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After a contract extension with NetEase failed, Overwatch 2 and other Blizzard titles have been officially taken offline in China. This has left the Overwatch League teams based in China in uncertainty as the game is no longer playable in the country. https://twitter.com/ChengduHunters/status/1617556422912528385 The shutdown of Blizzard games...
Stormgate is a new real-time strategy game made by Frost Giant Studios, a team made up of ex-Blizzard developers who made WarCraft 3 and StarCraft 2 among others. The team felt that 2023 really needs a new genre-defining RTS to bring back the glory days of strategy games, and so far there's hope for the new company and its idea. Here's a deep di...
Last week, Blizzard announced that they have stopped the development of new content for StarCraft 2. Now, a group of former Blizzard developers and veterans (who previously worked on StarCraft 2, amongst others) have formed a new studio called Frost Giant Studios. The new company will focus primarily on real-time strategy (RTS) games. ...
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that they are officially ending new content development for StarCraft 2, the iconic sci-fi RTS game that originally launched back in 2010 as StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. From now on, the StarCraft 2 team will instead just focus on “season rolls and necessary balance fixes". In a post on the offic...
Warcraft III Reforged comes out later this month on 28 January 2020. Blizzard knows that bringing back a classic isn't enough to revitalise the community so they're working together with ESL on the esports side of things. Introducing the ESL Pro Tour, a new esports circuit for Warcraft III Reforged, StarCraft II, and CS:GO. It will combine all t...
Esports history has hit another milestone. For the first time ever, esports is featured as a medal sport in an international sports event, namely the SEA Games 2019. All matches have concluded on 10 December 2019. Let's take a look at who won those medals. The SEA Games 2019 Esports tournament was participated by 8 countries from the Southeast ...
It's the last day of the SEA Games 2019 Esports event, with only Tekken 7 left. At this point of typing, StarCraft 2 is done and over with. Let's see who came out on top today: StarCraft 2 The Philippines vs Singapore (4-1) Tekken 7 The Philippines vs Thailand (2-3) Heartiest congratulations to The Philippines' EnDerr for winning the gold me...
When it comes to the world of international esports, everyone knows about the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG). For the first time in the tournament's history, the Asia Pacific (APAC) Final is taking place outside of China. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="4608"] Brian Wong, VP of Global Initiatives at Alibaba (left) and Hasnul Hadi Sam...
The SEA Games 2019 Esports matches resume, now with day 2! Nine Southeast Asian countries have sent their athletes to battle it out across six video games for a chance at winning 18 medals. Let's see who came out on top in day 2. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Vietnam vs. Singapore (1 - 0) Singapore vs. Vietnam (0 - 1) Malaysia vs. Indonesia (0 - 2...
The SEA Games 2019 Esports matches begin today! Nine Southeast Asian countries have sent their athletes to battle it out across six video games for a chance at winning 18 medals. Let's see who's conquering the first day: Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Malaysia vs. Vietnam (1 - 1) Laos vs. Thailand (0 - 2) Philippines vs. Indonesia (1 - 1) Thailand ...
The SEA Games 2019 will be the first major international sports event to feature Esports as a medal sport. There are 18 medals to be won across 6 games. The group stage draw was done yesterday and we now have the results. Esports at SEA Games 2019 will be happening at the Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan, Metro Manila from 5 December to 10 Decem...
Government-involved kerfuffles aside, many of us are excited for this year's Philippines 2019 30th SEA Games, largely because it's the first time we'll be seeing esports as a competitive field in an Olympic-level scale and setting. You can watch the esports tournament here. https://youtu.be/mmCBkYBymrM Here's the schedule (via Esports Inquirer)....
In late July, the world lost one of the most important figures in StarCraft 2 esports history. Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson passed away due to sudden illness, leaving many family members, friends, and people in the StarCraft 2 community heartbroken. Paying tribute to Geoff's legacy, Blizzard has announced an iNcontroL Commemorative Bundle for StarCra...
Just today, the Deputy Chef-de-Mission of the Malaysian contingent for the SEA Games 2019 paid a visit to the esports team who will be representing the country for the six esports medal events to be contested from 1 December to 6 December 2019 in Manila. Throughout the visit the DCDM Nurul Huda Abdullah, a former competitive swimmer who has won ma...
The 30th SEA Games this year will be a historic one as it's the first SEA Games to feature esports as a medal event. We'll see the best players from Southeast Asian countries compete in six games across three platforms throughout the six-day event. Here's what you need to know: The esports event will start on 5 December and end on 10 December 2019...
One of the biggest announcements at the end of last year was that the 2019 SEA Games will be the first SEA Game to feature esports as a medal sport. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan had lobbied for the inclusion of esports into the SEA Games back in November 2018 and after successfully convincing the SEA Games Organizing Committee, it was also confirmed tha...
It's not enough that Skynet took over the world, now the machines are turning their attention to the world of gaming. I'm jesting, of course, since the artificial intelligence I'm referring to is actually DeepMind's StarCraft II A.I. agent, AlphaStar. Alphstar is an A.I. developed by DeepMind specifically to play Starcraft II, and it's very good a...
Update: Schedule added. We've been asking the same question since last year: When is Malaysia stepping up their game for the upcoming esports medal games in the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines? We now have the answer to that, as the official channel for recruitment and registration has recently opened. The 'Malaysian Esports Selection 2019'...
Singapore has announced that their first esports representatives for the upcoming 2019 SEA Games will be announced by May this year. This comes after Singapore Esports Association (SGEA) recently announced its selection process last week. According to The Straits Times, Singapore will hold two selection events; an open qualifier in March 2019, whe...
Six game titles including DotA 2 and Tekken 7 will be featured in next year's SEA Games, following this week's round of meetings chaired by the Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC) in Manila. This new list brings several major changes from what was shown at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Apparently, football (PES 2018) w...
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