Stay Green gets DreamHack Summer 2013 ticket

It was expected, but now it is official - the most dominant HoN team of the last couple of month qualified for DreamHack Summer 2013. Stay Green once again played a flawless Qualifier tournament, not dropping a single map yet again.

PixieBaby: GSL was demanding, but great

She is a beloved community figure, she is the face of her organization, but she is also a talented and dedicated support player in the SEA scene - PixieBaby. The young support player chatted with Honcast.com in an exclusive interview.

TONIGHT: Bid farewell to the GosuGamers you know

GosuGamers.net will be experiencing some downtime starting 06:00 CEST on Thursday, the 16th of May 2013, and in accordance to Blizzard/Valve's tradition we will be back 'when it's done'.

iNsania officially presents new roster

It took a bit of time for the reigning DreamHack Winter 2012 Champion Aydin 'iNsania' Sarkohi to present his new team, but now the roster is official. Alongside his former tdM teammate noobG, three additional well-known names from the scene join the captain.

iTS winning G1-Spring and qualifying for DHS13

The HoN Super Sunday is still in full swing with the NA/EU Qualifiers reaching the Double Elimination stage, but in the meantime the CIS region finished their G1-Spring tournament - leading iTS to DreamHack Summer 2013. 

 

iMpunity Qualifies for DreamHoN Summer 2013

It's Super Sunday in the international HoN scene with the CIS and the SEA qualifier coming to an end. While the CIS region is starting their finals right now, the SEA region has already found their representative - iMpunity. 

 

compLexity officially announces Tralfamadore as fifth

They were more than rumors flying around with Tralfamadore back on the market as a free agent and Haxxeren's future in compLexity Gaming in doubt. He has been seen scrimming with them, he played the "Runic Shift" tournament for them - now Tralfamadore is officially a part of compLexity Gaming. 

 

Sorry Sorry now part of Made in Thailand

Big change in Thailand - at least with the names. The successful team of Yamaha.s2y has agreed to partner up with the renowned eSports organization of Made in Thailand to continue their success of the last months.

Cats Gaming barely reaching G1-Spring Playoffs

Cats Gaming has been the standout team of the CIS region for the past year with three consecutive G1-Series tournament championships and appearances at DreamHack Winter 2012 and the Garena Star League 2013. Now the team barely avoided a disaster in the latest edition of the prestigious G1-Spring. 

Yamaha.s2y Punches DreamHack Summer 2013 Ticket

The DreamHack festivities are a stable on the HoN calender ever since the early stages of the game. Every year the MOBA game from S2 was present at the large LAN event in Jönköping, Sweden - no other this year. Today the first qualified team secured their ticket - the Thai team Yamaha.s2y. 

 

DreamHack SEA Qualifiers Enter Final Stage

DreamHack Summer is less than two months away and so the preparations and qualifiers of every participating HoN region are in full swing. The SEA qualifier is down to five potential competitors that could represent the region in Sweden. 

 

SSDs might set a new standard for eSport events

Downtimes in eSport live events are a tension killer. ESL takes a next step in reducing setup times by using one SSD per player.

Europe dominates second CIS/EU tournament

In the first CIS/EU tournament, the CIS region came to a respectable result claiming two of the Top 4 spots. This time the fate changed and all four European teams were rolling through the competition of the Garena region. 

 

Second CIS/EU-Clash featuring QsQ, Cats and xtdM

The first clash between CIS and Europe ended in a Grand Final between One Trick Pony and iTS - the perfect story for the first tournament of this kind. In the end Europe prevailed, now the CIS region is looking to take revenge. 

 

G1- Spring leads CIS team to DreamHoN Summer 2013

The hype of the Garena Star League 2013 event and the HoN Tour Grand Finals in Las Vegas is over, now the focus switches to the DreamHack Summer 2013 with the third installment of the DreamHoN World Cup series. One team will also represent the CIS region. 

 

QsQ hosting 36h Community Stream Marathon

The 24 hour Stream Marathon of the popular team QsQ has been a huge success for everyone involved, now the five members of the Diamond Division team are upping the ante - going to 36 hours. 

 

Stay Green crushes HoN Tour Finals

It was a pure outing of power once again - Stay Green delivered yet another flawless offline tournament. After the Garena Star League 2013 the team gets the HoN Tour Season 1 Championship without losing a single map at the Finals. 

 

HoN Tour Season 1 down to Stay Green and ex-Trademark

The highly anticipated Offline Grand Finals of the debut season of HoN Tour started out sloppy, but in the the quality of the matches made up for that in a splendid way. Now the competition is cut down to GSL Champion Stay Green and ex-Trademark eSports.

 

Malaysia Singapore HoN Championship announced

Yesterday bad news hit the Malaysian HoN scene with the departure of dabeliuteef from Orange eSports, today a new tournament sheds positive light on that scene. The Malaysian Singapore HoN Championship 2013 will heat up the competition between the two big HoN nations. 

 

dabeliuteef leaves Orange eSports and HoN

The core roster of the HoN team of the Malaysian powerhouse Orange eSports gets decimated even further. After XXF_ and wangwang already announced their departure in the last couple of weeks, dabeliuteef follow now. 

