StarCraft II has received global partnerships to establish it as a professional eSport. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. has announced a new StarCraft® II World Championship Series for 2013 that establishes the first-ever official global ranking system for StarCraft II eSports. Operated in partnership with the world’s premier eSports organizations — Turtle Entertainment (ESL), the Korea eSports ...
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Following the release of Starcraft II expansion Heart of the Swarm, Blizzard have announced some impressive milestones achieved within the first week of the game going retail. First and foremost Blizzard racked up a total of 1.1 million viewers over the course of their 21 hour broadcast of launch celebrations for Heart of the Swarm, with viewership peaking at around 125, 000 people according to T...
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Fans of tanks, massive destruction, and competitiveness get ready to battle across the internet with World of Tanks. The strategy game development team behind World of Tanks, Wargaming, announced their creation of Wargaming.net League. Wargaming hopes to run alongside the great eSports games of now and bring in new competitive players, fans, and professional eSports gamers. Scheduled to launch th...
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The Electronic Sports League are delighted to announce the implementation of the VERSUS matchmaking system to the award winning game Blacklight Retribution. This addition to the popular game will come about through the combined efforts of Perfect World Entertainment and Zombie Studios, who are the publisher and developer of Blacklight Retribution respectively. All 3 companies will also be working ...
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Fire One Out Media has announced their professional gaming documentary entitled “Die Noobs”. Emmy nominated director Erik Cieslewicz will be directing “Die Noobs”. The film is a documentary of two casual gamers and their goal of winning a certain professional gaming tournament. Basically every hardcore gamers dream right? The documentary looks inside one of the worlds quick...
Read More »Riot Games, the developer of the most played PC game in the world, League of Legends announced today what they think is the future of the eSports genre. Early 2013, the best players around the world will compete in a League of Legends Championship Series. It offers a new professional gaming league with players from all around the world; North America, Europe & Asia. There will be multiple seas...
Read More »Starcraft II player Taeja Wins Summer Championship As eSports fans from around the world watched 32 of the best players pin there skills against each other to see who would get places to a all-expenses paid trip to MLG Summer Championship in Raleigh, NC, from August 24-26 and the $10,000 prize money. After a tense TVP (terran vs protoss) match up and Taeja winning 4 out of the 6 games, he took hom...
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