This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The NA LCS Summer Playoffs have begun! The first Quarterfinals [...]
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Great marketing loves buzzwords: the terms that by themselves draws your mouse one page closer to clicking "pre-order." I'm starting to believe that "procedural generation" is the latest word to join the buzzword dictionary. While algorithmically created universes are neat as a concept, even mirroring our own spontaneous world, they're missing something. There's a special quality in knowing that an invisible hand wanted you to [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Nick Kakoschke of Isokron to discuss his company's recently released football management MMO, 90 Minute Fever. We discussed what inspired them to make the game, what's going to change over the course of Early Access, and more. [singlepic id=57559 w=600 h=338 float=none] How many people are working on 90 Minute Fever? [...]
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Many MMO fans have been eagerly discussing the pro’s and con’s of legacy servers and the differences in gaming experiences offered between newer versions of the games. With all the discussion going on I felt it high time to hit the keyboard and start on some of my favourite MMO’s from scratch and compare the experiences. Recently I went back to [...]
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Summer is the perfect time for a variety of events in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. There is a Free Login Campaign going on for those who want to try the game out again. Accounts must have been inactive for thirty days prior. The moment users login to update their client, their free five days begin. For new and returning players [...]
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I'm on my priest in a luscious forest, bending down to pick up morning glory seeds. I need them to craft a potion. The hotbar ticker is nearly finished when my character becomes dazed like she was suddenly struck by an epiphany or a brain aneurysm. What's happening? Oh no. An undead rogue unstealths and shanks my liver while typing "KEK" again [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The regular season of the NA LCS has finished and the playoffs begin [...]
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I cannot be alone in my opening experience with this game. I loaded up Elder Scrolls Online, excited by the prospect of a new entry in the Elder Scrolls Franchise. I patiently waited to connect to the servers. I patted myself on the back for buying the game while it was on sale for 60% off. And then it hit [...]
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Back then nothing compared to popping a Dr. Pepper and leaving my reality far behind. Life was tiring. Unloading truck after truck after truck, stacked with boxes five high, four across, all weighing their own special snowflake weight, I wanted to do nothing more than be somewhere else. Drawing the blinds to push out the streetlight I would turn on [...]
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In an article on PC Gamer, co-founder of Epic Games Tim Sweeney worries that Microsoft is trying erode Steam's influence by creating compatibility issues in future Windows updates. It wouldn't be the first attempt by a company to cut in on Valve's turf. UPlay, Origin, Arc, Nexon Launcher and Aeria Ignite are all similarly designed digital distribution platforms. They lump [...]
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