Category: eSports

Player feedback helped shape the eSports side of Call of Duty Advanced Warfare says Sledgehammer

A new age of Call of Duty will begin tomorrow with the launch of Advanced Warfare. The latest title in the series is very different than its predecessors thanks to its very futuristic vibe. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be focused on storytelling and the single player campaign, but what about the multiplayer? CoD ...

CaoMei retires from League of Legends in favor of professional streaming

A career in professional gaming may sound like a dream come true to many of us, but it’s much harder to accomplish than many people would believe. This is especially true if you’re part of a pro team and are competing in various eSports competitions just to earn a living. For these people training takes ...

Na’Vi takes the D2CL crown at Dreamhack Bucharest Masters 2014

Dreamhack Bucharest 2014 is over and the winners of the various tournaments have been decided. The event held in Romania’s capital hosted a number of eSports tournaments for League of Legends, Hearthstone, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. While most of these competitions mainly saw local players going up against each other, the latter stood out as ...

The first round of the Starcraft 2 WCS Global Finals has concluded

This past weekend, the best Starcraft 2 players in the world were pitted against each other in the first round of the World Championship Series Global Finals. The first round matches were all best of 5 and decided which of the sixteen players would get to advance to the next stage of the championship, the ...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive CEVO Season 6 prize pool announced

CEVO opened the registrations and announced the prize pool for the eSports competitions that will take place during Season 6. While Season 5 featured $19,635 in prize money, in Season 6 we’re seeing an increased of over $4,000 for a total prize pool of $24,100. In addition, the prize pool has the potential of getting even ...

Dota 2 finally has a better item drop system thanks to the latest patch

Item drops in Dota 2 used to be a wonderful thing back in the day when you actually got something useful every once in a while. If you’re like me, by now your inventory is probably full of common items for heroes you never play with and the worst part is that you can’t even sell ...

Blizzard starts permanently banning Hearthstone win traders

Blizzard recently started dropping the banhammer on Hearthstone players found using bots to hep them gain gold and levels faster. The bans were initially only meant to last for two months, but they will be permanent from now on according to the company. This was just the beginning however because Blizzard has now started banning win ...

Nosgoth will have its own ESL Cup Series starting next month

The eSports scene is going to include yet another game very soon with the arrival of the upcoming online action-adventure title Nosgoth. The game is still in its Closed Beta phase and a release date has not been announced yet, but that didn’t stop publisher Square Enix from creating a series of competitions in collaboration with the ...

Team Evil Geniuses will be changing its Call of Duty roster very soon

Team Evil Geniuses is one of the most predominant teams in eSports and has professional players for pretty much every game out there, ranging from Dota 2 to World of Warcraft. Moreover, EG also has the best Call of Duty team in history whose roster is comprised of Patrick “Aches” Price, Ian “Crimsix” Porter, Kenneth “Dedo” Dedo, and Tyler ...

League of Legends 2014 World Championship sale ends today

The League of Legends 2014 World Championship is already over, but the big sale that was announced to go along with it is still available. However, that won’t be the case for much longer as Riot previously stated that everything will revert to the original price once Friday, October 31st comes to an end. Coincidentally, that’s ...