For professional Dota 2 players, going head-to-head with a bot works as a warmup. The bots are considered “limited AI” and are beatable for the average player — even more so for professionals. The notion of every bot being an easy defeat changed last week with an OpenAI-developed bot defeating the best Dota 2 players […]
2015 could be considered the year eSports went mainstream. If the 1st Quarter of 2016 is any indication, the attention, interest, and investment being made is even more astonishing. One of the more interesting trends occurring this year is traditional sports trying to get a piece of the eSports pie. Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward […]
With the increasing popularity of live streaming and the growing trend of “cable cutters,” Yahoo has been one of the companies trying to be at the forefront of this movement towards online television. They were the first digital media group to buy the rights to an NFL game—the Bills vs. Jaguars matchup last October in […]
