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Artifact is Valve's latest game - a trading card game that anybody who appreciates complex strategy will appreciate. While it is based on Dota2, you do not need to be a Dota2 player to enjoy this game. This is a very polished trading card game, as polished as other well established games like Heartstone and Shadowverse.

Anybody who gambles, particularly anyone who plays poker, is familiar with the term "tilt." Someone gets on tilt in poker when he loses a hand, becomes frustrated, and proceeds to play the next hand carelessly. This may mean making a big bet when he has a bad hand or calling someone when he would normally fold.

Years ago, Riot created the Tribunal in League of Legends to help police the community and to ban troublemakers from the game. Eventually Riot retired the Tribunal but it provided great entertainment and justice while it lasted. For example, every so often a player would come to the official League of Legends forums and cry about being unjustifiably banned. Usually, their argument is "I was banned but I didn't do anything, why didn't Riot give me any explanation?" Well, below is one such example of where Riot did provide an explanation. Here, the thread's author complains about being banned without any explanation and tries to draw support from the community.

As anyone who has played solo queue ranked games has witnessed, many people in League of Legends  have a very weak psyche. The smallest amount of trash talking could create a snowball effect where the whole team falls apart. It may seem odd, then, why so many players talk trash to each other at the smallest mistakes. For example, I was in a game yesterday where my team and I were completely dominating the other team for the first 25 minutes. Then, one teammate makes the mistake of not running to mid and my team loses a 4 v. 5 team fight. This causes one player to call the other one all kinds of names and we eventually lost all momentum and the game.

Anyone who has played physical sports knows the importance of staying strong mentally. A weak mental game can cause mistakes and meltdowns, resulting in defeat. Similarly, it is important to have a strong mental game in competitive games like Dota2 and League of Legends because this can reduce stupid deaths and the snowballing effect that some experience when they start playing poorly.

Anyone who has ever played a MOBA has been in this situation: a Teammate A calls out Teammate B because Teammate B employs a strategy not used by "pros." Unfortunately, what a lot of people fail to realize is that what works for "pros" may not work for you. The two main reasons for this are not hard to figure out: the "pros" are better than the average gamer and they practice with the same people more, therefore they play better as a team. Unfortunately, this is lost on a lot of people and they insist on copying the "pros," regardless of how bad they and their teammates are. 

Ever wonder why you see some people play the game like they're brain damaged? Well, it turns out that our brain functions better at certain times.