Yannick LeJacq

Heroes Of The Storm Team Recovers After Being One Point Away From Defeat

I don’t think anyone has bitten their nails as hard as the people who played in this match. Like other MOBAs, the goal in Heroes of the Storm is to take out the opposing team’s base—one building specifically, known simple as the “core.” A match ends when the health bar for one team’s core has…

As promised, the League of Legends players who are fed up with Riot’s overpriced skin recolorings known as “Chroma Packs” have launched a database for custom fan-made chromas. You can download the custom content, which change the color of a champion’s outfit in-game, here.

Mario Kart, Mad Max Mash Up Works Way Better Than It Should

Oh, what a lovely day. Let’s thank the cinematic genius sundbergkr for YouTubing what we were all thinking: that a Mad Max: Fury Road version of Mario Kart would be spectacular. Still need convincing? Watch the trailer for Mario Kart: Fury Road and try telling me it’s not the greatest thing ever: I hope Nintendo’s…

Heroes Of The Storm Pro Team Loses To…A Computer

Well this is embarrassing. Earlier this week, Cloud9 Maelstrom and compLexity—two of the top teams in Heroes of the Storm’s nascent eSports scene—faced off as part of Blizzard’s ongoing “Road To Blizzcon” tournament. As The Daily Dot reported, compLexity was “hungry for a win” as they’d only just barely secured themselves a spot in the…

Calling all Heroes of the Storm players: I’m putting together a beginner’s guide for the game and want to hear from you! What do you wish you’d known when first starting out in the game? Tell us in the comments below, where I’ve listed the tips I have so far. You can also email me…

Riot just put out a neat and surprisingly moving short comic that details the backstory of League of Legends’ new champion Ekko. You can read the whole thing here. Also: is anyone else getting a strong Transistor vibe from this guy?

Heroes Of The Storm Needs A Mode Between Quick Matches And Ranked Games

In its quest to make Heroes of the Storm as approachable as possible, Blizzard has made one grievous error: they only offered players one competitive gameplay mode before become eligible for ranked “Hero League” matches. This hurts the game in a number of ways. Thankfully, it’s also easily fixable. Like the games that inspired its…

Theory Connects All The Far Cry Games

What if I told you that hunky Far Cry 1 star Jack Carver and creepy Far Cry 2 villain The Jackal were the same person? To quote Eurogamer’s Ian Higton: “The clue is in the name, people!” Higton published a thoughtful video today that attempts to connect the dots between the different installments in the…

Lag Helps League Of Legends Player Kill Four Champions At Once

Normally, Nautilus’ special hook attack is only meant to ensare one enemy at a time. But thanks to the most annoying thing ever to show its face in League of Legends, one lucky player managed to trap four enemies at the same damn time. That’s right. As YouTuber Miguel Pardinas showed in this silly short…

Splatoon’s Squids Started Out As Blocks Of Tofu

Can you say…killer tofu? No. Actually, you can’t. This is a Nintendo shooter, after all. In a recent “Iwata Asks” conversation between president Saturo Iwata and key members of the Splatoon team, the developers revealed that before the game became a bright and colorful paint-chucking extravaganza, it starred innocuous blocks of tofu. Mmmmm, tofu. So…

How A Joke About Reddit Making An eSports Team Spiraled Out Of Control

“Oh here’s a new message I just got: ‘get the fuck away from League and git gud fagboy,’” Will Debassige said last night over Skype. He’s been getting a lot of messages like that lately. And just a week ago, before everyone on League of Legends subreddit seemed to hate him, nobody even knew who…

Why You Should Care About Heroes Of The Storm

“Well, that wasn’t good,” I said. My team had just been defeated in a game of Heroes of the Storm. “Eh,” my friend Alex replied as the colorful mush of the on-screen battle faded into a dark red “DEFEAT” screen. “It doesn’t feel any different if you win or lose in this game.” Alex was…

Blizzard Took Out Tychus’ Cigar In Heroes Of The Storm

StarCraft fans have long known Terran (read: human) hero Tychus Findlay as a cigar-chomping lovable grump. Sadly, Heroes of the Storm players will only get to know him as a lovable grump. That’s right: they put out the guy’s smoke. Heroes of the Storm fans first discovered this glaring omission last night when Blizzard released…

Why Riot Tweaks League Of Legends To Make It Better For Its Best Players

A frequent topic of discussion in the League of Legends community is: who, exactly, is Riot incessantly tweaking and updating its game for? Does the developer prioritize the eSports stars, high-ranking amateurs, or more casual players? They don’t go to the very top of the food chain, it turns out. But they get close. In…

Cities: Skylines Patch Adds Tunnels, May Disable Some Mods

Well-liked city-building game Cities: Skylines is getting a meaty update today. The good news about the update is that it adds tunnels and more than 50 European-style buildings to the game. The (potentially) bad news is that it end up breaking some mods in the process—at least for now. Cities: Skylines is the kind of…

Reminder: the Heroes of the Storm open beta starts today. If you didn’t get into the closed beta, this is your time to shine! Sign up on the game’s website. If you need to learn more about the game first, might I suggest reading the articles below?

11 Months Later, The Sims 4 Players Still Want Answers About Toddlers

The Sims 4 had a controversial launch last fall for one main reason: unlike its immediate predecessor, the game didn’t feature toddlers. Not much has changed in the months since. And for many longtime fans, that’s the entire problem with The Sims 4. And why they’re walking away from their beloved game series. EA’s announcement…

League Of Legends Will Hide ‘Eye Candy’ For Serious Players

League of Legends players take the game seriously. Super seriously. So seriously that those pesky pretty little things on the Summoner’s Rift map like butterflies and dragonflies start to look like serious eyesores that get in the way of winning. I mean: you can’t even attack them! But Riot can. In a small post on…

The One Character In League Of Legends Who’s Truly Terrifying

There was a loud bang, like metal falling on top of metal. Then nothing. I wanted to ask my teammates what the hell it was. A few minutes later, I heard it again. Then again. Something is here, I thought, dread creeping into my mind. Something is coming Another ominous clang. The sixth or seventh…

The Score has compiled a helpful database of all the roster changes for League of Legends pro teams taking place in-between the spring and summer splits. Give it a read if you’re having trouble keeping track of everything.