Riot, It's Time To Throw The Whole Seraphine Away

January 9th through January 29th

With the event likely to happen again, perhaps even immediately after the release of the game, this might seem like arbitrary information. But it does provide a timetable of what the Yordle event will look like in the future. If it releases next January officially, players can probably guess the exact deadlines with reasonable accur

** Max Grossman: ** For the initial characters that we've launched, most started with just their toolkits and different abilities. However, there was at least a "theme" in mind. Phoenix is a good example. He was always going to be fiery in some capacity—he throws a molotov and is reborn from the ashes, that kind of thing. Viper was the same. She started as this toxic, gas wielding character. But discovering that she was a scientist came later in the development process. Killjoy is a fascinating example since she started as a literal robot. So that component was very different at one point in time, but even then, she still had two of her four abilities that shipped with the final version of the character. Some of the Netflix Arcane characters change a lot, others not so m

However, no canned corporate apology can take the place of common sense, and I'd hazard to guess most rational people can see through Riot's denial. The writing is on the wall, and in the court of public opinion, it spells out a pretty grim message. It's hard to read through Stephanie's account and walk away with anything other than disgust at how stressful and dehumanizing this experience has been for her. A real flesh and blood person has been distilled down into a hollow facsimile, then sold for more profit than most of us will ever seen in our lives. It's nauseating on every possible le

While League of Legends continues to grow outside the MOBA, it seems Apex Legends shares a similar desire to grow outside of its own battle royale genre. In an interview with Eurogamer, Apex Legends game director Chad Grenier mentioned a desire to expand and "eventually evolve into something beyond a battle royale." At first, Grenier mentions that crossplay and the Nintendo Switch release of Apex Legends are the first steps to expanding the game. However, Grenier subsequently poses the question of how Apex Legends could move beyond just iterating on Apex Legends with additional limited-time-mo

Looking at something like Team Fortress 2, that game's turret is like a bunker. If you put it down and have enough supplies, the opposing team can't get past it unless you have like, 18 people throwing their bodies at it, and the turret is killing people left and right. It's a very different experience than the turret we shipped in Valorant. What we always found most exciting about the turret is this feeling of setting up a crossfire of your own. Sorta like, "OK, somebody is going to attack this chokepoint, my turret [is] on the right-hand side, and I'll hold the left-hand side." So when they try to push through, the turret shoots first, and I can shoot them while they're distracted. Distraction was the concept. Not a turret that instantly and autonomously takes enemies down to zero hea

Who's to say League of Legends players are going to come out in droves for Ruined King ? Plenty of players have jumped on the Valorant train, but that's not exactly a direct correlation to League of Legends ' success. Apex Legends could certainly try it, but don't expect Respawn Entertainment to announce six different spin-off games like Riot Games

The design team is involved in the early stages to establish rules for creating characters and making them stand out in environments. We worked with the character artists on what color values to use on the maps relative to how you do that with Agents. Small tiny details end up making a world of difference. Specific RGB color values on our characters are just not allowed to exist on our maps to prevent that "hiddenness" from happening so that the characters always pop out in the wo

One of the more interesting changes in the preseason was the changing of Tear of the Goddess to be a starter item. It's a greedier purchase, but for spellcasters it's nice to get the item stacked as quickly as possible while working toward a mythic. Unfortunately, neither of the Tear upgrades are that great, with Archangel's being a shell of its former s

Valorant is all about inches. Anxious, lonesome tiptoes into a bomb site can feel like miles. Every nook and cranny potentially houses miscreants eager to ensure you swallow a dose of lead-aspirin. So a razor-sharp focus and steady trigger-finger are essential to success, even when butterflies tickle the pit of your stomach. Otherwise, you're dead. Dirt wedged firmly between teeth until the lesson sticks: this game gleefully bounces people's heads off the can

Kayle is essentially the Thanos of League of Legends. It doesn't matter how many times she is defeated, she will always remain inevitable. If Kayle is allowed to hit her item and level spikes she has the capability to win a game through hybrid damage and tremendous attack sp