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Surprising Win at the Overwatch Grand Finals Season 2 San Francisco Shock became the winning team of the second season of Overwatch Grand Finals. The team’s Hyobin “Choihyobin” Choi won the MVP title. Closer than Expected Match San Francisco Shock won 23-5 against the Vancouver Titans, who scored 25-3, in an action-packed close call match. Titans played a hard game, but Shock managed to hold onto all their maps, aided by a final improvised move that helped them overcome their well-matched competitors. The tight match is not surprising considering the two teams have been going head to head in…

Plans Underway for ESPN-Style Esports Network Traditional sports have ESPN, a network television channel where fans can watch any type of non-digital sport they like. Could there be an ESPN just for esports? A number of gaming luminaries have teamed up to create a TV dedicated just for esports. The new channel will be called VENN, short for Video Game Entertainment and News Network. VENN has so far raised about $17 million in an initial round of investment funding, the Associated Press reported. VENN is so far off to a good start, being backed by some of the biggest gaming…

Blizzard Announces Shakeups, Possible Nerfs, and New Features for Hearthstone Blizzard Announces Shakeups, Possible Nerfs, and New Features for Hearthstone Blizzard recently announced possibly major new changes to Hearthstone, the developer’s competitive card game companion to World of Warcraft. Hearthstone’s latest expansion, the “Tombs of Terror,” is currently underway. Blizzard is not planning on introducing impromptu changes to the latest expansion, but future additions may undergo notable changes. Shakeup Coming to Standard Cards Blizzard has big plans to return a number of Wild cards back to Standard, which could have huge implications for competitive gameplay. Early announcements indicate that 23…

DOTA 2 and Tekken 7 Adds New Characters DOTA 2 and Tekken 7 Adds New Characters Brand new characters are arriving at the end of the year to DOTA 2 and Tekken 7, their developers announced. While some specifics and exact release dates remain under wraps, character names and some powers have been revealed. DOTA 2 Adds Two New Characters for Fall 2019 DOTA 2 will add two brand new characters to its already massive roster of toons players can choose. The first announced Snapfire is an elderly goblin grandma who rides a cute dragon-lizard and likes baking cookies. The…

Australia Investigates Esports Teams over Match Fixing and Mafia Links The Australian government is currently investigating at least two esports tournament teams over allegations of match fixing and corruption, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported. Counter-Strike E-Athletes Arrested over Match Fixing Allegations The police in the Australia state of Victoria have issued arrest warrants for members of a local Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team for match fixing at a low-tier tournament. ABC described the team as semi-professionals. The team came under fire for allegedly throwing a CS:GO match played in the ESEA-Mountain Dew League back in February. As the game continued,…

Season 3 of Apex Legends commences October 1st Respawn ended up dropping a number of hotly predicted as well as much leaked particulars regarding the subsequent season of Apex Legends. Meltdown, which happens to be one more name for Season 3, is going to deliver the innovative legend Crypto along with the Charge Rifle which is a comparatively new one. One very important thing that we would like to mention here is that there is going to be a modest alteration in the ranked mode matchmaking plus scoring in the Season 3 Apex Legends. This particular declaration was made by…

Weirdest DOTA 2 News from Recent Weeks When it comes to e-sports, nothing dominates the news like DOTA 2. The massive online strategy game is going strong as ever, basically defining e-sports. The game is not without its good, bad, and the utterly weird, however. Here’s a roundup of some of the most unusual DOTA 2 news this month for those who keep tabs on the game: Valve Bans Toxic DOTA 2 Players for 20 Years Valve recently updated the matchmaking system in DOTA 2. Bundled with the software patch was a new system to ban “bad actors” until 2038.…

Magic’s Esports Plans for 2020 Wizards of the Coast, developer and publisher for Magic: The Gathering Arena has announced the plans for the next season of Magic esports. In addition, the tabletop game will also see a timeline laid out for players who wish to compete competitively too. In a post on the blog site, they talk about how big a year it has been for Magic esports. And that’s actually true. There have been a number of esports events such as the Mythic Championship series that has been running since February, including a bunch of other, smaller tournaments such…

Switch Becomes More Competitive with Overwatch and Smash Bros The highly competitive team-based hero shooter, Overwatch, will soon be coming to Nintendo Switch, as announced at the Nintendo Direct presentation yesterday. It comes as something of a surprise as Blizzard hasn’t exactly been too keen to develop on Nintendo’s handheld platform, but nevertheless, it’s happening on 15 October. In fact, Jeff Kaplan, Blizzard’s Overwatch director, said last year that they would be open to a Switch port, but admitted that “it would be a challenge”. However, that is something that should be put in the past, because it’s here and…

F1 New Balance Esports Pro Series to Kick Off As the 2019 F1 New Balance Esports Pro Series draws closer, all ten of the official Formula 1 Esports teams have announced their rosters for the competition. Set to begin on 11 September, the run up to the Pro Series will consist of four live shows, the first at the GFinity Arena in London. The champions will take part in each show and the winning team will get a chunk of that $500,000 prize pool on offer. Some notable changes for this series will see a new team enter the fray…