Yannick LeJacq

Heroes Of The Storm Sneaks in A Duck Hunt Easter Egg

Add this to the list of things that make me want a Nintendo-themed MOBA more than anything else in my life right now. Heroes of the Storm got a big update this week that changed a bunch of characters and added the Monk from Diablo III into the Blizzard-ified MOBA action. As it always does,…

The New League Of Legends Mobile Game Is Good Simple Fun

If League of Legends were a mobile game, I like to think it’d be something like a slickly produced version of last year’s sleeper hit Flappy Bird: cute, charming, distressing at its difficult low points and dizzying at its high ones. Riot probably feels differently about this, as evidenced by Blitzcrank’s Poro Roundup Poro Roundup…

Hey Smash Bros. fans who like to play as Shulk: if you’ve had trouble with the guy’s Up-B recovery move, you’re not alone. YouTuber and Smash Boards forum member erico9001 put together a handy video on the glitch that causes his recovery problems, and how to avoid them. Contact the author at [email protected]

An Awesome Black Ops III Outplay

“Glitch” is the name of a move in Call of Duty: Black Ops III that lets you teleport—but only back to the position you were in a few seconds earlier. It can be tricky to pull off because messing up the timing or positioning will leave you out in the open, vulnerable to all kinds…

The 2015 League of Legends World Championship will be played on patch 5.18, Riot Games announced today. Currently the game is about to enter the craaaaaazy world of patch 5.16

The Next League Of Legends’ Patch Is Trying To Break The Whole Meta

League of Legends patches are normally relatively minor incremental things at this point—tweaking an item or two, rebalancing a handful of characters, maybe dropping a few new skins in. Not this week. Riot’s 5.16 patch notes make it sound like a patch on steroids. There’s a lot of ground to cover here, so I’m going…

Heroes Of The Storm’s New Monk Is A Ton Of Fun

Originally a playable character class in Diablo III, the Monk arrived in Blizzard’s new MOBA Heroes of the Storm last night as a melee support named “Kharazim.” More than any other character I’ve seen in the game so far, he’s defined by his impressive versatility. Kharazim is the first HOTS character that can select one…

Taking Heroes Of The Storm’s New Monk Character For A Spin [Done!]

Thanks so much for watching, this was a lot of fun. I’m definitely going to start streaming more often. The Monk from Diablo III officially joined the fray inHeroes of the Storm today—though his full name is now technically Kharazim. Is he any good? We’re about to find out! You can watch me and some…

Heroes of the Storm just went through a whole lot of changes today with its latest patch. Ranked mode has been reset, meaning you now have to play 20 ranked games to receive a new starting rank. Plus a bunch of nerfs, a UI update, oh, and the monk arrived too! Read the full patch…

A Heroes Of The Storm Wombo Combo In The Truest Sense Of The Term

“We’re in the lead,” my teammate said. “All we gotta do is defend,” he said. He was right. The only problem was we failed the defending part. In the clip above, you can see how my team in a recent Heroes of the Storm game went from having a slight but not insignificant lead to…

League Of Legends Pro Pulls Off Amazing Baron Steal

Earlier this year, the pro League of Legends team Team SoloMid (TSM) was sorely embarrassed when one of their opponents stole a baron right out from under them—with a blind shot, no less—during a tournament game. Now, they’ve finally had their revenge. Sort of. During the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) semifinals this weekend,…

The first woman to make it into the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) is going to keep playing after all, she said on Twitter (via Reddit). Maria “Remilia” Creveling originally said that she was planning to step down from her position on team Renegades after winning the LCS qualifying game last week.

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The League Of Legends Championship Series Has Its First Woman Player

On Wednesday night, the pro League of Legends team Renegadeswon a victory against Team Coast, securing themselves a spot in the next League of Legends Championship Series (LCS). Making it into the big leagues is normally routine news, but RNG’s win was special. It was the first time a woman made it into the LCS.…

Heroes Of The Storm Games Are Getting Longer

A defining characteristic of Heroes of the Storm the developer Blizzard loves to highlight is the fact that average match lengths are much shorter than those in Dota 2 and League of Legends. While that’s still the case, data compiled by dedicated fans suggests HOTS game times are gradually increasing. Using data drawn from the…

“Feel the hatred of TEN THOUSAND MRGLGRGLGLBRGRGL!” This new World of Warcraft pet turning Illidan into a Murloc is excellent. It would also—just saying—make a great Murky skin in Heroes of the Storm. via Reddit. Credit for that Murkidan quote goes to Evil_Laugh_Mwahaha CORRECTION: This post originally misidentified the character art as a skin concept…

Dying Light just put out a new trailer for its upcoming expansion The Following with a neat explanation for its leaving the city: “Kyle Crane travel to a hazardous outback ruled by mysterious and fanatical cultists whose beliefs have unnerving connections with the zombie outbreak.” Also: customizable dune buggies!

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The Greatest Video Game Comeback Of My Life

“This team sucks,” the Raynor player quipped once again. “I want to quit,” he added a moment later. All I kept hearing was: I have the power to make your life miserable for the next twenty or thirty minutes, and I’m going to. But I wasn’t going to let him. Once the game starts to…

Now This Is How You Bait An Opponent In Heroes Of The Storm

When it comes to hand-to-creepy-tentacle-thing combat, Abathur is the weakest character in Heroes of the Storm. But that doesn’t mean he can’t do some serious damage when he’s on the front lines. YouTuber and Abathur player Brian Maum shows us how its done (via Reddit). Take notes, prospective Abathur players: (Note: the two teammates who…