Red Bull’s eSports division is producing a documentary web series on pro Dota 2 player Jimmy ‘DeMoN’ Ho’s journey to last year’s lucrative International tournament. Like many of Red Bull’s forays into eSports journalism, it’s surprisingly good! You can watch the first episode on their YouTube channel
The second episode of True Detective ended on a massive cliffhanger, making much of last week interminably frustrating for addicts like me. Fans were able to stop holding their breath last night when things finally played themselves out last night in the third episode. But it wasn’t an easy resolution. Warning: MASSIVE spoilers ahead. Episode…
Iconic Diablo villain The Butcher has been terrorizing people in Heroes of the Storm since he arrived in the game last week, and not always for the right reasons. Despite being a very cool and well-designed hero, many HOTS players feel that he’s ridiculously overpowered at the moment. If you take a look on Twitter,…
If there’s a single phrase I’d associate with the original Diablo, it’d have to be: “Fresh meat!” That’s the line The Butcher growls as he strides towards you from a room full of festering corpses. He wasn’t the biggest or baddest villain in the game. He wasn’t even a Lord of Hell. But he was…
The Sims 4 is getting a new “Spa Day” game pack on July 14th, EA has announced. In addition to letting your Sims hang out and bump uglies in the sauna, the DLC gives Sims a new “wellness” skill they can develop “by giving massages, doing Yoga, and Meditating.” Woo-hoo!
Oh my goodness. Not all MOBA character skins are created equally. But the ones Riot has made for League of Legends prehistoric boomerang-wielding fur monster known as “Gnar” have been great. Gnar’s base character looks sort of like Gizmo from the Gremlins movies…until he transforms into the hulking beast known as “Mega Gnar”—something that happens…
Even the best League of Legends players in the world have their off days. Or in the case of North American Challenger team Winterfox, three of them do…at the exact same time. Winterfox was playing against the newly-formed team Renegades last night in a Challenger Series match. Things were going normally for the first three…
The “father of video games’” home office is now on display at The National Museum Of American History. The museum rebuilt (actually rebuilt, not recreated) Ralph Baer’s workshop as a “landmark” for its new innovation wing. Check it out if you’re in the Washington, D.C. area! Contact the author at [email protected]
Nintendo is giving the Miiverse, its social network for the 3DS and Wii U, a much-needed redo this summer, the company just revealed. The redesign promises a number of easier ways to document and share your gaming experience with other Miiverse-goers. First up is a new photo album. Nintendo’s new Miiverse website says you’ll be…
Heroes of the Storm’s resident oddball Abathur is almost as good at clapping as the Smash Bros. cast. Almost. He just needs a little nudge in the right direction. Thank you, Zelendorf, for this hilarious video I can’t seem to stop watching. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him…
The never-ending battle between the forces of heaven and hell can get pretty messy at times, I’ve learned. Blizzard’s new MOBA Heroes of the Storm just added a new “battleground” (read: map) today. Known as “Battlefield of Eternity,” the level is exciting for Heroes fans because it’s the first map that’s based on one of…
Heroes of the Storm is a really fun game. But playing it as a Warcraft veteran can hit a little too close to home. It can be difficult to remember since World of Warcraft has been so popular for so long (it was first released in 2004), but the original Warcraft games that inspired Blizzard’s…
The Butcher and the new “Eternal Conflict” map are both dropping into Heroes of the Storm today as part of the game’s seasonal Diablo-themed content plan. Fresh meat!
The second episode of True Detective went out with a big, big bang last night. I have no idea how to start processing the explosiveness of its ending without spoiling the entire thing, so I’ll just say: if you haven’t watched it yet and don’t want to know what happened, stop reading this right now.…
The supreme court wasn’t just copying Fire Emblem when it ruled in favor of same-sex marriage today. Gay unions have been around for quite some time in video games. Let’s look back at marriage equality’s rich history in the virtual world. Fallout 2 Widely regarded as the first video game to allow full-blown gay marriage,…
Heroes of the Storm is a Smash Bros.-style mascot brawler for Blizzard’s iconic PC games, meaning the rockstar PC developer borrowed tons of ideas from its other games when crafting HOTS characters. The latest patch for Diablo III shows that creative inspiration works in the opposite direction too. Datamining experts that they are, Blizzard fans…
In an unprecedented move, Riot Games has booted a professional League of Legends team owner from participating in its own championship series until 2017. The surprisingly harsh ban is punishment for the man trying to scoop up players from rival teams in the middle of the current LCS 2015 season. The offending team owner is…
When Riot Games said that it was suspending the coach of the European League of Legends team Copenhagen Wolves, it seemed like the team had managed to survive its brush with a major eSports scandal. But two high-profile departures this week and a series of leaked documents show the team is still reeling. Copenhagen Wolves’…
The angelic ghost cow near the bottom of this screenshot is Heroes of the Storm’s E.T.C. He’s in ghost form because of a passive ability he can unlock, which automatically triggers an area-wide stun move called “Mosh Pit” on death. I’m guessing the E.T.C. player here is crying tears of joy for selecting this trait.…
“You’ll never forget your first pentakill,” all my League of Legends-playing friends have told me. I pray to god that it won’t be like this one. A pentakill, in case you don’t know, is the name of the achievement bestowed on a League of Legends player when he or she kills all five opponents on…
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