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What you need to know about yesterday's Riot Games employee walkout
Yesterday, over 150 employees of American developer Riot Games staged a walkout in the employee parking lot at the company's office in Santa Monica, CA over forced arbitration. The walkout is part an ongoing saga that started with a report by Kotaku in August 2018.
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EA to extend video game subscription service to PS4 in July
For almost five years, PlayStation 4 owners have had to sit back and watch Electronic Arts (EA) offer their subscription-based gaming service, EA Access, to Xbox One owners. That changes in July. EA announced on Tuesday morning that their service will extend to PS4 owners this summer. Currently, EA Access costs $4.99 per month or $29.99 annually for the Xbox and that same offer will be on the table for PS4 players. EA's vault of games, which includes more than 50+ titles for the Xbox One, includes popular new and old titles such as: NBA Live 19, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Titanfall 2, Anthem, Battlefield V and many, many more.
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1907 Fenerbahçe Espor splintered as Kirei joins Misfits; Ruin joins Counter Logic Gaming
Shortly after its elimination from the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational Play-In, TCL Champion 1907 Fenerbahçe has parted ways with Top Laner Kim "Ruin" Hyeong-min and Jungler Thomas "Kirei" Yuen. Ruin will be joining North American LCS franchise Counter Logic Gaming, while Kirei is headed to LEC franchise Misfits Gaming.
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Fortnite live event destroys map locations, brings back Drum Gun
Epic Games was back at it again Saturday afternoon with Fortnite's most recent in-game event taking place that destroyed numerous iconic locations across the map and brought back a gun from the vault. Thirty minutes before the event was set to kick off at 3 p.m. EST, players could only play in a select game mode titled "The Unvaulting" and when the countdown timer in Loot Lake hit zero, the madness began.
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Rick Fox tells TMZ he would stay with Echo Fox if organization cuts ties with racist investor
Rick Fox told TMZ that he would be willing to remain in his current position with his esports organization Echo Fox if a certain investor would leave the company. The investor in question had previously made racist remarks to describe Fox and former CEO Echo Fox CEO Jace Hall, which resulted in Fox informing the organization of his intention to leave.
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2019 Clash Royale League to debut on May 29
Supercell, the creators of Clash Royale, decided to give their players a math lesson to figure out when the next season of the Clash Royale League would begin. In a video released on their esports' Youtube and social media pages Friday afternoon, players were asked to solve a math equation to #CrackTheCRLCode. While the video did not explicitly say that the answer would spell out when the pro league would begin, fans were able to put together the pieces of the puzzle relatively quickly.
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Clash Royale May balance update tweaks six cards
Early Friday morning, the Clash Royale team released details of the upcoming May balance update that is scheduled to go live on Monday. In the brief balance update video posted on their official Youtube channel and in-game client, six cards are seeing tweaks in the patch. Shortly after the videos went live, members of the development team took to the game's official subReddit to provide some context on the changes taking place.
