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Riot Games to tackle toxicity with revamped Honor system rewards
Toxicity and online games. They seem to go hand in hand, and League of Legends is no exception to that. The game has been struggling with toxicity throughout all game modes, despite Riot’s efforts to combat this intrusiveness. To battle this problem the developer is building on the Honor 2.0 project to incentivize players to … Continued
Dr Disrespect’s YouTube numbers are up, show impressive growth throughout 2021
It’s been two years since the infamous Twitch ban, but the Doc has seemingly found his stride on YouTube, and the numbers don’t lie. On Twitch, Dr Disrespect was one of the most-followed streamers. Twitch acknowledged his popularity by signing him to a multi-year deal, paving the way to a successful future together. That came … Continued
Hotfix focuses on nerfing recently buffed Master Yi as he became too strong
If you’re a lower ELO player in League of Legends, chances are you’ve played with or against Master Yi more times than you can count. With recent changes that took away power from the Lethality build, Riot has created a new and improved monster that is Master Yi jungle. The changes Riot Games implemented had … Continued
Lost Ark was the most popular game on Twitch in February
Lost Ark topped League of Legends and GTA V in viewership on Twitch in February, adding to the hype the game created. Despite only being released in the second week of February, Lost Ark quickly took over the Twitch directories, becoming the second-best launch on Twitch. Only VALORANT did better in 2020. The game’s popularity … Continued
Activision Blizzard faces new lawsuit – This time for wrongful death of an employee
The lawsuits against Activision Blizzard don’t seem to stop. The latest one to be filed is one for wrongful death by the family of a woman who died by suicide. The information was first revealed in a report by Washington Post reporters Gus Garcia-Roberts and Shannon Liao. According to the Department of Fair Employment and … Continued
Riot is contemplating creating a Solo-only queue in favor of the current system
The 2022 season hasn’t been complete smooth sailing for the players in the ranked queues. This fact hasn’t escaped Riot Games, and in a recent developer blog, the company went into more detail. In that blog, competitive gameplay project manager Codebear, and Riru, part of the marketing communications team, talked about the competitive season … Continued
Rawkus is no longer coaching Sentinels
Rawkus took to Twitter last night to announce he’s no longer coaching Sentinels. The announcement came immediately after Sentinels lost the first map in their NA VCT Challengers One matchup against OpTic 2-13. To make matters even more interesting, Rawkus says he hasn’t been coaching the team for two weeks already. Unfortunately for the FaZe … Continued
Technical issues force LCS to postpone FlyQuest vs Evil Geniuses
The LCS Super Week didn’t have the smoothest of starts. Technical issues at the LCS studio forced Riot Games to postpone the last game of the night, a first in LCS regular season history. The first day of this week’s Super Week was plagued with pauses. The problems first arose during the game between Immortals … Continued
Cloud9 head coach LS released just four games into the season
In a surprising move, Cloud9’s Nick “LS” De Cesare has been removed from his position as head coach only four games into the season. De Cesare, an immensely popular content creator, signed a three year deal during the LCS 2022 off-season, but is now being released from his coaching duties early in the season. Strategic … Continued
VALORANT Champions Tour is returning to Iceland in 2022
It’s official, the VALORANT Champions Tour is returning to Iceland! In what has quickly become a match made in heaven, Riot Games announced the first Masters event of 2022 will be held in Reykjavik. The announcement was first made on the Weibo account of VALORANT esports yesterday. The original announcement was made in Mandarin, but … Continued
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II & new Warzone announced – to be built on entirely new engine
There aren’t a lot of things you can count on in life. Activision releasing a new Call of Duty every year is one of those things. The developer has officially revealed the new title to be “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II”. Warzone is getting an upgrade as well, with both games being built on … Continued
Asmongold breaks personal concurrent viewer record twice in one week
Asmongold is back, and he’s breaking records left and right. During his February 11 stream he amassed over 367,000 concurrent viewers, destroying the previous record of 285,000 he set just three days prior. One of the most popular streamers to ever go live on Twitch only just recently came back after a nearly four-month break. … Continued