Blizzard hasn’t said much about in-game toxicity in Heroes of the Storm since before the game had launched, leading…
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Heroes of the Storm just put out a spotlight for the upcoming Warcraft character Manbearpig Rexxar. I love the idea of adding a beastmaster—I mean, there’s already one in Dota 2. Allowing you to manage a bunch of different animals seems like a logical next step from all the summoning-heavy specialists already in HOTS.…
League of Legends fan art is so fucking good.
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“Sometimes I swear that bird is just showing off,” Quinn will often say in League of Legends. I don’t think she…
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Buried in League of Legends’ characteristically dense patch notes last night, developer Riot Games revealed a…
Heroes of the Storm is changing its ranked structure, Blizzard announced today. Players will only be able to queue up for ranked games with one other person instead of two or three like they can now. Hopefully this will lead to improved (read: more fair) matchmaking, though I’m certainly not bitter about that. Read more
Late last night, Heroes of the Storm reached into my chest, tore out my heart, and began to vigorously stomp on it.…
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The desert soldier Azir has been a powerful presence for much of League of Legends’ current season, with the mage…
Here you can see two King Leorics cast their giant-tomb-summoning ults so they cinch together perfectly, creating a closed rectangle that looks very scary to be stuck inside. Is this the Heroes of the Storm equivalent of a WWE “Hell In A Cell” cage match, as xWretchedWorldx described it on Reddit? Yes. Yes it is. Read more
Stereotypes might lead you to believe any gamer’s love of MOBAs has to be mutually exclusive. I’m here to tell you…
Heroes of the Storm has been running very well for the most part since I started playing it earlier this year. It’s…
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When it comes to lag, League of Legends developer Riot has been talking a real big game lately—saying they’re…
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“It’s just really satisfying, it’s the most satisfying feeling I’ve ever had in my life. As I said in the post-game…
Do you play League of Legends on the North America servers? Have you played since they moved to Chicago? If the game is running well—or better than it was before—let us know. If you’re having any connection issues, let us know that, too! We want to get a sense of how League is running post-move. Thanks! Read more
Riot’s Jeffrey Lin has amended his statements about how ranked League of Legends players will be punished for having chat restrictions or temporary bans this season. On Twitter and in a new ask.fm post, he said that only a specific subset of ranked players won’t be eligible for 2015 rewards. Read the full update here.
UPDATE (5:30 pm): Riot’s Jeffrey Lin has issued a follow up statement to the one this post originally covered,…
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Add this to the list of things that make me want a Nintendo-themed MOBA more than anything else in my life right now.
If League of Legends were a mobile game, I like to think it’d be something like a slickly produced version of last…
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.