by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Last year was probably the first time teams started developing solid alternates or substitutes for lanes. Cloud9 and Immortals added a number of members behind the scenes, perhaps after seeing what happened to CLG. After Stixxay became injured, CLG had to manically...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 26, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
If anyone had said that the top three teams in the NA LCS – CLG, TSM, and Cloud9 – would all be out of the League of Legends 2018 Spring split, we would have thought they were crazy, but here we are. Team Liquid, Clutch Gaming, 100 Thieves, and Echo Fox are all that...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 24, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section
Allied Esports – the group behind many of the esports arenas scattered across California – has been teasing about their new arena at Las Vegas’s Luxor casino for some time. The arena premiered with Rocket League matches and SMITE teams facing off against one another...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 23, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section
Twitch is constantly working to change their platform for streamers. Sometimes that is with more controversial moves like the new Terms of Service, but more often the updates are geared at helping streamers and their audiences. Last year, Twitch unveiled a slew of...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 22, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Courtesy of the Japanese magazine Famitsu, fans of Dark Souls now get a look at what the Remastered game will look like. The screens don’t show much, but it does look noticeably better than its predecessor. Sen’s Fortress, for one, looks more obviously rusted and...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 22, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Before the split even started, OpTic’s lineup was one that seemed strange and hard to pull off. Finishing in ninth place has helped confirm that the already troubled start hasn’t gone well. According to ESPN, now that OpTic Gaming has realized this, they are benching...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 22, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, weekly
Quarterfinals: Team Liquid vs Cloud9 Cloud9 are not looking great. With the exception of their most recent win against Clutch Gaming, they have just finished a four-game losing streak. Two of those matches were against Team Liquid, who they now have to face again in a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 21, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, weekly
The 2018 League of Legends Spring split had some of the most chaotic final numbers of any split ever. Competition was incredibly fierce, but as the season came to end it became clear that the teams that would stand above the rest were those with members who could...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 21, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Since 2015, Ubisoft has been in the uncomfortable position of fending off the possibility of a hostile takeover from Vivendi. The company owned 27% of Ubisoft through shares – a number that comes out to around 30 million shares of the company. With a controlling stake...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 20, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section
Twitch is all about promoting positive streaming experiences. In fact, they are currently hosting a reality-show like contest all about promoting the best qualities in streamers. The streamer that wins the contest will be awarded $60k a year to stream. But despite...
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