/categories/guide/Recent content in Guide on BlogLabHugo -- gohugo.ioCopyright © 2021-2022, all rights reserved.Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/alphari-returns-to-liquid-s-starting-lcs-roster-will-share-playing-time-with-jenkins-in-week-6-of-2021-lcs-summer-split/Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/alphari-returns-to-liquid-s-starting-lcs-roster-will-share-playing-time-with-jenkins-in-week-6-of-2021-lcs-summer-split/ After spending almost the entire 2021 Summer Split away from competitive play, Team Liquid’s superstar top laner Alphari is finally set to come back to the team’s main LCS roster for week six of the season, the organization announced today. In the latest episode of Liquid’s seasonal vlog “SQUAD,” the team’s current head coach Jonas “Kold” Andersen said Alphari isn’t the definitive starter just yet because he’ll still be sharing playing time with Jenkins./post/hellraisers-suspends-operations-for-duration-of-ukraine-invasion/Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hellraisers-suspends-operations-for-duration-of-ukraine-invasion/ Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, HellRaisers has released a detailed statement on the conflict and announced it is suspending all operations until the war concludes.  The Ukrainian esports organization deemed it could not continue operating as normal while dealing with the escalating events of the invasion.  pic.twitter.com/itBIPDdwtK — HellRaisers (@HELLRAISERSgg) March 2, 2022 “The HellRaisers project can’t keep working in a current situation and will be on hold until the war ends,” HellRaisers said./post/how-to-unlock-carnage-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-carnage-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/ Carnage is finally here. Fortnite Chapter Two, season Eight is here today, and one of its most anticipated is a skin themed after one of Marvel’s most iconic symbiotes. First teased in the season’s teaser trailer before being revealed in the Battle Pass trailer, Carnage is going to be one of the hot items from this season. A collaboration with Marvel coming just over a month ahead of the Sony-produced sequel film Venom: Let there be Carnage, players can take on the mantle as this violent symbiote in-game./post/how-to-get-overwatch-s-pink-mercy-skin/Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-overwatch-s-pink-mercy-skin/ A new Overwatch skin, Pink Mercy, was released by Blizzard yesterday. It’s immediately gained a lot of attention—as a charity skin, it’s a new type of skin campaign from Blizzard. Beyond that, the skin’s a damn masterpiece. Proceeds from the $15 Pink Mercy skin will be donated to Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The skin isn’t unlocked like regular Overwatch skins. Instead, players who want Pink Mercy must purchase the skin through Blizzard, either in-game or through the Blizzard website./post/league-players-discover-bug-with-jhin-s-w-ability-in-new-shan-hai-scrolls-skin/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-players-discover-bug-with-jhin-s-w-ability-in-new-shan-hai-scrolls-skin/ League’s new Shan Hai Scrolls skins for Nautilus, Neeko, Jhin, and Cho’Gath released today on live servers, but it seems Jhin gets an extra unintended buff when dressed in this new look. A Reddit clip showed Shan Hai Scrolls Jhin facing off against a Caitlyn, but when he went to W the Caitlyn to root her in place, the animation occurs but no visual indicator to show its direction is displayed./post/the-7-best-headsets-for-valorant/Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-7-best-headsets-for-valorant/ Headsets are one of the most underrated and most effective pieces of gaming equipment. We often forget about them while focusing on finding the most stacked PC and the perfect monitor. Sound is notably an important part of any FPS game. Hearing the footsteps of your enemies in VALORANT can allow you to pinpoint their location and stay one step ahead of them. Hearing well isn’t the only thing headsets are good for, however./post/c%C3%B3mo-evolucionar-inkay-a-malamar-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/c%C3%B3mo-evolucionar-inkay-a-malamar-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ El Psicoespectáculo de Pokémon Go te podrá parecer un evento bastante sencillo a simple vista, pero hay un elemento que lo cambia todo. Uno de los principales atractivos del evento más reciente es el Inkay de tipo sombrío/psíquico que hace su debut en Pokémon Go, apareciendo en las incursiones salvajes y de una estrella. Inkay es un poco extraño, no solo por su tipo, sino también porque hace honor a su título de Pokémon Rotación con su método de evolución, lo que podría confundir a las y los jugadores que no se han encontrado con el nativo de Kalos en el pasado./post/the-coolest-gaming-tech-from-ces-2022/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-coolest-gaming-tech-from-ces-2022/ CES 2022 might have been shattered by the specter of Omicron, but the world’s largest technology show still had plenty of gaming tech on offer. Samsung Odyssey Ark’s was wonderfully over the top Curved screens have been around for a while, but there’s nothing quite like the Samsung Odyssey Ark, a giant 55-inch curved screen designed specifically for gaming and content creation. The idea of the Ark is to allow more comfortable multi-tasking, by supporting multiple full-size windows in your natural view./post/when-will-serenitea-pot-maintenance-in-genshin-impact-end/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-serenitea-pot-maintenance-in-genshin-impact-end/ The world of Genshin Impact is rich with a sometimes overwhelming amount of gameplay options. The Serenitea Pot is one gameplay feature that allows players to fully customize multiple realms of their own. It’s a portable home for the Traveler to access at any point whilst on the go and also has many useful features to help with other aspects of Genshin Impact gameplay. However, the ability to edit within the Serenitea Pot came to a halt when miHoYo began maintenance on the feature./post/all-mc-championship-mcc-pride-2022-teams/Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mc-championship-mcc-pride-2022-teams/ Noxcrew is bringing back non-canon MC Championship (MCC) events in June, running the second iteration of MCC Pride in partnership with The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ+ youth. Running on June 18, the Minecraft tournament will highlight new and returning players within the LGTBQIA+ community while raising money in the Decision Dome.  🏳️‍🌈MCC Pride: 2022🏳️‍⚧️ Coming to the Decision Dome on Saturday 18th June👑 pic./post/frost-fatales-an-all-women-speedrunning-event-raises-over-132-000-for-charity/Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/frost-fatales-an-all-women-speedrunning-event-raises-over-132-000-for-charity/ Frost Fatales, a speedrunning competition that’s part of Games Done Quick, ended its week-long event yesterday and raised over $132,000 for Malala Fund. The event was organized by the Frame Fatales community and saw over 50 speedruns in the competition between Feb. 27 and March 6. Some games that the women chose to speedrun were Fire Emblem: Three Houses, DuckTales, Kingdom Hearts 2, Mass Effect, and much more. 🏁Time🏁#FrostFatales 2022 raised a total of $132,350 for @MalalaFund!/post/all-cs-go-teams-attending-iem-cologne-2022/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-cs-go-teams-attending-iem-cologne-2022/ IEM Cologne 2022 features a stacked collection of CS:GO teams looking to lift a trophy in the “Cathedral of Counter-Strike.” For the first time since 2019, the playoffs of an event in Cologne will be played in front of a packed crowd in the Lanxess-Arena. IEM Cologne 2022 also represents the latest stop in the fourth season of the Intel Grand Slam. Competing teams are vying for goal of winning four events in the Grand Slam circuit to become champions and take home a $1 million prize pool./post/how-many-spirits-are-there-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-many-spirits-are-there-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ Spirits, the new collectables added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, were added into the game to replace trophies.  Each spirit can be equipped to a character of your choice to give them special bonuses in the Spirits game mode or in the adventure mode “World of Light”.  Some of these bonuses you can get include the ability to walk on fire without taking damage and the ability to deal bonus damage./post/magic-items-are-coming-to-clash-royale/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/magic-items-are-coming-to-clash-royale/ Clash Royale’s next update is adding a feature that will provide players with new ways to progress in the game. These are the Magic Items. There will be five of them coming to Clash Royale, each with a different function. The five Magic Items are Wild Cards, Book of Cards, the Book of Books, Chest Keys, and Magic Coins. Drew Haycock, the community manager of Clash Royale at Supercell, said the goal with this new feature was to make it easier for players to upgrade their cards./post/best-moveset-for-mew-and-mewtwo-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-moveset-for-mew-and-mewtwo-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Mew and Mewtwo are two of the strongest Pokémon available in Pokémon Go, and with all of the Kanto-themed events running in the game, they will probably be seeing a spike in usage in the future, too.  The best part about the two Psychic-types is how different they are, while still being strong in multiple roles and team compositions.  Starting with Mew, there isn’t a thing this Pokémon can’t do simply because it has access to more moves than any other Pokémon in the game./post/the-6-best-ps4-accessories/Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-6-best-ps4-accessories/ Despite being eclipsed by the PlayStation 5, Sony’s PlayStation 4 remains popular. With over 110 million PS4s sold since release, the console should remain relevant for the next few years and still serves as a decent gaming platform. Users looking to improve their PS4 experience have a multitude of options. Sony and third-party companies make accessories to enhance the functionality of the PS4 and make it easier to use.  Here are the best PS4 accessories./post/virtus-pro-replaces-sanji-with-fl1t-ahead-of-the-major/Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/virtus-pro-replaces-sanji-with-fl1t-ahead-of-the-major/ Virtus Pro has signed Evgeny “⁠FL1T⁠” Lebedev from forZe and will use him in the PGL Stockholm Major instead of the support player Sanjar “⁠SANJI⁠” Kuliev. The roster change, announced today, is not definitive. VP will evaluate its roster after the Major. “We want to achieve the best possible result [at the Major], and in order to do so the team needs a new impulse,” Sergey Glamazda, the organization’s CEO, said in a press release./post/epic-eyes-major-franchises-for-potential-fortnite-crossovers/Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/epic-eyes-major-franchises-for-potential-fortnite-crossovers/ Epic Games might be curious as to what players want to see in future Fortnite crossovers if a new survey is to be believed. Epic asked players in a recent survey, according to prominent Fortnite leaker ShiinaBR, how they feel about different media brands and properties, possibly hinting that they may appear in the battle royale title. While no actual images of the survey have made their way online, ShiinaBR posted an extensive list of all the properties mentioned in the survey and some of them are surprising—even for Fortnite./post/new-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-update-reworks-ranked-progression-system/Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-update-reworks-ranked-progression-system/ Pokémon UNITE implemented its latest update today, adding Tsareena to the game as well as implementing a handful of bug fixes, balance adjustments, and setting the foundations for the game’s Holiday Festivities on Dec. 15. One major change in the version 1.3.1.1 patch is something ranked players have been asking for. An update to the ranking system will make things fairer for players grinding across the board—but especially in Master Rank./post/the-best-akali-skins-in-league-of-legends/Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-akali-skins-in-league-of-legends/ It’s not a particularly well-kept secret that Riot Games loves to make skins for Akali. Among all League of Legends champions on the game’s roster, Akali sits in a tie for fifth with 14 different skins in her catalog.  Practically every skin for Akali is different from a thematic standpoint since the champion is incredibly versatile in her design. With skins where she’s depicted as a samurai-inspired ninja and others where she takes on the appearance of an urban popstar, Akali’s range is unrivaled./post/riot-releases-new-cosmic-lux-story-shaped-by-player-choices-during-dark-star-event/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-releases-new-cosmic-lux-story-shaped-by-player-choices-during-dark-star-event/ It’s been more than a month since the new Dark Star event arrived in League of Legends. But now, fans are finally getting a conclusion to Lux’s internal struggle between the forces of darkness and light in the finale of her Galaxies short story. The ending of the story was, once again, decided by League fans and their decisions during the Dark Star event. If you were hoping for a happy ending, then don’t hold your breath./post/xqc-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-latest-pogchamp-emote/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-latest-pogchamp-emote/ PogChamp has been an emote commonly used on Twitch for many years to express surprise or excitement during a stream. Since the initial appearance of the emote was removed from the platform, it has since been replaced with a rotating lineup of faces changing every 24 hours. While some of these faces have worked well by capturing exactly what the emote stands for, its most recent iteration on Jan. 10 received some criticism from users and streamers alike./post/complexity-limit-win-world-of-warcraft-race-to-world-first-castle-nathria/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/complexity-limit-win-world-of-warcraft-race-to-world-first-castle-nathria/ It wasn’t without its tribulations, but after just more than one week, Complexity Limit killed Mythic Sire Denathrius today to win World of Warcraft’s Race to World First for the Castle Nathria raid. Outside of the first couple of bosses, Limit held a lead for practically the entire race that included 10 bosses. And in the process, they notched six World First boss kills, notably including the instance’s final three bosses: Sludgefist, Stone Legion Generals, and Sire Denathrius./post/the-10-best-sweaty-skins-in-fortnite/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-best-sweaty-skins-in-fortnite/ The term “sweaty” refers to players who try their hardest to win every match of Fortnite, often to the degree that they may start sweating. While you can tell if a player is sweaty based on their movements and strategies, it’s also possible to pick them out by their skins. See Fortnite Action Figures on Amazon Though countless skins are introduced into Fortnite with each patch, some gain a reputation for being the choice of sweaty players./post/the-6-best-mousepads-for-cs-go/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-6-best-mousepads-for-cs-go/ Having a basic understanding of CS:GO and practicing your skills is essential to becoming a Global Elite player. But your road to the top can be a bumpy one if you haven’t surrounded yourself with the best gaming PC, mouse, keyboard, and headset. Gaming mousepads are one of the most overlooked pieces of equipment while completing a setup, but they’re essential to giving your mouse the gliding quality it deserves. Mousepads tailored for the most competitive gamers come in different shapes, sizes, and textures./post/what-steel-type-pok%C3%A9mon-appear-in-pokemon-go-s-sinnoh-throwback-event/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-steel-type-pok%C3%A9mon-appear-in-pokemon-go-s-sinnoh-throwback-event/ If you are going through the Pokémon Go challenges currently in hopes of getting everything available, you might soon come across a challenge asking you to “Catch a Steel-type Pokémon” in Sinnoh’s Throwback event. While that seems easy enough, the Sinnoh Pokédex doesn’t have that many readily available Steel Pokemon available. So which ones are you looking for? While Empleon, Lucario, and Steelix are viable options, the chances of finding one in the wild are slim to none, which means there is only a handful of other Pokemon that is viable./post/new-undercity-skin-line-for-valorant-leaked/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-undercity-skin-line-for-valorant-leaked/ A new skin line collection for VALORANT has appeared online ahead of its scheduled release, again. Images of the “Undercity” bundle have been shared online by Mike from the widely followed @ValorLeaks Twitter account. New Bundle: Undercity | #VALORANT pic.twitter.com/yJHI1o1A3M — Mike – Valorant Leaks & Info (@ValorLeaks) February 15, 2022 The image of the entire bundle shows the full skin collection for Undercity, with skins for the Judge, Phantom, Classic, Bulldog, and melee./post/one-year-later-forge-s-death-is-still-one-of-apex-legends-finest-moments/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/one-year-later-forge-s-death-is-still-one-of-apex-legends-finest-moments/ It’s not every day that a live service game kills off one of its characters, but that’s exactly what Apex Legends did one year ago today. Forge’s gruesome demise at the hands of Revenant meant far more to the battle royale than if the champion had stayed alive. Forge is still an iconic part of Apex’s history, which isn’t a bad reputation for a character who was only alive for four days./post/sir-lancelot-is-coming-to-smite/Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sir-lancelot-is-coming-to-smite/ One of King Arthur’s most notorious Knights will soon join him on the battleground of the Gods. Sir Lancelot has been revealed as the next character to join Smite. He will join King Arthur, Merlin, and Morgan Le Fay as a member of the Arthurian pantheon. Sir Lancelot will be the first God to join the Arthurian pantheon in over a year, with Morgan Le Fay being the last, debuting on June 15, 2021./post/upcoming-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-anime-features-ash-and-a-new-main-character-called-go/Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/upcoming-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-anime-features-ash-and-a-new-main-character-called-go/ A poster for the upcoming Pokémon anime, which will feature characters and settings from Sword and Shield, appeared online a few days ago thanks to the popular Pokémon website Serebii. The poster showed Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime who many fans expected to be cut from the series after his triumph in Alola, alongside a new trainer called “Go” with a Scorbunny partner. The poster also includes a sphere of Pokémon and locations from all of the regions in the franchise./post/the-fortnite-twitter-account-just-deleted-almost-all-of-its-tweets/Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-fortnite-twitter-account-just-deleted-almost-all-of-its-tweets/ During all of the chaos surrounding the end of Fortnite Season 10, the game’s official Twitter account has deleted nearly all of its tweets. This one tweet the account kept intact is a link to the livestream of the black hole that sucked up the entire map during the event. Outside of that, the account has gone dark, just like all of the other official Fortnite channels.  https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1183441376630972418 The game has only been down for a short time, but the social media team and developers planned out ways to keep the audience talking./post/the-10-rarest-contrails-in-fortnite/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-rarest-contrails-in-fortnite/ Fortnite would be a completely different game without its epic cosmetics. Skins, harvesting tools, emotes, gliders, and contrails add the collectors formula to the innovative gameplay, making Fortnite a unique experience. Getting better at Fortnite is the ultimate goal of a decent chunk of the player base, but that might not mean much if you don’t have the coolest cosmetics to look good while getting Victory Royales. Epic Games introduces more awesome cosmetics to the game with each patch./post/pro-apex-legends-player-dizzy-reveals-his-face-on-stream/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pro-apex-legends-player-dizzy-reveals-his-face-on-stream/ Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends has blown up in its short one-month life span. The free-to-play battle royale shooter has surpassed 50 million downloads, held multiple tournaments, andbeat Twitch records while doing it. One of the names that’s stood out since the game’s release is Cody “dizzy” Meadows. The relatively-unknown Counter-Strike professional player quickly came into the spotlight with his godlike plays and dominance in the Twitch Rivals Apex Legends Challenge./post/pubg-mobile-partners-with-mountain-dew-to-add-in-game-items/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-mobile-partners-with-mountain-dew-to-add-in-game-items/ Mountain Dew vending machines are coming to PUBG Mobile as part of the collaboration between the soft drink brand and the battle royale game. A DEW parachute and T-shirt have also been added to the game. These vending machines, which are also being called “Fuel Stations,” will be scattered across New Erangel. Players can access these machines to gain some exciting loot and Mountain Dew cans. These cans don’t take up any space in your inventory and can be exchanged for the DEW parachute or T-shirt, as well as other rewards in the events menu of the game./post/when-is-kai-sa-joining-tft/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-kai-sa-joining-tft/ Riot Games introduced Kai’Sa as Teamfight Tactics’ next champion and added the Daughter of the Void to the League of Legends Public Beta Environment just last week. Luckily for TFT fans, it won’t be much longer before Kai’Sa is added to live servers. Kai’Sa will release as a tier-five Void Assassin Ranger. Since she belongs to three different traits, players will be able to diversify their build paths to see which works best./post/100-thieves-reveals-35-million-cash-app-compound/Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/100-thieves-reveals-35-million-cash-app-compound/ The highly-anticipated new home of 100 Thieves, the 100 Thieves Cash App Compound, has finally been revealed in a 16-minute video today hosted by none other than Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag. In a walkthrough of the state of the art facility with a clean, white aesthetic, Nadeshot showed off what $35 million can make for an esports and gaming organization. Nearly every room of the facility is branded with a sponsor name, like the Totino’s Fortnite Training Room or the Rocket Mortgage League of Legends Training Room./post/bloodhound-s-chronicle-in-apex-legends-comes-to-an-end-on-a-triumphant-note/Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/bloodhound-s-chronicle-in-apex-legends-comes-to-an-end-on-a-triumphant-note/ Bloodhound’s life has been marked by the kind of tragedy that goes accompanied by guilt, but the legend seems to have overcome their own regrets in today’s finale for Apex Legends’ first Chronicle. Today’s double dose of lore picked up from where the second chapter left off. In the third part, Bloodhound continues tracking the Prowler while they are tormented by the White Raven, who speaks to the legend as a representation of their guilt./post/ghost-could-return-to-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-in-season-2/Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ghost-could-return-to-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-in-season-2/ Call of Duty players are gearing up for the next season of Modern Warfare and a familiar face seems set to return.  Simon “Ghost” Riley, one of the prolific protagonists from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign, could be returning to the franchise in Modern Warfare. Earlier today, Infinity Ward teased season two with a video displaying a login console with decrypted objectives. This selected objective is spearheaded and later confirmed by Lt./post/when-is-rush-wars-releasing-globally/Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-rush-wars-releasing-globally/ Supercell recently unveiled its newest title, Rush Wars, and it’s already racking up a huge number of downloads. ­­But it’s only available in certain countries. The game was first teased by the company on Aug. 23 and the beta came out yesterday for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Today, the beta expanded to include Finland as well. As of now, Supercell hasn’t announced a global release date for the game. In past titles, Supercell has been known to take things slowly./post/who-are-all-the-voice-actors-in-the-quarry/Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-are-all-the-voice-actors-in-the-quarry/ The next release in the series of cinematic interactive horror games developed by Supermassive Games is The Quarry, which is now available on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. The game serves as a “spiritual successor” to Supermassive’s widely acclaimed Until Dawn release, and like the previously released 2015 game, it features an all-star cast of actors with experience in the scary movie/horror genre who are also lending their likenesses to the game./post/best-white-motherboards/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-white-motherboards/ Buying a motherboard can be a confusing and difficult process. Specifically, figuring out which features you need in a motherboard makes the process a challenge for many. On top of that, finding a white motherboard with all the features you need can feel almost impossible. There are a handful of features that gamers can’t live without. These features include high-speed PCIe and RAM slots, fast networking, and customization options. Without these features on a motherboard, a PC won’t perform optimally, no matter how powerful the rest of the hardware is./post/sony-launches-new-playstation-5-model-featuring-updated-screw-for-docking-stand/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sony-launches-new-playstation-5-model-featuring-updated-screw-for-docking-stand/ Sony has begun the rollout process for a new PlayStation 5 model. And while that prospect might sound exciting at first, it’s important to note that the newest PS5 model doesn’t include any substantial overhauls to the console’s hardware or internal systems. Instead, the newest version of the PS5 replaces one of the screws required to attach the console to its stand—a simple quality-of-life change that’s not going to drastically alter the quality of the console in many ways./post/faze-babybay-i-want-people-to-keep-the-narrative-that-we-re-just-pugging/Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/faze-babybay-i-want-people-to-keep-the-narrative-that-we-re-just-pugging/ The finale of the first phase of the North American VALORANT Champions Tour has been all about FaZe Clan. After a decisive 2-0 win over XSET, they’ve continued their winning ways today with an even more impressive 2-0 against Team Envy. FaZe have now won their sixth straight series between Challengers and Masters and handed Envy their first loss in over a month. The team has absolutely turned it on since adding Thomas “Trippy” Schappy as coach, who FaZe Jett star Andrej “babybay” Francisty says has enhanced their playstyle./post/saynotorage-banned-on-twitch/Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/saynotorage-banned-on-twitch/ Destiny 2 streamer SayNoToRage, also known as Lono, was banned on Twitch today. It’s unclear what the exact reason for the ban is, as well as how long it’ll last. But visiting SayNoToRage’s Twitch channel yields the typical error message shown when a streamer has been suspended. ❌ Twitch Partner "SayNoToRage" (@SayNoToRage) has been banned! ❌https://t.co/1WcsPPPGx7#twitch #ban #firstban #partner #twitchpartner 🇪🇷 — StreamerBans (@StreamerBans) July 2, 2020 The Twitch streamer was accused of sexual misconduct last month./post/best-free-twitch-overlays/Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-free-twitch-overlays/ It is important to have a good overlay when streaming on Twitch. Many sites make custom Twitch overlays or sell premium overlays at a high price. If you look around, it’s possible to find free overlays that work just as well as any premium version. Free versions are the same as premium ones and don’t require much graphic design experience. One disadvantage of the free versions is that anyone can copy your overlay, and they will never be uniquely yours./post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-evolving-skies-pre-release-promos-revealed/Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-evolving-skies-pre-release-promos-revealed/ As we near the release of Pokémon TCG Evolving Skies later this month, more products from the set have been revealed, including its pre-release promotional cards. In a post on the Pokémon forum PokeBeach, four Evolving Skies promo cards were shown, including the Galarian forms of Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres. The fourth promo card stars Flaaffy. According to the report, these cards are alternative art reprints from Evolving Skies; however, at this stage, the art is brand new and has not yet been seen in Japan./post/how-to-use-the-creation-catalyst-in-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands/Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-use-the-creation-catalyst-in-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands/ At long last, the Creation Catalyst is live in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. The ground-breaking feature allows players to transform any applicable item into a much more powerful piece of tier-set gear.  The Creation Catalyst allows players to transform gear from Shadowlands Season Three into tier gear, with the applicable sources of gear being from raids, Mythic+ dungeons, PvP, or overworld gear acquired in Zereth Mortis.  The two-piece and four-piece set bonuses that many players desire from tier gear are only able to be acquired through items worn in the head, shoulder, chest, hands, or legs slots./post/tft-set-5-5-radiant-items-full-rundown-and-updates/Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-set-5-5-radiant-items-full-rundown-and-updates/ A total of 36 Radiant items will replace Shadow items in Teamfight Tactics Set 5.5 Reckoning: Dawn of Heroes, with a number of AP, AD, and defensive items standing out from the crowd.  Released on July 21, the TFT midset Dawn of Heroes contains Radiant items that have increased abilities and stats with no drawback. A number of items that may not fit the build a tactician is trying to put together also contain Radiant bonuses, increasing things like ability power, critical strike damage, and attack speed./post/want-a-real-life-blizzard-world-map-here-s-where-you-can-buy-one/Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/want-a-real-life-blizzard-world-map-here-s-where-you-can-buy-one/ If we dream about Blizzard World hard enough, we might be able to will it into existence. We’re at least one teeny-tiny step closer with a real-life Blizzard World map. That’ll do the trick for now. Blizzard is releasing a limited-edition Blizzard World art print on the Blizzard Gear store. The print itself if a bit pricey at $50—and only 1,000 are available. Related: Blizzard teases new Overwatch sprays coming next week—and hints at new skins/post/best-keycap-sets-for-gaming/Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-keycap-sets-for-gaming/ Buying a new mechanical keyboard can be costly. On the other hand, the existing keyboard may work well, and there is no reason to buy a new one. But in this situation, purchasing a set of keycaps is the best way to refresh your keyboard and give it a fresh appearance. The cost of buying keycaps is far less than buying a new keyboard. We’ve got a list of the best keycap sets for gaming to help you affordably embellish your keyboard./post/riot-s-streamer-showdown-featuring-tyler1-imaqtpie-phreak-and-more-was-perfect-insanity/Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-s-streamer-showdown-featuring-tyler1-imaqtpie-phreak-and-more-was-perfect-insanity/ Many people out there in this cold, dark world truly believe that miracles don’t exist. And yet, like a light in the darkness, Riot proved those people wrong today after the third-place NA LCS match between TSM and 100 Thieves. Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp, Michael “Imaqtpie” Santana, Joedat “Voyboy” Esfahani, William “scarra” Li, Moe “Yassuo,” David “Phreak” Turley, and Danny “Shiphtur” Le played in the same League of Legends game in Riot’s streamer showdown after the NA LCS broadcast./post/the-best-mercy-skins-in-overwatch/Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-mercy-skins-in-overwatch/ Overwatch has been blessed with many amazing skins over the years, but no one has been a recipient of amazing designs more than Mercy. Far and away one of the most popular heroes in the Overwatch universe, Mercy is a healer who fits in a variety of team compositions. She also just so happens to be a beautiful angel whose base design lends itself to awesome skin ideas. Since Overwatch launched in 2016, Mercy has gotten eight new Legendary skins throughout the game’s different seasonal events—and basically all of them have been incredible additions./post/can-you-evolve-inkay-if-your-phone-doesn-t-have-a-gyroscope-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-evolve-inkay-if-your-phone-doesn-t-have-a-gyroscope-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The Pokémon Go Psychic spectacular event is in full swing, and players are capturing and looking to evolve the newly introduced Pokémon Inkay. This Dark/Psychic Pokémon has begun appearing within the wild and is available through one-star raids. Once captured, players looking to evolve this new Pokémon will need to use methods similar to how it was on the Nintendo 3DS. For those who didn’t play the Pokémon X or Y, Inkay required players to hold their 3DS console either sideways or upside down to evolve, once the other prerequisites had been met at the completion of a battle./post/complete-list-of-world-records-set-in-fortnite-battle-royale/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/complete-list-of-world-records-set-in-fortnite-battle-royale/ It’s no secret that Fortnite: Battle Royale is one of the most popular games in the world. Thousands of players battle it out every day in search of Victory Royales. In some cases, though, players compete for more than just the pride of emerging victorious—some players want to cement their legacy in the Fortnite history books by establishing a world record. A list of all the Fortnite world records for kills across each platform can be found on Epic Games’ forums./post/acend-adds-vakk-and-monsteerr-to-valorant-roster/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/acend-adds-vakk-and-monsteerr-to-valorant-roster/ European organization Acend revealed two new additions to its VALORANT lineup today.  Former Vitality player Vakaris “vakk” Bebravičius has joined Acend alongside former Giants player Ondřej “MONSTEERR” Petrů. The pair replace Vlad “Kiles” Shvets and former in-game leader Santeri “BONECOLD” Sassi on Acend.  Rebuilt to conquer. Welcome@vakkfps@aMONSTEERR#RiseUP pic.twitter.com/6bmJCvK2fk — Acend (@AcendClub) April 29, 2022 Kiles has been traded to Giants, the organization announced today. BONECOLD is set to join Vitality alongside Jokūbas “Cender” Labutis, Kamil “baddyG” Graniczka, Joona “H1BER” Parviainen, and Nathan “nataNk” Bocqueho, according to a report by THESPIKE./post/fan-creates-twitch-tweets-browser-game-to-see-how-well-you-know-twitch-s-biggest-streamers/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fan-creates-twitch-tweets-browser-game-to-see-how-well-you-know-twitch-s-biggest-streamers/ How well do you know your favorite streamers? That’s the question one Twitch fan set out to answer with their browser-based game Twitch Tweets. A Reddit user shared their multiple-choice quiz game to the LiveStreamFail subreddit. Twitch Tweets is a game where fans can test their knowledge by attempting to match the right streamer to their tweet. Players will be shown a tweet with no information on who was responsible along with four streamer options./post/tsm-s-daequan-to-stream-today-for-first-time-in-2020/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tsm-s-daequan-to-stream-today-for-first-time-in-2020/ The last time fans saw popular Fortnite pro Daequan streaming was when he still had a Santa Claus hat on last December. After a month hiatus, the 25-year-old has finally unveiled that he’ll be streaming today, for the first time this year. The talented streamer has been playing alongside Hamlinz and Myth as a part of TSM’s pro Fortnite team. He joined the team in 2018 but hasn’t been able to maintain a consistent streaming schedule due to several issues, including some problems with his spine./post/where-to-find-a-fire-stone-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-a-fire-stone-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Got some Fire-type Pokémon to evolve? The Fire Stone is likely to evolve some of them and you’ll need to find a few in order to complete your Pokédex in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. There are three Pokémon in Legends: Arceus‘ Pokédex that require the Fire Stone to evolve it. Those three are Vulpix into Ninetails, Hisuian Growlithe into Hisuian Arcanine, and Eevee into Flareon. Any of these Pokémon can be evolved at any point in time, regardless of level./post/kirby-64-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/kirby-64-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack/ Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack is set to receive its next game for the Nintendo 64 virtual console and its another classic Nintendo star. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards will arrive on the console for subscribers on May 20. One of the most popular Kirby titles to date, this classic gives fans who didn’t experience the N64 at launch the chance to relive one of the pink puffball’s best adventures./post/new-kids-on-the-throne-san-francisco-shock-2022-overwatch-league-team-preview/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-kids-on-the-throne-san-francisco-shock-2022-overwatch-league-team-preview/ For a good portion of the Overwatch League’s existence, the mere mention of the San Francisco Shock has evoked images of gleaming trophies and immaculate success.  The two-time championship team fell from grace in 2021, however, once other heavy-hitters like the Dallas Fuel and the Shanghai Dragons stepped up their game. For the first time in several years, the Shock didn’t make a Grand Finals appearance, and the Dragons snatched away their spot as the league’s most unbeatable team./post/geico-moves-into-esports-sponsors-tsm-and-hearthstone-tourney/Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/geico-moves-into-esports-sponsors-tsm-and-hearthstone-tourney/ One of the biggest companies in America is diving into esports. The Government Employees Insurance Company, better known as GEICO, is sponsoring Team SoloMid and a One Nation of Gamers (ONOG) Hearthstone tournament series. It’s the first time GEICO has entered gaming, and it’s doing it through esports. “I’ve always admired GEICO’s commitment to having a meaningful involvement in traditional sports,” Andy “Reginald” Dinh, Team SoloMid owner, said. “We’re thrilled they’re bringing that level of dedication to the gaming space./post/how-to-compete-in-the-silk-sonic-cup-in-fortnite/Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-compete-in-the-silk-sonic-cup-in-fortnite/ Fortnite’s Icon Series is getting two new members: Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. The Silk Sonic duo will arrive in Fortnite on Feb. 10, but the celebrations will start earlier than that. Epic Games is also hosting a cup three days before the skins become available in the game, giving players a chance to unlock Bruno Mars and .Paak early. To participate in the Silk Sonic Cup in Fortnite, players will need to head to the Compete tab in the game./post/travis-scott-concert-countdown-live-in-fortnite/Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/travis-scott-concert-countdown-live-in-fortnite/ The stage is set for one of the most ambitious crossovers of the year. American rapper, singer, and songwriter Travis Scott is performing in Fortnite today—and the countdown has already begun. A massive stage can be found in the top left corner of the Chapter Two map, immersed in water, with a countdown for the next show. In just over nine hours, Travis Scott will be making an appearance. This comes a year after DJ Marshmello performed in Fortnite./post/xqc-quits-gta-roleplaying-for-good/Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-quits-gta-roleplaying-for-good/ World-famous variety Twitch streamer xQc has decided to bury his GTA V RP character Jean Paul after a long journey on the NoPixel server. The Canadian streaming star has complained about playing GTA V RP more than once and was even banned from the NoPixel server back in February 2021. He threatened to stop playing during his character’s saga but always returned to the game to entertain his viewers. This time, however, xQc claims he’s done with the roleplaying action in GTA V./post/new-york-subliners-take-down-atlanta-faze-in-hydra-s-call-of-duty-league-debut/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-york-subliners-take-down-atlanta-faze-in-hydra-s-call-of-duty-league-debut/ Fans of competitive Call of Duty have been patiently waiting for HyDra to make his professional debut this year. And today, the French phenom officially started his Call of Duty League career with an exclamation point. HyDra and the Subliners beat the Atlanta FaZe 3-2 today in their first match of Stage Three group play in the 2021 Call of Duty League season. Related: Group play results for Stage 3 of 2021 Call of Duty League/post/every-tekken-song-coming-to-smash/Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-tekken-song-coming-to-smash/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has shared more details about its newest fighter coming to the roster, Kazuya. Smash’s latest fighter comes from popular 3D-fighting game franchise Tekken and will be joining the roster on June 29, available as DLC. And just like with every downloadable fighter, this character will be accompanied by new music that players can listen to either on his exclusive Mishima Dojo stage or in the “My Music” setting./post/fan-made-apex-legends-map-tracker-lets-you-know-when-each-map-is-on-rotation/Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fan-made-apex-legends-map-tracker-lets-you-know-when-each-map-is-on-rotation/ A dedicated fan has released a handy map tracker that lets you know exactly which map is on rotation in Apex Legends and for how long. The useful tool can tell players in which arena the Apex Games will take place without the need to boot up the game. The tracker’s simple design shows which arena is on rotation alongside a countdown to the next map change. That’s hardly its only functionality, however: an “upcoming map” prompt shows a list of the next few map rotations and their respective timers, so players can look up dates in the short-term./post/best-video-games-you-can-finish-in-a-day/Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-video-games-you-can-finish-in-a-day/ Gaming is a fun hobby that is now widely accepted as a mainstream activity. Because of how many people are now taking up gaming, the variety of games being produced is endless.  Many players from the past are considered to be hardcore gamers and stick to their favorite game or genre, whether that’s single-player masterpieces or MOBA games. A lot of these players end up wanting to play professionally as well./post/apex-legends-sniper-rifles-have-inconsistent-bullet-speeds-and-travel-times/Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-sniper-rifles-have-inconsistent-bullet-speeds-and-travel-times/ An Apex Legends player found an inconsistency in bullet speed and consequently travel times of different shots of Sniper Rifles in the game. A Reddit user posted an image to the Apex Legends subreddit today that showed all four Apex Sniper Rifles—The G7 Scout, the Triple Take, the Longbow, and the Kraber—present different bullet speeds within themselves, which means their first bullet might be faster or slower than their second and third bullets./post/armada-potti-and-walshy-headline-the-esports-hall-of-fame-community-vote-for-2019/Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/armada-potti-and-walshy-headline-the-esports-hall-of-fame-community-vote-for-2019/ The Esports Hall of Fame is preparing to induct its newest members into the ring of honor with a diverse cast of some of the greatest esports players headling this year’s community award. The community vote lets fans decide who out of the selected group of finalists make it into the Hall of Fame so they can be rewarded for their achievements and contributions to the world of esports. This year, the field features players from five different scenes, with two of the more niche scenes getting some representation on one of esport’s biggest stages./post/d-va-s-new-heroes-of-the-storm-skin-is-amazing/Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/d-va-s-new-heroes-of-the-storm-skin-is-amazing/ Yeah, Ana and Junkrat are pretty cool in Heroes of the Storm—but D.Va’s new skin is so goddamn amazing. The new skin, D.Va the Destroyer, removes the Overwatch heroes’ standard mech and gives her a Deathwing–inspired mech to ride around in. You heard right: Deathwing the Destroyer, the lava-wielding dragon from World of Warcraft. It’s fantastic, and we really want it in Overwatch. Related: Overwatch heroes Ana and Junkrat are joining Heroes of the Storm/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league-is-back-up-after-being-down-for-a-week/Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league-is-back-up-after-being-down-for-a-week/ Niantic has finally fixed the exploits that were impacting the Pokémon Go Battle League. The developer pushed the game mode live again today after nearly a week of it being offline.  This has impacted the schedule for Battle League season two, but Niantic has already provided an updated timeline and a list of other changes that are being made to the mode.  Trainers, GO Battle League is back! We’re temporarily disabling the GO Battle League leaderboard, along with other changes to Season 2./post/the-latest-league-reddit-drama-gets-ls-banned/Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-latest-league-reddit-drama-gets-ls-banned/ Reddit can be a crazy place, especially when it comes to video games and esports. The League of Legends subreddit has had some rather interesting takes over the years, from lambasting Riot Games to shit talking players and teams. The latest esports-related drama on the subreddit was a controversy concerning Korean coach and caster Nick “LS” De Cesare. And somehow it resulted in LS being banned from posting on the subreddit for seven days./post/amouranth-hints-at-investment-in-twitch-stream-amid-upcoming-retirement-from-onlyfans/Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/amouranth-hints-at-investment-in-twitch-stream-amid-upcoming-retirement-from-onlyfans/ Popular streamer and content creator Amouranth recently confirmed a career pivot off of OnlyFans, also hinting at a significant investment into her Twitch channel as she seeks to produce different kinds of content. Amouranth is among the top earners on both Twitch and OnlyFans, revealing several months ago that she made over $1 million a month just from her OnlyFans content in a podcast with Ethan Klein. Aside from her direct content, the ASMR streamer has also grown a diverse investment portfolio that includes buying into multiple gas stations as well as Activision Blizzard stock./post/na-vi-puts-m0nesy-2-other-academy-players-on-transfer-list/Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/na-vi-puts-m0nesy-2-other-academy-players-on-transfer-list/ Natus Vincere is set to make some deep changes to Na’Vi Junior, its academy CS:GO lineup, the organization announced today. The young star Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov, Eugene “⁠Aunkere⁠” Karya, and Rodion “⁠fear⁠” Smyk have all been put on the transfer list since their development cycle has been completed—and m0NESY is already negotiating terms with another esports organization, according to Na’Vi. The 17-year-old Daniil “⁠headtr1ck⁠” Valitov will be the only one from the Na’Vi Junior lineup that competed in 2021 to stay for next year./post/what-is-the-dota-2-bug-tracker/Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-the-dota-2-bug-tracker/ A quick tour of Dota 2’s subreddit can be enough to convince you that the game hasn’t received a patch for years. While Valve has a history of taking its time with major content patches, the developer has usually been on time with bug fixes. Until recently, Valve kept track of the Dota 2 subreddit, as well as the official forums, to take care of the bugs that have been negatively impacting the gameplay experience./post/wild-rift-global-championship-icons-to-take-place-in-singapore-with-2-million-prize-pool/Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wild-rift-global-championship-icons-to-take-place-in-singapore-with-2-million-prize-pool/ The League of Legends: Wild Rift Global Championship Icons 2022 will take place at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Center in Singapore, Riot Games announced in a press release today. From June 14 to July 9, the top 24 teams from around the world will be competing for a share of the $2 million prize pool and the title of world champions. Riot had earlier announced that the Icons will take place in Madrid, Spain, but the company has moved the competition to the Suntec Singapore, which also hosted the Horizon Cup in 2021./post/how-to-complete-prime-icon-moments-guaranteed-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-prime-icon-moments-guaranteed-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports introduced a set of four squad-building challenges (SBCs) to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team today that will award those who complete them with a guaranteed Prime Icon Moments card. This is one of those SBCs that will either gift you an amazing item or a card that will just serve as expensive fodder. The player you receive can be from any team or nationality, so your odds of getting a great card are very low, but it will still be a Prime Icon Moments./post/mtg-leaks-upcoming-arena-jumpstart-historic-horizons-event/Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-leaks-upcoming-arena-jumpstart-historic-horizons-event/ A leaked article scheduled for next week was allegedly revealed by a Magic: The Gathering Discord bot, revealing a new event coming to MTG Arena called Jumpstart: Historic Horizons. Before the article was taken down by Wizards of the Coast, several screenshots were captured by Robert Taylor on Twitter. Scheduled to release on Aug. 12, the upcoming MTG Arena event will include “hundreds of cards” from Modern Horizons and Modern Horizons 2./post/here-are-the-valorant-patch-4-07-notes/Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-valorant-patch-4-07-notes/ VALORANT Patch 4.07 is a relatively minor update, but it does add new servers in Latin America and slight updates to the Bulldog and Stinger.  Patch 4.07 includes new servers in Latin America, which should significantly improve latency in the region. The new servers are planned to go live shortly after 4.07 rolls out.  The Bulldog and Stinger received minor updates that delay firing inputs when players use the ADS feature./post/rogue-officially-leaves-cs-go/Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rogue-officially-leaves-cs-go/ Rogue Gaming has officially left the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene. The North American organization dropped the news of its departure in a Twitlonger today after compLexity Gaming announced it signed former Rogue star Hunter “SicK” Mims. This means that Spencer “Hiko” Martin, Daniel “vice” Kim, Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen, and Nikolaj “niko” Kristensen are without a team for the time being. Related: CompLexity signs SicK in place of n0thing Rogue also revealed that MSL and niko were given an offer to join a Denmark-based team, which is reportedly OpTic Gaming, and it seems as though they are following through with the signing./post/the-13-best-decals-in-rocket-league/Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-13-best-decals-in-rocket-league/ Most Rocket League players aim to break into that next tier on the ranked ladder. While you can get lucky a few matches in a row and rank up, you’ll need to practice every day to stay on top of your game. The plays you’ll make and your performance will directly impact how many eyes are on you in your matches, but they aren’t the only ways of drawing attention./post/riot-to-gift-valorant-fans-an-exclusive-player-card-for-watching-twitch-streams/Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-gift-valorant-fans-an-exclusive-player-card-for-watching-twitch-streams/ VALORANT fans are in for a treat, courtesy of Riot Games. Riot is rewarding Twitch viewers with an exclusive VALORANT player card as “thanks” for the massive interest in the closed beta, the company announced today. As thanks for all your interest in the VALORANT closed beta and hanging out with the @Twitch community, we have a small gift: an exclusive player card for anyone who's watched enough streams to be eligible for CB./post/all-jennifer-walters-she-hulk-awakening-challenges-in-fortnite-and-how-to-complete-them/Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-jennifer-walters-she-hulk-awakening-challenges-in-fortnite-and-how-to-complete-them/ Jennifer Walters, also known as She-Hulk, is bringing the law with both brains and brawn in Fortnite Chapter Two, season four. There’s a bit of work for you to do before you get to hulk out, though. You first gain access to She-Hulk’s civilian identity, Jennifer Walters, at level 22. You’ll get to transform into her greener and meaner form seven tiers later through the use of the “Gamma Overload” emote, which is only unlocked after completing Walters’ Awakening challenges./post/asmr-streamer-saveaprincess-banned-from-twitch-following-notorious-clip/Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmr-streamer-saveaprincess-banned-from-twitch-following-notorious-clip/ Livestreamer saveaprincess has been banned from Twitch after a popular clip from her channel went viral across Twitter. Though the livestreamer has applied for a ban appeal, she’s found a home on Facebook Gaming for the time being. The ASMR category has taken over Twitch as one of the most prevalent and popular categories on the livestreaming platform. Some of Twitch’s most popular figures, such as Amouranth, have found unprecedented viewership hosting ASMR and “ear licking” streams./post/cthuloops-gem-sale-and-event-weekend-now-live-in-smite/Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cthuloops-gem-sale-and-event-weekend-now-live-in-smite/ If you don’t have any plans this weekend, then perhaps you can try a tasty bowl of Cthuloops, only available in Smite. Unfortunately, Cthuloops isn’t a real cereal, but instead a metaphor for a delicious Gem Sale event. The Smite team dropped a trailer earlier today where Cthulhu brainwashes various people around the office into participating in this Gem Sale. Crack open a box of Cthuloops and enjoy the Gem Sale within!/post/league-of-legends-error-codes-list-how-to-fix-every-error-and-what-they-mean/Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-error-codes-list-how-to-fix-every-error-and-what-they-mean/ League of Legends is light enough to run on the most ancient gaming machines today. This allows the game to reach millions of players, but it also means it comes with its fair share of errors. See League of Legends on Amazon Although pretty much every new patch fixes some known bugs, they also tend to introduce others. Troubleshooting each and every one of them may look like a long and arduous task, but it’s not as bad as you may think./post/samsung-and-amd-are-bringing-real-time-ray-tracing-to-mobiles/Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/samsung-and-amd-are-bringing-real-time-ray-tracing-to-mobiles/ Samsung just announced its premium Exynos 2200 mobile processor—and it’s geared to begin an exciting new chapter in the mobile gaming space. The Exynos 2200 aims to set the standard for the ultimate mobile gaming experience, along with improving social media apps and photo usage. The Xclipse GPU positions itself between a console and a mobile graphics processor. The ‘X’ represents Exynos, and the eclipse–like an actual eclipse–represents marking the end of an era of mobile gaming and beginning a new chapter./post/4-year-homecoming-c9-confirms-league-roster-with-jensen-rejoining-zven-role-swapping/Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/4-year-homecoming-c9-confirms-league-roster-with-jensen-rejoining-zven-role-swapping/ For the first time since 2018, North American League of Legends fans will get to see Jensen in a blue and white Cloud9 jersey. The team has finalized its roster for LCS 2022 Summer with the 27-year-old veteran returning to the squad’s mid lane. Fudge makes the swap back to top lane as part of C9’s reshuffle. Former star AD carry Zven moves to support at the same time, as reported by Dot Esports’ Isaac McIntyre in April./post/overwatch-is-coming-to-ogn/Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-is-coming-to-ogn/ ELEAGUE reveals groups, talent for Overwatch Open finaleWe’re just one week away from the Overwatch Open finals where the top eight teams from each of North America and Europe will compete for a hefty six-figure prize pool and a chance to appear on primetime television Samuel Lingle - Sep 15, 2016 7:36 am2018-08-13T04:36:57-05:00 OverwatchncG1vNJzZmicn6mytLzOq6usZpOkunC71Z6psJmkmLVwvMCgnGhsZmU%3D/post/all-field-and-special-research-tasks-and-rewards-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-hoenn-celebration-event/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-field-and-special-research-tasks-and-rewards-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-hoenn-celebration-event/ Pokémon Go’s Hoenn Celebration event is about to begin, and it is expanding what players can expect from smaller event’s Field Reasearch. Along with the usual increased spawns and updated Raid and Egg pools that come with every Pokémon Go event, the Hoenn event is giving players a chance to grab some Legendary rewards.  