Riot Games names John Needham as head of League of Legends esports
Riot Games named John Needham as the global head of League of Legends esports. The current co-heads of esports, Jarred Kennedy and Whalen Rozelle,...
Auto Chess on mobile is improving … but confusing
The race to cash in on the year’s hottest mod, Dota Auto Chess, is well on its way. Last week, Valve announced that it’d...
Total War: Three Kingdoms hits 1 million copies sold in under a week
The Total War series is finally playing around in a Chinese setting, and now that country is paying developer Creative Assembly back with success....
Total War: Three Kingdoms review — Best in the series, best in the setting
Total War: Three Kingdoms is the best Total War game and the best Three Kingdoms game ever. I do not make this claim lightly;...
Animoca Brands raises $2.5 million for The Sandbox blockchain gaming platform
Animoca Brands has raised $2.5 million in funding for The Sandbox blockchain gaming platform. Animoca’s Pixowl division is remaking The Sandbox as a blockchain-enabled...
Riot Games and State Farm extend League of Legends esports pact to 2021
League of Legends has a history of attracting huge companies outside gaming to sponsor its esports tournaments. And today, developer Riot Games announced that...
Hearthstone is nerfing Rogue and Archivist Elysiana
Blizzard Entertainment has announced a new wave of card nerfs that will be hitting Hearthstone on May 22. They will have a strong impact...
AI is becoming esports’ secret weapon
Machine learning is changing the $1 billion esports market, which is projected to reach $1.8 billion by 2022. Computer scientists have made great strides...
The impossible-to-judge Imperator: Rome has had a shaky launch — why?
Paradox’s Imperator: Rome feels like an obligation, a necessary addition of an ancient world strategy game to add to its stable of medieval, renaissance,...
Apex Legends: Nearly 30% of its over 50 million players are new to EA, China and mobile on horizon
Apex Legends has been a phenomenon for EA, and the publisher said that 30% of its players are new to its games — an...