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Newzoo Global Esports Market Report Projects Massive Growth
Last week, I was contacted by the data specialists over at Newzoo. Newzoo is the leading provider of esports marketing data in all its various forms. The company deals with all manners of data analysis regarding the entire gaming industry. The...
Sombra Guide: The Basics of Being Sneaky
Let me preface this Sombra guide by noting my massive hard-on for the stealth genre. I'm a huge fan of stealth games, and I've poured untold hours into everything from big franchises like Tenchu, Splinter Cell, Dishonored, and Metal Gear to...
Edge of Night Dominates in Week Four NA LCS
Appearing in every NA LCS game this past weekend, the Edge of Night meta is in full swing. While most players are getting used to 7.3, the past two weeks of Pro-play have been on 7.2, also known as...
TI7: Should Valve Look for a New Home?
It's been two long weeks since President Trump signed an executive order that temporarily barred all individuals from seven majority Muslim countries from entering the United States. This ban is not limited to visitors but extends to individuals who hold valid visa, refugees and...
Dota 2: Best Heroes of Patch 7.02
Whenever a new patch comes out, the vast majority of Dota players want to know the same thing: which heroes do I need to learn now and who should I be banning? Even small tweaks to the meta can...
DAC 2017: All Aboard the Hype Train
The first Dota 2 Asia Championships (DAC) event happened in early 2015. These were exciting times: Evil Geniuses and Team Secret were showing off their brand new rosters-- Aui_2000 had famously left Cloud9 to join EG, and Arteezy and Zai had...
CS:GO Embraces the Era of the Superteam
With the recent announcement that Nikola "NiKo" Kovač would be leaving mousesports to join FaZe Clan, CS:GO might be entering the era of the superteam. In 2016, we saw multiple roster moves take place that were designed to stack certain teams...
Overwatch Patch 1.8: Bastion Changes and More
On February 7th, Blizzard shipped Patch 1.8 to the Overwatch PTR. We've got some huge news for Bastion fans, as well as some interesting changes to heroes with targeting abilities, and the addition of a server browser. There's a lot to go...
Patch 7.3: New King of the Jungle
Patch 7.3, the most recent balance update to League of Legends has one major theme from top to bottom: nerfing the 'OPs'. Notably, Camille, Ivern, Jayce, Kha'Zix, Malzahar, and Rengar all took significant hits to their kit. We'll recap the most important changes...
Warwick Rework: Still Trash
As of Patch 7.2, the quintessential jungler of League of Legends, Warwick, has been completely revamped from visuals to toolset. Even though he had a pretty hype trailer accommodating his remake, Warwick has been pretty much completely irrelevant with regards...
Is PPD the Tom Brady of Dota?
So let's get this out of the way right off the bat: I can't stand the Patriots. After spending seven years in New England, I got tired of hearing about how they're "the greatest football team ever" and "Tom...
OGN Apex Season 2 Week 3: Return of LunaticHai
The second season of OGN Apex is underway, and last week we witnessed four tense, dramatic bouts--KongDoo Uncia vs Afreeca Freecs Blue and RunAway vs Flash Lux on the 31st, and MVP Infinity vs Meta Athena and LW Blue...