Just like the previous regional events, one reward is extra encounters with some of the featured Hoenn Pokémon, that will help players finish the Hoenn Collection Challenge too./post/every-mtg-arena-alchemy-spoiler-revealed-during-today-s-stream/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-mtg-arena-alchemy-spoiler-revealed-during-today-s-stream/ Wizards of the Coast revealed a total of 10 new MTG Arena digital-only cards today that will drop with the launch of Alchemy, a new format being added to Magic: The Gathering Arena.  See Magic The Gathering on Amazon Alchemy is a digital-only Standard format that will launch via MTG Arena on Dec. 9. A total of 63 new A22 digital-only cards that are legal to play in Live formats like Alchemy and Historic are being released with the new Magic format./post/how-to-complete-squad-foundations-banza-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-squad-foundations-banza-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added an 87-rated Squad Foundations version of Simon Banza from Famalicão to FIFA 22 today. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in the game. This is Banza’s first special card in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. The Squad Foundations items help players strengthen their teams by filling in key positional gaps across different leagues. He’s a part of the second batch of Squad Foundations items. EA massively upgraded all of Banza’s skills, such as his Physical (+14), Dribbling (+14), and Defending (+10), but especially his Passing (+24), Pace (+19), and Shooting (+17), when you compare this new card to his 88-rated gold version./post/how-to-reveal-the-command-symbol-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-reveal-the-command-symbol-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/ The latest Fortnite patch hit the live servers with a lot to discover and do around the map. After making her first appearance in Fortnite during the summer, Ariana Grande is now an NPC (non-playable character) in the game. Ariana Grande’s Punchcard is also a core part of the Fortnitemares event since players will need to complete it to unlock the All-Weather Extractor pickaxe. This Punchcard includes five different challenges and one of them will require players to reveal a “command symbol./post/sony-will-pay-bungie-employee-shareholders-over-1-billion-to-keep-working-at-company/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sony-will-pay-bungie-employee-shareholders-over-1-billion-to-keep-working-at-company/ Over a third of the $3.6 billion spent by Sony to purchase the Destiny 2 developer Bungie will be used to “incentivize” the employees and creators to continue working at the studio, according to Sony’s most recent financial report. The report for the third quarter of the 2021 fiscal year details what the global corporation is paying for when it purchased Bungie earlier this week and revealed that a third of the sum is being used to keep the employees (who have been the primary shareholders) working at the company./post/upgrade-to-windows-10-pro-for-just-5-70-during-keysfan-s-limited-stock-mother-s-day-sale/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/upgrade-to-windows-10-pro-for-just-5-70-during-keysfan-s-limited-stock-mother-s-day-sale/ This article is sponsored by Keysfan Upgrading your operating system and software is arguably the best way to make the most out of your computer, whether that be upping your productivity with Microsoft Office or replacing an outdated OS with Windows 10 or 11. Even if it could help increase productivity and performance, however, these upgrades can be pricey if you aren’t prepared.  Going right to the source for these newer software and OS offerings will cost you top dollar, and looking for alternatives is something that could land you on a dangerous website or risk putting your systems in danger accidentally./post/the-new-evelynn-makes-a-whole-lot-of-sex-jokes/Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-new-evelynn-makes-a-whole-lot-of-sex-jokes/ Evelynn’s rework has been a hot topic since it was teased last week, because it has something special that the other major champion updates didn’t have—sex. Her lore has always involved sex to a degree, since she’s a succubus, but it was never clearly defined or highlighted as a part of her identity. Well, Riot has gone above and beyond by zeroing-in on the new Evelynn’s promiscuous identity, locking down League of Legends as the premier choice of MOBA for horny teenagers./post/details-about-ranked-play-in-call-of-duty-wwii-have-been-leaked/Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/details-about-ranked-play-in-call-of-duty-wwii-have-been-leaked/ Ranked Play is one of the most highly-anticipated features in Call of Duty: WWII—and now some initial details have been revealed about the game mode. Twitch streamer Eazi_Dollaz is one of the lucky few who has an early copy of WWII. While he was livestreaming, fans asked him to check out Ranked Play—and when he selected the game mode, a message popped up and revealed a wealth of important information./post/hanzo-s-best-skins-in-overwatch/Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hanzo-s-best-skins-in-overwatch/ In honor of Overwatch’s latest mini-event, Hanzo’s Kanezaka Challenge, we’re taking a look at some of the best skins for the game’s ace archer. Hanzo was a part of Overwatch’s original lineup of characters, so he has a full wardrobe of exclusive event skins from the past four years.  Since nobody has enough gold or time to unlock them all, we’ve highlighted eight of Hanzo’s best skins. These are sorted from least to most impressive, and each rating takes into account the skin’s design and importance within Overwatch’s lore./post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-by-the-power-of-ragnaros/Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-by-the-power-of-ragnaros/ Emperor Thaurissan is your audience for this week’s Hearthstone Tavern Brawl. Fight for his amusement to earn your free card pack in By the Power of Ragnaros. Because Emperor Thaurissan likes an exciting game of Hearthstone, the match will have a special rule. During this Brawl, all cards in your hand will have their costs reduced by one at the end of your turn. That means the longer you hold a card in your hand, the cheaper it’ll be to play./post/thwifo-s-mouse-sensitivities-key-binds-and-crosshair-settings-in-valorant/Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/thwifo-s-mouse-sensitivities-key-binds-and-crosshair-settings-in-valorant/ With all the hype surrounding VALORANT right now, it’s no wonder players of all skill levels are looking to get their hands on some professional players’ settings to up their game. The VALORANT Champions Tour is underway and pros continue to get excellent exposure. Tournaments and qualifiers are popping up all over and these professional teams are showcasing their skillsets to prove their worth. Unsurprisingly, some players showcase their skills slightly better than others and gain traction within the community./post/unknownxarmy-s-fortnite-settings-and-keybinds/Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/unknownxarmy-s-fortnite-settings-and-keybinds/ Dominick “UnknownxArmy” Green, also known as Unknown, is a professional Fortnite player from North America. Though many controller players broke into the competitive scene after the last Fortnite World Cup, Unknown was alone at the top. Not only was Unknown a controller player, he also originated from consoles. But he later invested in more powerful hardware—a gaming computer—to take down other PC players. Cash Cups weren’t that common back then, pushing Unknown to grind kill wagers./post/pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-map-and-locations/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-map-and-locations/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes players to a foreign land called the Hisui region. While some things may be familiar to players, the wild areas in this land are completely new and something players will need to familiarize themselves with. Like all Pokémon games, you’ll gain further access to the map as you progress through the game. Each area as you head towards to endgame has a variety of different Pokémon that get more powerful in level as you go./post/codemiko-talks-reason-behind-twitch-ban-her-approach-to-streaming-and-plans-for-return-stream/Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/codemiko-talks-reason-behind-twitch-ban-her-approach-to-streaming-and-plans-for-return-stream/ Popular VTuber and Twitch streamer CodeMiko is known for her creative streams that allow viewers to get involved by influencing parts of the broadcast. She uses her setup and virtual character rig to engage with her audience—which averages nearly 8,000 viewers per stream—and fellow content creators through various segments and interviews. The Technician, or the developer behind Miko and the stream, does all of the coding, engineering, and rigging herself and is always pushing the level of interactivity with the broadcast forward, describing it as “a quasi interactive, RPG./post/all-halo-infinite-winter-contingency-rewards/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-halo-infinite-winter-contingency-rewards/ The Halo Infinite Winter Contingency event is here, and fans can grind through a new free pass to unlock exclusive rewards. The items include armor and weapon skins alongside other goodies like nameplates and backdrops.  Halo Infinite allows players to customize their Spartans with several different options. Players can change their armor color, add extra details to each limb, and even replace limbs with prosthetics. The Winter Contingency event adds even more options for players looking for holiday cheer./post/here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-na-vct-2022/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-na-vct-2022/ It’s only been three days since Acend won VCT Champions in one of the most exciting VALORANT tournaments of the year, but now many fans are focusing towards 2022. This includes the North American supporters who are hoping for better results following a disappointing end to the year. The region failed to live up to the sky-high expectations set for them at the event, with both Team Envy and Sentinels dropping out before the playoffs, and Cloud9 losing to Team Liquid in the quarterfinals./post/how-to-buy-the-season-of-the-risen-season-pass-in-destiny-2/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-buy-the-season-of-the-risen-season-pass-in-destiny-2/ The Witch Queen is the major bombshell dropping into Destiny 2 in February 2022, but it’s not the only one. The game is kicking off Season of the Risen, its 16th season, on the same day as The Witch Queen’s release. Season of the Risen’s story will relate closely to The Witch Queen’s, giving players even more to experience from Feb. 22 onwards. The Season of the Risen pass includes access to the seasonal activity, weapons, and more season pass rewards—including Upgrade Modules, the seasonal Exotic at level one, an Ornament set, Exotic Engrams, and extra Bright Dust./post/overwatch-s-450-d-va-statue-will-cause-your-wallet-to-self-destruct/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-s-450-d-va-statue-will-cause-your-wallet-to-self-destruct/ Blizzard has just unveiled its most ambitious Overwatch statue yet: D.Va and her armored MEKA unit. Hana Song, also known as D.Va, is perched on her mech’s bubblegum pink fusion cannon for the 19-inch statue. The Blizzard collectible is hand-sculpted and hand-painted with serious attention to detail. Each of D.Va’s sponsor stickers and mech adornments are modeled after her classic in-game skin. Related: Blizzard’s $150 Overwatch Widowmaker statue looks fierce/post/valorant-player-discovers-quick-way-to-complete-weekly-mission-by-spamming-cypher-abilities-during-buy-phase/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-discovers-quick-way-to-complete-weekly-mission-by-spamming-cypher-abilities-during-buy-phase/ One savvy VALORANT player found a trick to complete the “use your abilities” weekly mission, posting the strategy in a now-removed Reddit post. Using Cypher, players can spam abilities during the buy phase and have them count toward the 200 needed to finish the mission. Dot Esports tested this out and found similar results. Trick To Complete ‘Use 200 Abilities’ Weekly In 1 Game from VALORANT VALORANT Patch 1.04 gave Cypher a quality-of-life improvement, allowing players to pick up any Cyber Cages he accidentally drops during the buy phase./post/the-2019-league-of-legends-worlds-finals-peaked-at-44-million-viewers/Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-2019-league-of-legends-worlds-finals-peaked-at-44-million-viewers/ The 2019 World Championship finals between Europe’s G2 Esports and China’s FunPlus Phoenix was the most-watched League of Legends match in the game’s 10-year history. The quick three-game series held in Paris brought in a 21.8 million average minute audience and 44 million concurrent viewers, narrowly beating last year’s record, according to Riot Games. FPX won the series in dominant fashion, crushing the hopes and dreams of the hometown favorites, G2./post/winter-wildcards-promotion-brings-new-upgraded-players-to-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/winter-wildcards-promotion-brings-new-upgraded-players-to-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ FIFA 22 is entering the most wonderful time of the year with a new promotion themed around winter. EA launched the first team of Winter Wildcards in Ultimate Team today. This promo will gift well-behaved players with new upgraded player items and Wildcard Tokens. The Winter Wildcards’ permanent boosts are inspired by the past, present, and potential future. The first team features players such as a 93-rated Neymar Jr., 90-rated Paul Pogba, 89-rated Kingsley Coman, and 89-rated Fabinho Tavares./post/monument-to-infamous-botched-rescue-mission-added-to-fortnite-map/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/monument-to-infamous-botched-rescue-mission-added-to-fortnite-map/ Today’s Fortnite v5.1 update added the usual weekly dose of new content into the game. There was a new gun, new skins, and other adjustments for players to get their teeth into. But something stranger appeared as well. One player discovered a new addition to the game’s map that pays tribute to a recent viral clip that drove fans crazy last week. The clip, which has been viewed nearly four million times on Twitter alone, sees Australian content creator Mr Muselk come across a fellow player stranded off a cliff./post/can-oricorio-be-shiny-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-oricorio-be-shiny-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go’s Festival of Colors event is going global for its 2022 iteration and with it, the Dancing Pokémon Oricorio makes its debut in the game.  Oricorio is a unique Pokémon, in that it has multiple forms based on different styles of dancing and movement. Each of the Styles changes the Pokémon’s appearance and type to coincide with its new looks.  In Pokémon Go, each of Oricorio’s four Styles is region-locked to a certain part of the world, meaning players will only be able to obtain one until they can trade with another player, access the others through an event, or the Form Change mechanic is applied to Oricorio./post/first-halo-infinite-hcs-tournament-to-take-place-in-raleigh-this-december/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/first-halo-infinite-hcs-tournament-to-take-place-in-raleigh-this-december/ Halo Infinite isn’t out yet, but we have confirmation on its first official competition thanks to an announcement from the HCS today. The first official tournament of the HCS for Halo Infinite will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina from Dec. 17 to 19 and will feature spectators, an open bracket, and much more. The starting prize pool for the event is $250,000. Announcing the @HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021 taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 17-19!/post/why-was-codemiko-banned-on-twitch-and-how-long-will-it-last/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/why-was-codemiko-banned-on-twitch-and-how-long-will-it-last/ CodeMiko, a popular VTuber and Twitch streamer who streams interactive segments and interviews with content creators, was banned on Jan. 19, with no details shared at the time.  Earlier today, however, she spoke about the suspension, giving more details on why Twitch banned her channel in a short TwitLonger and an interview with Dot Esports.  Suspension Reason: Read: https://t.co/Hz4MK3zjws — Miko (@thecodemiko) January 23, 2021 Related: CodeMiko talks reason behind Twitch ban, her approach to streaming, and plans for return stream/post/faker-high-ping-at-msi-impacted-t1-s-performance-but-doesn-t-matter-as-long-as-fans-have-the-best-experience/Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/faker-high-ping-at-msi-impacted-t1-s-performance-but-doesn-t-matter-as-long-as-fans-have-the-best-experience/ The first stage of the League of Legends 2022 Mid-Seasonal Invitational just ended, but not without issues. A discrepancy in latency in the venue affected teams playing from Busan, as confirmed by Riot Games, and not even T1 star mid laner Faker was exempt from it. But according to him, the issues don’t matter as much—provided fans around the world have a good show to watch. “[Higher ping] did impact our play, and still it is kind of impacting our performance,” Faker told Dot Esports in an interview./post/leaked-trailer-showcases-new-champion-zeri-s-abilities-in-league/Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/leaked-trailer-showcases-new-champion-zeri-s-abilities-in-league/ League of Legends’ newest champion, Zeri, was recently revealed to be coming to the game soon. And now, a leaked trailer has given fans more insight into her abilities and how she’ll fit into the growing cast of characters. In a leaked champion reveal video posted to YouTube, fans get a better look at Zeri’s personality as a Zaunite, as well as a first look at the abilities of League’s newest ADC./post/among-us-appears-in-japanese-manga-komi-can-t-communicate/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/among-us-appears-in-japanese-manga-komi-can-t-communicate/ Video games have often been a part of some collaborations with various media platforms and mediums. And now, InnerSloth’s deduction game sensation Among Us has officially made its debut in a Japanese manga series known as Komi Can’t Communicate. Manga website Manatoki posted the actual manga pages where some of the characters are dressed as Among Us characters. They are also inside the usual spaceship that serves as the waiting lobby for players in the actual game./post/la-mejor-evoluci%C3%B3n-de-wurmple-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/la-mejor-evoluci%C3%B3n-de-wurmple-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ En Pokémon Go puedes capturar varios de tus Pokémon favoritos que abarcan toda la serie Pokémon. Si bien los Pokémon se pueden capturar en todas las etapas de su evolución, si se capturan en su primera forma las y los jugadores tendrán más oportunidades de optimizar el Pokémon para que se adapte a sus necesidades. Parte de esto tiene que ver con la evolución. No todos los Pokémon pueden evolucionar en el juego, pero aquellos que lo hacen tendrán una gran ventaja de poder una vez que hayan alcanzado su siguiente etapa./post/legends-of-runeterra-patch-1-11-adds-masters-leaderboards/Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/legends-of-runeterra-patch-1-11-adds-masters-leaderboards/ Legends of Runeterra’s upcoming Patch 1.11 is bringing a requested feature that was teased many months ago in Riot’s “What’s Next for Runeterra” video. Now, instead of needing to rely on a third-party site, LoR will have a ranked leaderboard for its players within the client. The leaderboard will have two versions to look through, one for looking at the ranks of players in Masters Rank and another to look at the ranks of all of your friends./post/optic-gaming-to-face-100-thieves-in-the-winners-bracket-finals-at-cwl-london-2019/Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-gaming-to-face-100-thieves-in-the-winners-bracket-finals-at-cwl-london-2019/ The second day of the latest Call of Duty World League event has come to an end and two of the most popular teams in the world are set to face off tomorrow. OpTic Gaming and 100 Thieves both went 2-0 on Saturday to advance to the winners bracket finals at CWL London. While OpTic had a perfect map count on the day, 100 Thieves fought extremely hard to advance to the next round./post/ashe-lore-dive-everything-you-need-to-know-about-her-upcoming-comic-by-marvel/Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ashe-lore-dive-everything-you-need-to-know-about-her-upcoming-comic-by-marvel/ If you’re a League of Legends fan or comic book aficionado and have been following recent news about the Marvel x Riot Games partnership, you probably already know that Ashe, a playable champion in League, is about to star in her very own comic series. The series, called Ashe: Warmother, will be an origin story, and everyone knows that Marvel loves a good origin story. Riot spilled the beans on some of the story’s details this week./post/fredit-brion-forfeit-lck-match-against-gen-g-unable-to-field-a-team/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fredit-brion-forfeit-lck-match-against-gen-g-unable-to-field-a-team/ Fredit BRION have been hit with yet another setback. The LCK squad have had to forfeit March 16’s match against Gen.G as a result of COVID-19.  The team was already running thin after several players tested positive for the virus last week. This led to the team using emergency substitutes to fill a full roster. But after those same subs also contracted the virus, Fredit BRION are unable to field a team and will therefore surrender the next match./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2022-sapparo-event-to-feature-shiny-swirlix-and-pansage/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2022-sapparo-event-to-feature-shiny-swirlix-and-pansage/ Niantic has released new details for the Pokémon Go Fest 2022 in-person event scheduled to take place from Aug. 5 to 7 in Sapporo, Japan. And, similar to the Berlin event that will run in July, it will feature new Shiny Pokémon and Sky Forme Shaymin making an appearance.  The ticketed event, which will cost 3,000¥, will give players access to both days of Go Fest and all of the exclusive content included within./post/riot-employee-says-we-ll-be-gucci-if-tyler1-dies-from-a-coke-overdose-or-testicular-cancer/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-employee-says-we-ll-be-gucci-if-tyler1-dies-from-a-coke-overdose-or-testicular-cancer/ A Riot employee has ignited a firestorm of backlash after saying he’d “be gucci” if infamous former League of Legends streamer Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp dies “from a coke overdose or testicular cancer from all the steroids.” Rutledge made the comments in the League of Legends subreddit’s Discord channel earlier today. Riot famously banned Tyler1—known as the “most toxic player in NA”—about a year ago after several high-profile instances of trolling, flaming, and overall bad behavior./post/the-best-yone-counters-in-league-of-legends/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-yone-counters-in-league-of-legends/ Yone is one of the most popular mid laners in League of Legends. He has cheap power spikes and can take over the game by himself. His kit, which is similar to his brother Yasuo’s, is strong and scales well with critical chance. Therefore, every small critical strike item acquisition can make him one of the deadliest champions. With a lot of mobility and damage in his kit, he can be difficult to deal with unless you purchase the correct items or use certain champions to control him in the laning phase./post/farfetch-d-tauros-mr-mime-and-kangaskhan-will-be-returning-to-regional-raids-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/farfetch-d-tauros-mr-mime-and-kangaskhan-will-be-returning-to-regional-raids-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ With all of the new updates going live or preparing to launch in Pokémon Go, a small change is being made to certain regional Raid pools.  Farfetch’d, Tauros, Mr. Mime, and Kangaskhan are all Pokémon that can only be found in specific parts of the world. And they will be returning to Raids soon in each of their respective regions.  Niantic didn’t specify much about their return, but the developers did promise to give more updates on when the change is made and any future additions./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-5th-anniversary-event-adds-special-flying-pikachu-shiny-darumaka-and-item-bag-expansion/Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-5th-anniversary-event-adds-special-flying-pikachu-shiny-darumaka-and-item-bag-expansion/ July 6 marks the five-year anniversary of Pokémon Go, and Niantic is celebrating with a new event that will run through a highlight reel of things that the game has featured throughout the years.  Running from July 6 to 15, the event offers players a Flying Pikachu with a five-shaped balloon, Shiny Darumaka, Shiny Meltan, all of the starter Pokémon currently available in Pokémon Go, and much more.  Niantic is also adding in a new Item Bag expansion with this event, letting players expand their inventory to 3,500 starting today./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-pok%C3%A9tch/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-pok%C3%A9tch/ The Sinnoh remakes are staying pretty true to the original, so it’s not surpise that the Pokétch is back in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. The device is a watch that has many different functions and is obtainable pretty early on in the game. It has a bunch of useful tools such as a pedometer to see how far you’ve walked, a calculator, and a memo app. How to get the Pokétch in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl There are a couple of things you must do to get the device, but they aren’t hard, and anyone with the least bit of Pokémon knowledge should be able to obtain it without any guidance, but in case players are having a hard time, here’s what you need to do in order to get it: Head to Jubilife City and find the Trainers School./post/how-to-beat-margit-the-fell-omen-in-elden-ring/Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-margit-the-fell-omen-in-elden-ring/ Struggling with Margit, the Fell Omen? You’re not alone. This boss, found at the gates of Stormveil Castle, is a challenge for newcomers and Soulsborne veterans alike. Margit is fast, hits like a truck, and has a wide variety of attacks. But there are a few tactics that make the fight substantially easier. First, players hoping to beat Margit early in the game may want to return when their character is stronger./post/offlinetv-removes-fedmyster-in-response-to-sexual-harassment-allegations/Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/offlinetv-removes-fedmyster-in-response-to-sexual-harassment-allegations/ Federico “Fedmyster” Gaytan has been removed from the OfflineTV organization following sexual misconduct allegations from other members.  The OfflineTV house manager Yvonne “Yvonnie” Ng shared her story about Fedmyster making inappropriate advances toward her on multiple occasions. She explained they were friends who would hang out together in her room because she had a TV. Fedmyster allegedly came home drunk and climbed into Yvonnie’s bed and attempted to make advances by placing his hand underneath her shirt./post/fortnite-data-miner-lucas7yoshi-says-video-leaks-of-events-and-the-season-8-ending-might-be-impossible-to-uncover/Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-data-miner-lucas7yoshi-says-video-leaks-of-events-and-the-season-8-ending-might-be-impossible-to-uncover/ Fortnite: Battle Royale data miners might not be able to leak whole events or the season finale scenes in season eight, prominent leaker Lucas7yoshi told Dot Esports. Lucas was the leaker who, along with AyeTSG, leaked that the Ice King would be inside a huge ice sphere floating over Polar Peak near the end of season seven. That was part of the scene that led to the Ice Storm event that covered the entire Fortnite island in snow./post/here-s-how-to-unlock-mace-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare/Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-how-to-unlock-mace-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare/ There’s a new skull-faced Operator in town. Mace finally joins Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Allegiance Operator cast. The South African soldier has a reputation for being “vicious,” according to today’s Activision blog post. Mace was a former U.S. Ranger who turned into a gun-for-hire and is marked with “traditional scares to honor his heritage.” Here’s how to unlock Mace. The “Mace Operator Bundle” is now available for purchase in the Store./post/babybay-on-coach-trippy-he-was-the-only-coach-who-didn-t-want-to-change-how-we-play-naturally/Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/babybay-on-coach-trippy-he-was-the-only-coach-who-didn-t-want-to-change-how-we-play-naturally/ It’s difficult to express how FaZe Clan play VALORANT using words. The best way to do so prior to their impressive run at Challengers and Masters would be “balls to the wall aggression.” But something changed over the past month, stemming from bringing in coach Thomas “Trippy” Schappy. Still got work to do to be the best. GGWP and congratulations @Sentinels! #FaZeUp pic.twitter.com/gxn027Q3xs — #FaZeUp (@FaZeUpdate) March 21, 2021 FaZe’s Jett star Andrej “babybay” Francisty spoke to Dot earlier in Masters about the structure he provided to the team./post/hearthstone-on-the-nintendo-switch-never-say-never/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-on-the-nintendo-switch-never-say-never/ Hearthstone on the Nintendo Switch? It might not be as far fetched as you think. In an interview at BlizzCon, Hearthstone senior game designer Peter Whalen definitely sounded open to the possibility of making it happen. “I don’t think anyone is working on it, but I wouldn’t rule it out either.” Whalen told Trusted Reviews. “Moving to tablets and phones was awesome. It made Hearthstone way more accessible for way, way more people, which is fantastic./post/files-for-new-weapons-and-crypto-voice-lines-found-in-mysterious-apex-legends-update/Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/files-for-new-weapons-and-crypto-voice-lines-found-in-mysterious-apex-legends-update/ Respawn Entertainment sneakily shipped out a 700-megabyte Apex Legends update today without any patch notes. While fans are wondering what it’s for, one data miner may have the answer. Popular data miner That1MiningGuy sifted through Apex’s files immediately after the update today, informing fans that two new weapons and voice lines for Crypto may be coming soon. https://twitter.com/That1MiningGuy/status/1171849140411785216 The data miner found files that hint at a new Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) coming to Kings Canyon—the Charge Rifle./post/the-best-colorblind-settings-for-fortnite/Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-colorblind-settings-for-fortnite/ Players will need decent aim and reflexes to excel at Fortnite. That’s nowhere close to the whole story, though. There are other factors that can fundamentally alter player match-ups in Fortnite. Spotting your enemy before they can see you will often give you an advantage over them, and once you have the element of surprise on your side, the chances of you taking down your opponent significantly increase. Players have been using various tricks to make it easier to spot enemies in Fortnite, and one of them is by using different colorblind settings./post/here-are-the-trials-of-osiris-rewards-this-week-in-destiny-2/Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-trials-of-osiris-rewards-this-week-in-destiny-2/ Trials of Osiris is one of Destiny 2‘s most hard-fought PvP modes and it comes with the rewards to match. Trials is the only source for several unique weapons and pieces of armor in the game, and guardians have a few ways of getting their hands on high-end gear since the rework. The contest starts at 12pm CT every Friday and lasts until the reset on Tuesday. With the Trials of Osiris rework, players have a few incentives to keep playing even when they’re losing./post/how-to-play-mtg-store-championships-and-commander-parties/Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-mtg-store-championships-and-commander-parties/ Wizards of the Coast is launching two local game store events, Store Championships and Commander Parties, to support in-person Magic: The Gathering gameplay during the final months of 2021.  In an effort to support local Wizard Play Network game stores via MTG tabletop gameplay in areas where it’s safe, WotC has brought back Store Championships and introduced a new event called Commander Parties. Despite a resurgence in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant, areas that are safe to gather will offer these two events in October and December./post/immortals-keep-up-with-eg-despite-controversial-chronobreak-to-secure-second-victory-in-2022-lcs-spring-split/Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/immortals-keep-up-with-eg-despite-controversial-chronobreak-to-secure-second-victory-in-2022-lcs-spring-split/ The last day of week three of the 2022 LCS Spring Split began with one of the most controversial games in recent history, complete with a long pause into Chronobreak that massively shifted how both Immortals and Evil Geniuses played out the remainder of the match. Immortals maintained a solid lead over EG despite a Chronobreak forcing both teams to re-evaluate how they proceeded through the rest of the game. Instead of succumbing to the circumstances, Immortals continued the pressure they had instituted to match EG throughout the game, ending with a teleport victory over a dragon-occupied EG./post/nrg-releases-dragon-ball-fighterz-veteran-hookganggod/Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nrg-releases-dragon-ball-fighterz-veteran-hookganggod/ NRG is a huge sponsor in several esport scenes, but the organization is pulling out of Dragon Ball FighterZ after releasing veteran player Eduardo “HookGangGod” Deno from the roster.  Originally, NRG signed both HookGangGod and Steve “Supernoon” Carbajalm right as DBFZ was taking off as a competitive fighting game, but this marks the end of the team’s investment into that part of the Fighting Game Community. It released Supernoon earlier in 2019./post/respawn-might-have-some-things-cooking-for-underserved-playstyles-including-supports/Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-might-have-some-things-cooking-for-underserved-playstyles-including-supports/ Mad Maggie is the latest addition to Apex Legends’ long list of assault characters. But Respawn Entertainment seems to have more in the oven for other less common playstyles in the future, gameplay engineer Chris Winder shared in a press conference earlier this week. Respawn is “always looking towards what are those types of experiences that we’re not serving as much,” Winder said. “We’ve released a number of aggressive characters, so thinking now about servicing some of those other playstyles that are less served by some of our recent characters./post/evil-geniuses-hand-cloud9-their-second-loss-of-the-2020-lcs-summer-split/Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/evil-geniuses-hand-cloud9-their-second-loss-of-the-2020-lcs-summer-split/ At the beginning of the 2020 Summer Split, many LCS fans believed that Cloud9 would remain the best League of Legends team in North America. Although they still look very strong, Evil Geniuses have knocked them down a peg by handing them their second loss of the season. Evil Geniuses haven’t been the most consistent team when it comes to results this split. As a result, they opted for a drastic roster switch that moved Heo “Huni” Seung-hoon and recently acquired mid laner Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer into the starting lineup./post/sparg0-wins-second-straight-super-smash-bros-ultimate-major-at-collision-2022/Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sparg0-wins-second-straight-super-smash-bros-ultimate-major-at-collision-2022/ Sparg0’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate resume is growing faster than almost anyone to come before him, and the young star added to it again this weekend after holding off Tweek late to win his second straight super Major and third consecutive event overall at Collision 2022. Just one week after winning Smash Ultimate Summit 4 and claiming his first Major title and less than a week after taking first at G4 Smash Ultimate Invitational, Sparg0 survived several close calls against other top players to win another Major./post/how-to-beat-the-burial-tree-watchdog-in-elden-ring/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-the-burial-tree-watchdog-in-elden-ring/ When you start your adventure in Elden Ring there is plenty to explore and bosses to be slain. One of these bosses hidden in Limgrave is the Burial Tree Watchdog. This hidden boss lacks health but does do some decent damage with its moves. If you’re new to this style of game, you may struggle in the fight, but fortunately, with a few tips, you can get things done easily./post/how-to-unlock-the-nail-gun-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-nail-gun-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone/ Sometimes in war, you need to improvise. In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, improvisation means using an everyday piece of construction equipment like a Nail Gun and turning it into a weapon of close-quarters devastation. Yes, it’s as ridiculous and fun as it sounds—and you can unlock the weapon for free via a challenge right now. The Nail Gun completely shreds enemies up close, but its range is very weak./post/sources-mad-lions-bot-laner-carzzy-reaches-verbal-agreement-for-3-year-deal-with-team-vitality/Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-mad-lions-bot-laner-carzzy-reaches-verbal-agreement-for-3-year-deal-with-team-vitality/ LEC bot laner Carzzy has reached a verbal agreement for a three-year deal with Team Vitality in the last couple of hours, sources familiar with the decision told Dot Esports. He’ll leave MAD Lions after playing two seasons with the League of Legends team and winning two LEC titles this year. See League of Legends on Amazon Carzzy will replace Crownshot, whose next team remains uncertain. The Czech AD carry will also partner up with support Labrov in the bot lane once again./post/when-was-the-first-call-of-duty-game-released/Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-was-the-first-call-of-duty-game-released/ Call of Duty is as big of a part of culture as any entertainment franchise in the world, but it wasn’t always like this. As with everything, CoD started somewhere—and with humble beginnings. The origins of the franchise trace back nearly two decades, and the series is as big as ever in 2021 with no signs of slowing down. Thanks to yearly franchise entries since 2005, CoD is a staple in the homes and collections of gamers professional and casual alike for as long as many can remember./post/distracted-by-something-shiny-special-research-jessie-and-james-will-be-available-until-feb-28-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/distracted-by-something-shiny-special-research-jessie-and-james-will-be-available-until-feb-28-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Niantic previously confirmed Pokémon Go players would be able to complete the “Distracted by Something Shiny” Special Research, and now, players have an exact date that they will need to at least start the Special Research by. Starting from Feb. 28, players will no longer be able to start the Shiny Celebi Special Research even if they did take part in the Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle event. If you have already started the research tasks before this date, though, you can continue grinding through it at your own pace with no worries./post/rookie-surpassed-uzi-s-all-time-lpl-kill-record-so-uzi-subbed-in-to-try-and-take-it-back/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rookie-surpassed-uzi-s-all-time-lpl-kill-record-so-uzi-subbed-in-to-try-and-take-it-back/ Mid laner Rookie claimed the all-time LPL kill record in today’s match between Victory Five and Bilibili Gaming in week eight of the 2022 Spring Split. Today’s match between Victory Five and Bilibili Gaming kept viewers on the edge of their seats. It was an all-out brawl between two LPL superteams in a battle of mechanics, pride, and all-time kill records. Things got interesting in game two of the series, and not just because of the impressive carry performance from Rookie’s Orianna to take it to a game three./post/apex-legends-next-stories-from-the-outlands-metamorphosis-drops-tomorrow/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-next-stories-from-the-outlands-metamorphosis-drops-tomorrow/ Apex Legends players are going to get a first look at the game’s next legend tomorrow at 10am CT, when “Metamorphosis,” the upcoming episode of Stories from the Outlands, launches. The short will complement a series of teasers about the next legend, including a fairytale-esque story and an in-game look at one of the character’s possible accessories. Most recently, the season 10 legend teasers kicked off with the story of The Moth and the Flame, a three-chapter fantasy story that recounted the story of a blind princess, her lover, and a moth./post/busca-y-repara-los-telescopios-da%C3%B1ados-en-la-temporada-6-de-fortnite-cap%C3%ADtulo-2/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/busca-y-repara-los-telescopios-da%C3%B1ados-en-la-temporada-6-de-fortnite-cap%C3%ADtulo-2/ Las y los jugadores de Fortnite tienen muchas tareas para hacer esta semana, con múltiples elementos misteriosos que se estrellan en la isla. Además de investigar un helicóptero que sufrió un accidente, deberás reparar cinco telescopios dañados esparcidos por el mapa. Teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de objetos que de repente comenzaron a llover desde el cielo, es muy posible que extraterrestres tengan algún protagonismo en el final de la sexta temporada del Capítulo 2./post/wizards-of-the-coast-reveal-4-commanders-of-brawl-preconstructed-decks-for-mtg/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wizards-of-the-coast-reveal-4-commanders-of-brawl-preconstructed-decks-for-mtg/ Brawl has come to MTG Arena early through the Eldraine Courtside Brawl event, and with it is the reveal four new Throne of Eldraine commanders via preconstructed decks.   Releasing on Oct. 4 is the Magic: The Gathering Brawl preconstructed decks that can be playtested via MTG Arena from Sept. 4 to Sept. 9. Brawl is a unique format in Magic, mashing together Standard and Commander into one. Additional information on the MTGA Eldraine Courtside Brawl event can be found here./post/galarian-slowpoke-mega-slowbro-new-legendary-pok%C3%A9mon-and-more-will-hit-pok%C3%A9mon-go-in-june/Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/galarian-slowpoke-mega-slowbro-new-legendary-pok%C3%A9mon-and-more-will-hit-pok%C3%A9mon-go-in-june/ Pokémon Go has the outline of its June roadmap set, with a ton of new content, events, and Pokémon set to hit the game as Summer finally begins.  Clamperl will be the June Research Breakthrough, while players will once again be able to save Shadow Zapdos from Giovanni and Team Go Rocket by completing “The Higher They Fly…” Special Research. A new Shadow Pokémon will be added to Giovanni’s team on June 17, however, so make sure you save Zapdos quickly./post/valroant-data-miner-reveals-snowfall-skin-bundle/Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valroant-data-miner-reveals-snowfall-skin-bundle/ VALORANT players might see a new “Snowfall” skin bundle in time for the holiday season, giving them a chance to purchase new festive cosmetics.  VALORANT data miner floxayyy revealed the new Snowfall bundle today, which contains skins for the Classic, Phantom, Ares, Judge, and a new Snowfall wand. It also includes a special snowglobe gun buddy. The skins feature an animated design showing a Christmas village complete with snow and presents./post/when-does-the-overwatch-2-beta-end/Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-overwatch-2-beta-end/ Overwatch 2 is getting ready to finally open its doors to fans from all over the world. Blizzard is still looking to iron out the game before its full release, making each beta important. Overwatch 2’s PvP beta became available on April 26, giving players a chance to try out the game before its full release. It’s not an open beta, however, meaning players will need to wait for invites to be able to get in./post/does-mlb-the-show-22-have-crossplay-cross-platform/Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/does-mlb-the-show-22-have-crossplay-cross-platform/ MLB The Show 22 is dropping on April 5, and it’s coming to more platforms than ever before. The former PlayStation-exclusive joined Xbox last year and now, for the first time, MLB The Show is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Baseball fans will be able to take their Franchise, Diamond Dynasty, Road to the Show, and more with them on the go with the handheld. But the best part? MLB The Show 22 has cross-platform capability, meaning that using cloud save technology, you can play your game saves on multiple different platforms./post/keiji-fujiwara-the-japanese-voice-actor-behind-master-yi-dies-at-age-55/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/keiji-fujiwara-the-japanese-voice-actor-behind-master-yi-dies-at-age-55/ Keiji Fujiwara, the Japanese voice actor for Master Yi, died on April 12 at the age of 55, Riot Games Japan tweeted earlier today. He had been battling cancer for an undisclosed time, according to Air Agency, the talent agency Fujiwara founded in 2006. In addition to Fujiwara’s work for Riot, he lent his voice for Ardyn in Final Fantasy XV, Reno in Final Fantasy VII Remake, as well as animes Fullmetal Alchemist, Eureka 7, and Crayon Shin-chan./post/how-to-complete-the-hoopa-s-arrival-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-hoopa-s-arrival-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The first of several new events for Pokémon Go’s Season of Mischief is here, finally giving players a chance to encounter the Mythical Pokémon Hoopa. The Hoopa’s Arrival challenge will only last a single day, but it leads to a much larger series of events that might further expand on the Pokémon’s abilities, even in its confined state. See Pokémon on Amazon Along with some hourly Pokémon rotations, new event-exclusive research, and the ability to capture Hoopa, a new Collection Challenge will also be live from 11am to 5pm local time on Sept./post/how-to-get-the-among-us-back-bling-in-fortnite/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-among-us-back-bling-in-fortnite/ In perhaps the greatest collaboration event to ever grace Gen-Z, Among Us items have come to Fortnite. As of June 9, Fortnite players can get a back bling styled after the crewmate (or impostor) from Among Us. The cross-game promotion will run for the next year.   To get the newly released Among Us back bling, you’ll have to purchase Among Us from the Epic Games Store. Anyone who purchases Among Us on the Epic Games Store will receive the crewmate back bling in Fortnite for no additional cost./post/the-best-aim-assist-settings-for-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-aim-assist-settings-for-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ While the default controller settings for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War are decent enough to get you started, you’ll find out soon enough that there’s a whole other world waiting for you to explore in the game’s settings. From sensitivity options to your field of view (FoV), you’ll be able to tinker with your in-game settings to give yourself an edge on the field. Once you start customizing the settings to your liking, you’ll feel more comfortable while playing, but deciding on what to change can be the real challenge./post/cs-go-update-1-37-9-1-adds-several-updates-to-new-map-ancient/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cs-go-update-1-37-9-1-adds-several-updates-to-new-map-ancient/ With Ancient set to be introduced into the competitive map pool in time for the return of majors, Valve have made a series of visual and gameplay changes to the new map. Update 1.37.9.1 was released on May 13 with several new additions. The following changes have been made to Ancient, according to the patch notes. Implemented Cubby 2.0 in mid connector to A, to remove cheap shoulder angle towards siteSlimmed down the fancy rock, also in mid connector to ASparsed foliage and improved clipping on boost planter near A mainQuieted down soundscape birdsRemoved clipping from top of bombsite sign in A site, allowing you to self-boost to planter by T mainAdded vphysics clip to T spawn water so guns don’t fully submergeSo many clip brush tweaksBlocked grenades from entering inaccessible building by T entrance to midBlocked pixelgaps through scaffolding near B siteBlocked pixelgaps through doorway trim in new CT path to A siteSimplified grenade collision on rooftopsGeneral optimizations Release Notes for today are up./post/league-fan-creates-custom-cosmic-phantom-vex-skin-concept-splash-art/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-fan-creates-custom-cosmic-phantom-vex-skin-concept-splash-art/ League of Legends recently revealed its newest champion, set to be another Yordle–Vex, the Gloomist. Vex marks the first new Yordle champion since Kled five years ago. As the name suggests, this champion has a dark, gloomy look, but skins will most definitely change up the vibe. One fan has already designed an impressive new look for Vex that would fit in perfectly alongside the current Cosmic range of skins./post/report-golden-guardians-to-promote-stixxay-to-lcs-lineup-sign-lider-to-academy-team/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/report-golden-guardians-to-promote-stixxay-to-lcs-lineup-sign-lider-to-academy-team/ Golden Guardians will start Stixxay at the AD carry position in the upcoming LCS Summer Split, according to a report from Brieuc Seeger of Upcomer. After spending time with the organization during the Spring Split as a positional coach and Academy-level substitute, Stixxay will reportedly play on stage this summer.  Stixxay played for Golden Guardians at the LCS level last season, helping to bring the League of Legends team to a playoff appearance following last year’s Summer Split./post/when-will-building-come-back-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-building-come-back-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/ Epic Games has never been scared to add new mechanics or change core elements of Fortnite in the game’s updates over the years, and with the launch of Chapter Three, season two, building has been completely removed. Given that building is one of Fortnite’s defining gameplay mechanics and helps separate it from other titles in the battle royale genre, this seems to be a temporary change. Until it returns, however, players will be forced to play Fortnite in a way that has previously never been seen./post/2022-asian-games-hangzhou-league-of-legends-preliminary-roster-includes-faker-deft-and-canyon/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/2022-asian-games-hangzhou-league-of-legends-preliminary-roster-includes-faker-deft-and-canyon/ The 2022 Asian Games Hangzhou preliminary roster for the South Korean League of Legends team has been revealed by Korean e-Sports Association (KeSPA). See League of Legends on Amazon Together with KeSPA, DWG KIA athletic director KkOma conducted interviews and determined 10 players that will have a chance to make it to the definitive roster later this month. Once the definitive roster is revealed, the players will train for qualifier matches which are scheduled for June, in addition to their training for their team’s Summer Split, which will kick off in the same month./post/all-rewards-of-lost-ark-s-first-ark-pass/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-rewards-of-lost-ark-s-first-ark-pass/ Lost Ark has introduced its first battle pass on April, 21, the Ark Pass. Many players will be thrilled to see its rewards and challenges, because in addition to Premium and Super Premium versions, it also features a free one. It means they will get yet another way to gain rewards, including honing gear materials, cards, and ship materials. It’s also a great way to encourage the players to try out different activities by completing its challenges and mission and to play everyday./post/beaststalker-tavish-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-fractured-in-alterac-valley-expansion/Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/beaststalker-tavish-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-fractured-in-alterac-valley-expansion/ If any Hunter players thought they were going to be left out of the new Hero card craze, fret no longer. Beaststalker Tavish is heavily armed and on his way in Hearthstone’s Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion. Hero cards are some of the most powerful cards in Hearthstone. On top of having a strong effect, they also grant you armor and an improved hero power. Beaststalker Tavish costs six mana and awards five armor./post/apex-legends-aftermarket-collection-event-introduces-new-flashpoint-limited-time-mode-and-caustic-heirloom/Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-aftermarket-collection-event-introduces-new-flashpoint-limited-time-mode-and-caustic-heirloom/ Things are about to get flashy in the Outlands. Apex Legends systems designer Mark Yampolsky discussed the Aftermarket Collection Event today, which includes the new Flashpoint limited-time mode and an heirloom for the Toxic Trapper. The event will run from Oct. 6 to 20. Get revved up for the Aftermarket Collection Event. Take part in the cross-play beta, dive into the new “Flashpoint” LTM, take on challenges to earn exclusive rewards, and more!/post/how-to-complete-captains-pepe-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-captains-pepe-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA made an addition to the Captions promotion on April 17 in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team with an 89-rated version of Képler “Pepe” Ferreira from Porto. This card is available through a themed squad-building challenge (SBC). The Captains promotion brings upgraded versions of the best captains and vice-captains from several clubs and national teams. Some Hero cards will also be upgraded to a FUT Hero Captains version while the promotion is live./post/the-best-rare-cleave-spells-in-mtg-crimson-vow/Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-rare-cleave-spells-in-mtg-crimson-vow/ Cleave is a new mechanic Wizards of the Coast added to Magic: The Gathering in its latest set Crimson Vow. And while it might seem like the mechanic is just a different way to display Kicker, it’s a little bit more than that. With the new mechanic’s release, Wizards made a special cycle of Rare mono-colored spells that have multicolored Cleave costs that will give players an extra layer of flexibility when using the cards./post/what-is-clash-and-why-are-league-of-legends-players-so-excited-for-it/Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-clash-and-why-are-league-of-legends-players-so-excited-for-it/ It’s crazy that it’s been almost a year since Clash, a highly-anticipated tournament mode for League of Legends, was first announced. The mode was supposed to be a shot in the arm for a game that had seen its popularity drop as new entrants like Overwatch and Fortnite grew. It promised a five-vs-five experience that let casual players pretend to be professionals in an organized, competitive setting. But its first large-scale test was beset by game-breaking bugs, and Riot Games yanked the game mode from the schedule until it could be fixed./post/immortals-signs-former-cs-go-player-asuna-to-its-valorant-roster/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/immortals-signs-former-cs-go-player-asuna-to-its-valorant-roster/ North American organization Immortals completed its VALORANT roster today by adding Peter “Asuna” Mazuryk, a 16-year-old former CS:GO player. Asuna gained more competitive experience this year by playing for Triumph, a professional North American organization, in March. The 16-year-old also attended the North American closed qualifier for Flashpoint season one with his own PUG team, Asuna’s Anime Aimers, but failed to make it into the main event. The young talent played his last CS:GO professional match on March 18 and averaged a 1./post/where-to-buy-justaminx-s-new-merch-line/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-buy-justaminx-s-new-merch-line/ Rising Twitch streamer JustaMinx is dropping her first unique merch line on Thursday, May 26 at 2pm CT. Well known for her high octane streams and witty humor, JustaMinx has been among the fastest-growing content creators. The Irish streamer surpassed over 2 million followers on Twitch, 700,000 subscribers on YouTube, and an additional 1.2 million on Instagram in the past year alone. Along with this, JustaMinx made history by competing in the first female influencer boxing match at Creator Clash, where she won her bout via TKO./post/how-to-complete-una-s-task-ride-like-the-wind-in-lost-ark/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-una-s-task-ride-like-the-wind-in-lost-ark/ When players reach level 50 in Lost Ark, they’ll be introduced to gear honing to enhance their item level. There are many ways to earn honing materials, and Una’s Tasks are one of them. Players can redeem three of them every day, up to four with a Guild’s boost, earning its rewards and increasing their reputation level. In addition to being a great way to collect honing materials, increasing your score each week will unlock gold rewards, and completing those quests can unlock Rapport NPC and Island Tokens./post/t1-valorant-brings-back-brax-promotes-dawn-from-academy/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/t1-valorant-brings-back-brax-promotes-dawn-from-academy/ Less than a week before the start of VALORANT Champions Tour Stage Three, and T1 has confirmed the reports regarding changes to the starting roster. T1 is bringing back brax to the starting lineup, and temporarily promoting Anthony “dawn” Hagopian from the academy roster. T1 coach David Denis explained in the announcement that the team and IGL Sam “DaZeD” Marine have parted ways, due to differences in “vision” between the coach and the veteran leader./post/all-characters-in-mortal-kombat-11/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-characters-in-mortal-kombat-11/ Mortal Kombat 11 has a massive roster of characters, featuring over 35 iconic characters from the series alongside newer additions. Every player can find at least one character with a fighting style they enjoy, and the large cast of characters will almost certainly keep the game fresh and exciting.  There are a few things to consider when purchasing Mortal Kombat 11. Players can buy the base version of the game, but this version only includes 25 characters./post/faze-jarvis-gaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/faze-jarvis-gaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/ Jarvis “FaZe Jarvis” Khattri is a British YouTuber and streamer who started out playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 before moving to Fortnite. During his career, FaZe Jarvis has had several controversies, including a lifetime ban from Fortnite. The ban resulted from FaZe Jarvis using aimbot cheats during a live Twitch stream, which violated Epic Games’ terms of service.  