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The new Path of Exile league starts up in a few weeks, and players are already starting to plan their builds. There are a lot of factors it's important to consider for your first build, but the most important thing is...

Some of the most stylish plays you'll see in Dota 2 tend to involve somebody killing their own teammate or tower. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing your hard-earned tower kill stolen away from you, or that hero you've worked so hard...

Support players in League of Legends are tasked with controlling vision, peeling for the ADC or other carries, and making sure that they're picking a champion who suits the needs of the team. Supports don't generally farm, and while they...

The Battle Cup is a wonderful addition to Dota, offering a chance to play in a real, structured tournament with a team even if you're just a regular pub pleb. Over the years, a few in-house leagues have come and...

As is typical from the action role-playing game genre, Path of Exile isn't mechanically demanding. In comparison to the 300+ actions-per-minute that a good StarCraft player executes, even the most demanding Path of Exile builds require less than a third...

When there isn't an Operation going on, the roster of popular CS:GO maps is fairly small. But when a new Operation launches, players have access to a new collection of maps. The appeal of new maps seems to fade quickly, and...

With the conclusion of the International 2017 Qualifiers, and the group stages only a month away, it's time to turn our attention towards the TI7 metagame. IceFrog has already made a few tweaks before it kicks off, with the...

The process of itemization begins at level one. But choosing what items to buy--and the order to buy them in--is often overlooked, even by professionals. In the LCS, for example, we saw NV LirA build Mercury Treads against a triple marksman composition. Of course,...

We've got a crazy meta on our hands right now. At the Summit 7, one of the last large events before TI7, Dota fans got a chance to see how pros were adjusting to the new patch, and certain teams, especially Virtus.pro...

With the release of Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath on the horizon, players with access to the beta have began exploring this massive new expansion in preparation. Until now, Path of Exile's campaign had four sections ("Acts"), but in Fall of...

Dota's latest event, a multiplayer co-op campaign called "Siltbreaker," has officially gone live, only a week (give or take) after the initial release date promised by Valve. It's only available to players who have purchased the Battle Pass for...

Solar Crest has been a go-to item in Dota in recent patches, making regular appearances in the inventories of both carries and supports alike. And why wouldn't anyone want to buy it? It's affordable, greatly improves your survivability and kill...