Streaming 101: 4 tips for getting started
In 2014, Amazon bought Twitch.tv for an eye-popping $1 billion. The popular streaming platform now claims to have more than 100 million monthly users,...
DeepMind’s AlphaStar Final beats 99.8% of human StarCraft 2 players
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind — which famously developed AlphaZero, a machine learning system that bested world champions in chess, shogi, and Go — returned to...
A look back at some of AI’s biggest video game wins in 2018
For decades, games have served as benchmarks for artificial intelligence (AI). In 1996, IBM famously set loose Deep Blue on chess, and it became...
4 esports regulations to watch for in 2018
The rapid growth of the esports industry has increased the potential for corruption, match-fixing, doping, and other undesirable or illegal activities. Increased regulation is...
NBA jams into esports: Warriors’ Guber, Wizards’ Leonsis, and Magic Johnson buy Team Liquid
Basketball? Baseball? How 20th century. Today’s sports mogul is looking toward digital competition. Team Liquid has announced that it has sold the controlling interest of its...
Major League Gaming drops StarCraft II from its next championship event
MLG suggested that something could change but it doesn't plan to include Blizzard's real-time-strategy game at the Columbus event.
Major League Gaming smashes its single-event attendance record in Anaheim
Major League Gaming is just coming off its Spring Championship even in Anaheim, California. The competitive-gaming organization gave out $105,000 in prizes to the top competitors in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and League of Legends.
Hardware: Shipbreakers developer plans to carve out market next to League of Legends (exclusive)
Hardware is a free-to-play real-time-strategy game set in a sci-fi universe.
Justin.tv signs exclusive broadcast deal with giant e-sports league ESL
Justin.tv announced today that it has secured an exclusive distribution deal with the electronic sports league, ESL, to broadcast electronic sports tournaments on Twitch.tv....
Under pressure, Blizzard Entertainment may unveil Titan in October
Blizzard Entertainment is under pressure to deliver something big before the end of the year, now that it has delayed Diablo 3 until 2012....