Despite his Fortnite and Twitch ban, FaZe Jarvis is still a prolific YouTuber with over 4./post/kaizen-leaves-lcs-analyst-desk/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/kaizen-leaves-lcs-analyst-desk/ Former LCS analyst Kaizen “Kaizen” Asiedu (formerly known as Primal) has revealed he will be leaving the LCS analyst desk to put more focus into his mindset/self-mastery coaching business. Kaizen starts by explaining his timeline of progression from being depressed and lost 12 years ago to finding the path towards his true passions in the past two years. 12 yrs ago, I was depressed and lost 1.5 yrs ago, found myself, lost depression/post/ubisoft-sues-apple-and-google-over-rainbow-six-siege-rip-off/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ubisoft-sues-apple-and-google-over-rainbow-six-siege-rip-off/ Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most popular games in the world with millions of people logging on to play each day. The game has several imitators that try to capitalize on the gameplay and style of the tactical shooter. One game, however, is too close for comfort for Ubisoft, which has sued Apple and Google over an alleged Rainbow Six Siege ripoff called Area F2. Bloomberg reported that Ubisoft filed a complaint in a federal court on Friday and claims Area F2 is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege and copies several key aspects from the popular game./post/valorant-s-elderflame-collection-will-light-a-fire-in-your-heart-and-burn-a-hole-in-your-wallet-a-review/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-s-elderflame-collection-will-light-a-fire-in-your-heart-and-burn-a-hole-in-your-wallet-a-review/ To the dismay of many of my friends, teammates, and colleagues, I bought VALORANT’s first Ultra Edition skin line: the Elderflame Collection. Yes, I paid almost $100 to fulfill my Game of Thrones fantasy and harness the power of dragons. But if there’s a silver lining in this, aside from wielding badass skins in-game, it’s that I can deliver my honest take on the collection before you spend your shekels./post/a-league-fan-made-a-mini-game-that-helps-you-learn-how-to-dodge-skillshots/Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-league-fan-made-a-mini-game-that-helps-you-learn-how-to-dodge-skillshots/ If you’ve ever played a game of League of Legends and thought to yourself, “If I get hit by one more Blitzcrank hook, I’m going to ragequit,” don’t worry. We’ve all been there. The good news is that now there’s a fun little game you can play to improve your reactions to incoming skillshots like that pesky Blitzcrank hook. One League fan created a browser-based mini-game aptly named League of Dodging, which lets you play as Yasuo in a top-down Summoner’s Rift./post/pok%C3%A9mon-unite-weekly-aeos-coins-and-energy-limits/Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-unite-weekly-aeos-coins-and-energy-limits/ Pokémon UNITE keeps in line with most free-to-play games, using multiple different in-game currencies that players need to collect to purchase items, unlock Pokémon, and more.  But along with a microtransaction-laden marketplace, TiMi Studio and The Pokémon Company have also artificially limited how much of certain currency types players can earn in one sitting.  This doesn’t affect the harder-to-come-by currency like Aeos, Fashion, and Holowear Tickets, though. Instead, it impacts the more widely available Aeos Coins and Energy earned through playing matches./post/common-fortnite-terms-and-their-meanings/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/common-fortnite-terms-and-their-meanings/ The gaming world entered its battle royale stage in 2017. The hype train left the station with PUBG’s release in March 2017, and the ultimate victor of the genre, Fortnite, jumped on the rails around September of the same year. While each battle royale title is fundamentally different from each other, Fortnite was quicker to turn itself into something more than a game. Fortnite successfully created its own universe and has been delivering in terms of content ever since./post/every-pre-order-bonus-for-pokemon-legends-arceus/Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-pre-order-bonus-for-pokemon-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus is primed to change the view of the Pokémon video game series as it heads in a new and bold direction by featuring an open-world adventure. Legends: Arceus, a game set in the Hisui Region, which will eventually become the Sinnoh region, delves on the origins of Pokémon as a whole as the player explores the region that started it all. With the new Hisuian based game set to hit retail stores and the public on Jan./post/riot-releases-rank-specific-league-merch/Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-releases-rank-specific-league-merch/ Starting today until Jan. 21, 2020, League of Legends players can commemorate their season nine triumphs with Ranked Merch Unlocks. Riot Games’ latest edition to its merch shop offers players the opportunity to buy customized apparel with their rank and summoner name. For its inaugural release, players can choose between a women’s short sleeve shirt, a unisex shirt, and a hoodie. Both shirts are priced at $30, while the hoodie goes for $65./post/senna-s-no-farm-playstyle-is-taking-over-the-traditional-adc-role/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/senna-s-no-farm-playstyle-is-taking-over-the-traditional-adc-role/ More professional League of Legends teams have started picking up the Senna no-farm playstyle in the bottom lane after Cloud9’s debut of this tactic last week against Immortals. Instead of going with the traditional build on Senna, Zven built the damage-oriented support item, Spectral Sickle, while his partner in crime Vulcan went with a Doran Ring for Tahm Kench. This tactic was quickly brought over to other regions as well. So what makes Senna ADC with no farm strong?/post/how-to-watch-the-optic-texas-call-of-duty-warzone-100k-tournament/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-the-optic-texas-call-of-duty-warzone-100k-tournament/ The biggest name in competitive Call of Duty will be teaming up with Activision for a $100,000 Warzone event. The Call of Duty League franchise OpTic Texas, led by the legends at OpTic Gaming, will run the two-day show on Feb. 15 and 16 in Call of Duty: Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale. The action will kick off just one day after season two in Vanguard and Warzone begins./post/an-a-z-of-league-of-legends-terminology/Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/an-a-z-of-league-of-legends-terminology/ If you want to fit in with your friends in League of Legends, communicate efficiently in the game or closely follow the competitive scene, you need to keep up to date with the latest jargon. The language in League is widely acknowledged in the community, from Summoner’s Rift to Twitch, Discord, and Reddit. So, grab a pen and paper and take notes as we explain all the terminology you need to know in League of Legends./post/shroud-calls-for-apex-legends-to-scrap-battle-passes-in-favor-of-free-unlocks/Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-calls-for-apex-legends-to-scrap-battle-passes-in-favor-of-free-unlocks/ Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has called for Respawn to consider taking Apex Legends battle passes out of its battle royale, claiming the “in-built pressure” it put on players to grind is too much. Apex has had more than a dozen battle passes since its early 2019 release, following the blueprint first laid out by arch-rival Fortnite in its heyday. While many love the skins, guns, and charms the Outlands battle passes have brought to Respawn’s title over the years, there are others who believe it adds an unhealthy aspect to the game⁠—including Twitch’s human aimbot, Shroud, who has today called for the Apex developers to rethink their model./post/call-of-duty-mobile-redeem-codes-for-june-2022/Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-mobile-redeem-codes-for-june-2022/ Like any game in the year 2022, Call of Duty: Mobile is all about the skins. The smash-hit mobile shooter lets you equip your character in all sorts of skins for everything from outfits, guns, and much more. Each month, there’s a set of mobile codes that can be redeemed in CoD: Mobile to unlock some cool new items. Check back here frequently to see the list of codes to get your free loot because there are always cool things being added to the game./post/what-are-apex-legends-system-requirements-on-pc/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-apex-legends-system-requirements-on-pc/ Apex Legends is the latest game to target the battle royale genre. Developed by the Titanfall team over at EA games, Respawn, it’s currently available on PC via the Origin store. It’s entirely free to play, similar to other battle royale games like Fortnite, offering paid cosmetics for players to purchase to customize their characters. For XBOX and PS4 owners, you’re good to go. But PC owners might need to upgrade certain parts of their build in order to get the game to work./post/all-new-weapons-coming-to-fortnite-chapter-2-season-6/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-new-weapons-coming-to-fortnite-chapter-2-season-6/ Fortnite Chapter two, season six marks the shift away from the previous bounty hunter-themed season. With this move comes a range of new locations, items, and most importantly, weapons that players can utilize in their attempts at securing victory royale. As season six continues the story of Agent Jones’ mission, there are a bunch of new weapons to suit this theme. Each of these brings its own unique style and aesthetic to Fortnite that hasn’t been seen in any of the previous seasons./post/fans-reimagine-pok%C3%A9mon-snap-on-game-boy-color/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fans-reimagine-pok%C3%A9mon-snap-on-game-boy-color/ With the brand-new Pokémon Snap launching in just a few hours, fans are kicking it old school–creating their own interpretation of what a Pokémon Snap game would have looked like on the Nintendo Game Boy Color. The mock gameplay video was created by the team at Nintendo Wire and showcases the rail-based photography goodness of Pokémon Snap with vintage graphics. Pokémon Snap first launched in 1999 for the Nintendo 64./post/mtg-arena-reveals-2021-renewal-rewards/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-reveals-2021-renewal-rewards/ Wizards of the Coast provides incentives to Magic: The Gathering Arena players prior to the digital launch of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. See Magic The Gathering on Amazon Scheduled to take place during the morning hours of Sept. 16, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) will launch and Standard rotation will take place. Encouraging players to log in and play are MTG Arena renewal rewards, prizes that range from Rare/Mythic Rare card rewards to an alternative art card sleeve./post/gambit-parts-ways-with-apex-legends-roster/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gambit-parts-ways-with-apex-legends-roster/ One of the best Apex Legends teams in the world are now free agents. Gambit announced today that it is parting ways with its competitive Apex squad. The organization also made it clear that while the squad will no longer represent Gambit, they’ll continue to play together. Gambit has been one of the best teams in Europe and the world since the trio’s formation in 2020, when IGL Konstantin “Hardecki” Kozlov joined the squad./post/light-wins-smash-ultimate-at-momocon-2022-but-among-us-cosplay-steals-the-show/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/light-wins-smash-ultimate-at-momocon-2022-but-among-us-cosplay-steals-the-show/ Moist Esports showed out at MomoCon 2022 with Light winning his second Super Smash Bros. Major without dropping a single set in bracket. However, while his win was impressive, it wasn’t the main talking point to come out of the event this weekend—that title came from an Among Us reference. During singles pools, many fans watching from home and several people in the venue were shocked to see a player wearing an inflatable crewmate costume from Among Us take the stage./post/wraith-s-free-forgotten-in-the-void-twitch-prime-skin-available-now/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wraith-s-free-forgotten-in-the-void-twitch-prime-skin-available-now/ It seems Apex Legends’ poster child is getting a new look—courtesy of Twitch Prime. Respawn and Twitch have teamed up once again to offer a free skin to Apex players today. The Forgotten in the Void Wraith skin is available now on the Twitch Prime website until May 14. Become one with time and space with the Forgotten in the Void Wraith skin, available through May 14 when you link your #TwitchPrime account./post/best-cramorant-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-cramorant-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ Trainers can play as several Pokémon in Pokémon UNITE, but few are as powerful as Cramorant. Players are grinding up the ranked ladder with the silly Blue Bird Pokémon because of its considerable damage output and its moveset, one of the most diverse in the game. If you’re struggling to understand what to pair with Cramorant, here’s our Cramorant build that takes advantage of its unique abilities to defeat its opponents./post/results-for-the-pubg-mobile-pro-league-south-asia-season-3-finals/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/results-for-the-pubg-mobile-pro-league-south-asia-season-3-finals/ The finals for the third season of the PUBG Mobile Pro League (PMPL) South Asia will happen from April 15 to 18. Sixteen teams will be competing in the competition to decide the champions. The teams will lock horns across 18 matches on Erangel, Miramar, and Sanhok in the finals. The top nine teams from here will advance to the PMPL South Asia Championship finals, which will happen from May 14 to 16./post/when-is-jinx-from-league-of-legends-releasing-in-fortnite/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-jinx-from-league-of-legends-releasing-in-fortnite/ Riot Games and Epic Games are teaming up to bring their two respective flagship titles, League of Legends and Fortnite, together in a crossover event. To celebrate the premiere of Riot’s animated series Arcane on Netflix, Jinx, the main character of the show, will be making an appearance in Fortnite.  The appearance of Jinx in Fortnite marks the first time that a League champion has ever appeared in a game developed by a company other than Riot./post/ranking-all-9-episodes-of-arcane-s-first-season/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ranking-all-9-episodes-of-arcane-s-first-season/ The first season of Arcane has come to a close, and although it’s going to be some time until we can get our hands on season two, Riot Games confirmed the next chapter of the series is currently in production.  The League of Legends show relies almost entirely on its top-notch animation to convey its story, which is advantageous considering Arcane is one of the most visually stunning animated television shows./post/best-vrr-enabled-tvs-for-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-s/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-vrr-enabled-tvs-for-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-s/ The need for new features in gaming TVs grows with every new console generation. Microsoft and Sony’s latest consoles are no exception, with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles utilizing next-gen gaming features and faster frame rates. Faster frame rates mean gaming TVs need faster refresh rates. Newer models can reach up to 120Hz or 240Hz but are subject to screen tearing or stuttering since they typically stay at a static refresh rate./post/los-diez-mejores-mediocentros-de-fifa-21/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/los-diez-mejores-mediocentros-de-fifa-21/ EA Sports ha revelado recientemente las puntuaciones de los 100 mejores jugadores de FIFA 21, que se estrenará oficialmente el 21 de octubre. Sin embargo, esta lista contiene los diez mejores mediocentros (MCD, MC y MP) en FIFA 21. La lista no tiene en consideración qué cartas serán llegarán al Ultimate Team de FIFA 21, ya que cada semana aparecen nuevas cartas con jugadores mejorados. Estos son los diez mejores mediocentros de FIFA 21 según las puntuaciones reveladas por EA Sports con los que podrás jugar partidos amistosos, el modo Carrera o Ultimate Team./post/todos-los-nombres-de-los-planos-de-armas-en-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/todos-los-nombres-de-los-planos-de-armas-en-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ Cada arma en Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War tiene un nombre en clave asignado. Específicamente, los planos de armas solo se conocen por su título y su nombre en clave. Inexplicablemente, al mirar los planos de armas en la tienda del juego, la descripción solo usa el nombre en clave del plano del arma, y no el nombre del arma real. Los planos a veces cambian por completo el aspecto de un arma, por lo que puede complicarse saber para qué arma estás comprando un plano./post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-mobile-s-season-12-update/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-mobile-s-season-12-update/ Call of Duty: Mobile’s 12th season is right around the corner. Today, the Garena version of the game dropped the complete patch notes for the season 12 update. Season 12 is called “Going Dark.” Call of Duty: Mobile has two versions. The global one is published by Activision, while in Southeast Asia, another version exists that is published by Garena. The updates for both versions are usually the same./post/league-s-odyssey-skins-are-back-with-galactic-cosmetics-for-kha-zix-aatrox-sivir-twisted-fate-and-karma/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-odyssey-skins-are-back-with-galactic-cosmetics-for-kha-zix-aatrox-sivir-twisted-fate-and-karma/ It’s time to join the intergalactic fight once again. League of Legends’ Odyssey skin line is making a comeback in today’s PBE Preview, including new cosmetics for Kha’Zix, Aatrox, Sivir, Twisted Fate, and Karma. The skins will likely have a two-week test cycle before hitting the live servers in the next patch. PBE Preview: Odyssey's back! 🌌🐛 Odyssey Kha'Zix 🌌🔪 Odyssey Aatrox ⭐💫 Odyssey Sivir ⭐🃏 Odyssey Twisted Fate ⭐🌞 Odyssey Karma pic./post/fortnite-world-cup-sets-esports-viewership-record-on-twitch/Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-world-cup-sets-esports-viewership-record-on-twitch/ Fortnite‘s World Cup has broken Twitch’s esports viewers record with 1.3 million concurrent viewers on the platform—but actually failed to beat its own streaming record. The record isn’t the peak concurrent viewers on a single channel, but rather a combination of all World Cup streams on Sunday. The single-channel record still belongs to CS:GO’s ELEAGUE Boston Major which reached 1.1 million viewers. Richard Tyler “Ninja” Blevins holds the single-person stream record when he played Fortnite with Drake, reaching 628,000 viewers./post/land-octopus-ovary-location-in-elden-ring-how-to-find-and-use-land-octopus-ovary/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/land-octopus-ovary-location-in-elden-ring-how-to-find-and-use-land-octopus-ovary/ In Elden Ring, FromSoftware decided to make consumable items more accessible to players when compared to previous titles. The crafting system new to Elden Ring offers players the opportunity to gather and use the unique items they find around the Lands Between. While players cannot make armor and normal weapons, they can make consumable items, throwing weapons, ammunition for ranged weapons, and more. FromSoftware heavily encourages exploration by looking consumable creation behind the Cookbooks./post/a-guide-to-the-best-controls-and-settings-in-valorant/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-guide-to-the-best-controls-and-settings-in-valorant/ VALORANT is all about finding an edge over your opponent. There’s always room for improvement, even if you have pinpoint accuracy, the perfect game sense, and extensive knowledge of each of the maps. Controls and settings in VALORANT, believe it or not, have a real impact on your gameplay. If you aren’t using the optimal settings, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Here are the best controls and settings in VALORANT./post/how-to-level-up-fast-in-wow-classic/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-level-up-fast-in-wow-classic/ The leveling process in World of Warcraft Classic can be long and arduous. In 2004, when the MMO was first released, leveling to 60 was a painstaking grind that took months of patience.  It was a free-for-all of epic proportions that stopped some players dead in their tracks⁠ and motivated others. But now, it’s a different story. More than 15 years have passed since the release of World of Warcraft and a great deal has changed./post/team-liquid-defeat-sentinels-to-earn-group-b-top-seed-in-valorant-champions-playoffs/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-liquid-defeat-sentinels-to-earn-group-b-top-seed-in-valorant-champions-playoffs/ A third European team earned their spot in the VALORANT Champions playoffs after Team Liquid defeated Sentinels in the Group B Winner’s match today. See Valorant on Amazon Liquid concluded their undefeated run through the VALORANT champs group stage with a stunning victory against Sentinels. They took down KRU Esports 2-0 earlier this week and sent Sentinels to the Decider match on Monday.  The first matchup on Breeze was an intense game that went back and forth and was ultimately decided in overtime./post/niantic-unveils-new-sushi-decor-pikmin-for-pikmin-bloom/Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/niantic-unveils-new-sushi-decor-pikmin-for-pikmin-bloom/ New content is coming to Niantic’s augmented-reality (AR) game Pikmin Bloom. And this time, it’ll be in the form of the new “Sushi” Decor Pikmin. The announcement was made through the game’s official website. “New ‘Sushi’ Decor Pikmin have arrived this month,” the post reads. “You’ll be able to find them around sushi restaurants. Sushi has long been a staple of Japanese food culture, but today it’s enjoyed by countless people around the world./post/call-of-duty-vanguard-zombies-perks-upgrades-pack-a-punch-details-revealed/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-vanguard-zombies-perks-upgrades-pack-a-punch-details-revealed/ Treyarch has revealed a slew of new information about Call of Duty: Vanguard’s Zombies mode, which is launching alongside the game on Nov. 5. The initial Zombies map in Vanguard, Der Anfang, will feature a new storyline that continues the Dark Aether story from Black Ops Cold War. Things are set to become straight-up demonic and the team outlined changes coming to Zombies in a new blog post. Welcome to the all-new Perk Fountain system in #DerAnfang:/post/peace-outlast-red-canids-in-5-game-battle-of-attrition-at-worlds-2021-to-book-a-spot-in-the-final-play-in-series-against-cloud9/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/peace-outlast-red-canids-in-5-game-battle-of-attrition-at-worlds-2021-to-book-a-spot-in-the-final-play-in-series-against-cloud9/ After a five-game battle against the CBLOL’s RED Canids today, the LCO’s PEACE have won the chance to play in another best-of-five series against Cloud9 tomorrow to decide who will enter the main event of the 2021 League of Legends World Championship. Throughout all five games, PEACE and RED Canids showed the willingness to fight in any situation. They weren’t scared to commit teleports, summoner spells, and ultimates for random skirmishes./post/theros-beyond-death-s-best-and-worst-blue-commons-and-uncommons-for-limited/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/theros-beyond-death-s-best-and-worst-blue-commons-and-uncommons-for-limited/ Magic: the Gathering‘s new set launches this week on Arena, and that means a new Limited format to learn! Blue gets some cool tricks and abilities this time around. Here’s the best (and worst) Blue cards for Limited. Thirst for Meaning Thirst for Meaning is one of those breakout common spells you will see in every Blue deck that can find it. This card is an easy two-for-one, but has an even higher ceiling if you can discard things you don’t have a use for anyways./post/how-to-earn-the-soaring-spelltome-mount-in-world-of-warcraft/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-earn-the-soaring-spelltome-mount-in-world-of-warcraft/ The Mage Tower event is returning to World of Warcraft after a three-year hiatus from the game’s live servers. With seven unique challenges designed for different classes and specializations, the Mage Tower is one of WoW’s most fleshed-out pieces of content.  When the Mage Tower returns to WoW later this year alongside the Legion Timewalking event, players will have the chance to earn event-specific rewards. Players who complete one of the Mage Tower’s challenges will receive a transmogrification set for the class that they complete the challenge with./post/how-to-get-the-calavera-ghost-shell-in-destiny-2/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-calavera-ghost-shell-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2‘s Festival of the Lost event for 2021 is underway and the in-game celebration is more than just a Halloween-themed spookfest. The Festival of the Lost is heavily inspired by Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead, a primarily Mexican holiday that honors and celebrates those we have lost. During the Destiny 2 in-game events, Bungie asks its players to celebrate those we’ve lost and “fondly recount the tales of those who were lost but will never be forgotten./post/a-guide-to-the-most-popular-twitch-emotes/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-guide-to-the-most-popular-twitch-emotes/ On June 6, 2011, the video game streaming website Twitch launched as a spin-off of live streaming site Justin.tv. In nearly nine years, Twitch has become the go-to place for streaming, even surpassing its former corporate owner. Part of the reason for Twitch’s popularity is Twitch chat, and especially its emotes. With Twitch chat, passive viewing becomes interactive, and Twitch’s emotes become a kind of internal language of inside-jokes. The emotes have changed how people talk to each other both on and off the site./post/how-to-redeploy-your-parachute-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-redeploy-your-parachute-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ You’re stuck on top of one of the many tall buildings in Call of Duty: Warzone. You can’t find the stairs or a ladder to climb down. You ask your teammates what button you need to press to redeploy your parachute so you can safely jump off the building and not fall to your death, but you don’t trust their answer. If you’ve already found yourself in a similar situation in Warzone’s brief history, don’t worry—we’ve got the answer for you right here./post/riot-s-active-player-base-hits-180-million-across-all-league-based-titles/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-s-active-player-base-hits-180-million-across-all-league-based-titles/ Riot Games revealed today that 180 million players are currently engaged with its titles based in the League of Legends universe, an all-time record for the company. This massive number of players doesn’t include the player base for Riot’s first person shooter, VALORANT, but does include League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot has largely depended on its flagship title, League, to serve as the foundation of its consumer base./post/san-francisco-shock-s-ans-retires-from-professional-overwatch/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/san-francisco-shock-s-ans-retires-from-professional-overwatch/ Hitscan DPS Lee “ANS” Seon-chang has surprisingly retired from professional Overwatch, the San Francisco Shock announced today. ANS was a key part of the team’s second Overwatch League championship win in October.   ANS joined the San Francisco Shock as a last-minute pickup before the 2020 season began. Though he previously played for professional teams like BlossoM, ANS first retired in early 2019 and built his reputation as a streamer. His main draw, as “ANSANSNIPER,” was his incredible talent with hitscan heroes like Widowmaker and Ashe./post/how-to-complete-captains-medel-s-silver-stars-objectives-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-captains-medel-s-silver-stars-objectives-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ FIFA 22 Ultimate Team players have a chance of getting a 74-rated Captains Gary Medel, Bologna’s captain, by completing a set of Silver Stars objectives in the game. Medel was selected to be part of the Captains promotion, which brings upgraded versions of the best captains from different clubs and national teams, but players have to get this card by completing Silver Stars objectives, a different promotion that gives upgraded versions of silver player items./post/totw-22-is-now-live-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/totw-22-is-now-live-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added Team of the Week (TOTW) 22 to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today. Every week, EA creates a new version of players who performed well in real-life games. Next week’s TOTW will replace this squad with fresh cards. You can get these cards through the FUT market or from FUT packs if you’re lucky enough. The best players on this TOTW are a 90-rated Raheem Sterling from Manchester City, an 86-rated Edin Višca from Trabzonspor, an 86-rated Aleksandar Mitrovic from Fulham, and 86-rated Nabil Fekir from Real Betis./post/what-are-sparks-in-mixer-and-how-to-use-them/Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-sparks-in-mixer-and-how-to-use-them/ If you are new to Mixer, Microsoft’s new streaming service, you might have heard about something called “Sparks” while watching streams (or when you, seemingly, randomly earn them). Here’s what you need to know about them. Sparks in Mixer are just one of the streaming service’s site-wide currencies on offer. Sparks can be acquired by simply watching streams and from streaming yourself. It essentially comes down to simple mathematics. The more hours you spend watching one streamer, the more Sparks you earn./post/nickmercs-explains-why-he-still-plays-apex-over-warzone/Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nickmercs-explains-why-he-still-plays-apex-over-warzone/ One of the biggest victories Apex Legends scored in the past year wasn’t anything that had to do with making the game. Rather, it was the continued support and attention brought to the game by FaZe Clan’s NICKMERCS. After building up a dedicated following in games like Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone, as well as representing multiple esports organizations, the FaZe content creator gave Apex a spin in 2021./post/ap-shaco-support-outplays-three-opponents-in-league-of-legends/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ap-shaco-support-outplays-three-opponents-in-league-of-legends/ League of Legends players may want to reconsider dodging the lobby when an AP Shaco locks support. One player used the Demon Jester to his maximum potential, posting their three-kill outplay on Reddit today. This should give you enough reasons to play AP Shaco. Fed support Shaco shenanigans. from leagueoflegends The player began by sending his Hallucinate (R) clone to the opposing Riven, baiting her flash and wiping her out in a matter of seconds./post/how-blizzard-plans-to-update-moira-in-overwatch-2-hero-rework/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-blizzard-plans-to-update-moira-in-overwatch-2-hero-rework/ In a blogpost on June 7, Blizzard Entertainment revealed more information about Moira’s upcoming rework, which will be coming to the game in time for Overwatch 2’s launch. “She’s an effective support,” the devs said. “However, we believe she lacks the play-making ability and utility possessed by other supports on the roster.” To enhance her strength on the roster, the devs detailed three ideas for the hero’s rework. Related: Blizzard to host an event regarding Overwatch 2, next PvP beta, and more in June/post/how-to-clinch-in-ufc-4/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-clinch-in-ufc-4/ Clinching is a significant part of fighting in UFC 4. Players can use the clinch to move their opponents, take them to the ground, or deliver devastating blows. Clinching is slightly different in UFC 4 but still easy to initiate. Players must press R1 on PlayStation or RB on Xbox and top the button associated with their lead hand. The lead hand is either X or Y on Xbox and Square and Triangle on PlayStation./post/how-to-hide-account-level-in-valorant/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-hide-account-level-in-valorant/ VALORANT players can show off their experience with their account level, letting friends and opponents know how much experience they have. But some players would rather hide this information since it could lead to teammates expecting low-level players to perform poorly or assume they’re smurfs. The good news is hiding your account level in VALORANT is simple and can be toggled with ease.  Players earn Account Points by playing any mode in VALORANT./post/shroud-s-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-warzone-settings-and-keybinds/Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-s-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-warzone-settings-and-keybinds/ Since his retirement from competitive CS:GO in April 2018, shroud hasn’t lost a single ounce of talent. The former Cloud9 player still dominates every game he touches—and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is just one of them. The talented FPS player stopped streaming on Twitch and moved to Mixer at the end of 2019. Though he saw a decrease in his viewership after the move, his numbers have started to recover./post/overwatch-reveals-mccree-s-new-name/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-reveals-mccree-s-new-name/ One of Overwatch’s most iconic heroes will be rocking a new name as of Oct. 22, distancing the character from the real-life allegations surrounding his namesake.  The cowboy formerly known as Jesse McCree will be renamed Cole Cassidy, according to announcements from the game’s developers. Though the name was publicly revealed today, Cole Cassidy’s name will be officially put into the game on Oct. 26 alongside a patch on the live Overwatch servers./post/the-best-classes-to-play-in-world-of-warcraft-the-burning-crusade-classic/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-classes-to-play-in-world-of-warcraft-the-burning-crusade-classic/ The launch of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic is just around the corner. Whether you’re considering sticking with your main from Classic or looking to reroll prior to the release of TBC, it’s important to remember that the meta is going to change extensively when the new expansion hits live servers Classes that were “must-haves” for raid groups in Classic WoW won’t be as high on the priority list in TBC, while some of the lower-tier classes at level 60 will shine exuberantly at level 70./post/xqc-says-he-s-not-leaving-twitch-for-youtube/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-says-he-s-not-leaving-twitch-for-youtube/ Twitch lost two of its biggest streamers, DrLupo and TimTheTatman, after they signed exclusive deals with YouTube Gaming over the last few days. But arguably the platform’s No. 1 star, xQc, isn’t going anywhere, he confirmed in his latest stream. “I’ve been on a custom deal for a long time now,” xQc said yesterday. “Nobody made a big deal about it so I didn’t say anything about it either. Why bother saying anything?/post/teamfight-tactics-devs-set-3-galaxies-focus-will-be-on-more-high-impact-and-exciting-spells/Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/teamfight-tactics-devs-set-3-galaxies-focus-will-be-on-more-high-impact-and-exciting-spells/ Teamfight Tactics developers certainly learn from their mistakes. TFT lead designer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer reflected on Rise of the Elements in a Dev Post today, breaking down what will be different for the upcoming Set Three: Galaxies. Though the autobattler’s second season introduced some fun new mechanics, it still fell short in a couple of areas. Here are some ways in which TFT devs will try to improve going forward./post/apex-s-ranked-split-makes-olympus-the-new-competitive-map-until-the-end-of-season-8/Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-s-ranked-split-makes-olympus-the-new-competitive-map-until-the-end-of-season-8/ Apex Legends players will now get to dive back into Olympus in competitive modes. The midseason split took place today, pushing Kings Canyon out of the ranked rotation for the remainder of the season. In addition to the map change, the split also reset players’ ranks across the board by 1.5 tiers. The split is good news for users who weren’t fond of the Solace arena. Competitive matches will take place exclusively on Olympus, the battle royale’s latest map./post/where-to-find-lt-john-llama-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-lt-john-llama-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one/ NPCs have become a core part of Fortnite. Not only do they supply players with exclusive loot, but some of them can also even be hired to follow you around and help you against other players. Lt. John Llama is one of the Chapter Three, season one exclusive skins, and he’s also an NPC in the game. Players can unlock Lt. John Llama as a playable skin through the battle pass, requiring them to complete weekly and daily challenges./post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-set-evolving-skies-revealed-for-august/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-set-evolving-skies-revealed-for-august/ The next Pokémon TCG set Evolving Skies is set for an August release.  Just like with the upcoming June set, Chilling Reign, it is likely that Evolving Skies will be a combination of multiple Japanese releases. This time, the sets in questions should be Towering Perfection and Sky Stream, which will each feature 67 cards.  Towering Perfection will focus on Single Strike cards and be headlined by Duraludon VMAX, while Sky Stream will keep with its namesake and introduce Rayquaza VMAX, along with new Rapid Strike cards./post/the-best-ash-skins-in-apex-legends/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-ash-skins-in-apex-legends/ Season 11 of Apex Legends finally introduced Ash as a playable character in the game. As one of the Apex and Titanfall universe’s most notorious antagonists, the reveal was appropriately drawn out, as the character is inextricably linked to several characters, and she can almost be considered two characters in one.  For a character this multi-layered and storied, Apex needed to bring out the big guns when it came to designing Ash’s skins./post/top-esports-jackeylove-releases-song-for-charity-project-called-lpl-cares/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/top-esports-jackeylove-releases-song-for-charity-project-called-lpl-cares/ JackeyLove, a former League of Legends world champion and current ADC superstar for LPL team Top Esports, has released a song in conjunction with the LPL Cares initiative and the One Foundation charity that will help raise awareness and monetary support for disadvantaged youth in China. The song is titled “Pray” (depending on the translation, the song could also be read as “Wish”) and features JackeyLove’s vocals layered over a low-key but emotional pop instrumental./post/ea-releases-totw-13-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-releases-totw-13-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ Players can now find the Team of the Week (TOTW) 13 cards in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. EA released 23 new cards today to replace last week’s TOTW players. Among the new cards, the 90-rated Thibaut Courtois from Real Madrid is the best, followed by an 89-rated Raheem Sterling from Montpellier, an 87-rated Nicolò Barella from Internazionale, and an 86-rated Youri Tielemans from Leicester City. Every week, EA creates a new version of the players who stood out during league matches or when national team games end./post/how-to-get-the-optimus-omicron-minion-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-optimus-omicron-minion-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Over eight years after its release, Final Fantasy XIV keeps receiving more content with the launch of the latest expansion, Endwalker, in December 2021. Similar to the previous expansions, new characters you meet in the main scenario will be available in one way or another after the story’s ending, taking the form of mounts or minions. Optimus Omicron is one of them. The minion is described as “a test prototype” created by the Omicrons, which “never reached the mass production stage./post/900-000-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-trade-includes-9-charizard-cards-pikachu-illustrator-card/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/900-000-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-trade-includes-9-charizard-cards-pikachu-illustrator-card/ It is rare that you see high-level collectors actually participate in the trading portion of a trading card game like Pokémon with expensive cards, but Pokémon publication PokéBeach managed to capture a massive deal reportedly worth nearly $900,000. According to the report, a record-shattering deal was just made between an Italian and Japanese collector where one side traded a package of nine different Charizard cards and three drawings from Mitsuhiro Arita, an illustrator who designed a lot of early Pokémon cards, that were made at an event in 2017./post/how-to-fix-the-failed-to-save-settings-to-server-error-in-valorant/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-the-failed-to-save-settings-to-server-error-in-valorant/ Maintaining a game can be more challenging than developing one, especially when it’s a hit like VALORANT. Though Riot Games fixed a handful of bugs during the game’s first calendar year, new glitches keep popping up, mostly due to server issues. When servers go offline in an online title, almost everything stops functioning, which applies to saving your settings as well. The “failed to save settings to server” usually occurs whenever players are trying to save their settings after making small adjustments./post/video-appears-to-show-ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3-on-nintendo-switch/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/video-appears-to-show-ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3-on-nintendo-switch/ Marvel vs. Capcom 3 may be headed to Nintendo Switch. At least, fans are wondering if that’s the case after a video surfaced allegedly showing Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 being played on the Nintendo console. Footage first surfaced on 4chan depicting an anonymous player using the game’s training section, according to a report from TheNerdMag. The video, which was later mirrored by Nintendo Life, appears to show an Ultimate Marvel vs./post/fortnite-season-9-will-last-12-weeks-set-to-end-on-aug-1/Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-season-9-will-last-12-weeks-set-to-end-on-aug-1/ Fortnite season nine is confirmed to last 12 weeks, beginning this Thursday, May 9. It’ll also come to an end a little later than normal on Thursday, Aug. 1. This sets it to last for approximately three months, compared to the usual 10 weeks of most other seasons, including the current one. The length of season nine was confirmed by a PS4 event notification found by FortniteNews. The picture, which you can see below, shows that the event begins on May 9 and the deadline is Aug./post/lec-brings-back-red-bull-secretlab-and-beko-as-sponsors-in-2021/Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lec-brings-back-red-bull-secretlab-and-beko-as-sponsors-in-2021/ The LEC is returning with some familiar sponsors next week. The top European League of Legends league has renewed its partnerships with Red Bull, Secretlab, and Beko for 2021, Riot Games announced today. Financial terms of each sponsorship deal were not disclosed, but the league will again have Red Bull as its official energy drink partner and Secretlabs will be its official gaming chairs partner. #LEC Renews Partnerships with @secretlabchairs, @redbull and @Beko for 2021!/post/ppd-officially-returns-to-competitive-dota-2-ahead-of-2021-dota-pro-circuit/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ppd-officially-returns-to-competitive-dota-2-ahead-of-2021-dota-pro-circuit/ Peter “ppd” Dager spent years at the top of the Dota 2 competitive scene, with his biggest accomplishment coming in 2015, when he and Evil Geniuses won The International. During the early stages of 2020, however, he announced that he was stepping away from the game.  He officially retired from professional Dota 2 on April 20, but now, more than eight months removed from that decision, he is back. The popular player and personality explained his return on the WePlay Esports blog./post/the-worst-valorant-agents/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-worst-valorant-agents/ Not every agent in VALORANT can be the best. In fact, not every agent can be good or even serviceable. One thing that’s attracted various former CS:GO players over to VALORANT, especially in North America, is the game’s ability to stay fresh with new agent additions and changes. Over time, though, that does mean some agents are going to be nerfed into the bottom tiers or perhaps even released as a bottom-tier character./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-ma/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-ma/ The simple format and strong social element of Wordle, combined with a puzzle that is just challenging enough, made it an internet phenomenon. Since its October 2021 launch, it has developed alternative versions with themes like Fortnite and League of Legends, but the main game has not lost its appeal. Each day, players must guess a different five-letter word with no more than six tries, but there are no clues except the letters themselves, changing colors after each correct guess./post/heroic-win-esl-pro-league-13-off-clutch-by-cadian/Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/heroic-win-esl-pro-league-13-off-clutch-by-cadian/ More than a month of competition at ESL Pro League Season 13 culminated in one final series between Heroic and Gambit Esports today. Heroic came out on top 3-2, completing their run without any series losses. Not only did Heroic end up winning the entire CS:GO event, but they won it in spectacular fashion, watching as cadiaN won a one-vs-four after knifing Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov, stealing his AWP, and then taking down the remaining three players./post/how-to-get-honor-of-kings-gongsun-li-dlc-in-samurai-shodown/Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-honor-of-kings-gongsun-li-dlc-in-samurai-shodown/ Samurai Shodown is getting a free DLC character in the form of Gongsun Li, a character from popular Chinese MOBA Honor of Kings.  SNK is continuing its trend of odd crossovers by partnering with Tencent Games to bring the mobile game character to SamSho on Aug. 5 as a free download for all versions of the game.  The bunny-themed fighter is another ranged character that will be getting the SamSho treatment and jumping into the fray with a parasol rather than a sword or more traditional weapon./post/drdisrespect-unfollows-youtube-gaming-claims-platform-doesn-t-support-its-streamers/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/drdisrespect-unfollows-youtube-gaming-claims-platform-doesn-t-support-its-streamers/ Popular YouTube streamer has DrDisrespect called out his current platform, YouTube Gaming. The former Streamer of the Year stated he has recently unfollowed the platform’s social media pages due to a supposed “lack of support” for streamers. The two-time made his YouTube streaming debut back in Aug. 2020 after being (quite mysteriously) banned from Twitch and has since had no problem sharing his gripes with the platform. In a previous tweet on Mar./post/xtqzzz-to-miss-iem-katowice-playoffs-due-to-covid-19/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xtqzzz-to-miss-iem-katowice-playoffs-due-to-covid-19/ G2’s CS:GO head coach Rémy “XTQZZZ” Quoniam has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not be behind his players at the IEM Katowice playoffs as a result. The French skipper developed symptoms and is now in isolation. ESL allowed players and coaches to play for a separate hotel room during the Play-In and group stage, but this can’t happen during the playoffs because it’ll be played at the Spodek Arena in front of a live audience./post/how-to-fix-call-of-duty-mobile-app-not-opening-or-crashing/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-call-of-duty-mobile-app-not-opening-or-crashing/ Whenever a patch rolls out for a mobile game, it goes through immense quality assurance and bug fixing stages. Considering the number of unique devices globally, however, new bugs can arise when a patch goes live for all the players. While some bugs can cause minor annoyances, others can prevent the Call of Duty Mobile app from opening by crashes or black screens. If you can’t seem to launch CoD: Mobile, there are a few troubleshooting methods to try out./post/how-to-unlock-the-pod-602-mount-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-pod-602-mount-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ There’s plenty of content coming to Final Fantasy XIV with Patch 6.1, and some will surely be thrilled to see the new cosmetic items that are joining the game. The Pod mount is one of them. When it was revealed in the latest Letter from the Producer, it instantly garnered the attention of fans. This mount is inspired by NieR: Automata, which features a crossover questline in FFXIV. It’s pretty unique in the game, since it’s among the few to offer a way to hang on it rather than mounting./post/second-wave-of-spirit-blossom-skins-arrives-on-league-s-live-servers-with-patch-10-16/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/second-wave-of-spirit-blossom-skins-arrives-on-league-s-live-servers-with-patch-10-16/ If you thought the Spirit Blossom event was over, think again. Riot is releasing League of Legends’ second wave of Spirit Blossom skins this week alongside the release of Patch 10.16. Fans will finally be able to purchase Spirit Blossom skins for Cassiopeia, Riven, Kindred, Ahri, and Yone—League’s newest champion and Yasuo’s long-lost brother—on Aug. 6. These champions have each had their own chance to shine in the Spirit Blossom event’s narrative experience, Spirit Bonds, but the skins weren’t available for purchase following the event’s start last month./post/riot-on-project-l-beta-release-please-do-not-expect-a-beta-public-or-private-any-time-soon-and-definitely-not-this-year/Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-on-project-l-beta-release-please-do-not-expect-a-beta-public-or-private-any-time-soon-and-definitely-not-this-year/ If you’re a League of Legends fan, fighting game fan, or both, we have some bad news for you. Riot Games’ Tom Cannon confirmed today that there will be no beta releasing for Project L this year. Riot’s highly anticipated fighting game based in the world of Runeterra is apparently “on track” to deliver a great product with “many core systems in place,” but there isn’t enough to warrant a beta testing period just yet./post/cloak-is-leaving-faze-clan/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloak-is-leaving-faze-clan/ Longtime FaZe Clan player Dennis “Cloakzy” Lepore will be departing from the team shortly, the organization announced today. The announcement said that the organization and Cloakzy “are in agreement to work towards his future departure” from FaZe. In a more formal arrangement than his duo partner, it seems that Cloakzy is choosing to gracefully leave the team. The news comes just a month after Turner “Tfue” Tenney, Cloak’s Fortnite teammate and former FaZe partner, filed a lawsuit against the organization as a means of escaping his contract./post/how-to-complete-otw-hwang-hee-chan-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-otw-hwang-hee-chan-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a Ones to Watch (OTW) version of Hwang Hee-chan from RB Leipzig on Sunday, Oct. 11. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. This is the first special card Hwang has received in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. The OTW promo gives special cards to players who transferred to another club for the 2020-21 soccer season. Hwang moved from RB Salzburg to RB Leipzig in July./post/what-is-accolade-xp-and-how-to-earn-it-in-fortnite/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-accolade-xp-and-how-to-earn-it-in-fortnite/ Players need a certain amount of XP to level up and gain Battle Stars to unlock all the cosmetics in the Fortnite battle pass. During Chapter three, season two, players needed 75,000 XP to level up, but the amount was bumped to 80,000 XP in chapter three, season three. The change may look small, but it made it hard for players that don’t frequently play to max out their battle pass./post/all-the-npc-and-character-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-the-npc-and-character-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one/ Epic Games added lots of new content to Fortnite throughout the second chapter. NPCs were one of the most notable additions to the game since they brought more versatility to the gameplay. Scattered all around the map, these NPCs can give players additional challenges that players can complete throughout a match for additional rewards. Some of them can also guard Mythic or Exotic weapons. While some NPCs can be considered as fillers, some became staples of certain looting routes./post/valorant-player-sits-atop-cell-tower-to-get-better-ping/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-sits-atop-cell-tower-to-get-better-ping/ One VALORANT fan took the phrase ‘ping diff’ to another level by booting up VALORANT from the top of a cell tower.  A TikTok video surfaced on the VALORANT subreddit, showcasing someone going to the top of a cell tower and sitting on the main screen for VALORANT with the caption “POV: you are sick of bad internet at home”.  not me but found this camper on internet from VALORANT Posted by Reddit user Infamous-Ad6981, the video starts with a close-up of a gaming laptop screen, and features the unknown player getting ready to queue up for a match of competitive VALORANT./post/pubg-mobile-club-open-fall-split-2021-pushed-back-a-week/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-mobile-club-open-fall-split-2021-pushed-back-a-week/ The PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) Fall Split 2021 has been postponed by a week, Tencent announced yesterday. The reason behind this wasn’t revealed. Registration for the PMCO will now be open until July 18. Players who are ranked Platinum or above can form teams to register for the competition through the official website. The qualifiers have also been pushed back a week, taking place from July 26 to Aug. 1./post/how-to-claim-the-lost-ark-launch-celebration-gift/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-claim-the-lost-ark-launch-celebration-gift/ It’s been one hell of a launch week for Lost Ark, with the action-based MMORPG rocketing to the top of the charts on both Twitch and Steam. Since launch, it’s been averaging over one million concurrent players and peaked at 1.324 million. It’s also consistently placed in the top five of Twitch viewership thanks in part to its partnered drops program. With all this success, the teams at Smilegate RPG and Amazon are giving back to their players with a Launch Celebration Gift, while also giving Lost Ark founders some bonus items and rewarding players on the Galatur server who’ve been dealing with some serious issues./post/tsm-to-field-full-academy-roster-during-2022-lcs-lock-in-tournament/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tsm-to-field-full-academy-roster-during-2022-lcs-lock-in-tournament/ TSM will use its Academy League of Legends team during this year’s LCS Lock In tournament, the organization announced today.  