Team damage is a staple in FPS competitive games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Call of Duty. Due to the added mechanic of shooting and potentially killing your teammates, players tend to be a lot more careful with their shots. In CS:GO, however, this mechanic tends to play...
Last year, two weeks before Christmas, path 7.00 was released to the public and changed Dota 2 forever. The introduction of the talent system, new mechanics and objectives took the community by surprise. Now, as 2017 ushered in a new age of Dota we will be taking a look at...
Betting has been one of the pillars in Counter Strike Global offensive. It is a parallel, legal economy right now with people betting on their favorite teams to win matches. Betting helps players stay excited and enthusiastic about matches. They follow the professional scene loyally trying to gain any sort...
International eSports teams have often had difficulty obtaining visas for overseas events. Famous teams, like CS:GO’s Chinese stars of TyLoo, have had to drop out of the StarLadder i-League Invitational and decline an invite to the first season of ELEAGUE due to being unable to acquire visas in time for...
The Boston Major champions have been crowned! OG continues to write history with their third, consecutive Major title after a series of insane and thrilling matches versus the European underdogs, Ad Finem. OG are The Boston Major Grand Champions. #BostonMajor pic.twitter.com/hZbUs17twX — Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) December 11, 2016 The boys...
The games that have made up eSports even since their beginning have always been on computers and consoles. In fact, the term LAN or “Local Area Network” came up as a result of computer games being played on the same local network. Now in 2016, however, that meta is starting...
The result of the first day of the Boston Major Group Stage are in! Digital Chaos and Virtus.Pro top their respective group brackets after a series of outstanding plays. Virtus.Pro have escaped the jaws of many teams, through sheer pushing power and strats while DC have gone against all betting...
CS:GO competitions are, and have been, always basically the same. Teams go against each other in a first to 16 rounds format, sometimes with overtime. Sure, the teams may be split into different groups based on skill, but the overarching concept is still the same. What if instead of just...
With only week until the Boston Major resumes, here is everything you need to know about this season’s first Dota 2 Major. The Wang Theater in Boston,USA will be welcoming its first eSports event this year. The event will continue with the Group Stage on December 3rd until December 4th,...
A lot of videos and articles have been made in regards to the path Valve has taken CS:GO but I thought I would throw my ten cents into the mix. Having been a Counter-Strike 1.6 player back in its heyday, I can say the difference between the two games is...