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Famed Touchscreen eSport title Vainglory Announces Premier Partnership with Amazon Appstore

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Today, Vainglory’s developer Super Evil Mega Corp and Amazon have announced the title Vainglory will be supported by Amazon Appstore to support the 2016 eSports season in both North America and Europe. The season officially starts today and will run through September 11th, 2016. The top eight teams per region will compete in the Summer Live Champions in North America through September 2nd through September 5th, while the European Summer Live Championships will run from September 9th through the 11th. Additionally, as part of the program, Amazon will be hosting the championships, which are expected to set new records for both viewership and participation in the events.

In addition, the Amazon Appstore will be rewarding players throughout the season with discounts and bonus Amazon Coins, the digital currency that lets customers save up to 25 percent off in-app purchases. The season’s competitive structure and events are managed by Super Evil Megacorp and Twitch as part of their multi-year deal to enhance and grow Vainglory esports events.

“We’ve been working closely with Amazon since our inaugural Autumn Season Championship, and their passion for and dedication to Vainglory is going to make our Summer season the biggest and best yet,” said Kristian Segerstrale, COO and executive director at Super Evil Megacorp. “Amazon’s support, along with the continued work from our friends at Twitch, will allow us to put on a top-notch season for Vainglory’s community of millions. We’re excited to kick off the Summer Season today in cooperation with the Amazon Appstore.”

With Amazon’s Vainglory Summer Season beginning today with their new eSports Structure, Twitch and Super Evil Megacorp have announced their “The Evil Eight,”, which is a new tier of elite competition for both Europe and North America, which features only the top 8 teams from the regions. The teams will battle it out each weekend on twitch.tv/vainglory in eight-team tournaments, earning points in championship standings. Alongside will be a community-run “Challenger” tier of competition, with weekly Evil Eight challenger battles. The two-tiered new structure for competitions will bring forth more opportunities to broadcast the elite eight teams as they duke it out for number one. Among these matches you’ll see elite teams such as Team Solomid, G2 eSports, Team Secret, mousesports and SK Gaming, while giving up-and-coming teams a path to their own tournament victories and ultimately the seasonal championship. More details to be announced soon.

“The Twitch community has shown a lot of love for Vainglory, making it the fastest-growing mobile game on our platform,” said Nick Allen, director of esports operations at Twitch. “Touchscreen esports has a lot of potential right now given the ratio of mobile devices to PCs, with Vainglory on track to really blow the doors wide open on this movement. Adding more momentum is the new Evil Eight competitive structure, which will make broadcasts of Vainglory even more engaging for viewers.“

Summer season is poised to have 3-5 million viewers tune in to the action, doubling the number of viewers from the Winter 2015 event. The Season will culminate in the Vainglory Summer Season Championships taking place September 2-4 in North America and September 9-11 in Europe. In addition to hosting the live events, Amazon and Vainglory will be offering special Amazon Coins offers on ICE purchases and more.

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Dustin is our native console gamer, PlayStation and Nintendo reviewer who has an appetite for anything that crosses the boarders from across the big pond. His interest in JRPG’s, Anime, Handheld Gaming, and Pizza is insatiable. His elitist attitude gives him direction, want, and a need for the hardest difficulties in games, which is fun to watch, and hilarity at its finest. You can find him over on Twitter, Google+, and or you can find him on PSN with RaivynLyken.

Vainglory’s 1.18 Update is Huge

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As you may know we’ve been covering Vainglory quite a bit. It’s a MOBA that has been perfected to handhelds and is quite fun to take on the go. As with any update, there’s new features, but 1.18 definitely brings in a full blown swing with the massive amount of content it features. The biggest draw of it? The new hero, new skins, and the new quest chests that are featured to unlock skins, glory points, ICE (in-game real money currency), and even some boosters.

With any big update for Vainglory, we’re used to seeing a new hero and in turn we got one. This new update isn’t any different as it welcomes in the new roam hero named Lance. Lance is a powerful character who welcomes in as a tank with his polearm-and-shield play style. His ability to knock enemies away, snare them, and even role quickly into combat before blocking makes him a lethal adversary who can build crystal and utility to excel as a tank. In turn, he can also build for weapon power to bring in the pain during battle.

The update also features updated skins that will become available June 17th as Sky as she can unlock her Supersonic tier’s I and II now, with Tier 3 on the June date. In turn Tier III Celeste is coming soon with Blackfeather’s Tier I following right with it.

In addition to this update, New Quests and Chests have been added in to help with the rewarding system on Vainglory. Featuring in-game challenges on a daily/weekly basis, players can now earn new skin cards, boosters, Ice, and more by simply playing and leveling as well as being introduced to the game. More become available with players quickly fighting their way to account level 30 now. This means every level earned prior to this release? Gets its own chests even if you’ve earned those levels.