TSM cited issues surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and how the virus has prevented the team from practicing together on a consistent basis. Additionally, travel restrictions have made it difficult for the team’s offseason pickups of Keaiduo and Shenyi to arrive in Los Angeles prior to the start of the LCS Lock In tournament./post/geometry-dash-streamer-z01nk-becomes-second-player-to-beat-slaughterhouse-level/Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/geometry-dash-streamer-z01nk-becomes-second-player-to-beat-slaughterhouse-level/ Twitch streamer and prolific Geometry Dash player GD_Z01nk achieved the most difficult feat in the game during an April 11 stream, defeating the Slaughterhouse level. Z01nk is among the most dedicated Geometry Dash streamers on Twitch. Beginning his stream in August 2020, Z01nk has only ever played the rhymical runner game, which accounts for 100 percent of his total stream time, according to Twitch Tracker. The streamer’s conviction for Geometry Dash can be seen through his recent efforts to push through Slaughterhouse, notoriously the hardest level in the game./post/new-world-patch-1-1-1-will-remedy-several-issues-from-november-s-update/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-world-patch-1-1-1-will-remedy-several-issues-from-november-s-update/ New World is set to roll out a new update later today, and while Patch 1.1.1 won’t contain any new additions, it will remedy problems that arose after November’s major update. Within this update are changes that will make some items harder to come upon as was initially intended in the planning of the game, fix changes to horticulture gear, optimize crafting, and a handful of bug fixes. This week’s update is focused on resolving some of the issues that have arisen from our November Update./post/arctic-drops-its-first-white-a-rgb-case-fan/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/arctic-drops-its-first-white-a-rgb-case-fan/ Arctic’s minimalist approved 120mm P12 PWM PST case fans received an A-RGB update to liven them up in April. But now, the company is taking its tried-and-true design a step further with an icy finish to match all-white PC builds. See on Amazon While Arctic’s fans aren’t always the flashiest of the 120mm bunch, they sit between the drab yet high-performing Noctua lineup and the boisterous but standard performance of Corsair’s fans./post/how-to-evolve-tyrogue-into-hitmonlee-hitmonchan-or-hitmontop-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-evolve-tyrogue-into-hitmonlee-hitmonchan-or-hitmontop-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Sword and Shield feature a wide cast of Pokémon with many species returning from previous generations. One of these species is Tyrogue, a pink Fighting-type Pokémon infamous for its forked evolution path. Tyrogue evolves only once but can evolve into three different Pokémon depending on its stats: Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, or Hitmontop. This method isn’t always clear-cut, however, and may require some special training outside of the basic leveling process. Where to find Tyrogue Before players can evolve Tyrogue, they must first catch or receive the Pokémon in a trade./post/how-do-you-fix-overwatch-2-beta-not-showing-up-in-battle-net/Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-do-you-fix-overwatch-2-beta-not-showing-up-in-battle-net/ The long-awaited Overwatch 2 beta has finally become available to the public. If players watched approved Overwatch streamers for four hours on Twitch yesterday, they unlocked access to the beta. But many people are having trouble getting the beta to register on their PCs. Luckily, there are a few things players can try to get the Overwatch 2 beta to register on their Battle.net account. First, you should make sure that your Twitch account is connected to your Battle./post/ea-introduces-the-bundesliga-tots-to-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-introduces-the-bundesliga-tots-to-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added the Bundelisga Team of the Season (TOTS) to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team today. The team has 15 players in total. The highest-rated players include 98-rated Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich, 96-rated Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund, 96-rated Joshua Kimmich from Bayern Munich, and 95-rated Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund. You voted ✔ Now Germany’s very best are here 💪🇩🇪 Here is your #FIFA21 @Bundesliga_EN Team of the Season 🔥/post/how-to-fix-personal-settings-1-error-in-fifa-22/Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-personal-settings-1-error-in-fifa-22/ The Career mode may not be the most popular choice of FIFA 22 players, but there are still a decent number of players that frequently play the game mode. A recent glitch called the Personal Settings 1 error has been preventing players from getting into the game mode or saving their progress, however. Considering the error makes it sound like there was a data loss, it may scare the players when they first see it./post/how-to-fix-van-1067-error-code-in-valorant/Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-van-1067-error-code-in-valorant/ More users are upgrading to Windows 11 on their gaming PCs, and the transition may not always be that smooth. VALORANT players upgrading to Windows 11 might experience the VAN 1067 error code as they try launching the game, preventing them from logging in. See Valorant on Amazon The error may look server-related at first, but it appears due to an internal inconsistency caused by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0. Players who receive this error usually have TPM 2./post/jinx-and-sivir-buffs-are-on-the-way-but-ezreal-s-might-not-be-for-a-few-months/Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/jinx-and-sivir-buffs-are-on-the-way-but-ezreal-s-might-not-be-for-a-few-months/ Sivir, Jinx, and Ezreal have been watching from the stands as the ADC meta in League of Legends has widened to include almost every other marksman in the game, leaving them feeling like proper outcasts. Don’t worry, you three, because your time in the spotlight may soon be here. Buffs to the trio have arrived on the PBE, and for the most part they’re significant enough to add some pick priority./post/is-ahsoka-tano-in-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-ahsoka-tano-in-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga/ In Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, players can enjoy the iconic adventures of the nine main movies in the Star Wars franchise. The main story unlocks several popular characters to use as you please, and exploring the world and completing side quests also unlocks dozens of other characters from the Star Wars universe. While you’ll likely be content with the current characters available, some notable characters are missing from The Skywalker Saga, including Ahsoka Tano./post/the-pokemon-company-reveals-xerneas-and-m-rayquaza-ex-from-25th-anniversary-collection/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-pokemon-company-reveals-xerneas-and-m-rayquaza-ex-from-25th-anniversary-collection/ As has been tradition lately, Friday bought with it the reveal of two more cards from the upcoming Pokémon OCG 25th Anniversary Collection Two more legendary Pokémon were revealed, with The Pokémon Company announcing Xerneas and M Rayquzaz EX, both a part of the upcoming October set. Xerneas will be available via the collection’s regular booster packs and is a regular card marked with the 25th Anniversary branding. If you’re after M Rayquaza EX, you’ll need to purchase a few of the regular 25th Anniversary booster packs to earn yourself a promotional pack./post/how-to-unlock-the-zrg-20mm-sniper-rifle-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-zrg-20mm-sniper-rifle-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ A new sniper rifle has entered the fray in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. On April 7, Treyarch added the ZRG 20mm sniper rifle to the game’s ever-growing roster of weapons, granting players the chance to unlock it via an in-game challenge or by buying a bundle that includes it in a blueprint. “Bolt-action sniper rifle,” the ZRG’s in-game description reads. “Faster bullet velocity with a slower fire rate./post/call-of-duty-league-2022-power-rankings-pre-major-one/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-league-2022-power-rankings-pre-major-one/ We’re only roughly one month into the 2022 Call of Duty League season, but the top teams are starting to separate themselves from the pack. The Atlanta FaZe are looking dominant in their CDL Championship title defense while the Los Angeles Thieves and London Royal Ravens are right on their heels in the standings.  All 12 of the teams in the CDL have played five online series so far in the 2022 regular season and those matchups have given us some insight into the pecking order that could be seen the rest of the year./post/how-to-get-throne-world-weapons-in-destiny-2/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-throne-world-weapons-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion brought players to Savathûn’s Throne World, the latest destination in the franchise. Like every other location, the Throne World has its own set of gear, which drops from specific activities in the area and from some quests. From the Forensic Nightmare Stasis submachine gun to the Red Herring rocket launcher, these drops come with new perks and rare combinations, making them good additions to your arsenal./post/youtube-gaming-adds-theatre-mode-for-mobile-member-milestone-chat/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/youtube-gaming-adds-theatre-mode-for-mobile-member-milestone-chat/ YouTube Gaming has acquired some huge names in the streaming space lately, and the momentum continues with the platform introducing a pair of features fans have been eagerly awaiting. YouTube Gaming head Ryan “Fwiz” Wyatt shared today that Theatre Mode for mobile users will now allow both chat and gameplay to be present at the same time. Wyatt also announced the addition of Member Milestone chat. We have launched Theatre Mode chat on mobile – allowing for seamless picture and chat separately./post/ludwig-breaks-ninja-s-record-for-most-all-time-twitch-subscribers/Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ludwig-breaks-ninja-s-record-for-most-all-time-twitch-subscribers/ After 31 days, Ludwig has broken Ninja’s record for the most Twitch subscribers of all time, surpassing 271,000 subscribers on the final day of his subathon.  Ninja’s record was set at 269,154 subscribers in April 2018 while he streamed with Drake, Travis Scott, and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster. I WAS HERE pic.twitter.com/bWILDI3Hui — ludwig (@LudwigAhgren) April 13, 2021 Ludwig began his subathon with a 30-minute timer on March 14, growing his subscriber count to 100,000 in just five days while every sub added an additional 10 seconds to the stream timer./post/all-dragonspiral-descent-event-exclusive-field-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-dragonspiral-descent-event-exclusive-field-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Venturing into the Dragonspiral Tower was a key part of the journey for players who played Pokémon Black and White, and now a similar event is taking place in Pokémon Go.  See Pokémon on Amazon The Dragonspiral Descent event is bringing some of that experience to Pokémon Go, with the return of Reshiram and Zekrom to five-star raids, Druddigon making its debut, and more from Dec. 7 to 12 as part of the Season of Heritage./post/apex-s-new-chaos-theory-collection-event-includes-ring-fury-mode-and-caustic-town-takeover/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-s-new-chaos-theory-collection-event-includes-ring-fury-mode-and-caustic-town-takeover/ A new monocle-wearing sheriff’s coming to town. Respawn unveiled the Chaos Theory Collection Event today, which will include a slew of new Apex Legends content. Among the additions will be the Ring Fury mode and a Caustic Town Takeover that replaces Kings Canyon’s Water Treatment. Apex‘s new limited-time mode introduces Ring Flares, which randomly appear on the map within the current ring. These flares slowly expand and deal ring damage to any ill-fated players who are caught in their path./post/how-to-breed-villagers-in-minecraft/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-breed-villagers-in-minecraft/ Minecraft is a game that provides you with endless possibilities. You can rush to defeat the Ender Dragon, build a fancy house, or farm resources. There’s not much Minecraft doesn’t let you do. We’ll be focusing on breeding for this guide, but not the usual Cow or Pig breeding most players initially think of. Villager babies are what we’re after. To begin breeding the funny-looking citizens of Minecraft, you’ll first have to find a Village of them, which is easier said than done./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-teases-addition-of-gen-7-pok%C3%A9mon-like-litten-rowlet-and-popplio-during-5th-anniversary-celebrations/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-teases-addition-of-gen-7-pok%C3%A9mon-like-litten-rowlet-and-popplio-during-5th-anniversary-celebrations/ Pokémon Go is five years old today and Niantic is celebrating in style. On top of releasing a gorgeous new piece of art to celebrate its anniversary and hype up trainers for the upcoming Pokémon Go Fest on July 17, Niantic has snuck in a few new surprises as always to get people ready for the next year and beyond. Thank you to every single Trainer who joined us in exploring the world in search of Pokémon!/post/the-7-best-rgb-cpu-coolers/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-7-best-rgb-cpu-coolers/ You need a good CPU cooler if you want your PC to run at its best. The CPU is your PC’s brain and gets hot when dealing with intensive tasks like running games for hours at a time. The best CPU coolers make sure it stays cool and delivers optimal performance. If your CPU is cool, it will also have a longer lifespan, and you can save money in the long-run./post/100-thieves-parts-ways-with-league-of-legends-head-coach-pr0lly/Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/100-thieves-parts-ways-with-league-of-legends-head-coach-pr0lly/ After an incredibly disappointing year, 100 Thieves has decided to move on from its League of Legends head coach, Neil “pr0lly” Hammad. The 29-year old coach spent two years with the organization after getting picked up from the LEC. Pr0lly was signed as 100 Thieves’ coach in 2018 when the team joined the LCS ahead of that year’s Spring Split. Their roster was led by All-Star top laner Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and they were strong enough to place first in their debut split in the league—but they lost to Team Liquid in the playoff finals./post/how-to-change-a-screen-name-in-splitgate/Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-a-screen-name-in-splitgate/ Splitgate has been around for a while, although under a different name. It used to go by Splitgate: Arena Warfare, but it was recently revamped and it’s now taking off and becoming one of the most played games on Steam. The game combines mechanics from Valve’s Portal and a lot of the look and feel of the Halo franchise. The game is available on Steam and many players who use the platform are finding that their name is taken straight from the Steam client./post/jason-spisak-silco-s-voice-actor-jinx-is-the-perfect-embodiment-of-what-zaun-is-to-silco/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/jason-spisak-silco-s-voice-actor-jinx-is-the-perfect-embodiment-of-what-zaun-is-to-silco/ Despite not having a playable counterpart in League of Legends or being a part of the previously standing lore, Silco has become one of the most memorable characters from Arcane. Riot Games’ animated series sent shock waves around the world, becoming one of the most-viewed shows in countless countries. Jason Spisak gave his insights into the motivations and relationships of the Zaunite industrialist in an interview with Upcomer, going into detail about the character’s gray areas—from the near paternalistic treatment with Jinx to his less-than-legal dealings in Zaun./post/halo-infinite-bazaar-map-guide/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-bazaar-map-guide/ Bazaar is a unique map in Halo Infinite. The center of the map is a wide-open area with multiple elevated positions. Ranked players will experience this map in Capture the Flag and Slayer and will soon learn how difficult it can be to control the center of the map and successfully grab the enemy flag. Slayer also takes place on this map in the ranked playlist, so learning the weapon and equipment spawns is essential to winning in this mode./post/here-are-the-fortnite-chapter-2-season-2-map-changes/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-fortnite-chapter-2-season-2-map-changes/ Fortnite’s latest update has brought more than its fair share of cosmetics to the game. But for those players who care less about their wardrobe, there’s also a host of changes to the map. There are new points of interest for players to explore, too. There’s always tons of Easter eggs and interesting tidbits for players to explore and find, so be sure to check them out. Related: All Fortnite Chapter 2, season 2 leaked skins/post/how-to-get-shiny-mew-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-shiny-mew-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Shiny Mew is appearing for the first time in Pokémon Go during the Go Tour: Kanto event, but it won’t just be popping up in the wild.  In order to encounter the special Psychic-type, you will need to earn it by completing some of the event’s special research. Specifically, you will need to complete all our pages of the “All-in-One 151” Masterwork Research to get a Shiny Mew. But as a bonus, the encounter is static, meaning you will always encounter Shiny Mew when you finish the tasks, nothing is up to chance./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-linux-proton-on-the-steam-deck/Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-linux-proton-on-the-steam-deck/ The Steam Deck is Valve’s venture into portable gaming. In terms of hardware, the Steam Deck is nothing but impressive. But more importantly, the system has everything a portable gaming device needs, including a 7-inch touchscreen, dual thumbsticks, and a trackpad. While the Steam Deck may look like its mobile gaming counterparts, it performs nothing like them.  What is Steam Proton? What makes the Steam Deck unique is its software. The Steam Deck runs on a Linux-based software called Steam Proton./post/iitztimmy-s-keybinds-crosshair-and-mouse-sensitivity-in-valorant/Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/iitztimmy-s-keybinds-crosshair-and-mouse-sensitivity-in-valorant/ Unless you’re embracing VALORANT’s casual side, you’ll naturally want to climb up the game’s ranked ladder. If you don’t agree with the rank you were given after playing your calibration matches, you may be wondering how you can win more games. Though VALORANT is a team game, you’ll only have control over your own in-game performance. Improving your gameplay will be the key to winning more matches, and you can start the whole process by optimizing your settings first./post/admirable-steps-down-from-casting-hearthstone-grandmasters-following-hong-kong-controversy/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/admirable-steps-down-from-casting-hearthstone-grandmasters-following-hong-kong-controversy/ A popular Hearthstone caster says Blizzard failed to uphold one of its eight core values⁠—“Every Voice Matters⁠”—when it banned Hearthstone pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai for voicing support for the Hong Kong protests during a post-game interview. And he’s stepping down as a result. Nathan “Admirable” Zamora informed fans on Twitter yesterday that he will no longer be casting Hearthstone’s Grandmasters, as well as the Masters Tour in Bucharest or BlizzCon, in support of the suspended player./post/clg-dominate-immortals-in-their-first-game-of-lcs-lock-in/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clg-dominate-immortals-in-their-first-game-of-lcs-lock-in/ Counter-Logic Gaming dismantled Immortals’ League of Legends squad with a blazing 24-minute victory on the second day of LCS Lock In today. The draft for CLG was set up for rising star Luger to carry the later stages of the game as Jinx, with his support Poome playing Lulu to aid that win condition. And right from the beginning, CLG’s bot lane continued their dominance from 100 Thieves Academy, getting an early kill on Immortals’ new AD carry Jason “Wildturtle” Tran./post/someone-figured-out-which-species-of-hamster-overwatch-s-hammond-belongs-to/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/someone-figured-out-which-species-of-hamster-overwatch-s-hammond-belongs-to/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. The internet believes it’s finally cracked one of the biggest mysteries in Overwatch history. What species of hamster is Hammond, a.k.a Wrecking Ball? Thanks to one Reddit user, we may finally have an answer. Though many have assumed Hammond belongs to the largest and most common hamster species, Syrian, Reddit user Skrub55 believes they found evidence that disputes this./post/leona-heidern-cuts-into-the-king-of-fighters-xv-lineup/Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/leona-heidern-cuts-into-the-king-of-fighters-xv-lineup/ As many fans predicted, The SIlent Soldier Leona Heidern is joining the King of Fighters XV roster, bringing her combat-centric personality to the ring.  She was featured in the original announcement trailer for the game, so it was only a matter of time before she was shown cutting away at the competition. Despite this, she is technically the 20th fighter joining the game’s roster.  Leona is an explosive and direct fighter that mixes fast motions with her claw-like form, which allows her to optimize her slashing-style that pairs well with her acrobatic movements./post/griffin-s-unraveling-and-the-end-of-an-era-for-pro-league-of-legends/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/griffin-s-unraveling-and-the-end-of-an-era-for-pro-league-of-legends/ As members of Griffin surrounded Lee “Tarzan” Seung-yong, the 20-year-old jungler struggled to hold back tears. The past two days of the League Champions Korea Promotion Tournament had been some of the lowest for the South Korean team. Few seemed to feel it as hard as Tarzan, one the team’s first veteran players. As he packed up his backpack to head off stage, it looked as if Tarzan realized it was over./post/major-zeri-nerfs-coming-to-league-of-legends-in-patch-12-6/Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/major-zeri-nerfs-coming-to-league-of-legends-in-patch-12-6/ Riot August revealed that League’s newest champion, Zeri, is set to receive major nerfs to make her abilities and gameplay feel “fair.” Since her release, Zeri has become a menace both in competitive League and ranked solo queue. On the ranked ladder, Zeri’s win rate progressively goes up the higher rank she is played in, to which her win rate jumps from 51 percent in Silver to nearly 54 percent in higher ELO./post/new-lyrilusc-cards-revealed-for-legendary-duelists-synchro-storm-includes-spell-and-trap-support/Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-lyrilusc-cards-revealed-for-legendary-duelists-synchro-storm-includes-spell-and-trap-support/ Some additional details for the upcoming Legendary Duelists: Synchro Storm have been revealed, showcasing a few of the Lyrilusc cards that will debut with it.  Lyrilusc is an archetype that uses level one Monsters to bring out other level one monsters, typically involving the use of Link, Xyz, or other Extra Deck cards.  In the current meta, you will typically see Lyrilusc cards included in the famous “Bird Up!” decks that build around the Winged Beasts and the Tri-Brigade archetype./post/what-do-secret-base-statues-do-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-do-secret-base-statues-do-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Secret Bases in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are more than empty rooms where you can hide out for a while. Players can’t simply walk into these Secret Bases, however: creating a Secret Base requires a Digger Drill. If you’ve already made your way to a Secret Base, chances are you may already have a few Statues in your inventory. Secret Bases let players place Statues on them and give several bonuses./post/singleton-deck-guide-for-mtg-arena/Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/singleton-deck-guide-for-mtg-arena/ With each new expansion, Magic: The Gathering continues to evolve beyond what most anticipated. But it’s easy to get stuck in a rut and bored with the game when you keep going up against the same type of decks. This is where Singleton decks come in, shaking up gameplay in MTG Arena. A Singleton deck can only have one copy of a card, not including basic lands, unlike other formats where decks can have up to four copies of a card./post/these-are-the-best-sniper-rifles-in-fortnite-battle-royale/Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/these-are-the-best-sniper-rifles-in-fortnite-battle-royale/ There are less than 10 people left alive. The storm is closing in. Towers are sprouting up all over the safe zone like hairs on a scared cat. Buddy, it’s time to snipe. Fortnite: Battle Royale has a ton of weapons to choose from when going for a victory royale, but sometimes, you’ll need to keep your distance and take enemies down from afar. That’s where sniper rifles come in./post/complexity-limit-partners-with-douyu-for-chinese-media-rights-of-wow-race-to-world-first/Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/complexity-limit-partners-with-douyu-for-chinese-media-rights-of-wow-race-to-world-first/ Reigning World of Warcraft raid Race to World First winner Complexity-Limit is expanding its media rights to include a Chinese partner, DouYu, the organization announced today. Complexity-Limit is already partnered with Twitch through a pre-existing deal that the guild’s umbrella organization Complexity has. But with Twitch not available in China, teaming with DouYu adds another level of monetization to the org’s RWF efforts. We are pleased to announce our partnership with DouYu for the #LimitRWF event!/post/former-overwatch-contenders-gauntlet-champions-element-mystic-officially-go-on-hiatus-for-2021/Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-overwatch-contenders-gauntlet-champions-element-mystic-officially-go-on-hiatus-for-2021/ One of the most popular and successful Overwatch Contenders organizations, Element Mystic, is officially going on a one-year hiatus, the team announced today.  The former Contenders Gauntlet champions will be taking 2021 off from competing across all of its esports rosters, including Overwatch, League of Legends, and PUBG.  [Farewell, ELEMENT MYSTIC] pic.twitter.com/u6Op4F6hwE — ELEMENT MYSTIC (@ElementMystic) November 3, 2020 There was no reasoning given for the hiatus, but the organization said it’ll work to return in the future as it takes the next year to prepare./post/how-to-use-the-surprise-trade-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-use-the-surprise-trade-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ The GTS may be gone, but Wonder Trade is still around under a new name.  Pokémon Sword and Shield removed a number of staples from the Pokémon franchise. The Global Trade System that enabled trainers to trade all over the world was part of the cut. But the popular, Caterpie-ridden Wonder Trade lived to see this generation with a new name. The Surprise Trade found in the Y-Comm system is Pokémon Sword and Shield’s version of the Wonder Trade./post/tarik-leaves-cloud9/Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tarik-leaves-cloud9/ Cloud9’s king of content is officially parting ways with the organization. The North American organization announced earlier today that its beloved in-game leader, Tarik Celik, is leaving the Major-winning team. It’s rumored that he’ll be transitioning to MIBR to reunite with former C9 teammate Jake “Stewie2k” Yip and to complete the former SK Gaming roster that was the most decorated team in 2017. Related: Report: Cloud9 eyes Golden as a replacement for Tarik/post/vct-masters-berlin-format-explained/Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/vct-masters-berlin-format-explained/ Riot had to seriously rethink the format for VCT Masters Berlin and make some last-minute changes to VALORANT’s next international event. The 16-team tournament, that’s due to take place from Sept. 10 to 19 in the German capital, was originally comprised of a group stage followed by a four-team elimination bracket. But based on player and fan feedback, Riot made the decision on Aug. 21—just hours after the announcement—to pivot to a more familiar eight-team single-elimination bracket and remove the final match of the group stage./post/here-are-all-the-battle-pass-rewards-for-valorant-episode-4-act-3/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-battle-pass-rewards-for-valorant-episode-4-act-3/ Unlike the last Act, Episode Four, Act Three will feature a battle pass chocked full of goodies alongside Fade, the next agent to hit the VALORANT universe.  See Valorant on Amazon The VALORANT Episode Four, Act Three battle pass has “multiple weapon skins” to appeal to a “wide variety of players,” according to Riot Games associate producer Laura Baltzer. These skins are accompanied by some of the top memes from the community being immortalized in gun buddies, sprays, and player cards./post/how-to-get-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2022-exclusive-items-poses-and-more/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2022-exclusive-items-poses-and-more/ Pokémon Go Fest 2022 gives players a chance to catch a bunch of rarer Pokémon that are hard to find outside of events. It also gives players a several rewards and some in-game items that they can get for free, or purchase from the in-game shop. For players looking to customize their in-game avatars with some new cosmetics, here are all the avatar items exclusive to Pokémon Go Fest 2022./post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-11-18/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-11-18/ Riot is gearing up for the 2021 League of Legends World Championship with its latest patch. Patch 11.18 is the “first of two Worlds-focused patches” coming to the game in the next month, according to Riot. Every year, to “unleash competition” and “breathe new life into the meta,” the devs release a set of nerfs and buffs catered to pro play. Almost everything listed below has Worlds in mind, but the devs are “willing” to revert any balance changes if absolutely necessary./post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-lmg-tier-list/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-lmg-tier-list/ Light machine guns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare are heavy, loud, and dangerous. This weapon class is sadly slept on due to its weight slowing players down in a game primarily dominated by run-and-gun play, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t viable. This tier list should give you a better idea of which gun is worth spending your time mastering. Although these weapons aren’t the strongest pick in every game mode, they do excel particularly in Ground War./post/the-importance-of-mana-curve-in-arena/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-importance-of-mana-curve-in-arena/ Hi all, Today, I’m doing my first arena guide, and it’s on an often overlooked aspect of arena – the deck’s Mana Curve. First, we need to understand what mana curve is. What is the mana curve? The mana curve refers to the distribution of cards in a deck in relation to mana cost. To put it in smaller, more specific terms, how many 2 drops you have compared to 4s. You can look at your mana curve while you pick your arena deck on the bottom of the draft screen./post/wardstone-staff-of-flowing-water-set-to-receive-buffs-in-league-patch-11-11/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wardstone-staff-of-flowing-water-set-to-receive-buffs-in-league-patch-11-11/ League of Legends’ gameplay design director Mark “Scruffy” Yetter has briefly previewed some of the changes coming to the game in Patch 11.11. Seven different items are set to be buffed in the patch, with notable changes coming to items such as Wardstone, Staff of Flowing Water, and Serpent’s Fang. Patch Preview 11.11 here! Still work in progress so there may be a few changes to what you see here. Expect more details tomorrow./post/when-does-ash-release-in-brawl-stars/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-ash-release-in-brawl-stars/ Have you ever wondered how fairy tale universes can be so perfectly clean? The Trash Knight Ash, an upcoming character on Brawl Stars, might be one of the main reasons. Supercell revealed the Brawler in its latest Brawl Talk on Aug. 22, which has amassed over 10 million views since its release. Ash is a Chromatic Brawler who will be available through the season eight’s Brawl Pass. Armed with a shovel and a shield, he can hit opponents from mid-range and protect his allies./post/100-thieves-sweep-envy-in-vct-stage-3-challengers-one-main-event/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/100-thieves-sweep-envy-in-vct-stage-3-challengers-one-main-event/ 100 Thieves has secured its spot in the VALORANT Champions Tour Stage Three Challengers One upper finals with a 2-0 victory against Envy.  100T started strong in the main event with a 2-0 win against Version1, one of the two teams that made it to Masters Two Reykjavik. Envy also started the event with a 2-0 victory against the Kansas City Pioneers, who is one of the dark horses in the tournament but has still beaten notable teams./post/how-many-people-play-of-legends-of-runeterra/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-many-people-play-of-legends-of-runeterra/ Riot Games came out of its shell in 2020 and pumped out quality titles into the gaming world. With its sights on the shooter and card game genre, the developer released two titles that quickly became hits. Compared to VALORANT, Legends of Runeterra was born into a less competitive genre and its only real competition was Hearthstone. Considering how long Hearthstone has been around, it has a stable player base. LoR’s biggest strength was how free-to-play friendly it was and its connection to League’s intriguing lore./post/leblanc-player-wins-league-game-with-ankle-breaking-backdoor/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/leblanc-player-wins-league-game-with-ankle-breaking-backdoor/ One LeBlanc player channeled their inner Allen Iverson to pull off one of the most improbable backdoors, winning the League of Legends game with barely any HP left after breaking the ankles of Lee Sin. The clip posted by u/Gonffs begins with LeBlanc’s teammate Graves shutting down the enemy Jinx offscreen. Simultaneously, LeBlanc runs through the bottom lane while taking tower shots from the existing bottom lane turret before pathing toward the Nexus./post/call-of-duty-vanguard-gets-first-post-launch-update-dedicated-trello-board/Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-vanguard-gets-first-post-launch-update-dedicated-trello-board/ Call of Duty: Vanguard’s first post-launch update is now live and Sledgehammer Games has launched a dedicated Trello board for the game alongside it. The update, version 1.005 on PS5, features a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. Fixes include progression problems for the 1911 pistol, pistol challenges for camos in Zombies, and Combat Shields will now protect players’ backs when stowed. 🔨An update has been deployed in #Vanguard!/post/ranked-play-disabled-for-league-tft-due-to-connectivity-issues-in-north-america/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ranked-play-disabled-for-league-tft-due-to-connectivity-issues-in-north-america/ If you’re having trouble getting into a Ranked game of League of Legends or Teamfight Tactics, there’s a good reason. Riot Games has disabled the competitive game mode for both games in North America due to “game disconnection issues,” according to its status website. The developer said it is “aware of a problem causing players to disconnect from their games,” which prompted a temporary pause on all ranked queues. Riot posted the warning on the website at 4:56pm CT and did not give a timetable for when players should expect to be back climbing the ladder./post/all-halo-infinite-season-2-events-rewards-dates-and-more/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-halo-infinite-season-2-events-rewards-dates-and-more/ Halo Infinite’s second season kicked off on Tuesday, May 3, and now more events are on their way. The ‘Interference’ event was only the beginning since there are two more events on the horizon for Halo Infinite. Each event ships with a set of challenges that spice up the gameplay for players. Completing all the challenges may take a while, but each season lasts long enough to give players a chance to complete all of them and unlock all the rewards./post/what-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-specs-for-counter-strike-global-offensive/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-specs-for-counter-strike-global-offensive/ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released back in 2012 and is one of the most popular esports. The game still averages around 500,000 users a month, with over 20 million players in its lifetime. Part of the game’s popularity comes from being free-to-play. That doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s a highly competitive and challenging game, though. Another factor contributing to CS:GO’s popularity is that it can run on most modern PCs due to its age and low system requirements./post/how-to-complete-the-destroy-snowflake-decorations-14-days-of-fortnite-challenge/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-destroy-snowflake-decorations-14-days-of-fortnite-challenge/ We’re in the home stretch now with the 14 Days of Fortnite challenges as we head into day 12. The latest challenge tasks players with destroying 12 snowflake decorations. Snowflakes can pretty much be found everywhere across the map dangling from windows of stores, houses, and other buildings. They can also be found attached to walls or dangling from other structures like lamp posts. You’ll want to go to the more popular areas to try and find some, but be aware of other players who will either be hunting you down or hunting down the snowflakes that you’re also after./post/funplus-phoenix-parts-ways-with-tian/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/funplus-phoenix-parts-ways-with-tian/ A day after letting go of star top laner Jang “Nuguri” Ha-gwon, FunPlus Phoenix has made the decision to part ways with jungler Gao “Tian” Tian-Liang. A mainstay on the LPL roster and a key part of the League of Legends team’s success over the past three years, Tian helped FPX and China achieve international recognization at Worlds 2019. Beating Europe’s G2 Esports in the finals in Paris and earning MVP of the series, Tian was depicted a year later in the Worlds 2020 anthem “Take Over” as Lee Sin, fighting atop of a mountain./post/how-to-get-rogier-s-rapier-in-elden-ring/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-rogier-s-rapier-in-elden-ring/ With so many new players and build types coming into Elden Ring, many are wondering what some of the best options are overall, as well as what to start with early on.  Those looking to create a Dexterity build have a lot of options when it comes to the weapons they’ll look to use. One of the more common routes is thrusting weapons, like Rapiers. These weapons are great for creating space and quickly engaging with the target./post/tft-6-5-neon-nights-patch-12-8-full-notes-and-updates/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-6-5-neon-nights-patch-12-8-full-notes-and-updates/ Riot Games is tweaking the Teamfight Tactics Neon Nights meta one last time via Patch 12.8, adjusting a handful of traits and champions.  Scheduled to hit the live servers on April 27, Patch 12.8 is the final TFT update prior to two patches that will contain “for fun” balance changes and adjustments. For players seeking to climb the Set 6.5 ladder before the release of Set Seven, Patch 12.8 intends to create the healthiest meta possible./post/what-are-the-different-types-of-weapons-in-dying-light-2/Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-different-types-of-weapons-in-dying-light-2/ Ensuring your survival in The City will depend on a few different factors. There will always be a next threat that you’ll need to deal with in Dying Light 2, and having the right weapons by your side can be the difference between staying alive and biting the dust. Throughout their Dying Light 2 careers, players will look forward to unlocking more weapons as they’ll continue to get stronger. At the time of writing, there are five different weapon types in the game./post/cypher-player-highlights-wall-bang-setup-on-ascent-s-b-site/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cypher-player-highlights-wall-bang-setup-on-ascent-s-b-site/ A Cypher player discovered an excellent setup for B site on Ascent that can help defend the site and secure a few easy kills.  Using abilities effectively in VALORANT can easily determine the outcome of a match. Players who are unprepared for an enemy push can be overwhelmed and die quickly or be forced to retreat. But setting up a strong defense can help you hold the site or at least buy time for your teammates to rotate./post/new-fighters-pass-2-advertisements-point-to-a-super-smash-bros-ultimate-dlc-reveal-coming-soon/Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-fighters-pass-2-advertisements-point-to-a-super-smash-bros-ultimate-dlc-reveal-coming-soon/ New ads for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass Vol. 2 have been popping up around Japan, which usually signals that a new character announcement will be coming soon.  The ad specifically shows Min-Min, the most recent addition to the Ultimate roster, and says that it will be up until Oct. 4.  Fighter Pass 7 will be announced extremely soon. This ad is up until october 4th Everyone be prepared pic./post/how-to-increase-fps-in-lost-ark/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-increase-fps-in-lost-ark/ Lost Ark features a beautiful art style and an interactive gameplay experience that captured the hearts of many MMO players, but good graphics can come at a cost. Players with outdated parts may experience low frame rates while playing Lost Ark, or players can be looking to push a few more frames and unlock their high-refresh-rate monitor’s full potential. While the maximum number of frames you can have in Lost Ark will heavily depend on your hardware, there are a few ways you can try out to see if you can get some additional frames./post/niantic-has-teased-mega-evolution-being-added-to-pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/niantic-has-teased-mega-evolution-being-added-to-pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league/ Niantic has teased Mega Evolution being added to Pokémon Go Battle League, though no other information has been detailed.  In a short video posted on the game’s social media channels, players get to see Mega Kangaskhan in a typical battle setting, facing down a Blastoise that could Mega Evolve in a full trailer for the reveal.  More Mega Evolution surprises are coming your way… #GOBattle 🥊 pic.twitter.com/G6mn9IE0T4 — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) May 22, 2022 Prior to this, Mega Evolution had only been available to use in raids, Gym battles, PvE battles, or against trainers in non-GBL matches./post/sykkuno-moves-to-youtube-gaming/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sykkuno-moves-to-youtube-gaming/ Fans have been speculating that some sort of an announcement was coming soon from Sykkuno since “Sykkuno Day,” which celebrated the streamer’s three-year anniversary. And now, Sykkuno has revealed that he’s making a switch from Twitch to YouTube Gaming. Sykkuno will stream exclusively on YouTube moving forward. The streaming star shared a short video today to highlight the announcement. In the video, he briefly discussed his streaming journey before revealing that he’s switching platforms./post/asmongold-on-why-wow-fans-aren-t-that-excited-about-dragonflight/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-on-why-wow-fans-aren-t-that-excited-about-dragonflight/ Twitch and MMO streamer Asmongold recently explained why he believes there isn’t much hype around Dragonflight, the next World of Warcraft expansion. Blizzard released the first cinematic trailer for the next World of Warcraft expansion on April 19. The devs have already revealed a lot of content coming to the game in the next expansion, including a new area, a new race class combo, flight system innovations, changes in professions and talents, and more./post/call-of-duty-mobile-season-2-full-patch-notes-and-updates/Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-mobile-season-2-full-patch-notes-and-updates/ The content update for Call of Duty: Mobile’s season two, Task Force 141, has finally dropped. The new update has brought a new map, scorestreak, two weapons, and several balance changes to the game. Season two will officially kick off today at 6pm CT with a new battle pass.  Related: Activision unveils CoD: Mobile Season 2 trailer with battle pass rewards Here are the complete patch notes for CoD: Mobile’s season two update./post/twitch-rivals-fall-guys-fridays-week-one-results/Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-rivals-fall-guys-fridays-week-one-results/ Twitch Rivals is taking the sensation that is Fall Guys and turning it into an esport for the first time this weekend with an influencer-driven tournament for top streamers to duke it out. With 80 total streamers invited, the event today has 20 teams of four that will compete in up to 10 matches of Fall Guys. Each team will get points based on how many players qualify from each team./post/all-stormtrooper-checkpoint-locations-in-fortnite/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-stormtrooper-checkpoint-locations-in-fortnite/ It’s May 4 and the force has made its way to Fortnite. Epic Games added a series of new challenges to the game to celebrate the occasion.  One of these challenges requires players to land at a Stormtrooper Checkpoint and place top 25 in the same match. Though finishing in the top 25 will be relatively easy as long as you stay out of trouble, you’ll need to make sure you land at a Stormtrooper Checkpoint in the beginning to ensure your progress counts./post/here-s-the-mtg-kaldheim-spoiler-schedule/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-the-mtg-kaldheim-spoiler-schedule/ A total of 285 Magic: The Gathering cards within the Kaldheim set will be revealed throughout late December and mid-January.  Scheduled to officially launch on Feb. 5 and digitally on Jan. 28, Kaldheim (KHM) is a Norse mythology-inspired tribal theme set. Tribal themes will include Angels, Dwarves, Giants, Elves, and Shapeshifters. There are a total of 285 MTG cards within KHM, featuring the return of Modal Double-Faced cards and the Changeling mechanic./post/when-is-timthetatman-s-first-stream-on-youtube-gaming/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-timthetatman-s-first-stream-on-youtube-gaming/ TimTheTatman officially announced today he’s leaving Twitch in favor of an exclusive deal to stream on YouTube Gaming—and his first stream will be sooner rather than later. While the news didn’t officially drop until just before 11am CT today, DrLupo, who also recently left Twitch for YouTube, hinted that he’d be playing with Tim soon. During a stream of his own this morning, Lupo said he planned to play with Dr Disrespect, CouRage, and TimTheTatman tomorrow./post/here-are-all-the-new-skins-arriving-in-league-patch-12-11/Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-new-skins-arriving-in-league-patch-12-11/ With Patch 12.11 just around the corner, League of Legends players are waiting to get their hands on all of the new changes coming to the game. As well as lots of champion buffs and nerfs, Bel’Veth, a new champion is making her debut. This means at least one more skin is also coming to the game. But that’s not all, there are plenty more cosmetics to look forward to./post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-vanguard-s-season-1-5-update/Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-vanguard-s-season-1-5-update/ The first major update for Call of Duty: Vanguard in 2022 is just around the corner—and the patch notes are already available. Sledgehammer Games revealed today that the Vanguard season 1.5 update will go live today, Jan. 11, at 6pm CT. The patch is set to feature a plethora of changes, including bug fixes, weapon balancing, and spawn logic adjustments. The #Vanguard Season 1.5 update goes live today at 4 PM PT!/post/how-to-activate-your-new-iphone-13-and-13-pro/Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-activate-your-new-iphone-13-and-13-pro/ If you just got the latest iPhone 13 or 13 Pro, the first thing you will need to do is activate it to get it to work. If you have a previous iPhone, make sure you have disabled the Find My Phone service on it. Some people are reporting that this is what has been causing them issues during the activation process. After doing that, just follow these steps and you should be good to go:/post/halo-infinite-mouse-and-keyboard-vs-controller-which-should-you-use/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-mouse-and-keyboard-vs-controller-which-should-you-use/ Halo Infinite was built with mouse and keyboard support from the offset, leading some Halo fans to wonder whether a controller would still be the most optimal way to play Xbox’s latest exclusive. There’s pros and cons to both controller methods, but which will help you in your competitive Halo Infinite journey to increase your odds of winning? The case for mouse and keyboard in Halo Infinite Mouse and keyboard is the default setup for most PC games./post/when-will-naxxramas-be-released-in-world-of-warcraft-classic/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-naxxramas-be-released-in-world-of-warcraft-classic/ World of Warcraft Classic’s final raid is just around the corner, but there’s still a little bit of time to work on your attunement for Naxxramas before the raid releases at the beginning of December.  While Classic’s final phase, Phase 6, begins on Dec. 1 when Patch 1.13.6 goes live, you’ll have a couple more days before you can step into Naxxramas and attempt to take down the game’s final boss, Kel’Thuzad./post/these-are-the-players-to-watch-at-the-killer-instinct-world-cup/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/these-are-the-players-to-watch-at-the-killer-instinct-world-cup/ This weekend’s Killer Instinct World Cup will serve as the culmination of a year of hard work for the game’s best players. It will also serve as a celebration of the game’s passionate and growing competitive scene. What started as a fan-funded effort to get people to play the game has grown into a two-day event that will feature some of the best Killer Instinct play ever seen. The KI World Cup’s beginnings are as grassroots as can be./post/veteran-owl-player-saebyeolbe-retires/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/veteran-owl-player-saebyeolbe-retires/ Park “Saebyeolbe” Jong-ryeol is retiring from the Overwatch League as a player, according to a statement on social media. The announcement comes right after the Seoul Dynasty revealed it was releasing him from the roster alongside three other players and a coach. In his statement regarding his retirement, he did not elaborate on where he was going next, only that he was “thinking about writing a different story now.” Some are hoping that he switches to the popular Riot Games title VALORANT, while others think that he may return to the OWL as a coach or staff member./post/when-does-arcane-act-2-episode-4-release/Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-arcane-act-2-episode-4-release/ League of Legends fans were teased and tantalized with the first three episodes of Arcane on Nov. 6, the beautifully animated Netflix series that follows the story of orphaned sisters Vi and Powder (AKA Jinx) through the seedy streets of Zaun and the luscious penthouses of Piltover. To build up the suspense, Riot and Netflix made the decision to split Arcane into three separate acts, totaling nine episodes, and over 350 minutes of running time./post/clg-allegedly-tried-to-poach-zionspartan-scarra/Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clg-allegedly-tried-to-poach-zionspartan-scarra/ During the League Championship Series playoffs in Seattle, Wash., Counter Logic Gaming allegedly tried to poach Team Dignitas top laner Darshan “ZionSpartan” Upadhyaya, a source inside Dignitas told the Daily Dot. If true, Counter Logic Gaming violated LCS poaching rules when they approached Upadhyaya in August. The LCS rules set prohibits any “team member or affiliate” from making an employment offer to any player currently signed with an LCS team. It also prohibits them from “encouraging” players to breach or otherwise terminate their contracts with their team./post/espeon-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-on-may-16/Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/espeon-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-on-may-16/ Espeon, a Psychic-type Pokémon from Generation II, will arrive on Pokémon UNITE’s Aeos Island on Monday, May 16 as a Ranged Attacker. This Pokémon is one of Eevee’s final forms and will join Sylveon, another evolution of Eevee, which became a playable character in Pokémon UNITE in October 2021. Espeon is being conceived as an Attacker, which is generally a champion that inflicts a lot of damage from range but has way less HP than Defenders and Supporters./post/riot-outlines-changes-coming-with-ahri-s-refresh-in-league-patch-12-3/Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-outlines-changes-coming-with-ahri-s-refresh-in-league-patch-12-3/ Riot Games is releasing a relatively major “refresh” to Ahri with League of Legends Patch 12.3. This update to Ahri was announced by Riot during the League team’s start-of-season developer update earlier this month. The updates to Ahri will “lean into her mobile mage identity,” according to a Twitter post from August Browning, champion designer at Riot. All four of Ahri’s active abilities, plus her passive, are set to receive changes in Patch 12./post/what-just-happened-to-griffin/Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-just-happened-to-griffin/ For seven weeks, Griffin went undefeated in the 2019 LCK Spring Split. The best team in the world beat all comers, including the SK Telecom T1 superteam, recently promoted juggernauts Damwon and Sandbox, and every other team that threatened them. It was evocative of their run last summer when they beat team after team to prove that they belonged in the top league in Korea. But just like last summer, when the wheels fell off for Griffin, they crashed hard./post/free-fire-vengeance-day-event-rewards-free-master-destroyer-bundle-and-skins/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/free-fire-vengeance-day-event-rewards-free-master-destroyer-bundle-and-skins/ A new challenge started today in Free Fire. Players can launch matches every day, up to 10 matches per day, to collect Blue Destroyer Orbs and redeem them for a free bundle of cosmetics. This is part of the Vengeance Day event, which will offer the exclusive grim reaper skin by completing vengeance missions and collecting Blue Destroyer Orbs. Related: How do Free Fire codes and rewards work? The exclusive skin will be given away for 120 reapers, which you can trade your orbs for./post/t1-earns-decisive-victory-over-fruitless-drx-in-2022-lck-spring-split/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/t1-earns-decisive-victory-over-fruitless-drx-in-2022-lck-spring-split/ T1 have started the second week of the 2022 LCK Spring Split with another clean sweep, this time against DRX, displaying once more that they continue to be strong contenders at the highest level of competitive League of Legends. In today’s best-of-three series, T1 clearly identified their win conditions and snowballed their way to victory in both games. They ended the first game in 27 minutes with an aggressive composition including Samira, Camille, and Diana./post/this-wholesome-overwatch-dad-gamer-is-going-viral-with-his-intense-l%C3%BAcio-gameplay/Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-wholesome-overwatch-dad-gamer-is-going-viral-with-his-intense-l%C3%BAcio-gameplay/ One of the coolest things about gaming is its breadth and how it connects with and reaches human beings of all ages and backgrounds. Overwatch first dropped in 2016, but it’s still enjoyed to this day by players everywhere. But we haven’t seen someone as dedicated and intense as this dad gamer who’s gone viral on Twitter. My dad plays Overwatch like this. He jerks around, dodging and peeking around corners./post/ps5-exclusive-returnal-might-be-coming-to-pc/Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ps5-exclusive-returnal-might-be-coming-to-pc/ Finnish studio Housemarque’s roguelike, bullet-hell third-person shooter game Returnal witnessed a warm welcome onto the PlayStation 5 on April 30, 2021, with a generally positive reception from fans and critics alike. After spending its entire lifespan producing various 2D arcade shooters, Housemarque was acquired by Sony right after releasing Returnal. Following this acquisition, Returnal is most likely going to be seeing a PC release, according to new data that’s available on SteamDB./post/best-characters-for-beginners-in-guilty-gear-strive/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-characters-for-beginners-in-guilty-gear-strive/ Guilty Gear is and always will be a game that is built around the ever changing flow of battle, and the latest entry, Guilty Gear Strive, is no different.  This means that, yes, developer ArcSystemWorks took into account character balance, which means there are going to be fewer limitations when a new player wants to jump in and learn the ropes.  Most fighting games want players to use the characters that speak to them, whether that be through how they look or initial impressions on how they play./post/how-to-complete-tots-courtois-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-tots-courtois-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a 94-rated Team of the Season (TOTS) version of Thibaut Courtois from Real Madrid to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team today. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. This is Courtois’ third special card. He’s part of the LaLiga TOTS promotion and will be available until May 15. Team of the Season celebrates and highlights the best players who had a major impact on their respective clubs in the different leagues across Europe./post/nickmercs-best-call-of-duty-warzone-loadouts/Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nickmercs-best-call-of-duty-warzone-loadouts/ Call of Duty: Warzone offers a gameplay experience fitting to its name. Even if you already consider yourself a decent CoD player due to your past experiences in the franchise, you may only be able to hold on for so long in Warzone. Alongside combining the perfect battle royale experience with the core mechanics of each CoD title, the game has its own meta that you’ll need to closely follow to increase your odds of survival out in the field./post/smash-mouth-s-all-star-available-as-a-rocket-league-player-anthem-for-300-credits/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/smash-mouth-s-all-star-available-as-a-rocket-league-player-anthem-for-300-credits/ Rocket League‘s latest Player Anthem is worthy of an all-star. Smash Mouth’s 1999 hit “All Star” entered Rocket League‘s Item Shop as a Player Anthem today, available for 300 Credits and for a limited time. The Item Shop classifies “All Star” as a featured item that will rotate out of the shelves within 48 hours of its arrival, according to the in-game timer. Players can purchase it for 300 Credits due to its Import rarity, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to unlock it for free./post/the-best-mp40-loadout-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-mp40-loadout-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ A mainstay of World War II combat, the MP-40 is dominant in Call of Duty: Vanguard and it’s now been wreaking havoc in Warzone ever since the game’s Pacific update, too. Just like in Vanguard, the MP-40 is one of the better options for submachine guns in Warzone, especially on Rebirth Island. It’s absolutely worth leveling up to unlock its long list of attachments that turn it into a true monster./post/when-will-arkasodara-beast-tribe-quests-release-in-ffxiv-s-endwalker/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-arkasodara-beast-tribe-quests-release-in-ffxiv-s-endwalker/ Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, Endwalker, features tons of new content to discover, including new regions to explore. Usually, players can meet tribes who live in those regions and help them grow to gain rewards, called beast tribes. But Square Enix has yet to release those quests and reputation systems for Endwalker’s new regions. Many players are eager to help the Loporrits, the cute moon rabbits met in the expansion, and wonder when it’ll be possible./post/all-vaulted-and-unvaulted-weapons-and-items-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-4/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-vaulted-and-unvaulted-weapons-and-items-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-4/ The new Fortnite season is all about heroes and villains. Marvel’s Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine, Storm, Mystique, She-Hulk, Groot, and Doctor Doom are joining forces with the game’s classic characters to try to save the battle royale island from the mighty Galactus. Chapter Two, season four, also known as the Nexus War, is bringing a slew of changes to the game. Last time around, a massive storm flooded the island, turning it into a watery grave./post/best-mechanical-keyboards-for-mac/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-mechanical-keyboards-for-mac/ Gamers and other professionals often prefer mechanical switches for their feel and durability. Instead of a mushy feel like membrane keys, mechanical switches can have a linear, tactile, or clicky feel to suit users’ needs. Mechanical keys also have uniform actuation points, and users can typically decide on the feel they prefer.  