What Source 2 Means For Valve's ESports

Posted by timothy on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:06PM from the not-to-mention-the-new-iron-chef-ingredients dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Valve's new game engine is looming, and it doesn't just mean changes to the company's most popular games for all players, but also two of the most popular eSports in the world right now, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. As a new article points out, Source 2's ability to process more on screen at once, even on feeble laptops with integrated graphics, could have a surprising benefit for top tier play and both games as a spectator sport. After all, if more players all over the developing world can access these games, we could see an uplift in the quality of play at the highest tournament level sometime down the line.

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Re:Forget Esports by ameoba · 2015-06-12 20:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

Selling virtual hats.
Pure. Fucking. Proffit.

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Re:Forget Esports by PRMan · 2015-06-13 03:37 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'd like to see HalfLife 3/Portal 3 be the same game. That would be amazing.

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