On Friday afternoon, Twitch, one of the largest live streaming platforms in the world, announced that they will be hosting a $1 million Twitch Rivals tournament at the annual TwitchCon event starting on September 27 in San Diego. According to the company's press release, the three-day event will pit streamers against one another in Fortnite, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics and Apex Legends. Previously reserved for the most popular streamers on the platforms, this Twitch Rivals event will allow any Twitch Partner or Affiliate to compete in the events.
Changes to the competitive Heroes of the Storm "Ranked" mode are coming next week, according to the game's development team in a conversation with InvenGlobal. Storm League Season 1 is set to kick off on Tuesday, August 6 with numerous gameplay changes that have been in the works for quite some time.
Qhira, the grappling-hook-throwing, chainsaw-blade-having, nexus-original badass is coming to Heroes of the Storm in an upcoming patch, according to the game's development team. Scheduled to hit the game's Public Test Realm early Monday afternoon, Qhira's ability to start and end fights will make melee assassin players jump for joy. This mobile death machine aims to bring her own style of chaos to the battlefield.
A brutal Heroes of the Storm melee assassin who is adept at both beginning and ending fights. Qhira's full talent tree and abilities have been revealed.
Starting on Friday, Epic Games will launch one of the largest video game tournaments in history, the Fortnite World Cup, held in New York City. With $30 million in prizes up for grabs across numerous formats, money is expected to change hands inside the area and out of it. Bovada, one of the largest online gambling websites in the world, has added an entire section to their site dedicated to the World Cup itself. On it, users can place bets on who will win certain events such as the Pro-Am or Solo and Duo portions of the tournament. Additionally, there are more niche "prop bets" such as "Will a player from an organization win?" or "Region of the Winner."
On Wednesday morning, Riot Games' unveiled their 9.14B patch notes which aim to create more of a balance on the battlefield and knock a few popular strategies down a couple of pegs. With Brawlers, most specifically Volibear, and Ninja/Assassins dominating the current meta, a reduction to their overall power level is what the developer team looks to accomplish when the patch goes live later today. The developer comments alongside the patch notes themselves provide a bit of insight into the design process.
Teamfight Tactics, Riot Games' auto-chess title, allows players to build unit combinations to out-wit, out-power and out-play their opponents. Well, according to members of the development team, one such blend of units is a little too strong at the moment.
On Thursday afternoon, members of the Heroes of the Storm development team took to the game's official subReddit (/r/heroesofthestorm) to answer questions players had and talk about the future of the title itself. For those who want to read the full thread, the "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) can be found here. With over 1,000 questions and comments in the thread, it can be difficult to keep track of everything that was said. Luckily, InvenGlobal has highlighted a few of the most noteworthy responses below to save readers from having to scroll through the replies for the juicy ones.
On Wednesday morning, Riot Games released the first-ever set of patch notes (9.14) for Teamfight Tactics (TFT), their wildly popular auto-chess title. In it were numerous technical teaks that will hopefully provide an improved playing experience for those who have fallen in love with the game itself or are looking to try it out for the first time.
With less than three weeks until the largest fighting game tournament in the world take place, EVO 2019 is shaping up to be one for the ages. On Sunday night, James "Mr. Wiz" Cuellar, the President of EVO, revealed the final number of entrants for each of the nine tournament titles taking place at the event in Las Vegas kicking off on August 2.
On Thursday afternoon, Twitch announced the headlining performer for their annual TwitchCon event in San Diego, Lil Nas X. The 20-year-old artist, whose full name is Montero Hill, has gained global popularity in the past year for his hit county rap single "Old Town Road."
On Thursday afternoon, the Hearthstone team released a short video on their official Youtube and Twitter channels showing off a few upcoming Saviors of Uldum cards.
If watching the best Hearthstone players in the world compete against one around wasn't enough of an incentive to watch the Grandmasters Season 1 playoffs this weekend, players can now earn card packs by doing so as well.
According to the internet, it is "National Video Game Day." In order to celebrate the holiday, the InvenGlobal staff felt it was appropriate to come together and reveal their favorite video game of all-time. Similar impossible tasks include a parent choosing your favorite child. Nonetheless, five of our writers selected one title each and wrote a bit of backstory into why they made the selection they did.
On Monday morning, Pokémon's official Twitter and Youtube accounts released a new trailer video for the upcoming Pokemon Sword and Shield games set to launch on November 15 this fall. In it, fans were introduced to two Gym Leaders they will have to face in their journey, four new Pokémon companions and a never-before-seen mechanic that causes a bit of a growth spurt.
If you've consumed content on Twitch for any amount of time you've likely heard a variation of the following phrase: "Hey ChocolateTurtle, thanks for the subscription!" For some of the largest streamers on the platform, they will utter a similar sentence hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of times per month with a small number counter on their screen visible for both viewers and themselves. For those unaware, viewers can "subscribe" to a Twitch channel to support a content creator they enjoy which, for a base price of $4.99 per month, can unlock perks for the subscriber as well. If an individual subscribes to a channel for consecutive months, they "resub" to the channel and it can show a creator that the content consumer enjoys what they're doing enough to support them more than just one time.
On Monday afternoon, the Hearthstone development team revealed the upcoming expansion titled Saviors of Uldum to the community. Alongside the announcement was a patch that went live and included the new cards being rotated into the Classic set. An unexpected change that took place was the alteration of art and names for eight cards that had blood and suggestive imagery in them. The Hearthstone team has done this in the past, most famously to Jaina Proudmoore's hero portrait. When the news broke that the game was slowly but surely removing any blood or nudity from the game, Hearthstone's subReddit community (r/hearthstone) went to work finishing the job for the rest of the card collection.
The League of Explorers are back at it again. This time, Reno Jackson, Brann Bronzebeard, Sir Finley Mrrgglton, and Elise Starseeker will be featured in the newly teased expansion, "Saviors of Uldum" which is slated to go live on August 6. As the League of E.V.I.L is looking to extend their reach from the city of Dalaram to Uldum, players will attempt to put an end to their reign in a new 135 card set and a single-player adventure mode.
In recent weeks the Clash Royale development team has been hinting at changes coming to the game in the next major update. Rumors of a new Legendary card being added, a new season format and a "flood" theme were all teased. But, as of 5 a.m. EDT, SuperCell released an update video on Clash Royale's official Youtube channel with what players can expect in July's update which is slated to go live on Monday.
Last weekend Columbia Records launched a new imprint into the music space that aims to capitalize on an underrepresented industry that is growing each and every day...video games. Titled "Lost Rings," the label is made up of three female artists whose passion for gaming is on-par with their love of music. Adriana "BunnyMightGameU" Quezada, Gabriella "BlackKrystel" Jackman and Aziah "Sunzi" Isaac each created a music video for their debut singles that launched this past Friday.
