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Alexey Yanushevsky (Алексе́й Анато́льевич Януше́вский) (born May 17, 1990), [1] who also goes by the pseudonym "Cypher", resides in Minsk, and is a Belarusian professional player of the first person shooter series Quake.
Esports are video games which are played in professional competitions, usually fall into a few major genres.The majority of esports titles are fighting games, first-person shooters (FPS), real-time strategy (RTS), traditional sports, and multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBA), with the MOBA genre being the most popular in terms of participation and viewership.
The most common video game genres associated with esports are multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), fighting games, card, battle royales, and real-time strategy (RTS) games. Popular esports franchises include League of Legends, Dota, Counter-Strike, Valorant, Overwatch, Street Fighter, Super Smash Bros. and StarCraft.
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, [1] either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, DayZ).
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character. [1] This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.Originally founded in 1991, the company is best known for producing the highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004), as well as the multi-million selling video game franchises Diablo, StarCraft and ...
FPS 1. An abbreviation for first-person shooter. 2. An abbreviation for frames per second. See frame rate. frag To kill or achieve a kill in a game against a player or non-player opponent. [66] See also gib. frame rate A measure of the rendering speed of a video game's graphics, typically in frames per second (FPS). frame-perfect
Dota Auto Chess, a community-created mod for Dota 2, introduced a new subgenre of strategy games called auto battlers, which saw several games in the genre released throughout the year. [1] Blizzard Entertainment faced criticism due to their involvement in the Blitzchung controversy , which began after they had banned a Hearthstone player for ...