Additionally, the eSports Championship kick off for the Spring Season starts on June 3rd in Hollywood, CA, and June 10th in Berlin, Germany. For those of you interested in tuning in by checking out the action live, you can head over to both the North American Championship attendee sign-up here or the European Championship sign-up here. Fans can also tune into twitch.tv/vaingloryleague starting on those dates to see what it takes to be Vainglory Champions. Stay tuned as we plan on covering these Championships.

For more details on Vainglory update 1.18 check out the update notes here. Trust us, you’ll want to read up on these huge notes.

About the Writer:

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Dustin is our native console gamer, PlayStation and Nintendo reviewer who has an appetite for anything that crosses the boarders from across the big pond. His interest in JRPG’s, Anime, Handheld Gaming, and Pizza is insatiable. His elitist attitude gives him direction, want, and a need for the hardest difficulties in games, which is fun to watch, and hilarity at its finest. You can find him over on Twitter, Google+, and or you can find him on PSN with RaivynLyken.

Vainglory to have First-Ever Collegiate Exhibition at PAX East

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As many of you know and have read time and time again, I’ve been a gigantic supporter and fan of Vainglory. It’s been a title that has held a soft spot in my heart for quite sometime and continues to do so to this day. As a part of this news, the guys at Super Evil Mega Corp and College StarLeague (CSL) are hosting the first and largest collegiate gaming organization to date so college players will find it easier and more rewarding to play Vainglory.

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With this announcement, CSL will be hosting this tournament which features teams from Boston University, UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell and Westfield State University. The schools will competing in a single elimination bracket this Sunday, April 24th, starting at 1:30pm on the Twitch STage during PAX East at the Boston Convention Center. If you aren’t attending you can head over to twitch.tv/twitch to watch. The CSL has handed out more than $250,000 in scholarship money to collegiate champions and community figures in the past six years. As a part of this, teams from League of Legends, Dota 2 and Hearthstone have participated in the league. For more info about the league visit cstarleague.com.

About the Writer:

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Dustin is our native console gamer, PlayStation and Nintendo reviewer who has an appetite for anything that crosses the boarders from across the big pond. His interest in JRPG’s, Anime, Handheld Gaming, and Pizza is insatiable. His elitist attitude gives him direction, want, and a need for the hardest difficulties in games, which is fun to watch, and hilarity at its finest. You can find him over on Twitter, Google+, and or you can find him on PSN with RaivynLyken.

Super Evil Mega Corp and Twitch Team Up

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Remember that favored MOBA by the name of Vainglory. It has been a title that has driven me to purchasing a tablet for both it, college, and the simple satisfaction that my Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 has been just enough to keep me happy. However, with news of Twitch and Super Evil Mega Corp teaming up to make the eSports structure for the game even bigger, they have today inked a three-year partnership in North America and Europe for the official Vainglory Championships and supporting eSports structuring. This means that with this collaboration, it has included a multi-million dollar invesment for each company and brings forth a program that stems across sales, promotions, broadcasts and even live events.

As one of the fastest growing games in the mobile industry as well as mobile titles on Twitch last year, the game has accrued more than 150 million minutes watched. As the first major touchscreen eSport title, Vainglory is renowned for the largest prize pool ever in a 350,000 USD pool that brings professional teams like TSM, SK Gaming, Team Secret, and G2 Esports together in the fray of battle. This also brings forth teams to participate in the Red Bull eSports Studio at Santa Monica, California.

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As part of the Twitch partnership Super Evil Mega Corp plans on bringing more fans and players int heir already large group of millions of players and viewers. With eSports Teams and robust exhibits, Twitch looks to bring more into Vainglory as it helps to expand and grow the title.

“The esports industry has been dominated by PC and console titles, but Vainglory is ushering in a new mobile games movement,” said Nick Allen, Director of Esports Operations at Twitch. “The incredible engagement Vainglory has garnered on our platform is testament that our community welcomes the convergence of esports and mobile gaming.”

Starting today, teams of three players hopeful to win the Spring Championship can register at VaingloryLeague.com. The three-month season kicks off with open qualifiers and will have a total prize pool of $80,000 USD.

“We’ve been working closely with Twitch since even before the global launch of Vainglory, and their massive, wildly passionate gaming community has helped our game develop a loyal and growing following,” said Kristian Segerstrale, COO and executive director at Super Evil Megacorp. “By working with Twitch in this new and expanded capacity, we’re going to be able to bring our esports programming to the next level and provide better and more frequent coverage to fans.”

