LCS caster Aidan “Zirene” Moon has announced his departure from Riot Games and the LCS. Moon will be returning to streaming and content creation and will explore other opportunities. After 5 years of shouting at league – March 7th was my last day at Riot Games. I will be returning to streaming, content creation, and seeing what other offers are out there for me. Thanks for all your love and support, ggwp — Aidan ‘Zirene’ Moon (@Zirene) March 13, 2019Moon began casting for Riot Games in 2014 for

Team Envy, who own the Fuel, and Team OpTic, who own the Outlaws, have a history of matchups, trades, and drama throughout their time in competitive Call of Duty and other games. It’s also the most clear example of how the Overwatch League has changed how rivalries have worked in esports. When we do play in New York, it’ll be interesting to see how many Houston fans show up. Fans of League of Legends, Rocket League, and DOTA may not be as enthusiastic. Mike “Hastr0” Rufail, the owner of Team Env

Brendan Greene, the creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has announced that he is moving on from his position as the director of development on PUBG. Instead, Greene is joining a new division of PUBG Corp. called PUBG Special Projects. As part of his move to this new division, Greene will also by moving from the PUBG Corp. studio in Seoul, South Korea, to one located in Amsterdam, where he plans to build a new team. The only information on the new team and PUBG Corp. division that exists ri

Sega announced today that it’s suspending sales of its new Yakuza spinoff, Judgment, in Japan after one of the game’s voice actors was arrested for suspicion of drug use. The game has been pulled from digital stores, and Sega said it has halted shipments of the physical version of Judgment, which is known as Judge Eyes in Japan. Taki performed the voice and provided facial capture for a character named Kyohei Hamura in Judgment. In the game, Hamura is captain of the Matsugane family, a subsidiar

Game industry veteran Jade Raymond has joined Google in an undisclosed role. Raymond didn’t say if she’d be joining Google’s games team, but given her pedigree, that seems likely. A 20-year veteran of the game industry, Raymond previously worked at Ubisoft, where she served as executive producer and co-creator of the publisher’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, and later general manager of Ubisoft Toronto. Raymond then worked at Electronic Arts, where she oversaw EA’s Motive Studio, PopCap Studio, an

The latest Fortnite patch, issued earlier this week, has changed the game’s cross-play significantly. Not only does the game now make players participate in cross-play pools by default, but the Nintendo Switch version only matches people with players on iOS and Android — keeping them out of the larger console environment. “We expect an on-average better per-game experience for both Mobile and Switch players,” the notes read. Combining the PS4 and Xbox One player bases also comes with a requireme

Hyper Light Drifter developer Heart Machine announced its next project Wednesday: It’s called Solar Ash Kingdom, and shares a similarly colorful and stylish aesthetic with the studio’s debut title. A teaser trailer for Solar Ash Kingdom pans across an alien world full of rich pinks, purples, blues, and greens before revealing its hero, a lithe, gliding creature that appears to be armed with an energy-based melee weapon. Unlike the top-down, pixelated Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash Kingdom looks

With this week’s Captain Marvel, 21 films now live in the same fictional universe, with the same shared set of world logic, without contradicting one another in major ways. note: Spoilers for Captain Marvel as well as about a half dozen other Marvel Studios movies.] The cosmic cube that houses the Space Stone has, appropriately enough, jumped around Marvel’s universe quite a bit, and its outsized influence on the MCU continues with Captain Marvel and her origin story. Prior to the events of the

It also features the first ever MCU appearance of an alien race known as the Skrulls, one of Marvel’s most well known cosmic threats. But now that they’ve finally made landfall in Captain Marvel, we’re left wondering: Can these new Skrulls be the brand new Marvel Universe big-bads we’ve been anxiously awaiting? With the Fox/Disney merger in play, the Shi’Ar — an alien race set to make their big screen debut in X-Men: Dark Phoenix this summer — are also a distant possibility. Interestingly, a maj

