by Jordan Love | Jan 26, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
EA is teaming up with the NFL, ESPN and Disney XD to broadcasts the upcoming Madden NFL 18 Championship Series. The broadcast will start with the final rounds of the Club Championship and continue into the Ultimate League and Championship Series. This marks EA's...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 26, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
This week, the top ranking teams are going head to head while the small fry duke it out. In just the first day, Cloud9, Echo Fox, 100 Thieves, and Team Liquid will face off while teams like FlyQuest and TSM struggle to remain relevant. But if there is only one game...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 25, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, News Section, Videogames
The number of big esports that currently have cross-platform support is roughly zero – not a single one. The primary reason for that is that the current esport ecosystem is dominated entirely by PC gaming. From CS:GO to League of Legends, every major esport is on the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 24, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
There were a lot of great matches and great stories in the first week of Season 8, but the biggest one is Doublelift’s revenge against TSM. The only ego that could possibly match Doublelift’s is that of TSM owner Reginald Dinh, who cranked things up a notch when he...
by Jordan Love | Jan 22, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
There's a fine line between trash talking and being blatantly disrespectful and intentionally hurtful. Professional Overwatch player xQc learned that lesson the hard way. After hurling multiple homophobic remarks at an opposing player both during and after an OWL...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 22, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
It should come as little surprise that Team Liquid had a strong showing, and by strong we mean that Doublelift utterly humiliated his old teammates with a near perfect game and near perfection Kill Participation. Not only that, but TSM’s owner, Reginald, was forced to...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 18, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
The personalities of the casters and analysts at Riot are well known to fans of the NA LCS. Kobe is excitable, Azael collected, and Captain Flowers is… a bit of a spaz. And Jatt has always exemplified analytical. He breaks down builds, team comps, metas, and every...
by Jordan Love | Jan 17, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
It would appear that Blizzard's strategy of throwing copious amounts of money at the Overwatch League is paying off. In its first week, OWL attracted upwards of 10 million viewers, or roughly half as many people as watched the 2017 NBA Finals. That's seriously...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 10, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, News Section, Videogames
A day before the OWL start date, Blizzard has released a companion app for the season. Among other things, the app will provide scores, standings, and consistent overviews of matches. The app is be completely free and released for all Android and iOS. Blizzard has...
by Jordan Love | Jan 9, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
It's now official, the inaugural season of the Overwatch League will be streamed on Twitch. In June of this year, Blizzard signed a deal with Twitch to broadcast over twenty of their tournaments and events across numerous games, including the Overwatch APEX League and...
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