Starcraft II
DeepMind's 'Starcraft II' AI Is Now Better Than 99.98% of Human Players
AlphaStar achieved Grandmaster status the old fashioned way: grinding through matches with human opponents to move up the leaderboard.
DeepMind's 'StarCraft II' AI Will Soon Take on Regular Players Without Telling Them
OpenAI's 'Dota 2' bots took on the public in April, and it went poorly for the humans.
What Does The Pac-12's Embrace Of eSports Mean For Amateurism?
How will a power conference manage an environment where the premier players command more leverage than college football stars?
Rare Draw in 'StarCraft II' Championships Match Stuns Viewers
The luck of the draw? Only for one player, it seems.
It Was Once the Biggest eSport in the World, so What’s Happened to ‘StarCraft’?
Blizzard's RTS title has slipped from the headlines as MOBAs have become dominant in the eSports scene.
The Eyes of Counter-Strike
In 'Counter-Strike' spectator games, the most important shooter is the cameraman.
E-Match Fixing: Why Professionals Gamers Risk Everything for a Payday
A slew of scandals have tarnished the burgeoning industry of e-sports, snaring some of the biggest players on the planet and bringing about appalling real-world tragedies.
E-Match Fixing: Why Professionals Gamers Risk Everything for a Payday
A slew of scandals have tarnished the burgeoning industry of e-sports, snaring some of the biggest players on the planet and bringing about appalling real-world tragedies.
Video Games Rule the World, So You Should Probably Just Embrace eSports Already
It used to be that esports was almost a dirty word, a concept that even people who played games sneered at. Well, now it's all grown up.