And just like that, 2019 has nearly come to an end. Over the past 12 months, Blizzard Entertainment has continued to allow the Heroes of the Storm development team to churn out new content (albeit at a slower cadence than usual) and the community has had to adjust as well. Based on how 2018 came to an end, it could be much worse. In December of last year, President of Blizzard, J. Allen Brack, issued a statement declaring the Heroes of the Storm competitive scene would no longer be supported by the game's publisher and that developers would be reassigned to titles in the works and others that were deemed more important to the long-term health of the company.
Based on a comparison of results between both leagues, Esports Charts has conducted a data analysis to rank which teams are the most popular among fans, with the ranking being based on the average viewership for team matches. With the use of the Inven Global Data Lab, we are complementing the research with each team's social media performance.
Riot Games has taken action against Galatasaray Esports. The team, participating in the Turkish Championship League (TCL), has been suspended from competing for the entirety of the Spring Split, after
Tony "Saskio" Chau is known for his flexibility, but the Winthrop University Bot Laner took things to another level on his stream the day after Christmas.
Crossover events are quite a common thing in video games nowadays. Mario and Sonic battle it out in their Olympics games every four years, Jump Force unites some of anime's most well-known characters,
It ain't over quite yet, but 2019 was a fantastic year to be a gamer. Triple A studios came out swingin and we fell in love with new Indie developers, regardless of the preferred platform to consume g
The Demacia Cup Quarters featured Vici Gaming vs Top Esports and EDG vs Team WE, with Vici and EDG taking the win to advance further into the Knockout Stage. Read more about the games and the rest of the tournament here:
Irvine, California – December 23, 2019 – Joycity announces a chance for all players to experience high level characters in the game for free. 3on3 FreeStyle is celebrating its 3rd year wit
Epic Games is known for their nearly unmatched pacing of updates for Fortnite, and for Christmas this year, the company's flagship game rolled out holiday cheer in a variety of forms.
Preparing for the 2020 season of the LCS, TSM has practiced pre-season strategies in China and South Korea. While visiting the country, Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg met up with Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok to catch up and play Korean battle card.
The 2020 Call of Duty League is set to debut in January 2020, and the league’s format for its inaugural season will feature a myriad of tournaments in various hometowns belonging to the franchises who have invested in COD for the foreseeable future.
The 2019 KeSPA Cup's previously cancelled English broadcast was revived just before the beginning of the event, casters Max "Atlus" Anderson, Brendon "Valdes" Valdes, and the English broadcast production crew have only needed a day to prove that it was worth re-instating for a fifth consecutive year.
Current OWL World Champions, San Francisco Shock, announces DPS player ANS to the stacked lineup.
Back in October, as part of League of Legends' 10-year anniversary stream, Riot Games announced that their auto-chess title, Teamfight Tactics (TFT), would be coming to mobile in "early 2020." In the two months since the announcement, little to no information has been shared as to when that may be or if plans had changed for whatever reason.
The Rogue streamer raised the money on behalf of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, whose primary goal is to fight against, prevent, and research a cure for cancer, specifically in the cases of children.
This is the first year in the KeSPA Cup's five year existence that an English broadcast will not be aired alongside the native broadcast in South Korea, and T1 Esports CEO Joe Marsh is having none of it. Marsh tweeted about the importance of an English broadcast for this year's KeSPa Cup, and put his money where his mouth is by assuring both SK Telecom T1 and fellow LCK organization Gen.G were ready and willing to share the costs of airing the separate production for English-speaking viewers.
The Global Electronic Sports Championship (GESC) is facing a lawsuit, filed by game developer Valve. The tournament organizer, who hosted several Dota 2 minors in the Asia Pacific region in 2018, has
The expansions explore the dark side of Street Fighter and introduced a new playable hero Akuma, a new skin for Ryu, Evil Ryu, new mechanics to the game.
The stakes are also high for Gung-Ho and Capcom. TEPPEN has solid esports potential thanks to its unique real-time gameplay and the booming nature of mobile games in general and the 2019 World Championship represents the companies first major esports offering.
The German Federal Government has approved the changes in regulation in correspondence to the new Skilled Immigration Act, which will introduce a dedicated esports visa in spring of 2020. Germany, specifically Berlin, is a hotspot for premiere esports events, specifically for League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and PLAYER UNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG).
