Yannick LeJacq

For The First Time, A Banned League Of Legends Pro Gets Second Chance

Last night, Riot put out an update about the status of several high-profile League of Legends players who’ve been suspended or banned from the game due to their toxic behavior. Buried in the details was an interesting detail: in an unprecedented move, one player’s permaban from competitive play was removed entirely. The permaban in question…

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Why A League Of Legends April Fool’s Joke Has Fans Freaking Out

Over the past few days, diehard League of Legends players have been in a bit of tizzy over something called “NURF.” On the game’s hugely popular subreddit, people are wondering when exactly it’s coming out: …and already speculating about what it’ll be like: Or just conveying how frenzied they feel over at the League of…

Dying Light’s April Fool’s Joke: Flying Zombies

Ah, April 1st. The silliest day in gaming. Dying Light is choosing to celebrate the occasion by treating its legions of zombies like the ragdoll-ish punching bags they truly are. Dying Light developer Techland teased out an “important public service announcement” this morning that gives you an idea of what tomorrow will look like if…

How To Get The Secret Alien Stuff In The New Sims 4 Expansion Pack

The Sims 4’s first expansion pack comes out this week. In addition to all the cool new career-focused additions Get To Work brings to the game, it also adds aliens into the mix. Here’s what you need to do to find them. YouTube channel Somewhat Awesome Games—who previously uncovered the legendary Nintendo easter egg “Totaka’s…

Your League Of Legends Plays Aren’t Always As Awesome As You Remember

You might feel like a total badass for the way you held down your lane against three—three!—enemy champions in that last game of League of Legends. But let’s all be thankful that the game doesn’t automatically record everything. Because stuff rarely looks as graceful as we remember it. YouTuber SpooksOP sums this up perfectly (via…

The Invisible League Of Legends Attack Bug Riot Can’t Seem To Resolve

Bugs and glitches are an unfortunate fact of life that usually just have to be tolerated when playing a game as hugely popular as League of Legends. The story of one such bug that’s teetered between irritating and insufferable got a lot more interesting this week after a player figured out how to reproduce it.…

Heroes Of The Storm’s Murky Finally Has His Day In The Sun

Murky is the last character in Heroes of the Storm I’d expect to kick ass in a team battle. Apparently, one player has uncovered the secret to the seriously underpowered Murloc’s hidden powers: Woah. Ok. Let’s all take a deep breath. What the hell just happened? Murky—the Murky who I’ve never seen make it out…

How League Of Legends Enables Toxicity

For many people—even many gamers—”toxicity” and League of Legends go hand-in-hand. The game has a longstanding reputation for harboring a noxious player-base that continues to spew hateful epithets at one another despite developer Riot’s best intentions to make them stop. The truth is a bit more complicated. By design, League of Legends is a game…

Jigglypuff’s Famous Rest Attack Put To The Test

One of the key things that makes Jigglypuff an absolute terror in the Smash Bros. ring is her “rest” move. If you’ve ever gone against the Puff, you know what I’m talking about: it’s when she falls asleep and then beats you into a pulp. But just how powerful is it, exactly? Numbers to the…

Lots of big changes are coming to Heroes of the Storm today. Blizzard’s list of patch notes detail dramatic gameplay adjustments alongside the addition of a new hero, map, and ranked mode known as “Team League.” The hero tweaks seem particularly interesting—Uther is basically being rebuilt with five new talents.

One Small Thing I Love About Heroes Of The Storm

I recently added Heroes of the Storm to the growing pile of MOBAs that I’ve become hopelessly addicted to. And while I find the characters in Blizzard’s new game lacking in some ways (like their skins), one thing really impresses me about it in comparison to League of Legends: the way the heroes talk to…

One Of League Of Legends’ Worst Champions Made A Surprising Comeback

One of this past weekend’s League of Legends championship series games shocked fans thanks to the arrival of a hero character who hasn’t shown his hideously mutated face in the eSports scene in quite some time: Urgot. Even more unexpected was the way he carried his team to a resounding victory. League of Legends pro…

Heroes Of The Storm Could Use Some Better Skins

Heroes of the Storm is a great-looking game compared to the other big MOBAs out there today. Despite that, Blizzard’s game might have a problem. Well, most of its character skins are just sorta…dull. They’re unimaginatively slight reworkings of the base hero’s physical appearance that add something like a slightly different outfit or a silly…

This League of Legends Mod For Smash Bros. Will Never Be Played

In their free time, some Riot developers made a Smash Bros. mod that League of Legends-ified the game. Sadly, Super League Bros. (as I like to call it) will most likely never see the light of day since Riot said it was “just for fun.” At least we can gaze upon some fuzzy pictures and…

Ever wonder how many skulls there are in each part of the mines in that one Heroes of the Storm map? Reddit’s MGTakedown just broke the answer down with a handy and simple illustration. Now go do the MOBA thing of memorizing all those numbers and then raging at your teammates for failing to do…

​The Problem With League Of Legends’ Lore

Keeping track of lore in a MOBA often seems as valuable as watching porn for the story, to quote one recent critic of League of Legends’ latest character reveal. I tend to agree. But YouTuber Gnarsies makes a good case for why having terrible lore really does matter—even for a seemingly plotless gaming genre. Watch…

Tell Us Your Best Toxic MOBA Player Stories

Toxicity is a fact of life in popular MOBA games like League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, and Dota 2. No two toxic players are exactly the same, though. Encountering toxicity can even lead to genuinely heartfelt moments between people who’ve never met before. What’s your most memorable run-in with MOBA toxicity? These can…

How One League Of Legends Champion Has Changed Over Five Years

You know what people say when admiring the glory of real-world teenagers: “They grow up so fast.” The same goes for League of Legends characters. You just have to replace “grow up so fast” with “received a number of small but not insignificant changes over the course of many, many patches.” My, how time flies!…

Everything We Know (Not Much) About Nintendo’s New Hardware

Nintendo just surprised everybody with the announcement that its working on some new hardware, codenamed “NX.” Pretty much everything about “NX” besides its codename remains a mystery, however. Lest we devolve into wild and errant speculation, let’s review what Nintendo has said publicly about its new hardware. They ‘Already Have A Clear Idea’ Of What…