League of Legends

Been playing this a lot lately, having a blasty blast with it.

Game is usually played 5v5 in a "whoever kills the other teams homebase first wins". There are something like 50 "champions" that you can play (with there being a rotated 10 or so free to play each week.) The game is free to play, but you can spend your money if you want to unlock champions sooner than later, get different skins. You can also unlock champs the free way, just takes a bit longer (so no real advantage for paying money).

Its played top down, similar to Dota, or Heroes of Newerth if you've heard of em. (Dota was pretty big once upon a time i think, i never played it tho).

It is a little cartoony, but the game is really all strategy and patience. A 5v5 match can last 45minutes to an hour, 3v3 can last to about 30-45 minutes (and the new gametype released today is insanely fast, 15 minutes or so is a long game - very similar to arathi basin in WoW if you are familiar, capture towers and hold them to bring the opponents score to 0)

You earn Influence Points (IP) playing matches and use them to unlock champs and runes as you level up (as a player) and get skill trees too.

Anyhoo, Good to log in once and a while to see how you fools are doin, if you sign up friend me up (i go by, wait for it, ghoti) in LoL.

Here's a referral link (i think i get some perks if i refer a lot of people heh)
http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=4e810b9b99286375901799

if you'd rather not be a referral and provide me with awesome stuff (AND WHO WOULDNT?!)
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/ works too.

The community can be a bit harsh to players, good and bad. thankfully there is a /mute and an /ignore for the real bad ones, but you tend to only get matched up against people of your own level/skill so its not really _that_ bad.