After a bit of maintenance, For Honor's dedicated servers finally went live on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Let me tell you: They feel good - real good - and it only took a year for that to happen.

Monster Hunter: World is a multiplayer game meant to be played online with other people. Unfortunately, matchmaking on Xbox One isn't yet working as intended.

Competitive video games are unique in that they offer an international field of play. Unlike soccer or football, video games let you play the best in the world without having to travel, creating an international dialogue of play and growth. For Splatoon 2 players though, the current matchmaking system hinders that exchange of ideas, a significant hurdle for an already small scene.

In an update to the Dota 2 matchmaking services today, Valve announced that players will have to register a unique phone number in order to compete in ranked matches.

The matchmaking experience for Counter-Strike has always been, let's say, hit or miss. The quality of the servers and matches themselves are one thing. But often the most contentious part of the experience has nothing to do with the game or infrastructure itself. It's the people -- they're awful.

So Valve wants to change that. And in their latest update, they want you to help -- by letting them use your phone number.

Matchmaking in any game can be a strange experience, but there's something about Counter-Strike that just brings out a touch of the crazy in people.

The latest update to Valve's gargantuan free-to-play MOBA has one line that is going to make an immense world of difference -- especially if you're the type to rage a lot or if you have supremely unreliable internet.

It's pretty much a given these days that any online game has to have a decent matchmaking system. Getting the algorithms right can be enormously tricky, however.

Mario Kart 8 received its first big update at the end of August. Most of the changes were welcome improvements. But one took some time to sink in: the new online ranking system. Now that it has, some players are left feeling confused and upset.

No random matchmaking for endgame raids in Bungie's new "shared world" shooter Destiny? No problem, say these fans. They will just make their own.