Last Thursday, Blizzard penned the letter that the entire HOTS community was fearing. One that most of them suspected was coming after the month of silence from Blizzard regarding the Heroes Global Championship (HGC). In short, its over. Gone. Kaput.
Blizzard has moved on to greener pastures, that pasture likely being Overwatch, judging by the increased resources its receiving.
Things are not looking good for Blizzard's MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, a title that blended together all of the company's games like Overwatch, Diablo, Starcraft, and World of Warcraft.
It’s been a bad year for Blizzard games. The Diablo community is up in arms after Blizzcon’s announcement of Diablo Immortal, the World of Warcraft community has nothing but complaints about the current expansion, and even Overwatch‘s popularity has fallen off a little. Now, it seems Blizzard is starting to ring the death knell for […]
Overwatch League games next season will be spread across two more cities. A blog post for the Overwatch League Season 2 has revealed that Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign, and Los Angeles Valiant will all host live games in their home cities in what Blizzard is calling a Homestand Weekend series. In the League’s first Season, all games were played in front of a live audience in the Blizzard Arena...
Looks like this year's version of Overwatch's Winter Wonderland has become a proverbial lump of coal in the Christmas stocking of gamers, as several game breaking bugs have crept in.
We have an odd relationship with gambling in the UK. You'd be hard-pressed to find a high street or city centre that doesn't have at least a couple of bookmakers' shops mixed into it, offering bets on everything from horse racing and football to whether or not Kate Winslet will cry if she wins an Oscar (yes that was a real thing). But how does esports fit in? According to a , the percentage of British adults who have at some point in their lives placed a bet on esports is 8.5 per cent, with three per cent having placed those bets in the month the study was conducted. That's a surprising statistic for a sport many consider to be still quite niche. And it makes sense most of those bets will be online, given the nature of esports and the audience for it. But it also got me wondering: just how easy it is to walk into a betting shop and wager some cash on an esports event? To find out, I picked three (at the time of betting) upcoming and current events to bet on, with the intention of gambling on three specific teams to win either the tournament or a particular match. These were Team Liquid to win the ESL One Dota 2 tournament, Ninjas in Pyjamas to win that day's ECS League of Legends season six game, and for the Overwatch World Cup, I had to back the home nation and bet on the UK. Secondly, I decided I had to be able to place the bet in store. We all know you can bet on esports online, so that didn't count.
