OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot defeated 99.4% of players in public matches
OpenAI Five — the AI-imbued bot designed by San Francisco, California-based research organization OpenAI that defeated a professional esports team at Valve’s Dota 2...
Women are better at improving at Dota 2 than men
Women gamers are better at improving their skills compared to men when it comes to playing Valve’s Dota 2 game, according to AI-based game...
Esports organization Gen.G gets $46 million in funding from Will Smith and Stanford
The esports organization Gen.G announced today it has a completed a $46 million funding round that includes actor Will Smith as an investor. Gen.G,...
Age of Wonders: Planetfall interview — How a fantasy strategy series went sci-fi
Lennart Sas has been making strategy games since founding Triumph Studios with his friend, Arno van Wingerden, in 1997. It’s known of the Age...
Why German game developers are making a game about resisting Hitler
Handy Games often publishes light-hearted mobile and virtual reality games. But the German game publisher, which was recently acquired by THQ Nordic, is the...
Conan Unconquered real-time strategy PC game gets May 30 release date
Funcom announced that it will publish the Conan Unconquered real-time strategy game from Petroglyph Studios on May 30 on the Windows PC. I got...
Dota Auto Chess heads to mobile without Dota
One of the most popular games in the world right now is about to make the leap to mobile. Dota Auto Chess has tens...
DomiNations passes 50 million downloads ahead of Space Age update
Nexon and Big Huge Games have announced that DomiNations, the empire-building game now hitting its fourth anniversary, has been downloaded more than 50 million...
ESL and AT&T partner for new mobile esports league
ESL announced today that it is teaming up with AT&T to create the ESL Mobile Open, a new year-round mobile esports league. ESL is...
Total War: Three Kingdoms hands-on: equal parts exciting and worrisome
Total War: Three Kingdoms doesn’t look like a huge change for the Total War series, but it might unintentionally be the most radical installment...