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Guides & builds for new Dota 2 hero Void Spirit mid & offlane
Steven Rondina
Void Spirit is one of Dota 2’s most enigmatic heroes. Two of his abilities suggest that he is a roaming support that sets up kills. The others suggest he is a pursuit-focused carry built around his basic attack. In reality, the hero is something else entirely. Early signs indicate that Void Spirit’s greatest strength lies in his AOE magic damage potential. Top players have been looking to amplify his abilities …
Counter-Strike
2020 Service Medal revealed as winter patch comes to CSGO
M Alzamora
When Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are throwing snowballs more than they’re throwing smoke grenades, it’s officially December in CSGO. Valve released the annual holiday patch on December 9, and it’s filled with everything that a Counter-Strike holiday update is usually filled with a few small exceptions. The map’s chickens have their Christmas sweaters on once again, it’s snowing in the main menu, and there are piles of snowballs stacked around …
Fortnite
Dr Lupo, timthetatman, LIRIK to announce new deals with Twitch
Olivia Richman
At a time when many big name streamers are leaving Twitch for competing broadcast platforms, one leak has come as a surprise to the gaming community. According to esports journalist Rod “Slasher” Breslau, popular streamers Dr Lupo, timethetatman, and LIRIK will be announcing later today that they are signing multi-year Twitch deals today. Slasher followed up the tweet by claiming the deals are for “millions of dollars per year,” according …
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Overwatch Winter Wonderland brings legendary skins, winter game mode
Olivia Richman
After a brief delay, Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland update should be arriving tonight. For a while, fans wondered if there would even be a Winter Wonderland update anymore, but Blizzard vice president Jeff Kaplan dispelled those rumors on the game’s forum. “We’ve been seeing quite a bit of misinformation being spread about our December patch. The patch is scheduled to go live next week. Short of some unforeseen circumstance causing a …
Dota 2
Latest Dota 2 update changes bounty runes and guides
Steven Rondina
A tweak has been administered to Dota 2 version 7.23c, bringing some UX updates as well as a change to bounty runes. The Outlanders Update brought a slew of changes to Dota 2 including Neutral Items, a heavily changed map, and outposts. Though Valve undoubtedly invested a great deal of time and effort into making the update a reality, not all features in the game were updated to reflect these …
Counter-Strike
Virtus.pro to acquire AVANGAR CSGO roster, reports indicate
M Alzamora
Reports point towards legendary Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team Virtus.pro purchasing AVANGAR’s roster in its entirety. Virtus.pro is in the latter stages of purchasing AVANGAR’s CSGO roster wholesale, according to a report from DBLTP’s Jarek “Dekay” Lewis. The AVANGAR organization currently fields an international team of players which includes a CSGO Major winner in Dauren “AdreN” Kystaubayev and the aggressive AWPer Dzhami “Jame” Ali. AVANGAR has existed since 2017, but burst onto the international CSGO …
Counter-Strike
s0m leaves Envy for Gen.G, sicK stands in for IEM Katowice qualifiers
M Alzamora
Team Envy has announced the transfer of Sam “s0m” Oh to Gen.G. In an official tweet from the organization, Envy announced that s0m’s transfer to Gen.G Esports’ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has been finalized. The 17-year-old player joins three other players on Gen.G’s first-ever CSGO roster. Gen.G announced the signing on Twitter while also revealing that Complexity Gaming rifler Hunter “SicK” Mims would stand in for the new team at the upcoming IEM Katowice North American …
Dota 2
LGD Gaming gets put on blast by fans for strange new logo
Steven Rondina
LGD Gaming is 10 years old now. The organization is commemorating the occasion in a number of different ways including giveaways and some highlights of the team’s history. The most recognizable part of LGD’s birthday festivities has been the reveal of a new logo that leaves behind its enduring but bland former lettering in favor of something more stylized. The new logo was revealed on Twitter and was quickly proliferated …
League of Legends All-Star 2019 sees viewership drop
Syed Mujtaba Naqvi
League of Legends
According to Esports Charts data, League of Legends 2019 All-Star event experienced lower viewership than in any of the past three years, and the community isn’t too happy with how the event went this year. All-Star 2019 lagged behind its predecessors in almost every aspect. There were fewer hours streamed from the event, the total hours watch experienced a large drop, and peak viewership was down. The community pointed out …
Bwipo defeats Uzi for the All-Star 2019 1v1 championship title
Syed Mujtaba Naqvi
League of Legends
Fnatic’s top laner Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau won the League of Legends All-Star 2019 one-on-one tournament after defeating Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao in the finals. All-Stars is an event full of entertainment and friendly competitions. Its one-on-one tournament is one of the most amusing All-Star competitions for League fans, as their favorite players get put to a different sort of test. While some pro players shine with teamwork and synergy, this tournament …
