A recent study revealed that players have spent over 10.4 million years playing Fortnite, which is nearly twice as long as humans have spent on the planet. The gaming world changed forever after the release of Fortnite: Battle Royale on July 25, 2017. It’s hard to imagine that even developer Epic Games knew what they […]
Read moreSadly, we’ll no longer be seeing one of Dota 2’s best hosts grace our screens in the future. The professional Dota 2 scene is going through some rough periods in the last couple of months. After the sexual harassment scandals that took place a few weeks ago, some of the biggest names in the Dota […]
Read moreBlizzard is delivering a unique animated Series on World of Warcraft, titled Shadowlands Afterlives, the developer declared today. The hereafters will debut this Thursday during Gamescom 2020’s online festivals. The series premieres this week at Gamescom. It will be interesting to see how World of Warcraft Mythic carry will be displayed in the series. It’s […]
Read moreXSET, the esports and gaming culture organization, has told The Esports Observer that it will enter competitive World of Warcraft after signing the former Method Gaming squad. The reigning World of Warcraft Arena world champions left Method and formed their own squad, Echo, before finally arriving on the XSET roster. The roster now consists of […]
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Ever since the 1997 Red Annihilation tournament, when professional Quake player Dennis “Thresh” Fong won id Software CEO John Carmack’s Ferrari 328 GTS, gamers have tried to learn to play games and get paid for it. The highest winnings in gaming Thresh: Where it all began Thresh made upwards of $100,000 a year at his […]
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Activision Blizzard has revealed massive gains in its second-quarter financial results conference call. Activision Blizzard revealed that second-quarter revenue grew 38% to $1.93 billion. With a global pandemic still raging on, video games have looked to be standouts in profitable entertainment. The industry was already the largest entertainment medium, and it doesn’t look like that’s […]
Read moreNBA franchise company Golden State Warriors’ first major foray into esports came when the company was selected as a long term partner for the League of Legends Championship Series. Since then, GSW’s esports brand, Golden Guardians, has slowly expanded into a number of competitive titles. Most recently, the organization took a rather unique step and […]
Read moreBlizzard Entertainment announced that the 2020 edition of BlizzCon, the company’s annual fan gathering celebrating its staple of games , has been canceled in light of the novel coronavirus pandemic. BlizzCon typically takes place in November and is held in Anaheim, California. The announcement was made in a blog […]
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Atlanta FaZe take their second CDL Weekend victory against surprise finalists OpTic Gaming. OpTic Gaming Los Angeles 3-2 Toronto Ultra Two surprise Semi-Finalists in OpTic Gaming and Toronto Ultra faced off for a spot in the Final. This one was hard to call, but the superstar quality of the OpTic gaming players had many seeing […]
Read moreCall of Duty: Warzone is taking over the world. There are now more than 50 million players that have logged into Call of Duty: Warzone in the past few months since its debut just a little while ago. According to Activision/Blizzard, this now makes Call of Duty: Warzone one of the most popular titles in […]
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