Despite being slated to return to the Pokemon World Championships in 2017, the competitive Pokken Tournament scene is facing a massive problem. The console version of the game, which some players train on before competing on arcade units, is badly in need of an update. But the the people behind Pokemon have made no indication that they plan on releasing one.
After a bug halted a match in last week's League of Legends Championship Series matches, Riot Games casually unveiled a new resume-from-replay feature. In a blog post, the company goes into detail on how this will affect officiating the league's weekly matches moving forward.
A Valentine's Day update to League of Legends brought a long-awaited practice mode for aspiring competitive players and newbies alike. In a vacuum, it provides a much-needed feature in an accessible manner; but in doing so, it misses the mark for becoming a more ubiquitous asset.
Earlier this month, Valve took the infamous "Dust2" map out of rotation to make room for a remodeled "Inferno." Today, at DreamHack Masters Las Vegas, team North inducted the new map with a vicious quad-kill through smoke to take a round off opponent OpTic.
Players of Nintendo's newest mobile game love to hate and hate to love one specific unit, the mere presence of which has been defining the endgame experience.
A new patch for Hearthstone will make it easier to climb the ranks, and allow for a little more variety in the ladder.
An anticipated mod for Super Smash Bros. Melee is about to streamline the 15-year-old game's tournaments. 20XXTE, in beta now and released in full early March, sews the Melee community's specific play preferences into the fibre of the game.
Reddit user OraCLesofFire submitted an extended GIF of the above documenting just how devastating the recent additions to Dota 2 have made certain heroes' abilities. One of the biggest changes brought about in the game's 7.00 patch was introduction of new Talent Trees.
Out of hundreds of potential choices, competitive Pokémon players can only bring six Alolan monsters into a battleground. Three months in, despite the uncertainty of the overall metagame, some picks are turning up more often than others.
Chris "Dubby" McFarland proved himself the best Madden NFL 17 player in the country after defeating Eric "Problem" Wright in the grand finals of the Madden Bowl just over a week ago. Less than a week later he was forced to give back $US3,000 ($3,909) of his $US75,000 ($97,718) prize winnings after violating EA's Code of Conduct.
