Gaming Blog Articles
STORE CLOSING! We’re Open For Business!
We warmly invite you in to game at our facility (PC, console, BYOC), or join a Smash tournament. Open late daily.Dear Valued Customers, After many wonderful years of gaming, our San Diego center, which has been open since 2012, will be closing its doors at the end of...
Esports: The Athlete’s Next Step
There is a rush that you get as a player before a game. Playing semi-professional soccer was the highest point I reached after college, but knowing I would be playing against ex-professionals and other ex-college players still created a buzz inside of me. You went...
How to Invest in the Video Gaming Industry: A Simple Guide
How To Do Quick Research Let me first start by saying, this is my opinion. Do not go and buy or sell based off of anything that is written and said in this article. These are my personal opinions and my quick checks to see if investing in video games through the...
Nevada Gaming Commission Approves Wagers on a few Esports Titles
The Nevada Gaming Commission has approved sportsbooks to offer wagers on certain esports events. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a grinding halt to all physical sporting activities leading to sportsbooks struggling to stay afloat with the lack of games. Live...
Twitch Reaches New Concurrent Viewers Record on VALORANT Beta Launch
Riot Games’ Valorant is the latest FPS game to hit the market. On Day 1 of its beta launch, the game broke new records on Twitch. Valorant helped Twitch surpass its previous one-day concurrent viewership of 3.99 million viewers set in August 2018. Twitch’s new record...
The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Help Mainstream Esports Acceptance
Want to learn more about starting a gaming center? Get a free consultation. The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has had a massive impact on live events, including esports tournaments. Several events now stand canceled or have moved online to adhere to government...
Coronavirus Update
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COVID-19 Coronavirus Update As a locally owned company, we are truly committed to the safety and well-being of our community.Although we are not required to close, we have considered it - but the reasons to remain openare many. With schools...
GameSync Esports & Smash Tournament Featured on CBS-8’s “Zevely Zone” TV News
Watch the video below:In a long-awaited follow-up to a 2015 story on San Diego gaming legend Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert, Jeff Zevely ("The Zevely Zone") visited GameSync Esports center in Kearny Mesa to cover the rise of competitive gaming and to interview our staff. He...
How will Cloud Gaming affect LAN Gaming Centers in the future?
What is Google Stadia? Google Stadia is a Cloud Gaming service capable of streaming video games in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second. It has the support of high-dynamic-range video which uses the company's numerous data centers to provide the best experience. At...
Review of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Another year, another new Star Wars thing. This year includes that one movie with Palpatine and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. I finished the game with close to 100% completion on the Xbox One S. When I discuss games with people, I like to talk about the rent or buy...
What a Pro Player’s Words About Another Reflect upon Them
This will be a short rant before world's finals. After Fnatic was booted out of Worlds 2019 by FunPlus Phoenix, most of the players moved on and prepared for the next season. On Nemesis' stream on the 30th of October, he answered a question from chat asking if DoinB...
GameSync Featured in Prestigious San Diego Business Journal
Recently we were contacted by Tony Cagala of the San Diego Business Journal, a well known weekly publication specifically targeting items of interest to the local business community in our city. They were writing a piece all about Esports and the gaming industry and...
IEM Sydney 2018 Playoffs: Team Previews
As the top six teams advance from the Group stage, the IEM Sydney tournament has already thrown a few surprises at us. Tyloo and Renegades have surprised everyone with their amazing performance so far. At the same time, SK Gaming and Cloud9 were unable to secure a...
The Action Against Loot Boxes Is a Wake up Call for the Industry
The esports industry has grown exponentially over the past few years. The future projections show an increasingly profitable industry with higher revenues, visibility and player base. However, as we move further into the next phase of esports, certain old practices...
Esports and Cryptocurrency
Esports is one of the fastest growing industries in the market today. However, despite the opportunities for growth, there are still a few monopolies in the esports market. Twitch exerts a monopoly on the esports live streaming segment which garners millions of views...
A Dota Plus style subscription model will not work for CSGO.
Counter-Strike Global Offensive fans have been clamoring for better in-game features since quite some time. Be it in the form of a better Anti Cheat system, a player queue or an advanced replay viewing experience within the in-game client, CS GO has a long list of...
