NA is known as the land of no junglers, but is that true? Top NA talent is really not getting a chance to prove themselves. Often times NA teams simply turn their eyes to EU or Korea to import talent, but what about their own home grown players? With Dignitas signing Helios, perhaps they should …
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Does AMDs latest APU enable decent quality eSports gaming a new low price? Earlier this week AMD announced their latest family of GPUs based on their “Fiji” technology which is packed with performance, offering a huge leap in framerate vs power draw. Their Fury Nano model also surprised many due to its compact size mixed …
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Brendan "Valdez" Valdes is one of the newest StarCraft II casters in Korea. I wanted to learn a little bit more about the man that commentates one of StarCraft II's most prestigious leagues, and he was kind enough to spare me some time for an interview! Brendan Valdez in Korea I'd like to start by …
It all began after the season 4 World Championships. Fnatic had turned in an exciting, yet disappointing, finish. They ended up falling in the group stage. This finish led to some of the players looking to go their own ways. Enrique "xPeke" Cedeno Martinez announced the formation of his own team, where he would act …
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Smash is no stranger to controversy, with the recent past featuring a lot of angry mooing about people doing things they shouldn’t, but it must have come as a surprise to Weston ‘Westballz’ Dennis to find himself at the centre of a shit storm after doing what he should and playing pretty much perfectly in …
With week one kicking off in North America, many unanswered questions were on the minds of everyone watching. Can Team Solo Mid continue their NA domination? Can Cloud9, with the addition of a new mid, return to dominance? Can Counter Logic Gaming continue their early split success? Can Team Impulse’s solo lane dominance, carry them …
With the conclusion of The International 5 qualifiers, we now know the eighteen teams headed to Seattle. But the qualifiers revealed much more than that, and after half a month of intense Dota, here are five things we’ve learned from watching them: #5: A repeat of The International 4 finals is still a very …
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Esports Heaven is pleased to announced the GamerBet Open, a $100 weekly tournament sponsored by GamerBet and brought to you by eSports Heaven. The tournament is open to players of all regions and will begin every on June 9th and will continue every Tuesday at 5:00PM CEST 11:00AM EDT. In addition to the $100 prize …
StarCraft 218 BC: A Real Life Space Odyssey .:: A Real Life Space Odyssey | (Prologue) ::. Imagine for one moment the world’s two great superpowers staring greedily across a vast body of water at the lands of the other. Imagine the clash of three great houses; a tale of blood …
↵ “It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.” –Garry Kasparov .:: The Machine || NaDa …