Some mechanical switches have a linear feel, and others have a clicky or tactile feel. Users can even choose between regular switches and silent variants, which are better suited for crowded offices./post/cs-go-introduces-an-x-ray-scanner-for-skin-containers-in-france/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cs-go-introduces-an-x-ray-scanner-for-skin-containers-in-france/ Valve has introduced an X-ray scanner for skin containers for users in France in the latest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update. French users get access to the X-ray scanner after they buy a P250 X-ray skin. But once they use the X-ray scanner to reveal what skin is in a container, they’ll have to buy that skin before using the scanner on another box. https://twitter.com/HOUNGOUNGAGNE/status/1178914858231910401 In theory, this allows users to scan a CS:GO skin container and if they don’t like what’s inside of it, they don’t have to buy it./post/apex-legends-celebrates-its-2-year-anniversary-with-the-anniversary-collection-event-starting-on-feb-9/Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-celebrates-its-2-year-anniversary-with-the-anniversary-collection-event-starting-on-feb-9/ Apex Legends is celebrating its second anniversary with the Aniversary Collection Event starting next Tuesday, Feb. 9, Respawn announced today. In addition to a new collection, the party is bringing a new game mode takeover called Locked and Loaded, which will have players drop into the arena with fixed gear (including a Mozambique, of course). Moreover, the Anniversary Collection will bring recolors of popular cosmetics for each legend with shades of gold and crimson, as well as a loot box-filled free rewards track./post/t1-s-coo-john-kim-dies/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/t1-s-coo-john-kim-dies/ John Kim, the COO of South Korean esports organization T1, has passed away today after being hospitalized on July 7 due to health issue. He was working with the organization since October 2019 and played an instrumental role in building T1. “It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of our COO, John Kim,” T1 said in the announcement. “After being hospitalized on July 7 due to health issues, John passed away on July 16, 2021./post/riot-is-looking-to-add-new-champions-to-league-meta-lines-up-buffs-for-yone-gwen-lillia-wukong-more-in-patch-12-7/Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-is-looking-to-add-new-champions-to-league-meta-lines-up-buffs-for-yone-gwen-lillia-wukong-more-in-patch-12-7/ Hold on to your mechanical keyboards, League of Legends fans; Riot Games is planning to shake up the game’s meta in Patch 12.7 when they send buffs to a whole collection of champions, including Yone, Yasuo, Gwen, Pantheon, Wukong, Neeko, Gangplank, Kalista, Lillia, and Karthus. See League of Legends on Amazon Game designer Tim “Truexy” Jiang explains Riot wants to “help [shake] up the meta’s dominant picks” ahead of the 2022 Mid-Season Invitational, and bring a few forgotten champs back into the spotlight after some time away./post/lux-is-headed-to-teamfight-tactics-as-the-game-s-first-7-cost-unit/Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lux-is-headed-to-teamfight-tactics-as-the-game-s-first-7-cost-unit/ Teamfight Tactics fans, get ready to do battle with League of Legends‘ Lady of Luminosity, Lux. She’s the latest champion that’s set to join the game mode’s ever-growing roster of champions. Rise of the Elements is a fitting name for this upcoming preseason. Lux is going to be using her Elementalist skin in TFT and she’s going to be the first seven-cost unit in the game. She’s also going to be a Crystal-Avatar unit, which are both newcomers in terms of class and origin./post/overwatch-fans-see-new-mccree-hot-potato-mode-hit-the-workshop/Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-fans-see-new-mccree-hot-potato-mode-hit-the-workshop/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Following the release of Overwatch‘s Workshop on the Public Test Realm, players have been making creations fit to be added to the actual game. With enough patience and creativity, people have built some extremely-fun game modes, and Workshop hasn’t even been released for a month yet. A game mode has been made where players are set in a free-for-all match with only McCrees./post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone-playlist-updates-are-live/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone-playlist-updates-are-live/ The latest Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War playlist updates went live today. Fans can enjoy Prop Hunt, Nuketown 24/7, Raid and Crossroads Strike 24/7, and a Sanatorium 24/7 playlist, as well as three modes returning to Warzone.  The Snipers Only Moshpit will remain available in Cold War and the popular Nuketown 24/7 and Prop Hunt playlists are still active. The 24/7 modes allow players to grind on other popular maps that are still perfect for quickly unlocking XP./post/dragon-ball-fighterz-world-tour-finals-scores-and-standings/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dragon-ball-fighterz-world-tour-finals-scores-and-standings/ The Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Finals had some insane upsets in the first few matches and has seen the Last Chance Qualifier Winner go deep into the main bracket on the biggest stage in the game.  With the best players, some exciting announcements, and $80,000 on the line, this is one DBFZ tournament you won’t want to miss.  But since the event is taking place in Paris, the timezone difference could be an issue for some viewers./post/here-are-all-the-spatula-items-coming-in-teamfight-tactics-set-2-rise-of-the-elements/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-spatula-items-coming-in-teamfight-tactics-set-2-rise-of-the-elements/ The huge overhaul of champions, classes, origins, and items for Teamfight Tactics‘ second chapter is well underway, with changes being tested on the Public Beta Environment (PBE). Riot Games collaborated with popular Twitch streamer Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang to unveil the recipes for all of Set Two’s Spatula items on Oct. 22. While five new items will make their TFT debut, three oldies will make a comeback as well. Here are all the Spatula items coming with Set Two: Rise of the Elements./post/doublelift-claims-reginald-verbally-assaulted-players-made-them-break-down-because-of-how-badly-they-were-getting-berated/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/doublelift-claims-reginald-verbally-assaulted-players-made-them-break-down-because-of-how-badly-they-were-getting-berated/ The drama between two of North American League of Legends’ most iconic figures continued today when Doublelift once again talked about TSM’s Andy “Reginald” Dinh and his treatment of players in his organization. The former pro AD carry claimed on his stream that the team CEO has verbally assaulted members of his organization to the point where people were driven to tears. “People don’t like working with him,” Doublelift said. “He’s like a bully who gets away with being a bad person because he’s powerful, because people are afraid to stand up to him, and that’s what I’m sick of./post/how-to-unlock-the-r1-shadowhunter-crossbow-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-r1-shadowhunter-crossbow-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone/ A new special weapon is coming in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War—and it would make Daryl Dixon proud. The R1 Shadowhunter is a crossbow that will land in the secondary slot of loadouts, allowing you to quickly switch and get a one-shot kill with it to finish off weakened enemies. Alternatively, you can run around like a madman with the crossbow in a zombie apocalypse. It’s probably great in Zombies mode, too, so you can have fun with it there and act out all of your Walking Dead fantasies./post/how-to-watch-the-animal-crossing-new-horizons-direct/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-the-animal-crossing-new-horizons-direct/ An Animal Crossing: New Horizons-centric Nintendo Direct is coming in October. During its latest Direct, Nintendo confirmed the rumored Brewster update. Players can look forward to a new update, completed with the long-awaited return of everyone’s feathered fellow, Brewster.  Brewster was rumored to return to the Animal Crossing series in New Horizons for weeks after an alleged leak from known Nintendo leaker Samus Hunter, who shared insider information. In that leak, Hunter claimed that both Brewster and The Roost café would return to Animal Crossing no later than November than this year./post/john-cena-says-he-s-exploring-twitch-and-nfts/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/john-cena-says-he-s-exploring-twitch-and-nfts/ In a recent episode of the Pardon My Take podcast, professional wrestler and Hollywood star John Cena said he’s learning about Twitch and NFTs, hinting that he could make an appearance in the space. Cena explained that he actively uses Twitter and Instagram and is expanding his own breadth of knowledge through his extensive Twitter “followed” list. “I just went into a rabbit hole following EDM dance culture, and Non-Fungible Tokens, and also Twitch streamers because I know nothing about any of these avenues of the world, just like people may not know anything about the WWE,” Cena said./post/boston-uprising-adds-crimzo/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/boston-uprising-adds-crimzo/ The Boston Uprising may have wiped out most of its 2021 roster earlier this month, but the organization is wasting no time in rebuilding ahead of the 2022 Overwatch League season.  Boston announced today that former Houston Outlaws flex support William “Crimzo” Hernandez is joining its 2022 roster. This is the first new player acquisition for the Uprising during the 2021 offseason.  Crimzo is a veteran in the Overwatch League scene, having played for the Dallas Fuel and Houston Outlaws./post/where-to-find-shaymin-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-shaymin-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Various Mythical Pokémon introduced in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum make a return in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, as the Hisui region would eventually become the Sinnoh region that many fans are familiar with. Many of these Pokémon, as they were in their games of origin, continue to be locked behind events and requirements that make them available only to specific players. Shaymin, the Gratitude Pokémon, reappears in Legends: Arceus as an event-exclusive Pokémon./post/best-aphelios-build-in-league-of-legends/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-aphelios-build-in-league-of-legends/ Aphelios is one of the most unique champions in League of Legends. Instead of four separate abilities and an ultimate, this champion has a selection of five different weapons that are suited to specific ranges and situations. Because of this, Aphelios often has a weak early game. But towards the middle to later phases of the game when he can acquire items, the Weapon of the Faithful is one of the most powerful ADCs in the game./post/decent-audio-controllers-bad-software-beacn-mix-and-beacn-create-review/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/decent-audio-controllers-bad-software-beacn-mix-and-beacn-create-review/ The BEACN Mix and Create audio controllers are decent entries for helping content creators customize and monitor audio connections during streams. However, although both Create and Mix has the potential to compete against Elgato’s Stream Deck, its software is still the weakest link in its quest to make it a true contender. Here’s our review of the BEACN Mix and BEACN Create. Nuts and Bolts Both Mix and Create allow the user to control audio sources with physical knobs./post/rocket-league-live-offers-a-new-way-to-watch-esports-inside-of-fortnite/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rocket-league-live-offers-a-new-way-to-watch-esports-inside-of-fortnite/ Fortnite seems to be evolving how it’s viewed with every passing update. The Creative Mode that lets players invent maps and game modes has become where Epic Games can show off collaborations and interesting new features. Now, Fortnite’s Creative Mode will be hosting watch parties for esports competitions and has introduced Rocket League Live. Fortnite announced that 404FNC and FiveWalnut worked together to create the Championship Field. As a result, players will be able to watch the Rocket League Championship Series from March 23 to 27 on the field./post/rocket-league-s-season-3-rocket-pass-brings-reworks-for-pro-tiers/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rocket-league-s-season-3-rocket-pass-brings-reworks-for-pro-tiers/ Season three of Rocket League kicks off on April 7 and with it comes more than 70 tiers of new items in the seasonal Rocket Pass.  Just like with the rest of the season, the season three Rocket Pass will focus on celebrating speed, giving players access to the new speed demon car model called the Tyranno.  Players who purchase the premium Rocket Pass will instantly get access to the Tyranno, along with additional weekly and seasonal challenges, an XP boost, and access to the Pro Rewards beyond tier 70 that unlock new variants of some of the Rocket Pass items./post/xqc-roars-to-huge-new-twitch-record-off-the-back-of-overwatch-2-beta-hype/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-roars-to-huge-new-twitch-record-off-the-back-of-overwatch-2-beta-hype/ Reigning king of streaming Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel has roared to a new Twitch viewership record, with more than 300,000 eager fans piling into his already immensely popular channel to watch him play the invite-only Overwatch 2 beta at the height of the long-awaited Blizzard sequel’s hype this week. On April 27, the French-Canadian streamer rocketed past his old record to hit a new personal best: 312,158 concurrent Twitch viewers, according to TwitchTracker./post/are-the-5-mtg-new-capenna-precon-commander-decks-worth-buying/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/are-the-5-mtg-new-capenna-precon-commander-decks-worth-buying/ Launching with the Streets of New Capenna Standard-legal Magic: The Gathering set is a total of five preconstructed Commander decks showcasing two commanders, a collector booster sample pack, and 98 other cards.  Precon Commander decks are a great starting point for new or returning casual players to the card game. There are a total of five preconstructed Streets of New Capenna Commander decks, each showcasing three-color commanders and gameplay mechanics thematically tied to the five crime boss factions within the NCC set./post/siege-s-year-7-will-introduce-player-reputation-more-measures-against-griefing-and-reporting-in-match-replay/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/siege-s-year-7-will-introduce-player-reputation-more-measures-against-griefing-and-reporting-in-match-replay/ Rainbow Six Siege Year Seven is introducing multiple new systems to deal with toxic behavior like griefing, cheating, and other disruptive actions.  Toxic players can ruin games in multiple ways. They can cheat and give themselves an unfair advantage or purposely grief or harass their team through voice or text chat. Siege developers are taking multiple steps throughout Year Seven to improve the environment for all players and punish repeat offenders./post/yesterday-s-teamfight-tactics-9-24-pbe-update-targets-classes-origins-and-champions-while-introducing-soulbound/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/yesterday-s-teamfight-tactics-9-24-pbe-update-targets-classes-origins-and-champions-while-introducing-soulbound/ Teamfight Tactics fans are eagerly awaiting the debut of the Soulbound class along with Senna, Lucian, and Amumu, but a lot more changes are slated to come in Patch 9.24.  Riot’s hit autobattler will undergo some heavy adjustments in the next patch cycle, according to Surrenderat20’s Nov. 26 PBE update. Many traits are being altered on the test server, including a Shadow tweak due to Senna’s inclusion in the Origin. And changes to eight champions should balance out the outliers./post/is-rocket-league-garage-down-here-s-how-to-check/Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-rocket-league-garage-down-here-s-how-to-check/ Rocket League is one of the most competitive titles on the market. While countless players are looking to climb up the game’s ranked ladder, some may just be after expanding their cosmetics collection like a true collector. Throughout your Rocket League career, you’ll collect a handful of cosmetics. Trading hubs like Rocket League Garage makes the trading process a lot simpler, making them the go-to sources for Rocket League players looking to purchase their dream items. Even if Rocket League itself is up and running, there’s a chance that Rocket League Garage can go down./post/overwatch-fans-aren-t-happy-that-blizzard-has-done-nothing-with-sigma/Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-fans-aren-t-happy-that-blizzard-has-done-nothing-with-sigma/ Overwatch fans believe there was a lot more Blizzard Entertainment could have done with Sigma’s lore. Reddit user Technician_Frosty shared an image of Sigma with the title “Can we talk about how this man might be the best hero in [Overwatch] in terms of character and Blizzard has done nothing with him?” While Technician_Frosty didn’t share any of their own ideas as to what Sigma’s character could have been, plenty of other fans jumped into the comments to complain about the lack of lore for the physicist and Overwatch as a whole./post/apex-legends-surpasses-expectations/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-surpasses-expectations/ Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends was released on Feb. 4, and it’s already become a huge hit. The new free-to-play battle royale shooter that’s set in the Titanfall universe has come out the gates swinging, and it’s only getting more popular by the day. In its opening eight hours, the game boasted more than one million downloads across each of its platforms—PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Apex has since surpassed 10 million players in three days./post/how-to-find-snom-and-evolve-it-into-frosmoth-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-snom-and-evolve-it-into-frosmoth-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Snom is one of Pokémon Sword and Shield’s cutest new Pokémon, but evolving it into the equally adorable Frosmoth is quite a painful and long process. Snom is a rare spawn that can be located either in Route 8’s Steamdrift Way or Route 10. It is far easier to find in Route 8 as it appears in the Overworld, rather than in the “!” bushes in Route 10. Once you find and capture one, that is the easy part out of the way./post/new-legendary-soulciologist-malicia-and-5-more-warlock-cards-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-scholomance-academy/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-legendary-soulciologist-malicia-and-5-more-warlock-cards-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-scholomance-academy/ Warlock players are in for a treat. Blizzard just revealed a plethora of new Hearthstone cards for the Warlock class today, as well as a few dual-class cards that work for Warlock and Demon Hunter. Of the cards just revealed on the PlayHearthstone YouTube channel, the most interesting is undoubtedly Soulciologist Malicia. This card is a seven-cost 5/5 dual-class Legendary minion with a Battlecry. Malcia’s Battlecry summons a 3/3 Soul with Rush for each Soul Fragment in your deck./post/00nation-signs-o-plano/Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/00nation-signs-o-plano/ O PLANO’s longtime search for an organization is over. Vito “kNgV-” Giuseppe, Henrique “HEN1” Teles, Lucas “LUCAS1” Teles, Vinicius “vsm” Moreira, Leonardo “leo_drk” Oliveira, Alencar “trk” Rossato, and head coach Raphael “cogu” Camargo are now a part of 00Nation, a new esports organization that recently merged with Nordavind, a Norwegian org that’s been around the CS:GO scene with domestic and international rosters since 2015. O PLANO had been on a sponsorless journey since May after the players parted ways with their old organizations./post/what-is-pokemon-go-plus-and-how-does-it-work/Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-pokemon-go-plus-and-how-does-it-work/ Pokémon Go is a mobile game that causes players to go explore to, of course, “catch ’em all.” The famous tagline from the popular franchise is justified in the augmented reality (AR) game by Niantic where trainers go out of their way to look for Pokémon almost everywhere. And with this adventure comes an extra accessory that could enhance a trainer’s gaming experience, especially in finding the Pokémon they desire. Pokémon Go Plus is a device that can be connected to an iPhone or Android smartphone and can help you determine if a Pokémon is nearby./post/kings-canyon-to-return-world-s-edge-to-receive-map-changes-in-season-4-of-apex-legends/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/kings-canyon-to-return-world-s-edge-to-receive-map-changes-in-season-4-of-apex-legends/ The most iconic map in Apex Legends, Kings Canyon, is set to return in season four, while the newest map, World’s Edge, will receive further updates throughout the next season, Respawn Entertainment announced today in an Apex devstream.  But these two maps won’t be available at the same time. Instead, Respawn has divided the two into splits. The first split will begin on Feb. 3 and conclude on March 23, featuring World’s Edge with several map changes./post/shiny-galarian-articuno-galarian-zapdos-and-galarian-moltres-revealed-for-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shiny-galarian-articuno-galarian-zapdos-and-galarian-moltres-revealed-for-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ To incentivize players, Game Freak and The Pokémon Company have revealed a new giveaway series for the Pokémon Sword and Shield International Challenge.  Anyone who competes in the 2022 International Challenge throughout February, March, and April will receive access to distribution for Shiny Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos, and Galarian Moltres. The Shiny variants of the Galarian birds all feature color schemes reminiscent of their Kantonian counterparts. The gifted Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos, and Galarian Moltres will all be level 70 and include movesets that feature their signature attacks, Freezing Glare, Thunderous Kick, and Fiery Wrath./post/here-s-every-change-coming-to-tft-s-double-up-mode/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-every-change-coming-to-tft-s-double-up-mode/ A total of six big changes, along with a number of smaller improvements, will be made to Teamfight Tactics Double Up without the mode getting taken down from the live servers, according to Riot Games.  Riot introduced the TFT Double Up mode with the release of Set Six Gizmos and Gadgets, expecting to take it off the live servers prior to the launch of Set 6.5 for upgrades and improvements. The mode allows players to compete with friends in a two-vs-two environment via a lobby of four teams and eight players./post/here-s-everything-in-mtg-arena-core-set-2021-mastery-pass/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-everything-in-mtg-arena-core-set-2021-mastery-pass/ Wizards of the Coast has revealed the MTG Arena contents for the Basic Set Mastery and Mastery Pass in Core Set 2021.  Several improvements were made to the M21 passes over the previous Ikoria: Lair of Behemoth battle passes. This includes six extra M21 booster packs contained within the Basic Set and 400 additional gems in the Mastery Pass. The Basic Set Mastery is for all free-to-play players and extra rewards are available via the Mastery Pass, priced at 3,400 gems or $20./post/zz-rot-s-devastating-entrance-in-the-competitive-league-of-legends-scene/Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/zz-rot-s-devastating-entrance-in-the-competitive-league-of-legends-scene/ The Zz’rot Portal, AKA Gg’rot Portal In the past few weeks, I have been telling my friend @LeviathanLoL about the viability of the Zz’rot portal, and it has since started to sprout in both pro games, and high elo dynamic queue.  The first competitive match I saw with Zz’rot Portal was the 2nd match between the Boston University league of legends team versus Oxford’s own team. Zz’rot won. The second game I watched was Fnatic in the first day of week 5 of EU LCS, versus Elements./post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-trophy-achievement-list-leaks-ahead-of-launch/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-trophy-achievement-list-leaks-ahead-of-launch/ With a little over two weeks left before the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, the game’s trophy/achievement list has leaked, courtesy of CoDTracker. In total, there are 44 trophies to unlock. There are trophies for the campaign mode, multiplayer, Zombies, and even Dead Ops Arcade, the classic arcade zombies mode that first appeared in 2010’s CoD: Black Ops. The list includes the standard trophies for playing through the campaign, beating it on higher difficulties, and pulling off certain feats within the missions./post/xbox-s-2021-revenue-set-record-high-exceeded-16-billion/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xbox-s-2021-revenue-set-record-high-exceeded-16-billion/ Microsoft’s Xbox division generated its highest ever annual revenue in 2021. Microsoft reported Xbox generated $16.28 billion in revenue last year, a year-over-year increase of 17 percent. Xbox’s hardware-related revenue increased by 63.3 percent from the previous year, while the revenue of Content and Services grew 8.8 percent in 2021. Much of the Xbox division’s growth can be accounted for by the Xbox Game Pass subscriptions, in addition to the increased demand for Xbox Series S./post/all-pok%C3%A9mon-type-matchups/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-pok%C3%A9mon-type-matchups/ Almost 900 unique Pokémon have been introduced since the franchise first captured the hearts and minds of Trainers around the world. Whether it’s your favorite Pokémon or an obscure creature found on an unexpected Route, their types are an integral part of them–and knowing their pros and cons is an important tool to dictate how much success you have in battle. These species can be broken down into 18 different types, with one or two assigned to each Pokémon species./post/how-to-solve-wordle-5-letter-words-that-start-with-st/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-solve-wordle-5-letter-words-that-start-with-st/ Web-based puzzle games like Wordle and its many variations have become a popular way to start the day, presenting just enough of a challenge to make it fun, as well as a social element. The game is inspired by the classic Mastermind, but with a twist. Each day, players need to guess a different word in up to six tries, and the only clues are the letters themselves. First you enter a five-letter word of your choice, then get feedback from the game indicating if the letter is in the correct position, in the wrong position, or not in the word at all./post/riot-games-teases-new-valorant-game-mode-replication/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-games-teases-new-valorant-game-mode-replication/ Get ready for a new game mode, VALORANT fans. Riot Games previewed a new mode for its tactical shooter today called Replication, which appears to replicate agent abilities or allow more than one player to use the same agent. The short teaser shows A Site on Breeze and 11 Brimstone smokes covering the area. These are obviously more smokes than Brimstone can typically use, since the entire site is obscured by his abilities./post/frezzar-and-twixsen-leave-fnatic-s-hearthstone-team/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/frezzar-and-twixsen-leave-fnatic-s-hearthstone-team/ Fnatic could be facing losses in its Hearthstone division as Bertil “Frezzar” Fall and Axel “Twixsen” Milveden look set to depart the organization, according to a source close to the organization and a leaked image from the team’s official website. Fall was Fnatic’s first Hearthstone acquisition when it added him on July 27, 2014. The Swede had a successful run at Dreamhack Summer, progressing through the groups but falling in the quarterfinals./post/riot-to-nerf-akali-nocturne-and-buff-darius-seraphine-in-league-patch-11-14/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-nerf-akali-nocturne-and-buff-darius-seraphine-in-league-patch-11-14/ In today’s detailed preview of League of Legends‘ upcoming Patch 11.14, Riot Games has revealed some extensive changes to some of the more popular champions of the game, both in professional play and in solo queue. Two of the biggest changes in the patch so far are the nerfs to Akali and Nocturne, two champions that have taken over the pro scene this Summer Split. First, the Rogue Assassin has been a premium choice for many mid laners across the world due to her massive damage output and outplay ability./post/the-10-best-gaming-mice-for-small-hands/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-best-gaming-mice-for-small-hands/ Having the right mouse is critical if you want to stay ahead of the competition. A split second can be the difference between living and dying, so it pays to have a mouse that’s up to the task.  Gaming mice are far better than regular mice because they often have advanced functions and can be configured to your specifications. The best gaming mice offer adjustable sensitivity and programmable buttons, so you can always be quicker than your opponents./post/new-fade-cinematic-trailer-gives-valorant-fans-a-better-look-at-the-upcoming-initiator/Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-fade-cinematic-trailer-gives-valorant-fans-a-better-look-at-the-upcoming-initiator/ VALORANT players finally saw the upcoming initiator, Fade, in action in a cinematic trailer before the start of the 2022 VCT Masters Reykjavík Grand Final today.  See Valorant on Amazon Fade, the next initiator in VALORANT, has been teased for weeks. Recent updates have added a new cell to the Shooting Range, and a new audio message describes how several agents struggled to capture the deadly agent.  The cinematic trailer shows the same mission revealed in the audio message in Cypher’s office on the Shooting Range, where several agents struggled to capture Fade./post/valorant-player-shows-off-pixel-gap-on-ascent/Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-shows-off-pixel-gap-on-ascent/ It doesn’t take much to set up a perfect shot, especially when you can remain hidden while doing so. This is exactly what one VALORANT player was able to do, pulling off a kill through a tiny gap on Ascent. In the highlight clip, the player educated a poor opponent on this previously unnoticed spot right in the middle of the map. found a pixel gap, dumb spot but might help you out one day from VALORANT Hopping up onto boxes, the player was able to peek through a gap between the wall and a pole./post/bastighg-and-aqua-win-minecraft-monday-week-11/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/bastighg-and-aqua-win-minecraft-monday-week-11/ In the 11th week of Minecraft Monday, Technoblade was gunning for his fourth victory in the star-studded event. Things were looking good for Techno early, as he and his partner, ConnorEatsPants, were positioning themselves well in the opening round of Hunger Games. But they were eventually overwhelmed by Minecraft veteran Vikkstar and his partner MrSavage. In the final confrontation in the middle of the map, MrSavage actually managed to get the drop on a fully-kitted-out Techno and eliminate him./post/cloud9-sweep-ence-in-grand-finals-to-win-iem-dallas-2022-collect-first-cs-go-trophy-since-boston-major/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-sweep-ence-in-grand-finals-to-win-iem-dallas-2022-collect-first-cs-go-trophy-since-boston-major/ It’s been a long time coming, but Cloud9 have lifted their first trophy in CS:GO in over four years following a 3-0 sweep over ENCE in the grand finals today to cap off a first-place finish at IEM Dallas 2022. ENCE looked solid early on Mirage, with a successful CT side in the first half marred only by a string of C9 T-sided round wins that were facilitated by some sh1ro playmaking./post/how-to-catch-a-wild-rowlet-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-a-wild-rowlet-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ When you start your adventure in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, you’ll have a few decisions to make. One of the most important is selecting the starter Pokémon that you’ll be taking on your journey. As usual, there are three options, Cyndaquil, Rowlet, and Oshawatt. Depending on your decision, it could be quite a while before you can add the other two Pokémon to your collection, but thankfully, you still can. Rowlet is a Grass / Flying-type Pokémon, although its new Hisuian evolution switches things up, bringing in the new Fighting-type./post/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-reveals-february-tcg-brilliant-stars/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-reveals-february-tcg-brilliant-stars/ Following recent leaks that revealed the set early last week, The Pokémon Company has officially announced February’s TCG set Brilliant Stars. Brilliant Stars will boast 172 cards, secret rares, and it will introduce the new VSTAR mechanic to the TCG. In today’s announcement, the same cards that were revealed early this morning during Japan’s Champions League 2022 were revealed. These include a handful of trainer and energy cards, Arceus and Charizard V, and VSTAR./post/alliance-s-dota-2-team-parts-ways-with-limmp-and-fng/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/alliance-s-dota-2-team-parts-ways-with-limmp-and-fng/ Alliance had a rocky year in the Dota Pro Circuit, outperforming many of the other top teams in Europe during the regular season only to fall short of all expectations once they made it back to a LAN setting.  This culminated in a ninth-place exit at The International 10, which now has the team looking toward the future. Some key roster changes are being made, centered around the departure of Linus “Limmp” Blomdin and Artiom “fng” Barshack./post/here-are-the-routes-for-every-character-in-league-of-legends-spirit-bonds/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-routes-for-every-character-in-league-of-legends-spirit-bonds/ Riot Games’ latest skin line for League of Legends, Spirit Blossom, comes with a complimentary visual novel and pseudo-dating simulator named Spirit Bonds. If you’re worried about making the wrong dialogue choice to anger your mains, an enterprising player has helped to fully detail each character’s route for the event. League fan molenzwiebel compiled full decision trees and artwork from all nine characters that are available in the Spirit Bonds event./post/apex-legends-vs-fortnite-player-count-which-game-has-more-players/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-vs-fortnite-player-count-which-game-has-more-players/ Apex Legends, the latest battle royale game on the market, has hit the ground running this past week with an impressive amount of players picking up the title around the world— but how does its player count hold up to the battle royale juggernaut, Fortnite: Battle Royale? Apex Legends has reached an impressive 50 million players worldwide in just under a month. But that doesn’t really come close to the dominant amount of players that Fortnite has achieved./post/second-day-of-mtg-kaldheim-spoilers-reveals-a-clearer-picture-of-the-set-s-themes/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/second-day-of-mtg-kaldheim-spoilers-reveals-a-clearer-picture-of-the-set-s-themes/ The second day of Kaldheim spoilers has come to an end and players have a better idea of what themes will be featured in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering set. A five-color theme is revealing itself alongside the heavy tribal synergies that are weaved through Kaldheim. While the exciting possibilities of cards like Prismatic Bridge or Tyvar Kell will capture most of the attention, some of the best cards from Magic sets are found in the lower rarities./post/can-you-catch-zorua-and-zoroark-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-catch-zorua-and-zoroark-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon GO is constantly adding new species to the game through events like GO Fest and the Adventure Week. With each event, more trainers get to add their favorite Pokémon from all generations of the series to their PokéDex, including special variations like Shiny versions and regional forms. To promote Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the game even added some Hisuian forms and species. But what if you don’t know if your favorite Pokémon is available in the game?/post/emiru-joins-otk-as-a-content-creator/Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/emiru-joins-otk-as-a-content-creator/ Popular Twitch streamer Emiru has officially joined OTK as a content creator. The Austin-based esports organization, One True King, was founded in October 2020 and has been headed by streaming figureheads such as Asmongold, Mizkif, Esfand, and more. Along with Emiru’s official announcement tweet, OTK released an accompanying video. In the video, OTK founders Mizkif and Esfand “saved” Emiru from a dragon keeping her in a tower before Asmongold inducted her into the organization./post/best-console-settings-for-apex-legends/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-console-settings-for-apex-legends/ In competitive gaming, it’s important to take every possible step to ensure your maximum performance. This can be achieved without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on the best gear. There are always ways to improve your performance inside the game. Apex Legends is one of the most popular battle royale titles available today. It’s become renowned in the battle royale genre for how competitive the game is, as well as the game’s ranked mode, which allows players to see just how good they are, and how much they can improve./post/what-are-the-shiny-odds-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-shiny-odds-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl/ Capturing Shiny Pokémon is something most Pokémon players look to do in the endgame phase of their adventure. For those already planning out their strategies in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, this is no different. See Pokémon on Amazon These gen-four remakes boast a ton of Pokémon from multiple generations, with almost all of them capable of being Shiny. Outside of two gifted legendary Pokémon, you’re going to be able to randomly encounter Shinies of every other species in the game./post/seven-new-skins-coming-to-league-of-legends-wild-rift-alongside-akshan-on-july-27/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/seven-new-skins-coming-to-league-of-legends-wild-rift-alongside-akshan-on-july-27/ Alongside League of Legends: Wild Rift’s newest champ, there will be plenty of new skins from the Ruined and Sentinel cosmetic ranges, plus Wild Rift exclusive Battle Academia Akshan, coming to the mobile game on July 27. The most notable addition on the day will be new champion Akshan. Launching in League of Legends last week, the champion had some early balancing issues that were fixed with a day one buff./post/brazilian-lor-tournament-sets-precedent-for-new-com-meta/Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/brazilian-lor-tournament-sets-precedent-for-new-com-meta/ Ian “Iannogueira” of Team IQ defeated almost 100 competitors in the first Legends of Runeterra tournament yesterday, showcasing several top-meta competitive decks from Call of the Mountain.  The Brazilian LoR scene has consistently showcased a community of players and fans who are passionate about the game. On the same day as the CoM launch, Runeterra School ran a tournament unvieling the new meta to a concurrent viewership of around five thousand./post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-community-is-complaining-about-the-removal-of-shoot-house-24-7/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-community-is-complaining-about-the-removal-of-shoot-house-24-7/ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players might complain about Shoot House’s precarious spawning, but many enjoy the tiny map for what it is—a chaotic, killing frenzy. The map encourages a fast-paced playstyle where you’re less likely to run into campers and can focus more on brainlessly fun action. But the popular 24/7 mode was replaced in yesterday’s update with Crash instead, sparking an uproar from the community. A quick “Shoot House” search on the Modern Warfare subreddit reveals post after post of frustrated players begging for the popular game mode to come back./post/artist-creates-amazing-apex-legends-inspired-sneakers-for-octane-wraith-and-more/Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/artist-creates-amazing-apex-legends-inspired-sneakers-for-octane-wraith-and-more/ The Apex Legends community has shown that it can be one of the most creative when it comes to cosplays, but one artist has made a new combination between the characters of Kings Canyon and the world of sneakers. Chris Le, a graphic designer, has taken the various designs and color schemes of some of the game’s legends and applied them to various different sneakers. His latest creation, for example, was a crossover between Octane and Nike’s Air Max 90s./post/best-fortnite-creative-practice-courses/Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-fortnite-creative-practice-courses/ If you want to get better at Fortnite, talent alone can only take you so far. Practicing to keep your skills sharp is a must and most pros practice daily on Creative courses before jumping into the Arena mode. Unlike most battle royales and tactical shooters, there’s more to Fortnite than having good aim when it comes to rising up the ranks. Building, editing, build fights, and tracking enemies flying in the air are just some of the essentials you need to master to be a competitive Fortnite player./post/chovy-reached-master-rank-on-euw-with-astonishing-95-percent-win-rate/Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/chovy-reached-master-rank-on-euw-with-astonishing-95-percent-win-rate/ The 2021 League of Legends World Championship is right around the corner. The tournament will start tomorrow with Hanwha Life Esports taking on LNG Esports in the opening game of this year’s play-in stage.  A lot of pros from the East have been polishing their skills on the EUW solo queue server in preparation for the event—and some of them have hit the top ranks already. One of them is Hanwha’s mid laner Chovy, who reached League’s Master rank on the server with a stunning record of 18 wins and one loss, as pointed out by Reddit user u/ThebritishPoro./post/apex-legends-fans-make-free-coloring-book-with-apex-writer-tom-casiello-as-guest/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-fans-make-free-coloring-book-with-apex-writer-tom-casiello-as-guest/ Creatives from within the Apex Legends community delivered one of the more unique creations inspired by the battle royale, a free coloring book full of familiar characters from the Outlands. After months of work, The Adventures of Nessie & Friends is now available for download, where fans can brush up on their coloring skills. The project even includes former Apex Legends senior writer Tom Casiello as a special guest writer for one of the activities within the book./post/blizzard-to-nerf-pvp-gearing-in-world-of-warcraft-patch-9-1/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-to-nerf-pvp-gearing-in-world-of-warcraft-patch-9-1/ Blizzard is experimenting with changes to the way PvP gear operates in World of Warcraft Patch 9.1, Chains of Domination.   In the upcoming patch, PvP gear could see its item level increase in PvP situations, with no added effect outside of matches. For example, a piece of PvP gear with a 213 item level will only have that item level in battlegrounds and arenas. In PvE content, that gear will normally sport a 200 item level./post/lft-2021-a-complete-guide-to-free-agency-in-the-overwatch-league/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lft-2021-a-complete-guide-to-free-agency-in-the-overwatch-league/ The Overwatch League offseason rosterpocalypse can be stressful for fans who are deluged with a nearly endless cycle of players being dropped from their beloved teams. This anxiety is compounded when terminology that may not be entirely familiar is thrown into the mix.  Dozens of players will likely become free agents ahead of the 2021 Overwatch League season. For fans, free agency may feel like player purgatory between their official release and a hopeful re-signing./post/the-best-beast-mastery-hunter-talents-and-build-in-wow-shadowlands/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-beast-mastery-hunter-talents-and-build-in-wow-shadowlands/ Beast Mastery Hunter is one of World of Warcraft’s most iconic specializations. Since the launch of the game, it has always been a competitive choice for ranged DPS players looking to dish out chart-topping damage.  Now, in Shadowlands, Beast Mastery stands out as a competitive spec in both raids and Mythic+ dungeons. By bringing a strong mix of AoE damage and single-target throughput to each encounter, BM Hunter can go toe-to-toe with practically any ranged spec in the game./post/grim-junior-join-extra-salt-ahead-of-funspark-ulti-finals/Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/grim-junior-join-extra-salt-ahead-of-funspark-ulti-finals/ Former Team Liquid rifler Michael “Grim” Wince and former FURIA AWPer Paytyn “⁠junior⁠” Johnson have been added to Extra Salt’s CS:GO lineup in time for the $250,000 Funspark ULTI Finals, which will run from Jan. 18 to 24. Extra Salt’s active lineup was depleted to just Johnny “⁠JT⁠” Theodosiou, Justin “⁠FaNg⁠” Coakley, and Ricky “⁠floppy⁠” Kemery following the departure of sniper Josh “⁠oSee⁠” Ohm to Liquid at the end of the year and the release of Mexican rifler Edgar “⁠MarKE⁠” Maldonado last week./post/how-to-upgrade-normal-and-special-weapons-in-elden-ring/Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-upgrade-normal-and-special-weapons-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring has many different aspects of character building and customization. One of those is upgrading weapons and Ashes of War. While the process is not particularly evident to the player, upgrading armaments makes the life of a Tarnished more bearable and even more enjoyable.  The main benefit that comes from upgrading weapons is a higher damage output. Here, we’ll go through the steps involved in upgrading normal and special weapons in the Elden Ring upgrade system./post/cloud9-leaves-pubg-mobile-scene/Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-leaves-pubg-mobile-scene/ Cloud9 will no longer be competing in PUBG Mobile, the organization announced last night. C9 has released its entire roster and will be stepping away from the mobile battle royale game. C9’s roster featured Terron “Perkisas” Nguyen, Tybald “UnEeVen” Mallet, Jack “Beowulf” Schultz, and Benjamin “Pyrrha” LeafMeeker. All four players are now free agents. Today we are officially stepping away from PUBGM and we want to thank @UnEeVeN, @beowulf_ios, @pyrrhameep, & @itsPerkisas for their hard work during their time at C9./post/all-working-state-of-survival-codes-june-2022/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-working-state-of-survival-codes-june-2022/ Based on what you see on TV shows and movies, surviving in a zombie apocalypse may look like a regular Monday. State of Survival does an excellent job of portraying an apocalypse where players need to make use of every resource that they can get their hands on, making it a great choice to test your surviving skills on the go. While you can pay to speed up your process and unlock more content, you can also survive as a free-to-play player./post/belle-s-new-star-power-grounded-launched-on-brawl-stars/Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/belle-s-new-star-power-grounded-launched-on-brawl-stars/ Brawl Star‘s latest Brawler, Belle, received her second Star Power, Grounded, today. “Getting marked by Belle’s Super prevents the target from reloading for three seconds,” the power’s description reads. It’s available in random boxes for players who earned enough trophies to reach power nine on the Brawler Watch out! Belle has you in her sights! 🔭 Belle's new Star Power prevents the targeted enemy from reloading for a couple of seconds!/post/frosty-s-controller-layout-and-settings-for-halo-infinite/Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/frosty-s-controller-layout-and-settings-for-halo-infinite/ For those new to Halo esports, one of the most historically dominant rosters of all time is back under a major brand while the scene regenerates following the launch of Halo Infinite. The Sentinels organization picked up Snakebite, Royal 2, and Lethul in early 2020, almost two full years before Infinite finally launched. The group’s track record speaks for itself, winning back-to-back Halo World Championships in 2016 and 2017 (one with CLG and one with OpTic) and an HCS Finals championship in 2018 under TOX Gaming./post/here-are-lachlan-s-fortnite-settings/Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-lachlan-s-fortnite-settings/ When it comes to the biggest gaming stars on the planet, the conversation has to include Lachlan. The Australian YouTuber boasts over 13 million subscribers, and rightfully so. His Fortnite skills are insane, and he’s incredibly entertaining and charming to boot. During one of Fortnite’s live events, The Device, Lachlan had nearly one million viewers. His popularity is skyrocketing, so it should come as no surprise if players want to play just like him./post/ludwig-raises-money-for-charity-by-auctioning-off-youtube-play-button-cars-bed-and-more/Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ludwig-raises-money-for-charity-by-auctioning-off-youtube-play-button-cars-bed-and-more/ Popular streamer Ludwig had plenty up for grabs today as he held a surprise charity auction on his channel where stream-related items were auctioned off to viewers. During his stream, Ludwig parted ways with small goodies such as his YouTooz figure, custom controllers, and even larger items, like the Cars bed that the streamer slept in during his iconic subathon stream last year. Oh, and he also auctioned off his silver YouTube Play button./post/how-to-complete-shattered-realm-forest-of-echoes-in-destiny-2/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-shattered-realm-forest-of-echoes-in-destiny-2/ Shattered Realm’s maze-like missions send players through the dark depths of the Ascendant Plane, pitting them against a small army of enemies (and a boss) to make it out with a rescued Techeun. If you don’t get sidetracked, that is. Shattered Realm has a series of hidden secrets for players to explore if they meet the requirements, including upgrades in the Wayward Compass in the H.E.L.M. and a keen eye for the hidden pathways and concealed nooks and crannies./post/wireless-n64-controllers-for-nintendo-switch-will-be-restocked-in-na-in-2022/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wireless-n64-controllers-for-nintendo-switch-will-be-restocked-in-na-in-2022/ North American fans trying to buy the Nintendo 64 wireless controller for the Switch will have to wait until 2022.  As reported by Nintendo Life, the N64 wireless controller is out of stock and will be unavailable until 2022. This is reportedly only the case in North America, though, and other regions might still be able to purchase a controller.  The Nintendo 64 controller is an excellent way to improve your experience of reliving N64 titles with the Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack subscription, allowing players to download several classic N64 games, including Mario 64, Winback, and Mario Kart 64./post/riot-is-making-more-female-league-of-legends-champions-to-balance-the-roster/Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-is-making-more-female-league-of-legends-champions-to-balance-the-roster/ In recent years, there have been more female champions released in League of Legends than male champions. This, according to lead champion producer Ryan “Reav3” Mireles, is all a part of Riot’s plan. In the comment section of a recent post on League’s subreddit, Reav3 shed some light on Riot’s approach to releasing new champions. He explained that the devs are aiming to balance the roster to eventually make it 50/50 male and female champions./post/fortnite-s-v9-30-update-files-hide-epic-and-legendary-revolver-variants/Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-v9-30-update-files-hide-epic-and-legendary-revolver-variants/ The v9.30 Fortnite update yesterday brought massive leaks from data miners. Epic Games apparently added a lot of information to the game files at once, so now we know a lot of what could be coming to the game in the next three weeks. Data miner Lucas7yoshi found detailed info on a new variant of an old Fortnite gun, the Revolver. There’s now information about an Epic and Legendary variant of this pistol, and its in-game description says it’s a “fast, precise sidearm with a good punch but small capacity./post/tsm-parts-ways-with-pubg-mobile-roster/Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tsm-parts-ways-with-pubg-mobile-roster/ TSM has “mutually” parted ways with its PUBG Mobile roster in India, the organization announced in an Instagram post today. The roster featured Abhijeet “Ghatak” Andhare, Suraj “Neyoo” Majumdar, Jonathan Amaral, Abhishek “ZGOD” Choudhary, and Vivek “ClutchGod” Horo. In its announcement, TSM said that the team has “decided to pursue a new challenge.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by TSM India (@tsm_ind) “We truly believe in the future of esports in India and we are here to stay,” TSM said./post/apex-fan-recreates-valkyrie-s-birthright-helmet/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-fan-recreates-valkyrie-s-birthright-helmet/ Great video games inspire great artwork from fans, and Apex Legends is rich with material for artists and cosplayers to dig into. One of the game’s more popular skins got the “real-life treatment,” with a fan going above and beyond to recreate Valkyrie’s helmet from the Birthright skin. Reddit user 03MendicantBias posted the helmet, which includes an incredible amount of detail. It not only nails the most noticeable design elements of the helmet, with the red and yellow color scheme and patterns, but it also includes just about every notch and bolt visible on the skin’s helmet—including the carbon fiber patterning on the grey bits, and even the dirt, grime, and places where the paint scheme has been scratched and rubbed away./post/call-of-duty-vanguard-console-players-can-now-pre-load-the-game/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-vanguard-console-players-can-now-pre-load-the-game/ Call of Duty: Vanguard console players who have pre-ordered the game can now pre-load it to dive right into the action on Nov. 5.  Vanguard is just days away from releasing and fans everywhere are excited to jump into a new Call of Duty experience. But downloading and installing a new game can take a significant amount of time and severely hinder your first-day experience. The good news is Call of Duty: Vanguard can be pre-loaded early, allowing players to instantly dive into the action when it’s released./post/how-to-expand-your-minimap-scale-past-100-percent-in-league-of-legends/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-expand-your-minimap-scale-past-100-percent-in-league-of-legends/ The minimap in League of Legends is one of the most important tools in the game. It gives an abundance of information about the enemy’s position on the map, where your vision lines are, and what objectives are coming up next. Some people don’t use the minimap to its full effect, however. Low-ranked players are notorious for not looking at it, while on some monitors, the full scale of the minimap is still tiny compared to the rest of the game./post/apex-s-new-update-grants-loss-forgiveness-to-victims-of-ddos-attacks/Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-s-new-update-grants-loss-forgiveness-to-victims-of-ddos-attacks/ A new Apex Legends update will end matches and grant loss forgiveness to everyone in the lobby after detecting a denial-of-service attack, according to Respawn. The measure aims to protect the victims and deny any advantages to the perpetrators. With the new system, detecting a DDoS attack will send all players back to the lobby. In some cases, the change will completely void the outcome of matches, including any stats such as damage or kills, and any variation in RP./post/shroud-shares-thoughts-on-integration-of-nfts-in-video-games/Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-shares-thoughts-on-integration-of-nfts-in-video-games/ NFTs have been a hot topic in the gaming community as of late. Just last week, Dr Disrespect’s game studio, Midnight Society, announced the introduction of NFTs in the company’s inaugural game release, which received massive community backlash. And in a broadcast yesterday, popular FPS streamer Shroud joined the conversation with his opinion on how NFTs are being implemented in video games. The discussion began when Shroud’s chat brought up the comparison between NFTs and Twitch drops, a system that rewards viewers with in-game items for watching streams for a certain amount of time./post/apxvoid-disqualified-from-hct/Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apxvoid-disqualified-from-hct/ If you’re a Mage player in Hearthstone and you like to watch streams, you’re probably familiar with Jacob “Apxvoid” Coen. Apxvoid regularly streams Mage gameplay on his Twitch channel and has garnered a reputation as one of the best Mage players in the game. Apxvoid regularly plays around the top 500 legend rank on the North America ladder, and more often than not he is closer to the top 100. Recently, Apxvoid qualified to play at the Hearthstone Championship Tour Winter Finals in North America on January 19-20./post/how-to-get-the-pok%C3%A9tch-off-the-screen-in-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-pok%C3%A9tch-off-the-screen-in-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ The Pokétch is a feature that returns to Pokémon remakes Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and fans who have their hands on the game are starting to acquire them and are having trouble getting the overlay in the top right corner off of the screen. There are multiple different uses for the Pokétch, such as a list of your current Pokémon with their hit points, a memo feature that allows you to write or draw on it, a Happiness Checker, and more./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-proguides/Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-proguides/ This article is proudly sponsored by ProGuides. Football. Basketball. Tennis. Hockey. Even poker. Every major sport that requires hand-eye coordination and critical thinking all have league-leading players with one thing in common: quality coaching. And video games, a $152 billion dollar industry, is no exception. Everyone who’s ever spent time with a competitive video game eventually hits a plateau. It’s inevitable. You’re coasting, picking up new tricks and mechanical flourishes, as a game’s DNA slowly merges with your own./post/iitztimmy-finishes-solo-bronze-to-predator-apex-legends-challenge-after-54-hour-stream/Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/iitztimmy-finishes-solo-bronze-to-predator-apex-legends-challenge-after-54-hour-stream/ After over two days straight of playing ranked matches in Apex Legends, iiTzTimmy has finished an incredible “solo Bronze to Predator in one stream” challenge. The content creator and FPS god began streaming on Saturday, Aug. 14, and reached Master division on Monday afternoon just after 46 straight hours of playing, and climbing through the Diamond ranks for nearly a full day. His viewer count surpassed 100,000 in the surrounding moments./post/what-does-nat-mean-in-madden/Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-nat-mean-in-madden/ When you start playing a game, you immediately start building your muscle memory which eventually helps you become a better player. Without realizing it, you’ll also improve and enlarge your vocabulary with the terms you’ve often seen in your game of choice. Madden has its fair share of unique terms and callouts. If you frequently play the Ultimate Team game mode (MUT), then the chances are you may have seen the term NAT being thrown around./post/c9-parts-ways-with-vice/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/c9-parts-ways-with-vice/ Cloud9 Blue is making a roster move in the wake of not qualifying for VCT Masters. Effective immediately, the VALORANT team is parting ways with IGL Daniel “vice” Kim, a founding member of the original C9 Blue roster. Today we part ways with one of the original members of #C9BLUE. Thank you, @vice_cs, and we wish you the very best. 