e-sports

Games industry sees strong promise in e-sports and virtual reality

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If you're tired of hearing how hot e-sports is and how the industry is gunning for it as the future of gaming... perhaps you...

Heroes of the Storm announces Spring Global Championship

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The past few years have seen MOBAs take over the competitive gaming landscape, with just a handful of games managing to attract millions of...

ESPN officially launches an e-sports division, picks up e-sports journalists

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When Activision-Blizzard acquired Major League Gaming earlier this month, CEO Bobby Kotick revealed his plans to create a kind of "ESPN of e-sports." It turns out that ESPN has had its...

Blade & Soul plans star-studded launch event

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If you haven't already, mark your calendar for next Tuesday, January 19th. That will be the day that the world comes to a halt...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Examining Guild Wars 2’s winter 2016 update plans

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Guild Wars 2 Game Director Colin Johanson dropped a massive amount of information about the direction development will take in the first quarter of 2016...

Catch up with SMITE’s $1,000,000 world championship

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The world of e-sports and competitive gaming has seen a massive explosion in recent years in terms of both viewership and prize money. Top competitive...

Activision Blizzard buys e-sports company assets for $46M

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Does Activision Blizzard see the business world as one big garage sale from which to cherry-pick deals? It certainly seems so, as the company has...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 predictions for 2016

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2015 is coming to a close, and I've eaten my own bodyweight (and then some!) in festive treats, so it's the perfect time to...

Not So Massively: Top 10 most surprising NSM stories of 2015

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Back in 2011, our former corporate overlords at Massively-of-old noticed that games like League of Legends were getting pretty damn popular and asked us to work...

Fans can win prizes during War Thunder’s e-sports tournament

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Usually when I hear "professional e-sports tournament" I tune out, mostly because three of those words hold no personal interest or applicability. However, it...

Not So Massively: Winter game update edition (December 21, 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...

Notorious e-sports team boss Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud

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Martin Shkreli, chairman of League of Legends e-sports team Imagine and CEO of real-life company Turing Pharmaceuticals, was arrested in New York today. He stands...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Recapping Guild Wars 2 in 2015

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The holiday season is well and truly upon us, so it's that most wonderful time of the year during which the Massively OP reporters...

Hi-Rez announces $100K Paladins tourney

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Paladins isn't officially launched yet, but Hi-Rez is already planning its competitive scene -- and its first tournament. On the official forums yesterday, Hi-Rez...

Guild Wars 2 e-sports team ragequits over design meta, technical issues

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Here's a bit of MMORPG e-sports drama for you: A major Guild Wars 2 e-sports team bailed from competition last night. Competing in the game's ESL Guild...

Not So Massively: Counter-Strike nerfs all the guns (December 14, 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the ‘Not So Massively’ gamer

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The holidays are approaching, and that means there's not much time left to get presents for your friends and lumps of coal for your...

Massively Overthinking: Counting the hits and misses of our 2015 predictions

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Every year, we lodge our predictions for the next. Funny, strange, and deadly serious, these predictions are a glance back on the naïvetés of 2014 and...

Guild Wars 2 promises quarterly balance updates, says e-sports are crucial to the game’s growth

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ArenaNet Lead Developer Colin Johanson has strong words in defense of Guild Wars 2's emphasis on e-sports, saying that these programs are "extremely successful" and...

Not So Massively: An amazing revamp for LoL’s Poppy (November 30, 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...

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