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Esports
“When I heard that there was such a thing as the Pokémon World Championships in 2000 I became obsessed with getting there.” Keza MacDonald from our sister site, Kotaku UK, summarizes her experience at the recent Pokémon World Championships. You can read her story here
By András Neltz Published September 12, 2014 -
EsportsPro Gamer Teaches You How To Shoot Better
It’s easy to think that the people who play video games for a living are just lucky enough to have fast reflexes that make them good. But, pro players study the games they excel at from every possible angle. Here’s what it looks like when a top-level player explains the best way to aim and…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 10, 2014 -
EsportsThe Stories Behind League of Legends‘ Biggest Championship
League of Legends‘ World Championship series—featuring the absurdly popular MOBA’s best players—is about to kick off. Major matches will be held all around, you know, the world, culminating in what will easily be one of the biggest eSports events ever. Still don’t care? Then watch this video. Truth be told, I’m not as up on…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 8, 2014 -
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eSports ‘Not A Sport’ Says ESPN President
This from the head of the network that streamed DOTA 2‘s 10 million dollar The International championship. OK then. ESPN President John Skipper didn’t mince words when asked about his thoughts on Amazon’s $970 million purchase of Twitch: “whatevs, breh.” OK, he didn’t actually say it that way, but he may as well have. Here,…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 5, 2014 -
EsportsComing Soon To Steam… A Baseball Fighting Game
Yes, you read that right. Baseball fighting game. Two combatants, two bats, one deadly, deadly ball. Oh, and some of the characters are skateboarding robots. The game is called Lethal League, and we wrote about it back when it was still a squalling baby flash game. Now it’s all grown up, feature-packed, and set to…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 13, 2014 -
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Your Odds of Being an eAthlete Esports is rapidly becoming one of the most popular ways for people to spend their time. League famously has 27 million daily users now, and DotA 2‘s the International was the largest tournament in history with a total prize pool of over $10,000,000. To put that in perspective, according…
By Dan Starkey Published August 12, 2014 -
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Your Chances of Winning a Hearthstone Match if You Go First Who goes first in turn-based games has always been a point of contention, but Ars Technica crunched the numbers for professional Hearthstone matches. Their full analysis is pretty interesting overall, but they found that the first player won 110 out of 219 recorded matches.…
By Dan Starkey Published August 8, 2014 -
EsportsThe Good And Bad of League Of Legends Patches
You could almost hear a hundred thousand viewers collectively hold their breath. Shen’s ultimate move, Stand United, which grants his ally a shield for up to five seconds and teleports him to their location after three, had been interrupted. The game was paused. Hundreds of gamers in attendance at Riot Games’ League of Legends Championship…
Dillon Skiffington Published August 6, 2014 -
EsportsHigh Level Starcraft II Play Starts Here
StarCraft II might be off the radar nowadays, but that doesn’t mean the pros stopped getting better and better at the game. One highlight was a recent matchbetween two Koreans, Parting and Byul, where the Protoss veteran basically destroyed the Zerg with perfect control of only a few units. Here’s the full match below. After…
By Gergo Vas Published July 22, 2014 -
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Paintball Can Be Badass With A Counter-Strike Sniper Rifle
The Asiimov skin for the AWP sniper rifle in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can be a pricey one, $30 or a lot more if you’re not lucky. So buying one might not be the best idea. But modifying a generic paintball marker to match the one in CS:GO? That’s much better. Gaboer did just that and…
By Gergo Vas Published July 18, 2014 -
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The International Dota 2 Championship that kicks off later this week will be streamed on ESPN3, Valve just announced. A special pre-show event “previewing the final match” will air on ESPN2 Sunday night at 8:30 PM Pacific Time. In addition to watching on the ESPN3 streaming service proper, Valve also said the event will be…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 17, 2014 -
EsportsFan Video Justifies All The Hype For The Big Dota Tournament
Compared to Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 doesn’t have that many Source Filmmaker shorts. Too bad, because Dota Cinema’s and Lozeng3r‘s SFM serves as proof that these things really have potential. They’ve made the clip to hype us all for the finals of The International and, well, it’s safe to say that it works. The…
By Gergo Vas Published July 16, 2014 -
EsportsThe Most Intense Battle Of EVO 2014 So Far
With a $35,000 on the line — the largest pot of EVO 2014 — Keiji “Garireo” Okamoto and Ryo “Dogura” Nozaki put up the fight of their lives in the BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma grand finals. By the end of the match between Gariero’s Litchi and Dogura’s Azrael the audience was going crazy, the announcers had…
By Mike Fahey Published July 13, 2014 -
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I Really Wanted The Other Guy To Win EVO’s King Of Fighters Tournament
How’s that for not spoiling the outcome? The EVO King of Fighters XIII finals came down to a riveting battle between Japan’s Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi and China’s Zhuojun “Xiaohai” Zeng. The one I was rooting for did not win. Despite some excellent Iori dueling and excellent use of the annoying-as-hell Chin, in the end what…
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2014 -
EsportsBatgirl Sweeps The Evo Injustice Grand Finals
Sonic Fox Vs. Pig of the Hut, General Zod Vs. Batgirl — who won? The viewing public. Also, Batgirl. Update: Now with smooth video of the entire finals. Though Pig of the Hut managed to squeak by Sonic Fox in the winner’s finals of Evo’s Injustice: Gods Among Us tournament, Sonic Fox battled his way…
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2014 -
EsportsTired of watching fighting games live? Watch StarCraft II live instead! We’re on Day Two of Red Bull Battle Grounds Atlanta, a StarCraft II event I was planning on attending back before I took over weekends. Let’s hope the competitors are better at planning than I am.
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2014 -
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Watch The Pokémon National Championships Live, Right Here
The very best Pokémon video game and card players in the United States have converged in Indianapolis, Indiana this weekend to see who gets to lose to players from other countries in August’s World Championship. Let’s watch. Unlike other global competitions I could mention, the U.S. actually has a pretty good shot at taking home…
By Mike Fahey Published July 6, 2014 -
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You Can Now Buy 3D-Printed Figurines Of League of Legends Pros
Pretty surprising way to promote an eSports team, but here they are: Team Dignitas‘ North American League of Legends team got unique 3D-printed figurines, and they are all available for $40 each. Here’s Kiwi, Shiphtur, Crumbzz, Zion, QT, and Scarra. Sadly they won’t say random LoL-related things if you squeeze them. via Cubify and Team-Dignitas.net…
By Gergo Vas Published July 4, 2014
