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Subscribe Advertisement 6/29/18 2:00 PM 33 6/29/18 A Note To Our Readers Dennis Young 195 33 6/29/18 11:10 AM 8 Esports 6/29/18 Esports 6/29/18 Esports To Eliminate Match-Fixing In Esports, Pay The Players More Jack Moore and Trevor Strunk 46 8 Spend an afternoon at a Top 8 Finals of any fighting game tournament, and you will find there is a robust side-betting culture in esports. Pseudo-gambling activities like “skin wagers” in Counter-Strike have been a part of esports culture from the beginning, and fringe sites like XLBet have included StarCraft games … 6/29/18 11:00 AM 31 Esports 6/29/18 Esports 6/29/18 Esports Big Data Is The Future Of Esports Eric Van Allen 36 31 “Game developers don’t like me,” said Sabina Hemmi. “Before I came around, there was no insight into how balanced a game was.” 6/28/18 10:18 AM 7 6/28/18 With Its Massive Cast, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Desperately Needs A Tournament Mode Ian Walker 36 7 When it arrives in December, Super Smash Bros. 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But what if one competitor wins all seven? 6/21/18 12:30 PM 17 Esports 6/21/18 Esports 6/21/18 Esports How Pro Gamers Live Now: Curfews, Personal Chefs, And All Of It On Camera Maddy Myers 97 17 Every day is Christmas at the Philadelphia Fusion esports mansion. The team’s marketing and content director Hung Tran gestured to the towering decorated pine tree to the right of the front door by way of explaining the joke: the pro gamers who live here get whatever they want and do whatever they want. But Christmas … 6/19/18 12:56 PM 15 Esports 6/19/18 Esports 6/19/18 Esports League of Legends Has Flipped Its Metagame On Its Head Eric Van Allen 68 15 For a long time, League of Legends has had a consistent metagame. But the competitive environment and the individual and team strategies that result have recently changed at a rapid pace, leading to earlier fights, faster games, and a wild shift in the way players try to out-pick and out-play each other. 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And then along came a patch containing Dota 2 's new battle royale mode, and everything fell apart. 6/13/18 3:39 PM 10 E3 2018 6/13/18 E3 2018 6/13/18 E3 2018 Smash Bros. Pros Are Finally Feeling The Love From Nintendo Cecilia D'Anastasio 68 10 LOS ANGELES—Paper streamers fluttered down on Smash champion Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios in the red light of a former burlesque theater in downtown Los Angeles. Barrios, the world’s best Super Smash Bros. Wii U player , winked at the camera and flashed a peace sign. 6/12/18 3:20 PM 12 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 Fortnite On Switch Has Built-In Voice Chat, No App Required Gita Jackson 115 12 Fortnite on Switch will support voice chat through the headphone jack and not through some stupid phone app, just like a normal-ass game. It’s not currently available in the Switch version of Epic’s popular battle royale game that launched today, but will be on Thursday. Advertisement 6/12/18 1:40 PM 13 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 Smash Bros Fans Have Spent A Decade Begging For Ridley, And Now It's Actually Happening Nathan Grayson 75 13 Samus is no longer the only playable Metroid character in Smash . She’s now joined by Ridley, a menacing space dragon who refuses to die no matter how many times he gets owned. To the casual observer, this is just a neat little thing. To Smash diehards, though, it’s the culmination of years of requests. And memes. 6/12/18 1:20 PM 5 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 Fortnite Goes Live On Switch Today Riley MacLeod 43 5 Fortnite is (finally) on the Nintendo Switch. Starting today at 10am PT/ 1 ET, you have a whole new way to get in trouble for playing it in class . 6/12/18 12:56 PM 15 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 6/12/18 E3 2018 Everything We Know About Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Cecilia D'Anastasio 259 15 Super Smash Bros. has traditionally cast a wide net across a divided audience who demand contradictory things from the blockbuster platform fighter. For its party-game fan contingent, Smash rains down Bob-ombs and Party Balls. For its fiercely competitive fan contingent, it flattens stages and removes platforms. In … 6/11/18 6:22 PM 4 E3 2018 6/11/18 E3 2018 6/11/18 E3 2018 New For Honor Expansion Adds A New Faction And Castle Sieges Ethan Gach 18 4 In its biggest expansion since release, For Honor is getting an entirely new faction, graphical overhaul, and new competitive siege mode called Breach in its Marching Fire update coming October 16, 2018. Advertisement 6/11/18 2:31 PM 7 6/11/18 Dragon Ball FighterZ Is Suddenly Wide Open Ian Walker 18 7 Beyond the Summit held its first traditional fighting game event this last weekend, inviting 16 Dragon Ball FighterZ players to Southern California for a four-day tournament. But even with competitors like Dominique “SonicFox” McLean, Goichi “GO1” Kishida, and Sho “Fenritti” Shoji in attendance, one surprising figure … 6/10/18 7:00 PM 13 E3 2018 6/10/18 E3 2018 6/10/18 E3 2018 Jump Force Brings Goku, Naruto, And More Together For A Giant Battle [Update: Battle Footage] Chris Kohler 107 13 Bandai Namco has announced Jump Force , a new game that mashes up characters from Shonen Jump manga, like Dragon Ball , Naruto , and One Piece . It’s coming in 2019. 6/10/18 12:18 PM 13 6/10/18 Dragon Ball Player Microwaves His Cereal Milk, Shattering My View Of Breakfast Forever Eric Van Allen 135 13 While this weekend’s Summit of Power rages on at the Beyond the Summit house, one factoid has been haunting me. During Thursday’s events, Vineeth “ApologyMan” Meka was caught on camera, warming up his cereal milk in the microwave. 6/10/...