Early Friday, esports organization Fnatic unveiled special edition League of Legends World Championship jerseys and jackets that will be worn by their League players and will soon be available for
Listen up, Overwatch fans languishing in the Overwatch League off-season: it's time to pull it together. There's an annual charity event in town featuring your favorite feathered streamers, pro player
Mike "hastr0" Rufail, team owner and CEO of both the esports organization Envy and its sister Overwatch League team, the Dallas Fuel, recently released renderings of the Fuel's brand new training faci
It's true: game development company Blizzard Entertainment and infamous toy manufacturer The LEGO Group have teamed up to create Overwatch-themed LEGO sets. Blizzard and LEGO teased the partnership ea
With a tense 3-2 victory over Neat late Sunday afternoon, the Super Frogs became the final World of Warcraft 3v3 arena team to punch their tickets to BlizzCon 2018. There, they will join 11 other team
Typically, BlizzCon Virtual Ticket holders are treated to a few streams, some behind-the-scenes content, and in-game goodies, but this year, for the first time ever, they will have an opportunity to p
Earlier this week, Blizzard released another Overwatch Developer Update featuring Jeff Kaplan and although the famed game designer confirmed that Overwatch's annual Halloween in-game event, Halloween
No, really -- you can snag a Golden Overwatch loot box with purchase of participating Kellogg's products. In this instance, participating products include most flavors of Pop-Tarts (8, 12 and 32 count
In a press release made early Monday morning, Eagle Gaming announced that it would be breaking the buyout clause in its Contenders players' contracts in order to increase the players' likelihoods of b
This past weekend, nearly 40 pro arena teams across North America and Europe went head-to-head in the first Fall Cup of the Arena World Championship (AWC) series. Method Orange and Method Black ultima
Earlier today in Paris, Team France and Team United Kingdom punched their tickets to BlizzCon 2018 where the Top 8 Overwatch World Cup (OWWC) teams from the Incheon, Los Angeles, Bangkok, and Paris Gr
Fans of Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo franchise: rejoice! Netflix is considering an original animated series based on the legendary series of dungeon crawler games. Andrew Cosby, the co-creator of t
Kyoung Ey Molly "AVALLA" Kim has made history as the Overwatch League's first female coach. The former Meta Bellum assistant coach will be joining head coach Hyeong-soek "WizardHyeong" Kim and recentl
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, a professional Fortnite player and immensely popular Twitch streamer, will be featured on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. Typically reserved for traditional athletes, Ninja make
This weekend at OP Live Dallas (Sept. 22-23), a Texas gaming convention in partnership with Team Envy and the Dallas Fuel, there is a main attraction for the mystified parents gamer kids are bound to drag along with them: the Parent Lost & Found Talks.
But there is now little distinction between PUG raiding and guild raiding, especially for new and returning players who often find themselves playing alone, and although they may seem negligible, small incentives that push even the most anti-social and isolated players to engage in World of Warcraft’s social elements are important.
Yesterday, Ion Hazzikostas, the game director behind World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, participated in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the main Warcraft subreddit. There, he answered questions on a v
For the first time ever, the top Mythic progression guild, Method, is live streaming their entire experience, from Taloc to G'huun, and inviting you to watch. Fans of the race to world first (and savvy raid leaders looking for a leg up when it comes time to tackle these bosses themselves) can follow along on several Twitch streams, able to bear witness to the guild’s successes, failures, and strategies in real time.
Group 2 recognizes personal achievement with categories like Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Event of the Year, and more.
In esports, obsessive, inappropriate fan behavior is normalized and unquestioned. It is too often justified as a byproduct of Internet fame or otherwise readily dismissed by cultural expectation -- that is, the expectation that esports pros should accept and perhaps even welcome stans because the unbridled infatuation of strangers means that they have “made it.”
