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Eleague’s season two Counter-Strike playoffs start November 30

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 29, 2016
1 min

Cable television’s biggest Counter-Strike tournament is reaching its zenith this weekend, and the action kicks off on Wednesday. Eleague’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive season-two playoffs begin...

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Konami stokes PES 2017’s esports ambitions with a free-to-play version

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 28, 2016
2 min

Konami wants to give everyone a chance to prove they are the best digital-soccer star in the world. The publisher is launching PES 2017...

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2 min

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Joint venture aims to take live esports events to bigger stages

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 28, 2016
2 min

British game industry content agency Attention Seekers and live event firm Done + Dusted have formed a joint venture to make competitive gaming and...

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Overwatch takes center stage at yet another major esports tournament

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 23, 2016
1 min

While Blizzard is starting its own official esports league for Overwatch, third-party event organizers continue to turn to the popular game for their own...

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Nintendo has begun promoting Battlefy’s Splatoon esports tournaments

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 16, 2016
2 min

Nintendo is partnering with one of the largest community-driven tournament platforms to turn Splatoon into an esport. Battlefy kicked off the Splatoon Showdown Series last...

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Nielsen: Overwatch fans are younger than other esports followers

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 10, 2016
1 min

Out of all Overwatch esports fans, 68 percent of them are in the age 18 to 34 millennial demographic, according to the 2016 Nielsen Esports Report and Nielsen Video Game Tracking. This is higher than the average for other competitive games, which is at 61 percent.

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Hearthstone’s tri-class cards will change the card game forever

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
3 min

Players expected Blizzard to announce a new expansion for its digital-card-game-market leader Hearthstone. They didn’t think it would introduce a new card type that completely...

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3 min

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Hearthstone’s new expansion is Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, coming ‘early December’

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
2 min

Be careful out there! Blizzard revealed the latest expansion for its digital card game market leader Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft during its BlizzCon event in Anaheim, California, today. bringing back lapsed players.

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Heroes of the Storm adds Alliance king Varian Wyrnn and Ragnaros the Fire Lord

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
1 min

Death isn’t the end of a beloved Blizzard character. The developer announced today during the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon in Anaheim, California, that Varian Wyrnn...

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Hearthstone’s World Championship: What we can learn from the best players’ decks

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 4, 2016
7 min

On November 4 and November 5, eight of the best Hearthstone players in the world compete at BlizzCon in Anaheim for a $1 million prize pool in the Hearthstone World Championship. With stakes this high, those competitors better bring their best decks.

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7 min

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