Remember when League of Legends was infamous for having one of the worst player communities of any game out there? And remember when Riot vowed to turn things around and show that LoL can have a friendly and helpful community? Well, it seems like the company managed to keep its promise of not tolerating player toxicity anymore because things have ...
Read More »The Smite European Championships will conclude this weekend
The best European Smite teams will clash this weekend in Cologne, Germany for a slice of the total prize pool of $50,000. The European Championships are scheduled to kick off tomorrow, November 15, with the victor to be decided Sunday, November 16. Six of the best teams from the old continent will be duking it out over the weekend, but ...
Read More »Blizzard draws a comparison between Heroes of the Storm and other MOBA games
It seems like we hear about a new MOBA game every few months now and while most of them seem mediocre to put it lightly, there are a few new ones that do look promising. Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm is definitely one of them even though the company doesn’t actually refer to the game as being a MOBA. Blizzard ...
Read More »Blizzard continues to ban Hearthstone accounts found to be using bots
Blizzard is continuing its righteous crusade against Hearthstone cheaters by issuing another round of bans against them. The company is well known for its no nonsense approach when it comes to cheating in Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft, so it was only natural that it would use the same approach in Hearthstone as well. Blizzard announced earlier that a ...
Read More »Mobile eSports are becoming increasingly popular, $2 million in prize money awarded this year alone
The eSports industry has been growing at a steady pace these last few years and will continue to get even bigger as more and more competitive games are being released. Big titles like Starcraft 2, League of Legends, or Call of Duty regularly have huge tournaments with lots of money on the line, but this industry is comprised out of much ...
Read More »Ubisoft Working On Assassin’s Creed Unity Fix
Over the past few days, it became clear that Assassin’s Creed Unity just wasn’t up to scratch; there was a tremendous amount of graphical issues, an extensive amount of glitches and several connection problems. However, Ubisoft – the game’s developer – have released a statement saying that they are currently working on fixing these issues. However, before they announced which ...
Read More »Dark Souls 2 can be beat in under an hour
From Software’s original Dark Souls title was a great hit with speed runners and it’s no surprise that Dark Souls 2 was also going to be targeted by fans of the series attempting to beat the game as fast as possible. One of them is Allakazzaror, a speed runner who has set a world record for a glitch free Dark ...
Read More »Benedict Lim “hyhy” Han Yong talks about the differences between Dota 2 and League of Legends
Former Dota 2 professional player Benedict Lim “hyhy” Han Yong went on Reddit earlier today to do an AMA with the fans. If you’re new to the game you might now know who he is, but Han Yong was pretty well known on the scene a couple of years back. “hyhy” used to play for Zenith and made it to the ...
Read More »Study reveals that games like Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and Assassin’s Creed can improve our learning ability
It was suggested many times in the past that playing video games can grant us better memory, decision making, or coordination, among other things. Well, it turns out that games can actually improve our brains according to a recent study done by researchers at the University of Toronto. The researchers learned that people who play fast-paced action games like Assassin’s ...
Read More »World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor goes live today
Warlords of Draenor, the fifth expansion of the massive MMORPG World of Warcraft, will go live today at 2:00 a.m. PST in North America and 12 a.m. CET in Europe. UK WoW players are already enjoying Warlords of Draenor, as the expansion was released yesterday on UK servers. Warlords of Draenor is set after the events of Mists of Pandaria, while ...
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