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Publisher Wargaming is planning to create a union of pro players, said the firm’s head of European eSports Nicolas Passemard. Speaking to eSports Pro at Wargaming.net’s League Grand Finals, Passemardsaid: We are thinking about creating a pro player union, so the players will be able receive assistance from us. We …
Read More »Avyd CEO: ‘We will not attempt to take over the event scene in any way’
In March, the organizers of NorCal Regionals 2016 suddenly announced that their title sponsor was Avyd, a company no one had heard of before. Shortly after, Avyd announced a $100,000 fighting game championship series featuring Street Fighter V, Mortal Kombat X, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Wii U, Guilty Gear …
Read More »Coaching: Dota 2’s "C Word"
Following the success of several coaches at the Shanghai Major, there’s been a lot of talk around the subject of coaching in Dota 2. However, too little of the discussion gets past the point of praising particular individuals while surrendering to the fact that there simply aren’t enough people qualified …
Read More »Riot bury massive statue of League of Legends champion Nautilus in sea bed to act as artificial reef
What to do if you run the most popular (and financially successful) game in the entire world? Well, either you sell it to Microsoft and start buying houses out from the under the nose of Beyonc, or you get busy building monolithic representations of your characters and coming up with …
Read More »Square-off: Riot Games and Valve Software’s community management
Riot Games’ League of Legends and Valve Software’s Dota 2 are two of the foremost titles in the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) market, and are fundamentally different in audience and scope. League of Legends has successfully gained a larger audience by being easier to pick up with a more …
Read More »Player Salaries: Achieving Transparency
Transparency. This is the word that defines the lack of hidden agenda and conditions, accompanied by the availability of full information required for collaboration, cooperation, and collective decision making. It was also the word used by former Ember CEO, Jonathan Pan, when describing the core values of his North American …
Read More »ESL One Cologne to become next Valve backed CS:GO major
Valve has announced that the upcoming ESL One Cologne tournament will be the next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major. The event, which is set to run between July 5th and 10th at the LANXESS Arena in Cologne, will feature a one million dollar prize pool for the top eight teams from …
Read More »Mousesports sign German Vainglory team Rebirth of Empire
German eSports organisation Mousesports has entered the world of Vainglory by signing top European team Rebirth of Empire. Founded in 2015 Rebirth of Empire went on to win the Vainglory Master Series and finish third at the European Winter Live Championships in London, establishing themselves as one of the best …
Read More »Gfinity boosts Rocket League prize pools
Gfinity have announced that they will be significantly increasing their support for Rocket League competitions in multiple ways. For the first time Xbox One competitions will be held on the Gfinity platform, in addition to the PC/PS4 events that have been running throughout the year. The prize pools for the …
Read More »CS:GO map creator FMPONE talks design, exploits, and updates
Shawn FMPONE” Snelling is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive level designer and community contributor. Snelling has had five levels in CS:GO, including his most recent project, Santorini, which was included in Operation: Wildfire. Snelling also collaborated with original authors Ted McIlwain on Season and Salvatore Volcano” Garozzo on Cache. Yahoo …
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