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League of Legends (LoL) is adding the Honor System and missions. In fact, the Honor system contains a leveling system that’s meant to encourage proper team play, while missions are objectives that players must complete for rewards.

No longer is it enough for an MOBA to have various modes for matchmaking and a level-up system for the account. With the ever-growing demand for a more well-rounded MOBA experience, a variety of MOBAs have added a collection of features and LoL Items throughout the years. It’s been a hit-or-miss for many games, including LoL. Riot has decided to tweak one feature (Honors) and turn it to the Honor system while adding a new one (Missions).

 

The New Honor Is Mine

Known as the Honor Update, honors will receive other fixes aside from the name. Before, summoners are able to commend teammates for being any of the following four traits:

1. Helpful: assist teammates in any way possible
2. Teamwork: cooperative and put the interests of the team first before individual self-interests
3. Friendly: pleasant demeanor makes the game enjoyable regardless of victory or defeat
4. Honorable Opponent: an enemy who plays well but doesn’t engage in toxic behavior

Now, with the new Honor system, summoners get appreciation for working cool under pressure, exceptional shotcalling, and the memetic GG <3, which is for players who make the game fun.

Reported and Dishonored

Other than changing the criteria for giving honors to fellow summoners, the new Honor system will sort of “level up.” If a summoner receives three Honor points, the player will have a special flare on his or her loading screen to show that he or she has been earning Honor points. More points mean a greater likelihood of having a friendly and reliable player on your team.

Let’s say that a summoner does something inappropriate and gets reported: well, he or she is removed from his or her account. The penalty is enough to motivate LoL players who have earned their Honor points to take it up a notch.

 

Accepting the Mission

Another new feature is Missions: objectives that summoners must fulfill to achieve certain rewards. Although there have been missions before, they’re more of the “use <insert champion name here> for X times/and gain certain rank/earn X amount of gold” variety. The new feature is more “story-driven;” supposedly, there’s going to be a “good vs. evil” theme going on.

How that’s going to work? Nobody knows the exact answer. How’s it being received? Well, not as warmly as the usual objective-based missions are, but it’s generating enough hype to make summoners intrigued with the new format. The reason is because of the rewards: two LoL Items . In other words, skins that’s only achievable with Dawnrbinger Riven and Nightbringer Yasuo missions. The two skins are obviously being pegged as two opposing forces (good and evil) since it’s the theme of the missions. Dawnbringer Riven’s skin has that radiant yellow glow and bright early day colors like gold, violet, and sky blue. Nightbringer Yasuo has a shadowy hue and fire effects, reminiscent of cities and towns being lit by torches after the sun has set.

The new Honor system and missions are set on changing how and why summoners are going back to Summoner’s Rift. How the player base will take it is still up in the air. Hopefully they’ll be able to see what it aims to do, appreciate it, and go with the flow.

 

Take-Two Interactive has just delivered a hammer-blow to millions of modders worldwide, not to mention its own reputation.

After a solid run, Open VI – just about the most popular modding tool on Earth for GTA V – has been immediately and permanently shut down. According to its creators, Take-Two slammed them with a cease and desist order after nearly a decade of operation, bring to an end a glorious era of GTA V modding.

Suffice to say, the global GTA community has gone more than a little nuts.

The company reports that the order was received on Jun 5, which apparently talks of the way in which the modding tool allows and encourages “third parties to defeat security features of its software and modify that software in violation Take-Two’s rights.”

Rather than mounting any kind of defence, the developers behind Open VI have decided to instead comply and pull the plug.

“Yes, we can go to court and yet again prove that modding is fair use and our actions are legal,” creator GooD-NTS wrote.

“Yes, we could. But we decided not to. Going to court will take at least few months of our time and huge amount of efforts, and, at best, we’ll get absolutely nothing. Spending time just to restore status quo is really unproductive, and all the money in the world can’t compensate the loss of time. So, we decided to agree with their claims and we’re stopping distribution of OpenIV.”

As such, try getting into the system now and you’ll see only the following notice:

Modders all over the world have vented their collective fury, with many suggesting that they’ll never spend a penny on anything Take-Two comes up with ever again. Modding has always been such a big part of the appeal of the GTRA franchise – the fact that this massive selling-point has been eliminated by its very creators really is a little on the nonsensical side.

After a seemingly endless cycle of mysterious teasers, Queens of the Stone Age have finally confirmed the name of their upcoming album. Going by the name of ‘Villains’, a brief snippet of one of the album’s tracks has also been made public.

All by way of perhaps the single best piece of pre-album-launch PR you’re ever likely to see.

The clip was first teased in a Twitter post earlier this week and features Josh Homm strapped to a lie detector, while being asked a series of questions by Liam Lynch. By lying through his teeth, Homm reveals the name of the new albums, confirms the new song snippet is the real deal and names Mark Ronson as the album’s producer.

