In the eSports field, most of the attention is focused on big games like Riot Games’ League of Legends, Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II and Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II. But S2 Games has steadily grown its user base of Heroes of Newerth (HoN) since switching to the popular free-to-play business model last year. The multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game recently hosted the best HoN players in the world in Las Vegas for the HoN Tour Grand Finals at The Palms Hotel and Casino.
Kyle ‘Swindlemelonzz’ Freedman captained the winning team, Stay Green, to a championship victory and a check for $30,000 in Sin City over Trademark eSports. Freedman talks about the rise of HoN and the keys to being a successful pro gamer in this exclusive interview.
Heroes of Newerth is receiving its final content update in the latest patch
CompLexity Gaming has made quite the name in the professional scene of Dota 2. Plus, with the team just recently recruiting two new brothers, after being picked up by NFL Giants, The Dallas Cowboys, the sky was the limit for the North American team. However, an internal conflict within the organization has led to the removal of one of the team’s iconic members and captain, Kyle “swindlemelonzz” Freedman.
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It's nice to see HoN get some eSports love in the media.
Does G4's old Arena show not count? That was on TV.
if esports will be on TV, what network will showcase it? G4 is no more.
I like LoL way better than HoN
I'd bet EA or Activision to make a TV channel/network for it to show on. Surprised none has done it already.