What was meant to be an exciting day in the world of Hearthstone turned out to be, for many, a big letdown. Prior to launching a new card expansion for the game, it’s routine that a member of the Hearthstone development team pairs up with a popular figure within the community to showcase some new content being revealed in the upcoming weeks via Twitch. To show off some new cards for the upcoming “Rise of Shadows” expansion being released on April 9, a trio was assembled to get the playerbase hyped. Peter Whalen (Senior Game Designer), Cora “Songbird” Georgiou (Hearthstone competitive player/esports caster) and Chris Sierra (Community Manager) were paired together for the event. The stream started with 15-minutes of back-and-forth banter between the three about content that had already been revealed and some developer insight into the expansion as a whole. Those tuned into the stream to see new content (which was in the tens of thousands) grew bored of the conversation only a few minutes in.
Philadelphia Flyers owner Comcast Spectacor will open an arena for its Overwatch League team, Phildadelphia Fusion, in 2021.
The 4th place Tiebreaker against FlyQuest and Golden Guardians is finished, and the 2-month long 2019 LCS Spring Regular Split has finally come to an end. With the top 2 teams, Team Liquid and Cloud9
Top Laner Ziqing "Kumo" Zhao and Support David "Diamond" Bérubé will be making their respective LCS debuts, and Bot Laner Yuri "Keith" Jew will start in the LCS for the first time since the 2018 NA LCS Summer Split.
If you're a fan of aggressive strategies in Dota Auto Chess, you're gonna have a good time starting today. Drodo Studio just pushed through a number of changes, buffing a couple of Assassins, as well
Three months after the World Showdown of Esports dipped its toes into competitive Hearthstone, the franchise is making a return to card-slinging action on March 30th and March 31st. However, there's a
The Division 2's online servers went down for maintenance on the 22nd of March. With it, Massive Entertainment gave information through their forums regarding the details of the maintenance. The maint
[New Feature] Horse Rental system has been added. - You can now let other players to rent your horses or rent other players' horses. - You can rent a horse for 7 days by paying 100,000 silver. The own
Rise of Shadows, Hearthstone's next expansion, is looming over the game. Just a few more weeks until it is released, and the Year of the Dragon kicks off. Old sets Un'Goro, Knights of the Frozen Thron
Kingzone DragonX bot laner, Kim “Deft” Hyuk-kyu hit his 1,000th kill in the LCK. On the 21st of March (KST), Deft succeeded to reach 1,000 kills in the LCK, against his former team,
The 2019 LEC Spring Split has come to an end and the qualifiers for the playoffs has now been finalized. With G2 Esports on top going into the postseason on a 13W - 5L record, Origen, Fnatic, Splyce,
A couple of weeks ago, Blizzard shared a couple of their plans for Hearthstone esports' next season, set to kick off in full swing sometime after the World Championships have ended at the end of April
Beginning this weekend, the META Madness tournament hosted by long-time Heroes of the Storm caster Thomas “Khaldor” Kilian will kick off with six teams fighting it out for a €1,000 prize pool. The event is being sponsored by RUNTIME, a nutrition company based out of Europe. Taking place over a two-day span, the bracket-style tournament will feature best-of-five matches until a winner is crowned. What separates this event from the other Heroes’ tournaments that have popped up since Blizzard stated they would no longer support the competitive Heroes of the Storm scene is the “Madness” aspect. According to the rules, heroes that are banned during the Draft phase are not eligible to be selected for the entire tournament. With numerous top-tier threats off the board, players will need to adapt over time and test their abilities to perform with unique and off-meta heroes.
Surprising news has come from Irvine, California. In an unprecedented move within Hearthstone esports, Blizzard is implementing retroactive punishment for two players: HCT Winter champion Roger, and h
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Who will be the new 'Legend' Player? Formed in the year 2000, the 'World Cyber Games' (WCG) is an international esports competition that hosts a wide variety of popular game titles for esports athlete
2018 Worlds champions, Invictus Gaming (IG) recently signed Korean LoL coach, Kim Karam as their new head coach. Kim Karam started his coaching career in TSL, a former Starcraft II gaming team. After
New main weapon, the Black Star weapon, has been added in Black Desert Online KR. The new weapon is an orange-grade weapon, and has higher AP and Accuracy than Kzarka weapon. The Black Star Weapon has
Ever since Chrome, the Keeper of Time, went live in Heroes of the Storm back in May of 2016 the development team has had their hands full finding out what they want to do with her. A Ranged Assassin who can one-shot an enemy with a couple of well-timed abilities is a delicate balancing act. In theory, if a hero relies on landing long-range skill shots for the majority of their effectiveness in battle the balance team needs to consider a few design aspects: It’s important to make the damage output impactful enough to make up for that character’s low health pool while rewarding a good player who is able to land difficult skill shots. If the range on those abilities is too long and the damage is too high, they will be able to poke away at the opposition while remaining at a safe enough distance, providing very little counter-play and a frustrating experience for the opponent. If the opposite is true then players will not feel rewarded for playing that hero if they can be engaged upon very easily, blown up and lack the necessary tools to keep themselves safe while not putting out enough damage to make the risk worth the reward. In the past 18 months, Chromie has experienced three reworks to her kit, including two in the past seven. By following the clues left in the patch notes since her inception and developer comments left by the balance team, a tale can be told about what they may have intended her to be and what they learned along the way.
For a limited time, two in-game World of Warcraft toys available for purchase will contribute to the prize pools of major esports events.