The Viability and Growth of LAN Gaming Centers in Esports
Want to learn more about starting a gaming center? Get a free consultation. With the esports industry growing at such a phenomenal pace and with a high level of user interactions within esports, big companies such as Alibaba are not afraid to invest heavily (...
We’re Moving and Expanding! December 1 Launch Date!
Welcome to our new location! GameSync is finally moving! After five years in Miramar, we have decided to invest in a new, high quality facility in Kearny Mesa. This location is conveniently located near Balboa Ave. and the 805 freeway, and is in close...
FREE Tekken 7 Tournament! Win a Trip to Seattle! Powered by GameSync+FM94.9
Updated! Check out the images pre-event: Join us at Sycuan Casino's Live & Up Close on Saturday, September 30th from 2pm to 6pm for our eSPORTS TEKKEN 7 TOURNAMENT, hosted by Hamby + Jeremy + GameSync Gaming Center! Jeremy will also be hosting pick up games inside...
We’re Hiring! Become a Gaming Center Manager and Esports Coordinator!
GameSync is looking for one or two LAN gaming center managers and esports coordinators who are ready to throw themselves fully into a business with unlimited growth potential. An unending desire to work in the gaming industry and determination, eagerness and dynamism,...
Dakota and Rohan’s Pick ‘Em Challenge Predictions for the PGL Major
As the PGL Major approaches, many people start to wonder which teams to select for their Pick ‘em Challenge. For those of you who don’t know, players can predict the outcomes of the Major in order to earn various trophies that can be displayed on their profile. To do...
MXM Tournament Recap: We Had a Blast!
On Friday, July 7, GameSync launched a party and hosted two tournaments to promote NCSoft's Master x Master game launch. Attendees were able to play the title and participate for free during the event and were even able to play with the developers on a...
MxM Launch Party
GameSync Presents Launch Party for Master x Master! GameSync has collaborated with NCSoft to provide you with the first ever Launch Party/Tournament available to all gamers—casual to professional—to play their newly announced title Master x Master! Famous for their...
The Beginner’s Guide to Playing CS:GO (Part II)
This part of the guide will primarily focus on Casual and Competitive play, but some concepts can be applied to other modes as well. This will be more strategy-oriented; for information about the game itself, check out part one here. Gameplay and Mechanics Both teams...
Here’s why organisations will invest in OWL
The Overwatch League is an opportunity for Blizzard. The game developer that created the game that started the esports boom ( Starcraft ) has seen its involvement in the burgeoning esports industry becoming negligible. With the fall of Titan ( their much anticipated...
Overwatch Will Release a New Map and Hero
The fourth season for Overwatch has come to an end. This also marks the completion of One year since the release of Overwatch. During this course Overwatch has surpassed 30 million players. This time however Overwatch will have a much shorter off season. Season 5 is...
Academy teams are a disaster waiting to happen
CSGO Organisations are consistently picking up Academy teams in addition to their main team. Academy teams provide multiple benefits to the team name at a fraction of the price. Some of the biggest organisations in the competitive scene today have academy teams such...
Operation Hydra Is Live! Here’s What You Need to Know
In case you haven’t heard, Operation Hydra came out on Tuesday and Valve added a lot of new content. New maps, modes, skins, and ways to get drops have all been released and will be around until September. This article will explain everything about the Operation,...
A Brief Understanding of the Overwatch Contenders
Blizzard is extremely silent since the initial announcement of the Overwatch League. The Overwatch League was announced at Blizzcon 2016. The anticipation around the league reached a crescendo in the following months. However weeks of silence by the founding company...
Twitch Adds New Features to Hold Its Position in Streaming
Youtube has taken some big strides in the past few months in the live streaming section. They secured agreements with the two biggest CS GO leagues in the form of ECS and ESL Pro League. These two moves prompted a big chunk of viewers away from Twitch towards Youtube....
The Beginner’s Guide to Playing CS:GO
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released on August 21, 2012 by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment. CS:GO is the most-played first-person shooter game on the Steam Store, and continues to have a growing player base. It is a tactical game with a...
How TF2 Can Become a Successful Esport
Team Fortress 2 was released in 2007 as part of the Orange Box. TF2 became the model by which future team-based, class-based, first person shooters were released. The game is centered around team objectives like capture the flag, payload, and king of the hill. There...
