Yannick LeJacq

Riot has concluded its investigation of the professional League of Legends player suspected of boosting accounts for cash, and decided to suspend him from the League Championship Series for seven months. Riot also found that he was negotiating “the sale of an unlocked account granted to LCS pros.”

Hey Heroes of the Storm Abathur players, I need to ASKathur you a question. Sorry. I want to put together a guide for this strange, wonderful hero since he’s finally on free week (and because he’s notoriously difficult to master). Please let me know if you have any gameplay tips or build strategies to suggest.…

League Of Legends Pros Aren’t Happy About Riot’s Latest Lag Fix

Late last week, Riot revealed plans to relocate the North American servers for its popular online multiplayer game League of Legends from Portland to Chicago. The plan is to centralize the location of the servers, and thereby reduce lag for the greatest number of players possible. What could be the problem, you ask? The only…

 The Dota 2 Play That Won $6 Million

The American pro Dota 2 team Evil Geniuses won the game’s biggest eSports event ever this past weekend, taking home $6.6 million as a reward. What’s really cool about their victory is how, specifically, they accomplished it. It all came down to one awesome and highly improbable play. You can watch the pivotal moment, which…

Heroes Of The Storm Is Nerfing Its Overpowered Monster Mage Kael’Thas

Thank the benevolent Heroes of the Storm balance team gods. The iconic Warcraft villain Kael’Thas’s reign of terror in Blizzard’s new MOBA is finally coming to an end. Blizzard dropped a ton of new content and changes to existing content into the public beta version of Heroes of the Storm (known as the “public test…

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The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Done In Heroes Of The Storm

Have you ever done something so colossally stupid in a video game that you almost wish you had been drunk and/or high just so you could use that as an excuse? I have. There’s a specific map in Blizzard’s new-ish MOBA Heroes of the Storm called “Tomb of the Spider Queen.” The conceit of the…

StarCraft’s Medic Is Joining Heroes Of The Storm

It’s seemed like as natural a fit as there possibly could be, but Heroes of the Storm fans haven’t known for sure if Blizzard was going to transform the Terran Medic unit from StarCraft into a full-fledged MOBA character. Now, they do. Blizzard revealed the Medic as the latest confirmed character addition for HOTS today…

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Fans were pissed this week when Blizzard announced a Protoss Warrior for Heroes of the Storm that WASN’T the StarCraft hero Praetor Fenix. A HOTS developer has now weighed in on Reddit to say they are working on him, they’re just holding him back because he has a similar resurrection mechanic to King Leoric. Phew!

Valve Put On A Dota 2 Match With 20 Players And It Was Crazy

Games of Dota 2 are usually played with two teams of five. So what happens if you double that number? A lot of things, most of them involving killing and/or dying. Valve pulled two surprises out last night during The International 5 (T15), its ongoing eSports event for its popular MOBA. The first was this…

“My personal favourite change is Fox getting his jab weakened because I have zero experience in that matchup. But now I’m not scared of getting jabbed at 50 and dying.” Red Bull interviewed Smash Bros. pros about the new patch, and they make some good points about what the character buffs mean for the game.

It’s Ridiculous That League of Legends Isn’t Getting A Sandbox Mode

Yesterday afternoon, Riot Games published an explanation for why it hasn’t added an oft-requested sandbox mode to its hit online multiplayer game League of Legends. The statement was bullshit. A sandbox mode is (in theory, at least) a practice mode for League of Legends, which doesn’t currently offer anything other than two very limited tutorials…

Riot just announced a new blog/initiative to improve the way it communicates with League of Legends’ millions and millions of players. It’s called “Riot Pls” instead of “Rito Pls” for some reason. Read about their current priorities—including a better client!—in this introductory post

The New Sims 4 Expansion Pack Adds A Nifty-Sounding Friendship System

After going to work with the first expansion pack, The Sims 4 is adding a European-themed world this fall with Get Together. While the intercontinental additions seem nice, the coolest part of the new expansion is a fleshed out friendship system. The way Sims developer EA describes it on the game’s website makes it sound…

Heroes Of The Storm Announces Two New Characters Plus Another Map

Blizzard revealed a bunch of exciting new stuff coming to its MOBA Heroes of the Storm today at Gamescom. In addition to the previously teased Monk hero from Diablo III, they’re also adding a hero from Warcraft, and another one from StarCraft. AND another Diablo-themed map. Woo content!!!! The monk, who’s officially named Kharazim, was…

League Of Legends Is Trying To Spice Up Four Dull Champions

Usually when Riot tweaks stuff in League of Legends, they do so strictly because of balance considerations. Maybe a character is too weak in one area, or too strong in another. Today the developer took a surprising approach, saying that it’s reworking four middling champs because they aren’t interesting The four specific champions being changed…

Today Riot revealed a buttload of changes it’s making to defensive items in League of Legends, starting with the upcoming 5.16 patch. That’s far enough off that we can’t say for sure how the tweaks will affect the game, but it looks like a lot of core pieces of armor are getting nerfed. So long…

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Never Underestimate The Power Of Murky In Heroes Of The Storm

Even if they’re a level behind, you might think that two of the best characters in Heroes of the Storm could take out the notoriously easy-to-kill frog thing Murky. Think again. That pufferfish attack, paired with his hero-ensnaring-beating-over-the-head-with-a-large-fish ult! Amazing positioning. Or terrible positioning, depending on who you’re talking to. My guess is that the…