Who also happens to appear in the clip in rather tongue-in-cheek style.

The new song is called “Feet Don’t Fail Me” and seems to keep in-line with Homm’s promise of a more “uptempo” outing than recent QOTSA material. It’s the first album the guys have put out since “Like Clockwork” all the way back in 2013 and expectations are off the charts.

Check out the video in full below, or if you’d prefer to check them out in-person, you’ll find a list of current tour dates below the clip:

06-22-25 Montebello, Quebec – Amnesia Rockfest
07-13 Auckland, New Zealand – Logan Campbell
07-22 Tenindea, Australia – Splendour in the Grass
07-28-30 Kinasa, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival
08-11-13 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands

There’s committed, there’s fanatical and then there’s…well, Bryan Ray.  It’s one thing to have something of a fascination with a superstar, but it’s something else entirely to dedicate much of your life to them. Or better yet, dedicate your entire appearance to them.

In the case of this particular chap, Bryan Ray decided at the tender age of 17-years-old that his obsession with Britney Spears really could only take one direction.  Which in this instance meant embarking on a long, painful and expensive journey toward transforming his physical appearance to that of the iconic pop star.

Today, Bryan Ray is 31-years-old and recently confirmed that he has to date spent in excess of $80,000 on a wide variety of cosmetic procedures, in order to help him look a little more like his hero.  From Botox injections to lip fillers to laser hair removal to teeth and ears and a nose job, he’s gone well and truly nuts trying to give his face a permanent makeover.

In addition, he continues to spend more than $500 every single month on preparations and topical treatments to keep his skin in good condition. He’s actually managed to meet Britney in-person three times along the way – her own thoughts and opinions on his transformation however remain a mystery.

Despite being well and truly consumed with his goal of looking as much like Britney as possible, Bryan has nonetheless managed to set enough time aside to set up and run a company that sells edible cannabis products.

“I love making modifications to my face and body with the art of plastic surgery, fillers & countless other cosmetic procedures. Ever since I was young there was something about Britney Spears and the qualities she had that I thought was the perfect package,” he said in an interview with the Daily Mail.

“I was obsessed, I watched all her interviews, learned all her choreography and then paid to have the same perfect smile as, I felt that during that time we were very similar. In the beginning, I was trying to look like Britney Spears, my surgeons who designed my veneers asked me which celebrity smile I wanted to base mine on and it was hers. Now with my looks, I want to get into modelling, I love impersonating Britney Spears so I want to continue doing that and see where it takes me.”

Interestingly, he has said that for the time being at least, she is actually more concerned with holding onto a youthful appearance than he is making himself look like someone else.

“One of my primary goals is to preserve my youth for as long as possible, I don’t want any facial or body hair as it will age me,” he said.

“I’ve fully avoided wrinkles, Botox has been my best friend throughout my journey to prevent aging, even today people think I’m younger than I am.”

And it does seem to be working to a certain extent – we would have never in a million years guessed that the Bryan Ray in the picture at the top wasn’t a teenager!

The most recent Super Bowl halftime show news conference proved to be every bit as vague and non-committal as expected.  This time around, it was Lady Gaga – the star of the 2017 event – who made it entirely clear that she was unwilling to give away any real information whatsoever about the specifics of her show.  Which of course is technically a good thing, given the way in which much of the enjoyment that comes with the annual extravaganza is the way in which they tend to be full of surprises.

As such, Gaga played politician in every way, doing a brilliant job of deflecting and avoiding all key questions in a polite manner and without giving away any information at all.

The whole point of these news conferences is to generate hype by effectively telling the public nothing more than it already knows. Both the NFL and Gaga really hit the nail on the head this time around, making sure we learned nothing new while at the same time driving anticipation ahead of the Super Bowl halftime show in a big way.

During the interview, Gaga stated that she was a huge fan of the annual halftime show long before she had are any inclination of becoming a superstar in her own right.  In particular, she looked back upon the 1993 performance by Michael Jackson as a true standout memory.

“Watching Michael Jackson do the halftime show is one of the fondest memories that I have,” she said.

“He encapsulates everything that you love about a great performer. You watch him go on stage and you can see he’s getting his head into the zone and he’s having a true defining moment. It’s what it must feel like to be a champion.”

One of the most hotly-discussed topics is that of whether or not Gaga and will make the decision to use just about the biggest stage in the world to make her feelings known about current political issues. Having appeared at more than one demonstration against the Trump presidency, it could happen.

Not that she’s giving any early indication of this, of course.

“The only statements that I’ll be making during the halftime show are the statements that I’ve been consistently making throughout my career,” she said.

“I believe in compassion for inclusion, I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness so my performance will uphold those philosophies.”