Mousesports win ESL Pro League Season 10 with sweep of Fnatic
M Alzamora
Counter-Strike
The ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals wrapped up with a showdown between Fnatic and mousesports. The grand finals matchup that few were expecting took a surprising turn of its own, as mousesports scored a quick, clean, 3-0 victory to take home the top prize. The match could’ve gone either way in theory, but Fnatic started slowly and never really hit a higher gear. Mousesports was composed both emotionally and strategically, and …
FaZe Banks opens up about Jarvis’ future with FaZe Clan
Olivia Richman
Fortnite
Ever since Frazier “FaZe Jarvis” Kaye was permanently banned from Fortnite for using an aimbot hack, FaZe Clan owner Ricky Banks has been quite vocal about Epic’s decision. Now, Banks is opening up about Jarvis’ future with the organization and within the battle royale game he was forced to leave. Speaking to TMZ, Banks stated that the chances of Jarvis playing Fortnite is “zero.” Still, there’s “potential” in Jarvis creating …
shroud down to one third of his viewers since moving to Mixer
Olivia Richman
Counter-Strike
Stream Metrics has just revealed that popular streamer Michael “shroud” Grzesiek has seen a drastic decline in viewership since he moved to Mixer at the end of October. The tweet declared that their own data shows shroud’s livestream audience in November was one third the size of his Twitch reach in October when it came to US viewership. In fact, shroud’s viewership on Twitch before moving platforms was 1.62 times larger …
League of Legends servers face issues in some regions for Clash
Olivia Richman
League of Legends
The much anticipated return of Clash was met with a few major bugs. Clash was relaunched as an open beta in all regions, allowing players to compete in the tournament mode once again. But glaring issues seem to be plauging Clash just like the mode’s previous launches. One Reddit user said that Clash in the Oceania server, located in Australia, was loading on the old map, which doesn’t have alcoves …
Fortnite streamer Daequan reveals 2020 plans, opens up on hardship
Olivia Richman
Fortnite
For a while, it was starting to look like Fortnite pro Daequan “Daequan” Loco was leaving the streaming scene. His once daily YouTube uploads had ceased and it was hard to catch one of his sporatic live streams. This weekend, Daequan revealed that he’d be coming back with more content in 2020. “I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things as 2019 winds down. I will be in 100% …
Masayoshi manages to win CSGO and LoL games at the same time
Jared Wynne
News
For most players, it takes all their effort to focus on the game. But one Twitch streamer has proven that it’s possible to multitask while gaming at the highest levels and still be successful. “Masayoshi” may be best known for his Twitch streams featuring League of Legends, but on December 2 he took his gameplay to a whole new level by playing two different games simultaneously and still coming out …
Apex Legends and other esports take over The Game Awards
Olivia Richman
Apex Legends
The Game Awards are coming on December 12 and nobody is more excited than Respawn Entertainment. Except perhaps for Mirage. The Apex Legends prankster recently made waves on Reddit when he appeared on a funny tweet where he can be seen taking credit for Apex Legends’ many nominations in the upcoming rewards show. “Can you believe it? (Obviously, yes), your boy Mirage is nominated for ‘Best Competitor in a Battle …
Fnatic, mousesports face off for ESL Pro League Season 10 championship
M Alzamora
Counter-Strike
After a wild week of action, the ESL Pro League’s Season 10 grand final is less than a day away. Surprisingly, the final showdown won’t feature top teams Team Liquid or Astralis. Instead, Fnatic and mousesports will face off in a best-of-five where brains will meet brawn for the lion’s share of a $600,000 prize pool. Fnatic and mousesports had oddly similar runs in the event. In an odd coincidence, both teams struggled …
KT Rolster reunites Kuro, TusiN, and Aiming, completes 2020 LCK roster
William Davis
League of Legends
KT Rolster has reinvented itself, completing its new roster for the LCK 2020 season. The massive shakeup comes after the organization narrowly avoided relegation after both splits in 2019. KT is taking a new approach in 2020, running a seven-men roster in the upcoming season. Jeon “Ray” Ji-won and Kim “SoHwan” Jun-yeong are the top laners for KT in 2020. Ray is playing in the LCK for the first time …
Map drawing returns to CSGO in 2019 after being gone for a year
M Alzamora
Counter-Strike
After almost more than a year, Counter-Strike: Globel Offensive developers have again enabled the ability to draw on the in-game map for players. Players are understandably happy after CSGO developers reactivated a long-time feature of the game. The ability to draw on the map was removed with the introduction of the Panorama user interface update in June of 2018. While technically a beta, fans flocked to the update to check …
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