After cancelling the homestands set for Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou in late January, Blizzard has announced the games will now be played in Seoul, both in studio and as potential extra games for the Seoul Dynasty homestand in Week 5. read more here:
With Juked now three months into open beta, we decided to catch up with co-founder ChanManV. He walked us through the creation of Juked, how they manage to stay in touch with all the esports scenes, and what the future holds for the platform.
A huge announcement broke the internet last Thursday. Jeff Kaplan, the lead designer of Overwatch, announced several changes to Overwatch. One of those changes is rotating hero pools. Think of it like map pools rotating each season in competitive, except it is on a weekly basis with heroes. Not only are map pools rotating in competitive, but also heroes. As soon as the developer update released, Overwatch League released a blog detailing how hero pools are going to work for the league.
Last weekend was the start of a new season of the Overwatch League. Unlike past seasons, however, this season is a little different. The Blizzard Arena is a relic of the past as it is time to move on to bigger things. Instead of games taking place at the venue located in Burbank, California, the Overwatch League is on the road every week this season. What’s good is that every fan gets to see Overwatch League and esports come to their respective cities. What’s worse is that teams, players, and the media will have to travel as well. After going to New York for the New York Excelsior Homestand last week, the environment of the arena, the atmosphere of the crowd, and the exciting matches are unlike the previous two seasons.
The following was sent to Inven Global as a press release. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. February 12th -- Esports aggregation platform Juked.gg has announced it raised a $800,000 pre-seed round to accelerate
The first $50,000 Unikrn streaming competition attracted thousands of entrants over six months, but it is finally coming to a close with the first official stream set for Friday, February 14.
The last part of the Overwatch League power rankings are here before the season starts this season. Let's see who racks up the top of the list. Hint: It's San Francisco Shock, obviously.
The top 10 of the power rankings are here. There are surprising teams to see in the top 10, maybe in the top 5, even. Let's get into it and see how these remaining teams rank as we get to the top.
Time for Part 2 of the 2020 preseason power rankings. Let's round out the bottom half and see what teams rank going into the top half of the rankings.
It is that time of the year again, and I am not talking about Christmas. It is time for another season of the Overwatch League. Previously, on the Overwatch League, New York Excelsior had a heartbreaking semifinal against Vancouver, the Titans had an extraordinary season until they met the San Francisco Shock in the grand finals, and the Shock is your new 2019 Overwatch League champions. Many emotions were felt in the Blizzard Arena from heartache, laughter, cries, and elation.
In empowering gamers to bet on their own games, Betti Games is looking to redefine autonomy, authenticity and user-friendliness in esports betting with Betti, an Instant Messenger-based platform for games of skill.
The Overwatch League 2020 season has run into an unexpected snag in the form of the Coronavirus outbreak in China, and as a result, all homestands taking place in China throughout February and March will be cancelled and re-scheduled at a later date. Guangzhou Charge had three homestands scheduled through the first two months of OWL 2020, with Shanghai Dragons and Hangzhou Spark each hosting one homestand, respectively.
The biggest update to Overwatch is here. Changes include more frequent balance updates, experimental card, and hero pools. Read more to see all the changes going on in Overwatch.
Just hours before Call of Duty League's season opener on Friday afternoon, YouTube announced exclusive streaming rights for all Activision Blizzard esports, including OWL, CoD League, Hearthstone, and more. Read more on the deal here:
Orisa, Sigma, and Baptiste are the next heroes to get some tuning in the Overwatch tool shed. Read up on what is being tuned in the next Overwatch patch.
A post in the Blizzard forums brought the attention to Overwatch's lead designer, Jeff Kaplan. Current role queue is 2/2/2; however, there is experimentation going on for 3/2/1 with 3 DPS and 1 tank. The balance of the future in Overwatch is in Jeff Kaplan's hands. Let's dive and analyze what could happen if role queue was adjusted.
Team MVP's delay in payment was revealed. On the 17th (KST), former manager of Team MVP's APEX team, Choi Seok-won revealed the delay of payment problem on Team MVP's official Facebook account. He men
In a recent report by Dexerto's Richard Lewis, various talent from Overwatch League claimed they were expected to take pay cuts for the 2020 season. Read more about his report here:
Streetwear designer Jeff Staple teamed up with the Overwatch League to create the first of its kind Esports Player Kit. The 20 teams participating in the League will have their own unique designs.
The Overwatch team released new PTR patch notes following the controversy of "power creep." The new patch notes highlighted nerfs and buffs to heroes that will make or break the double shield meta. Read Inven Global's Chris Cuevo's thoughts on the new PTR patch notes and how it affects the current meta.