Chinese League of Legends Pro Apologizes To Fans For Poor Performance

Professional gamers, like professional athletes, have their up and downs. When they disappoint, they have to face their fans and that’s exactly what a Chinese League of Legends pro did. CaoMei (Strawberry), whose real name is Wei Handong, plays top laner for a Chinese LoL Team, Team WE. After a poor performance in this past…

Turning School Into An RPG Where You Level Up By Studying

I thought we all agreed gamification was deeply uncool and never to be mentioned again? That hasn’t stopped Classcraft’s RPG-based program for schools spreading to 25 countries and planning to go freemium. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK According to Venture Beat (via Technobob) there are 7,000 kids over 25 countries currently levelling up…

Nintendo DS title Brain Age has been released on the Wii U’s Virtual Console. The game will be available in Japan free of charge until June 30. After July 1, the game won’t be downloadable and after that its status is TBA. No word yet on a Western release. [Pic: yutaro365]

Star Citizen Is Now Letting Spaceships Shoot At Other Spaceships

Having had little to do for months but walk around their hangars, backers of Star Citizen are finally getting their hands on some dogfighting with the rollout of the game’s Arena Commander simulation mode.

The June Xbox One update – which brings stuff like external storage, free games and the option to use your real name – has begun rolling out

Luigi’s Death Stare Makes TV News

This is Luigi’s Mario Kart 8 death stare. On New York’s Fox 5 TV news.

Creepypasta Wiki Issues Statement Saying Slender Man Isn’t Real

The tragic events in Waukesha, in which two young girls are accused of stabbing a friend, have brought internet myth Slender Man into the mainstream spotlight. So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, unofficial home to stories involving the character (and others like him), has had to issue a statement confirming that he is not…

One Of Gaming’s Greatest Questions Has Finally Been Answered

Some Twitter jokes are elaborately patient affairs. Others are a little more accidental. The account belongs to FIFA Youtuber Duaineml0, who I guess set up a Twitter account in 2009, forgot all about it then joined for real a year later with a new account that he actually uses. Only to later remember that he’d…

Booth Falls On Pro Gamer’s Head, But He Still Wins

Pro StarCraft II player Koh “GuMiho” Byung Jae was playing in Korea the other day when he suffered a pretty drastic technical mishap: the booth he was sitting behind collapsed, hitting him in the head and sending his monitor flying into his face. It looks like it him him pretty hard, so his stunned look…

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