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Good ol' Lucio. Remember when I said he's never a bad pick? Let's talk about that for a minute. Lucio is the number one most picked hero in professional play, boasting a preposterous 100% pick rate. Everything that makes him...

Hearthstone's Journey to Un’Goro expansion will be launching in the next week or so. It will bring many changes with it, including a Standard rotation and 135 new cards. One of the new card types that Blizzard is introducing are Quests....

Walking around arcades as a child, I remember always thinking to myself, "how ridiculous are those capsule vending machines? Who in the world would want a tiny plastic Pokémon figurine?" As it turns out, I couldn't have been more...

Let's talk about Bastion. That's right, everyone's favorite killbot who's got a soft spot for woodland animals. Bastion could be mistaken for the forgotten lovechild of Snow White and Terminator, and today we're putting this Overwatch hero under the microscope. Bastion's Evolution Before Winston...

You might be thinking to yourself that Hearthstone has had Elementals for a while. And you'd be right. But also wrong! Elementals have been in the game since release. However, they haven't ever had their own tribe before. They...

Is there anything more frustrating in Dota than sitting in your base trying to repel and endless army of illusions from whittling down your towers? For the past year, give or take, Shadow Demon strats have been a cornerstone of...

The recent transition to 10 bans in professional League of Legends has entirely reshaped competitive pick and ban strategies, enabling teams to interact more than ever before in champion select. Some picks, however, are so oppressive that they crowd out the other...

When CS:GO was released in August of 2012, the M4A4 rifle was the primary Counter-Terrorist assault rifle, replacing the M4A1 from previous versions of CS. The M4A1 offered players the option of changing between silenced and unsilenced firing modes in...

Today, I’m going to be talking about the concept of inevitability, and how you can use it guide your in-game decision making. In games and sports, teams with inevitability have an increased likelihood of winning in the late game. Teams...

With the Kiev Major just over a month away, it's time for us to look at the top contenders going into Valve's first official Dota 2 tournament in a CIS country. The direct invites have already been revealed, and while...

The Week 7 LCS match between GIANTS! Gaming and Team Vitality started off fairly innocuously, with GIANTS! poised to claim a 2-0 victory. When Vitality's Nukeduck paused game 2 at 26:15, the score was 0-7. Here’s a screenshot of...

After Blizzard shipped a massive slew of changes to the PTR earlier this week, they've already made tweaks. Principal Designer Geoff Goodman posted information about the latest PTR update on the Battlenet forums: We just pushed out a new build with some...