💙 pic.twitter.com/aKEgVAH9Uz — Cloud9 (@Cloud9) March 16, 2021 Despite having arguably the best individual player in North America, Tyson “TenZ” Ngo, for a while, C9 Blue struggled./post/iem-cologne-2021-scores-bracket-schedule/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/iem-cologne-2021-scores-bracket-schedule/ It’s been 16 months, but LAN events have returned to the competitive CS:GO. As the world begins to heal and the CS:GO environment returns to normal, 24 teams have traveled to a five-star hotel in Cologne, Germany for IEM Cologne 2021. These teams will compete in a safe and sterile environment, on LAN, for the lion’s share of a $1 million prize pool. LANs have been away for so long that IEM Cologne will be the offline debut for several pro players, as well as the newest addition to the map pool, Ancient./post/os-maiores-lan%C3%A7amentos-de-jogos-de-2021/Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/os-maiores-lan%C3%A7amentos-de-jogos-de-2021/ O ano de 2021 trouxe uma infinidade de lançamentos de jogos, sejam títulos amplamente antecipados de grandes estúdios e franquias ou sucessos surpresa que rapidamente subiram nas paradas e obtiveram críticas brilhantes. Se você acompanha o mundo dos jogos ao longo do ano, provavelmente já ouviu a maioria desses nomes. Com tantos novos lançamentos, porém, você pode ter esquecido exatamente quais títulos foram lançados este ano. Aqui você encontrará uma recapitulação de alguns dos maiores lançamentos de jogos ocorridos nos últimos 12 meses./post/sodapoppin-unbanned-after-2-week-twitch-suspension-admits-he-deserved-the-ban/Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sodapoppin-unbanned-after-2-week-twitch-suspension-admits-he-deserved-the-ban/ Popular Twitch streamer Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris has now been unbanned. The star was handed a surprise ban on April 13 which lasted for two weeks—seven days longer than many in the community were originally expecting. Twitch, as per usual, did not reveal their reasoning for banning Sodapoppin, however, fans have speculated it came as a result of a “black face” joke he made. Prior to his suspension, Sodapoppin had been creating a character for a game during his Twitch stream./post/coven-decayed-mechanics-debut-in-innistrad-midnight-hunt/Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/coven-decayed-mechanics-debut-in-innistrad-midnight-hunt/ For Magic: The Gathering‘s third trip to Innistrad, two new mechanics put a Creature-based approach at the forefront with Coven and Decayed. Both mechanics will be key parts of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt‘s Limited format and should be major players in the upcoming post-rotation Standard. Decayed takes advantage of the graveyard and will play well with the set’s Zombie synergies. Decayed Zombie tokens come in as 2/2 Creatures that can’t block and are sacrificed at the end of combat if they attack./post/how-to-beat-rennala-queen-of-the-full-moon-in-elden-ring/Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-rennala-queen-of-the-full-moon-in-elden-ring/ Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon and mother to Ranni the Witch, is the fourth main boss you’ll face in your playthrough of Elden Ring. After defeating Margit, the Fell Omen, Godrick the Grafted, and Red Wolf of Radagon, it will finally be time for you to challenge the demigod sorceress. The fight can be tricky, but with the right plan of attack, you’ll have her begging for mercy. You’ll find Rennala in the Grand Library of Raya Lucaria Academy, which can be accessed by taking the elevator behind Moongrum, Carian Knight./post/how-to-get-skrelp-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-skrelp-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor/ Pokémon Sword and Shield’s DLC added 100 returning Pokémon for players to collect. But no Pokémon DLC game would be complete without version-exclusive creatures. One of these, Skrelp, is highly sought after in the Pokémon community. Only players who have Pokémon Shield will be able to get their hands on it, however. Even when you have Shield, though, it can be a pain to try to find a Skrelp. Skrelp appears in the ocean surrounding the Isle of Armor map and has a five percent chance of appearing in the overworld./post/xerath-joining-legends-of-runeterra-s-beyond-the-bandlewood-through-shurima/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xerath-joining-legends-of-runeterra-s-beyond-the-bandlewood-through-shurima/ Legends of Runeterra: Beyond the Bandlewood’s reveal season has entered its penultimate day. And today on Twitter and in collaboration with Mobalytics, Riot has revealed Xerath, the fourth Ascended champion. Outside of Sun Disc implications, Shurima’s newest champion has you destroy allied Landmarks to wield his power. Xerath is a four-mana champion with 3/3 combat stats and an ability that deals one damage to the weakest enemy whenever an allied Landmark is destroyed./post/here-are-all-of-lillia-s-abilities/Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-lillia-s-abilities/ The next League of Legends champion has been unveiled. Half fawn, half human, Lillia is a magical, forest-dwelling, staff-wielding jungle champion. Best friend of Ivern, Lillia uses nature, magic, and dreams to protect her allies, and take down her enemies on the Rift. She’s an aggressive jungle-focused champion that deals true and magic damage with just a wave of her staff. Lillia has slows, snares, and can even put her enemies to sleep, in a similar fashion to Zoe—but dealing damage is her specialty./post/what-is-auto-chess-and-how-does-it-relate-to-league-s-teamfight-tactics-mode/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-auto-chess-and-how-does-it-relate-to-league-s-teamfight-tactics-mode/ Brought to you by IKON, challenging you to share your greatest game moments and win amazing prizes. League of Legends is taking its own spin on the Auto Chess style of game with Teamfight Tactics, a mode that will bring champions from the main game into an arena they’ve never seen before. Auto Chess is a game type typically associated with strategical battles that have characters acting as pieces on a board./post/how-to-fix-nba-2k22-crashing-issue-on-xbox-series-x-s/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-nba-2k22-crashing-issue-on-xbox-series-x-s/ Developers spend countless hours finding bugs and errors before a game’s release. But despite their best efforts, launch periods can still lead to some unforeseeable errors. NBA 2K22 was released today and players on Xbox Series X and S have found themselves experiencing a rather odd glitch that’s been preventing them from enjoying the new title. Whenever Xbox Series X|S players start up NBA 2K22, the game freezes as they try to load into the main menu./post/g2-officially-benches-mixwell-from-valorant-squad/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/g2-officially-benches-mixwell-from-valorant-squad/ Oscar “mixwell” Cañellas will no longer play for G2’s VALORANT team, the player revealed today on social media. The former captain recently had his place taken from the active lineup by Wassim “keloqz” Cista following losses to Vitality and Alliance in the VCT Europe: Stage One closed qualifier. Mixwell said that he’s now free to explore other options to continue his career in VALORANT elsewhere. I'm officially benched from G2. I have permission to search for options and I'm open to any offers./post/here-are-anthony-kongphan-s-pubg-settings/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-anthony-kongphan-s-pubg-settings/ Twitch is a magical place full of talented superstar gamers. But did you know that one of them is a former model who kicks ass in battle royale games like PUBG? Anthony Kongphan drops into battle royale and FPS games on his Twitch channel, where he streams multiple times per week—and he looks damn handsome doing it. The former actor blew up alongside PUBG when it released and he still drops in for some games now and then since he became a full-time streamer a few years ago./post/what-is-an-alpha-pok%C3%A9mon-in-legends-arceus/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-an-alpha-pok%C3%A9mon-in-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus will be bringing a ton of new content when it launches early in 2022 thanks to its location and place in the timeline in an ancient version of the Sinnoh region called the Hisui region. Within the Hisui region, everything is different. There are different Pokémon, Pokéballs, trainers, and a whole lot more. But most interestingly there will be the additions of several new kinds of Pokémon./post/fortnite-s-week-10-secret-battle-star-location-and-existence-are-still-unconfirmed/Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-week-10-secret-battle-star-location-and-existence-are-still-unconfirmed/ The tenth week in Fortnite’s season six arrived today with a new set of Battle Pass challenges. But this time, the secret Battle Star or banner might just be a dream. Apparently, Fortnite developer Epic Games gave up on adding them this week. What makes most players think these secret items are missing is this week’s loading screen. There’s generally a hidden clue as to where to find the secret banner or Battle Star of that week, since they’re only unlocked when a player finishes that week’s free and premium challenges./post/blood-moon-katarina-master-yi-and-tryndamere-arrive-on-league-s-live-servers-in-patch-10-4/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blood-moon-katarina-master-yi-and-tryndamere-arrive-on-league-s-live-servers-in-patch-10-4/ League of Legends fans, get your wallets ready. The Blood Moon cult is adding three members to its ranks with the newest set of skins for Katarina, Master Yi, and Tryndamere. The batch of skins will launch on the live servers with Patch 10.4 on Feb. 20. The three new cult-themed skins closely resemble older looks from the skin line. The three skins sell for 1,350 RP each and share a similar crimson and white color pattern./post/fastest-nfl-players-in-madden-21/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fastest-nfl-players-in-madden-21/ The NFL playoffs are just around the corner. Throughout the course of the year, there have been a number of changes to players’ stats in Madden 21. But the fastest player in the league, according to Madden 21, has remained unchanged at the end of the regular season. The only player in the league with a speed rating of 99, Kansas City Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill, is the fastest player you can use in Madden./post/how-to-complete-march-s-potm-nkunku-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-march-s-potm-nkunku-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA released a 91-rated POTM version of RB Leipzig’s striker Christopher Nkunku in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today. Players can get this untradable card by completing a squad-building challenge (SBC) in-game. Players can decide who deserves to receive an upgraded POTM version by voting monthly on select players based on their performance. Nkunku is representing the best of what the Bundesliga had to offer during March with this POTM version./post/how-to-make-someone-a-moderator-on-twitch/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-make-someone-a-moderator-on-twitch/ Twitch’s moderators are an essential part of a stream and help keep the chat and community in line. Streamers can assign moderators to help moderate chatters and viewers and prevent any negative or prohibited behavior.  Moderators can help streamers monitor their chat while they focus on their content by removing any inappropriate content or disruptive viewers to prevent them from ruining the experience.  There are a couple of ways to make someone a moderator./post/all-mercenaries-and-their-abilities-in-hearthstone-mercenaries/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mercenaries-and-their-abilities-in-hearthstone-mercenaries/ Fans have gotten more and more ways to enjoy Hearthstone over the years. With new casual and ranked modes, Hearthstone finds a way to keep the game fresh for veteran players while also drawing the attention of newcomers. Hearthstone Mercenaries combines the game’s unique world with elements from roguelikes and RPGs, inviting players to an adventure they’ve never experienced before in Hearthstone. In this new game mode, you’ll be able to assemble your party from Mercenaries and go on different adventures./post/new-world-starter-guide-what-to-do-first/Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-world-starter-guide-what-to-do-first/ After years of development and multiple extended beta periods, New World has finally launched. The huge MMO project from Amazon Studios has rocketed to the top of the charts on its first day, dominating the rankings on both Steam and Twitch. If you’ve made it past the queues and into the game, then congratulations, your journey is now set to begin. Rather than walk you through the controls like the tutorial will do, we’ve put together a guide of tips and tricks to follow as your New World journey begins./post/new-york-subliners-and-asim-part-ways/Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-york-subliners-and-asim-part-ways/ After proving himself as a capable starter in the Call of Duty League, Asim is now a free agent after he and the New York Subliners went their separate ways this afternoon. Asim joined New York back in January as the team’s initial fourth starter, teaming up with Clayster, Mack, and Diamondcon after HyDra was delayed in Europe due to visa issues. He continued to start with the team even after HyDra joined the starting lineup later in the 2021 season./post/how-to-fix-error-code-400-in-roblox/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-error-code-400-in-roblox/ Online games like Roblox can look like well-oiled machines from a distance, but even the most perfect ones can go down from time to time. Error code 400 in Roblox usually appears when the servers go down. With the servers out of order, Roblox loses its online functionalities and causes players to receive the error code 400 or similar ones, preventing them from accessing the game. On rare occasions, this error can also appear due to connectivity problems, meaning there are a couple of troubleshooting methods you can try out to fix the error on your own./post/ps-lineup-for-may-leaked-includes-fifa-2022/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ps-lineup-for-may-leaked-includes-fifa-2022/ The games included in May’s offer on PlayStation Plus have been leaked. Users of the popular PS subscription will have a chance to play and download three titles for free in the forthcoming month, with FIFA 22 being the biggest one. The other two productions are Curse of the Dead Gods and Tribes of Midgard. Once again, Dealabs, a French website built for looking for profitable deals, which has been revealing titles included in different gaming subscriptions for a couple of months now, is responsible for the leak./post/how-to-complete-the-dragonspiral-descent-event-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-dragonspiral-descent-event-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go’s Dragonspiral Descent is bringing some of Unova’s rarest and heaviest hitters to the game as players continue to learn more about a mysterious door discovered in a historical cave site at the beginning of the Season of Heritage.  Among the Pokémon that will be appearing during the event from Dec. 7 to 12 is Druddigon, a pure Dragon-type from Unova that is making its Pokémon Go debut.  In order to encounter Druddigon, players will need to finish new Field Research, complete the event’s Collection Challenge, or encounter it in three-star raids./post/when-does-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-season-4-start/Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-season-4-start/ Blizzard earlier this year announced World of Warcraft Shadowlands would have a fourth season for mythic keystones and PvP to bridge the gap between the end of Shadowlands and the beginning of Dragonflight. While seasons in WoW are typically associated with a raid, Blizzard is trying to fill a content gap before its upcoming expansion, which has no set release date, by giving fans another season with some throwback dungeons that will be added to the mythic dungeon pool./post/league-patch-9-3-s-spear-of-shojin-is-a-top-laner-s-new-best-friend/Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-patch-9-3-s-spear-of-shojin-is-a-top-laner-s-new-best-friend/ League of Legends Patch 9.3 arrived today, and it was very, very full of big changes. Whether it was Akali being curbed by nerfs or Riot’s balance team attempting to save Irelia after 9.2 gutted her, there was a lot to take in. Some of the biggest changes to arrive today, however, were the ones in the bot lane. Crit items for bot lane carries were redesigned to sort of help them survive against the onslaught of burst carries that have been dominating the meta for months./post/how-to-complete-the-alola-to-alola-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-alola-to-alola-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Players around the world are saying Alola to Alola in the Pokémon Go season finale for the Season of Alola, which is running from May 25 to 31.  Throughout the event, players will encounter Pokémon from around the Alola region more frequently in the wild, eggs, and raids, all while completing a new end-of-season Special Research story based on the island region.  Among those increased spawns, the guardian deities of the Alola region, Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu, and Tapu Fini will all be appearing at the same time in five-star raids./post/how-to-solve-wordle-puzzles-words-with-e-as-the-second-letter/Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-solve-wordle-puzzles-words-with-e-as-the-second-letter/ Wordle is the daily sensation game of the moment. A great exercise for the brain and to pass the time. But sometimes it can surprise us and be difficult for even the most experienced of players. There may be days when you will only come across a single green letter on your first attempts. And the fear of losing your streak can be stronger than the daring to try the next word blindly./post/where-to-find-and-destroy-armored-transport-trucks-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-and-destroy-armored-transport-trucks-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Search and Deploy is a new limited-time event that became available in Warzone Pacific season two. The game mode features a few new mechanics, meaning there’ll be a learning curve when you first try it. Nebula V Rounds, Portable Decontamination Stations, Armored Transport Trucks, and new landmarks will make up the core gameplay experience in Search and Deploy. The Armored Transport Trucks will be driven by NPCs and players will get to destroy them to secure themselves some rare loot./post/e3-to-take-place-virtually-for-2022/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/e3-to-take-place-virtually-for-2022/ The annual Electronics Entertainment Expo will once again be forgoing an in-person public space this year due to increasing safety concerns regarding the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. In a statement to GamesBeat, the Entertainment Software Association said that “due to the ongoing health risks surrounding COVID-19 and its potential impact on the safety of exhibitors and attendees, E3 will not be held in person in 2022.” The ESA added that it will be announcing further details regarding E3 2022 in the near future, with no start date for the event announced yet./post/how-to-watch-qtcinderella-s-streamer-awards/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-qtcinderella-s-streamer-awards/ Voting has closed, and all that is left to do is tally the votes and announce winners for QTCinderella’s Streamer Awards this weekend. With 27 different awards going out, the in-person show is being streamed live on Saturday night, and according to the hostess herself, the event will cost her around $200,000 to pull off. https://twitter.com/StreamerAwards/status/1495854683566780416?s=20&t=464hfyc0uycadkzw4XA6BA The broadcast itself will start on Saturday at 7pm CT and be on QTCinderella’s personal Twitch channel./post/league-s-newest-set-of-world-champion-skins-are-here-and-they-look-out-of-this-world/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-newest-set-of-world-champion-skins-are-here-and-they-look-out-of-this-world/ Riot Games revealed PBE previews for the newest set of World Championship skins on social media today. Ezreal, Gnar, Taliyah, Jarvan IV, Xayah, and Rakan will each be getting a new skin to commemorate Samsung Galaxy’s triumph over SKT at last year’s Worlds. Each skin features a custom recall animation that is based off motions acted out by the players. While they all look out of this world, some are a little confusing./post/top-lane-tanks-are-being-targeted-for-buffs-following-sunfire-cape-s-rework/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/top-lane-tanks-are-being-targeted-for-buffs-following-sunfire-cape-s-rework/ Top lane tanks are going to be buffed to compensate for the damage nerf to Sunfire Cape last week, according to a Riot post on the official League of Legends forums. The change to the item greatly increased the damage that the Sunfire Cape deals to minions and monsters, but it is now only partially effective against champions, turning it into a farming and pushing item rather than a dueling tool./post/tft-tome-of-traits-rework-coming-in-patch-12-3/Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-tome-of-traits-rework-coming-in-patch-12-3/ The Teamfight Tactics item Tome of Traits will get a rework with a slight nerf in Patch 12.3, according to game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer. Scheduled to take place within TFT Patch 12.3 on Feb. 2, Tome of Traits will have a clear rules chart indicating the number of tailored traits a player will get to choose from upon cracking open the item. The rework “is intended to be clearer to players, but also a slight nerf,” according to Mortdog./post/new-league-of-legends-champion-neeko-is-gay-riot-writer-says/Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-league-of-legends-champion-neeko-is-gay-riot-writer-says/ League of Legends developer Riot Games released a whole lore story about its new champion, Neeko, today. The developer outlined Neeko’s history and how she got to where she is now. But there’s a piece of lore missing from her official story: She’s the game’s second gay champion. Fans have noticed that Neeko “seems to” like female champions more than male champions in her in-game quotes. Senior narrative writer Matt Dunn confirmed that Neeko is interested more in women, because she “identifies as a lesbian./post/florida-mayhem-adds-flats-as-content-creator/Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/florida-mayhem-adds-flats-as-content-creator/ The Florida Mayhem’s 2021 Overwatch League season may be over, but the team is upgrading its content crew to keep fans entertained throughout the offseason.  Florida has officially added popular Overwatch streamer Flats to its content creation roster, the team announced today. Flats is known for his fun, positive streams and main tank gameplay. He boasts nearly 116,000 followers on Twitch and 128,000 subscribers on YouTube.  He's ACTUALLY the most cracked out player of all time – and he's ready to #LightItUp/post/how-to-find-toxel-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-toxel-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Pokémon Sword and Shield feature a new region and a new Pokédex, meaning there’s a slew of new and rare Pokémon for fans to add to their teams. One of the many new creatures is Toxel, a purple dinosaur-like species that features a unique typing: Electric and Poison. Toxel can be found in the wild, but there’s an additional way to obtain the Pokémon, and it’s easy for those who’ve reached a certain point in the game./post/how-to-start-a-battlefield-2042-portal-server/Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-start-a-battlefield-2042-portal-server/ Battlefield 2042 is looking to outdo its predecessors when it comes to replayability. Not only will the fans have lots of new content to explore in Battlefield 2042, but they’ll also have the option to create unique experiences, Portals, with content from some of the most popular Battlefield games from the past. Considering the size of the Battlefield franchise, players can spend hours while starting their own Battlefield 2042 Portal server since there are too many unique memorable maps and other content that will take players down to the memory lane./post/how-to-get-the-what-pok%C3%A9mon-are-you-filter-on-instagram/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-what-pok%C3%A9mon-are-you-filter-on-instagram/ We’ve all had our chance to play as the trainer, but have you ever wondered what Pokémon you’d be in another life? Instagram can give you some insight into that query with its new filter “What Pokémon are you?” Instagram added this Pokémon collab filter to its collection on Dec. 28 and it’s quickly exploded as users clammer to morph into their inner pocket monster. The filter doesn’t include all 800+ Pokémon from the entire series./post/valorant-player-programs-new-inventory-manager/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-programs-new-inventory-manager/ VALORANT fans are always thinking of new ways that the game’s user interface can be improved to give players a better look and more options that aren’t currently present within the game. One of the creators strongly behind this initiative is Colin Hartigan, who programmed his dream inventory manager to cycle through the different looks of weapons currently in VALORANT. In a demo clip, Colin showed how you can cycle through each weapon’s different levels and available color palettes to see how each weapon will look in-game./post/what-is-the-next-weapon-coming-to-apex-legends/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-the-next-weapon-coming-to-apex-legends/ The L-Star light machine gun, introduced in season two along with new attachments, Ranked Leagues, and Wattson, was the last weapon added to the Apex Legends armory. One data miner thinks a submachine gun is next on the list. Well-known Apex data miner That1MiningGuy released a video today in which he discusses what he believes to be the next gun coming to Kings Canyon: the Volt SMG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=KUScaBqMOSw In the video, That1MiningGuy explains that the icon for the Volt, which is originally from Titanfall 2, is the most recent gun to be updated in the 505 File./post/apex-legends-character-tier-list/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-character-tier-list/ Season 12 of Apex Legends is underway, and it’s shaking things up with tons of new content. Offensive legend Mad Maggie has made her debut as a playable character, and along with her came big changes to Olympus and the new Control limited-time mode. But how does she stack up against the game’s existing legends? While typical battle royales put players on a level playing field, Apex is different in that each character comes with a unique set of abilities and hitboxes./post/escape-graveyard-with-mtg-theros-beyond-death-s-underworld-breach/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/escape-graveyard-with-mtg-theros-beyond-death-s-underworld-breach/ The new Escape mechanic in Magic: The Gathering has been expanded upon today with the reveal of Underworld Breach. With a CMC of two (one Red), the enchantment Underworld Breach provides all non-land permanents in a controller’s graveyard with Escape—but only until the beginning of the end step. Underworld Breach is a one-shot strategy, allowing a player to bring back a key card, or cards, at a cost of three exiled cards from the graveyard and its original mana cost./post/how-to-remove-keycaps/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-remove-keycaps/ Keycaps are an easy and cost-effective way to customize your mechanical keyboard. Sometimes keycaps are worn out or broken after heavy use, and replacing them is a necessary upgrade. Removing keycaps can be tricky the first time, but the process is easy after a few keys. Replacing or removing keycaps is relatively simple. Most mechanical keyboards come with a keycap puller, but these can also be purchased separately. There are different types of keycap pullers, but all quality options are effective in removing keycaps./post/cross-region-legends-of-runeterra-gameplay-coming-later-this-year/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cross-region-legends-of-runeterra-gameplay-coming-later-this-year/ Legends of Runeterra players in different regions will be able to play against each other later this year, Riot Games confirmed today. Cross-region gameplay between friends on LoR has been a request since the open beta launch. With the official release of Riot’s digital card game via PC and mobile on April 30, players have been asking for additional gameplay options and UI improvements. A Twitter user asked LoR game director Andrew “RiotUmbrage” Yip for a time frame regarding cross-region gameplay today./post/pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl-leak-claims-mew-and-jirachi-will-be-available/Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl-leak-claims-mew-and-jirachi-will-be-available/ Over the weekend some Pokémon fans have been able to get themselves copies of the upcoming gen. 4 remakes Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and among the details leaking from the games is the appearance of two unlikely legendary Pokémon. According to leaker pokeymasta, Jirachi and Mew will both be acquirable in these remakes despite not being available in the original Diamond and Pearl games. Jirachi confirmed! Credits to pokeymasta pic./post/how-much-money-has-mixer-paid-ninja-to-stream-on-its-platform/Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-money-has-mixer-paid-ninja-to-stream-on-its-platform/ Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was living the dream on Twitch. He was one of the most-watched channels on the platform with millions of followers and tens of thousands of subscribers, with an estimated total earnings of $10 million in 2018 thanks to his streams. And then, Microsoft came along with an undisclosed offer and signed an exclusive contract with Ninja for its own streaming platform, Mixer, on Aug. 1. Ninja is no longer a Twitch streamer and he’ll only be on Mixer starting Aug./post/halo-co-creator-and-ex-bungie-director-to-lead-new-ea-seattle-studio-focused-on-first-person-games/Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-co-creator-and-ex-bungie-director-to-lead-new-ea-seattle-studio-focused-on-first-person-games/ Marcus Lehto, one of the original co-creators of the famed Halo franchise, announced today he has joined Electronic Arts as a game director and will lead a new Seattle-based studio focused on “first-person games.” A veteran of popular first-person titles, Lehto joined Bungie in 1997 as an art director, and was pivotal in the creative vision, art direction, and content production for the first three entries of the iconic Halo franchise; Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3./post/halo-infinite-there-was-a-problem-with-the-dedicated-server-error-fix/Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-there-was-a-problem-with-the-dedicated-server-error-fix/ Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode is now available to play, giving fans early access to the highly anticipated title. Rumors claimed the multiplayer mode would be launched to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Xbox, and players everywhere were greeted with the welcomed surprise.  While the release of the Halo Infinite multiplayer mode is exciting, it also introduces problems as thousands of players attempt to join the fun. Some players cannot download the game as it rolls out across every platform and are greeted with blank blue screens./post/how-to-get-revives-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-revives-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Just like humans, Pokémon also need a time-out once in a while, especially after a Gym fight where you may have underestimated the opposing trainer. Though there are multiple alternatives to heal your Pokémon, none will work if they have zero health points (HP). An empty health bar doesn’t necessarily mean your Pokémon are gone for good, but you’ll need to bring out the big guns to get them back into fighting shape. Only Revives can heal Pokémon from zero HP, and they’re considerably less common than any other consumables in the game./post/beaulo-shows-promise-in-r6-pro-league-debut-with-tsm/Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/beaulo-shows-promise-in-r6-pro-league-debut-with-tsm/ Despite some heavy matchups in North America’s matchday two of R6 Pro League, fans’ eyes were set on TSM vs. Spacestation Gaming. One question loomed heavy leading up to match—how would newcomer Jason “Beaulo” Doty hold up in Pro League? TSM got off to a strong start, but it was interesting to see Beaulo whip out the crouch spam cheese in the back half of round one. Beaulo decided it would be the best play to crouch spam while peaking doorways./post/jacksepticeye-s-how-did-we-get-here-offers-a-look-into-his-life/Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/jacksepticeye-s-how-did-we-get-here-offers-a-look-into-his-life/ YouTuber Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin is getting his own documentary that features an in-depth look into the gaming creator’s life on Moment House, a ticketed livestreaming platform. How Did We Get Here? follows Jacksepticeye’s life from when he was a kid up until where he is now, an immensely popular YouTuber with over 28 million subscribers. The documentary was filmed during the comedy tour of the same name, which he did in 2018./post/voice-acting-and-items-now-live-in-nickelodeon-all-star-brawl/Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/voice-acting-and-items-now-live-in-nickelodeon-all-star-brawl/ Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl has voice acting and items now, courtesy of a major update that was pushed live on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation earlier today.  The game, which previously teased voice acting as a potential addition last December, has now fixed one of the major complaints players had with its presentation at launch.  HE SAYS THE LINE https://t.co/hbW8BWxzjV pic.twitter.com/AfcpdauZYn — torn but hyped (apoc) (@Marcanthony737) June 6, 2022 Prior to this update, characters had no voice lines, which hampered that game’s overall appeal and presentation to a casual audience who grew up with or is familiar with its cast of Nickelodeon characters./post/was-the-akali-rework-a-failure/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/was-the-akali-rework-a-failure/ It’s been two years since Akali’s rework happened. She’s been problematic since then for multiple reasons: powerful ratios, overloaded kit, no glaring weaknesses. Even before she was released on the live servers, League of Legends pros foresaw the problems that were going to arise with her rework. Riot Games’ designer Bradford “CertainlyT” Wenban received a lot of backlash from this rework. It generated a lot of frustration in the community because the champion was so overturned that it was close to impossible to play an immobile champion against her./post/houston-outlaws-renews-deal-with-danteh/Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/houston-outlaws-renews-deal-with-danteh/ Dante “Danteh” Cruz is returning to the Houston Outlaws for the 2021 season, the Overwatch League team announced today. This move is the Outlaws’ first signing for next season. Danteh became a free agent just a couple of weeks ago after spending the 2020 season with the Outlaws. But with a few key moves by the team, it wasn’t too difficult for management to keep the young talent in black and green./post/worlds-2021-play-in-stage-scores-standings-and-results/Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/worlds-2021-play-in-stage-scores-standings-and-results/ The 2021 League of Legends World Championship begins with the play-in stage on Oct. 5. The play-ins feature 10 teams split into two groups. Group A includes Hanwha Life, Infinity, LNG, PEACE, and RED Canids, while Group B consists of Beyond Gaming, Cloud9, DetonatioN FocusMe, Galatasaray Esports, and Unicorns of Love. Each group will play a single round-robin to decide the winner, who will automatically advance to the next stage of the event./post/riot-set-to-throttle-hecarim-with-nerfs-in-league-patch-11-9/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-set-to-throttle-hecarim-with-nerfs-in-league-patch-11-9/ Riot Games gameplay design director Mark “Scruffy” Yetter released a detailed preview of League of Legends Patch 11.9 today. The patch preview lays out 19 different buffs and nerfs for champions across the roster. But no champion is receiving more attention than Hecarim.  11.9 Patch Preview with the tentative changes: While doing the Hecarim nerfs we wanted to shift his power so that tank build has notably less damage (but still tanky) making room for a viable damage build./post/another-fortnite-earthquake-creates-a-second-crack-between-tomato-temple-and-lazy-links/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/another-fortnite-earthquake-creates-a-second-crack-between-tomato-temple-and-lazy-links/ The second earthquake of the day has occurred in Fortnite: Battle Royale. A second crack has appeared on the Fortnite map—and this one is near the bridge between Tomato Temple and Lazy Links. A second crack has formed between Tomato Temple and Lazy Links! #Fortnite pic.twitter.com/rjaOOvGmos — Fortnite News (@FortniteBR) February 15, 2019 The first earthquake happened today around 11:40am CT. But this initial crack showed up southwest of Tomato Temple—while the second earthquake took place north of the previous mark./post/how-to-change-the-weather-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-wild-area/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-the-weather-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-wild-area/ If you have visited the Wild Area anytime in Pokémon Sword and Shield, you might have noticed that the weather is finicky and changes at random throughout your play session. It often feels like there is no way to control the weather or to make the most of what Pokémon are offered in every subsection of the Wild Area. But this is only partially true. There is a way to take more direct control of the weather in the Wild Area even if we use the word “control” lightly./post/how-to-get-party-hat-pikachu-eevee-squirtle-charmander-and-bulbasaur-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-party-hat-pikachu-eevee-squirtle-charmander-and-bulbasaur-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The Pokémon Day celebration is underway, and with it come some unique event Pokémon that you can capture if you are playing Pokémon Go. Among the special event Pokémon that have been added into the game are variants of Pikachu, Eevee, Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur, which are all wearing party hats. This is nothing especially new, considering Party Hat Pokémon have been used before, but this is the first time all of these options are available at the same time./post/on-what-consoles-and-platforms-will-yu-gi-oh-master-duel-be-playable/Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/on-what-consoles-and-platforms-will-yu-gi-oh-master-duel-be-playable/ Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is Konami’s answer to digital card simulators and will be used to bring the full Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG and OCG experience to players globally in an entirely new format.  Not only is this going to be the first time Konami is working on a Yu-Gi-Oh! product in this style with a competitive focus in mind, but it will also be included as part of Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship series. /post/what-does-compleated-mean-in-magic-the-gathering/Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-compleated-mean-in-magic-the-gathering/ Wizards of the Coast is set to add a few new mechanics to Magic: The Gathering in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, and among them is a new keyword that gives players the same sort of flexibility that Phyrexian mana does. Compleated is a new ability that only exists for Planeswalkers, and only one of the set’s four Planeswalkers even has it: Tamiyo, Compleated Sage. The card costs two generic mana, one Green, one Blue, and one Compleated mana./post/how-to-complete-ucl-showdown-arp-sbc-in-fifa-20-ultimate-team/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-ucl-showdown-arp-sbc-in-fifa-20-ultimate-team/ EA Sports introduced a squad-building challenge (SBC) today that will reward players with a UEFA Champions League (UCL) Showdown 92-rated version of Jann-Fiete Arp from Bayern Munich. Arp is a part of the second UCL Showdown in FIFA 20 Ultimate Team. EA also added a 92-rated version of Jason Denayer from Lyon. These players will clash against each other for the UCL semifinals on Aug. 19 and the winner will receive a +3 overall upgrade./post/rarest-cards-in-magic-the-gathering/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rarest-cards-in-magic-the-gathering/ With more than 20,000 available cards in Magic: The Gathering and hundreds of new ones every year, collectors have a wide range of cards to look for—but some are far rarer than the rest. The rarest cards in MTG are usually from the Alpha Set, the first one available for players when the game launched in 1993. A couple of months after the game’s release, Wizards of the Coast reprinted the Alpha Set as the Beta Set./post/best-minecraft-seeds-for-speedrunning/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-minecraft-seeds-for-speedrunning/ Minecraft is a game that allows players many different gameplay style options with one of the more popular competitive ones being speedrunning. The act of speedrunning in Minecraft refers to attempting to beat the game as fast as possible. Speedrunning has been around for a while, and as such, can be attempted on any version of Minecraft. Because seeds vary and shift with each new version, make sure you load the corresponding version with each seed listed here./post/how-to-play-crypto-in-apex-legends/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-crypto-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends’ season three is finally here and fans got a slew of new content to jumpstart the season. But one of the most game-changing additions is Crpyto, the battle royale’s newest playable character. Crypto is the second recon legend and his entire kit rotates around the use of his surveillance drone. The drone takes a while to get used to, though. In a fast-paced game like Apex, sitting idly while you fly around a robot feels odd at first./post/what-are-the-horizon-forbidden-west-preorder-bonuses/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-horizon-forbidden-west-preorder-bonuses/ Horizon Forbidden West is one of the most anticipated games of the year, leading to many players pre-ordering the game ahead of its official launch. As in tradition, the pre-order versions of any games typically include some exclusive bonuses, available only for those who purchased the game early. When it comes to Horizon, there are a bunch of different collections you could have bought the game with, each containing various different items./post/optic-texas-beat-atlanta-faze-to-advance-at-2022-call-of-duty-league-pro-am-classic/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-texas-beat-atlanta-faze-to-advance-at-2022-call-of-duty-league-pro-am-classic/ OpTic Texas are moving on at the Call of Duty League Pro-Am Classic after beating Atlanta FaZe today despite having a substitute player.  OpTic came into the Call of Duty League’s Pro-Am Classic without iLLeY, who had an injury to his thumb and was unable to play after their first pool play match. General has filled in for the team, playing the majority of OpTic’s matches in group play and helping bring home a 3-2 win over the Atlanta FaZe./post/sting-to-perform-song-from-arcane-at-2021-game-awards/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sting-to-perform-song-from-arcane-at-2021-game-awards/ Following the success of Riot Games’ first Netflix animated show, Arcane, based on the world of League of Legends, the music of the series will take center stage at this year’s Game Awards. Multi-time Grammy award winner Sting will perform a popular song from Arcane at the 2021 Game Awards on Dec. 9. Sting is set to perform his song “What Could Have Been”, which was featured at the end of act three of the series./post/all-playable-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-playable-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ Pokémon UNITE, a MOBA title developed in partnership with Tencent’s TiMi Studios and The Pokémon Company, is being worked on—and with it comes a lot of unique possibilities.  UNITE doesn’t need to follow the same rules as a standard Pokémon game. Instead, it will get to play around with its roster more than most of the other spin-off Pokémon games usually get to do.  UNITE is available on both Nintendo Switch and mobile devices, with full cross-progression available for players who want to swap between platforms./post/sneaky-s-dark-elementalist-lux-cosplay-is-everything-we-ever-wanted/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sneaky-s-dark-elementalist-lux-cosplay-is-everything-we-ever-wanted/ It’s official—Cloud9 ADC Zachary “Sneaky” Scuderi is the King of Cosplay. His stellar cosplay of Star Guardian Urgot for Halloween last year was so impressive, we never thought he would be able to top it. And yet, here we are, completely blown away. This time, he cosplayed as Dark Elementalist Lux, and trust us when we say that he went all-in. At first glance, it’s hard to even recognize that its Sneaky./post/timthetatman-valkyrae-among-nominees-for-content-creator-of-the-year-at-the-game-awards-2020/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/timthetatman-valkyrae-among-nominees-for-content-creator-of-the-year-at-the-game-awards-2020/ Twitch stars TimTheTatman and NICKMERCS and YouTube streamer Valkyrae are among the nominees for Content Creator of the Year at The Game Awards 2020, it was announced today. The category is rounded out by Charalanahzard and Jay Ann Lopez of BlackGirlGamers. The winner of the award will be crowned during the all-digital show on Dec. 10. Your nominees for Content Creator of the Year, presented by @adobe 👾@charalanahzard 👾@NickMercs 👾@TimtheTatman/post/keane-the-anti-carry-opposing-mid-laners-deal-6500-less-damage-to-champions-when-facing-team-gravity/Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/keane-the-anti-carry-opposing-mid-laners-deal-6500-less-damage-to-champions-when-facing-team-gravity/ Introduction This split of the NA LCS, Keane has failed to pick a single meta champion. In addition to 3 games on his beloved Urgot, the eccentric Gravity mid laner has played Jarvan IV, Fizz, Malphite, Twisted Fate, and Rumble. Of those 6 champions, only Twisted Fate is anything close to popular. In addition to those champions, Keane is infamous for a pocket Hecarim pick which he saves for melee assassin match-ups./post/moonmoon-gives-his-thoughts-on-overwatch-2/Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/moonmoon-gives-his-thoughts-on-overwatch-2/ The beta for Overwatch 2 hasn’t been out for a full 24 hours yet and former OW Twitch streamer MoonMoon is already fed up with fielding questions about the differences between the team-based FPS and its sequel. On stream yesterday, Moon was asked about whether the changes that Blizzard is making to Overwatch were “significant enough” to elicit an entirely new game or if they could have just been implemented in a series of hotfixes./post/new-state-mobile-s-latest-update-allows-you-to-revive-teammates-much-faster-with-unity-feature/Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-state-mobile-s-latest-update-allows-you-to-revive-teammates-much-faster-with-unity-feature/ In the middle of fast-paced and intense battles, the 10 seconds that it takes to revive a knocked ally could be the deciding factor between winning and losing. The new Unity feature, however, which was released in Patch 0.9.24, allows teams to revive or recall a player much faster. In this feature, players can revive an ally by teaming up together to speed up the time. The decrease in time is as follows:/post/how-to-report-hackers-cheaters-and-players-in-fall-guys/Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-report-hackers-cheaters-and-players-in-fall-guys/ Fall Guys was launched on Aug. 4 and players are already bumping into hackers. The most common cheat being used is a speed hack that makes the player run at an unbelievable speed, giving them a clear advantage. You may want to report a hacker if you run into one while playing Fall Guys, but Mediatonic hasn’t added a report system to the game yet. The developers had to deal with several server issues caused by the game’s huge demand after launch, so the cheating problem has seemingly been pushed to the side so far./post/seer-s-ability-kit-in-apex-legends-emergence-will-include-a-heartbeat-sensor-and-microdrones-that-track-enemies/Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/seer-s-ability-kit-in-apex-legends-emergence-will-include-a-heartbeat-sensor-and-microdrones-that-track-enemies/ Move over, Bloodhound. Another tracker’s coming to town. Respawn unveiled Apex Legends‘ Emergence launch trailer during today’s EA Play Live, giving a first look at new legend Seer’s gameplay. While the trailer didn’t quite explain what his abilities do, game director Chad Grenier discussed the upcoming legend’s kit and how he’ll fit into the meta. Similar to Bloodhound, Seer is a tracker who uses his abilities to provide intel for his squad./post/pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-massive-mass-outbreaks-explained/Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-massive-mass-outbreaks-explained/ As part of Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ free Daybreak update, a new gameplay mechanic has been added to the game that challenges players to tackle Massive Mass Outbreaks. These are iterations of the game’s pre-existing Mass Outbreak mechanic, which are special events where a specific species of Pokémon will appear more frequently for a set period of time.  Unlike the regular version of the encounter method, Massive Mass Outbreaks involve multiple outbreaks happening at once and don’t necessarily take into account the ecosystem a species of Pokémon is native to./post/sources-stellar-fiziq-epathy-signed-to-soar-s-valorant-roster/Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-stellar-fiziq-epathy-signed-to-soar-s-valorant-roster/ North American organization SoaR has signed three players prior to the start of the VALORANT Champions Tour 2022, which is set to begin on Jan. 27, multiple sources told Dot Esports on Jan. 15.  The team has signed the free agent trio of Brenden “Stellar” McGrath, Lucas “fiziq” Blow, and Ngawang “epathy” Chonjor. SoaR is also in negotiations with Australian player Ashley “Trill” Powell but a deal is yet to be finalized due to visa issues./post/valorant-player-shows-one-way-cypher-smokes-on-icebox/Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-shows-one-way-cypher-smokes-on-icebox/ Using abilities effectively in VALORANT is an essential part of holding sites and keeping attackers at bay. One VALORANT player recently highlighted two useful spots for one-way Cypher smokes on Icebox.  The first spot can be used by throwing a Cyber cage from the second story on the B site. Players need to aim for a specific spot on a green container, and if done correctly, the cage will land on a raised ledge./post/should-you-dismantle-your-old-gear-or-sell-it-in-lost-ark/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/should-you-dismantle-your-old-gear-or-sell-it-in-lost-ark/ Getting attached to your gear in Lost Ark isn’t usually recommended since you’ll be replacing your items with more powerful ones as you progress through the game. Once you start acquiring more powerful gear, your older items will start collecting dust in your inventory and it may get a little crowded there since you’ll also be picking up a lot of collectibles during your journey. If you’re looking to get rid of your old gear, you can try selling it for gold or dismantling it for random items./post/urabrask-returns-in-mtg-streets-of-new-capenna-as-third-phyrexian-praetor-in-current-storyline/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/urabrask-returns-in-mtg-streets-of-new-capenna-as-third-phyrexian-praetor-in-current-storyline/ Phyrexians have slowly made their way into the post-War of the Spark storyline, first reappearing in Kaldheim with Vorinclex. Urabrask, the red-aligned Praetor, appears in Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming set Streets of New Capenna, making it the third Phyrexian appearance. Jin-Gitaxias appeared in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. This iteration of Urabrask retains haste and helps Red strategies draw more cards and close out the game. Urabrask, Heretic Praetor Mana value: 3RRType: Legendary Creature Phyrexian PraetorRarity: Mythic RareStats: 4/4Keywords: HasteFirst ability: At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library./post/xbox-and-bethesda-showcase-all-new-trailers-release-dates-and-more/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xbox-and-bethesda-showcase-all-new-trailers-release-dates-and-more/ Summer Game Fest is coming to a close, and one of the last big events to broadcast was the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. The two publishers released new trailers, new information, new games, and more. If you missed the show, there was a lot to be excited about. Many games that are releasing this year or early next year got more solid release windows, fans got a better look at games that were previously announced or teased, and there were even some new game surprises that have people excited for the future of gaming./post/xqc-streams-himself-sleeping-for-9-hours-after-a-26-hour-overwatch-session/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-streams-himself-sleeping-for-9-hours-after-a-26-hour-overwatch-session/ Variety Twitch streamer Félix “xQc” Lengyel finished a 35-hour stream by autoplaying YouTube videos for nine hours while he slept. He kept his camera on and focused on him sleeping the entire time. Before that, he played 45 Overwatch matches over 26 hours. His number of average viewers was about 20 percent higher than that of any other stream he did over the past seven days, according to Twitch statistics website SullyGnome./post/how-to-find-the-deep-dark-biome-in-minecraft/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-the-deep-dark-biome-in-minecraft/ The rich world of Minecraft will become even more interesting with the upcoming Deep Dark biome, set to make its way to the game with the release of the Wild Update on June 7. Players have been eagerly waiting for the update. They have had access to a series of snapshots showcasing all of the exciting content that’s on the way, including the Deep Dark, the Warden, functioning Sculk blocks, frogs, a new mangrove swamp biome, the Allay, a new wood type, and much more./post/street-fighter-pro-robinho-banned-from-all-capcom-events-after-telling-disturbing-story-on-stream/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/street-fighter-pro-robinho-banned-from-all-capcom-events-after-telling-disturbing-story-on-stream/ The Capcom Pro Tour officially announced today that Street Fighter pro player Robson “Robinho” Oliveira has been permanently, globally banned from all Capcom-owned or operated events in response to him telling a horrific story “wherein he described participating in reprehensible and atrocious acts.” During one of his streams, Robinho relayed a story detailing how he sought revenge against a former partner for being “a hardcore skank” and “huge slut,” according to the translation posted by Twitter user CruzaderOnline./post/the-5-best-hexproof-cards-in-magic-the-gathering/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-best-hexproof-cards-in-magic-the-gathering/ Hexproof is one of the strongest mechanics in Magic: The Gathering.  