Category Archives: eSports

Blizzard has purchased the IGN Pro League, acquiring all assets and technology, and finding a new role for affected staff.

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It was a long weekend of battling, but Fariko Impact emerged victorious to claim the title of world’s best Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 crew.

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The Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Championship started yesterday, as you may well already know, at the Hollywood Palladium Theater and the most skilled multiplayer teams are competing head-to-head on Xbox 360 for a share of a $1 million total prize purse.

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Major League Gaming has released dates, times and all details for its spring season of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

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Jet Li is The One, Fearless, Hero who can kick your ass from here into The Forbidden Kingdom should he take a shine to it, using his Fist of Legend, Lethal Weapon 4 or Kiss of the Dragon. He could probably do this in-game as well, if he decided to be The Enforcer on the matter.
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Activision has release around 25 videos, we lost count, of its Call of Duty Championship, presented by Xbox. Between April 5-7, 32 teams from around the world will compete in Black Ops 2 for a chance at $1 million in prizes and be crowed the winning team. You can have a look at each video here.

Registration for MLG’s Spring Season for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is now open, and the dates have been set.

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Blizzard has announced big changes for this year’s StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, including a whopping prize pool of $1.6 million.

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StarCraft 2 director Dustin Browder and his team had doubts that the game could prove a popular eSports hit outside of South Korea. However, as we now know it’s doing every well in the Western circuit, but for a while it was a real concern at Blizzard.

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“Super Battle Opera” Tougeki, a global arcade game tournament based in Japan, has announced it is taking a break. An announcement on the decade-old tournament’s website, says only that “extenuating circumstances” caused the suspension of this year’s planned events. However, there’s some hope for a return, with organisers planning to continue hosting other events and working towards a relaunch.

Thanks, Shoryuken.

Head in for a massive day of live e-sports from i48 in the UK, including the outcome of the ESET UK Masters StarCraft II final. Get the full schedule inside.

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Continuing with our i48 live coverage this weekend, check out top StarCraft II play from the UK’s biggest e-sports festival, live here at 11.00am UK time.

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Multiplay’s eSports festival Insomnia48 begins today and runs through to Sunday, March 25. Watch the opening ceremony live on VG247 at noon and come back for all the major finals over the weekend.

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Riot Games has handed out eight temporary suspensions and withdrawn all season two rewards form players found guilty of Elo-boosting – logging into other players’ accounts to help increase their ranking.

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Call of Duty Championship 2013 qualifiers are well on their way, as the European leg saw UK team Fariko.Dragons and Irish squad Epsilon emerge victorious. Both teams have earned a place in the Call of Duty Championship finals, taking place in Hollywood, California April 5-7.

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Blizzard is keeping a close eye on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm for any potential balancing issues, but says, as yet, players haven’t fully explored the game’s new units.

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Two teams won through the Australian and New Zealand regional finals on Friday to secure a place at the Call of Duty Championship in Los Angeles in April.

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League of Legends now regularly exceeds 5 million concurrent players globally, Riot Games has announced. The last time the developer gave us an update, in October 2012, it was topping out at 3 million concurrent users, demonstrating some healthy growth for the world’s most lucrative eSport MOBA. “Please have mercy on our servers,” Riot noted, quite humbly.

Thanks, PCGamesN.

Nearly 1,000 pro gamers will comete for a prize pool of $170,000 this weekend in the opening volley of Major League Gaming’s 2013 Pro Circuit.

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The IGN Pro League will not be coming under Blizzard’s banner, the publisher told GameSpot in response to recent rumours. Blizzard doesn’t normally bother with rumours, but said it has extended job offers to some prominent IPL community members and is looking at purchasing some of its technology and assets, so spoke out to clear up confusion. The eSports organisation was abruptly shut down by the Ziff Davis buyout, and IGN is still looking for a purchaser to take it over wholesale if possible.

Thanks, PCGamer.