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League of Legends stealth-dropped a new champion today, and players are not happy.

BoBo says Bye-bye to your installed games.

Imagine you're like so many other gamers out there and you're playing a game of League of Legends. You make your way into a match and 15 minutes later you find that you've died 10 times to this new mystery champion that seems completely over powered. No big deal, you decide after losing the game. Time to relax with something else in your large library and take a break from the high stakes world of LoL. 

But as you peruse your computer for something else to play, you realise half your games have been mysteriously uninstalled.

Well imagine no longer, this is the new reality for many players of Riot Games' popular MOBA. 

With no champion reveal and no time in public testing, Riot have released BoBo; a top lane fighter that deletes a random game off your computer when he scores a take down on your champion and the rest of his abilities seem to be on the side of overpowered, meaning chances are if you face BoBo in lane, your steam library will be a little bit lighter.

The outrage you may have seen across platforms such as Reddit and Twitter at this frankly ridiculous new champion has only been made worse by Riot's blatant refusal to even acknowledge the champion's existence, let alone respond to the multitude of calls for the champion to be disabled.

Some players have raised concerns as to how this is even possible as League of Legends should have no authority to mess with other programs on your computer at all. And more concerns are being raised about what else Riot Games are messing with on our computers, which is a very valid concern. I myself uninstalled League halfway through writing this article for this very reason.

Funnily enough, game modes in League of Legends that allow the banning of a champion before the game, have remained largely unaffected due to the 99% ban rate currently keeping BoBo from causing too much trouble. 

This doesn't mean much for players of ARAM; LoL's quick and easy game mode where players are randomly assigned a champion, with the option to swap a couple of times before the match then sent into a small, one-lane map to duke it out. 

The nature of ARAM means it's impossible to stop someone from playing the new champion and players have been eager to grab BoBo, if only to stop others from playing him.

Frankly this whole situation is rather bizarre. Whilst Riot are known for having some fun with their players on April Fools Day, observant readers will be aware we are in the middle of November meaning the idea this is a case of a practical joke gone too far seems to be out the window. And a move like this hasn't had a very positive effect on the players and I struggle to see how anybody at Riot could think it would.

One thing is for sure, this is only day one of a crazy future for League of Legends fans and I'll be keeping a close eye on the situation as it progresses to keep you informed.

I have reached out to Riot Games and am yet to receive a response.

Update: 

Riot Games have released a short and cryptic tweet saying "Suck it, Nerds", seemingly in response to player backlash over the new champion.

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This new city builder allows players to play as Spider-Man in a city of their own making.

Swing, Swing… oh look traffic is congested.

If you're as old as me, you might remember playing Sim City and having your heart filled with glee when you realised your city could have its very own superhero. Your nameless hero would fly through the city fighting crime with is laser eyes and destroying the odd building in the process.

Cities Spiderlines, a collaboration between Insomniac Games and Colossal Order, is a game set to make me relive my childhood and then some.

Priced at a comfortable $50AUD, the game is almost a carbon copy clone of Cities Skylines 2 with the incredibly fun addition of letting you have your own Spider-Man and even letting you shrink down and take control of the web slinger to fight crime.

First unlocked in-game at milestone 15, opening up the police tab of your building menu, you will see a rather unflattering looking apartment building. Immediately after being placed you will see New York City's resident wall crawler climb out of a window and start patrolling and I have to say, it's an absolute treat.

If you're as bad at managing the happiness and welfare of your little sim people as I am, Spidey will have no shortage of crime to fight as he swings from skyscraper to skyscraper. 

He can even fight crime off in the suburbs, and in a very funny move if he fights a crime in an area with no tall buildings to swing off you can see him hail a taxi or hop on a bus to make his way back into the city. If you don't have any public transport available for him to use, he begins a very long walk.

Now this new feature is fun enough already but where it gets even better is when you jump into Spidey's shoes (spandex boots?) and start slinging on your own. As far as I can tell this works exactly how it does in the Spider-Man 2 game on PS5, right down to the combat, so a controller is recommended but they have done a pretty good job at porting this portion of the game to mouse and keyboard.

At the moment there are no supervillains for Spidey to fight, something I'm eager to see in some future DLC and personally I think it would be cool to see him helping out during natural disasters, but there's still more than enough here to justify the price tag, considering you're essentially getting all of Cities Skylines 2 with the added bonus of Spider-Man.

The game released December 1st on Windows and Playstation 5 and you can find it on the Steam store and PS store respectively.

As someone that recently completed Spider-Man 2 and spending all his free time playing Cities Skylines 2, I cannot wait to get my hands on this game.