How to Rise Up the Ranks in Competitive Rocket League
Psyonix originally released Rocket League in 2008 under the name Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, but the game did not sell very well. After helping on other AAA games like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3, Psyonix re-released the game as Rocket...
E-Sports Making Dollars (and Sense) for the Biggest Developers
Over 43 million individual viewers watched the League of Legends world-championship last year. That is about as much as a quarter of the American viewers that watched Super Bowl 51; a spectacle fifty-years in the making, and perhaps the most-watched broadcast event in...
Blizzard Will Release Only 3 Heroes in a Year
Blizzard will unveil only 3-4 heroes a year. While for some this might be too low after comparing it to other heroes, the author thinks it is the right approach. Read on to find out why
Introducing Team Breakfast!
Meet Team Breakfast The GameSync Overwatch Challenger League is proud to introduce Team Breakfast, our first Overwatch team! Team Breakfast met and was formed at the meetup on Monday April 3rd. Led by captain Oatmealqt#1543, Team Breakfast is looking for a worthy...
G2: A Bandwagon Team Worth Watching
Kronovi is one of the first names people hear after getting into Rocket League, and for a good reason. While he may not be the most consistent player, he is one of the flashiest, and arguably, the best Rocket League player. So it comes as no surprise that his team,...
Summer Opportunities at GameSync, Overwatch Leagues & More!
Join Our Team and Become Part of History! Do you want to get your foot in the door in the gaming industry? Are you looking for job experience and the opportunity to meet passionate gamers from around the county? If you're motivated and inspired, we're ready to talk to...
Overwatch Weekly Meetups, Gaming Hardware Coupons, 3D Audio & More!
Join us for our Overwatch weekly meetups! GameSync could always use more heroes! We invite you to join us as we kick off our weekly Overwatch mixers on Monday, March 27th and Wednesday, March 29th. Show up any time after 4:30pm and we'll be playing PUG matches,...
ESL Allows VAC-Banned Players to Compete
ESL has recently made a change to their rules which allows players who have received a VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) Ban to play in ESL events, as long as two years have passed since the ban’s issue date. However, they have remained firm on the ban of the former iBUYPOWER...
The Decline of Swedish Dominance in CS:GO
Swedish teams have been the dominant force in Counter-Strike for over a decade. Prior to the Dreamhack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Major, Swedish teams had achieved first or second place in every CS:GO Major tournament. Ninjas in Pyjamas were finalists in the first five majors...
Astralis Take to the Stars and Win ELEAGUE 2017
January 29th was a historic day for Astralis fans when the Danish team triumphed over Virtus.pro in the Grand Final match of the ELEAGUE Major in Atlanta. Led by in-game leader gla1ve, Astralis pulled off a 2-1 win over the Polish giants in one of the closest Grand...
Gambit eSports: Unseen Legends
When Counter-Strike fans think of the top 8 teams in the world, many will forget to include the CIS team that’s loaded with potential: Gambit eSports. Gambit eSports is looking stronger than ever this week at the ELEAGUE major in Atlanta, Georgia. The members of...
NVIDIA GeForce Weekend Warriors LAN Center Tournament: LoL
Thank you for registering for our nVidia sponsored free tournament on Sunday starting at 11am. We have received over 150 applications but nVidia’s rules only allow for 30 participants. In order to give everyone a fair chance to play, we will be picking entrants on a...
NVIDIA GeForce Weekend Warriors LAN Center Tournament: DOTA2
Join GameSync's DOTA 2 GeForce Weekend Warriors Event! On Sunday, November 22nd starting at 10am, you're invited to take part in the first ever DOTA2 tournament sponsored by nVidia at GameSync! To enroll, click here. NVIDIA GeForce® Weekend Warriors LAN Center...
Minecraft at GameSync: Our New Private Server and Full Features List
Since GameSync launched in 2012, we've been working continuously to improve the Minecraft experience for our customers. Here is a brief update on what we've achieved so far, as well as where we're headed! If you have any ideas for features, please let us know. The new...
