Amazon is inviting mobile players to compete in the first ever casual eSports tournament, called the Champions of Fire Invitational—"no pros need apply." But, don't get ahead of yourself. This isn't a tournament for just anybody. No, no. These casuals are streamer-celebrities, and 16 of them will bang their heads together competing for their cut of a $100,000 prize pool. [...]
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Rocket League is opening the flood doors, adding custom training sequences that players can create and share with the community. With the next update you'll be able to help, or taunt, others with your own ridiculous creations. I imagine it's going to play out something like Super Mario Maker, with people creating and completing mind-boggling tricks in training exercises. But [...]
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WEBZEN announced today that MU Online Season XI Part Two will be going live tomorrow, bringing with it several major Socket system updates. Players will be able to find more socket items for both the Grow Lancer and Rage Fighter, as well as upgrade Seed Spheres to level 10, allowing them to "create a Seed Sphere with Strength, Agility, and [...]
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Project META has been somewhat of an enigma since Nexon first began to tease it. The company has done well in holding us in suspense, revealing very little of their upcoming project. A teaser trailer, embedded below, was recently released for G-Star 2016, but it didn't give us much to go on. We merely got a look at some concept [...]
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After our recent Beta key giveaway, I decided to try out INTERSHELTER, a recent Battle Royale-style game for which the keys literally flew off the digital shelves. In the game, players join upwards of 49 other players in a race to rescue capsules in the in-game intershelter. The amount of rescue capsules is both random and limited, however, capping out at [...]
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Tyto Online is an educational sandbox MMORPG where players are pioneers on a planet called Ovo. Learn and discover scientific concepts while collecting data, completing quests, and creating biodomes. [singlepic id=64099 w=428 h=240 float=center] Publisher: Immersed Games Playerbase: Low Type: MMORPG Release Date: November 25, 2016 Pros: +Scientifically educational. +Geared toward middle and high school students with parental support. +Lots [...]
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Grinding Gear Games announced today that Path of Exile's next major update, Breach, will be going live on December 2nd. The update will introduce the Breach League, featuring "Breaches" or tears in reality that require you to kill monsters in order to keep them open long enough to earn rewards, as well as powerful new bosses called Breachlords and the [...]
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Sandbox games, the virtual universes with no hand-holding from the developers or on-rails progression. You're plopped into a world and told, "go do something, whatever you want!" Do you want to build a house? Go for it. You want to spend your days fishing? Sure. Want to sneak up on another players and steal all their stuff? It’s foolhardy but [...]
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At G-Star 2016 developer Netmarble announced Star Wars: Force Arena, a mobile MOBA developed in cooperation with Lucasfilm. Hold on. What? So, it wasn't really announced. We reported that Star Wars: Battlegrounds had soft-launched in Singapore and Australia at the beginning of the month. Between then and now, the word "Battlegrounds, was dropped and replaced with "Force Arena." Fine by [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends All-Star Barcelona 2016 The All-Star Event is held by Riot Games every year in different [...]
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