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Everybody wants to see their name on a list of notable people, and Dota 2's playerbase is no exception. Valve provides Dota 2 leaderboards for each region, and updates the lists daily. The top 200 players are displayed along with their...

If you’ve ever played an MMORPG, you've run into the 'more buttons than fingers' problem. Between moving your character, using skills, activating potions, and other miscellaneous actions, the controls can become absolutely ridiculous, if not downright comical. Thankfully, many...

The people responsible for running Dota 2 tournaments don't ever really get a day off. When they're done putting out fires, dealing with techincal delays, wrangling unruly casting talent, and herding flocks of pro gamers from green rooms to sound-proof booths,...

Blizzard's dev team is taking gamers on a belated honeymoon trip. Between May 23d and June 12, Overwatch players can enjoy the latest bit of Seasonal DLC, for the low price of absolutely zero dollars. It tells you lots...

Every time a new Dota patch comes out, the community's discussion of IceFrog's changes will, at some point, involve a heated debate about 'Power Creep.' It's a well-known issue in almost every game genre that undergoes patches and iterations, including...

If you love Counter-Strike, you've probably spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to tweak your set-up and get it just right. Tinkering with your config is as much a staple of the popular esports franchise as its iconic Dust...

The Kiev Major, like every Major that preceded it, taught us another valuable lesson about underdogs in esports. At the Boston Major, Ad Finem fought their way to the Grand Finals in a feat of passion and skill that reminded...

Editor's note: Welcome to Esports Edition's ongoing coverage of Path of Exile. We'll be the first to admit that it isn't exactly competitive--PoE is all about PvE, not PvP. Acronyms aside, Path of Exile has surged in popularity in recent months,...

Playing against bots is great tool for learning the basics of any MOBA. Getting thrown into matches with nine flaming players is daunting, and practicing with bot matches is a great way to practice the fundamentals and, of course,...

Today I spent about 120 Chaos Orbs in Path of Exile, gearing out my new character. That’s not a lot, as far as high-end gear goes, but it'll do for now. The entire process took me several hours, and...

You'd think tabletop gaming was a dying art in the age of Candy Crush and Overwatch, but you couldn't be more wrong. Olympia is more than just the oft-forgotten capital of Washington. It's also home to a thriving and growing community...

It’s been a long time since the greatest finals of any Major Dota tournament, where Alliance paved their way to victory at TI3 with s4's infamous "Million Dollar Dream Coil."* Any newer Dota players should certainly go back and...