So let’s pop the champagne: the 2019 Momo explosion may finally be over. The rumor goes that Momo started appearing in harmless kids videos to encourage kids to commit suicide. The grim joke escalated thanks to social media, forcing YouTube to address the situation. We want to clear something up regarding the Momo Challenge: We’ve seen no recent evidence of videos promoting the Momo Challenge on YouTube. — YouTube (@YouTube) February 27, 2019As Vox.com explains, the “Momo challenge” is another f

This may be the only board game that lets you role pay as an incredulous medieval inspector while shouting at your friends, “WHAT’S IN THE BAG?”In this game, players are trying to get as much merchandise past the titular Sheriff of Nottingham. Then, one at time, the sheriff asks what’s in a player’s bag. The sheriff must decide whether or not to inspect the player’s bag. So not only can you bribe the sheriff to leave your bag unopened, the other players can also bribe the sheriff to open the bag

Eleven years after the last flick in the series, and 37 years after its first, 72-year-old Sylvester Stallone will return as John Rambo for Rambo: Last Blood. (Let’s be careful to say it’s only Stallone’s last Rambo film, because sure as shit there will be a reboot around 2026 called Rambo Rises or The Rise of Rambo or something). Rambo: Last Blood has been kicked around since about 2008, when Rambo (no subtitle, rising of, or other verbs) made $113 million on a $50 million budget. This story wi

The Fallout franchise will get an official pen-and-paper role-playing game this summer. Developer Modiphius Entertainment says it will be an expansion to the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare tabletop miniatures game. The expansion, designed by James Sheahan, will bring along new rules for character creation, wasteland adventures and more, Modiphius said. Fallout: Wasteland Warfare launched about a year ago. When we previewed it in 2017, we praised its “clever leveling system” and said “the game is als

Microsoft added Crackdown 2 to the Xbox One’s backward compatibility portfolio at the end of the day yesterday and, more importantly, made it free for everyone. Remarkably, the Xbox 360 exclusive has not yet been offered on the Games With Gold service, so this really is a new free game. Microsoft gave away the original Crackdown in early February, but that was one of the first games offered on Games With Gold, coming in August 2013, the service’s second month. Crackdown 2 does not appear to have

The most notable change in Patch 1.0.3 involves respawn restrictions; that is, there are no longer any respawn restrictions. So Crit-Path, Agent Missions and missions other than end-game missions will have a respawn delay of 10 seconds. Still, the full patch notes note that 1.0.3 alters the damage scaling on secondary damage sources to address problems with that model overall. The third big change concerns loot, and some players are already unhappy with that. From now on, level 30 players won’t

In Destiny 2’s new Gambit Prime mode, you can earn armor that gives you perks. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to collect and upgrade the Gambit Prime armor sets. Visit him, and he’ll send you on a quest to run a Gambit Prime match. Upgrading to Tier 2 armor setsBefore you start trying to get Tier 2 armor, you’ll need to complete a Gambit Prime weekly role bounty. As a reward for completing the bounty, you’ll earn a role helmet and upgrade your Weak Mote Synthesizer to a Middling Mote Synthes

You’ll need to complete different tiers of The Reckoning to earn powerful Gambit Prime armor. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to beat The Reckoning Tiers, and claim that sweet new loot from Season of the Drifter. Like with any Reckoning tier, Tier 1 is much easier in a group of friends you can communicate with. Tier 3Tier 3 of The Reckoning isn’t out yet, so we aren’t sure how to beat it. However, you’ll need Power 680 to even attempt it, and Bungie recommends Power 690.

The LEC, League of Legends’ premier European competition, is adding a new member to its on-air talent: Alex “Machine” Richardson. Richardson will be taking over partial hosting duties for the LEC at least for week 8, though it’s unclear how involved he’ll be moving forward. Riot is also making another move with its on-air talent in North America. After a brief stint as a broadcaster for the Overwatch League, Alberto “Crumbz” Rengifo is joining the LCS. Since he left competitive play, he’s sat in