eSports

E3 2019 is just around the corner and the GameSpot team will be ready to bring you the best coverage and so much more! If you are in Los Angeles from June 11 to June 13 you should stop by our Base Station, located at the Chick Hearn Court, between…

Pity GameStop's (NYSE:GME) new CEO, George Sherman, who looks like he's presiding over a business that even the company thinks is dwindling away. As the video game retailer prepares to report first-quarter earnings on June 4, the question becomes whether it c…

OnePlus recently released their new flagship, the OnePlus 7 Pro. With that, it shipped Oxygen OS 9.5, which is based on Android 9.0.  =It has quite a few interesting features, including a 20-minute lockdown mode, a new gaming mode, and a screen recording tool…

Enormous arenas are being built with esports in mind, such as the $10M Esports Stadium Arlington in Texas and the planned $50M Fusion Arena in Philadelphia (C. J. Hughes/New York Times)

Enlarge/ Is falling in this hole going to take long? I have a meeting at 2... 0 with 0 posters participating These days, the game industry at large seems to be focused on games that can keep players playing, and paying, indefinitely. This overarching genre …

Nate Nanzer is leaving his position as commissioner of the Overwatch League to join up with Fortnite dev Epic Games. He broke the news about his departure in a series of tweets last week, and ESPN later reported that his reason for leaving was to work with E…

If you pine for the nostalgia of Microsoft's revived IntelliMouse but want the performance of a thoroughly modern gaming mouse, you're in luck. After months of availability in China, Microsoft has released the gaming-oriented Pro IntelliMouse in the US. It's …

The Overwatch League has lost its commissioner. Nate Nanzer, the OWL's first-ever commissioner who led the eSports organisation from the ground up, has left Blizzard. He left Blizzard to join Epic Games where he will head up the developer's eSports and compe…

The US esports industry seems to be in a bubble, with viewership stats that sources say are rosy-eyed at best, and inflated, unverified, or misleading at worst (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Kotaku)

6. This is an interesting claim: As the Democratic data analyst David Shor has noted, you can take a cluster of nine Democratic positions that each poll over 50 percent individually, and find that only 18 percent of Americans agree with all of them. And a si…