Riot walks back unpopular League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests are coming back, and the Blue Essence cost for new champions will be cut in half

Riot Games says recent changes to League of Legends’ reward system “didn’t hit the mark for everyone,” and so it’s bringing Hextech Chests back and reducing the Blue Essence cost for new champions by half. Riot said in a January update that League’s reward systems had “become needlessly complex, with an excessive number of currencies,…

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Bungie’s lawyers have to use fan videos of old Destiny 2 content in court because, well, it doesn’t exist in-game anymore

Last October a science fiction author, Matthew Kelsey Martineau, launched a lawsuit against Bungie focused on a Destiny 2 enemy faction, the Red Legion, which Martineau alleges is based on work from his WordPress blog (Thanks, GameFile). Naturally something on the scale of Destiny 2 faces all sorts of speculative lawsuits, and this didn’t seem…

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Undermine(d): How World of Warcraft’s New Update Added Driveable (and Driftable) Vehicles

Category: PC Gaming Undermine(d): How World of Warcraft’s New Update Added Driveable (and Driftable) Vehicles Mark KeladaAssistant Lead Quest Designer, Blizzard Entertainment Published February 26, 2025 Summary One of the lead developers for Undermine(d) joins us to talk about the latest chapter for World of Warcraft. This new city is unlike any we’ve seen before…

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