by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
A lot of players have begun to question the player count of League of Legends, but this is a difficult thing to peg down. Some speculation has come from streamers, who frequently vent by blaming the game or developers, and some has come from veteran players upset at...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Niantic may have exploded into the mobile market, but after the first year, it has been mostly downhill for them. Their player count has dwindled considerably – by more than 90% - and players continue to be unhappy with recent updates which ignore many of the larger...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 2, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, News, Videogames
Late Saturday night, the League of Legends community was rocked by devastating news from Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng. Over the course of the weekend, Doublelift revealed that a terrible tragedy befell his family Saturday night. In an apparent act of grief, his brother...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 2, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
After Cloud9’s defeat at the hands of Team Liquid, and TSM’s defeat at the hands of Clutch Gaming, no one expected the semifinals to be easy. Liquid and Clutch didn’t play like a fourth and sixth place team either. Team Liquid continued to crush their way through the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 30, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Most gamers above the age of 18 can remember nickel and diming their old titles to GameStop in the hopes of earning enough for a new game. It’s hard to say if these are fond memories so much as they are memories. Even after 19 years, and after closing 150 stores last...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
The debate over esports being classified as sports isn’t going anywhere. In fact, as esports continue to gain popularity, it will probably become even more heated. Most of the anger comes from the fact that games like League of Legends have the word ‘sport’ in their...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 29, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames, weekly
Semifinals: Team Liquid vs Echo Fox Echo Fox didn’t just beat Team Liquid the last time they met, they beat them by putting a Yassuo in the top lane. It doesn’t get much more humiliating than that. It didn’t help that Liquid simply didn’t do their part in trying to...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 29, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Something funny has been happening on Twitch. First it was Ninja’s insane rise to popularity, growing his average users from 10k to over 100k in just 3 months. Next, there was the realization from numerous streamers that they were getting Twitch Prime subscriptions...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 28, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Rovio, the developer behind Angry Birds, continues to face hardships. Only a month ago, the developer saw their stock value plummet in half only months after entering the stock market and after falling short of profit evaluations. Earlier this month, their woes...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 28, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
No one would have imagined that of all the teams to take down TSM, it would be Clutch Gaming in the quarterfinals. TSM’s loss against Clutch breaks a record five years old and ten seasons running. Created seven years ago, TSM has become nearly synonymous with the...
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