Heroes of the Storm’s next hero is going to be a giant ogre named Cho’gall, game director Dustin Browder said today at Blizzcon. In a unique twist, he’ll be played by two separate people at the same time. Holy crap. Blizzard really meant it when they said they’re breaking all the MOBA rules! Browder also…
Heroes of the Storm’s Dustin Browder took the stage at Blizzcon this afternoon to announce a whacky-sounding new feature for their excellent new MOBA. It’s called “The Arena,” and lets you do crazy shit like play a game with everyone as the same hero. Nice! Establishing it as a feature suggests it’s going to make…
Riot still isn’t working on adding a sandbox mode to League of Legends, developer Jeffrey “RiotLyte” Lin confirmedlast night on Twitter. This comes three months after a tremendous outpouring of anger and disappointment from fans who really wanted a sandbox mode. Riot’s working on a ton of other cool stuff, though.
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A primary theme in Riot’s gigantic laundry list of upcoming changes for League of Legends is that the developer is trying really, really hard to make its game more social. While many of the new socially-minded features announced this week sound wonderful, not all League fans are happy about their impending future. A lot of…
The Starcraft assassin Nova can be a terror like no other in Heroes of the Storm. CAN be. Thankfully one of her most powerful attacks is counter-able thanks to the fine art of body blocking. A team in a recent HOTS game showed us all how to expertly brush the once-infuriating sniper. One of Nova’s…
Overwatch’s giant hammer-wielding tank of a man Reinhardt has a powerful charge move that rockets him forward, catching any enemies caught in his path and dragging them along with him. Overwatch also has a lot maps with dangerous precipices to fall off of. You probably see where this is going. In a recent match (via…
A lot of gamers have been losing their shit recently because of Overwatch, which just went into closed beta and is already fantastic. You might be wondering: Hey, what does it look like to actually PLAY this game everyone’s so excited about? Wonder no more, my friend! For the sake of clarity, I captured a…
One of the most exciting developments Riot announced yesterday for its massive pre-season overhaul of League of Legends is a new and retooled champion select system. The thing went live last night on League’s public beta and I got a chance to try it out. So far so good! Seriously, so good. The current champion…
Riot just put out its 2016 Season Update for League of Legends and…I don’t even know where to begin. They’re changing everything, and then adding even more new stuff. I’ve never seen an update this big for the world’s most popular game. You can read about all the tweaks, fixes, and new content releases coming…
I can’t remember the last time I felt as excited about a new video game as I feel right now about Overwatch, Blizzard’s unprecedented stab at making a multiplayer shooter. I’ve been playing it for three days and see so much potential. The one game that came close was Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s similar-but-also-totally-different…
God, SKT. You really scared us for a minute there! The top Korean League of Legends team SKT Telecom defeated the not-quite-top Korean challenger KOO Tigers today after a bitterly contested four matches. SKT is widely considered to be the strongest League team in the World (and in history), so the end result of today’s…
UPDATE (10:57 am): Well so much for that! SKT’s dream of a perfect run at Worlds is officially over, as KOO just trounced them in the third finals match. Did anyone really see that coming? Original story follows: For a nail-biting 35 minutes this morning, it seemed like SKT might actually lose a game in…
Despite being in Europe, today’s League of Legends World Championships finals are between two Korean teams. Riot analyst Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles celebrated the country’s League dominance with a piece of traditional “Hanbok” attire. It’s sparked some bemused and confused reactions. League of Legends Twitter, which is already an almost incomprehensible hype-train during the lead-up to…
If you’ve been on the gaming parts of the internet over the past month, you’ve probably seen or heard something about the League of Legends World Championship. Having trouble grasping what’s going on right now with the most popular video game in the world? Fear not, I’m here to help you understand. NOTE: I will…
The Protoss have always been the coolest race in StarCraft. Proud but adaptable, aggressive yet agile, the ornate alien species embodies what’s great about the real-time strategy and MOBA games they inhabit. This week has been exciting in Heroes of the Storm thanks to the introduction of their fearless leader Artanis. Artanis is a melee…
Dota 2 has always led the MOBA pack in rad game modes and fun seasonal Halloween content, but they managed to outdo even themselves this year with “Haunted Colosseum.” It’s a new custom game mode that makes Dota much more…haunted. More in a ridiculous slap-stick way than a creepy one. As the name implies, “Haunted…
Riot’s been teasing out a ton of changes it’s making to its ludicrously popular multiplayer game League of Legends this week. The biggest by far impact powerful ranged offensive units, known alternatively as “ADC” or “marksman” characters. Sounds like the bottom lane of League’s map is about to become very…different. The marksman changes are similar…
Riot just posted a laundry list of changes it’s making to League of Legends for the transition to the 2016 season, including tweaks to vision items, masteries, marksman champions, and even a new jungle monster! The vision ones seem big. I’ll cover specifics of the 2016 preseason in greater detail as they emerge.
The North American League of Legends team Team Impulse (TiP) is putting itself up for sale following an unsuccessful 2015 season. Impulse has already qualified for the 2016 League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), however, so whoever buys the team will also acquire their spot in the tournament. First reported by GameSpot, Team Impulse’s decision…
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