 

The Good, The Bad, The HoN Tour Finals

A couple of days have passed since S2 Games and their flagship game Heroes of Newerth had their triumphant event in Las Vegas, Nevada – the HoN Tour Finals. What was hyped to be almost like the emperor marching into Rome became a disaster and received media backlash from sources that have long dropped HoN.

SBHL: Four Teams Left to Fight

A total of eight matches have been played on the last 5 days of intense SoundBlaster Heroes League competition. The tournament with a stunning prize pool of $30,000 USD in cash is now going into the final stage with four teams left to fight. Those four teams are the very best Heroes of Newerth has to offer currently with the dominant Stay Green, their rivals in Trademark eSports and compLexity Gaming as well as the "newcomers" to the elite teams Lions eSports. Only one of them will become the first SoundBlaster Heroes League Champion. Only one will walk away with $12,000 USD in cash!

DreamHoN Winter '12: Final Four collide

All 20 matches have been played, all ten teams got a chance to showcase their skills. Now, the best 20 players and four teams get a chance to compete for the grand prize of $32,000 USD and the prestige of becoming the World Champion of HoN. A complete pool of $60,000 USD is waiting for the remaining teams, featuring a Malaysian team for the very first time in DreamHon history. The other three are the usual suspects with the Americans from Tt eSports and compLexity Gaming, plus the European powerhouse of Trademark eSports.

PiIIows with Team Infused Tt eSports

Starting off to my fellow Gosu readers with my apologies for the lull in interviews being released! I was in the process of moving to the US from cold gloomy UK and I am now in bright sunny California! So for the eager readers lets not waste anymore time as this week we have with us Frederik "Buch" Peterson who currently plays for Infused Tt eSports!

Controversy, drama, bad publicity, unmannered player (namely only one!) and results going up and down like a yoyo is just one of the few words that could be used to describe this team! Today I will be sending myself out to interview my former team on their take of the upcoming developments in the competitive Heroes of Newerth scene as well as the recent downtimes in the game, as well as their recent loss to Port in the Lions Cup as well as a very interesting insight into Buch's world of Facebook Sims..

PiIIows with Lions Fittske & Mynuts!

Hello again fellow Gosu readers! Last week we saw Bdiz and Swindlemelonzz from the teams whp5 and sGty give their respective views and opinions! This week starting we sent PiIIows to a 1 on 2 interview with Lions!

We asked Fittske and Mynuts about their opinions on the upcoming tournaments such as NASL, and Fnatic BEAT IT DreamHack qualifiers as well as their opinions on HonCasts recent top 10 list.

 

PiIIows Catching Up With sGty

Hi and welcome to another featured article where our own GosuGamer's PiIIows goes out to interview the top teams in Heroes of Newerth! This week he presents to you Swindlemelonzz of team sGty!

Having already qualified for the Fnatic BEAT it DreamHack qualifier, we decided to ask Kyle ‘Swindlemelonzz’ Freedman about what he thought of the current status of the Heroes of Newerth competitive scene, in regards to balance, top 10 teams, and the game as a whole as well as its place in the MOBA genre.

PiIIows Catching Up With We Heart Pigs

Over the next couple of weeks, We will be releasing a number of interviews with the top teams of Heroes of Newerth in preparation for the upcoming tournaments that will take place. We will be asking about their thoughts on Heroes of Newerth as a whole in terms of gameplay, balance, their personal future plans, current team status and opinions of the prestigious tournament NASL (North American Star League) that will begin in October.

This week we will start off with a team that is currently widely regarded as one of the top five teams in the world. We caught up with Robert "Bdiz" Tinnes whose team "We Heart Pigs" was recently known as the former SK-Gaming team. We asked him about his opinion on the upcoming tournaments such as NASL, and Fnatic BEAT IT DreamHack qualifiers as well as future plans and current team status.

HoN Guide: Soulstealer

HoN Guide: Predator

The Art behind Newerth: Interview with [S2] Ari

Couple of months ago, when HoN 2.0 was 1st released, one of our editors hydro.thunder paid a visit to S2's art department. There, he had the opportunity to see S2's crew at work as well as pick the brains of S2 artist Ari.

GosuGamers HoN Awards 2010: Results

 It's been quite a while since Heroes of Newerth hit retail and it's competitive scene since the beta days continues to grow, with massive LAN events such as DreamHack, The Gathering and the Digital Youth Awards all choosing to showcase the title while it's still in the running for game selection at the World Cyber Games and Electronic Sports World Cup 2011. We've seen the rise and fall of various competitive teams and we gave you the chance to immortalise their achievements of 2010. Presenting the winners of the GosuGamers HoN Awards 2010!

HoN Guide: Soul Reaper

HoN Guide: Devourer

HoN Guide: Defiler

HoN Worldcup Ruleset

Hero Guide: Armadon

HoN Guide: Engineer

HoN Guide: Valkyrie

A sitdown with cakes and fat milk

Three of Team fiVe talk HoN