Each week, Fast Travel helps you get caught up on everything going on in the gaming industry. We start by highlighting a few of the week’s biggest news pieces. Then it’s on to a little dollop of indie news. Followed by a helping of “The Best Thing on the Internet, This Week.” And finally, we gather up all the week’s headlines and smash them into a TL;DR pie for you to enjoy. 

Epic Games Sues 14-Year Old Fortnite Cheater, Gets a Response from Mom

Epic Games is suing a kid for cheating in their wildly popular battle royale title, Fortnite. And now the his mom is ready to put up a fight.

Caleb Rogers (Sky Orbit) is the 14-year old gamer and streamer named in the suit and suffice it to say, his mom isn’t happy. She recently sent a scathing letter to the judge presiding over the case. In the letter, which you can read in its entirety here, Lauren Rogers bashes Epic Games for naming her son in the suit.

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Troll Streamer Tyler1 Gets more Views for his Tournament than the EU LCS

Tyler1, the infamous troll, recently racked up over 200k viewers for a tournament he created and named after himself. Though the Tyler1 Champion Series Tournament had a reported prize pool of $10,000, the original tournament website said that a generous gift of $4.20 would be given to the winners. It also featured ridiculous inserts of Tyler1 onto analysts desks and pictures of the teams while he interviewed them over chat programs.. 

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CLG says goodbye to Aphromoo the right way

We all knew that it would be a wild transition into the new season, but there were certain expectations. Everyone expected Bjergsen to stay with TSM, Sneaky and Jensen to stay with C9, and Aphromoo to stay with CLG. But with Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black announcing his departure from CLG, it marks the end of one of the longest partnerships in League of Legends history.

Now, Aphromoo has been signed by 100 Thieves and his former team is bidding him a fond farewell. 

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Pokémon Go May Have Increased Traffic Accidents and Deaths

According to a new study from professors at Purdue University, there was a 28 percent increase in traffic crashes near PokéStop locations in the approximately five months after the game first launched. The study, which focused on a single county in Indiana, also found that at least two of the crashes resulted in fatalities. When you extrapolate the study’s data, it’s possible that Pokémon Go may have resulted in upwards of 150,000 traffic crashes, 250 deaths and billions of dollars in damages nationwide. 

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