League of Legends: 8 Ways It Is Better Than DOTA2 and 7 Ways It Is Not

BAFTA announced the nominees today, and somewhat unsurprisingly The Last of Us is top dog once again with an impressive ten nominations. These include a Best Performer nomination apiece for Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, as well as nominations for Artistic Achievement, Action and Adventure, Audio Achievement, Original Music, Multiplayer, Story, Game Design and - the big one - Best moba game Strategy. Naughty Dog may well end up needing a wheelbarrow to carry home those golden ma

This isn't surprising. The 2016 League of Legends World Championships had a prize pool of about $5 million. But in comparison, the 2016 Dota 2 International broke its own record for the biggest prize pools in eSports with an over $20 million in prize money. The first place team, Wings Gaming, took home $9 million to split between t

One of the biggest points in favor of League of Legends is the huge viewership it tows; it boasts #1 among online games. By the Fall of 2016, Riot reported over 100 million unique players will play League in a given month. Meanwhile, within the same season, Dota 2 averaged a fraction of that, with about 13 million unique players in any given month. Not everyone has to be a player to enjoy the League franchise. The League of Legends 2016 World Championship had over 43 million unique viewers. Dota 2 impressively reached about half of that, at over 20 million unique view

League of Legends allows the player to customize their champion by allowing them to use different skins or chromas (recolored skins). These skins were originally exclusively available with IRL currency up until recently. Now, players can find chests and key fragments after a game. The crafting option is extremely clumsy and requires a lot of different pieces, but it's a huge advancement from bef

When it was announced that Kendra Saunders would be coming to The Flash before Legends , most assumed it was to give the character a springboard on par with her castmates (the rest of the Legends have been seen in The CW's universe already). What they didn't expect was to see the character's origin worked so completely into the growing fiction of Arrow and The Flash 's current sea

The world of competitive gaming known as eSports is still in its infancy and has a ton of room to grow. Its popularity is climbing every year with seemingly larger production budgets, being held in arenas that seat thousands of people. A big component in creating such an excited and dedicated environment are the casters; they not only help hype people up for the event but also inform those who are watch

Everyone here at Game Rant would like to wish the inanimate, mass-produced, nostalgia-inducing Game Boy a very Happy North American Birthday. While it can't reciprocate the love many gamers still have for it, it revolutionized an industry that we still care about all these years la

Oddly enough, it's said that Nintendo actually got their name for the protagonist from a lawyer that successfully defended them in a case against Universal Studios over a dispute regarding the name 'Donkey Kong' back in 1984. The lawyer's name? John Ki

On the other side of the hill, League of Legends has a weekly rotation of free champs. This staple is prominent in most other games within the genre. Characters can be bought by grinding in-game currency, but the rates are ludicrous. By playing for the 'First Win of the Day' bonus once a day (and winning each game) it takes over twenty games to save up enough points for a new champion. Anyone that simply doesn't have that kind of time on their hands might opt to wait for the champion to be on sale for under five doll

Anyone can empathize with getting a higher degree of education. The concept of playing a game and getting my tuition paid for makes it easy to empathize with all the teams. It also makes it that much more compelling because you're like, "I like the story of this team. I want to see this team succeed; they're really cool people," and you want to get behind them and root for t

AHIII: Blizzard had contacted me last year about being a caster for Heroes of the Dorm and that was a dream come true. I like to think they were happy enough with my performance last year to invite me out this year (laughs) . I, very much, hope to be invited to do more things; I would love to. At this point, casting is in my DNA now. I got into it for personal reasons and now I can see an avenue where I potentially could see this more as an ongoing profess

AHIII: (laughs) It is still a mystery to me too. I started casting in January 2016. There's a community effort called Chair League which is like Saturday night bowling. It's for recreation; you do put a team together and there are standings but it's for fun. They were looking for casters. I emailed the person who started it and said, "Hey, do you need another caster?" He was like, "Yeah, what experience do you have?" I had none but I just thought it would be c