Bust out your bobbed hair and turn up the jazz, because Heroes of the Storm is seemingly warping back to the 1920s. As teased on the game's official Twitter account, the new event seems to be called "The Scarlet Heist," and will provide new...

League of Legends has earned a lot of cachet over years, and is in part responsible for the worldwide rise of eSports. You could argue that it's already had its due with multiple documentaries, specials, and general interest (and tired) "eS...

During the most recent stream of The International, the biggest eSports tournament in history, Valve showed off a trailer of a brand new Dota 2 Hero: Snapfire. Abilities and role are not explicitly stated or shown, but based on the tra...

Heroes of the Storm is having an interesting year. Although a lot of people aren't happy with the way Blizzard decided to ramp down development, I've actually been enjoying the game on a regular basis, just as frequently as I have in the pa...

One of Heroes of the Storm's most popular developers, Kevin "Cloaken" Michael Johnson, left the team after Blizzard announced that it was curbing the game's production, and in April, left Blizzard altogether. Why am I telling you this?...

Auto Chess is on the rise, and as is typical of Riot Games, the studio immediately swooped in and started to take advantage of it with their take on the subgenre, Teamfight Tactics. It's no surprise that given the high amount of polish it's...

It feels like forever ago that Blizzard announced that they were winding down operations for Heroes of the Storm and cutting their entire eSports program, but that just happened this past December. Yet, in this past eight months, the r...

Heroes of the Storm isn't being updated as frequently as it once was. Blizzard has "winded down" the production of HotS, cutting its main eSports league and shuffled various key members of the team over to other projects. But that doesn't m...

The Dota Auto Chess mod kicked off at the beginning of 2019, and started a trend in the process. After reaching an apex of eight million players over a scant few months, the "auto-battler" genre was born, and man did publishers ru...

While the tech and nuances may change, Dota 2 is pretty much the same MOBA concept that was crafted eons ago and kicked the whole genre off. Naturally over time fanatics are going to search for new ways to play and spinoff potential, which ...

[Update: You can find the Spotlight embedded below.] The last time Heroes of the Storm added a character (all the way back into January), it didn't really resonate with me. It wasn't the boon the game needed after it was put on notice last ...

Several months ago the existence of the Heroes of the Storm character Anduin was leaked from an international arm of Blizzard. The Heroes team kind of brushed it off, noting that he'll come when he comes: welp, he came. My fellow Alliance m...

Blizzard just rolled out the patch notes for the latest Heroes of the Storm PTR build, and it's a doozy. First off loot chests cannot be purchased for gems anymore (read: premium currency). Instead you can now buy rare loot chests for 3,000...

Back in January Hi-Rez Studios released Smite on Switch, but it wasn't fully-free-to-play. Just like Paladins Hi-Rez dropped it on the system in a sort of beta form, allowing players to pay for Founders Packs (that would essentially allow a...

Hi-Rez Studios has released the latest patch for SMITE and its new features are pretty big. PC, Xbox One and Switch players will be able to play together with new cross-platform support and players can even continue their progression on whi...

Heroes of the Storm's development is winding down, but as of now, new characters are still arriving. We can likely expect this cadence throughout the year as heroes who were previously in development need to see the light of day, but after ...

Low player bases and even lower revenues are forcing Robot Entertainment to axe two of its free-to-play games. Both Orcs Must Die Unchained and Hero Academy 2 will be shut down on April 8, 2019. In a message on its website, Robot ...

As I mentioned last week, Heroes of the Storm might be winding down when it comes to support from the top ranks of Blizzard (and Activision), but the team that's left is still passionate and willing to support the game as long as possi...

Although we recently learned that Blizzard would be winding down support for Heroes of the Storm, the game is far from dead as it stands right now. While future content could see massive drought periods, it looks like the team was able to f...

This very month Blizzard's new CEO came out and issued a paralyzing statement regarding Heroes of the Storm. The game would immediately begin winding down, with less frequent hero (character) releases and the complete obliteration of a...

[Update: Kaéo Milker, producer for the game, weighed in with an additional statement beyond what the top brass already said below. After noting his disappointment, the phrasing seems to indicate that this was a surprise to the t...

Blizzard took to the stage at this year's BlizzCon to announce that Orphea, the Raven Lord's daughter, was coming to Heroes of the Storm. For Heroes players who even know who the Raven Lord is there was a mixed reaction. For every...

[This week, Destructoid is sponsored by Relic Raiders. Here's a note from their dev team:] Online battles got a little hotter with the release of Relic Raiders on Steam Early Access. The free-to-play multiplayer action game drops ...

League of Legends' Ahri, Evelynn, [relative newcomer] Kai'Sa and Akali blew up YouTube last week as Riot Games dropped the "POP/STARS" music video. Enamoring players and non-players alike, the video of course was an elaborate commercial for...

This weekend saw the 2018 World Championships of uber-popular MOBA League of Legends. While the tournament saw a series of high-stakes, high-intensity battles, the real talking point appears to be the excellent musical performance that open...