We’re 15 minutes into the League of Legends World Championship games of the day, and it’s already getting preeeeetty intense. Watch the Fnatic vs. EDG best-of-five matchup on YouTube (above), Twitch, or Azubu. Oh, Riot’s LoL Esports site. GL HF!
I’ve been playing Planetbase for a couple hours now, and I feel like I’m only scratching the surface. Planetbase is a new outer space base-building game that just hit Steam, and it’s been in the service’s top three best-selling games all day. It takes some time to dig into, but I’m starting to really like…
Super Mario 4D Universe—or whatever the next one will be called—should come with every single level in the Mushroom Constitutional Monarchy unlocked. The next Grand Theft Auto should make all of its missions immediately playable in the very first minute. Uncharted 4 should let me jump into the middle of Nathan Drake’s adventures as soon…
Video game history could’ve gone a totally different way if Nintendo’s corporate headquarters were somewhere else. “If Nintendo wasn’t located in Kyoto, I wouldn’t have been there,” the man who lead the design of the Nintendo Entertainment System said last night. Good thing Masayuki Uemura’s parents never relocated to another part of Japan. It’s entirely…
A month or so ago, I would’ve told you I was done playing The Witcher 3. Turns out that’s not the case. This week, The Witcher 3’s first paid downloadable expansion, Hearts of Stone, came out. While CD Projekt Red already demonstrated their ability to confidently expand The Witcher 3 with those 16 pieces of…
Players have been waiting a while for Valve to release another Half-Life game. It’s taken long enough that it’s easy to forget all the drama that circled Half-Life 2’s development. You know, like a hacker leaking an early version of the game in September 2003, more than a year ahead of its actual release date.…
Going into the League of Legends World Championship match-up today, the question wasn’t if the Korean powerhouse team SKT was going to lose to Taiwanese challenger ahq e-Sports Club. It was: “Will ahq manage to take a game or two off of SKT’s perfect winning streak?” SKT just answered with a resounding nope. SKT is…
If Chibi Robo weren’t so cute, this review would be easier to write. Look at the little guy with his electric plug tail! Look at him dressing up as Link from the Legend of Zelda Look at him meeting new people: Unfortunately, this little scamp’s new game is an oddball mediocrity, a game with an…
At the start of 2015, Valve told me Steam’s crappy customer service would be a big focus for them this year. It’s still terrible. Here’s what happened. During a recent interview with Valve business authority Erik Johnson, I asked why people still have to put up with unanswered support tickets and, sometimes, months of radio…
Pokemon Stadium can be utter bullshit, and here’s proof—a montage made by GRsmash showcasing 10 times the infamous Smash Bros. stage screwed over a pro player.
I’ve spent the last week playing through the multiplayer portion of Metal Gear Solid V—and I gotta say, despite the initial launch hiccups, I’m pretty sure I like it better than the base game. Let me explain. Metal Gear Online is everything that makes Metal Gear Solid V so damn good—the wonderful tension of sneaking…
Is that an air raid siren signaling the arrival of terrible monsters? Naw, it’s announcing Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing. Hey, You Should Read These “Survival Horror” by Duncan Fyfe Duncan Fyfe digs into the complicated fandom of Silent Hill, which intersects with the tragic history of a real-life American…
Riot just reintroduced one of its whackiest creations back into League of Legends, the company’s inexplicably popular team-based multiplayer game where angry little gerbil things do battle against gigantic, vicious dragons. Only this time it’s missing everyone’s favorite bloodthirsty fuzz monster Teemo. “One For All” is a special alternate game mode that Riot first put…
Falling down in video games is usually a bad thing. Spikes wait for you at the bottom of many a playfield, along with bottomless pits, pools of lava and other instadeath hazards. But, falling down is a joy in Downwell. The deeper you go, the better—and harder—it gets. Developed by Ojiro Fumoto, this vertically-oriented roguelike…
Today’s League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals games are just getting started. It’s Korean powerhouse SKT 1 playing against Taiwanese team ahq e-Sports club. SKT 1 has even brought out its star player Faker for this one. My main question is: does ahq stand a chance? Watch Worlds on YouTube or Twitch.
Damn you, Walk a Bigger Eight (A3D9-0000-009C-D845). Watch the whole video here. Contact the author at [email protected]
The battle between video game streaming and copyright law is a nightmare, starring heartless YouTube robots, takedown notices and threatened livelihoods. If only there was a quick and easy way around this. Oh wait. There might be. One of the biggest—and most incidental—problems facing streamers is the use of game music in their clips. If…
The newest cinematic version of Batman and the Batmobile from the upcoming Batman v. Superman movie will be coming to Arkham Knight next month. There’s a full rundown of the remaining DLC—which says the big Season of Infamy add-on will hit in December—here. Contact the author at [email protected]
The popular PC gaming YouTuber John “Total Biscuit” Bain told his fans yesterday that his cancer has returned and that life expectancy may be 2-3 years. We wish anyone who suffers from this terrible disease all the best and encourage everyone to talk to their doctor about when to get screenings. I’ve enjoyed chatting with…
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