Maksym “Mopsio” Szczypa is used to being knocked down and picking himself back up. It started at a young age growing up in a small village in Poland when his decision to pursue professional gaming.
Everything appeared to be business-as-usual for Tempo Storm's Heroes of the Storm team going into the Mid-Season Brawl event in Sweden last month.
The road to the Heroes of the Storm Global Championship (HGC) circuit for Shawn "Jin" Boyle was not an easy one as he was added to the roster as a temporary sub-in after a player left.
In a patch that went live on Tuesday, the Heroes of the Storm development team implemented two re-worked heroes, Raynor and Azmodan, and added an additional hero ban at the beginning of all draft mode.
Chase "BBJ" Dixon's path in esports is similar to that of many others who try to make it in the industry, but a few twists have made him successful.
A hero that has been previously lurking in the shadows, both physically and within the meta, has been recently brought to light at the professional stage.
One of the most iconic characters in the history of Blizzard Entertainment, Jim Raynor, found his way into the nexus as one of the original heroes in Heroes of the Storm.
October 7, 2014 marked the date on the calendar that the Lord of Sin, Azmodan, worked his way into the nexus to starting raining chaos down on his opponents.
Brett Crawford is the Lead Balance Designer for Heroes of the Storm and, believe it or not, has been thinking about these reworks for almost a year. I had the chance to talk with him about all manner of Raynor and Azmodan topics and, in doing so, I learned a lot about game design and what the word "splat" means.
No one is more plugged into the Heroes of the Storm Global Championship (HGC) scene than John Teymoorian. The current Esports Product Lead for Blizzard Entertainment’s main goal is to help strengthen and grow the program since its inception a few years ago.
Few professional Heroes of the Storm players strike fear into their opponents like Jae Won “Rich” Lee.
Kurtis “Kala” Lloyd, the current coach of Tempo Storm's professional Heroes of the Storm team, has a mission.
I remember watching a tournament and a commentator messes something up and Twitch chat just starts flaming him into oblivion, which Twitch chat is known to do, and he says, “I’d like to see you kids do better.”
I think I’m the happiest when I’m playing a game that I really love and I’m streaming it and, it doesn’t have to be anything crazy, but even just people in chat saying stuff like, “Thanks for streaming,” “That was a really cool tip,” “I love the way you play that hero, I haven’t seen that talent build before, that was cool.”
From KSV to now Gen.G, the Esports industry is evolving everyday and so is Gen.G.On May 1st, Inven Global was fortunate enough to meet up with CGO of KSV (now known as Gen.G), Arnold Hur. Arnold Hur h
Now the fact that we’re admitting we’re a MOBA now is great. I think saying we’re a casual MOBA isn’t the right word. I don’t think it’s ever really been true per se if you’ve actually dove into playing at a competitive level. Shaking that stigma within the community has been a challenge.
The big thing we want to be careful with reworks is there’s a lot of people already playing that hero so we don’t want to wreck what’s fun about that hero or what people identify with. So it’s more thinking about that carefully and making the right changes. It’s not nearly as involved as making a new hero and it can also vary a lot from one hero to another on how much is actually needed.
That it’s okay to be me. Casting is really one of the first times wherein an unabashed, almost reckless fashion I’ve just decided to be myself. I’m generally a pretty quiet and introverted person but with casting, I promised myself that I would just be me.
At the HGC Western Clash event in Katowice, Poland, a select group of veteran analysts were chosen to provide in-depth analysis and play-by-play commentary to the viewing audience. Kori “Vandie&
During the middle of the action at Western Clash in Katowice, Poland, Sam Braithwaite, the Esports Franchise Lead for Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft decided to sit down with myself to talk about th