Hexproof in MTG means that a card, creature, or player “can’t be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.” For a player, this could prevent incoming damage from lightning bolt or shock spells that popular Burn decks play. Creatures that have Hexproof and cards that give it are regularly used as an extra safety measure in decks that could otherwise be vulnerable to removal or direct-damage effects./post/the-definitive-valorant-weapon-tier-list/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-definitive-valorant-weapon-tier-list/ VALORANT is a tactical shooter with a twist. It carefully combines the use of weapons and abilities to create one of the most strategic and multi-layered games out there. Although abilities are an important factor in VALORANT, offering utility, like stuns, flashes, and smokes—and some extra firepower—weapons are at the game’s forefront. They dictate the economy, helping you decide whether to full buy, force buy, or eco. But they also make up the brunt of your damage./post/how-to-fix-the-hdr-setting-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-the-hdr-setting-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Turning on High Dynamic Range (HDR) allows games to have a better visual experience while playing their favorite titles. The feature can also be found inside Call of Duty: Warzone’s settings, and it can be enabled by default on setups that support HDR. There have been instances where HDR caused a few troubles for Warzone players, like crashes or various errors. Such errors often get patched, but players may need to fix their HDR setting by turning it off to continue playing Warzone smoothly until the fix arrives./post/dataminers-leak-unreleased-fortnite-skins-including-will-smith-s-bad-boys-character-morty-from-rick-and-morty-and-j-balvin-icon-series/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dataminers-leak-unreleased-fortnite-skins-including-will-smith-s-bad-boys-character-morty-from-rick-and-morty-and-j-balvin-icon-series/ Fortnite dataminers have been busy at work over the past few hours digging through the latest 17.40 patch, which dropped earlier today. Respected Fortnite leaker iFireMonkey shared social media clips and images of various unreleased skins that were located within the game, including a Morty skin to compliment the already-released Rick skin from Rick and Morty. An Icon Series skin for Colombian musician J Balvin, and a skin for movie star Will Smith’s role as Mike Lowery in the Bad Boys franchise are also reportedly present./post/dire-wolves-beat-overperformers-16-0-twice-in-esea-premier-australia-match/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dire-wolves-beat-overperformers-16-0-twice-in-esea-premier-australia-match/ Dire Wolves, an Australian CS:GO team that’s in second place in the ESEA Premier Australia season 37 right now, made history today. Euan “sterling” Moore and crew defeated Overperformers 2-0 in the ESEA Premier Australia season 37. But most notably, they beat them 16-0 twice on Dust II and Inferno. This is an extremely rare result in semi-professional or professional tournaments and one the players from both teams will undoubtedly remember forever./post/best-cinderace-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-cinderace-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ The newest Fire-type starter Pokémon introduced in Sword and Shield—Scorbunny, Raboot, and Cinderace—has made its way into Pokémon UNITE. These quick Pokémon join the roster of many other familiar faces in Pokémon’s first take on a MOBA. While these Pokémon are classified as novice-level Attackers, they’re not available immediately for players to use in Unite Battles. Players can purchase Cinderace in the shop for 8,000 Aeos coins or wait to receive the Striker Pokémon as part of the welcome log-in bonus on day eight./post/riot-reveals-new-dark-star-skins-on-league-s-pbe/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-new-dark-star-skins-on-league-s-pbe/ Brought to you byIKON, challenging you to share your greatest game moments and win amazing prizes. Riot Games released previews on the League of Legends Public Beta Environment today for three new skins, including Dark Cosmic Jhin, Dark Star Karma, and Dark Star Shaco. As their names might suggest, the three skins are part of the Dark Star skin line—one of the more popular themes among skin releases. The dark, starry theme hasn’t seen a new skin since last summer’s release of Dark Star Cho’Gath, the game’s first charity skin which raised over $6 million for nonprofits./post/riot-reveals-renata-glasc-as-newest-league-champion-introduces-new-berserk-state-where-enemies-attack-their-own-allies/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-renata-glasc-as-newest-league-champion-introduces-new-berserk-state-where-enemies-attack-their-own-allies/ Zaun’s resident Chembaroness has finally sauntered onto the Summoner’s Rift—and she’s ready to make some deals that her allies will have a hard time refusing. Renata Glasc is the latest to join League of Legends’ growing roster of unique champions and will be the next support to grace the bottom lane. She will be added to the game in Patch 12.4, with a whole plethora of powerful skills that will strike fear into any enemies she might come across./post/how-to-refund-agents-contracts-and-weapon-skins-in-valorant/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-refund-agents-contracts-and-weapon-skins-in-valorant/ Are you sick and tired of the agent you just bought in VALORANT? Then why not get a refund and start from the beginning? When you load up VALORANT for the first time, you’re presented with five free characters. After a few wins, you can unlock two more. But if you want to complete the set and try all 18 agents out for size, you’ll have a long wait ahead of you./post/riot-to-allow-league-players-to-vote-for-upcoming-skin-line-in-2022/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-allow-league-players-to-vote-for-upcoming-skin-line-in-2022/ League of Legends fans will be able to vote for an upcoming skin line coming to the game this year. Riot has announced another fan vote in celebration of the beginning of the 2022 ranked season. This year, League players will be able to vote between new additions to either the Infernal, Arclight, or Gothic skin lines.  Right now, 12 champions in League have an Infernal skin, while five have Arclight skins./post/possible-abilities-leaked-for-league-s-probable-next-champion-bel-veth/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/possible-abilities-leaked-for-league-s-probable-next-champion-bel-veth/ The abilities for League of Legends’ potential next champion were leaked yesterday and shared on content creator Ryscu’s YouTube channel.  League fans are eager to learn more information about the Empress of the Void, Bel’Veth, and her leaked abilities give players a taste of how the champion could affect the Rift.  In the recent Champion Roadmap, Riot shared some information about the Empress. But aside from her title, we don’t know much about her./post/vtuber-ironmouse-surpasses-95-000-twitch-subscribers-takes-the-throne-for-active-subs-on-platform/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/vtuber-ironmouse-surpasses-95-000-twitch-subscribers-takes-the-throne-for-active-subs-on-platform/ VTuber Ironmouse became the top streamer on Twitch over the weekend in terms of current active subscriptions, hitting 95,443 active subs, according to Twitch Tracker.  The figure is just less than 6,000 more subs than the second most on the platform. Casimito has 89,649 and xQc is third with 82,907. The achievement comes just days after she became the most-subbed to female streamer. i cant believe whats happening my hands are shaking./post/when-does-the-halo-infinite-campaign-release/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-halo-infinite-campaign-release/ Halo Infinite developers surprised fans this month by releasing the game’s multiplayer before its originally announced release date. The free-to-play Halo Infinite multiplayer is already available for fans to enjoy in a “beta” phase. But with all account progress from the beta carrying over to the official launch of the game, it might be difficult to consider it a traditional “beta.” With the multiplayer available, there’s little left from the game that players can’t already get their hands on./post/everything-we-know-about-apex-legends-season-3/Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-we-know-about-apex-legends-season-3/ There was plenty of speculation circulating about what fans can expect to see when Apex Legends’ third season begins, including new legends and weapons, map changes, or a PvE mode. But Respawn has put that speculation to an end with its announcement today. Meltdown confirmed for Oct. 1 Apex Legends season three will be called Meltdown and begins Oct. 1. Media outlets were reportedly invited to a preview event earlier this month, and according to The Verge, they were specifically asked to send their best champions./post/league-is-getting-a-new-interface-setting-that-disables-allied-chat-in-patch-9-14/Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-is-getting-a-new-interface-setting-that-disables-allied-chat-in-patch-9-14/ League of Legends is getting a new chat setting with the release of Patch 9.14 next week that will allow users to disable allied chat. Currently, the only way players can mute their allies is by individually clicking on the mute buttons found next to their teammates’ names on the match’s scoreboard. Additionally, there’s a “Show [All] chat” option in the game’s settings that, when checked, prevents players from seeing what their opponents are saying in /all chat./post/musketeer-heal-spirit-and-skeleton-dragons-nerfed-in-clash-royale-season-16/Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/musketeer-heal-spirit-and-skeleton-dragons-nerfed-in-clash-royale-season-16/ Supercell introduced the balance changes that will shift the meta in Clash Royale season 16, Shocktober, earlier today. Aside from these changes, not a lot of new content will join the game after the big bunch of content was added in season 15 with Clan Wars 2.0. Two upcoming cards, Electro Giant and Electro Spirit, were recently revealed, but they’ll officially be introduced to the game in the next season, which kicks off in 28 days./post/smite-announces-winter-gem-sale-event/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/smite-announces-winter-gem-sale-event/ One of the best parts of the holiday season is themed events in some of your favorite games. Smite revealed a new Holiday Gem sale today to go along with the game’s seasonal festivities. Divine Deities! To kick off this wonderful Holiday week, we have launched the Winter Gem sale! There are a wide variety of sales and events taking place, so make sure to get your Holiday shopping done! ⚡https://t./post/fortnite-pros-already-hate-the-turbo-building-nerf/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-pros-already-hate-the-turbo-building-nerf/ Fortnite: Battle Royale players woke up to a huge nerf to the game’s most essential building feature, turbo building. It came today with the v10.20 update. When that feature is enabled, players now take 0.15 seconds to build another structure piece while holding their placement button, instead of the previous 0.05 seconds. It makes a huge difference and makes it impossible for players to pull off their previous building strategies without having to click nonstop./post/g2-esports-reveals-its-roster-for-2018/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/g2-esports-reveals-its-roster-for-2018/ After weeks of fan speculation, memes, and offseason antics, G2 Esports has finally revealed its entire starting lineup for the upcoming EU LCS Spring Split. Mid laner Luka “PerkZ” Perkovic is the only member of the original G2 roster returning in the new season. He is joined by former Splyce top laner Martin “Wunder” Hansen, former H2K Gaming jungler Marcin “Jankos” Jankowski, and the bottom lane duo of ROCCAT Petter “Hjarnan” Freyschuss and Kum “Wadid” Bae-in to complete G2’s 2018 roster./post/nearly-10-mobile-games-grossed-more-than-1-billion-in-2021/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nearly-10-mobile-games-grossed-more-than-1-billion-in-2021/ Mobile gaming is one of, if not the most, profitable areas of the games industry, with many of the top-performing apps bringing in more revenue for developers than most console or PC titles could ever hope to achieve.  In 2021, the mobile market share continued to grow at a record-shattering pace, with eight different titles surpassing more than $1 billion in total player spending between Jan. 1 and Dec. 14, according to data insight platform Sensor Tower./post/what-does-rook-s-armor-do-in-rainbow-six-siege/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-rook-s-armor-do-in-rainbow-six-siege/ Rainbow Six Siege features a diverse cast of operators with different abilities and tools to help their team. Some are tedious and tough to master, while others provide excellent support and are easy to use. Rook, one of the original operators in Siege, is a perfect example of the latter.  Rook’s armor plates provide an excellent boost to teammates that can make a difference in gunfights. But a lot of players aren’t familiar with what the plates actually do./post/riot-responds-to-league-player-base-feedback-regarding-sona-rework-we-care-about-how-players-are-responding-to-the-changes/Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-responds-to-league-player-base-feedback-regarding-sona-rework-we-care-about-how-players-are-responding-to-the-changes/ League of Legends’ lead gameplay designer Jeevun Sidhu has responded to criticism regarding the game’s upcoming rework to Sona, a longtime support champion who Riot is looking to revitalize with an update to her kit.  “We care about how players are responding to the changes, and we’ve seen a fair amount of sentiment that this is a nerf,” Sidhu said. “From my perspective, I suspect that some people are undervaluing some of the specifics./post/valorant-melee-updates-coming-in-patch-4-01-instead-of-4-0/Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-melee-updates-coming-in-patch-4-01-instead-of-4-0/ The melee updates intended to release in VALORANT Patch 4.0 didn’t make it in the update and will instead be included in the 4.01 patch next week.  Patch 4.0 introduced several significant updates, including Neon, the new Duelist. Bind and Breeze also received updates, while multiple weapons like the Spectre and Ares were adjusted. The patch was also meant to update the melee attack, but this change didn’t make it into the game./post/xqc-s-brother-discovers-what-a-gigachad-is/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-s-brother-discovers-what-a-gigachad-is/ XQc may be extremely knowledgable of memes and certain internet terms, but his brother, Nick, apparently is not well-versed in the material. Nick made a brief, albeit memorable appearance on xQc’s stream today, which led to viewers quickly flooding the chat with the GIGACHAD emote. An emote featuring the likeness of an almost comically ripped and sculpted man, Twitch chats usually use this emote to describe someone they admire. After being shown the rapid spamming chat, Nick was as to what this comparison meant./post/all-cameos-on-king-of-fighters-stadium-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-cameos-on-king-of-fighters-stadium-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ Just like every other addition to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster, director Masahiro Sakurai spent a lot of time working with his team to add dozens of amazing references and throwbacks to Terry Bogard and the Fatal Fury franchise for the character’s release today. Since SNK has such a rich history with Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, and many other games, there was a lot of content to pull from for the Smash collaboration./post/every-mtg-snow-scaler-in-kaldheim/Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-mtg-snow-scaler-in-kaldheim/ Players in Magic: The Gathering prepare for winter with a cycle of Rare Instant and Sorcery speed cards within the upcoming Kaldheim set.  Snow is a unique Magic supertype, in that it doesn’t have an individual function on its own. Within the KHM set, there are at least 15 cards that have Snow as a supertype. The downfall to Snow, however, is that it’s a theme. And with all themes in MTG, there are hate cards designed to thwart that theme, like Reidane, God of Justice./post/the-best-wraith-counters-in-apex-legends/Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-wraith-counters-in-apex-legends/ Like Octane, Wraith has been one of Apex Legends‘ most popular playable characters for several seasons now. Her combination of light recon with good mobility and strong offensive push potential make her a great all-around pick for a variety of situations. Wraith has been in the game for a long time now, meaning many players have tried her out—and many know how powerful her abilities are. This can make her frustrating to play against, particularly in the face of her consistently high pick rate among players./post/watch-overwatch-tech-artists-give-hammond-cute-mouth-controls/Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/watch-overwatch-tech-artists-give-hammond-cute-mouth-controls/ Ah, the art of the cute mouth control. It’s especially important when animating a chubby little battle hamster—which just so happens to be the description of Overwatch’s newest hero, Wrecking Ball. Wrecking Ball, also known as Hammond, will enter the world of Overwatch on July 24. He’s a tank hero designed to disrupt Overwatch matches, and he’s got the speed and output to do just that. In anticipation of the new hero’s release, Blizzard just posted an Inside Overwatch video showing how its technical artists work./post/all-pokemon-legends-arceus-leaks-rumors-starters-and-more-explained/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-pokemon-legends-arceus-leaks-rumors-starters-and-more-explained/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus is going to change the Pokémon franchise, taking it beyond its standard RPG roots and turning the title into a much more interactive and action-oriented experience.  This includes turning the usually formulaic, route-based layout of previous new entries and expanding that into a more open, sandbox-style world that will give players a chance to experience a region that feels truly lived in.  The game will bring core gameplay mechanics that will see players interacting with wild Pokémon in new ways, such as catching them without battling or dodging attacks that could damage them./post/how-to-catch-mtg-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-spoilers-when-they-drop/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-mtg-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-spoilers-when-they-drop/ Over 300 Magic: The Gathering cards are contained within the upcoming Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Standard-legal set, with spoilers starting on Jan. 27. Spoilers for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) will run from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3, with Commander previews taking place on Feb. 7. The new Standard-legal set is scheduled to release digitally via Magic Online and MTG Arena on Feb. 10, followed by a global tabletop release on Feb. 18./post/jinx-vi-jayce-pick-rates-skyrocket-after-arcane-release/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/jinx-vi-jayce-pick-rates-skyrocket-after-arcane-release/ Riot Games’ first animated series, Arcane, just finished its second act and was met with critical acclaim. Outside of Netflix, the series is also a hit in League of Legends, with champions that feature in the show getting a significant boost in pick rate since Arcane launched. The sisters Vi and Jinx, who take up a substantial amount of Arcane’s screen time, saw a significant uptick in their pick rates. Vi’s pick rate has increased 5./post/nvidia-and-kovaak-have-created-a-playable-fps-test-to-showcase-system-lag/Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nvidia-and-kovaak-have-created-a-playable-fps-test-to-showcase-system-lag/ Many gamers understand the benefits of more frames per second (FPS). Anything cruising above 100 FPS is solid, hovering around 60 is playable, while 30 and under is far from ideal. It’s even more crucial in esports — the player with higher FPS simply has a killer advantage against those with lower FPS. System latency is another metric that impacts in-game performance. Essentially, system latency measures the time from the moment you click your mouse to the time that information is displayed on your monitor./post/when-does-ghostbusters-vr-release-for-meta-quest-2/Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-ghostbusters-vr-release-for-meta-quest-2/ The Ghostbusters series has been entertaining generations since the first movie premiered 38 years ago. Now, the ghost fighting series is getting its own VR game announced at the Meta Quest Gaming Showcase 2022. As stated via a slide at the beginning of the showcase, all the games shown are slated to release sometime this year, including Ghostbusters VR. The slide also noted that these games are subject to be delayed if the development faces any issues./post/all-melody-pok%C3%A9mon-event-exclusive-field-and-special-research-paths-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-melody-pok%C3%A9mon-event-exclusive-field-and-special-research-paths-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021/ Pokémon Go Fest 2021 is now underway, which means players will have a lot of new content to try and dance around with. Many moving parts will only be active for a limited time before being replaced by something else.  This year the event will run on July 17 and 18 from 10am to 6pm local time, with new bonuses and encounters, like Meloetta and other Pokémon wearing Meloetta-inspired hats. /post/fortnite-s-klombos-are-moving-inland-toward-the-collider/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-klombos-are-moving-inland-toward-the-collider/ As Fortnite is getting ready for the Collision live event that’s set to happen in less than two weeks, changes are happening across the map. The Collider has begun shooting pulses and The Seven are preparing the mech while another popular character has become more active on the island. The Klombos have been seen moving their dirt mounds, heading inland toward Tilted Towers and the Collider. Before the most recent update, there were three Klombo dirt mounds placed around the map that worked as geysers when the player was standing on them./post/what-are-pok%C3%A9-jobs-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-pok%C3%A9-jobs-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ While the U.S. trailer for Pokémon Sword and Shield dropped only a few minutes ago, those lucky enough to catch the Japanese trailer might have been introduced to a feature missing from the western one. This, of course, is the introduction of Poké Jobs. A new feature in Sword and Shield that allows people and Pokémon to work together to complete requests. Trainers can check for available Poké Jobs at the Rotomi in Pokémon Centers and will be able to send Pokémon directly from their Boxes to any job they accept./post/riot-partners-with-rihanna-s-fenty-beauty-brand-ahead-of-arcane-premiere/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-partners-with-rihanna-s-fenty-beauty-brand-ahead-of-arcane-premiere/ Riot Games has announced that Fenty Beauty by Rihanna has become the official beauty partner of Arcane, Riot’s upcoming animated series. Arcane premieres this Saturday, Nov. 6 on Netflix.  Fenty Beauty will “curate beauty looks across Riot Games and content aiming to highlight the multifaceted and diverse beauty landscape that celebrates beauty in all of its forms,” according to Riot. To celebrate the kick off of Fenty and Riot’s recent partnership, the two companies will be holding a crossover event at the premiere of Arcane on Nov./post/the-5-most-impactful-league-champions-at-the-worlds-2021-play-in-stage/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-most-impactful-league-champions-at-the-worlds-2021-play-in-stage/ Worlds is back, and the League of Legends meta is reaching one of its most diverse points of the season. More than half of the champions on the game’s roster were selected over the 38 games in the play-in stage, setting the field for one of the most appealing World Championships in the game’s history.   Eighty champions were contested during the play-ins, with 75 being picked at least once, and five more being banned but never seeing playtime on Summoner’s Rift./post/how-to-get-the-free-tie-whisper-glider-during-fortnite-x-star-wars-event/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-free-tie-whisper-glider-during-fortnite-x-star-wars-event/ The Game Awards is an annual event full of celebrating the best games of the year, and of course, Epic Games had to stop by to drop its latest bit of news. All Fortnite fans will be able to get a sneak peek at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1pm CT. Fans who attend the event will receive a free Tie Whisper Glider. *NEWS*/post/destiny-2-error-code-stingray-explained-and-how-to-fix/Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/destiny-2-error-code-stingray-explained-and-how-to-fix/ Destiny 2‘s complete zoo of error codes can be confusing for players who get kicked out of their matches because of error codes BEAVER, FLATWORM, or LEOPARD, for instance. Code: STINGRAY can also remove players from activities—or from the game entirely—due to connection issues. Bungie’s official help page for Code: STINGRAY says the error “appears to players who are not signed in with their platform account, or their platform services are undergoing maintenance./post/ozuna-releases-new-song-in-collaboration-with-cod-mobile/Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ozuna-releases-new-song-in-collaboration-with-cod-mobile/ Call of Duty: Mobile’s season seven, Elite of the Elite, has launched today with a new song by Puerto Rican artist Ozuna. For the game’s seventh season, Activision has announced a major collaboration with the 29-year-old artist. As a part of this, Ozuna has released a new single, titled A La Buena, El Mejor (translated to To the Good, the Best). The song is in Spanish and will be the theme for season seven./post/former-league-pro-imaqtpie-pulls-off-1-vs-5-valorant-ace/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-league-pro-imaqtpie-pulls-off-1-vs-5-valorant-ace/ Popular streamer and former League of Legends pro Imaqtpie managed to secure an impressive six-kill ace while clutching a one-vs-five situation in VALORANT.  Normally, an ace means a player kills all five players on an opposing team. This is an incredible feat on its own, but there are ways to secure even more kills. An enemy Sage can revive their teammate, giving you a chance to kill them twice, adding another kill to your ace./post/pok%C3%A9mon-fans-collaborate-to-make-incredible-pok%C3%A9mon-adventures-sinnoh-concept-trailer/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-fans-collaborate-to-make-incredible-pok%C3%A9mon-adventures-sinnoh-concept-trailer/ In a collaborative effort between multiple Pokémon fans, artists, musicians, and editors, content creator millenniumloops has released another trailer concept that reimagines how one of the upcoming Pokémon games could look. In the past, millenniumloops released a trailer that reimagined how Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl could look in full 3D using assets from previous Pokémon games.  This time, they took the traditional Diamond and Pearl and combined it with elements of Pokémon Legends: Arceus to create a visual concept for Pokémon Adventures Sinnoh./post/zeus-signs-one-year-extension-with-t1/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/zeus-signs-one-year-extension-with-t1/ A rising star in League of Legends’ competitive scene has locked down their place on one of the best teams in the world, at least for a little while longer. T1 has announced that Choi “Zeus” Woo-je has signed a one-year extension to remain the starting top laner for the org’s main roster. The 18-year-old phenom has been an integral part of the T1 lineup, becoming a major source of strength and firepower for the team./post/mirage-s-mother-evelyn-leaves-him-a-message-as-an-easter-egg/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mirage-s-mother-evelyn-leaves-him-a-message-as-an-easter-egg/ Mirage’s mother left him a voice message as part of an Apex Legends Easter egg discovered today. Investigating the Holographic Tricker’s phone in the Mirage Voyage shows an important message from Evelyn Witt—including a significant revelation for Titanfall fans. In the message, Evelyn seems to forget important information, including her birthday and the whereabouts of her sons—who all disappeared during the Frontier War, with the exception of Mirage. She also reveals that the Witts are related to a character from Titanfall./post/shawdowspear-slays-gods-in-theros-beyond-death/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shawdowspear-slays-gods-in-theros-beyond-death/ An answer to Gods with indestructible and hexproof creatures dropped in today’s Theros: Beyond Death spoilers with the equipment artifact, Shadowspear.  Set to release on Jan. 24, MTG’s Theros: Beyond Death (THB) contains seven indestructible Gods and only a handful of removal spells that can deal with them. But that all changed today with the reveal of Shawdowspear.  Shadwospear is an equipment artifact that gives a creature +1/+1, Trample, and Lifelink./post/the-best-gifts-for-final-fantasy-xiv-players/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-gifts-for-final-fantasy-xiv-players/ Final Fantasy XIV is one of the most popular MMO games, even though it was introduced over 10 years ago. And with the highest registered player count in 2021, as well as the latest Endwalker expansion releasing soon, it’s far from going away. Since the game released so many years ago and includes several expansions, there are countless merchandise options to choose from. Final Fantasy has always been a haven for gift seekers due to its vast universe, and FFXIV is no exception./post/vct-na-lcq-scores-schedule-bracket/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/vct-na-lcq-scores-schedule-bracket/ At the North American Last Chance Qualifier, one team will punch their ticket to Champions, while seven of the NA squads that played a major role in the first year of the VALORANT Champions Tour will get sent home. See Valorant on Amazon What was originally a 10-team bracket with single and double-elimination portions has now been reduced to an eight-team single-elimination bracket after both Oceanic teams were unable to attend./post/3-different-world-records-were-set-in-the-same-day-for-super-mario-3d-world-bowser-s-fury/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/3-different-world-records-were-set-in-the-same-day-for-super-mario-3d-world-bowser-s-fury/ The speedrunning community loves breaking in new Mario games and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury’s recent launch on the Nintendo Switch has brought a lot of runners back to the Wii U game.  LuigiMaster, the world record holder for the original Super Mario 3D World any percent run, also holds the overall record for the newer version of the game. But another Mario runner managed to snag the top spot when it just comes to the additional content./post/call-of-duty-vanguard-and-warzone-players-get-another-double-xp-weekend-can-receive-free-forbidden-sacrifice-bundle-and-10-battle-pass-skips/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-vanguard-and-warzone-players-get-another-double-xp-weekend-can-receive-free-forbidden-sacrifice-bundle-and-10-battle-pass-skips/ Season two of Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone started just a few days ago on Feb. 14, pushed back from an initial launch date of Feb. 2. To make up for the delay, Call of Duty is hosting a Max double XP long weekend from Feb. 18 to 22 and giving away some free items. Anyone who logs in and plays from Feb. 18 at 12pm CT to Feb. 22 at 12pm CT will get double experience for all categories: regular XP, weapon XP, operator XP, battle pass XP, and clan XP (Clan XP is for Vanguard only)./post/the-5-best-kaiju-cards-in-yu-gi-oh/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-best-kaiju-cards-in-yu-gi-oh/ Kaiju cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! are associated with Godzilla-like cards, which have various powerful effects to compensate for their demanding summoning processes. These cards were done justice by their developer, though. They have fearsome effects, allowing you to incorporate them into various decks to get a taste of their power. Here are the best five Kaiju cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!. Interrupted Kaiju Slumber The Interrupted Kaiju Slumber is one of the most powerful spells related to the tribe./post/upcoming-league-champion-samira-abilities-data-mined-from-pbe/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/upcoming-league-champion-samira-abilities-data-mined-from-pbe/ Move over Aphelios, there’s a new 200 years on the horizon. The 151st champion in League of Legends has had her abilities revealed earlier today.  Samira, the Desert Rose, is set to be released on the 10.19 update for the PBE, so she’ll likely arrive in a few weeks. But she was datamined from the files via Surrender at 20, rather than visualized in-game, so players can’t test her kit yet./post/smeb-retires-from-professional-league-of-legends/Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/smeb-retires-from-professional-league-of-legends/ Legendary top laner Smeb has retired from professional League of Legends at 25 years old, he announced today. “During my eight years as a professional gamer, there have been highs and lows, but standing at the moment of making a retirement decision, only the highs remain in my memory,” Smeb said. “I always pursued both small and big goals but my biggest and sincerest goal that made me who I am right now and helped me reach my goals was to make my fans happy./post/mrhappy-s-community-donates-huge-amount-of-money-to-help-his-mother/Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mrhappy-s-community-donates-huge-amount-of-money-to-help-his-mother/ Sometimes, the gaming community can do wonders and change lives in a flash. The veteran Final Fantasy XIV streamer Mrhappy1227 witnessed it to the fullest yesterday when he made a desperate call to his community for help on his YouTube channel on April 26. In the video, he said he had started a GoFundMe with a goal of $50,000 to help pay for medical and living fees for his mother, who cannot work due to being “semi-paralyzed” following a severe case of cerebrospinal fluid leak./post/tryndamere-and-singed-have-some-of-the-highest-jungle-winrates-in-north-america-here-s-why/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tryndamere-and-singed-have-some-of-the-highest-jungle-winrates-in-north-america-here-s-why/ When trying to pick up a powerful jungler in the current meta, you might consider Jax, Warwick, or maybe even Trundle. Whatever you do, though, don’t make your decision based on champion winrate alone, because you might be led astray. And by “led astray,” we really mean you might lock in Tryndamere jungle in your next solo queue game, and that wouldn’t be good for anyone. That’s right, Tryndamere has the highest winrate out of any other jungler in North America, according to League of Legends stats site Champion./post/ryu-chun-li-join-power-rangers-battle-for-the-grid-in-new-street-fighter-dlc-pack/Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ryu-chun-li-join-power-rangers-battle-for-the-grid-in-new-street-fighter-dlc-pack/ Capcom and Hasbro broke part of the internet in 2018 when it was revealed that Ryu from Street Fighter was officially being made a Power Ranger. Now, the crossover is happening again, bringing two Street Fighter representatives to Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid.  Launching on May 25, a Street Fighter DLC Pack, which includes Crimson Hawk Ranger Ryu and Blue Phoenix Ranger Chun-Li, will be released on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Google Stadia./post/league-players-raise-6-million-for-charity-from-dawnbringer-karma-purchases/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-players-raise-6-million-for-charity-from-dawnbringer-karma-purchases/ To celebrate League of Legends’ 1,000th skin, Riot decided to donate 100 percent of the profits made from Dawnbringer Karma purchases. And fans were able to raise a whopping $6 million for the Riot Games Social Impact Fund, the company announced today. Since League players were responsible for raising the donation, fans will be able to vote on one of three local nonprofits in their region from today until April 23./post/how-to-watch-worlds-2021/Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-worlds-2021/ The 2021 League of Legends World Championship gets underway on Oct. 5 with the play-in stage and culminates, an action-packed month later, with the finals on Nov. 6. Hosted in Reykjavik, Iceland’s Laugardalshöll indoor sporting arena, the most celebrated esports event of the year will bring together the top League of Legends teams from around the world to compete for the Summoner’s Cup, a multi-million dollar prize pool, and the title of World Champion./post/weibo-gaming-signs-theshy/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/weibo-gaming-signs-theshy/ Weibo Gaming is adding former Worlds champion Kang “TheShy” Seung-Rok ahead of the League of Legends 2022 competitive season. The South Korean top laner spent more than four years with Invictus Gaming, from 2017 to 2021, and won the 2018 World Championship. The 22-year-old has been a star through his career, but the 2021 season turned out to be more challenging for him. He only joined the LPL Summer Split in the fifth week due to contracting COVID-19, playing just eight series./post/all-secret-rare-cards-from-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-eevee-heroes-revealed/Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-secret-rare-cards-from-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-eevee-heroes-revealed/ Eevee Heroes will finally be released on May 27 and Pokémon TCG fans have been treated to their first look at some previously unrevealed cards in the set. A full list of the secret rare cards from the set was posted online to the Pokémon forum Pokebeach earlier today. Themed around the evolutions of Eevee, it should be no surprise that the set’s rarest cards showcase these eight Pokémon. For each of the Eeveelutions, there are four cards in the set–a standard V card, a V-Max, Secret Rare, and alternative art Secret Rare./post/how-to-delete-games-and-apps-on-xbox-series-x-s/Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-delete-games-and-apps-on-xbox-series-x-s/ Sometimes, you’ll need to clear space on a console like the Xbox Series X or S to make room for new downloads. Deleting your older games and apps, especially those you hardly touch or the ones taking up a lot of space like Call of Duty or FIFA, is often necessary. But, luckily, it’s a fairly simple process. Here’s how you can delete games and apps from your Xbox Series X or S./post/riot-reveals-league-exclusive-recall-for-players-who-reach-honor-5/Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-league-exclusive-recall-for-players-who-reach-honor-5/ Earlier this year, the Riot devs unveiled they wanted to make the behavioral system in League of Legends “matter more” by building solutions that “directly impact” the players, like giving out rewards based on the honor system.  One of the rewards that is set to be given out to honorable players is a special recall animation. The video of this new animation was shared today on Twitter by Kristy Doan, a VFX artist for League, who also hinted at a possible new Challenger recall./post/how-long-does-it-take-to-recharge-transporter-energy-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-long-does-it-take-to-recharge-transporter-energy-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Players now have the ability to transfer Pokémon from Pokémon Go to Pokémon HOME, but Niantic have added a rather large hurdle that players will need to clear if they want to utilize the new feature fully.  The new HOME Transporter is powered by a new type of energy called Transporter Energy, which is used to facilitate each and every transfer.  Transporter Energy is not like some of the other resources included in Pokémon Go, in that it will recover over time rather than players needing to go out and get more./post/meowth-festival-max-raid-battle-event-includes-shiny-galarian-meowth-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/meowth-festival-max-raid-battle-event-includes-shiny-galarian-meowth-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ A new Max Raid Battle event is going live and will run throughout the weekend in Pokémon Sword and Shield that will center around the franchise’s iconic feline, Meowth.  The Scratch Cat Pokémon will be appearing in all three of its regional variants during this Meowth Festival, with Galarian Meowth appearing as a Shiny for lucky players too.  You don’t need to plan a lot for this event because all Event Den spawns are being taken up by some form of Meowth./post/top-esports-fines-substitute-top-laner-qingtian-a-month-s-salary-following-solo-queue-incident-with-faker/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/top-esports-fines-substitute-top-laner-qingtian-a-month-s-salary-following-solo-queue-incident-with-faker/ Faker might be the greatest League of Legends player of all time, but even he can get annoyed from time to time because of a few teammates. After voicing his complaints over the actions of a solo queue player on stream, it was discovered that the player is a substitute top laner for Top Esports named Qingtian. In response, the team has fined the player a month’s salary. Faker was streaming some solo queue for his fans yesterday when he ran into an Aatrox player who wasn’t playing to the best of his abilities./post/twitch-streamer-iitztimmy-receives-temporary-ban-during-valorant-marathon/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-streamer-iitztimmy-receives-temporary-ban-during-valorant-marathon/ FPS streamer iiTzTimmy was banned earlier today during a VALORANT marathon stream. While on the road to Radiant, the streamer was handed a temporary ban for smurfing in ranked, but this was short-lived. Seventeen hours into the stream, iiTzTimmy faced a temporary disruption, which he thought may have been a client error, but after closing and opening the game once again, he accepted he had been banned “for cheating.”/post/all-the-new-skins-for-overwatch-s-2022-lunar-new-year-event/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-the-new-skins-for-overwatch-s-2022-lunar-new-year-event/ It’s the Year of the Tiger and that means it’s time to change up your style and try some adventurous new looks. If you’re not brave enough to don solid gold in real life, Overwatch’s Lunar New Year event can help.  See Overwatch on Amazon Some heroes received more subdued skins, like Soldier: 76’s Epic Auspicious skin with lantern highlights, while others really got some sparkling upgrades. We’re not sure where Tracer found shoes that are literally on fire, but the kicks should definitely be something we see on runways in 2022./post/league-of-legends-ultimate-spellbook-champion-tier-list/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-ultimate-spellbook-champion-tier-list/ League of Legends’ newest game mode, Ultimate Spellbook, allows players to sacrifice one of their usual summoner spell slots and replace it with a selected choice out of three champion ultimates from a random pool. It’s the first new mode since Nexus Blitz and its launch coincides with the Sentinels of Light event. Here’s the exact pool of abilities that players can get. Ahri: Spirit RushAmumu: Curse of the Sad MummyAshe: Enchanted Crystal ArrowAzir: Emperor’s DivideBard: Tempered FateCho’Gath: FeastEzreal: Trueshot BarrageFiddlesticks: CrowstormGragas: Explosive CaskGwen: NeedleworkJanna: MonsoonJarvan IV: CataclysmJhin: Curtain CallKarthus: RequiemKayle: Divine JudgmentKayn: Umbral TrespassKha’Zix: Void AssaultLee Sin: Dragon’s RageLissandra: Frozen TombLucian: The CullingLulu: Wild GrowthLux: Final SparkMalzahar: Nether GraspMaokai: Nature’s GraspMiss Fortune: Time Bullet TimeMordekaiser: Realm of DeathMorgana: Soul ShacklesNocturne: ParanoiaNunu: Absolute ZeroOlaf: RagnarokRell: Magnet StormRengar: Thrill of the HuntShen: Stand UnitedSkarner: ImpaleSoraka: WishTalon: Shadow AssaultTryndamere: Undying RageXerath: Rite of the ArcaneYone: Fate SealedZoe: Portal Jump With a plethora of ultimate abilities at their disposal, some champions will undoubtedly fare better when given a new resource to manage over the usual two summoner spells./post/all-skull-locations-in-halo-infinite-campaign/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-skull-locations-in-halo-infinite-campaign/ After a long wait, the Halo Infinite single-player campaign has been released today. It’s available on Steam and the Xbox app for PC players, as well as on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. Any dedicated Halo player will be actively seeking the collectible skulls scattered throughout the levels of the campaign. These skulls will modify the player’s gameplay experience and can be activated when starting or loading a campaign file./post/gta-v-nhl-21-and-other-games-coming-to-xbox-game-pass/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gta-v-nhl-21-and-other-games-coming-to-xbox-game-pass/ Several new games are being added to the Xbox Game Pass, including popular titles like Grand Theft Auto V, NHL 21, and Zombie Army 4: Dead War, Microsoft announced. The Xbox Game Pass gives players access to a rotating catalog of games, including some of the most popular titles. The latest announcement confirmed GTA V, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, Disneyland Adventures, Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure, NHL 21, and other popular games are coming this month./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-d-and-o/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-d-and-o/ Wordle is a simple and friendly game, but it can be really challenging games depending on what the first words were used and what the secret word of the day is. These daily challenges can sometimes make the game very tense, especially when your guesses don’t bring much information other than several gray letters. Knowing how to choose a good first word to guess will help any player in any Wordle game./post/fortnite-6-31-leaks-reveal-new-skins-and-cosmetics-coming-to-the-game/Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-6-31-leaks-reveal-new-skins-and-cosmetics-coming-to-the-game/ Fortnite: Battle Royale leakers are still in business. The 6.31 game update is just out. All players already know what’s officially coming to the game today, but Fortnite dataminers already discovered unannounced cosmetic items that Fortnite developer Epic Games hid in the game files. Dataminers at Fortnite News revealed some new skins, pickaxes, and back blings that could be coming to the game anytime soon. These are not confirmed by Epic, but previous leaks of cosmetic items were proven to be correct in the following days when the items were added to the Fortnite in-game Item Shop./post/how-to-enter-and-leave-the-grand-underground-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-enter-and-leave-the-grand-underground-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Once you get into the Grand Underground in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you may never want to leave with all of the fun activities players can do down there. If you’re looking to head inside and make the most out of a Diglett bonus or if you’re tired of digging and want to get back to the surface, here’s how to get in and out of the Grand Underground./post/what-are-the-new-throne-of-the-tides-mini-set-cards-in-hearthstone/Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-new-throne-of-the-tides-mini-set-cards-in-hearthstone/ Hearthstone‘s Throne of the Tides mini-set explores the deepest and darkest depths of the tumultuous tides, bringing fans 35 new cards when it launches on June 1. Here are all the cards that have been revealed so far. New Neutral Colossals The biggest news from the initial set of releases was the addition of neutral Colossal minions in the form of Neptulon the Tidehunter and Ozumat, both powerful removal tools for slower decks./post/what-is-the-best-keyboard-backplate-material/Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-the-best-keyboard-backplate-material/ Backplates provide a place to mount keyboard switches and offer some reinforcement to keep them in position. They are available in many materials, including polycarbonate, aluminum, and brass. The material used for the backplate can affect the durability of the keyboard as well as the sound it makes when the user types. One of the main factors users look at when choosing a backplate is the sound of the material. Each type of backplate produces a different sound when users type./post/ash-and-the-arena-are-waiting-in-apex-legends-latest-teaser/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ash-and-the-arena-are-waiting-in-apex-legends-latest-teaser/ Apex Legends’ new Firing Range teaser took players to a mysterious Arena today, courtesy of Ash. Activating the teaser transported players to a new area of the map where they met a hologram of the simulacrum. Clearing the Firing Range teaser sends a dropship to the landing platform at the Firing Range, which brings the player to another part of Kings Canyon. An elevator inside takes the player to an arena as gunfire rings in the background./post/every-yu-gi-oh-monster-type/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-yu-gi-oh-monster-type/ Every monster in Yu-Gi-Oh! has two major ways to be classified. One way is through an elemental attribute and the other is through their type. The type of a monster often signifies what kind of strategies you can expect from certain cards. In addition, most types usually have different archetypes that lead to powerful combos and can define many playstyles. Here’s a list of every monster type in Yu-Gi-Oh! AquaBeastBeast-WarriorCyberseDinosaurDivine-BeastDragonFairyFiendFishInsectMachinePlantPsychicPyroReptileRockSea SerpentSpellcasterThunderWarriorWinged BeastWyrmZombie What to expect from each type Aqua While this type primarily features Water monsters, there’s at least one Aqua unit that has other attributes./post/tekken-2-costs-9-999-on-the-ps-store/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tekken-2-costs-9-999-on-the-ps-store/ With the launch of its new PlayStation Plus revamp, several older PlayStation games have been appearing on modern consoles for the first time, or at the very least outside of the old PS Now UI. That has predictably led to several interesting errors for some software, including a more than $9,000 markup on Tekken 2. The original PlayStation classic appeared for a brief moment on the PS Store for PS4 and PS5 with a $9,999 price tag when the updated service went live on June 13 in North America./post/all-new-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-new-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus is finally here and along with a new region to explore, there are a ton of new Pokémon to find and capture. See Pokémon on Amazon In the Hisui region, there is plenty of familiar Pokémon roaming around. This is likely due to the area being an ancient version of the Sinnoh region. But there are also plenty of Pokémon who aren’t local to the Sinnoh region./post/among-us-is-still-driving-streamer-viewership-valkyrae-thanks-sussy-sundays-for-viewer-boast/Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/among-us-is-still-driving-streamer-viewership-valkyrae-thanks-sussy-sundays-for-viewer-boast/ Popular YouTube streamer Valkyrae revealed that her Among Us content with fellow creators, dubbed ‘Sussy Sundays,’ is her most viewed broadcasts and videos. Originally released in 2018, Among Us was largely popularized by content creators in 2020. Over the year, the space-themed party game shot to the forefront of Twitch, claiming over 419 million hours watched, according to Stream Charts. Though Among Us’ present playerbase is far from its peak performance, the game still brings in traffic for content creators./post/best-external-storage-for-xbox-series-x/Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-external-storage-for-xbox-series-x/ Microsoft’s Xbox Series X comes with a one TB solid-state drive (SSD), but it actually works out to around 802GB of usable storage space. While this may be adequate for some users, many will need to upgrade at some point because modern games and media files are constantly growing in size. Adding an external storage device to a Series X is the easiest way to expand its capacity. External SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs) are easy to install using a USB cable, and they come in a range of sizes and speeds./post/how-to-unlock-the-iso-and-an-94-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-iso-and-an-94-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Two new weapons arrived in Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare in season five: the ISO and the AN-94. The ISO is a “precision crafted 9mm sub machine gun with a rapid rate of fire. Lightweight, reliable and compact, this is designed to control the battlefield at close ranges,” according to Activision. The AN-94, a classic rifle from Black Ops II, is a “cutting edge 5.45x39mm Russian assault rifle with a unique hyperburst feature./post/mirage-s-heirloom-is-coming-to-apex-legends-and-it-s-a-statue-of-himself/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mirage-s-heirloom-is-coming-to-apex-legends-and-it-s-a-statue-of-himself/ Apex Legends’ most lovable trickster is finally getting an heirloom. And, fittingly, it’s a statue of himself. Respawn revealed the heirloom during today’s EA Play showcase, which allows the Holographic Trickster to pummel his opponents with the golden figurine. The golden statue will release alongside the Lost Treasures Collection Event on June 23, which will also include new skins, modes, and a Crypto Town Takeover. https://media.contentapi.ea.com/content/dam/apex-legends/videos/2020/06/apex-video-lost-treasures-event-heirloom.mp4 Players will likely be able to perform hilarious emotes by inspecting the heirloom./post/pubg-battlegrounds-is-now-free-to-play/Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-battlegrounds-is-now-free-to-play/ It’s time. Get your squad together and hunt down that chicken dinner because PUBG: Battlegrounds is finally free-to-play. As revealed at 2021’s The Game Awards, Jan. 12 marks the date that one of the biggest battle royale titles out right now comes free-to-play on PC, console, and mobile. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is now free-to-play! Get your squad together and drop in today!#PUBG #BATTLEGROUNDS #F2P #battlegroundsforall pic.twitter.com/L5hO2wrJiq — PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBG) January 12, 2022 Prior to today, players on mobile could experience the action for free, but now everybody can join in the action./post/throne-of-eldraine-s-limited-design-and-archetypes/Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/throne-of-eldraine-s-limited-design-and-archetypes/ Magic: the Gathering is steaming forward towards its newest set, Throne of Eldraine (ELD), and that means a new Limited format featuring new cards to draft around. Here’s a rundown of all the design features and deck archetypes that will be present in ELD Limited. ELD Limited design and mechanics Throne of Eldraine is designed to have either mono-color or dual-color decks, with one specific exception. ELD is a top-down design based on two specific pop culture genres./post/asmongold-says-he-s-strongly-considering-sponsoring-wow-esports-teams/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-says-he-s-strongly-considering-sponsoring-wow-esports-teams/ Following a mass exodus of World of Warcraft talent from esports organization Method amid sexual assault allegations directed toward MethodJosh, Asmongold might be in the business of sponsoring some players looking for a new team organization.  During his stream today, Asmongold expressed that he believes many of the people leaving Method right now are “good people.” But their decision to leave Method for moral reasons puts them in a complicated situation./post/nickmercs-says-he-might-quit-fortnite-as-his-main-game/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nickmercs-says-he-might-quit-fortnite-as-his-main-game/ Fortnite has outlasted numerous competitors in the battle royale genre in the past two years since it budded as one of the most-watched games on Twitch in 2018. But Call of Duty: Warzone might prove to be the game’s most substantial challenger yet, with top personalities like Nickmercs hinting at a hard swap to Activision’s more realistic shooter. On stream yesterday, Nick was talking to his chat about how he had just played for 10 hours—but that it felt a lot shorter./post/results-for-2021-call-of-duty-league-stage-3-major/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/results-for-2021-call-of-duty-league-stage-3-major/ The third Major of the 2021 Call of Duty League season has started—and it could be the last online tournament of the year with a return to LAN scheduled for the Stage Four Major. The Stage Three Major will feature all 12 Call of Duty League franchises fighting for money, bragging rights, and those all-important CDL Points. This double-elimination tournament has a $500,000 prize pool and the winner will earn $200,000 as well as 75 CDL Points to help them move up in the standings./post/snax-to-stand-in-for-ence-at-iem-dallas/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/snax-to-stand-in-for-ence-at-iem-dallas/ ENCE’s star rifler Lotan “⁠Spinx⁠” Giladi will not attend IEM Dallas due to visa issues and the team called Janusz “⁠Snax⁠” Pogorzelski to play for them at the $250,000 CS:GO tournament. This is a huge blow to the ENCE camp as Spinx has been their best performer. The Israeli rifler helped them to reach the semifinals of PGL Antwerp Major this month and is averaging a 1.17 rating during 2022, as per HLTV’s statistics./post/best-maokai-build-in-league-of-legends/Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-maokai-build-in-league-of-legends/ The top lane is one of the most controversial aspects of League of Legends in 2022. Certain champions and items have completely outclassed others, leaving much of the game’s roster designed for top lane play forced to sit and watch from afar. Maokai is one of these champions that has struggled to perform well this season. Though he remains one of the best tanks in the game with his crowd control and self-sustain, champions like Ornn and Malphite often do his job better, making Maokai an incredibly niche pick at all levels of the game./post/how-to-complete-the-pok%C3%A9mon-go-tour-johto-gold-and-silver-incense-and-trade-collection-challenges/Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-pok%C3%A9mon-go-tour-johto-gold-and-silver-incense-and-trade-collection-challenges/ Pokémon Go Tour: Johto is tossing players back into the second generation by focusing on Pokémon native to Johto and splitting things up into paths based on the original Gold and Silver.  Along with dictating which handful of version-exclusive Pokémon you will be encountering, the version you select can also impact small parts of the event’s Special Research and Collection Challenges.  