Buy wards and it's a money drain that favors the other team. Carry gems and everyone has to group up and hurt their own experience. If everybody carries a gem, it's an item slot that could have been used for something else. Plus, he can always farm until gems are dropped and wards wear

Passing up on the jungle is wasting experience and gold. Thankfully, nobody combines jungling and ganking quite like Enigma. He can be tough to play and master, but those who have completed the new and expensive tutorial just might have him figured

Although the scene conveys warmhearted and innocuous feelings, fans of the champion can't help but wonder if there is something far more nefarious that is actually prompting such a jubilant reaction from J

So while Download Play was undoubtedly put in to encourage kids to try out games and then ask for their parents to buy them, it was still incredibly consumer friendly. You didn’t feel like your addictive tendencies were being preyed upon - you were just playing a bit of a video g

No hero makes players want to pull the plug like an enemy Clinkz. This guy has been devastating heroes since back in the original Dota and nothing has changed. The upcoming documentary on Netflix might very well feature Clinkz as the story of the game really can't be told without

Mario Kart DS was the most notorious for this. The only thing that made you stick out was that anyone who didn’t own the game had to play as a Shy Guy, but frankly this was easier to ignore than the modern-day equivalent, as we weren’t given the option to spend our pocket money on unlocking a different character. It was also less egregious than the Fortnite skin mode, because we were not being encouraged to sign in everyday, to make this game part of our very identity - we just played for

Turtle Rock hosted a weekend beta for Back 4 Blood earlier this year that featured some promising gameplay. According to the studio, they will be using the additional development time to make Back 4 Blood "the best game it can possibly

Video games should be an escape. They shouldn't highlight which one of your friends has the least disposable income. They shouldn't remind kids how much their parents are hurting, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. They shouldn’t imply there’s a "correct" way to game. They should reward based on skill, not how much pocket money they get a w

If you're a League of Legends player, you're probably all too familiar with skins - and they aren't absent in Wild Rift. Riot is working to render some of your favorite looks in Wild Rift, but in a higher degree of quality. The team shared that they'll be working to really push the boundaries on what a mobile title can look like, and they hope that's reflected in the models for Wild R

Every good team needs a solid Strength-type initiator and not many can match Magnus for that role. His ultimate skill, Reverse Polarity, can ruin the enemy's plan faster than they can react. That does make Magnus a target of stun abilities but that can easily be remed

Following the unprecedented success of Pokemon GO, developer Niantic has announced an ongoing partnership with Nintendo to develop a series of augmented reality mobile games. The next project, a game based on Pikmin, is coming to mobile platforms later this y

It doesn’t end there. So many of the big games getting sold to us now rely on online multiplayer, which is another subscription to add on top of that. Lower income families won’t be able to foot the annual bill, so they’ll pay monthly, as lower income households do with most payments, which ends up costing more in the long run. Either that, or the kids just don’t have it and have the vast majority of their hobby locked out. They won’t be able to ignore it: their friends will have the PS Plus logo next to their name. It will be advertised to them every time they’re on the home m

This week, Riot's job listing page listed several openings that directly reference the upcoming MMORPG for the first time. "No, you’re not dreaming, we’re working on an MMORPG based in the League universe," the listing states. "We know MMOs take a lot of people to create, and we’ll need a pretty big raid team if we want to bring Runeterra to life." Riot is currently hiring gameplay engineers, game designers, UX designers, artists, and producers. League of Legends: Wild Rift, the mobile version of the classic Moba strategies, launches in beta tomorrow, March

Speaking of those items, active abilities on your equipment may look a little different - but don't panic. Actives haven't gone anywhere, you just acquire them now through boot enchantments. Buying boots is almost always priority in League, and that doesn't change here. Except now, when you pick up your Ninja Tabi or Mercury's Treads, you can enchant them with just about any active like invulnerability buffs, shields, dashes, or movement speed increa