If you’re getting bored of the games you are playing because either, the game is too easy, no one is good, or you’re tired of doing the same thing over and over again. If you play Pay to Play (P2P) and Free to Play (F2P) games and are looking to get into the competitive scene, you can get [...]
Bay Area Lan Tournaments

HWG has finalized its plans for the last part of 2012 with lan parties and tournaments set for September through December for the San Francisco and South Bay areas. We’ve got League of Legends – Epi 2, in Santa Cruz; League of Legends – Epi 3 in San Jose, Call of Duty Series, and Terran [...]
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In the scene of Starcraft 2, the term ‘royal roader’ is used for someone who captures a major title on their first run through. Originally coined in the Brood War days for the OSL specifically, the term had spread to any major recurring tournament in the Starcraft 2 yearly season. There have been a few [...]
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Kim “ViOlet” Dong Hwan of Team Empire Gaming has won the MSI Battlegrounds at the Green Forest Cafe in Southern California. Violet marched through the double-elimination, 32-man bracket, and refused to lose even a single map. The Starcraft 2 part of the event which included 16 teams of League of Legends was casted by Day[9] [...]
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HWG got a chance to interview an up-and-comer who is attending MLG Anaheim this year for the second time. Zerg player, Conan Liu, aka xSixSuppy, is a Silicon Valley local who started playing at the age of 13 with his big brother. During the interview, he recollected that he discovered a BoxeR highlight video and [...]
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What could be the announcement to end all announcements – at least for this week – Marcus “ThorZaIN” Eklof joins Team Evil Geniuses! EG has earned the reputation of breaking new grounds now and then and announcing them with fan faire but you have to watch their unwilling announcement of today’s announcement. It’s funny and [...]
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These days, custom Starcraft 2 mods lack simplicity and poise that great games do not. Once an editor over-complicates or leave out a simple detail in a mod game, he can basically ruin it. Back in the days of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness, Blizzard Entertainment created a map editor with the functions of building a full scenario campaign level and [...]
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Today, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chuck “Chuckie” Stephen Gunn, who was partly responsible for the Quantic Gaming/Team Vile merger that happened earlier this week. In this interview, we discuss the merger, the players it affects and how it affects them, as well as some of the more pressing issues regarding Quantic and the [...]
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Today is the Grand Finals of the Iron Squid tournament and casted by TotalBiscuit and d’Apollo. This live report thread will bring you up-to-date news of what is going on. Will the GSL Code S champion, and heir to the throne Moon “SlayersMMA” Sung Won defeat unproven Zerg master Kang “TSLSymbol” Dong Hyun? Or will [...]
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Now that all four semifinalists of this season’s GSL Code S tournament have been determined, let’s take a look back and see who they defeated to get there, and what it means going into their repsective semifinals. Day 1 of the Code S Quarter-Finals saw two very heated matchups in Johan “QXG.NaNiWa” Lucchesi versus [...]
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