Category: eSports

Riot teases the next League of Legends champion in new video

Riot has been very busy lately with developing updates, implementing changes, and continuously trying to find ways of lowering toxicity within the community. In addition, the company somehow found the time to also work on new champions for League of Legends. No, I’m not talking about Kalista, who was released earlier this month. The company ...

Here are the Hearthstone Dreamhack Winter groups, new Goblins vs Gnomes cards revealed

Thirty-two of the best Hearthstone players in the world will compete for a slice of the $25,000 prize money this coming weekend at Dreamhack Winter. The first round groups have just been announced and we’re looking at four of them, each featuring a total of eight players. The top two players from each group will get to ...

League of Legends now allows you to send gifts to other players at the end of a match

Riot has come up with a way of allowing League of Legends players to show their appreciation towards others at the end of each match. Giving a gift to a person is one of the nicest things you can do in real life and now you can do it in LoL as well. The game ...

The Dota 2 Synergy League LAN finals have been delayed until next year

If you were looking forward to seeing some quality Dota 2 this weekend at the Synergy League LAN finals I’m afraid I have some bad news for your. The finals, which were originally scheduled to take place between November 28 – 30 have been postponed until next year. The organization responsible for hosting the event ...

CS:GO: Team Titan and Epsilon eSports have been disqualified from Dreamhack Winter

Yesterday we learned that Hovik “Kqly” Tovmassian from Titan has been banned by Valve’s anti-cheat service which lead to him being suspended from the team. With only one week to go until Dreamhack Winter 2014 Titan was in a pretty rough spot as the team was one player short and their fate in the tournament remained ...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro player Hovik “ Kqly ” Tovmassian gets banned by Valve

Just a few days ago we reported that former Alternate member Simon “smn” Beck was banned for cheating in an official ESEA match. Today, yet another Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player suffered a similar fate, although the circumstances were a bit different. The player in question is none other than Hovik “Kqly” Tovmassian from team Titan, who was ...

League of Legends patch 4.20 is here, full patch notes revealed

Patch 4.20 – also known as one of the biggest League of Legends updates ever – is now live. This is the first patch of the 2015 preseason and it’s all about “strategic diversity” according to Riot. If you’re thinking this sounds a little vague it’s because it does, but fortunately the company goes on ...

David Kim reiterates that Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void changes are not final

Earlier this month at Blizzcon 2014, Blizzard finally gave us a more detailed look at Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void. The company announced lots of changes for the upcoming game, as well as new units and features. While most SC2 fast were very excited to take a look at all the new additions, not everybody ...

Ao Kuang is the latest god to join the Smite pantheon

Hi-Rez Studios announced that Ao Kuang is the 60th god to join Smite’s ever growing pantheon. Also known as the Dragon God, Ao Kuang is a new melee mage who is best suited at dealing with one target at a time, although he is definitely useful against multiple opponents as well. Ao Kuang’s lore reveals that ...

Can Evolve become successful on the eSports scene?

Turtle Rock Studios have managed to impress a lot of people with their upcoming 4v1 action FPS, Evolve. The game is still in the Alpha testing phase but has already been embraced by the press and the gamers who were able to get in on the action during this early phase of testing. I’m fairly ...