Yannick LeJacq's discussions

I don’t think it’s a huge deal either, but I definitely think it’s tonedeaf for a game company to ignore the culture/genre that it exists in...the “heroics” vs. “ults” thing just seems like a symbol of that to me. I love HOTS and think that the developers are really onto something with it, but these rhetorical and… Read more

I agree that everyone calls it a MOBA, but it’s like the way they use “heroic” instead of “ult”: it’s something the company is requiring its shoutcasters to do, which, as far as I can tell, only makes the game harder to understand for spectators. It’s a much healthier environment/ecosystem when gamers can use a common… Read more

They also had an AMAZING opportunity to make a “Hotline Bling” reference and they DIDN’T TAKE IT.

Haha, well they both are originally from Korea, so no I don’t think your assumption there is a problem! I think they’re probably gonna be poached by some rich US team though...but we’ll see. Read more

It’s the name of a book I really loved in college! Read more

This comment section is just REKT so hard Read more

I mean, I mostly play her because she wrecks face. But I can’t deny this is pretty freaking cute:

I wrote something about this at one point! Check out this website: http://kotaku.com/a-great-tool-f…. Read more

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I’m sorry, I know that our coverage of Dota 2 isn’t anywhere near as comprehensive as our coverage of League or HOTS, and am always trying to learn more about the game to solve that. I still don’t feel literate enough in a lot of Dota 2 things to cover an eSports event like the Frankfurt Major in great detail like I… Read more

More often than not, I do! I mostly play with friends on curse/skype/teamspeak/mumble/whatever, it makes the games so much more fun in my experience. Read more

You get punished very quickly (usually instantly, in my experience) for quitting an in-progress game, and the punishments become more severe very quickly too. Usually it’s just putting you in a worse q so you have to wait for 5 or 10 extra minutes a match at first, but even that can really put off your friends who… Read more

Oh wow I DIDN’T know that, thank you!! Read more

I’ve definitely seemed worse, but yeah I was trying to offer up an example of what would seem like a totally average league match where people start being jerks. Read more

Refusing to surrender when you’re clearly losing already and you can also tell that the team is just gonna keep fighting makes absolutely no sense to me...maybe they’re just hoping the other team will give up or something? Either way, when the surrender vote fails in a game like that...that’s when I truly feel like… Read more

Anyone who thinks the Smash image is making light of the situation has never experienced the trauma of accidentally throwing a cluster of pikmin to their death. Read more

I made a highlight from the skin spotlight video and added it to the article. It brings back all the homeward bound feels... Read more

Shit, thanks so much for the catch! Read more

Uhhhh...Braum already has a waifu.

Our reviewer is making his way through the campaign as we speak! As for the publicity stuff...I feel the same way, Blizz has been handling SCII very oddly as of late. Blizzcon basically started with a message being like: “HEY GUYS REMEMBER STARCRAFT??” But then there wasn’t much in the way of StarCraft news,… Read more