by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 8, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
At this point, it is hard to tell what exactly the Riot balance team is aiming for. After the fiasco that was the League of Stopwatches, even Riot realized that they made the game far too passive and late game oriented. Pro play matches in particular suffered – and...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 8, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
We are into Week 8 of League of Legends, and despite some impressive runs, we can safely count out FlyQuest, OpTic Gaming, and Golden Guardians from qualifying for the quarterfinals. That said, CLG could still make a miracle run, and any of the remaining six teams...
by Jordan Love | Mar 7, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Just a few years ago, Ubisoft was competing with EA for the title of worst games publisher on the planet. They were in the throes of a hostile takeover and had ridden the Assassin's Creed franchise into the ground. Now, they're dragging themselves back in the good...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 7, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
Maybe it’s some twisted part of their strategy, but CLG love to be the underdog. League of Legends is a game that makes it hard to come back from a deficit, but CLG manage to do routinely. This weekend, they not only came back from a huge deficit – Cloud9 was up 9k...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 7, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
The popular browser-game creator and online community Kongregate is moving into the digital store front business. According to an article by Polygon, Kongregate will be launching their own digital store front in summer of this year. Called Kartridge, the service...
by Jordan Love | Mar 6, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
The Shanghai Dragons and their coach, Chen Congshan, are officially parting ways. The team made the announcement on their Twitter page and added that assistant coach Sun Jun Young would be taking his place on an at least temporary basis. The news comes on the heels of...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 6, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Riot is no stranger to controversy. We all remember H2K’s constant letters to the community about Riot – which turned out to be unsubstantiated or outright false. Last year saw yet another League of Legends drama unfolding as players for the Australian team Tainted...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 6, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Normally when a company goes public – which means you can buy stock in it – it is the start of great things and great success, but it hasn’t looked that way for Rovio. Just five months after going public, their stock price fell by half, and it looks like that is just...
by Jordan Love | Mar 5, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Microsoft today announced a new video series called Inside Xbox. The monthly videos will focus on everything Xbox, including behind the scenes videos, announcements, highlight reels, giveaways, community interaction and more. According to Microsoft, Inside Xbox is a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 5, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
Being in last place doesn’t mean being the least skilled, and CLG and Golden Guardians proved that this weekend. In a remarkable show of skill, the two teams ranked the lowest beat the team teams ranked the highest – and it wasn’t even that hard for them. While Cloud9...
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