A friendly reminder to Heroes of the Storm fans: I’ll be live-streaming some games I’ll be playing with the game’s developers at Blizzard tomorrow starting at 4:00 pm EDT on the Kotaku Twitch channel. Woo-hoo!! Read more
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Blizzard’s new MOBA Heroes of the Storm is a work of Smash Bros.-style fan fiction that mashes together characters…
A friendly reminder to all the League of Legends fans: part two of the 2015 World Championship group stage games starts tomorrow at 8:00 am EDT. I’ll be updating our explainer and covering tomorrow’s games as they play out. You can find instructions for how to watch—and read up on what’s happened so far—here. Read more
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The Korean eSports star Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok is so good at League of Legends that fans have taken to calling him…
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Riot Games is teaming up with Tribeca Games for a day-long conference about the art and design of League of Legends, and it sounds like a good time for any New York City-based League fans (such as yours truly). The event takes place on Friday, November 13th. You can read a detailed schedule and buy tickets here. Read more
The infuriating explosive-trap laying Dota 2 hero Techies were hit particularly hard with the game’s most recent…
Today Riot revealed the full set of ranked rewards League of Legends players will receive at the end of the 2015 season. The most exciting bit of news is that the heartless mercenary champion Sivir will get this year’s victorious skin. I’m genuinely bummed that I can’t get that. Congrats to everyone who will! Read more
Heroes of the Storm has finally made its loading screens more like League of Legends—AKA better. Today’s patch makes it so you can actually see who you’re going to play against in the upcoming game, even with quick matches. Hooray!! Read more
Over the weekend I created a new smurf account for Heroes of the Storm, “smurf” being an alternate account an…
Heroes of the Storm put out its new patch notes today, and boy is this a big one. In addition to adding the new StarC…
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Riot put out its spotlight for the uber-creepy League of Legends champion Kindred, and their ult looks as bonkers as I was expecting. They also said Kindred’s release is delayed until the 5.20 patch due to “an important, gameplay-impacting issue.” Keep up with Worlds in the meantime with our explainer.
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This past weekend saw Dota 2 descend on New York City’s Madison Square Garden theater for the eSports tournament ESL…
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It just keeps going on like this. Warning: NSFW imagery ahead.
I’ve played 999 games of Heroes of the Storm. Staying true to MOBA tradition, I asked the HOTS developers if they would play my 1,000th game with me, and they said yes! We will live stream the festivities next week on Thursday, October 8th, beginning at 4:00 pm EDT. So clear your schedules, because this’ll be fun. Read more
League of Legends’ most-neglected champion will be getting an update before the new year, the game’s developers have…
A story went viral last night about an upcoming smartphone app named “Peeple,” which bills itself as being like the…
Facebook was kind enough to remind me that the League of Legends World Championship is officially underway. You can watch the games as they’re played on Riot Games’ Twitch account. We’ll have a lot more to say about the games over the coming month. GL HF! Read more
So here’s an interesting statistic: Dota 2, Valve’s hugely popular MOBA game, lost almost 16 percent of its active…
Look at this fucking splash art.