by Jordan Love | Jan 8, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, News Section, Videogames
In a recent interview with Forbes, CEO of Cloud9 Jack Etienne, confirmed something that many of us have speculated upon—that the Overwatch League being located entirely in Los Angeles would bring up the stature of North American Overwatch as a whole. If you've ever...
by Jordan Love | Jan 3, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, News Section, Videogames
Rocket League reached another milestone this week as the game officially surpassed the 40 million player mark. The game has a massive following and last year was its most successful yet, but where does it stand in the greater esport community? How does it match up to...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 1, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
The inaugural start of the new season of League of Legends is just three weeks away on Jan. 20, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the teams. As the first North American LCS series to be franchised, fans would expect all the teams to be doing everything they can...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 20, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Livestreaming, Videogames
Streaming can seem like an unpredictable creature, and in many ways it is a bandwagon. Like Youtube, success compounds upon popularity. Many content creators have realized that once fame has found them, success inevitably follows, and it kills the spark. This is why...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 19, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Only weeks ago, Riot suspended Khan for what some viewed as racist comments. Before that, Vasiili was suspended for domestic violence. Now, Likkrit, of the Russian team M19, has been suspended for six months for speaking out against Riot. In violation of his contract,...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 18, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Esports are a hard thing to measure. There are tens of millions of gamers in America, but the percentage of those that watch esports is dramatically less, even if nearly all esport viewers are gamers. This creates a problem where many gamers think esports are dying...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 12, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
H2K has a problem. A few days ago, H2K delivered their third open letter to Riot and the community. Each letter is largely the same – H2K complains about what Riot is doing saying they need to do better, then they spend several paragraphs explaining why they are...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 10, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Riot has been cracking down on how they control their organization. Following an incident where LPL player Vasilii assaulted his girlfriend, Riot quickly suspended the player for an entire year, stating that they would take a more active role in monitoring their...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 8, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
A few days ago, the Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer took to Reddit to do an AMA regarding the future of the league and how Blizzard plans to move forward – at least that was what he said. The truth was that answers were few and far between, and Nate spent...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Dec 6, 2017 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
The Overwatch League is shaping up to be either the biggest thing in esports history, or the biggest flop. Nothing else has had so many millions of dollars poured into it without the slightest knowledge of whether or not there will be a fanbase interested in watching...
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