Riot's announcement comes as both the European and North American LCS seasons come to a close, with the last few matches of the regular season being played out during next week's "super week." The European regionals will occur during the following week at Gamescom with their counterparts playing out their regional matches at PAX Prime the last week of August.

The company also released a preliminary championship schedule including the event locations for each date. While Riot had previously announced the as the locations for the semifinal and final matches respectively, the previously unknown third location is described in the release as "a Los Angeles studio." Tickets for the studio location will also be available, though Rozelle explained the audience size will be small.

The studio will showcase group stage matches September 15-17, September 19-21, and will broadcast the quarterfinal matches September 23rd and 24. The group stage will include 40 games played, indicating a format in which every team will be matched against each other team twice, a departure from the best-of-one format used at the Season 2 World Championship playoffs. The quarterfinal round will include best of three matches, with semifinal and final matches consisting of a best-of-five.

Further details are said to be will be on-hand at the North American, European, and World Championships to provide live coverage.

The world#146;s best Dota 2 teams have descended onto Valve#146;s headquarters in Seattle to compete for what is now in prize money. Teams have flown in from around the world, including 2011 International Champions Na#146;Vi from Ukraine, 2012 International Champions Invictus Gaming from China, and 2013 favorites Alliance from Sweden.

In addition to the main tournament, Valve will also be hosting a 1v1 Solo Championship, and an All-Star match with players voted on by the fans. Star players competing in both include Danil "Dendi" Ishutin from Na#146;Vi, Luo "Ferrari" Feichi from Invictus Gaming, Jonathan "Loda" Berg from Alliance, and Chai "Mushi" Yee Fung from Orange Esports. A full list of teams and competitors can be found on the .

#146;Despite the importance of the tournament itself, I think players will remember the All Stars and 1v1 matches with great fondness,#146; Dota 2 analyst Bruno Carlucci told GameSpot. #146;One can only imagine how much some of these legends dreamt of playing with each other on a LAN environment, or even, for some of the youngest competitors, face their idols in a 1v1 and prove themselves to the world as the best individually skilled player.#146;

The prize pool, which continues to increase by $2.50 with every purchase of the , is the largest amount ever given out for a single-event in competitive gaming/eSports history.

#146;TI3 is already the tournament with the biggest prize pool in eSports,#146; Carlucci said. #146;With such an amazing start in stream numbers, I'm betting it will soon become the biggest tournament in stream viewer numbers as well.#146;

Last year Riot#146;s Season 2 World Championships peaked at 1.1 million concurrent viewers watching online only, making it the most watched competitive gaming event of all time.

The International 3 Main Event will begin on August 7 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Washington. The entire event will be streamed exclusively on Twitch.tv. will be at the event to sit down with Valve regarding the release of Dota 2 and The International, and provide live coverage all week long.

From: www.gamespot.com

Rolento, Poison, Hugo, and Elena will be joining the cast. Each of the four new characters have been included in Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken. The fifth and final new character will has never been in a Street Fighter game, Capcom said at the panel today. Along with the five new characters, six new stages also being added.

"I#252;m personally excited to be able to use Rolento in SF4," Capcom senior community specialist and former professional player Peter "Combofiend" Rosas said. "Yes, he was in SFxT, but SF4 and SFxT play very differently, so it#252;ll be a treat to use him against Seth, Hakan, and others that are not in SFxT."

Capcom is also balancing the entire cast of characters again so that they "will all be powerful," they said on today's panel. Capcom illustrated some improvements to Chun-Li, Dudley, T-Hawk, and Balrog, while showing off some of the downgrades to Cammy.

Capcom has and showed off some of the changes already implemented.

The new characters, stages, and balance updates will be released for $15 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC simultaneously sometime in early 2014. Players without Super Street Fighter IV already can purchase the disc version with all the previous DLC costumes released, as well as future content to be discussed in the future. That will cost $39.99.

The name of the game and a trailer will be shown directly before the Super Street Fighter IV: AE Finals on Sunday evening, starting at 6:30 p.m. PDT.

For more on EVO 2013 and to watch the reveal tomorrow, check out

From: www.gamespot.com

Rolento, Poison, Hugo, and Elena will be joining the cast. Each of the four new characters have been included in Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken. The fifth and final new character will has never been in a Street Fighter game, Capcom said at the panel today. Along with the five new characters, six new stages also being added.

"I#146;m personally excited to be able to use Rolento in SF4," Capcom senior community specialist and former professional player Peter "Combofiend" Rosas said. "Yes, he was in SFxT, but SF4 and SFxT play very differently, so it#146;ll be a treat to use him against Seth, Hakan, and others that are not in SFxT."

Capcom is also balancing the entire cast of characters again so that they "will all be powerful," they said on today's panel. Capcom illustrated some improvements to Chun-Li, Dudley, T-Hawk, and Balrog, while showing off some of the downgrades to Cammy.

Capcom has and showed off some of the changes already implemented.

The new characters, stages, and balance updates will be released for $15 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC simultaneously sometime in early 2014. Players without Super Street Fighter IV already can purchase the disc version with all the previous DLC costumes released, as well as future content to be discussed in the future. That will cost $39.99.

The name of the game and a trailer will be shown directly before the Super Street Fighter IV: AE Finals on Sunday evening, starting at 6:30 p.m. PDT.

For more on EVO 2013 and to watch the reveal tomorrow, check out

From: www.gamespot.com

Rolento, Poison, Hugo, and Elena will be joining the cast. Each of the four new characters have been included in Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken. The fifth and final new character will has never been in a Street Fighter game, Capcom said at the panel today. Along with the five new characters, six new stages also being added.

"I#146;m personally excited to be able to use Rolento in SF4," Capcom senior community specialist and former professional player Peter "Combofiend" Rosas said. "Yes, he was in SFxT, but SF4 and SFxT play very differently, so it#146;ll be a treat to use him against Seth, Hakan, and others that are not in SFxT."

Capcom is also balancing the entire cast of characters again so that they "will all be powerful," they said on today's panel. Capcom illustrated some improvements to Chun-Li, Dudley, T-Hawk, and Balrog, while showing off some of the downgrades to Cammy.

Capcom has and showed off some of the changes already implemented.

The new characters, stages, and balance updates will be released for $15 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC simultaneously sometime in early 2014. Players without Super Street Fighter IV already can purchase the disc version with all the previous DLC costumes released, as well as future content to be discussed in the future. That will cost $39.99.

The name of the game and a trailer will be shown directly before the Super Street Fighter IV: AE Finals on Sunday evening, starting at 6:30 p.m. PDT.

For more on EVO 2013 and to watch the reveal tomorrow, check out

From: www.gamespot.com