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Heroes of the Storm eulogy: For once, Blizzard couldn’t balance the casual and competitive

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 15, 2018
5 min

Heroes of the Storm isn’t dead. But it isn’t alive, either. Blizzard Entertainment’s announcement this week that it was ending Heroes esports entirely, shifting...

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AI is esports’ newest weapon

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 11, 2018
3 min

Professional athletes are no strangers to the power of artificial intelligence. Whether it’s the computer vision tools that help pitchers perfect their delivery or the...

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Warcraft III: Reforged reminds us why mod toolsets should matter

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 11, 2018
5 min

Warcraft III created new genres of games with its World Editor. Now with Warcraft III: Reforged there’s an update for the classic game —...

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Newzoo sees live esports viewership growing for some big events.

4 biggest Western esports events generated 190.1 million viewing hours

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 6, 2018
3 min

Esports viewership is on the rise, but not all of big events are benefiting equally. Market researcher Newzoo said that tournaments for the West’s...

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Fnatic's League of Legends team placed second in the recent world championship.

How Fnatic’s esports victories led it into hardware

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 1, 2018
12 min

Sam Mathews and Anne Mathews founded Fnatic as one of the pioneering esports organizations in 2004. Over 14 years, its teams have competed in...

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Gabe Newell struggles to say ‘triple-kill’ for his Dota 2 voice pack

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 22, 2018
1 min

Gabe Newell might have founded Valve, the company that made Half-Life and Steam, but he doesn’t understand the concept of “three.” And that’s a...

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Conjure Strike shows that team shooters work in VR, just as we thought they would.

Conjure Strike hands-on — this mix of Overwatch and Dota 2 shows team shooters work in VR

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 22, 2018
3 min

When I played Megalith at E3, it was a little bit of a revelation for me. Intuitively I knew that hero shooter-style games, or rather...

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Epic’s epic monetization has it winning the battle of battle royales

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 7, 2018
4 min

At the start of the year, one of the biggest questions in gaming was undoubtedly: “Who is going to win the battle of the...

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Steam lists its top PC games at 2018’s midpoint

Posted byby Mike Minotti
July 5, 2018
1 min

Valve’s digital PC store Steam revealed the games that have sold best on its platform so far in 2018. The list separates games into...

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OpenAI’s bot can now defeat skilled Dota 2 teams

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 25, 2018
5 min

Artificial intelligence researchers at OpenAI have developed a system -- OpenAI Five -- that can defeat teams of skilled Dota 2 players.

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