by Jordan Love | Apr 6, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
The Fast Travel weekly gaming recap is your resource for staying 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 bit of esports news. Followed by a helping of “The Best Thing on...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 6, 2018 | Indie, News, News Section, Videogames
Indie developers have provided some of the freshest, most exciting content to gaming in years. No one would argue with the quality of stellar games like Shovel Knight, Transistor, or Stardew Valley. However, for all of the highly regarded and adored indie games, there...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 6, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Blizzard has announced the seventh expansion in the ongoing epic that is World of Warcraft. The trailer shows off new races, new battlegrounds, new maps, and a hint of the story to come. After nearly 17 years, it’s clear that Blizzard is trying to keep things fresh,...
by Arden Terry | Apr 5, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Loot boxes are not a popular feature in the gaming community and they’ve even been accused of being a form of illegal gambling. The loot box mechanic has been a nuisance for many years, but now it feels like game developers are starting to take notice of the...
by Charles Rathbone | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Controversial YouTuber Markus “Count Dankula” Meechan was recently found guilty of a hate crime for a 2016 video that featured his girlfriend's pug making various Nazi Salutes. The ruling, handed down by a UK court, found that Count Dankula had violated...
by Arden Terry | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Last year was extremely profitable for one particular gaming company, Tencent. For the past few years, the enormous Chinese conglomerate has been buying up pieces of major video game developers and publishers from around the world. Currently Tencent has domain over a...
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 Jordan Love | Apr 2, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
It’s been a busy couple days for Twitch. First, it was revealed that they laid off several employees (including at least one high-profile one) in a bid to reprioritize other departments. At the same time, people were asking if their most popular streamer, Ninja, would...
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...
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