Journey to Un’Goro: Are Hearthstone Cards Too Expensive?
It's no secret that Hearthstone hasn’t been in a great place for the last year or so. Shaman has dominated the meta, RNG has run rampant, and decks have gotten faster and less fun. Power creep has decimated many of...
University of Utah Launches Varsity Esports Program
In the past year, several U.S. based universities have announced the launch of collegiate esports programs. The most recent school to start offering scholarships to students for their video game prowess is The University of Utah. In a Wednesday press release,...
Lane Bullies: Winning Top In A “Bad” Matchup
There are good and bad matchups in the top lane, but "true" hard counters are a myth, or at least an exaggeration. Every lane is salvageable if you're willing to play patiently and survive your lane. In fact, any...
Rogue’s Quest: Unexpectedly Dangerous
As of Thursday, Hearthstone's long-anticipated Journey to Un’Goro expansion has officially been released. The addition of Quests for each class has taken center stage, and if you're interested in learning more about each of them, take a look through our...
Dota 2: What Do We Need in Patch 7.05?
With the Dota Asia Championships 2017 behind us, and the Kiev Major only a few weeks away, it's highly likely that IceFrog will make a few balancing tweaks to the game. Valve will presumably want to avoid destabilizing the...
Ranking the CS:GO Majors: Part One
The eleventh CS:GO major will be run by PGL in Krakow, Poland in July, according to Valve's latest announcement about the event. It's a good time to look back at the first ten CS:GO Majors. While Counter-Strike might not...
Blizzard Teases Overwatch Lore Event: King’s Row Uprising
On April 3rd, Blizzard's Australian/New Zealand Twitter dropped a teaser for a new lore event in the form of a video file from Overwatch's classified mission archives. The upcoming Overwatch event will likely give fans a sizable chunk of lore, possibly...
Steam Workshop Artists: The True Value of Cosmetics
One of my favorite things about large Dota 2 events are the special cosmetics that Valve releases to support these tournaments. There's something undeniably appealing about the idea that my purchase directly suppors artists and my favorite players--from my own...
The Best New Combos in Journey to Un’Goro
With every new set of Hearthstone cards, Blizzard introduces powerful combos. Some of these are obvious, and others not so much. This time around, Quests are responsible for bringing us a massive new arsenal of combos--the Druid and Mage Quests...
The Great Whale Road Review: Vikings Without a Purpose
The Great Whale Road is a story-driven RPG from Sunburned Games studio. Whose story are you driving? Well, the Great Whale Road is all about Vikings, and trying to do a good job at being a Viking--you control a faction of...
Esports: When Private Politics Meet Public Personas
We've covered esports figures and their professional personas before. While many athletes come under fire for what they say and do outside of the game, personalities in the esports world are a bit more likely to be repeat offenders...
7.04 Meta Report: The Heroes of DAC 2017
The Dota 2 Asia Championships 2017 has highlighted some huge shifts in the metagame, and plenty of top teams are reevaluating their prioritization of certain heroes. We've seen Monkey King rise to prominence as a roaming support, Lina reemerge as a competitive midlaner,...
