To the dismay of many of my friends, teammates, and colleagues, I bought VALORANT’s first Ultra Edition skin line: the Elderflame Collection. Yes, I paid almost $100 to fulfill my Game of Thrones fantasy and harness the power of dragons. But if there’s a silver lining in this, aside from wielding badass skins in-game, …

If you’ve ever played a game of League of Legends and thought to yourself, “If I get hit by one more Blitzcrank hook, I’m going to ragequit,” don’t worry. We’ve all been there. The good news is that now there’s a fun little game you can play to improve your reactions to incoming skillshots like that pesky Blitzcrank …

Pokémon UNITE keeps in line with most free-to-play games, using multiple different in-game currencies that players need to collect to purchase items, unlock Pokémon, and more.  But along with a microtransaction-laden marketplace, TiMi Studio and The Pokémon Company have also artificially limited how much of …

The gaming world entered its battle royale stage in 2017. The hype train left the station with PUBG’s release in March 2017, and the ultimate victor of the genre, Fortnite, jumped on the rails around September of the same year. While each battle royale title is fundamentally different from each other, Fortnite was …

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is primed to change the view of the Pokémon video game series as it heads in a new and bold direction by featuring an open-world adventure. Legends: Arceus, a game set in the Hisui Region, which will eventually become the Sinnoh region, delves on the origins of Pokémon as a whole as the player …

Starting today until Jan. 21, 2020, League of Legends players can commemorate their season nine triumphs with Ranked Merch Unlocks. Riot Games’ latest edition to its merch shop offers players the opportunity to buy customized apparel with their rank and summoner name. For its inaugural release, players can choose …

More professional League of Legends teams have started picking up the Senna no-farm playstyle in the bottom lane after Cloud9’s debut of this tactic last week against Immortals. Instead of going with the traditional build on Senna, Zven built the damage-oriented support item, Spectral Sickle, while his partner in crime …

The biggest name in competitive Call of Duty will be teaming up with Activision for a $100,000 Warzone event. The Call of Duty League franchise OpTic Texas, led by the legends at OpTic Gaming, will run the two-day show on Feb. 15 and 16 in Call of Duty: Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale. The action will kick off …

If you want to fit in with your friends in League of Legends, communicate efficiently in the game or closely follow the competitive scene, you need to keep up to date with the latest jargon. The language in League is widely acknowledged in the community, from Summoner’s Rift to Twitch, Discord, and Reddit. So, grab a …

Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has called for Respawn to consider taking Apex Legends battle passes out of its battle royale, claiming the “in-built pressure” it put on players to grind is too much. Apex has had more than a dozen battle passes since its early 2019 release, following the blueprint first laid out by …