Some good news for the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand racing fans: one of the leading esports competitions for racing games is open for local competitors for the first time. The Ferrari Esports Series is a six-month-long racing tournament that brings together serious racing game fans from Europe, North America…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Esports Legend is so many unpleasant things all at once. It’s a shallow, vapid, mobile-game like “simulator”, and it is utterly without charm or depth. Esports can be an exciting thing – I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Esports but I know full well that…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Esports doesn’t need the Olympics. It shouldn’t be an Olympic sport. There is an increasingly vocal perception out there that esports will enter the Olympics. But that would benefit no one, and be a wasted opportunity for others. Make no mistake, the explosion in esports has…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. I was reminded of something fairly important after starting this up. I suck at sport. After I played this for a while… I still suck at sports. Arena: Cyber Evolution is an ambitious, fast paced 3v3 hockey-style game that is played out in futuristic arenas and…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. UPDATE: It looks like the outcry has succeeded in getting the IeSF to completely reverse its decision. Good on the organisation for realising that it screwed up, we say. E-Sports is a new concept. Thanks to the success of games like Starcraft, League of Legends, Street…
Read MoreWhile being American, I do have a history of putting down games that contain meat-tanks which wield ridiculously-sized bullet dispensers and instead picking up something that’s been developed from the other side of the pond. One of those times was when I started playing the racing game TrackMania Nations Forever,…
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