Day 2 of The International 2018 (TI8) marks the end of the line for Southeast Asia, as the final representative of the region, Mineski, falls to goliath Virtus.Pro. Despite their efforts to extend their stay in the tournament, the team lost their matches back to back with a ruthless ...
The main event of Dota 2’s The International 2018 (TI8) began yesterday, and day one ended with a single Southeast Asian team remaining: Mineski. This is after the unfortunate lower-bracket elimination match up between TNC and Mineski, and Fnatic’s fall to China’s Team Serenity. Mineski is one of the ...
Singapore kicked off a one-of-a-kind festival that synergized esports and music last weekend. The festival in question? Hyperplay 2018. Held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, the two-day music and gaming event was powered by Riot Games and MTV Asia. It’s an official celebration of ASEAN Singapore 2018 and a part ...
After the grand finals of the Tekken tournament at Evo 2018, Tekken Director Katsuhiro Harada and game designer Michael Murray took to the stage to give a brief announcement of what to expect for the upcoming season. Much to the delight of the audiences, classic Tekken characters Anna Williams ...
Having brought us a bevvy of new gaming hardware just last year, Lenovo is back and they are doubling down on their promise to become a bigger part of the PC gaming ecosystem. With that promise in mind, 2018 is a big year for the company – with them rolling out ...
Riot Games and MTV are tagging up for Hyperplay, an integrated esports and music festival happening this 4-5 August at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The ticketed event brings two days’ worth of League of Legends competitions and live performances, with the first wave of MTV-invited artists already announced. The ...
The Asia-Pacific leg of the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) Summer Playoffs kicks off this weekend, 19–20 May, from 10AM onward. The two-day online tournament will whittle down the region’s top 64 players to only four, with the survivors proceeding to Los Angeles this June for the HCT Summer Championship. ...
The surprise announcement was made at the game’s live reveal earlier today. Blackout will be the franchise’s first battle royale outing and will take place on the biggest map that developer Treyarch has ever made – about 1,500 times larger than Nuketown. During the live event, Design Director David ...
At the Community Reveal Event held in Los Angeles this morning, developer Treyarch has acknowledged that their upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 won’t have a standard single-player story mode. This makes it the first Call of Duty game not to have one, at least not in the ...
Last weekend’s IEM Sydney 2018 saw FaZe Clan snatching the CS:GO championship in an assured 3–0 against Astralis. Everything that made esports what it is was there: an exciting contest of skill, a roaring audience, and an outpouring of emotions on stage. To step back from it all, the ...