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Hey everyone, I’m Franky. Today I'm going to talk about the item builds for the top in the league of legend. According to the MSI group match, the new version the carry ability of EZ, Zoey and Graves, is extremely high, so the top still get the duty of pushing and assist the team buy teleport or even teleport onto wards down into enemy’s team to start a fight. These two items give all tank type champions voyage ability and diversionary force which is extremely important for some line-up which prefers to end the game earlier. Banner of command is useful for the group pushing and also making up a big amount of minions to push back as a superwave. Upgrading Catalyst into Abyssal Mask will offer better voyage ability and an aura to increase magic damage.Basically other items in due to enemies champion and situation. Champion aggressive like Camille and Fiora build Tiamat and Tri-Force to solo the line, other teammates group to keep the pressure on other lanes or resou...

Hey there, I’m Brandon and I’m just going to talk one of my favourite strategy games ever. Crusader kings 2. Crusader kings 2 is about your character (who is historically significant at game start) being your normal lord, whether it be a count, duke, king or emperor.  You can be a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, A pagan Viking etc. You could be French, Spanish, Swedish, or any other culture, with each detail giving your character some background (as well as some special troops). With some expansions you could be Indian, Mongol or even Chinese. Why not go out there and make yourself the new Genghis Khan. The game is full of craziness and shenanigans, which are multiplied when you go play multiplayer (good luck trying to avoid constant assassinations). The game is all about diplomacy, trying to keep good relations with the A.I makes sure they don’t try to kill you. There is a land system in the game which revolves around historical cities or provinces, which each hold...

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Hey there, it's Brandon here talking about another game which I find quite fun to play. It's called Warhammer: Vermintide 2 and it is a cooperative hack and slash first person game. It is similar to Left For Dead in that the player must cooperate with his teammates against a massive horde of enemies. This game is a sequel to Warhammer: Vermintide (The End Times), and in this sequel it adds new enemies as well and new loot systems. The game is considerably better than the prequel and I find it just great fun to carve through hundreds of rats like a hot knife through butter. The game may seem like a simple hack and slash game at first, which it pretty much is in order to allow new players to get into the swing of things. Later on in the game when the players are looking for a more challenging experience and better loot, things become more tactical as players must work as a team and do specific jobs such as tanking, sniping and crowd control. T...

RNG refers to the Random Number Generator, essentially where the games roll a set of die and see what you happen to you in an instance. RNG in games isn’t something new, with even older games like the original Dragon Quest having RNG to determine the drops you get from winning the fights and the fights themselves with instances such as damage and sometimes what do you fight.   Its everywhere today being the core of much frustration when it goes your way and anger when It goes against you but also in the same vein sometimes that leads to magic moments when the numbers go in your favour. Some games today have core gameplay mechanics locked behind some sort of RNG most notably the Roguelike where many elements of the game are randomly generated each time you start a new game ensuring a newish experience every time you play.   I’m personally don’t mind some RNG in my games and it keeps the encounters fresh and exciting and the chance to get rare drops can sometimes...

Allan here having a more casual discussion on gaming today primarily about the new mutation games mode in DOTA 2 coming with the new battle pass. It is essentially a game mode with new effects and modifiers that change the base game, for example, we have seen people exploding when they die or allowing for people to resurrect teammates on the spot.   The idea of modifiers is hardly new with older games such as big head mode from Golden Eye on the N64 to skulls in the Halo Series. Modifiers in a game provide players with a means to customise their games to their own liking making it harder for those seeking a challenge or having some fun modifiers that allow for some fun group play. All of these add to the replay value of the game allowing for a single game to be played throughout.   However, as gaming develops it appears that modifiers created by the game developers have started to die out leading to mods to fill in the gaps.   The age of mods leads to exciti...

More and more people are playing games now than ever before. This is not surprising since games as an industry has grown in revenue by 10.7% since last year. However this also means that more and more gamers are playing games on services such as Steam, Battle.net, Uplay, Playstation, etc. There has been a rise in interest for gamers to not show that they're online to their friends. Take the above screenshot from Battle.net. The Appear Offline functionality of the app wasn't introduced until late last year due to popular demand from gamers, though it still doesn't hide you from your guild members. Why do people not want to show their friends that they're online and playing a video game? They might want to hide from their friends that they're playing a game when they are supposed to be doing work. They might want to hide the fact that they're playing the game with other people and don't want to play with another friend of theirs. Or maybe they want ...