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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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You may remember Khadgar from such World of Warcraft quests as Khadgar's Task, The Dark Portal, and Entry Into Karazhan. I remember Khadgar from the words: "Follow me, stranger. This won’t take long." It was the spring of 2007. A Coke bottle had just spilled onto my mother's carpet, an old flower-patterned creation from the seventies. I was in Shattrath, [...]
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On July 19th, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward introduced patch 3.35 featuring the Palace of the Dead: Deep Dungeon. For years, players on the game’s official forums and elsewhere asked the developers for content with random elements and a sense of progression. The Palace of the Dead delivers on both counts—up until the second-to-last floor, to a point. The fifty floors [...]
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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 ninth and final week of the NA LCS regular season has finished! Day [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Marc Thompson of Ub3rgames to discuss his company's upcoming Darkfall reboot, Darkfall: New Dawn. We discussed what inspired them to pick up the license, what changes are being made to the original Darkfall, the Title System, and more. [singlepic id=56769 w=600 h=338 float=none] Me: I saw in the FAQ that there [...]
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Update: We have been notified that the Gelatinous Cube companion codes for Neverwinter PS4 can only be used with the NA version of Neverwinter PS4. We have been given some codes for the Howler mount for EU users and they will be given away in place of the Gelatinous Cube where applicable. We have partnered with Cryptic Studios and Perfect [...]
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Leveling up in an MMORPG is often met with an over-excited firework and the chance to customize your character: new skills, gear, and stat allocation. It's the time to refine what kind of Hunter or Mage or Warrior you want to be. Do I put points into intelligence to increase my healing skills? Maybe I should choose the talent tree that [...]
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