by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
The trade deadline has come and gone, and rosters are locking in for what will be the teams eligible to go to Worlds. Surprisingly, only Echo Fox did any real roster shifts, but they did them with Cloud9, a team that has been heavily criticized this entire split. In...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 27, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News Section
Patch v5.10 brought so much content to Fortnite that it was easy to miss some of the more important details. The patch brought with it birthday celebrations, the return of Playground Mode and the new Compact SMG, which is an insanely fast firing weapon. What was less...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 27, 2018 | News, News Section
Three years ago, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain released on the PS4. Now, long after many have moved on to greener pastures, Konami has updated the game to allow for Quiet to be playable on FOB missions. This follows the update last year that allowed Ocelot to...
by Jordan Love | Jul 26, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
August is a good month to be an Xbox Games with Gold subscriber. Not only do you get the fantastic open-world racing title, but you also get the oft-forgotten For Honor, which is significantly better now than it was at launch. On top of these two Xbox One titles, the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 26, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section
Souls-like has become the go to term for any action RPG with a hint of dark overtones, but Death’s Gambit is a true homage to Dark Souls. Releasing on August 14, Death’s Gambit embodies almost everything that is the Souls series. It’s dark, it’s difficult, its lore is...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 26, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
Rick Fox might be the biggest sports name in esports, but he certainly isn’t the only one. Team SoloMid’s parent company – Swift – recently finished a round of funding that saw them raising $37 million. Among those investing were Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala of...
by Jordan Love | Jul 25, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
Echo Fox made a big splash yesterday with few unexpected roster moves. Fenix, Adrian and Altec were all dropped from the roster and Lost was promoted from the Fox Academy team. But the biggest move was the team’s trade for Cloud9’s Smoothie. C9 traded Smoothie to Echo...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 25, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
Base Races are some of the most exciting and some of the most unlikely events in all of League of Legends. A base race is almost always a sneaky move from a team that is playing from behind – it is a last ditch effort to make things work out. No one would have...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jul 25, 2018 | Esports, Esports section
This past weekend the NA LCS and the EU LCS both saw the lowest stream numbers of the whole split. This, coupled with streamers reporting record lows in views, has caused many to wonder if League of Legends isn’t dying. Streamers are the biggest voices behind the...
by Elizabeth Freeman | Jul 24, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Fortnite is celebrating its first birthday, but it feels like it’s been around forever. The battle royale that’s turned into a cultural phenomenon in the last twelve months has been nearly unavoidable, no matter where you fit into society. Even the World Cup, arguably...
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