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The Most Hardcore Pro Gaming Franchises
It certainly seems like major league gaming and eSports has, of late, received its share of press. Whether that’s good, bad or some strange gray area of press, there’s been a relative glut of news...
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Top Two League of Legends Championship Teams Disqualified for Collusion
After discovering that the top two League of Legends teams in their Summer Championship tournament this past weekend had colluded, Major League Gaming gave both teams the boot. These are the facts as...
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League of Legends Championships Becomes Most Watched eSports Event of All...
For those that don’t already know, League of Legends is a mighty popular multiplayer online battle arena, or MOBA, video game. The game is so popular that the developer, Riot Games, hosts...
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Surprise! You May Have Been Mining Bitcoins for an eSports Company
E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) runs competitive video game leagues and tournaments. That’s tremendous. They also sometimes bury Bitcoin mining software in their anti-cheating client without telling...
View ArticleWould We Watch Professional Competitive Gaming? Only If We Made It More...
Say what you want about professional sports and whether or not watching people kick a ball at each other is actually compelling, but the theories, strategies, and human stories that make up most...
View ArticleDoes Artificial Intelligence Have A Place in eSports?
Games like League of Legends, Call of Duty, or Planetside 2 are notable for their cooperative play between real live teammates. But what if one of those teammates could be replaced by a capable A.I.?...
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Capcom Is Funding a Street Fighter League Together With Twitch
Capcom wants to get in on the popularity of esports giants like StarCraft 2, League of Legends, and Dota 2 by starting up their very own, official Street Fighter league with the online streaming...
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League of Legends Now a Varsity Sport With Scholarships and Everything at a...
Today in turning society on its head news, Robert Morris University in Chicago is making a full-fledged varsity sport out of multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends. Like other sports,...
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Watch the CEO 2014 Fighting Game Tournament All Weekend [Live Now] - You...
Despite competitive gaming’s explosion in popularity recently, most people still don’t know much about it or where to find it. So, here are all the details about how you can watch the big CEO 2014...
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Finnish Hearthstone Tournament Isn’t Accepting Female Entries - Apparently...
UPDATE: The IeSF has changed their tournament policies so that all previously male-only events are now “open for all.” Read more about it here. Original post follows: Are you a gamer? Do you play...
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IeSF World Championship Changes Stance On Gender Segregation, Now “Open for...
Yesterday, I told you all about gender segregation in a Finland Hearthstone tournament because of International eSports Federation (IeSF) rules. Well, I’m happy to announce that they listened to what...
View ArticleThings We Saw Today: Photographer Makes Self-Serious Male Authors and Their...
The photo series continues: “The man, the writer, and his cigarette” w Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) pic.twitter.com/qylC7nDTdF — Szilvia Molnar (@szilmolnar) June 24, 2014 Stop trying to make...
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No, Women-Only eSports Events Do Not Mean There Should Be Men-Only Ones -...
The Internet (us included) was in an uproar recently over a men-only Hearthstone tournament. Such an uproar, in fact, that the International eSports Federation reversed its policy of separating...
View ArticleHuge, Record-Breaking Dota 2 Tournament Set for Madison Square Garden During...
Continuing the unstoppable conquest of eSports, Valve’s Dota 2 will be played in the largest in-person eSports event ever held on the East coast during the New York Super Week of New York Comic Con in...
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ESPN President on Twitch/Amazon Deal: Whatever, eSports Aren’t Real Sports...
ESPN President John Skipper didn’t hold back when asked how he felt about Amazon’s nearly $1 billion dollar purchase of online video game streaming platform Twitch. He’s got some feelings about the...
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League of Legends Tournament Reverses Restrictive Anti-Gay and Trans Ruling...
I imagine that when the team behind Garena Philippines woke up this morning, they were, to put it mildly, alarmed at their sudden international attention. But the good news is, they’ve seen the light!...
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Dead Or Alive 5 Tournament Places Soft Ban on Overly Sexy Costumes - So was...
As a franchise, Dead or Alive is pretty notorious for its fixation on its female characters’ bodies—which, to be fair, is a very deliberately earned reputation given that the game has a “OMG Breast...
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ESPN’s Colin Cowherd Would Rather Quit Than Commentate eSports; The Feeling...
We’ve previously reported on those in the broadcast sports field being willfully oblivious to the fact that eSports is a huge industry, and rest assured, it’s still happening. ESPN Radio show host...
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Good Game: All-Female Pro Gaming Team Frag Dolls Is Retiring - It's so...
In a heartfelt and happy teared goodbye post, the Frag Dolls, an all-female professional competitive gaming team, have announced that the team is being retired. The team was founded in 2004, and their...
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Smash Bros. Melee Demonstrates eSports’ Power With Record-Breaking Fighting...
Yeah, you read that right: a 14-year-old game that’s had two sequels became, not for the first time in its lifespan, the most-watched fighting game ever at this year’s massive Evo 2015 fighting game...
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