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
Can’t get into eSports? Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place. Many of the scene’s bigger draws are laden with technical jargon that can be off-putting to newcomers, so you might be better off starting with something like Smash Bros. That’s what Ian Danskin did, and he makes a pretty compelling argument for it in…
Daybreak Games is trying something cool with Everquest II: players caught breaking the rules (or just generally being terrible people) aren’t going to be suspended or banned. They’re going to be banished to a “prison server” known as Drunder. The move, explained by Holly Longdale in this forum post (via Gamasutra), sounds a lot more…
If you were wondering whether The Witcher 3’s New Game+ mode makes the game harder, I have some good news for you: It does! New Game+ was just added to Wild Hunt as the last of developer CD Projekt Red’s free post-release downloadable content. It’s a cool final addition, since many people (like me) have…
It’s a little technical, but this post by the Dolphin team outlining a big improvement to the emulator’s audio is fascinating, giving you a real insight into just how much work and problem-solving goes into the whole thing.
This is neat: to coincide with Netflix’s official launch in Japan on September 2, STUDIO4℃’s movies—including the excellent MIND GAME—will be available to stream for subscribers internationally
Is this your latest trend, 2015. Birds pooping on people? In video games? Sploot is the second game this month we’ve seen in this vein, after Nathan took a look at Wonky Pigeon. And it’s a very similar type of game. You fly around as a seagull, you shit on things. Like people, yes, but…
This isn’t a new trick (it’s almost a decade old!), but it’s still a good, clean look at a tactic that, while often outlawed competitively, is still awesome considering the teamwork and timing required. (Below is a gfycat, so if you’re on mobile and it’s not auto-playing, just tap on the thumb and it’ll take…
Steam games are digital. They exist entirely on your PC or servers. But they don’t always have to. Steam Game Covers is a site dedicated to the creation and hosting of templates people can use to make their own physical cases for Steam games. Just back up your game on a disc, print out a…
The next major firmware update for PlayStation 4 owners is coming in the near future, but Sony’s looking for beta testers. If you’d like to sign up and have a sneak preview of what’s coming, sign up over here. Everything kicks off in early September. Contact the author at [email protected]
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…
ZombiU was a fantastic game when it launched alongside the Wii U. Years later, it’s arrived on other platforms with minor tweaks, including a new name: Zombi. As it turns out, it’s still great. Here’s the short version of what to expect from Zombi, which I played for an hour today on the PC: it’s…
A crippling disease has made the body of Grace’s wife a prison for her erratic, reclusive brain. The only hope for their marriage? A video game where she rules over kingdom of cats. Written by iO9 editor-in-chief Charlie Jane Anders, “Rat Catcher’s Yellows” is part of Press Start to Play, an anthology of game-centric short…
Yesterday I talked about a very heavy moment in the latest Tales from the Borderlands episode. Today, I bring you a polka-dotted clown hanky to dry your tears. (Warning: Tales from the Borderlands episode four spoilers ahead.) The latest episode is uniformly excellent, juggling drama and comedy in almost equal measure. A few pacing issues…
Nintendo says that the first Yokai Watch game for the West—developed by Professor Layton creators Level-5 and spinning out of the extremely popular Japanese anime/game series—will hit the 3DS on November 6. Contact the author at [email protected]
Destiny, a yearlong beta for a video game that will be released this September, is getting some major overhauls that we should probably talk about. Today on a Twitch stream, Bungie’s designers discussed some of the ways our characters will change when The Taken King launches next month, starting with an explanation of what lLight…
Are video games bad for you? Could they even kill you? That’s the kind of rhetoric we’re accustomed to hearing from cable television, not from one of the best journalists and critics who writes about games. Simon Parkin’s terrific new book, Death by Video Game, ends on just that note, however. “No, video games won’t…
The Witcher 3’s final piece of free DLC, which adds a more challenging New Game+ mode, is out. The first challenge: actually starting a New Game+. It’s not actually very complicated, but if you don’t fully read the dialogue box that pops up notifying you about the new mode, it’s possible to wind up a…
As a series, Gears of War likely has the best weapons in any shooter, period. Many of these weapons are surprisingly creative—a chainsaw on an assault rifle?!—and nearly all of them feel great to use. What I’m saying is: ranking the Gears of War arsenal is tough. In any other game, many of these weapons…
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…
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