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...
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 Jordan Love | Mar 30, 2018 | Esports, Esports section, Videogames
This was the first NA LCS split since Riot implemented franchising last year and it's gone tremendously. So well in fact, that Riot has announced the EU LCS will be following suit and will begin franchising next year. The EU's summer split will be unaffected, but next...
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 Jordan Love | Mar 30, 2018 | Videogames, weekly
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 Jordan Love | Mar 29, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
Ninja may or may not have used the n-word while rapping a Logic song during a recent streaming session with Matthew Haag (Nadeshot). Ninja characterizes his language as a misunderstanding and suggests that he was merely "tongue-tied" and fumbled the lyrics. Though it...
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...
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