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AI VTuber Banned For 'Hateful Conduct,' Now Undistinguishable From Real Twitch Stars
11.1.2023
If you watched even a minute of Neuro-sama streaming on Twitch you knew it was only a matter of time before the AI-controlled Vtuber got banned. The channel is currently offline for two weeks due to “hateful conduct,” though it’s not immediately clear what the offending incident was.Read more
New League Of Legends Trailer Is So Bad Riot Had To Answer For It
11.1.2023
A new year means a new League of Legends season. And for the past few years, this has also meant a big, cinematic trailer to announce the new season. However, this time the trailer for League of Legends’ next season was pretty dang boring and underwhelming, especially when compared to last year’s....
The Best (And Worst) Video Game Adaptations You Can Stream Right Now
10.1.2023
Do you ever turn off your PC, or your PS5, or whatever, after hours of rainbow lights and eyebrow sweat and think, “Ugh, I really wish I could do that some more, except slightly differently and on the streaming service of my choice”? You do? How serendipitous. I put together a list of every...
Riot Games Trying To Get Out Of Terrible Crypto Sponsorship Deal
19.12.2022
Back in August 2021, Riot Games—the developers of League of Legends—signed a sponsorship deal worth tens of millions of dollars with cryptocurrency exchange FTX. You know, the exchange that is now bankrupt, with its founder arrested and facing serious fraud and money laundering charges.Read more
Congress Wants To Know What The Biggest Game Companies Are Doing To 'Combat Extremism'
16.12.2022
A group of seven lawmakers are sending a letter to the world’s biggest video game companies tomorrow, asking each of them what steps they’re taking to combat “harassment and extremism” in online video games.Read more
Crypto Kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested In The Bahamas
13.12.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, the central figure in the collapse of crpyto exchange FTX, has just been arrested in The Bahamas and is likely to be quickly extradited to the United States to face criminal charges.Read more
League Of Legends, Valorant Unlock All Characters On Game Pass
9.12.2022
When Riot Games’ two biggest releases, League of Legends and Valorant, hit Game Pass next week, there will be a very strong incentive for folks to be linking their Riot accounts to their Microsoft ones: for subscribers every single LoL champion, and every single Valorant agent, will...
Gaming Pros Battle Elon Musk's Twitter While Ditching Bankrupt Crypto Sponsor
17.11.2022
In April, crypto exchange FTX paid esports company TSM $210 million to change its name to TSM FTX. On Wednesday, TSM FTX changed its name back to just plain old TSM days after FTX filed for bankruptcy following the biggest crash in crypto history. And it only had to spam Twitter’s save button...
League Of Legends Player AOC Mocks Crypto Disaster Bro For Being Terrible At Ranked
16.11.2022
I can’t believe that U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just massacred millions of League of Legends players yesterday. She was dunking on a crypto bro who was really bad at Riot’s MOBA game, but she also caught many innocent players in the crossfire. Actually, that just makes me respect...
Report: Streamer Deleted From TV Station's Feed After Abusive, Misogynist Video Resurfaces
15.11.2022
Streamer, YouTuber and all-round internet celebrity IShowSpeed has recently been helping one of the biggest TV stations in Europe, Sky Sports, with its broadcasts of English Premier League matches. That was, reportedly, until the executives at the channel found out about a video that went viral...
Report: Crypto Crash Kingpin Who Played League During Meetings Apparently Sucked At It
14.11.2022
Last week, crypto exchange FTX went from being valued at nearly $32 billion to filing for bankruptcy, and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, went from being the crypto space’s only ethical genius to being just a dude like the rest of us, albeit one who lost customers and investors alike a fortune....
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Stuns With 2022 GOTY Game Awards Nomination
14.11.2022
After guessing that Nintendo Switch hit Xenoblade Chronicles 3 would be the biggest snub at the 2022 Game Awards, stunned Xeno-heads and Tetsuya Takahashi-stans can’t believe it. Geoff Keighley revealed on Monday that it is actually one of the six finalists for his show’s Game of the Year category...
CEO Of Crypto’s Biggest Bust Played League Of Legends While Pitching Investors
10.11.2022
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried spent the last year on a victory tour. The “crypto kingpin” held court at Bloomberg’s Crypto Summit over the summer and was crowned as a mega donor savior to Democrats in the midterm elections. His company even gloated about him playing League of Legends during high-level...
For Years, 'Joe Biden' Has Silently Been Crushing This Fighting Game
28.10.2022
If you’ve been following the fighting game community, you might’ve noticed something strange happening at some recent Guilty Gear tournaments. A player hailing from the U.S. named Joe Biden has been sweeping the competition, placing in the top 10 in the last 20 or so tourneys he’s competed...
Overwatch 2’s Halloween Event Is A Major Downgrade
26.10.2022
On October 25 through November 8, Overwatch 2 celebrates its first seasonal event since its debut earlier this month: The 2022 edition of its yearly weeks-long Halloween Terror extravaganza. Like past years, Halloween Terror will honor the holiday with new skins and a Junkenstein’s Revenge themed...
Overwatch 2’s Free-To-Play Grind And Battle Pass System Has Players Wanting Loot Boxes Back
18.10.2022
In the two weeks Overwatch 2 has been live—yes, it’s only been two weeks— players have become so disappointed with the hero shooter’s free-to-play grind and battle pass system that they’re longing for the days when the original game had loot boxes.Read more
7 Tips For Overwatch 2 Beginners Determined To Win
7.10.2022
Thanks to a bunch of funny people, the most difficult aspect of Overwatch 2 right now is probably just getting into the damn game. But if you’re new to this franchise, what awaits is a whole suite of heroes with unique abilities that mesh together into a hectic first-person shooter in which...
Square Enix Is Drowning 2022 With New RPGs, And We're Here For It
30.9.2022
2022 is a great year to be an RPG fan, particularly of Japanese games. The holiday season is usually crowded with new game releases, but this year Square Enix appears to be releasing games like it’s Christmas all year round. With so many out already, and so many more to come, are SE’s profligate...
Netflix's Autoplay Means You Likely Missed A Cool Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Secret
29.9.2022
If you watched Netflix’s new anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, chances are you’re still coping with its emotionally devastating ending and have brought it up to your therapist unprompted on more than one occasion. But the pain doesn’t stop there, friends. There’s a high probability Netflix’s...
Andrew Tate Controversy Seemingly Leads Riot To Cut Valorant Esports Team Loose
21.9.2022
One of the top ten esports companies in the world might have just lost its highly coveted franchise spot in Riot Games’ upcoming pro Valorant league because the CEO defended partying with internet misogynist Andrew Tate. Outside reports and comments by some employees certainly make it seem that...