Though MAD Team did not walk away with a day one win against EDward Gaming, mid laner Chen “Uniboy” Chang-Chu was more than happy to talk to us. ), we’re rapidly asking pro players random questions from a bag. The questions have various sources, from Vox Media employees to other pro players. After telling him the premise of what the Lightning Round entailed, Uniboy was grinning ear-to-ear, laughing. Uniboy [in English]: Do you like Uniboy?

Luckily, we were able to pull Team Vitality’s support, Jakub “Jactroll” Skurzyński in for a Rift Herald Lightning Round. The Rift Herald: Like Christmas or Halloween …Jactroll: To be honest, I don’t have one. The Rift Herald: That’s dedication! Jactroll: Yeah, it’s my favorite game of all time. The Rift Herald: That’s a good question!

Sony announced today that PlayStation users will be able to change their PlayStation Network IDs in early 2019. The first PSN name change will be free of charge, but “changes after that will cost $9.99 USD.” The option to change your PSN name will cost $4.99 for PlayStation Plus members, Sony said. “Changes to online ID can be made through the Settings menu or via the Profile page of your PS4,” according to the blog post. Once you decide to display your old ID or not, you won’t be able to adjust

Nintendo Switch Online subscribers have access to three more NES games as part of their subscription: NES Open Tournament Golf, Solomon’s Key and Super Dodge Ball. Perhaps more interesting than the addition of three additional NES games is an unexpected release of “special save data” for The Legend of Zelda, a game that was part of the Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online launch lineup. Super Dodge Ball – In Super Dodge Ball, you take control of the USA Dodge Ball team and trav

More details about Meltan, the newest addition to the Pokédex, reveal how players will be able to capture the Pokémon once Pokémon: Let’s Go! The second video in an ongoing series about Professor Willow (of Pokémon Go) and Professor Oak (Pokémon: Let’s Go!) This makes Meltan the first Pokémon that can only be captured in Pokémon Go. “I think Meltan still holds a greater secret to be uncovered,” reads a journal page in the clip’s last shot. Sure looks like Meltan is set to evolve, but we likely w

The first patch for Fortnite Season 6 has arrived, at least that’s what we originally thought. Now that the patch is actually here, it seems that Epic Games is changing up the way it rolls out updates for Fortnite. This isn’t a huge change in the grand scheme of things and patch v6.02 offers plenty of new additions to the game, despite not having quite the number of changes we were expecting. Disco Domination changes the gameFortnite has always had a variety of game modes on rotation, and while

Fortnite scam ads and videos targeting young viewers on YouTube have been around for a while, but a new report suggests they contain malicious files that can steal data from users. Boyd and his team investigated a number of suspicious Fortnite videos on YouTube, many of which have generated hundreds of thousands of views. Rein tweeted about “yelling at a room full of YouTube execs” in May following a Polygon report that dug into the number of Fortnite scams populating on YouTube. A YouTube repre

The team behind Star Citizen, the ambitious collection of spacefaring games from Chris Roberts, plans to launch a new update today. Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space IndustriesMore variants of the Mustang starship. Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space IndustriesMustangs in formation. Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space IndustriesThe Cyclone will be deployable from some larger starships. Even with the 3.3 update, only a small fraction of the project’s proposed multiplayer component is p

Some Fallout fans will be able to get their hands on Fallout 76 later this week, thanks to a “stress test” of the game that will kick off before Bethesda’s official beta. Unlike the Fallout 76 beta (branded as the B.E.T.A. ), which will be open to those who pre-order the multiplayer game, the stress test will be much more limited. In order to participate in the Fallout 76 stress test, Xbox One owners will need to have pre-ordered the game, be an Xbox Live Gold subscriber and be an Xbox Insider m

Since it was released last year, Skull Trooper has been one of Fortnite’s most iconic skins. The skin was available for a short time during the game’s first Halloween celebration and then it left the store forever. But, as Halloween comes around again, Epic Games is bringing Skull Trooper back to the shop, along with a female version of the skin called, Skull Ranger. The skins themselves are pretty clear upgrades over the original versions — though whether or not that’s a good thing is up to you

