He’s a flanker. He’s extremely mobile, he can go between high and low ground instantly using his fist charge which has a short cooldown, and his ult. He gets minimum shields (like Zarya’s) every time he uses an ability, more shields if he does damage to an enemy, and his ult gives him max shields. He’s unable to…

Oh, that was an old comment so things have changed. The no love for Reinhardt is sort of a mix - one, a lot of people are just in the habit of leaving without voting, so there’s that. Don’t take it personally.

Cool. Hey Io9 is doing the spoilers in the headline thing again, it’s in that “You may also like...” clickbaitfest on the left. Yell across the floor and tell them I said that’s rude as fuck. Thanks!

Last month, Kaplan said on the Battle.net forums that the Overwatch team was “reviewing our punishment policies with an eye towards getting more aggressive on toxicity and throwing and other bad behaviors.”

No disrespect to the victim but this headline is an achievement. You should be proud of yourselves, I expect much less from GMG these days.

This is interesting, not because I actually care about what happened with baseball, but because this is clearly Riot reacting to Blizzard’s OWL setup in which the players will be looked after and people are finally realizing that’s actually a big deal.

Oh btw, word of caution: on pc if you happen to type Overwatch DVa’s voiceline phonetically, “oh, jaji na” you’re saying “I want some pussy” and your Korean-american friends will get mildly offended and tell you to stop it.

I don’t know, I can’t stand watching any sports but I’m thoroughly jazzed about Blizzard’s OW league because it’s really going to be the birth of a thing that will affect our culture in the future, as much as football does now. I think the business part of it is exciting af; the “it’s not athletic” argument is…

I was going to say, Kephrii is known as the best Widowmaker.

Does k:d ratio really mean that much? Cuz like, if I’m healing, I’m keeping your ass from dying. If I’m Reining, I’m constantly teamed with this level 35 Mercy main who is quite possibly the worst healer in all of OW. 

It doesn’t seem like it in Overwatch. Fans of pro OW have been declaring their disapproval of the ones considered toxic for some time now and seem to be keeping an eye on them for their inevitable falls from grace. I could only name two off the top of my head just from reading here and there. Toxicity is relative so…

In before the Kotakus shit all over Blizzard for making Tracer gay because obviously they’re going to kill her off in order to fulfill a trope that makes zero sense in the context of the game.

Unless you’re GM the matchmaker does a really good job. It can’t account for tilting, players being drunker than usual, tired kids having meltdowns, etc. That’s what usually makes for a stomp. I play during off peak times and in ranks with a lower % of players, and I get the matches against solo players two ranks…

TERFs suck and I don’t know how that thinking hasn’t died off yet. Something is keeping it going, academia filtered to blogs or something, I dunno. It’s that cult-like shit again. I would be hesitant to claim the feminist label too. In fact I am anyway, meeting a feminist in the wild is such a gamble because I…

Is it possible... just possible that cis-women might have a thing or two to learn from their trans-sisters?

Fucking finally written about. I’ve been waiting patiently for feminist gamers to address this for a few years now but it’s always been “oh we’re martyrs and victims, we can do no wrong, look at me I’m crying about it.” Guess what, this has been a serious pain in my ass and it’s all on you, ladies. Learn to conduct…

I am clutching my pearls here! lol at the autocorrect

Jonny Cruz said when he first got called to audition all he was told was young hispanic guy. He tried different things and worked out Lucio’s positivity vibe with Blizz’s people.

You should play ARK: Survival Evolved. There is nothing like watching a dino come across a graphical glitch in game and then use it to its advantage to trap another dino to eat. Or see dinos who shouldn’t be working together work together. Or seeing a dino puzzle out where you are and how to get to you. Or seeing…

Yeah, I was trying to discipline myself to not binge-watch when I started season 1 but I couldn’t help it and went through all the eps in one sitting. Good stuff! But it’s like a visual novel, so I ended up thinking it was better for this show because everyone pretty much starts in the same spot where the last ep…