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Gambling company offers 99-to-1 odds on Hearthstone joining Winter Olympics 2030

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 25, 2015
1 min

An online gambling company is offering odds of 99-to-1 on the card-battler Hearthstone becoming a Winter Olympic sport. The Malta-based Betway is getting into esports...

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Nvidia partners with ESL to convince esports fans to use its video cards

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 21, 2015
2 min

The way to my heart is definitely food. Make me chocolate chip cookies, and I’ll probably marry you. But esports seems like a good...

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Intel shows how we should celebrate gaming, not fear it

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 19, 2015
3 min

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...

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Watching games may soon be more popular than playing them thanks to esports

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 11, 2015
2 min

SAN FRANCISCO — More people watch football on TV than play it. The same may be true for video games one day. That may...

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Follow one Hearthstone player’s quest to reach Legend

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 1, 2015
3 min

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.