Meet & Hang With The Staff of J!NX Clothing
Friday, March 13th, J!NX, one of the biggest gaming gear companies in the world, was live and in person for the first time at GameSync to celebrate the launch of J!NX Boss Battle and they gave away loots! They were around from 6pm - 9pm and many stopped by, said...
Jordan ‘n0thing’ Gilbert Interviewed By CBS-8 KFMB TV At GameSync
Hot on the heels of the Canal Plus French TV interview last month, Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert (one of the most well known eSports players in the Counter-Strike scene around the world) was again interviewed at GameSync Gaming, this time by CBS-8 KFMB local television...
Jordan ‘n0thing’ Gilbert Interviewed by French TV at GameSync
San Diego native Jordan Gilbert, otherwise known as 'n0thing' in the gaming community, is one of the best Counter-Strike players in the world and an eSports professional for many years. His sponsor, Cloud 9, sends him and his teammates on trips around the world to...
Counter-Strike: A Beginner’s Guide
The bomb has been planted! Counter-Strike has been regarded the worlds #1 online through it's various incarnations. The game revolves around two teams. The Terrorists, and the Counter-Terrorists. In the game's most popular, and competitive mode, The terrorists must...
Jordan ‘n0thing’ Gilbert Visits GameSync’s Counter-Strike Friday Night
As a huge supporter of the local LAN scene, San Diego's own Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert, one of the best Counter-Strike players in the world and an esports ambassador to the International gaming community, has been kind enough to frequent our establishment. Representing...
A Game Of Inches
"What can I do to improve?" is the most asked question on the League of Legends forums. People think there are a few magical tricks that can instantly turn them into Diamond players. This isn't the case. In any game, the good players are separated from the great...
The Next Level. Part 2: Gain or Greed?
Greetings everyone, in this next part, we will be talking about how to maximize your time in the laning phase and how to maximize your gain over your greed. The main focus of this article will be to explain how important your creep score is, and how going deep for a...
World Championship 2014 Season Four: Group Stage
The stage is set, the groups are revealed and World’s most played MOBA leagues of legends has come up with the biggest e-Sports event of the year, The League of legends Season Four World Championship 2014. The first world championship was played three years earlier in...
The Next Level. Part 1: Awareness
Hey everyone, James here. I'd like to welcome you all to a new series about taking your skill to the next level. In this part we will talk about In-game awareness. Awareness is one of the most important things to learn and improve on, but it is a skill you continually...
Solo Queue Mentality
As in the real world, in Solo Queue players always have a mentality of their own. Even Toxic Players have one. What a mentality is pretty much a way of thinking. In Solo Queue your mentality can make you a better player, or make you a worse one. Here are some examples...
Escaping “Elo Hell” at Bronze/Silver
Elo Hell is a pretty common topic nowadays, to me it's a division where you're visibly better than everyone else but not better enough to single-handedly carry them. Then you start complaining about how bad your teams are and what not. Thing is, even if they are bad,...
League of Legends: What attracts you to the game?
It is an undeniable fact the League of Legends has quickly become the epicenter of the PC gaming universe, taking gaming to new heights, and changing the public’s image of gamers. Recent Riot estimates have stated the 27 million people play League of Legends daily,...
No More Confusion: League of Legends For Beginners
There are millions of players across the world that play League of Legends, so it's no shock that there are thousands of new members a day. If you're one of those members, you may need a little help to get ahead of the game when it comes to learning how to play. This...
The Benefits of Launching a Next-Gen Grand Theft Auto V
It’s already a well-established fact that Grand Theft Auto V is one of the best-selling video games in history, but things are about to take an even more interesting turn by the end of this year. Six months ago, GTA V already broke the 30-million shipped items figure...
Borderlands 2
This humor-filled, action-adventure game from Gearbox Software combines the best elements of role playing games, like character building, experience points, and rewards from building up skill trees, with a first-person shooter perspective. Characteristic gameplay...
Planetary Annihilation To Be Released in Early 2014 by Uber Entertainment and Nordic Games
What originally began as a Kick Starter-funded project that eventually raised $2.2 million in funds for Uber Entertainment has now created a new kind of real-time strategy game with a much more epic scope than anything seen previously. Uber Entertainment is staffed by...
