Hello and welcome again to Gamoloco’s blog. As usual now, here we go for last week’s top 10 most watched games on Twitch as well as a quick glance at the main stuff happening below that.

#1 League of Legends

It’s quite rare that it’s not #1… and don’t expect the King of Esports to fall while the Worlds are on of course.

#2 Hearthstone

Blizzard’s TCG, stabilizing at #2, does look like it’s the best candidate to take League down one day. Maybe.

#3 DOTA 2

DOTA 2 kicking other Valve property CSGO out of the podium.

#4 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

CSGO’s viewership curve has been kind of worrying as of late… After 2 years of huge ups and down, the drop does look like it’s real this time. The gambling & skins scandal does hurt and the hardcore community doesn’t seem to be that satisfied with how the game plays.

#5 World of Warcraft

The leading MMORPG manages to hold on to the 5th spot but drops 16% in viewership volume. Expect a long, slow slide for the game from now on.

#6 H1Z1: King of the Kill

Twitch’ big winner for the 2nd week in a row keeps its 6th spot while growing viewership significantly. Who would have thought H1Z1 would top Overwatch by now? The Daybreak team looks like they have cracked some of the mechanics, whether related to game design or community management, that allow a rather small game to grow through time.

#7 Overwatch

Not a bad week for Blizzard’s shooter which grows back its viewership a bit while holding on to the 7th spot.

#8 FIFA 17

EA’s game fighting good to remain in the top 10 and even climbing 1 spot. Can’t wait to see how the newly-designed FIFA Interactive World Cup and its $1.3M prize pool will impact viewership.

#9 Destiny

As expected, Destiny hanged up in there last week. The slow drop should continue until new content gets introduced or the new PvP mode does take off as an esport platform… In all honesty I think the latter is not that likely to happen anytime soon as the design for the mode looks somewhat limited at the moment. I could be wrong but so far that’s how I’ve been looking at it. Still #9 is very good for a console-only game.

#10 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

And it is back. In just 3 days of beta availability, the new Call of Duty managed to break the top 10… ironically putting rival FPS-game Battlefield 1 out of it at #11. But the FPS war has only started: Twitch is not a sprint, more like a marathon.

# Outside the top 10…

- Battlefield 1 knocking at #11

- Gears of War at #13 on launch week…

- … to be compared with Minecraft still parading at #14

- … as well as the evergreen Runescape at #15

- All the while Mafia III already dropped to #18 on its 2nd week

- Heroes of the Storm at #23 should help everyone realize that even Blizzard can’t guarantee top-tier esports hits

- And Paragon at #26 could prove to be the first truly successful MOBA developed by the gaming industry: 12 years after DotA Allstars was first made available and gave birth to the genre… Hell, it’d be about time.