IGN Arena Podcast

We have huge stuff to close out the year on IGN Arena Episode 21. Mitch Dyer, Brian Albert, Kyle O'Connor, and James Faulkner welcome IGN's newest hire Miranda Sanchez to the episode. Learn more about her hatred for Viper, her love of support, and additional thoughts on both League of Legends and Dota 2.

Speaking of, Dota 2's Shifting Snows update brings major balances to Valve's MOBA, which is leaning hard into its combat-oriented focus. Meanwhile, League of Legends' Poro King mode is adorable, chaotic, and amazing. The crew goes over all this and more in our final proper episode of 2014.

This week's show sees IGN Arena regulars Mitch Dyer, James Faulkner and Kyle O'Connor talk about their experience at IEM San Jose, Unicorns of Love breaking the meta with Jungle Twisted Fate and Cloud 9 clinching the victory in San Jose. In addition, we talk Rek'Sai, the new League of Legends Jungle Champion and Dota 2's The Summit 2.

This week's show sees IGN Arena regulars Mitch Dyer, James Faulkner, Kyle O'Connor, and Brian Albert joined by Sean Finnegan, our biggest eSports nerd in the office, to talk about the poisonous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cheating at DreamHack Winter. In addition, we talk Rek'Sai, the new League of Legends Champion, the problem with Dota 2's Nemesis Assassin event, and more.

On this week's show, the IGN Arena hosts discuss League of Legend's newest champion, Kalista, the Spear of Vengeance. We also share our most memorable MOBA moments, both good and bad. Plus, Brian smells phantom Kool-Aid.

PS4 has a built-in eSports feature in Spain - will Microsoft follow suit? We also talk LoL experiments and answer your letters.

Dota 2's new meta, LoL's new Sion, and the death of Diretide.

Dota 2's 6.82 "Rekindling Soul" update is live, with new tweaks to Bloodseeker and Phantom Lancer, a new model for Shadow Fiend, and a new location for Roshan in the redesigned map. This is arguably the biggest and most important change to Dota 2 since its launch, with changes to Captain's Mode characters, a brand new rune, and lots of major Hero changes to adjust the meta.

This week's show isn't all Dota 2, though. James Faulkner and Brian Albert also give us the rundown on Vainglory, a mobile MOBA that's surprisingly smart, and could catch the attention of hardcore players. And as Riot Games ramps up preparations for Worlds, IGN Arena discusses what's to come in the League of Legends championship.