imploded

After a disappointing run at the 2015 League of Legends World Championships that ended with their elimination on Sunday night, the Team SoloMid (TSM) is quite literally falling apart. The team just revealed three of its top players are stepping down, just days after their last loss at Worlds. In a statement posted on the…

A Sad Farewell From A League Of Legends…Legend

Marcus “Dyrus” Hill, one of the first League of Legends professionals (and still one of the best), retired from competition yesterday. This is his final, emotional interview. (via Daily Dot)

The Hearthstone Americas Championship kicks off today to determine which four of eight top players will represent the Americas at Blizzcon next month. The action starts at 1PM Easternon Twitch.

What To Watch Out For This Weekend At The League Of Legends Championships

The League of Legends World Championship games are back in full swing. The past two days of the group stage haven’t been super exciting, since most everything ended up going the way people thought it would (i.e., the strongest teams won). The next two days, however, should be positively juicey. Here are the top teams…

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I guess getting married is one consolation for not making it past the group stage in Worlds.

The winner of this year’s U.S. League of Legends Championship Series tournament is officially out of the game’s 2015 World Championship. Counter-Logic Gaming (CLG) lost its first two games today, meaning they don’t have enough wins to go past the Worlds group stage. They’re playing their final pride match now.

A friendly reminder to all the League of Legends fans: part two of the 2015 World Championship group stage games starts tomorrow at 8:00 am EDT. I’ll be updating our explainer and covering tomorrow’s games as they play out. You can find instructions for how to watch—and read up on what’s happened so far—here Contact…

The World’s Best League Of Legends Player Knows No Mercy

The Korean eSports star Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok is so good at League of Legends that fans have taken to calling him “God.” The honorific makes a lot of sense, given how wrathful the pro player just showed himself to be. In this short clip that recently went viral on the League of Legends subreddit, an…

StarCraft II‘s New Patch Won’t Support Old Replays

With Legacy of the Void and its 3.0 pre-patch, a couple of big changes are coming to the game’s interface. The new, revamped UI looks fantastic, but there’s some bad news as well: Replays made before the patch will no longer be supported. Aw, crap. It sounds like a tiny change, but replays were always…

Dota 2 Hero Alchemist Made A Curious eSports Comeback This Weekend

This past weekend saw Dota 2 descend on New York City’s Madison Square Garden theater for the eSports tournament ESL One. One thing that surprised a lot of Dota 2 fans was the return of Alchemist, a hero who hasn’t had a huge impact on the game’s pro scene for a while now. Alchemist is…

Riot Bans League Of Legends Team For Not Paying Its Players

League of Legends pro side Team Immunity has been banned from competing by Riot for two years, having been found guilty of “not paying minimum match payments to their players.” In a post on the Oceanic League of Legends site, Riot has announced that, effective immediately, Team Immunity and its owners will not be allowed…

That Big Pharma Jerk Also Owns A League of Legends Team

Did you know the most hated pharmaceutical executive in America also owns professional League of Legends and Dota 2 teams? It’s true! Martin Shkreli, the CEO who instantly gained internet notoriety yesterday for jacking up the price of a drug used to treat cancer patients and people with AIDS by more than 5,000 percent, happens…

An Awesome Moment From The Heroes Of The Storm Americas Finals

The Heroes of the Storm Americas finals went down in Las Vegas this weekend, giving rise to many big plays that impressed fans and spectators. One moment from the grand finals stood out as a real show-stopper. It all came down to a face-off between two of the Act I bosses in Diablo III. The…

The Heroes of the Storm Americas Championship concludes today as six teams—Tempo Storm, COGnitive Gaming, Cloud 9 compLexity, Relics and Murloc Geniuses battle for two spots to the World Championships at BlizzCon 2015. Watch it live here

Watch The Heroes Of The Storm Americas Championship Live, Right Here

The top eight Heroes of the Storm team in the Americas are in Las Vegas today, competing for a $100,000 prize pool and two spots in the world championship battle at BlizzCon 2015. Who will win, other than Murky? Kicking off at 1 PM Eastern and running until one team has $40,000 and a trip…

Madden NFL Should Be a 22-Player Game

It is one of the oft-old tales in the three-decade (!) history of Madden NFL: When Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts, approached John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster, about collaborating on a new version of video game football, Madden stipulated that any game with his name on it would include…