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EsportsCLG And Their New AD Carry Beat Doublelift And Team SoloMid In NA League Of Legends Final
History repeated itself at the end of Team SoloMid’s and Counter Logic Gaming’s five-game North American LCS final on Sunday, as some clutch play from a CLG carry shut down TSM’s title challenge. It’s going way too far to say that Trevor “Stixxay” Hayes won the series for CLG, but he delivered at two absolutely…
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The Week In Games: Do An Aileron Roll!
I was going to say that this was a rather quiet week in terms of big-name games, but then I got to Friday, and got excited in aeronautically accurate fashion. It’s not every decade you get a new Star Fox game. I would have added “let alone two” to that last bit, but you’re not…
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UncategorizedThe Band Game Crash Saved Us From A Guitar Hero MMO
After the release of some 20 games and spin-offs between 2005 and 2010 made everybody completely sick of games with “Hero” at the end, Activisionkilled the series in 2011. Game historianLiam Robertson gives us a look at the massively multiplayer online Hero World that died with it. According to Roberton’s Unseen 64 video (via Gamasutra),…
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UncategorizedWatch A Three-Hour Supercut Of Every Mortal Kombat Fatality Ever
Youtube’s Deathmule squeezes just a little under three hours of brutal murder from Mortal Kombat’s 24 year history, from 1992’s arcade debut to the latest update to Mortal Kombat X. Does that include Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero? Yes it does. What about the relatively tame fatalities from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe? They’re in there…
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CultureKubros Pop Culture Construction Figures Are Fun Until The Parts Run Out
A construction toy take on the vinyl pop culture figure craze, Mega Bloks new Kubros sets are great, unless your kit is missing bricks. I got my first look at Mega Bloks’ Kubros during the Mattel party at Toy Fair 2016, and I couldn’t wait to get my oversized paws on them. Like the popular…
By Mike Fahey