Intel shows how we should celebrate gaming, not fear it
SAN FRANCISCO — The world’s biggest chip maker has a vested interest in helping gaming succeed, as the pastime pushes the envelope for computing technology...
Watching games may soon be more popular than playing them thanks to esports
SAN FRANCISCO — More people watch football on TV than play it. The same may be true for video games one day. That may...
Follow one Hearthstone player’s quest to reach Legend
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is about repetition. The pressure is on the player to learn and adapt. At the peak of the grind is the rank of “Legend,” which you from winning enough games to reach it in Ranked Mode.
Electronic Sports League and Plays.TV bring something new to esports: the player’s view
Electronic Sports League and Plays.TV partner up to cover esports -- providing player POV and mic'd audio to viewers
Pro Counter-Strike player admits drug use at recent tournament: ‘We were all on Adderall’
Comments imply that Adderall usage is widespread in pro gaming circles.
Holy Stoneskin Gargoyle! Someone already has 20K wins in Hearthstone
Even if you did nothing else but play Hearthstone for the next several months, you'd probably have a difficult time catching up to Shtan Udachi.
Skillz introduces platform to enable gamers to quickly organize and host esports events
Skillz is further democratizing esports for the common gamer.
Esports documentary will debut with live StarCraft competition
The esports phenomenon is getting so big that it's getting its own documentary.
Vulcun gives its first $100K prize to a fantasy esports player
Esports is getting so big that fans are starting to win six-figure prizes just for watching and guessing which players will do well
Esports startup Faceit parlays 1.5M registered users into $2M funding round
Faceit takes a different approach to esports than Twitch; it has online tournaments and daily and monthly leagues.