Have you looked at the queue times for the Operation Wildfire maps recently? It's a sad sight--unless there's a Blitz mission going on, expect to wait anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes for a game on Cruise, Coast, or...

The jungle role in League of Legends is complicated and comes with a variety of different responsibilities. As you climb the ranks, you will notice there are a variety of different playstyles used by all the junglers you meet....

After Cloud9 smashed their way through the competition at BlizzCon in November, they were lauded as the international champions and, for once in esports, we finally had an American team rule the world. But did that make North America...

All the Old Gods have been revealed, but there are still many cards to be revealed. The reveals continue this week, and for the most part the quality continues to be impressive! I shouldn’t have made this the first card...

This is part three of a series of articles on the tremendous expectations placed on relatively young professional eSports players. Before they have the chance to fully develop as people and gain the skills that most of us take...

We see it happen all the time - one side winning all the lanes, pushing down the outer towers, taking Roshan, and then snowballing their way to a fast victory before the other team can react. It looks so easy when...

Gather close, gentle readers. Today, I'm going to share something very special to me with all of you. No, it's not a sandwich. It's the best PUG strat ever invented--I mean that in all seriousness--and it's snagged me more...

A lot of players tend to see quite a bit of positive feedback from Riot's safe-spaces style grading system, which gives out A's more liberally than a GPA boosting prep school. Despite this fairly positive system of feedback,...

The North American LCS may be without support player KiWiKiD next season. KiWiKiD has been reflecting on his past, and planning for his future, after Team Dignitas lost their relegation matches 3-0 to Team Dragon Knights. KiWiKiD spoke to Travis Gafford in an...

In this five-part series, we’ll go back to five of the oldest games that birthed esports, play them, and examine their relevance in esports today. Counter-Strike Perhaps the series that is still most relevant to today's esports also has quite a...

Last week I discussed limited design space in Hearthstone. With card games it is often very easy to see examples of limited design space, but the examples are very important nonetheless. In strategy games, MOBAs especially, it can be...

Death, Taxes, CLG and TSM powering the North American LCS - some things never change. It is definitely not the same match up that once saw HotshotGG facing off against Reginald on the rift, but these individuals' ability to control...