Region locking: the most talked-about thing in the Dota-sphere, aside from complaining about "unfair" low priority.  Not a day goes by without someone complaining on Reddit about having to play with non-English speakers on US East. Usually, these discussions quickly devolve...

How do you become a professional Hearthstone player? Climbing the ladder is a good start, but if you want to make the next step, you'll need to do a lot more. This article series is going to take an...

It's been a while since we've seen any massive Twitch blunders from Dota casters. Casting live is an intimidating job because you're not only required to be making in-game connections at the speed of light, but you also need to be...

After a near month of waiting and probably a bunch of hungover employee meetings, Riot has finally resumed its patch cycle with the release of Patch 7.1, the first of 2017. In short: 'ADC in 2017' is still an...

A Special Introduction This post is thanks to the creative genius of Redditor Corpit. He created an entire album of all original 151 Pokémon as Hearthstone cards. (Check it out, they're amazing.) You can see the Reddit post here. I talked...

For parts of 2015, Counter Logic Gaming was arguably the best team in NA. They had consistent role players around some potential stars, and got good results. Going into 2016, the team was not making much progress. Throughout 2016...

Last week, Blizzard released their first Overwatch update of the year, and yesterday, the developers announced an update to that update, which will be tested on the PTR before it's pushed to the live client. Here's the full list of included changes, courtesy...

The Newbee organization has announced the formation of an additional Dota squad: Newbee Boss. Here's the current roster: Xiao8 Ferrari_430 Axx ChuaN Zei9 There are two notable things about Newbee.Boss: It's Xiao8, Ferrari_430, and ChuaN's current team. All of these players have...

It's been a while since we've seen any dramatic changes in the viewership hierarchy of MOBAs on Twitch. At almost any given time, you'll see that League of Legends has secured a place near the top three most watched titles. With...

There’s still plenty of dust to settle as the offseason comes to a close, but the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) is right around the corner. At the tail end of an offseason headlined by high...

When SK Telecom T1 (SKT) announced in November they were releasing two of their own world champions, top laner Duke and jungler Bengi, surely they had a trick up their sleeves. Duke had a great summer 2016 split by...

The conductors of the 'Korean hype train' have made it to their last stop. As of January 10, 2017, Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles and Erik "DoA" Lonnquist will no longer be casting League of Legends in Korea. The most iconic casting...