Top 7 Esports and Games to Look Out For

Games have become a trend these days, the growth of esports gaming have attained a wide exposure all over the world. New games are launched every year. Landscape dominance is very popular in gaming world. Gamers enjoy loads of esports games, these games are popular all over the globe and some are popular has in terms of region. Sometimes these games are organized with cash prizes. Gaming tournaments take place. 

Here are the names of some of the biggest eSports games that has big tournaments going on which can yield great amount in reward money. 

Dota 2

This game was released in 2013 and has total Prize Money Awarded – $224.7 million. It has noteworthy Tournaments – The International and have top Players – Johan Sundstein, Jesse Vainikka, Anathan Pham. Dota 2 is a very famous game with multiplayer battle arena landscape. The game has been designed by Valve Corporation. It is a sequel to Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars. It is most popular in countries like North America and Europe. Five people can play the game together in a team and try to defend their area on a map. One team wins by destroying a structure called “Ancient” within the other team’s base.

Counterstrike: Global Offensive 

This game was released in the Year – 2012 and has total Prize Money Awarded – $96.5 million. The name of tournaments for this game are – World Electronic Sports Games (WESG), ELEAGUE. They have Top Players – Andreas Højsleth, Peter Rasmussen, Nicolai Reedtz. This game is famous and is made by Valve Corporation, in collaboration with Hidden Path Entertainment. Also known as first-person shooter game, this game comes in the fourth one in the Counter-Strike series. This game follows the rule of players where there are two team’s members, terrorists and counter-terrorists. Who fight with each other. The terrorists plant a bomb whereas the counter-terrorists have to save the hostages and defuse the bomb. 

Fortnite

This game was released in the Year – 2017 and the total Prize Money Awarded – $89.1 million. It consists of Noteworthy Tournaments – Fortnite World Cup, Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series, Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series. The top Players are – Kyle Giersdorf, Harrison Chang, David Wang. This is an online game with multiplayer facility and is very popular. The game has been manufactured by Epic Games.  Game follows three different game modes but still counts as one game. The details of each game mode are: 

To save the world – this will require 4 players like zombie fighters to defend themselves and other survivors.

Battle Royale

This is a player-versus-player type of game. This game can accommodate 100 fighter players, who has to become the last person standing. It can also be played in teams and this game is like survival of the fittest. This is a very creative game, and it has creative control of the world and is played in the sandbox mode. 

League of Legends

This game was released in the Year – 2009. The Total Prize Money Awarded – $75.5 million and have Noteworthy Tournaments – LoL World Championship. There are top Players – Sang Hyeok Lee, Ho Seong Lee, Jun Sik Bae. Developed by Riot Games, league of legends is a multiplayer real-time strategy action game. This game has earned its fame in Asia. The rules are basic as this game is played by two teams or either 3 or 5 players each. In this game there is a team that wins by destroying a structure called “Nexus” within the other team’s base.

StarCraft II

This game was released in the Year – 2010. It awards total Prize Money of – $33.0 million and host Noteworthy Tournaments – WCS Global Finals, World Electronic Sports Games (WESG). The top players are Sung Choo Cho, Joona Sotala, Byung Ryul Lee. This game was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is a real-time strategy game. Starcraft game is the sequel to this. This is a science-fiction game have scenarios and have three species—Terrans, Zerg, and Protoss. It is divided into 3 parts with the base game Wings of Liberty and two expansion packs. The first part focusses on Terrans (humans), while the other two revolve around the Zerg and Protoss.

Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG)

This is a very popular mobile game which was released in the year 2017. The total Prize Money Awarded – $22.2 million and have hosted noteworthy Tournaments – PUBG Global Championship, PUBG Nations Cup. The top Players are Jeong Yeong Bak, Jeong Wan Go, Seung Hoon Cha. This is a popular game developed by UBG corporation. The game is of battle royale type. The game is like survival of the fittest with more than 100 players playing and competing against each other to be the last one standing. It can be played in teams as well of four and two. 

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