Our favourite Dota2 heats up little by little! It is obvious from chain of new tournaments which are announced almost every day by one or other eSports organization. And now we offer you two big events in the world of Dota2 - GosuLeague and long-waited ProDota2 Worldwide League!

Mihaylo "Kas" Hayda from Ukraine and Kim "viOLet" Dong Hwan from South Korea share their motivation and passion for esports in the third episode of The Story So Far series focusing around the international Starcraft2 organisation Team Empire.

In the third chapter viOlet explains why gaming was more important to him than following in his father's taekwondo master footsteps and Kas tells us why being a good person is more important than being a world champion. This is their story so far.

Yesterday, April 1st open registration at new tournament ESL Zalman League was started. Prize pool 1000 USD (1st place - 600 USD, 2nd place and 3rd place valuable prizes). All comers can take part in this tournament all you need is fill the special form here.

Carlsbad, Calif. – April 1st, 2012 – Razer™, one of the world’s pioneering supporters of e-Sports, lover and stoic patron of competitive cellular telephone gaming in competitive titles such as Robot Unicorn and Angry Birds, has decided with recent events to conceive a brand new mobile gaming division to win ALL the major international tournaments.

The reasons of such act from EG's side are not specified. Players and team's leaders abstain from comments. Playmate wrote on his page next: "I got kicked from EG ! Peace, I wish them best of luck :-)". We keep on watching for this situation and wait for it quick settlement. One thing is clear that such player as Playmate wouldn't stay without team for a long time, thereby wait for another shifts and transfers. Today America's roster looks like:

Organizators plan to make this DreamHack like traditional winter and summer events in Jönköping. Thereby we'll see the usual eSport tournament and the BYOC. Besides Dota2 there will be such games as:  StarCraft II (of course),  Counter-Strike 1.6,  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Super Street Fighter 4 and  League of Legends. Start is planed on September 21st. DreamHack Valencia is going to be conducted the 3rd time and promised to be more interesting than before! Information about prize pool and invited participants still isn't known.

Leading eSport organizations increase their StarCraft II squads at the expense of Korean PRO-gamers who earlier played for SlayerS.

Low season is a time of teams' leagues. And if IPL and NASL doesn't conduct the regular tournament you have to wait for tournament for best teams from all over the world. In 8 days IPL4 is going to be in Las Vegas and after that IPL Team Amrena Challenge 3 qualification begins. Only 7 teams will pass qualification. 24 teams will take part in this league and 12 of them are already confirmed their participation.

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COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Blizzard Entertainment Paul Sams in his interview to CGV said that all who has consoles will get the same version of Diablo III as PC users.

Of course the RPG will have to be changed a little for these platforms controling. However in other respects it will be 100% project by Blizzard. Difference between console and PC versions will be minimized. Sams emphasized that firm wouldn't take hasty decisions in this aspect. Blizzard should be convinced that it will be a qualitative project.
Studio's team still not ready to talk about game release for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Remind that world premier of Diablo III PC is going to be May 15th 2012.

Wednesday and Valve made us happy with a regular update! After adding Wolf at last week they've decided to add Bear more specifically Lone Druid! After such updates we are waiting for new teams' strategies and more interesting and dynamic games performed by them!