Festival of the Lost finally comes to Destiny 2 this year, offering some new rewards, new quests and a new activity. Today, Bungie revealed almost everything about the event, which starts for all players on Oct. 16. When Festival of the Lost returns, players will be able to chat with and purchase bounties from Amanda Holliday, the Tower’s shipwright. Interestingly, the Haunted Forest that Bungie shows off in its post looks a lot more like the Infinite Forest on Mercury than the Dark Forest in th

Yesterday, the team at Firaxis Games launched the Tactical Legacy Pack, a new piece of downloadable content for XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. Tactical Legacy is a window into the ongoing development of the XCOM franchise, evidence of a renewed focus on storytelling in the modern series. The most recent iteration, released in 2017, is an expansion for XCOM 2 called War of the Chosen. Legacy Operations could be the future of the XCOM series, interstitial experiences that could allow the writers at Fi

Overwatch’s latest seasonal event, Halloween Terror, returns today. The Halloween-themed event is live now on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, bringing with it the return of Junkenstein’s Revenge and, of course, a fresh batch of skins that make the cast of Overwatch extra spooky. Blizzard has been rolling out teases of the Halloween Terror 2018 epic and legendary skins over the past week, so we already know what’s dropping today. Halloween Terror’s return also introduces a new Halloween-t

The special arrows unlock in stages, as you acquire and upgrade the Arrow Master ability. The first level will unlock paralyzing arrows, the second will add in fire and poison arrows, and the third and final will give you explosive arrows. You’ll see your standard arrows along with any of the special arrows you’ve unlocked. Standard arrows require only olive wood, while the special arrows require wood plus another of your resources. Explosive arrows add an explosive tip to your arrows for extra

The CW has released a first look at Ruby Rose as the DC Comics hero Batwoman, star of the network’s upcoming show of the same name. In the picture, leaked early Tuesday morning but now officially released, Rose wears the black suit and red bat symbol of Kate Kane’s Batwoman uniform, topped with a mane of red hair. Batwoman is one of DC Comics’ first prominent queer superheroes, the first gay member of the Bat-Family and, in 2011, the first queer character to ever headline their own series at DC

Thanks to the final issue of Star Wars: Poe Dameron, Marvel’s canon-approved spinoff comic, we now know what went wrong — and right — during that fateful mission. [Warning: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Poe Dameron.] You may have even spotted some of them in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but they were curiously missing from The Last Jedi. Rallying the TroopsAs revealed in Poe Dameron’s finale, Poe and Black Squadron split up just prior to the opening of The Last Jedi. At last, P

This month, House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn cabinets will begin to appear in Dave & Buster’s across the United States. No need to even spend money to appreciate the most immediate change to the series; Scarlet Dawn is tucked inside a humongous cube of wood and plastic, larded with gaudy technology. Scarlet Dawn itself is a thrill, with or without your eyes being dried by pressurized air. If console and mobile games are IV drips, spreading their pleasure across dozens of hours, Scarlet Dawn is a s

Ali “Gross Gore” Larson, a controversial but popular YouTube and Twitch streamer, is being accused by numerous women of inappropriate behavior around RuneFest this past weekend. She described him as drunk, acknowledging that she was also drinking that night, but told Polygon things got out of hand quickly. She told Polygon that while standing with her fiancee, Larson came up and said, “Think we can get these two ladies to make out? Jagex, the developer behind Runescape, issued a statement to Pol

The Play-In Stage of Worlds 2018 has come to a close and that means the Group Stage is about to begin. If there are three teams tied, we’ll basically get a miniature tournament on the group’s last day of play. In the Knckout Stage, teams will be matched up by seeds, with the first seed from each group playing a second seed from another group — no two teams from the same group can meet in this stage’s first round. All of these matches will lead up to the Finals — with no third place match — which

In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you can choose to play either Alexios (a man) or Kassandra (a woman), two siblings separated from their Spartan parents during childhood. I’ve played only five hours as Alexios, plus I’ve watched a bunch of key cutscenes on YouTube. His frown gives him a slightly baffled lookI played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey soon after finishing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, starring the most famous leading woman in gaming, Lara Croft. As an Assassin’s Creed leading man, he’s at least a