- Rumors are swirling about a possible "total reboot" for BioWare's episodic OARPG Shadow Realms.
- SMITE's world championships closed with half of a $2.6 million prize pool -- the third largest in e-sports history -- awarded to winners Cognitive Prime. SMITE also revealed character Hou Yi and opened Xbox One beta signups.
- Heroes of the Storm previewed hero league and draft mode, promised new skins and mounts, and posted a Brawl with the Blues event for this coming Wednesday. [Thanks, Dengar.]
- Valve declared that Dota 2's The International 2015 will take place from August 3rd to 8th in Seattle.
- Blizzard's Overwatch has already bumped into trademark issues.
- Hawkgirl arrives in Turbine MOBA Infinite Crisis on January 21st.
- Both Destiny's latest update and its holiday gift to players were guns. Lots of them.
- Elite: Dangerous is expanding both its team and its feature set, and it reversed its decision on how to handle the billionaire players created by last week's bug. Elite: Dangerous players also made headlines with their goal to chart out the whole galaxy for science.
- Blacklight: Retribution's Zombie Studios is shutting down, but the online shooter will live on.
- Hearthstone posted the winners of its ninth ranked season. Grats to SexyEnvelope. Great name too.
- MMO guild site Guild Launch rebranded as Gamer Launch in an attempt to target MOBA players.
- Check out this zombieless fan film honoring DayZ.
- Another university is adding League of Legends scholarships: Kentucky's University of Pikeville.
- War Thunder's WW2 Chronicles event series reached its fourth week.
- MOBA Chaos Heroes Online launched on Steam.
- Minecraft-like Planets³ is now in pre-alpha for pre-order players.
- And speaking of Minecraft: Mojang developer Nathan Adams tweeted that almost a million people were playing the blocky sandbox at what he said was a non-peak time on Friday.
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