Civilization V: Brave New World
This is an expansion pack for the highly praised, turn-based, strategy video game that allows you to build world empires from prehistoric times into the future on Windows and Mac platforms. Culture and Diplomacy The focus with this expansion pack is on culture and...
The Novelist: A New Non-combat Story-based Game
Available on both Windows and Mac platforms, the Novelist presents a thoughtful, contemplative, and realistic approach to gameplay. It was designed and developed by Kent Hudson. Ghostly Perspective As a silently sentient phantom presence you haunt a 1970’s family...
Elder Scrolls Online To Be Released 4/4/14 on PC and MAC
Bethesda has developed completely new major game systems to bring to you an online version of The Elder Scrolls that remains familiar but renovated with thousands of hours of new content. Combat is said to be more exciting and responsive and past quest issues have...
GameSync Featured In The San Diego Union Tribune Story On Gamification
We are very grateful to the Union Tribune for their article on Gamification processes in business - they were kind enough to interview our founder and CEO, Agragati Siegel. Here is the link:...
Keeping an Eye on Gamescom 2013 Coverage
As you likely already know, Gamescom 2013 is this week in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gamecom is a huge international video games trade fair, and this is often the place where titles available for the holiday season for announced. Gamescom 2013 is no...
Blizzard Hints at Diablo 3 Expansion – Storyline Speculation
Diablo 3 was not the best game out there for Blizzard. After 12 years, the company finally released the sequel to the well-loved hack-and-slash horror game, Diablo 2, and it was a huge flop. First off, they gave it away to hundreds of World of Warcraft players when...
Turning Video Games Into Movies
Ever since J.J. Abrams talked about Half-Life and Portal being adapted into a movie (which, is super exciting), it seems like we're entering this new age of video game movies. Granted, people have tried to turn video games into movies for a long time (take a look at...
Lightning Returns…But She’s a Bit Different
So with the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII comes the option to dress Lightning in a variety of costumes, which I admit is really cool. The game will allow players to customize Lightning as they wish, whether it be her actual look, her weapons, or her battle...
A Brief History of Final Fantasy
Anyone else excited for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII? Or Final Fantasy XV? I know I am. The Final Fantasy games are widely known and amazingly popular, being the most successful franchise for Square Enix. That's quite a feat, considering how it started. Shaky...
Can Video Games Be Art?
I'm going to go down a very interesting, slightly controversial road with this one. It's been discussed before, but it's relevant in this interesting space and time of video gaming. As video games are becoming more and more cinematic and as video games are added to...
The Zombie Apocalypse In Video Games
With the release of The Last of Us, it's pretty clear that the zombie obsession is still going strong. Zombies seem to be everywhere - in movies (World War Z anyone?), shows (The Walking Dead), in books, and definitely in video games. While zombies are nowhere near...
GameSync’s First League of Legends Tournament
Yesterday, June 22nd, GameSync hosted it's very first League of Legends tournament. With a short 1-week notice we somehow rounded up over 25 players to play, which we think is a smash-hit! Everyone who attended the event seemed to be having a blast even if they were...
Is World of Warcraft Releasing Content Too Quickly?
World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG on the market today, and for a lot of good reasons. They have a top-notch team of programmers, they have people who are devoted to the game and to Blizzard Entertainment, and they have very, very good Public Relations. If...
Games Can Tell Stories
On a panel at University of Southern California, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had some interesting thoughts about the nature of video gaming, stating that video games can't really have a plot and that players can't really care about the video game characters. I...
Will the Xbox One Kill the Used Game and Game Rental market?
In another article posted on this site about the Xbox One, the blogger pointed out one of the most important changes that Microsoft is implementing with the new console. From that article: "Once it (a game) has been installed once, a unique identifier on the disk is...
Why is Blizzard Delaying Titan?
Blizzard Entertainment is one of those companies that has a sort of cult following. If you play one game from Blizzard, you’ve probably tried several. Everyone knows World of Warcraft, but you also hear about games such as the original Warcraft series, the Diablo...
The Xbox One Reveal: Why PC Gamers Should Care
Microsoft’s recent unveiling of the Xbox One revealed a device intended to push the definition of “console”. In fact, it isn’t even officially being called a console; instead the official language calls it an entertainment system. Microsoft hopes that they can entice...