There will come a time in the not too distant future when eSports will overtake traditional sports in terms of popularity. Competitive gaming’s status has skyrocketed in recent years and it is now a multibillion-dollar industry, with legions of fans spread across the globe. Rather than reacting with fear and fury, traditional sporting franchises are ...
Although it’s only the tenth of January, plenty of professional CS:GO (ASUS ROG tournament, Mountain Dew League) has already occurred. However, there’s plenty to come, and Intel Extreme Masters just announced the details of the upcoming IEM Katowice 2017 tournament, barring the teams that will be invited. 12 teams from around the world will compete ...
Twitch has released its annual report, and 2014 was a big year for them. First, they were acquired by Amazon for a massive $1 billion, which equated to $970 million in cash. And now Twitch revealed that they hit an impressive milestone of 100 million unique viewers per month. The statistics keep improving, since the site also ...
A professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro player who goes by the name Simon “smn” Beck was recently banned by the ESEA for cheating. Until recently, Beck was on the official CS:GO roster of Alternate, one of the best teams in Germany at the moment. Alternate had a pretty good run in the European ESEA Main division this past ...