As promised, Blizzard just implemented the "Toys 2" event in Heroes of the Storm, which brings back the popular "Toys" celebration. The gist? You're getting a free pack of challenges that unlock cosmetics, as well as the always-popular...

2019 saw the release of four Champions for League of Legends thus far, a step up from 2018's three, and that's just dealing with League of Legends. Outside of their main cash cow, Riot is working hard on constantly updating the Auto-Ba...

I've been playing Heroes of the Storm for over four years now. There are very few games that manage to keep me captivated that long, but alas, the Heroes team managed to grab me where so many other MOBAs haven't. While others chase DOTA's f...

Battleborn, already dead for all intents and purposes, will be officially dead in a year's time. Gearbox's doomed hero-shooting MOBA will be taken offline in January 2021. 2K Games has revealed its plans to pull the plug on Battleborn's ser...

During the Heroes of the Storm deep dive panel at BlizzCon this week, the Heroes team took the opportunity to focus mostly on Deathwing, the "most requested hero ever," but there's a few tidbits near the end that will probably res...

[Update: Blizzard briefly acknowledged Heroes during the opening ceremony today, confirming that Deathwing is going to be free for BlizzCon pass holders. All heroes will be free until November 10.] Despite the fact that it doesn't get ...

Heroes of the Storm is not dead. Although development has slowed down considerably (there have only been a few new characters out in 2019 compared to the usual cadence of "a ton") and the esports arm has been shut down, there's still a...

League of Legends turns 10 years old this month, and Riot Games has a lot of news to share as part of the celebration. Like, a lot. Here's a full rundown.

It feels like just yesterday when I was running Ryze trying for Pentakills while a friend of mine ran Fiddlesticks in mid. If that's gibberish to you I completely understand, as not everyone has played League of Legends, much less all the w...

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 ...