Yannick LeJacq

Watch Me Qualify For A Heroes Of Storm Rank [Update: Rekt.]

I got rank 40. I don’t want to talk about it. Thank you everyone for watching! /// Alright people. It all comes down to this. I have one shot. Or, technically, five shots. Heroes of the Storm reset its ranking system recently, meaning everyone playing has to go through 20 qualifying matches before receiving a…

League Of Legends Just Nerfed Azir, Hard

The desert soldier Azir has been a powerful presence for much of League of Legends’ current season, with the mage being picked or banned in practically every major tournament game. Now little more than a month away from the World Championship, Riot is finally knocking the guy down a peg. To those unfamiliar: Azir is…

Here you can see two King Leorics cast their giant-tomb-summoning ults so they cinch together perfectly, creating a closed rectangle that looks very scary to be stuck inside. Is this the Heroes of the Storm equivalent of a WWE “Hell In A Cell” cage match, as xWretchedWorldx described it on Reddit? Yes. Yes it is.

Track: Power | Artist: Kanye West | Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Against All Odds, Cloud9 Makes It Into The League Of Legends World Championship

Last night, the storied American League of Legends team Cloud9 (C9) beat Team Liquid 3-1 in a best of five tournament match, securing themselves a spot in the upcoming World Championship in the process. Doing so completed one of the greatest comebacks in League eSports history. The North American League of Legends Championship Series finals…

League Of Legends And Heroes Of The Storm Helped Me Get Into Dota 2

Stereotypes might lead you to believe any gamer’s love of MOBAs has to be mutually exclusive. I’m here to tell you this isn’t true. I recently started playing Dota 2. I mean actually playing it, as opposed to kicking around in its tutorials for a little while before intimidation sent me running back to Heroes…

Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Isn’t Really Working Right Now [UPDATE]

Heroes of the Storm has been running very well for the most part since I started playing it earlier this year. It’s suddenly gotten a lot worse over the past few days, though. I first started to notice an issue with my personal HOTS game when I was unable to queue up for a few…

League Of Legends’ New Ping Times Are Amazing

When it comes to lag, League of Legends developer Riot has been talking a real big game lately—saying they’re building ahuge lag-killing network, and improving North American players’ experience by relocating League’s servers. They made good on the latter promise this week, and holy cow has it made the game better. Earlier this month, Riot…

And That’s Why You Don’t Taunt People In Heroes Of The Storm 

Karma’s OP. The most recent episode of the silly YouTube series “Heroes of the Storm WTF moments” begins with a cautionary tale of when it’s acceptable to troll an opponent in-game. Since you can’t chat directly with your enemies in HOTS (League of Legends and Dota 2 both have cross-team chat functionality, for a point…

League Of Legends Pro Almost Quit Before Winning The U.S. Finals 

“It’s just really satisfying, it’s the most satisfying feeling I’ve ever had in my life. As I said in the post-game interview, it’s the best day of my life, because…everyone in the community makes a joke, makes a mockery of CLG, and mockery of me, and tells me I can’t do it.” Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng…

Do you play League of Legends on the North America servers? Have you played since they moved to Chicago? If the game is running well—or better than it was before—let us know. If you’re having any connection issues, let us know that, too! We want to get a sense of how League is running post-move.…

Dying Light’s Big Expansion Looks Like A Completely Different Game

Zombie-killing fans have been hearing a lot about the purportedly very large expansion pack for this year’s surprisingly excellent game Dying Light. But we haven’t actually seen that much of it yet. Developer Techland put out a 15 minute gameplay video for the DLC today, and it looks, well, game-changing. You can watch the whole…

Heads up to Heroes of the Storm players: in case you’re wondering where the Battlefield of Eternity map went, Blizzard took it out of rotation because of an issue that “can cause games to crash.” Also, a Blizzard rep told me that thenext Diablo map is coming out tomorrow. Fresh meat! UPDATE (3:26 pm): The…

What It’s Like To Watch League Of Legends At Madison Square Garden

League of Legends descended on Madison Square Garden this past weekend for the North America Championship Series (NA LCS) matches. What does it look like when 11,000 gamers flood into a venue best known for performances by people like Taylor Swift, Elton John, and the New York Knicks? See for yourself. The Kotaku video team…

The Most Exciting Moment At The U.S. League of Legends Finals

“There is so little chance of a steal,” the announcer said amidst a series of breathless exclamations. A moment later, me and the 11,000 other people in Madison Square Garden were all losing our shit. The Saturday games for third place in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) were definitely the…

The U.S. League Of Legends Finals Games Were Over Before They Even Began

The North American League of Legends Championship Finals (NA LCS) that went down this past weekend at Madison Square Garden was a mostly epic affair. There was one major exception: the actual finals match that took place on Sunday night. Playing in the standard best of 5 playoff format, Counter-Logic Gaming (CLG) dominated its first…

This “Mega Yarn Yoshi” Amiibo is coming to wreak havoc on American cities like a super cute Godzilla on November 15th, Nintendo announced this morning. The downside is that it’ll cost $39.99 to get your hands on all that adorableness.

“You may pose with a prop in a brandishing manner, so long as no reasonable person would interpret for anything other than dramatic effect. ” The cosplay rules for the North American League of Legends Summer Finals are an entertaining read.

Riot’s Jeffrey Lin has amended his statements about how ranked League of Legends players will be punished for having chat restrictions or temporary bans this season. On Twitter and in a new ask.fm post, he said that only a specific subset of ranked players won’t be eligible for 2015 rewards. Read the full update here.

Riot’s Idea For Punishing Ranked League Of Legends Players Seemed Harsh [UPDATE]

UPDATE (5:30 pm): Riot’s Jeffrey Lin has issued a follow up statement to the one this post originally covered, saying that he had made “a huge blunder” in his ask.fm post about the developer’s plans for the 2015 season rewards. While he originally said that all League of Legends ranked player who received any kind…