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League of Legends 2016 World Championship kicks off

Starting yesterday, League of Legend's big annual tournament, the 2016 World Championships had officially commenced. While the 2015 World Championships was hosted in Western Europe, 2016's tournament will be he... Read More...

Riot will be crowdfunding prize pools for future League of Legends tournaments

After seeing the immense success from crowdfunded prize pools such as Valve's The International for Dota 2 and Smite's World Championships, fans of League of Legends have been clamoring for this level of financ... Read More...

Tencent creating its own console

Riot Games majority shareholder Tencent plans on releasing its own video game console to the Chinese market. Named the Tencent Games Platform Box, or TGP Box, will be released only in China so far, without any word whether it will come to the Western market... Read More...

New League of Legends champ Taliyah revealed in lore post

Over on the official League of Legends site, a short story titled 'The Bird and the Branch". In it, the story of Taliyah the female stone mage undergoes a journey to discover her powers and meets up with the fa... Read More...

League of Legends mid-season update targets Mages

The mage has always been an established character in League of Legends, or any MOBA, for that matter. The glass cannons typically stay back in team engagements, and are often known as 'poke champions' when i... Read More...

League of Legends: the new classes and subclasses explained

With well over a hundred champions in League of Legends at this point, Riot recently took a look at, and reevaluated, how the game will categorize the many different champions. Far from simplifying the vast range of characters and playstyles, Riot is hoping to... Read More...

Riot retiring League of Legends' Dominion mode

League of Legends' Dominion mode will be no more on February 22nd, 2015. The game mode was launched more then four years ago, and added an alternative to Summoner's Rift. The map Summoner's Rift is the traditi... Read More...

G2A banned from sponsoring League of Legends events

For some time now G2A has been annoying game developers while simultaneous bringing affordable gaming to a lot of people. For anyone unsure who they are they resell game keys that users have acquired, whether t... Read More...

LoL World Championship draws in nearly a million viewers

Earlier this week, the League of Legends World Championship got started up in Paris, and it has been streamed by over 1 million people concurrently on Twitch. This doesn't even begin to take into account the millions of viewers that are using various other st... Read More...

Incredible upset by Origen at Worlds 2015

Earlier today, European underdogs, Origen, went up against the leading team in China, LGD Gaming. LGD was the clear team to win, with all analysts coming to an anonymous vote that they would be the victors. LGD... Read More...

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Futurama is coming to mobile in Worlds of Tomorrow game

Keith McNally release a free eBook based on The Last of Us

Digital Distribution: The good, the bad, and the sales

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Inquisitor – Martyr is looking to be the ARPG Warhammer 40k deserves

Shadow of War has plenty of room to improve on Shadow of Mordor

Ghost Recon Wildlands embodies the promise and pitfalls of open-worlds

The MMO genre should learn from Black Desert’s mistakes and comeback

For Honor and how bad servers can ruin a good game

Doom review: Hell of a time

Horizon Zero Dawn Review

Night in the Woods Review

SteamWorld Heist Review

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier “Ties That Bind Part I & II” Review

Assassin’s Creed Movie Review: A failed leap of faith

Batman- The Telltale Series Full Season Review

Game Cafe Ep. 15 (Part 3): PC Gaming

The Game Café: AAA Blockbusters and the turn to open-world games

The Game Café: The rise and future of mobile gaming

The Game Café: Video game movies are still a work-in-progress

The Game Café: The horror genre and what makes a good horror game?

The Game Café: Switch and the long history of Nintendo

The Game Café: Season Passes and Modern DLC