[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...

This is not a drill! At long last, the fan-made Janitor Leoric concept for Heroes of the Storm is happening. During a showcase for the all-new character Orphea at BlizzCon, Blizzard revealed several silly skins and one of them caused us to ...

Blizzard kicked off BlizzCon right with a brand new original character reveal for Heroes of the Storm: Orphea. In the clip, Orphea is arguing with The Raven Lord (another original Heroes character) and does battle with her dark powers...

After years and years of Warcraft III (I'm so glad that game doesn't have a /played command) I've had plenty of time to assess which hero is my favorite. All of them have their own charm, but the Dreadlord (a role often times filled by...

Blizzard has announced that Heroes of the Storm will be dropping support for Direct X 9 and 32-bit operating systems. Somewhere out there, a single person is weeping from their circa-2008 PC. If you remember from last year, Blizzard had end...

For the past several years I've wanted Dreadlord representation in Heroes of the Storm and I got it. As a cornerstone of my Warcraft III experience the undead Dreadlord hero was a matter of if, not when, for the game, and Blizzard...

Tencent probably expected more from Arena of Valor when it launched the game in North America last December. After all, it was the highest grossing mobile title last year, pulling in $1.9 billion in revenue. It’s gargantuan in China, ...

Deathwing the Destroyer is a pretty popular Warcraft character. In addition to shaking the very planes of the World of Warcraft universe he's also become an avenue for fan art (especially given that he has a dragon and human form): and has ...

As a reminder, most MOBAs tend to release characters in rapid succession, especially when the game is in its infancy, but teams also eye old decaying choices that fall victim to power creep in the form of "reworks." Blizzard has been steppi...

Riot might have cemented 5v5 as their bread and butter format for League of Legends, but they're not afraid to experiment with various PVP and PVE modes. Some pass the smell test (ARAM), and some don't (RIP Dominion). Either way every so of...

Bless Blizzard for they had sinned: it had been one year and three months since the launch of the last evil Diablo character in Heroes of the Storm.  That is until Mephisto, Lord of Hatred, entered the fray this week. Having taken him ...

Every year, despite barely playing Dota 2 at all anymore, I look forward to The International (TI). It's the game's premier event and the biggest in all of eSports. Millions of dollars are on the line each year, while the production va...

In a surprise announcement, two new Heroes were just announced at The International for Dota 2. The first Hero teased was Mars, which just had a quick still shot and a winter release date. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, they announced ...

Platform holders have a history of excluding certain games, including free-to-play titles (which may or may not have optional subscriptions or microtransactions), from the scope of their subscription-based services. In other words you can d...

Surprise! Blizzard is kicking off Gamescom with a bang with Mephisto's entrance into Heroes of the Storm, their "Blizzard All-Star" MOBA. As long of the most-requested heroes to date he's a huge breath of fresh air, especially since Diablo&...

I've been waiting for a priest, specifically of the shadow variety, since Heroes of the Storm was first announced. While Anduin, poised to reclaim the glory of the alliance in the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, seemed like the m...

Riot has always experimented with various gametypes in League of Legends, trying to find that sweet spot where folks will want to take a break from the core 5v5 experience while retaining a healthy queue time. ARAM (all-random all-middle) m...

Blizzard has been doing a bang-up job with both Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch. What would normally be an innocuous cosmetic drop has now become a series of events, and most recently the former is elaborating on its GI Joe vs. Cobra-esqu...

[Update: You can find her spotlight below as well as this landing page detailing her basic abilities and heroics.] It's been a long, long time since the last Heroes of the Storm character. The development team has noted many times (includin...

There's no new character this week, but the latest Heroes of the Storm patch is one of the biggest updates of the year.  The main event is definitely the Mad Max-ian "Raiders of Warchrome" celebration, which brings new wasteland skins ...

If you haven't played Heroes of the Storm, find a friend that has and have them onboard you using the free client. I've been playing it since its alpha, and I've found it to be a refreshing, sometimes flawed truncated take on the MOBA genre...

Blizzard knows how to push skin events; they have it down to a science at this point. This latest one is worth taking a peek at too, as Blizzard is bringing the Mad Max flair into "Raiders of Warchrome." In addition to the existing Gar...

Although Blizzard has been undeniably changed by its association with Activision, there are glimmers of the old wild west community-centric company that frequently pop up. The Heroes of the Storm team (like Overwatch) has notably ackno...