The League Championship Series is the top tier of professional League of Legends esports, and one of the biggest pro esports leagues in the world. But according to esports journalist Mikhail Klimentov, it could soon be facing a work stoppage, as the LCS Players Association is calling for a vote on a walkout.

The trouble began earlier this month when Riot announced that it will no longer require LCS teams to field a team in the North American Challengers League, a “developmental” league announced in 2022 made up of 10 former Academy teams—the previous developmental league—and six “Provisional Teams” made up of amateur players. It’s basically a feeder league for the LCS, and each LCS team was required to field its own NACL team along with its main roster. 

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Logan Paul is one of the biggest influencers in the world, and a one-man brand whose tentacles touch everything from wrestling to podcasts to sugar water. He and fellow influencer KSI have recently scored a major mainstream hit with their endorsement of an energy drink called Prime, but this success has overshadowed one of the dodgier elements of Paul’s recent past: a crypto-based videogame that promised the Earth (or, at least, that it would exist), made millions, and now looks very much like a scam.

The whole CryptoZoo scam was exposed by investigative journalist CoffeeZilla in January of this year or, as we put it at the time, Logan Paul just did too many shitty things to fit in this headline. That’s because, following the detailed report into this scheme, Paul threatened to su…

I’ve been having a great time in Nightdive’s System Shock⁠—it’s been one of those “actually having trouble putting it down” games for me. It’s technically impressive too, with great performance and a lightweight install for an Unreal Engine 4 game, but I’ve definitely encountered a few glitches in my playtime.

And every single one I can remember has been taken care of in the game’s first patch since launching on May 30. The biggest was a nearly progress-blocking bug in the Maintenance level’s cyberspace section: it would slow to a crawl and eventually crash toward the end, and just last night I managed to muddle through by rushing past its final enemies. The game still crashed shortly after exiting, but I got that sweet autosave meaning I didn’t have to run it…