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As part of the new seasons, Vainglory has officially kicked off a new season that features a new game mode (in beta) titled Battle Royale as well as the new hero we know as “Alpha” a new map skin, and a massive “Halcyon Days” event that includes new skins for Fortress. As part of the on going evolution of the game, Battle Royale brings in a draft mode where the game selects heroes for each player, and each hero starts out already leveled up. As opposed to starting from level one and building up like in normal matches.

With the matches already having draft mode from the original take and even boosters, Vainglory has become a game that anyone can truly come to enjoy, and participate in as they wish. If you haven’t checked it out, you can see our review here, which will be updated soon to reflect ont he new changes.

As always, stay tuned for our constant coverage over Vainglory and many other titles.

About the Writers:

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Dustin is our native console gamer, PlayStation and Nintendo reviewer who has an appetite for anything that crosses the boarders from across the big pond. His interest in JRPG’s, Anime, Handheld Gaming, and Pizza is insatiable. His elitist attitude gives him direction, want, and a need for the hardest difficulties in games, which is fun to watch, and hilarity at its finest. You can find him over on Twitter, Google+, and or you can find him on PSN with RaivynLyken.

Super Evil Megacorp’s Vainglory Named “Best Mobile Game” at 2016 GLOMO Awards

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Editor’s Note: Before we begin, we here at B.A.T.G.R., want to congratulate Super Evil Mega Corp on their new title. As someone who plays Vainglory a lot in my free time, the game has taken a soft spot to my heart, and one that indeed shares the same thoughts about Vainglory being crowned “Best Mobile Game” by the GSMA and Gamelab Mobile at the 2016 GLOMO Awards in Barcelona.

If you are anyone that plays mobile games or even tablet games on either iDevice or Android, you aren’t going to want to miss out on the title “Vainglory”. This game is the world’s leading touchscreen eSport title that finds itself in the MOBA genre. During the 2016 GLOMO Awards, GSMA and Gamelab Mobile crowned Vainglory as the “Best Mobile Game”. The awards ceremony, held at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recognizes the best of the best in mobile games. This includes the most innovated, immersive, thrilling and even sophisticated games from 2015. This includes Vainglory.

For the GLOMO Competition this award recognition isn’t any small feat as there were more than 930 entries received by the GSMA. Over 285 nominees that were shortlisted for over 40 awards in over eight categories. This amount of competition can become nailbiting for those watching and attending the event. If that’s not some tough competition, we don’t know what is, but this is definitely a challenge for many competitors attempting to be crowned victor. Judged by independent experts, analysts, journalists, academics, and even mobile operator representatives; the GLOMO Awards hosts some of the top names in the industry to help determine the winners.

“It is an honor for Vainglory to be recognized as the ‘Best Mobile Game’ by the GSMA,” said Kristian Segerstrale, COO and Executive Director of Super Evil Megacorp. “The rate at which the Vainglory community has grown and the eSports competition has increased throughout 2015 has been incredible, and we can not thank our players enough for their dedication across the globe. We are still early and have a lot to do in 2016, but we are very excited about progress so far!”

His statement? One that stands true as a faithful Vainglory player. We can’t wait to see what is coming in the terms of the game, but also as an official eSport title that continues to grow to this day.

For those unfamiliar with Vainglory, the game puts players amidst a battle of two teams, both being played by three real life players. These players will control a singular hero in attempts to take out enemy players, destroying turrets, and gaining ground control of the Halcyon Fold. The team that is able to destroy the enemy’s Vain wins the match. Something that we here at B.A.T.G.R. have done multiple times, and even found it as one of our favorite mobile games of 2015. The title is even one of the fastest growing mobile games on Twitch in 2015.

After a very successful Live Autumn Season Championship, Vainglory kicked off the Winter eSports Season in January while boasting a Lunar New Year-themed map skin including fireworks and other rather beautiful graphical effects in the Halcyon Fold. The Winter Championships for North America will be held at the Red Bull eSports Studio in Santa Monica, CA starting March 11th through March 13th. In turn, the European Event will be held in London at the Gfinity Arena from March 18th through the 20th. If you want to attend the events, they are now available and can be purchased for $12 USD at http://vainglorywinterna.eventbrite.com and http://vainglorywintereu.eventbrite.com. We know we’ll be watching and cheering on the teams as they attempt to take the victory title for Winter Season. If you want to give Vainglory a try, head on to the Apple App Store here or over at Google Play here.

You can also check out our review for Vainglory to see what we thought of the game.

About the Writer:

dustin_batgr_prof

Dustin is our native console gamer, PlayStation and Nintendo reviewer who has an appetite for anything that crosses the boarders from across the big pond. His interest in JRPG’s, Anime, Handheld Gaming, and Pizza is insatiable. His elitist attitude gives him direction, want, and a need for the hardest difficulties in games, which is fun to watch, and hilarity at its finest. You can find him over on Twitter, Google+, and or you can find him on PSN with RaivynLyken.