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What is it All About? Overwatch League is a premier Overwatch tournament organized by Blizzard Entertainment. It incorporates the franchise, city-based system with twelve teams participating in its inaugural season. The main idea behind the conceptualization of the league was to create the world’s premier esports league, where teams and ...
Tournament favorites South Korea successfully defended their title at the 2017 Overwatch World Cup earlier today after comfortably defeating Canada 4-1. Appearing a little shaky after losing two maps en route to the finals - one each to USA and France - despite their aim of not dropping a map throughout this World Cup campaign, the Koreans showed t...
A couple weeks back we wrote about how Activision sneakily applied for a patent application for an in-game engine to manipulate multiplayer matchmaking experience to subtly drive its users to perform microtransactions. And they are at it again! First uncovered by Dotesports, the self-explaining patent application by Activision Publishing Inc entitl...
After four qualifying stages in four different countries; China, Australia, Poland and the United States, eight best national Overwatch teams converged in Anaheim, California for BlizzCon in pursuit of the right to be called the best and what a day it was. The day went according to plan for the favored teams - Sweden and Canada - early on before Fr...
We finally have the official names, logo and team colors for all twelve teams set to compete in the inaugural Overwatch League come January and today we are going to rank them. In our opinion, some are really cool looking befitting the prestige of the tournament while others are just downright wrong. It's Friday anyway so why not have some fun with...
Earlier today the folks from the Overwatch dev team released a video detailing how they intend to make their game more viewer-friendly ahead of the upcoming 2017 Overwatch World Cup and of course, Overwatch League which kicks off January 2018. Among new additions include team uniforms to help viewers better differentiate the characters between team...
After four sets of qualifiers in four separate continents over a span of two months involving 32 of the best national Overwatch teams in the world, we finally have the final shape of the 2017 Overwatch World Cup playoff rounds set to take place at Blizzcon this November. For the uninitiated, the final eight are as follows (initial seed in brackets)...
We are finally here. The 'golden week' of games releases for this month. Tons of hyped-up games are hitting shelves this week so we decided to list five of the most anticipated titles gamers cannot wait to get their hands on. Shooters, action-adventure, a dancing game and even a contender to Breath of the Wild as Game of the Year? We really are spo...
As GC Busan lifted the OGN APEX trophy, it also complete the change of guard from the old to new in the Korean Overwatch scene. With both Lunatic-Hai and Cloud9KongDoo shifting focus to the Overwatch League, it is up to GC Busan to fill in their shoes as the new giants in the thriving APEX circuit. But in front of them laid one last hurdle before ...
Everyone expected for a clean 3-0 win for SKT Telecom T1, the gods of League of Legends hailing from Korea in their game against debutants to Worlds hailing from Europe, Misfits. The Europeans were definitely one of the underestimated underdogs heading into this series but that should not be the case once the dust have settled. The Europeans took d...
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Update 1: Responding to feedback, an Activision Publishing spokesperson has responded to Kotaku with the following statement: “This was an exploratory patent filed in 2015 by an R&D team working independently from our game studios. It has not been implemented in-game.†In addition to that, Bungie community manager David "De...
Just before Tokyo Game Show 2017, we were invited by Bethesda to visit their studio in Tokyo for an early look at their upcoming survival horror third-person shooter: The Evil Within 2. Along with it, we were fortunate to be allowed the opportunity to chat with the producers of the game from Tango Gameworks, including the legendary Shinji Mikami. ...
Lunatic-Hai cemented their position as the most successful team in the Korean the Overwatch scene by disposing their arch-nemesis from APEX Season 3, Cloud9 KongDoo in the finals of the inaugural OGN Supermatch. It was a bittersweet moment for the Lunatic-Hai players as this win is the last tournament they will have under the 'Lunatic-Hai' name as ...
Updated as of Nov 19th Overwatch League is just around the corner, with its preseason scheduled to start in December and the regular season to get underway in January. Following the 30th Oct 2017 registration deadline, twelve teams have confirmed their participation in the tournament which will see teams warming up to their competition via ...
Note: This opinion is solely based on the recent Star Wars Battlefront II Beta which we played on the PlayStation 4Â My first experience with Battlefront II was at the Star Wars Celebration Day in Orlando earlier this year. Flown by EA to catch the world premiere and presentation of the game in Florida, the hype was real as we finally get a s...
The Overwatch Halloween Terror 2017 Event patch kicked in earlier this morning and after tons of teases in the past few weeks, we finally get hold of the eight awesome, brand-new character skins for the n-th Overwatch event (we lost count). Without further ado, we rank the skins from our least-liked to our favorite skin this time around. [gallery i...
If you thought GC Busan’s evisceration of Lunatic-Hai on back-to-back matches in Group Stages #2 was the biggest upset of Overwatch APEX Season 4, think again. The most improved team in Season 4 destroyed last season’s losing finalists, Cloud9 KongDoo 4-0 to march into the Overwatch APEX Season 4 finals to meet either RunAway or Nc Fo...
Both games have been out in the wild for quite sometime now and we've invested significant amount of time on both as well. The perennial question whenever these two franchises hit stores is "Which one do I go for?". Now of course if you're an avid follower of either franchise, then the answer to that question is pretty much a no-brainer for you. Bu...
The Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer dropped in earlier today and boy are we stoked. Littered with tons of teases (as all Star Wars trailers do) and cryptic lines that will send any Star Wars fan on a scavenger hunt leading to the movie's release (including yours truly), we decided to break it down frame by frame (sort of) to uncover the mystery an...
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