Brendan Copley is a creative writing and game design student currently enrolled at Chapman University in Southern California. He is an avid gamer passionate about all aspects of game design, from narrative to art and competitive balance. When he's not grinding the competitive ladder in Overwatch, he works on a YouTube gaming channel where he teaches new players the ins and out of FPS games.
On Nov. 8, Team Liquid released the news that one of their coaches and former professional Overwatch player Dennis “INTERNETHULK” Hawelka had passed away. Details surrounding his death have yet to be disclosed. Hawelka had been the coach for Liquid’s now disbanded Overwatch team, and had been slated to coach for their League of Legends […] More
Progression systems in games are often used as a stand-in for helping the player improve at the game. Rather than training your player to get better and play the game with more skill, you simply outfit them with stronger gear, weapons, or abilities and let them have at it. Sure, you’ll increase enemy difficulty as […] More
On October 30th, Bungie unveiled the trailer for the first Destiny 2 expansion, the Curse of Osiris, at Paris Games Week. The expansion, which will be available December 5, centers on Osiris, a powerful figure in Destiny’s lore, and will send players to Mercury, an as yet unexplored planet in Destiny 2. Bungie has claimed […] More
Team Fortress 2’s Jungle Inferno update just dropped on Steam and with it a whole payload of brand new weapons ready for the Pyro to set a match ablaze. Here’s everything you need to know about his new toys to get into the heat of things. Gearing Up Each new weapon for the Pyro can […] More
Activision has recently received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office on a patent for a matchmaking “system and method for driving microtransactions in multiplayer video games.” The gist of the program seems to be to match players depending on their use of microtransaction weapons or items. For example, if a player has purchased […] More
It wasn’t until I’d put the game down after my first few hours of playtime that I realized why I’d gotten sucked into Inversus Deluxe. It wasn’t the minimalist art style, the geometrically pleasing tiles or the simple color scheme. It wasn’t the comfortable controls, the dozens of unlockable maps, or the brief but effective […] More
This past Tuesday, October 10, Team Fortress 2 celebrated its 10th birthday since it’s release in 2007. This year also saw the 18th birthday of the official series as whole, as the original Team Fortress was released on April 7, 1999. Although no formal update or celebration has been announced by Valve yet, players are […] More
Stardew Valley, the infamous farming simulator that blew up on Steam after it’s release early last year, was released on the Nintendo Switch yesterday, October 5th. Available on the Nintendo eShop for $14.99, this will be the first portable version of the game to be released. Not only that, but the Switch version of the […] More
“Can somebody go healer?” If you’ve spent any amount of time in Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch, you’ve probably heard those words from a fellow teammate at least once before. In a cast of 20+ heroes that boast diversity and unique mechanics, Blizzard has made it a point to make the experience of playing a healer, which […] More
This past Thursday, Blizzard Entertainment announced the first official team for their highly anticipated Overwatch League: the Shanghai Dragons, representing Shanghai, China. The announcement was made on Blizzard’s overwatchleague.com, and was accompanied by posts from the team’s newly created social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook. Included were the official logo and team colors, as […] More
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