A Game Of Inches
"What can I do to improve?" is the most asked question on the League of Legends forums. People think there are a few magical tricks that can instantly turn them into Diamond players. This isn't the case. In any game, the good players are separated from the great...
The Next Level. Part 2: Gain or Greed?
Greetings everyone, in this next part, we will be talking about how to maximize your time in the laning phase and how to maximize your gain over your greed. The main focus of this article will be to explain how important your creep score is, and how going deep for a...
World Championship 2014 Season Four: Group Stage
The stage is set, the groups are revealed and World’s most played MOBA leagues of legends has come up with the biggest e-Sports event of the year, The League of legends Season Four World Championship 2014. The first world championship was played three years earlier in...
The Next Level. Part 1: Awareness
Hey everyone, James here. I'd like to welcome you all to a new series about taking your skill to the next level. In this part we will talk about In-game awareness. Awareness is one of the most important things to learn and improve on, but it is a skill you continually...
Solo Queue Mentality
As in the real world, in Solo Queue players always have a mentality of their own. Even Toxic Players have one. What a mentality is pretty much a way of thinking. In Solo Queue your mentality can make you a better player, or make you a worse one. Here are some examples...
Escaping “Elo Hell” at Bronze/Silver
Elo Hell is a pretty common topic nowadays, to me it's a division where you're visibly better than everyone else but not better enough to single-handedly carry them. Then you start complaining about how bad your teams are and what not. Thing is, even if they are bad,...
League of Legends: What attracts you to the game?
It is an undeniable fact the League of Legends has quickly become the epicenter of the PC gaming universe, taking gaming to new heights, and changing the public’s image of gamers. Recent Riot estimates have stated the 27 million people play League of Legends daily,...
No More Confusion: League of Legends For Beginners
There are millions of players across the world that play League of Legends, so it's no shock that there are thousands of new members a day. If you're one of those members, you may need a little help to get ahead of the game when it comes to learning how to play. This...
The Benefits of Launching a Next-Gen Grand Theft Auto V
It’s already a well-established fact that Grand Theft Auto V is one of the best-selling video games in history, but things are about to take an even more interesting turn by the end of this year. Six months ago, GTA V already broke the 30-million shipped items figure...
Borderlands 2
This humor-filled, action-adventure game from Gearbox Software combines the best elements of role playing games, like character building, experience points, and rewards from building up skill trees, with a first-person shooter perspective. Characteristic gameplay...
Planetary Annihilation To Be Released in Early 2014 by Uber Entertainment and Nordic Games
What originally began as a Kick Starter-funded project that eventually raised $2.2 million in funds for Uber Entertainment has now created a new kind of real-time strategy game with a much more epic scope than anything seen previously. Uber Entertainment is staffed by...
Civilization V: Brave New World
This is an expansion pack for the highly praised, turn-based, strategy video game that allows you to build world empires from prehistoric times into the future on Windows and Mac platforms. Culture and Diplomacy The focus with this expansion pack is on culture and...
The Novelist: A New Non-combat Story-based Game
Available on both Windows and Mac platforms, the Novelist presents a thoughtful, contemplative, and realistic approach to gameplay. It was designed and developed by Kent Hudson. Ghostly Perspective As a silently sentient phantom presence you haunt a 1970’s family...
Elder Scrolls Online To Be Released 4/4/14 on PC and MAC
Bethesda has developed completely new major game systems to bring to you an online version of The Elder Scrolls that remains familiar but renovated with thousands of hours of new content. Combat is said to be more exciting and responsive and past quest issues have...
GameSync Featured In The San Diego Union Tribune Story On Gamification
We are very grateful to the Union Tribune for their article on Gamification processes in business - they were kind enough to interview our founder and CEO, Agragati Siegel. Here is the link:...
Keeping an Eye on Gamescom 2013 Coverage
As you likely already know, Gamescom 2013 is this week in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gamecom is a huge international video games trade fair, and this is often the place where titles available for the holiday season for announced. Gamescom 2013 is no...
Blizzard Hints at Diablo 3 Expansion – Storyline Speculation
Diablo 3 was not the best game out there for Blizzard. After 12 years, the company finally released the sequel to the well-loved hack-and-slash horror game, Diablo 2, and it was a huge flop. First off, they gave it away to hundreds of World of Warcraft players when...
Turning Video Games Into Movies
Ever since J.J. Abrams talked about Half-Life and Portal being adapted into a movie (which, is super exciting), it seems like we're entering this new age of video game movies. Granted, people have tried to turn video games into movies for a long time (take a look at...
Lightning Returns…But She’s a Bit Different
So with the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII comes the option to dress Lightning in a variety of costumes, which I admit is really cool. The game will allow players to customize Lightning as they wish, whether it be her actual look, her weapons, or her battle...
A Brief History of Final Fantasy
Anyone else excited for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII? Or Final Fantasy XV? I know I am. The Final Fantasy games are widely known and amazingly popular, being the most successful franchise for Square Enix. That's quite a feat, considering how it started. Shaky...
Can Video Games Be Art?
I'm going to go down a very interesting, slightly controversial road with this one. It's been discussed before, but it's relevant in this interesting space and time of video gaming. As video games are becoming more and more cinematic and as video games are added to...
The Zombie Apocalypse In Video Games
With the release of The Last of Us, it's pretty clear that the zombie obsession is still going strong. Zombies seem to be everywhere - in movies (World War Z anyone?), shows (The Walking Dead), in books, and definitely in video games. While zombies are nowhere near...
GameSync’s First League of Legends Tournament
Yesterday, June 22nd, GameSync hosted it's very first League of Legends tournament. With a short 1-week notice we somehow rounded up over 25 players to play, which we think is a smash-hit! Everyone who attended the event seemed to be having a blast even if they were...
Is World of Warcraft Releasing Content Too Quickly?
World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG on the market today, and for a lot of good reasons. They have a top-notch team of programmers, they have people who are devoted to the game and to Blizzard Entertainment, and they have very, very good Public Relations. If...
Games Can Tell Stories
On a panel at University of Southern California, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had some interesting thoughts about the nature of video gaming, stating that video games can't really have a plot and that players can't really care about the video game characters. I...