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The best Warrior decks in Hearthstone

The Warrior class in Hearthstone is notorious for having one of the most expensive decks in the game due to its reliance on various Legendaries. In the early days of the game, the phrase “Wallet Warrior” was coined by multiple Hearthstone personalities after the deck needed huge amounts of dust just to be able to be viable in the meta. Gone are those days as Warriors transitioned from Control decks to Aggro, Rush, or Midrange ones to dominate today’s ranked ladder. The class had a bumpy start in the latest

How 5G is turning cloud gaming into growth opportunities

“With shorter latency times, less jitter, and less packet loss in mobile gaming, 5G brings the ability for true cloud gaming services to become more of a reality by bringing the world closer together,” said Tim Guhl, vice president of sales at Singtel. Guhl was in conversation with Lisa Hanson, founder and president of Niko Partners, during the 12th annual GamesBeat Summit. This year, the summit’s theme is “Growing the next generation,” and Guhl explored how 5G is permanently cutting the cord, changing the world of gaming, with the potential

The best Priest decks in Hearthstone

The Priest class in Hearthstone has one main archetype throughout all expansions, Control Priest. While there are different attempts at making other archetypes, players usually default to a variation of a Control Priest deck by using all the powerful cards to keep the board under control and not let opponents run away with the game. One main reasoning behind Priest players defaulting to Control is the hero power, which is hard to use in other archetypes. The two-health restore isn’t impactful in aggressive decks where you might want an offensive

New Pokemon Snap Review – Bokeh-mon

New Pokemon Snap on Nintendo SwitchIt was difficult to keep my expectations in check when a sequel to Pokemon Snap was announced for the Switch 22 years after the original game released on the Nintendo 64. As a child, I spent countless hours capturing photos of my favorite Pokemon across the N64 game’s seven courses. Back then, each one felt magical and grand. Looking back on it as an adult, I realized how simple and short the game was. Despite its simplicity, I always held the game near and dear to

The Roads Left Unseen: The Paths for Up-And-Coming Gamers to Become Pros

Top GamesThe many paths of Esports players may be more murky and diverse than expected. | Photo Courtesy of Fifa eWorld CupFrom popularity to viewership, net worth and more, just about everything about esports has grown in the past 10 years. But as the industry has advanced, and the pool of professional players has widened, many questions remain about how exactly players reach the highest level. What is the process like for young, up-and-coming players? What pathways do they take? How do each of them differ? Which one has the

Mid Beastmaster: The new terror from Dota 2 patch 7.29

Dota 2 21/04/2021 07:47 Siddharth “Gopya” Gopujkar Patch 7.29 has brought to the front a new concept that is terrorizing Dota 2 pubs and professional games alike –  the mid Beastmaster. With every new Dota 2 patch comes a list of heroes who are good in the new meta along with another list of heroes who shouldn’t be picked at all. It’s a spectrum, and a majority of the heroes lie somewhere in between these two ends. But then there is that small set of heroes – who can literally

Evil Geniuses and Quincy Crew start their DPC League season 2 journeys with comfortable wins

Dota 2 19/04/2021 07:50 Siddharth “Gopya” Gopujkar Evil Geniuses defeated The Cut while Quincy Crew made short work of Simply TOOBASED as the top two teams in NA got off to a dominant start in season 2. Season 2 of the DPC Leagues just got done with its first week of action, which was also the first bit of competitive action on the 7.29 patch for the community to see. The week ended with the North American DPC League, and the last two games in the NA Upper Division were

Dota 2 patch 7.29b brings nerfs to Phantom Lancer and Lifestealer amongst other hero balance changes

Dota 2 18/04/2021 00:25 Siddharth “Gopya” Gopujkar After recognizing the good and bad heroes in Dota 2 resulting from patch 7.29, IceFrog has blessed us with a balance patch in the form of 7.29b. Image: Wykrhm Reddy The latest major Dota 2 patch, patch 7.29, brought a lot of changes to gameplay, items and heroes. As the dust settled and players got used to the new patch, certain heroes stuck out as compared to others and quite a few seemed to suffer from a dearth of power. To even the

Ole Gunnar Solskjær joins ULTI Agency, OverActive Media raises $40m | ESI Digest #38

Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form below. On this week’s ESI Digest we cover, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Jim Solbakken becoming owners of ULTI Agency, OverActive Media’s $40m investment, Enthusiast Gaming looking to list shares on NASDAQ, Epic Games raising $1bn, and the University of Kentucky (UK) joining forces with Gen.G to launch an