Because of the 2GD fiasco and other drama recently, many people overlooked an important piece of gaming news: Intel and ESL have partnered together to create an initiative focused on promoting women and LGTBQ+ people in esports. In 2013, Forbes examined...

Winter's coming to an end now for everyone. It's time to creep out of our burrows and tidy up our living spaces. I'm not saying you live League of Legends... though some of us may. But it's never a bad...

Sharpen those pitchforks! In addition to the massive drama fallout over 2GD's dismissal, it seems that the Shanghai Major isn't done providing us with rage fuel. There is a laundry list of complaints with the event: English Stream is laggy/goes...

Blizzard's Game Director Jeff Kaplan discusses some of the key areas they're working on, including his current thoughts on the future of ranked play in Overwatch. Trying to find a balance between a highly competitive environment for aspiring pros and...

Have you ever felt like you’ve plateaued and can’t get any better at a game? Maybe you’ve begun to feel upset every time you play that particular game, maybe sometimes you just ragequit out of sheer frustration. Don’t worry,...

Ah, Team Fortress. I've put thousands of hours of play into this game, from its humble beginnings as a lowly Quake mod to its current state: a "newly" emerging shooter whose place in esports is threatened by Blizzard juggernaut...

Welcome to Booster Shot! This article is the first installment in what (I hope) will be a regular feature on Esports Edition. It’s going to be pretty great. “But Josh,” you say, “what’s the article series actually going to be...

There will be no LCS action this week. Instead, we will have our first glimpse at international League of Legends since IEM Cologne took place at the end of last year. IEM Katowice 2016 features 2 groups of 4 teams; each...

Recently I was playing a random solo queue game and happened to be put into a toplane matchup against Jayce. Normally, I find him to be pretty easy to play against, since most of the best players have dropped...

The Small Games Everyone knows that smaller free-to-play games are kept alive by microtransactions. By smaller games, I’m talking games that have a smaller company develop it, typically mobile, and they don’t have an initial fee. Two of the most...

'Tis the season of qualifiers, and the MLG Columbus 2016 Main Qualifier LAN took place this weekend, as 16 teams competed for the remaining 8 spots available at the Columbus Major in April. The top 8 teams from the...

TSM owner Andy "Reginald" Dinh has always made it clear that his goal is to assemble a team capable of winning a world championship. He stressed that at the end of the year TSM's spring split results won't matter....