Specifically for the Collection Challenges, Niantic has split them up to revolve around general Pokémon Go gameplay and Go Tour: Johto’s habitat rotation./post/teferi-time-raveler-and-wilderness-reclamation-suspended-in-historic/Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/teferi-time-raveler-and-wilderness-reclamation-suspended-in-historic/ Teferi, Time Raveler and Wilderness Reclamation are now under suspension in Magic Arena’s eternal format Historic, Wizards of the Coast announced in today’s sudden Banned and Restricted announcement. Suspension is a classification unique to Historic where cards are banned for a trial period that allows Wizards to see how the removal of certain cards changes the meta and to decide whether a full ban would be a positive change. The rapidly-expanding Historic format remains dominated by Wilderness Reclamation and Teferi, Time Raveler despite hundreds of cards being introduced since the last Banned and Restricted announcement./post/halo-infinite-player-kills-23-enemies-with-one-sniper-rifle-bullet/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-player-kills-23-enemies-with-one-sniper-rifle-bullet/ One Halo Infinite player recently proved that a single sniper rifle bullet can kill 23 enemies without issue, but only if they’re set up in a straight line.  Halo Infinite’s sniper rifle is one of the best power weapons in the game. One bullet completely destroys an enemy’s shields and a headshot is an automatic kill even if a player has a full shield. Players who can hit their shots can easily kill multiple enemies with a sniper rifle and it’s possible to get a collateral by killing multiple enemies with a single bullet./post/here-are-every-legendary-weapon-and-skin-in-apex-legends/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-every-legendary-weapon-and-skin-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends has a bunch of different skins on offers for its many guns to customize your experience. Legendary weapon skins, the rarest of all the skin types, are a good way to customize your weapons with more alluring looks. The legendary skins also sometimes change the shape of the weapon to reflect its new look. While opposing players might be more interested in shooting you than looking at your gun, however, it’s still a nice thing to have—as long as you can afford one./post/fortnite-players-joke-about-toy-soldiers-skins-being-pay-to-win/Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-players-joke-about-toy-soldiers-skins-being-pay-to-win/ Epic Games reminds players that Fortnite: Battle Royale character skins provide no competitive advantage when they go to the Item Shop. But that statement seems to be slightly wrong for the game’s latest skins from the Toy Soldier set. These skins take inspiration from green plastic toy soldiers. Of course, they had to be green when Epic added them to Fortnite, and that’s where the issue is. Their shade of green is nearly the same as that of grass and some plants spread across the island, which means players can crouch next to some of them to blend in and become almost impossible to notice./post/how-to-save-your-game-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-save-your-game-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes the traditional formula used by Game Freak over the last two decades and revamps it into something almost entirely new. Every game, however, still needs core features such as the ability to save your data.  Instead of just assuming the player knows how to save or mentioning the menu options via a random sign in the overworld, Legends: Arceus directly shows the player via a tutorial menu popping up near the start of the game./post/psyonix-previews-rocket-pass-6-rewards/Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/psyonix-previews-rocket-pass-6-rewards/ Rocket League players won’t have to wait much longer for a new Rocket Pass to grind. Rocket Pass 6 will release on March 25, Psyonix announced today. With a cybernetic theme and over 70 tiers of rewards, players will have a lot of content to try to claim while playing online matches. Psyonix is adding dozens of new items for both premium and free-to-play users.  Rocket League is going cybernetic in #RocketPass6./post/yoru-disabled-in-valorant-while-riot-works-on-an-issue-breeze-unavailable-in-ranked/Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/yoru-disabled-in-valorant-while-riot-works-on-an-issue-breeze-unavailable-in-ranked/ Today’s a sad day for Yoru mains. Riot has disabled Yoru in VALORANT, according to a status notification found in the game client. While the only information the message offers is that Riot is working on “an issue,” it’s likely due to the agent’s exploitable Gatecrash. A game-breaking Yoru exploit first made its rounds last week, letting players teleport into Breeze’s Pyramids with Gatecrash. Once inside the pyramids, players could plant the Spike and shoot opponents who were none the wiser./post/niko-hunter-extend-contracts-with-g2-s-cs-go-lineup/Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/niko-hunter-extend-contracts-with-g2-s-cs-go-lineup/ The Bosnian duo of NiKo and huNter- have been inked to multi-year contract extensions with G2 Esports today ahead of the PGL Antwerp Major, where the organization strives for better fortunes in CS:GO in 2022. HuNter- joined G2 Esports, alongside teammate Nemanja “nexa” Isakovic in October 2019 following his tenure with Cr4zy. NiKo joined the team one year later, in November 2020, after over three years with FaZe Clan.  COUSINS RENEWED/post/how-to-unlock-the-marvel-prowler-skin-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-marvel-prowler-skin-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/ Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 2 is now live and players have a ton of new cosmetics available to collect through its Battle Pass — including one villainous Marvel skin. Like previous seasons, this pass features some of Marvel’s popular characters including Doctor Strange which is one of the major rewards players will work towards this season. Also, this season’s hidden skin is another Marvel Comics character, this time The Prowler, uncle of Miles Morales./post/tft-set-5-5-a-guide-to-playing-akshan/Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-set-5-5-a-guide-to-playing-akshan/ With the recent introduction of Teamfight Tactics Set 5.5, League of Legends‘ very own Scoundrel slayer joined TFT‘s cast of champions and has since become a game-changing powerhouse. Akshan is the premier carry for both the Sentinel and Ranger traits. His strength is so high, that he can even be played without any synergies for a late-game power spike. See League of Legends on Amazon Abilities Akshan’s basic attacks deal 80/144/259 damage at one-star, two-star and then three-star respectively, making him one of the deadliest on-hit champs./post/how-to-strip-the-ball-in-madden-21/Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-strip-the-ball-in-madden-21/ A strong defense can prevent even the best offensive players from gaining yards or scoring touchdowns in Madden 21. Defenders can also turn the tides on the other team by forcing a fumble by stripping the ball from an opposing player. Understanding how to strip the ball is essential and can make the difference in a close game.  Players can strip the ball in Madden 21 by pressing the RB/R1 button when they’re close to the player running with the ball./post/what-time-does-deltarune-chapter-2-release/Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-time-does-deltarune-chapter-2-release/ The sequel to Toby Fox’s RPG Deltarune is coming this week and players will get a chance to continue their efforts to save the world with the release of Deltarune Chapter 2. Despite the new content only being announced earlier today, the official Undertale and Deltarune account on Twitter posted a video confirming that Chapter 2 will be out extremely soon. Deltarune Chapter 2 is set to release on Friday, Sept./post/what-is-stream-sniping/Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-stream-sniping/ If you’ve spent any amount of time watching a streamer on Twitch play a multiplayer game, there’s a chance you’ve heard them complain about something called “stream sniping.” For those who have never went live and broadcasted their gameplay to the internet, this can be a confusing term. But when a streamer is complaining about being “sniped,” it’s not because there’s a strong enemy player with a sniper rifle on the other team./post/all-of-mad-maggie-s-abilities-in-apex-legends/Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-of-mad-maggie-s-abilities-in-apex-legends/ Season 12 of Apex Legends, Defiance, is coming soon with a new legend. And it’s one that many players of the game will be immediately familiar with. Mad Maggie, the voice of season eight’s Ring Fury limited-time mode, is set to become a playable legend in the game as of season 12. Fuse now has company since the fellow Salvonian has been sentenced to death by battle royale. Mad Maggie might not be the hero the Legends want on their squad, but she might just be the villain they need./post/best-venusaur-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-venusaur-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ Pokémon UNITE has launched for Switch, and players are getting a chance to try out its range of Pokémon all offering their own unique playstyle. With a MOBA’s traditional structure, some Pokémon are more equipped to different roles than others. When it comes to laning, one of the best ranged species on the roster is Venusaur. Using grass-type offense, Venusaur has access to a move set including healing moves, high damage cannons, and of course, vine-orientated offense./post/how-to-win-king-of-the-hill-in-overwatch/Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-win-king-of-the-hill-in-overwatch/ Illios. Nepal. LijiangTower. It comes as no surprise thatAssault maps are still the most despised group of maps inOverwatch; not to be outdone by King of the Hill (KOTH) maps, whichare hated just nearly as much, but are experiencing a surge in playin the professional Overwatch scene. I can only speculate thatteams are scrimming on them more, but the gameplay speaks foritself. More often than not, it appears that mid to lower tierteams do not understand the basics of momentum and control on KOTHmaps./post/the-best-travel-cases-for-ps5/Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-travel-cases-for-ps5/ Sony’s PlayStation 5 is one of the most powerful consoles available and supports the latest gaming features, like ray-tracing and 4K graphics. While the PS5 has some of the fastest performance of any console, it doesn’t come cheap and has limited availability almost a year after its release. Considering its high price and scarcity of the PS5, it makes sense to protect it from damage, especially if it’s being transported or packed away for storage./post/valorant-updates-split-s-store-with-glitchpop-decor/Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-updates-split-s-store-with-glitchpop-decor/ Following the recent announcement of the second series of Glitchpop skins in VALORANT, the store in Split has been updated. VALORANT fans love the Glitchpop skins but most people wished the first set was on different guns. The second flight that will be released on Feb. 3 includes skins for the Vandal, Phantom, Operator, Classic, and a new ax melee weapon. Here's a video of the updated Glitch Pop Store!/post/best-bose-computer-speakers-for-gaming/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-bose-computer-speakers-for-gaming/ Bose is one of the best-known consumer audio companies in the world. The audio giant primarily produces headphones and casual lifestyle-focused speakers. But Bose also makes two desktop speaker systems that work well for gaming: the Companion 20 speaker system and the Companion 2 Series III speaker system. These two speaker systems are the best computer speakers for gamers that Bose currently sells. Both systems come with similar features and intended uses./post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-fortnite-update-v15-20/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-fortnite-update-v15-20/ With the holidays finally out of the way, Epic Games is back with another exciting Fortnite update. The giant two-gigabyte patch, which is scheduled to hit the live servers later today, offers a new (and powerful) Lever Action shotgun, an Exotic set of deadly pistols, and more. Here’s everything to look forward to in Fortnite v15.20. Lever Action shotgun Introduced in v15.20, the new Lever Action shotgun packs a real punch./post/how-to-fix-valorant-s-process-already-running-error/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-valorant-s-process-already-running-error/ When installing VALORANT for the first time or returning after an extended break, some players have experienced the “process already running” error. This error appears to be tied to League of Legends and other Riot titles. For whatever reason, the combination of clients seems to lead to this annoying error code. Here’s how to fix it. The easiest and fastest way to solve the issue is to delete the c:/Riot Games/Riot Client/vcruntime140./post/how-to-earn-rainbow-six-siege-twitch-drops-during-si-2022/Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-earn-rainbow-six-siege-twitch-drops-during-si-2022/ The biggest Rainbow Six Siege event of the year is right around the corner. The Six Invitational 2022 is set to kick off from Stockholm, Sweden on Feb. 8. For the next two weeks, 20 of the best Siege teams from around the world will compete in a round-robin group stage to determine seeding for the double-elimination playoff bracket. The players will be competing for the right to be Siege‘s next world champion, as well as the lion’s share of a large prize pool./post/lost-ark-servers-under-maintenance-to-lay-the-groundwork-for-upcoming-major-patch/Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lost-ark-servers-under-maintenance-to-lay-the-groundwork-for-upcoming-major-patch/ Like every Thursday, the Lost Ark servers have gone under maintenance for a weekly update. But, contrary to what many players expected, it won’t release all the upcoming content teased in the roadmap since it’s scheduled for “later this month.” Today’s patch, which will be introduced following maintenance expected to last eight hours, is only laying the groundwork for next week’s major patch. It’ll only introduce additional log-in rewards. “The team will be making changes to the backend structure of the game to prepare for the content update coming later this month,” the developers wrote in the patch notes./post/league-s-rebel-becomes-a-mobster-in-this-fan-made-crime-city-xayah-skin/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-rebel-becomes-a-mobster-in-this-fan-made-crime-city-xayah-skin/ A League of Legends fan has transported Xayah into the Crime City Nightmare alternate universe with a new look for the ADC.  User Harimii shared their take on the Crime City Nightmare skin line featuring the Rebel. In this alternate universe Xayah takes on the role of the mobster desperate for power and chaos. There are officially 12 League champions who have a part in the Crime City universe, including the latest additions to the line, Akali, Twisted Fate, and Zyra./post/galio-finally-being-nerfed-in-league-plus-other-mid-lane-changes-on-the-way/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/galio-finally-being-nerfed-in-league-plus-other-mid-lane-changes-on-the-way/ If you’ve been perusing the League of Legends YouTube or Reddit community over the course of the pre-season, you may have stumbled across one of the many, many clips of Galio one-shotting someone with his Q. In most cases, videos like those are staged a little bit and the champion doing the one-shotting is several levels and items ahead of the victim. But in Galio’s case, he doesn’t actually need much of an advantage to nuke someone with his Q, and for such an easy ability to land, that’s a problem./post/how-to-add-a-trident-symbol-to-your-fortnite-username/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-add-a-trident-symbol-to-your-fortnite-username/ As you start racking up kills in a Fortnite match, most of the players in your lobby should become aware of your presence. If you don’t want your name to get lost in the sea of other names, you’ll need a way to stand out. Adding symbols to your name can be an excellent way of separating yourself from the crowd, and they also look cool. There has been a rise in players who use the trident symbol recently, and it works a lot better when you also combine it with the Aquaman skin./post/how-to-complete-flashback-benzema-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-flashback-benzema-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added an 86-rated Flashback version of Karim Benzema from Real Madrid to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. This is Benzema’s second special card during the FIFA 22 Ultimate Team cycle. He gained this Flashback version to celebrate his debut season with Real Madrid in the LaLiga 2009-2010 season. The SBC will be available until Friday, Dec. 3. Celebrate #BlackFriday by turning back the clocks ⏱🔙/post/riot-confirms-jayce-viktor-and-others-as-characters-in-upcoming-league-animated-series-arcane/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-confirms-jayce-viktor-and-others-as-characters-in-upcoming-league-animated-series-arcane/ Riot Games has confirmed more League of Legends champions that are coming to the universe of Arcane, the company’s League-based animated series that’s set to release later this year. Jayce and Viktor, both of whom are prominent champions in League, have been confirmed as characters in the show. Caitlyn, who was teased in a brief trailer for Arcane yesterday, has also been officially revealed. How far are you willing to go in the name of progress?/post/valorant-first-strike-nsg-closed-qualifier-schedule-bracket-scores-and-standings/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-first-strike-nsg-closed-qualifier-schedule-bracket-scores-and-standings/ After 128 teams competed in last week’s VALORANT First Strike Open Qualifier, only eight remain. And the stakes are higher than ever. The First Strike Nerd Street Gamers Closed Qualifier playoffs kick off today, where the top four squads will advance directly to the regional finals in December. The bottom four will automatically move on to the UMG Closed Qualifier, with the eight eliminated teams relegated to test their luck again at the next open qualifier./post/evil-geniuses-knocked-out-of-first-na-rmr-open-qualifier/Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/evil-geniuses-knocked-out-of-first-na-rmr-open-qualifier/ Evil Geniuses, home of former Major champions in Jake “Stewie2K” Yip, William “RUSH” Wierzba, and Timothy “autimatic” Ta have been sent packing from the North American Regional Major Ranking (RMR) first open qualifier by the hands of Strife. A total of 130 CS:GO teams signed up for the first open qualifier that will provide four spots at the PGL Antwerp Major Americas RMR in April. EG were amongst the favorites to secure it right away, without needing to play in the second open qualifier./post/call-of-duty-league-2022-rookie-ladder-post-major-2/Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-league-2022-rookie-ladder-post-major-2/ Major Two gave Call of Duty League fans some of the most memorable moments of the 2022 season so far. The Los Angeles Guerrillas did the unthinkable by winning the event, Spart solidified his spot in the league, and we saw Mack carry on playing after throwing up mid-map. Looking at our post-Major Two rookie ladder, Gismo has finally been dethroned and pushed down to fourth after seven weeks at the No./post/the-best-nz-41-loadout-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-nz-41-loadout-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/ Call of Duty: Vanguard’s growing roster of World War II guns is filled with some classics but also some interesting variations on unique weapons of the past. The NZ-41 is inspired by the Charlton automatic rifle, which was designed by a New Zealander named Philip Charlton, hence the “NZ” designation. Charlton created the gun to be a substitution for light machine guns that were in short supply during the war./post/lorehold-expands-white-s-capabilities-in-mtg-strixhaven-school-of-mages/Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lorehold-expands-white-s-capabilities-in-mtg-strixhaven-school-of-mages/ In recent sets, White has struggled to receive consistently strong cards. Occasionally White will get something nice, like Skyclave Apparition, but over the past two years White is generally the weakest color in Magic. With the release of Strixhaven: School of Mages, Wizards of the Coast seems to be printing solid White cards that expand the design space for the color. This extends to the Red and White color pair known as Lorehold in Strixhaven./post/sources-tsm-to-buy-out-team-liquid-s-ad-carry-tactical-for-2022-lcs-season/Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-tsm-to-buy-out-team-liquid-s-ad-carry-tactical-for-2022-lcs-season/ TSM has finalized a deal in the last few hours to sign former Team Liquid AD carry Tactical as its new LCS ADC, sources familiar with the deal told Dot Esports. Tactical will be replacing Lost, who could be on his way to Golden Guardians. The organization bid farewell to Lost yesterday. Today we bid farewell to @Tactical. Thanks for all your hard work over the last year, we wish you nothing but the best for the future 💪 pic./post/how-to-get-eyasluna-1000-yard-stare-matador-64-and-hero-of-ages-in-destiny-2/Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-eyasluna-1000-yard-stare-matador-64-and-hero-of-ages-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2‘s 30th Anniversary Event brings a few new weapons from the first installment of the franchise to the game—and you can get them with some dungeon delving. Other than the mythical Gjallarhorn rocket launcher, players can also get Eyasluna, 1000-Yard Stare, Matador 64, and Hero of Ages in the sequel as part of the DLC pack. This selection of weapons expands on The Comedian and The Hothead, which are already Nightfall rewards on selected weeks./post/minecraft-s-caves-cliffs-update-part-ii-will-release-nov-30/Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/minecraft-s-caves-cliffs-update-part-ii-will-release-nov-30/ Minecraft has officially announced the release date for its highly anticipated next patch Caves & Cliffs Update: Part II, which will be coming Nov. 30. With its first part dropping on Nov. 8, Caves & Cliffs Update: Part II has been highly anticipated by players as it will bring updates to terrain and a few new features to the game. Mark your calendars, and start practising your awestruck gasps: Caves & Cliffs: Part II releases in all its natural splendour on November 30th!/post/where-to-find-all-cube-monster-parts-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-all-cube-monster-parts-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/ Each Fortnite season comes bundled with new features for fans to explore. While players will want to unravel the new parts of the map, they’ll be welcomed by new weapons and in-game events across the island. One new crafting material is called Cube Monster Parts and it can be used to upgrade Sideways Weapons, which can be obtained from Sideways Zones and Sideways Anomalies. You’ll find Sideways Zones and Anomalies in random parts of the map every time you load into a match./post/apex-legends-player-demonstrates-how-to-double-the-size-of-fuse-s-ultimate/Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-player-demonstrates-how-to-double-the-size-of-fuse-s-ultimate/ One enterprising Apex Legends player has shared how to make Fuse’s Motherlode twice as large—but it requires a difficult trick shot to pull off. Reddit user Crunchy_Circles posted a clip of themselves demonstrating the technique in the firing range. First, they throw a regular frag grenade straight up into the air and let it reach the top of its arc. Then, they take aim with the Motherlode and zoom in, trying to match their aim reticle with the grenade that’s still in the air./post/what-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-specs-for-fortnite/Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-minimum-and-recommended-specs-for-fortnite/ Fortnite was released back in 2017 and is considered one of the most popular Battle Royale titles. The game sees millions of players log on every day to play, despite claims that the third-person shooter isn’t as popular as it used to be. See Video Games on Amazon Part of the game’s popularity stems from being free-to-play. Adding to Fortnite‘s ease of accessibility, it also boasts cross-platform play amongst most supported devices, so playing with your friends is a breeze./post/luong-kicks-off-next-round-of-king-of-fighters-xv-roster-reveals/Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/luong-kicks-off-next-round-of-king-of-fighters-xv-roster-reveals/ SNK isn’t letting its recent decision to delay King of Fighters XV into the first quarter of 2022 slow down its reveal pipeline, announcing The Enchanting Beauty Luong as the next fighter for the game’s roster.  Luong is a newer character, making her debut in KoF XIV, making this just her second appearance in the franchise, or third if you count SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. The mysterious femme fatale is known for teasing her opponents and is typically portrayed as cold emotionally outside of the heat of a battle./post/the-best-double-barrel-shotgun-loadout-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-double-barrel-shotgun-loadout-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/ World War II shotguns are about as rustic and classic as FPS guns can get—and Call of Duty: Vanguard has some of the most memorable shottys. At Vanguard’s launch, there are four shotguns to choose from. The Double Barrel is the last one to be unlocked, all the way at level 49. The break-action shotgun has a fast rate of fire and bad range, but it can be equipped with attachments to make it even stronger./post/best-jhin-build-in-league-of-legends/Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-jhin-build-in-league-of-legends/ Jhin, the Virtuoso, is one of the strongest ADCs in League of Legends. The critical damage dealt by Jhin makes him extremely dangerous for his opponents. At full build, the champion can quickly eliminate opponents with no problems at all. As with all champions in League, different items are going to work better for Jhin’s kit more than others and these items will change depending on the situation he finds himself in during the match./post/how-to-claim-the-raptor-mount-in-lost-ark/Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-claim-the-raptor-mount-in-lost-ark/ Lost Ark was released to a Western audience back in February, resulting in the game by Amazon Games rocketing to the top of the charts on both Steam and Twitch. The game has since cooled off on both platforms but is still steadily attracting returning players and viewers, while the developers are planning a wave of new classes, areas, and raids to be released in April and May. Naturally, a game that was developed and published by Amazon was bound to release with an extensive Twitch-based drop system, which rewarded boosts, items, and cosmetics to the thousands who watched./post/how-to-lower-cpu-temperature/Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-lower-cpu-temperature/ Keeping central processing unit (CPU) temperature at bay is critical. Operating at high temperatures runs the risk of causing severe damage to your gaming rig. In most cases, when the CPU surpasses its manufacturer-specified thermal limit, the entire system shuts down. If computers didn’t perform this safety measure, critical damage would occur. In any case, monitoring CPU temperature is essential, and knowing how warm your rig is running, especially during hardware-intensive applications like gaming, is a vital way to keep your PC’s health in check./post/ea-adds-5-more-record-breaker-cards-into-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-adds-5-more-record-breaker-cards-into-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports has introduced today five new Record Breaker cards in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. The Record Breaker promo consists in creating a special version of players who broke a record in soccer. The five cards are a 91-rated Virgil van Dijk from Liverpool, an 88-rated Jamie Vardy from Leicester City, an 87-rated Gianluigi Donnarumma from Milan, an 87-rated Cesc Fàbregas from AS Monaco, and an 87-rated Carlos Vela from Los Angeles FC./post/phantasmagoria-tomestones-and-red-scrips-to-be-deleted-upon-endwalker-s-release-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/phantasmagoria-tomestones-and-red-scrips-to-be-deleted-upon-endwalker-s-release-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Some new information on gear grinding in Endwalker was revealed by Square Enix earlier today, roughly one month before the expansion’s release in Final Fantasy XIV. Patch 6.0, which will introduce Endwalker, will delete phantasmagoria tomestones and red scrips from the game. Additionally, allegory and revelation tomestones, as well as yellow gatherers’ and crafters’ scrips, will be discontinued. Instead, two new types of tomestones and one type of scrips will be introduced to the game to get gear from level 80 to 90—the new level cap after the expansion’s release./post/riot-reveals-new-cafe-cutie-league-skins-for-annie-soraka-vladimir-gwen-bard-and-sivir/Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-new-cafe-cutie-league-skins-for-annie-soraka-vladimir-gwen-bard-and-sivir/ League of Legends’ next skin line, titled Cafe Cutie, has been revealed by Riot Games. It includes new cosmetics for Annie, Bard, Gwen, Sivir, Soraka, and Vladimir. The skins capture the theme of a maid cafe, a popular type of restaurant in Asia in which waitresses and waiters dress as maids and serve baked goods along with other food. With vibrant pink, green, and gold color schemes throughout the entire skin line, Cafe Cutie is one of League’s most eye-catching skin lines to date./post/tft-set-7-soraka-3-star-forces-concession-in-pbe-clash/Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-set-7-soraka-3-star-forces-concession-in-pbe-clash/ Extreme possibilities became a reality during the Teamfight Tactics PBE Clash, showcasing Set Seven Dragonlands, via a three-star Soraka that heals units and your tactician. Game one of the Set Seven PBE Clash showcased two powerful comps facing off against one another in the final match today, piloted by Pasdebol and Qitux. Putting the Double Trouble Draconic Augment to use, Pasdebol was running three-star Ezreal, Illaoi, and Varus—with two-star versions on the battlefield as well./post/100t-valorant-releases-babyj-and-ec1s-after-just-2-matches-signs-bang-and-jcstani-on-loan/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/100t-valorant-releases-babyj-and-ec1s-after-just-2-matches-signs-bang-and-jcstani-on-loan/ After a 0-2 start to their 2022 VALORANT Champions Tour run, 100 Thieves has released Hunter “BabyJ” Schline and Adam “ec1s” Eccles from its VALORANT roster, the organization announced today. Both BabyJ and ec1s joined the 100T roster less than 40 days before getting released. The duo played just two official matches with the org during the NA VCT Challengers One main event. Both matches were losses, first to Cloud9 and then The Guard, the latter of which ended in a 13-0 shutout on Ascent./post/doublelift-says-he-s-taking-a-long-break-from-league-solo-queue-will-continue-co-streams/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/doublelift-says-he-s-taking-a-long-break-from-league-solo-queue-will-continue-co-streams/ Former League of Legends pro Doublelift gave an in-depth update to his fans about the future of his streaming career, what he plans to do moving forward, and why he’ll be taking an elongated break from solo queue for the time being in a recent vlog. The 28-year-old veteran first revealed that he and his girlfriend, TSM president Leena Xu, caught the Delta variant of COVID-19. He said they’re both fully vaccinated but still caught it./post/sypherpk-and-kittyplays-team-up-with-klarna-for-playing-for-keeps-campaign/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sypherpk-and-kittyplays-team-up-with-klarna-for-playing-for-keeps-campaign/ SypherPK and KittyPlays have partnered with online shopping service Klarna for the Playing For Keeps campaign, they announced today. This event will give gamers the chance to play against the popular streamers and win free gaming gear. Rappers Lil Yachty and Snoop Dogg will make cameo appearances during the event to assist gamers as they attempt to take the gaming gear from the streamers themselves.  Next week is your chance to prove to me why you deserve my setup!/post/the-best-defensive-line-players-in-madden-nfl-22/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-defensive-line-players-in-madden-nfl-22/ The defensive line has some of the strongest players in football. These athletes are the first point of attack for a team’s defense. They put pressure on the quarterback and punish running backs. Modern defensive linemen need to have a combination of overwhelming strength and superb lateral quickness. A great defensive line can dominate the game in real life and in Madden NFL 22. Here are the best defensive lineman in Madden 22 by rating./post/all-pok%C3%A9mon-air-adventures-timed-research-tasks-and-rewards-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-pok%C3%A9mon-air-adventures-timed-research-tasks-and-rewards-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go is entering a new Mega Era with Mega Evolved Legendary Pokémon making their first appearance in the form of Mega Latias and Mega Latios in the new Pokémon Air Adventures event. Running from May 3 to 8, the event features Flying Pikachu and a handful of other Pokémon that can soar through the sky, with a few notable exceptions.  During the event, players can encounter both Mega Latias and Mega Latios in Mega Raids for the first time, with both knowing new moves, Mist Ball and Luster Purge, respectively./post/the-best-destiny-2-expansions-ranked/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-destiny-2-expansions-ranked/ Destiny 2 might be the quintessential “live service” game. Bungie has grown and evolved over the years, taking Destiny 2 with it as it expands each year and every few months with new, seasonal content. The game is seemingly always alive and worth checking out on a week-to-week basis—and even more so year-to-year. There have been three expansions added to Destiny 2 since it was released in 2017, but more are on the way./post/how-to-delete-a-ps5-account/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-delete-a-ps5-account/ Being a console player isn’t as simple as it used to be when the PlayStation 2 was the king of the gaming world. Putting a disc in is hardly ever enough to run a game instantly these days since you’ll need to download the rest of the game files to launch it. You’ll need a PS5 account to configure games to your account and start the downloading process. If you’ve been a console gamer your whole life, you may have a few more accounts that you’d like to have at your disposal./post/new-overwatch-map-revealed-eichenwalde/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-overwatch-map-revealed-eichenwalde/ High bandwidth servers are live in Overwatch, increasing tic rateMany Overwatch players noticed a change in their netgraph on Thursday night, it looked like the rate at which the server sent updates to the client was increased Samuel Lingle - Aug 13, 2016 9:39 am2018-08-13T04:40:04-05:00 OverwatchncG1vNJzZmicn6mytLzOq6usZpOkunC71Z6psJmkmLVwvMCgnGhsZmg%3D/post/sentinels-beat-f4q-in-final-vct-masters-berlin-group-stage-match/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sentinels-beat-f4q-in-final-vct-masters-berlin-group-stage-match/ Sentinels ended the group stage with a 2-1 victory against F4Q, setting the stage for VCT Masters Three Berlin playoffs to begin on Friday, Sept. 17. Despite dropping a map to F4Q, Sentinels looked dominant on both of their map picks. The series started on Breeze, with Sentinels selecting the map where TenZ had thrashed F4Q to close out their first series. This time, he brought out Jett again to contend with a surprising Yoru pick from zunba, marking the first time the duelist has been picked all tournament./post/where-to-find-mighty-monument-and-place-surveillance-cameras-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-mighty-monument-and-place-surveillance-cameras-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one/ If you’ve just hopped into Fortnite Chapter Three, season one you’ll likely be looking to gain as much XP as possible by completing missions. This XP will rank up your battle pass faster and provide more loot for your playtime. Each week, there are new missions added for players to complete and earn XP. This week, players are tasked with locating the Mighty Monument and setting up camera surveillance nearby./post/how-to-fix-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-daily-challenges-issues/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-daily-challenges-issues/ The multiplayer mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has had several issues, including an error with the Daily Challenges. The error ensures that any progress made to complete the missions will not be saved. This keeps players from completing the challenges and getting rewards. Thankfully, there seems to be a rather easy fix that will kickblstart the counter again and let you jump right back into the action.  If you are in the middle of a challenge like “Spot 40 Enemies On The Map,” check to see if your progress is being saved with each match./post/sky-williams-response-to-allegations-about-his-sky-house-residences-was-taken-down-mid-broadcast/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sky-williams-response-to-allegations-about-his-sky-house-residences-was-taken-down-mid-broadcast/ In a three-hour stream last night, content creator Sky Williams attempted to address allegations about abuse of power, harassment, and sexual misconduct that occurred in properties he owned. But he seems to have only made things worse. The stream was ultimately cut off when a roommate pulled the plug on his router. Over the last five days, numerous people have come forth with allegations of grooming, pedophilia, sexual assault, and more within the Super Smash Bros./post/all-ranked-mode-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-ranked-season-two/Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-ranked-mode-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-ranked-season-two/ Pokémon UNITE is a free-to-play MOBA in almost every sense of the term. The game offers multiple types, levels, and rewards for doing specific tasks, completing missions, or just participating in various game modes. This is typically done through the “Event” tab or other sub-menus, but for Ranked Mode, the big rewards don’t drop until the end of a season.  Like other MOBA titles, TiMi Studio treats its Ranked Mode as a core gameplay experience./post/seattle-surge-drops-its-entire-call-of-duty-league-roster/Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/seattle-surge-drops-its-entire-call-of-duty-league-roster/ In the middle of the Call of Duty League’s Championship Weekend, one of the league’s 12 teams has already begun making roster moves. After not making it into the league’s top eight to participate in this year’s championship, the Seattle Surge has released its entire roster. Octane, Prestinni, Classic, Gunless, Loony, and coach Nubzy are now all free agents heading into the Call of Duty: Vanguard season in 2022. Thank you @OctaneSam, @Prestinni, @Classic, @Gunless, @Loony, and @JoeyNubzy for being a part of this team./post/rng-s-mid-laner-cryin-picks-annie-at-worlds-the-champion-s-first-appearance-at-an-international-league-event-since-2015/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rng-s-mid-laner-cryin-picks-annie-at-worlds-the-champion-s-first-appearance-at-an-international-league-event-since-2015/ It’s taken a long six years, but the Dark Child has found her way back onto Summoner’s Rift at the 2021 League of Legends World Championship. Royal Never Give Up’s mid laner Cryin has locked in Annie as his pick for the second game of their quarterfinals matchup against EDward Gaming. This is also the first time that the 20-year-old has picked the champion in his relatively short career. The last time Annie was picked at an international League event was back at Worlds 2015, where she was chosen multiple times as a support pick./post/how-to-unlock-the-bozjan-southern-front-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-bozjan-southern-front-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Following the release of the latest Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker, players will want to find better ways to earn XP and get their Sage or Reaper character to level 80 in no time. Bozjan areas are the perfect solution for this, but players who finished Shadowbringers’ main scenario quest might have missed unlocking it. Here’s how to do that and earn that fast XP, Mettle, and gear. How to unlock the Southern Front of Bozja in Final Fantasy XIV Start the questline named Hail to the Queen in Kugane./post/gaming-forum-resetera-acquired-by-moba-network-for-4-55-million/Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gaming-forum-resetera-acquired-by-moba-network-for-4-55-million/ Gaming forums have largely fallen by the wayside as social media replaced the need for more general, non-niche locations to talk about games. But ResetEra has remained a popular place for general gaming discussion where users can find news, insight, and more in a more private setting due to requiring a verified email address for registration.  Now, Swedish esports-focused media and community company MOBA Network has purchased the forum for $4./post/the-10-pok%C3%A9mon-with-the-highest-cp-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-pok%C3%A9mon-with-the-highest-cp-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go gives players the ability to find and capture their favorite Pokémon spanning over seven generations of the franchise. With a variety of Pokémon available in the game, it can be difficult to know which species are the strongest. One factor that can provide some insight into this is the Pokémon’s CP. CP stands for combat points and differs from a Pokémon’s stats. The CP can basically be summarized as the base stats with a hidden modifier called an IV that will dictate the Pokémon’s overall power in battle./post/seraphine-has-the-most-disliked-champion-spotlight-video-in-league-history/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/seraphine-has-the-most-disliked-champion-spotlight-video-in-league-history/ Seraphine’s League of Legends debut isn’t quite the chart-topping hit Riot Games envisioned for its newest mage. Her official Spotlight video is hovering around more than 61,000 dislikes, giving it a negative ratio compared to her 39,000 likes at time of writing. In the Korean version of the video, she’s even more proportionally detested, with less than 1,000 likes compared to more than 9,000 dislikes. Pre-rework Yorick comes in a distant second, amassing 10,000 dislikes on his old Spotlight video./post/everything-we-know-about-the-world-of-warcraft-talent-system-revamp-for-dragonflight/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-we-know-about-the-world-of-warcraft-talent-system-revamp-for-dragonflight/ Blizzard today unveiled Dragonflight as the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, and while the expansion brings many new elements to the game, it’s a bit of a reversion in character talents that is turning heads. That’s right, Blizzard is revamping WoW’s talent system in the new expansion and bringing back talent trees, giving players more character flexibility and customization options. The new talent system is still a work in progress, but developers harped on a few keys today during their announcement./post/microsoft-discontinued-production-of-xbox-one-consoles-at-end-of-2020/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/microsoft-discontinued-production-of-xbox-one-consoles-at-end-of-2020/ Microsoft has officially confirmed that the production of Xbox One consoles stopped at the end of 2020. All focus is now on producing Xbox Series X|S consoles.  As reported by The Verge, senior director of Xbox console product marketing Cindy Walker confirmed that Microsoft “stopped production for all Xbox One consoles by the end of 2020.” The Xbox One X and Xbox One S were initially discontinued before the launch of the Xbox Series X./post/valorant-player-secures-ace-with-impressive-trigger-discipline/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-secures-ace-with-impressive-trigger-discipline/ A VALORANT player recently managed to kill an entire team in less than 10 seconds thanks to their incredible trigger discipline.  The player was defending the B site on Icebox and was the last player remaining on their team as the enemy squad pushed into the site to plant the spike. They let two unsuspecting players walk by them to gather more information on enemy movement.  Trigger discipline, 7 seconds 1v5 with one magazine from VALORANT As the enemy team pushed further into the site, the player crept behind them and finally opened fire while they planted the spike./post/everything-we-know-about-chamber-valorant-s-next-agent/Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-we-know-about-chamber-valorant-s-next-agent/ Chamber is the latest agent to join VALORANT—a sentinel that “focuses on mechanical outplays” with an “additional focus on gunplay” for “an extra flourish.” The agent’s codename, “Deadeye,” was first discovered in VALORANT’s Year One Anthem video in June, with the word scrawled on the side of a gun. The name was later found littered throughout the game’s files and continued to crop up in trailers, teasers, and other forms of media./post/how-to-unlock-zandalari-trolls-in-wow-shadowlands/Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-zandalari-trolls-in-wow-shadowlands/ World of Warcraft has 10 Allied Races—a system introduced with the Battle for Azeroth expansion in 2018. There’s Void Elf, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron Dwarf, Kul Tiran Human, and Mechangnome for the Alliance and Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Mag’har Orc, Vulpera, and Zandalari Troll for the Horde.  Unlike the other 14 playable races in the game, Allied Races each require an achievement to be unlocked.  The Zandalari Trolls feature four distinct racial passives./post/cypher-was-the-most-used-agent-in-faze-clan-valorant-invitational-followed-by-omen-sova-jett/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cypher-was-the-most-used-agent-in-faze-clan-valorant-invitational-followed-by-omen-sova-jett/ The most popular agent in the FaZe Clan Invitational should come as no surprise to VALORANT fans. Cypher once again earned the most playing time during last weekend’s tournament, being picked up in 92 percent of the matches, according to VLR.gg. And it seems Sage has been dethroned from the No. 2 spot since Omen (69 percent), Sova (65 percent), and Jett (63 percent) were each played more than the healer (57 percent) during the FaZe Clan Invitational./post/dr-lupo-roasted-ninja-timthetatman-and-others-with-no-mercy-at-twitchcon/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dr-lupo-roasted-ninja-timthetatman-and-others-with-no-mercy-at-twitchcon/ TwitchCon started yesterday in San Jose, California, and popular Twitch personalities are already going for each other’s throats with light-hearted banter. In a segment of TwitchCon called “The Roast of TimTheTatman,” Ben “Dr Lupo” Lupo took the stage to put Tim “TimTheTatman” John Betar in the hot seat. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Minnesota Twins pitcher Trevor May, and PJ “Action Jaxon” was also in attendance at the event, and Dr Lupo popped off against them as well./post/how-to-complete-the-looping-catalyst-rhulk-challenge-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-looping-catalyst-rhulk-challenge-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/ Like other raids in Destiny 2, Vow of the Disciple has a rotating challenge that brings a set of new conditions every week. Rhulk is no exception: Every four weeks, the battle against the Disciple of the Witness comes with a rotating objective called Looping Catalyst. Clearing it gives players two encounter chests (which stack with the secret red-border chest), and odds are players will get it naturally throughout their runs./post/when-does-the-sepulcher-of-the-first-ones-raid-release-in-wow/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-sepulcher-of-the-first-ones-raid-release-in-wow/ It’s been a long wait for World of Warcraft players, but Shadowlands Patch 9.2 is here and so is a new raid: Sepulcher of the First Ones. Sepulcher of the First Ones is the third and final raid of the expansion and has a whopping 11 bosses, ending with an encounter against The Jailer, the game’s current primary antagonist. As is typical for retail WoW raids, its Normal and Heroic difficulties will be released on the same day./post/ariana-grande-coming-to-fortnite-s-rift-tour-with-own-in-game-skin/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ariana-grande-coming-to-fortnite-s-rift-tour-with-own-in-game-skin/ After a ton of rumors, leaks, and speculation, it seems like hit artist Ariana Grande is in fact coming to Fortnite. Epic Games revealed the singer’s in-game skin today, just hours after data miners leaked the new cosmetic. Grande will arrive at the Item Shop on Aug. 4. On Aug. 1, the official Fortnite Twitter account confirmed through a trailer that Ariana Grande would be the artist featured in the previously announced Rift Tour, an in-game concert that players will get to watch./post/what-it-means-to-wear-pink/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-it-means-to-wear-pink/ The Overwatch League has five teams that wear red and five that wear blue. Colors range from there—a couple wear green. There’s some gold, orange, and purple. But before November, no team wore pink. And that’s generally a norm. Sports teams just don’t wear pink, not unless they’re paying homage to breast cancer charities or Mother’s Day. But in November, the Overwatch League’s Hangzhou Spark revealed its new branding. The team’s logo, a finger gun, is traced in a pink spark./post/sentinels-signs-former-overwatch-league-pro-surefour-as-a-content-creator/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sentinels-signs-former-overwatch-league-pro-surefour-as-a-content-creator/ Lane “Surefour” Roberts is stepping away from competitive Overwatch and signing with Sentinels to pursue full-time content creation. Surefour, who most recently played for the Toronto Defiant during the 2020 Overwatch League season, is retiring after five years of grinding through the ranks and competing at the highest level.  A new chapter for an old friend. Welcome home, @Surefour. pic.twitter.com/pWsnGtytSF — Sentinels (@Sentinels) February 3, 2021 Known for his time with the Los Angeles Gladiators and his medaling performances with Team Canada in 2017 and 2018, the sharpshooter plans to branch out into other games like Apex Legends and VALORANT while streaming full-time to his nearly 350,000 followers on Twitch./post/twitch-mistakenly-bans-streamer-ryan-higa-during-his-broadcast/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-mistakenly-bans-streamer-ryan-higa-during-his-broadcast/ Twitch has rectified an error in which it banned streamer Ryan Higa in the middle of his broadcast earlier today. While playing a game of Among Us, Higa’s broadcast came to an abrupt end and he was sent an email stating that his account had been banned for “hateful conduct.” The situation occurred while Ryan was in a lobby full of fellow content creators who were all in disbelief to hear about the ban./post/all-new-changes-in-dota-2-s-aghanim-s-labyrinth-the-continuum-conundrum-gameplay-update/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-new-changes-in-dota-2-s-aghanim-s-labyrinth-the-continuum-conundrum-gameplay-update/ The “when patch” question was finally answered for Dota 2 players today as Valve released the latest gameplay update. The update adds new rewards to Dota 2’s currently active battle pass, a new Collector’s Cache featuring 18 new items. All the sets included in the Cache were picked by community members.  The new patch isn’t all about cosmetics, however, since there are also plenty of gameplay changes that can spice up the metagame in the upcoming days./post/destiny-2-crossplay-when-it-s-coming-and-how-it-works/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/destiny-2-crossplay-when-it-s-coming-and-how-it-works/ Destiny 2‘s 15th season, Season of the Lost, has now arrived. With it arrives a feature that’s been noticeably missing for years now: crossplay. With rich player bases on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, as well as Google Stadia, the goal for the team at Bungie has been to unite all of its players under one ecosystem. Players have had access to the cross-save features for some time now, so players who have the game on multiple systems had a method of playing with friends who just had one./post/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-ranked-battle-series-11-ruleset-revealed-dynamax-is-back/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-ranked-battle-series-11-ruleset-revealed-dynamax-is-back/ The Pokémon Company has officially announced the ruleset for the upcoming Series 11 in Pokémon Sword and Shield, which brings back an integral feature to the games. This new series will kick off on Nov. 1, 2021 and run through to Jan. 31, 2022. Players will be able to use all Pokémon from the Galar Pokédex as well as the two DLC packs, Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra, and some Pokémon that aren’t in the Pokédex./post/capcom-cancels-capcom-cup-2021-and-street-fighter-league-world-championship-2021/Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/capcom-cancels-capcom-cup-2021-and-street-fighter-league-world-championship-2021/ Despite running its competitions entirely online throughout the last year, Capcom has decided to cancel Capcom Cup 2021 amid rising cases of COVID-19 and concerns surrounding the Omicron variant. The event, which was set to be held in Feb. 2022, will be replaced by an online season final event. This is the second straight year Capcom Cup has been canceled due to COVID and the replacement competition will likely emulate the regional format of the Capcom Pro Tour Season Final 2020 that replaced Capcom Cup 2020./post/dota-2-cheaters-are-allegedly-bypassing-overwatch-reports-by-using-more-cheats/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dota-2-cheaters-are-allegedly-bypassing-overwatch-reports-by-using-more-cheats/ Valve’s Overwatch system was introduced to Dota 2 last week. It’s been generally well-received and praised as an improvement over the game’s previous automated reporting system. But cheaters are already finding ways to circumvent it. One Dota 2 player encountered a suspicious Overwatch case, posting the video on Reddit. The footage shows the suspected cheater playing Windranger, displaying the often-seen hallmarks of a scripter or hacker: seemingly omniscient knowledge of enemies and wards covered by the fog of war, erratic mouse movements that instantly snap to and from units, and using the hero’s targeted abilities with their screen away from the affected target./post/how-to-get-the-weapon-master-title-in-pubg-mobile/Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-weapon-master-title-in-pubg-mobile/ Titles are one of the most sought-after achievements in PUBG Mobile, other than a high rank. The battle royale game for Android and iOS presents players with nine “Glorious Moments” titles ranging from “Well Liked” to “Chicken Expert.” These nine titles show up on your profile and are displayed alongside your name in the friends’ list and during the matchmaking screen.  Among these titles, one of the toughest ones to get is the “Weapon Master./post/darkzero-s-skys-retires-from-competitive-rainbow-six-siege/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/darkzero-s-skys-retires-from-competitive-rainbow-six-siege/ One of North America’s longest-tenured Rainbow Six Siege players, Alex “Skys” Magor, has retired from the game, he announced today. “This decision has not come easy and I’ve spent the last few months thinking about it & mentally it just feels to be the right time,” Skys said. “I feel like I have lost myself as a person over the past couple months & with that have slowly started to not enjoy playing the game./post/how-to-unlock-the-50-gs-handgun-in-call-of-duty-mobile/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-50-gs-handgun-in-call-of-duty-mobile/ The “most powerful” handgun in Call of Duty: Mobile, the .50 GS, has dropped into the game. It can be unlocked by everyone by completing missions in the “Small Arms” seasonal event. The event will last until the current season ends on Dec. 17 (UTC). Aside from the .50 GS, players can also unlock an avatar, skins, a calling card, and a lot of battle pass XP throughout the event./post/what-is-kp-in-apex-legends/Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-kp-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends, the battle royale game from the makers of Titanfall, has a popular and robust ranked system, especially for a free-to-play game. If you’ve played a ranked game of Apex or watched a content creator stream some of their own ranked matches, you’ve likely heard of the term “KP.” This can be confusing for new Apex players or those who are unfamiliar with how the game’s ranked system works./post/here-are-all-of-the-weapons-in-the-call-of-duty-wwii-multiplayer-beta/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-the-weapons-in-the-call-of-duty-wwii-multiplayer-beta/ The Call of Duty: WWII private multiplayer beta has only been live on PlayStation 4 for roughly 24 hours, but it’s already a huge success. All five divisions are playable in this beta, up through the first 35 levels of player progression in multiplayer. But players have quickly reached the highest level currently available in the beta—which means we can see all of the weapons that are available. There are currently 18 primary weapons that are playable in the Call of Duty: WWII private multiplayer beta, so here’s a quick rundown of each gun./post/tamiyo-reaches-a-new-form-in-kamigawa-neon-dynasty/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tamiyo-reaches-a-new-form-in-kamigawa-neon-dynasty/ Tamiyo is a Moonfolk Planeswalker that first appeared in Avacyn Restored in 2012. She’s a truth-seeker from Kamigawa who’s appeared throughout the multiverse, conducting research and seeking truth. Tamiyo, Compleated Sage is her latest Magic: The Gathering card in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and represents her new form. Compleation is the state of perfection for Phyrexians, where their complete physical being is replaced by metal. See Magic The Gathering on Amazon Featuring a new mechanic and a modernized Phyrexian mana cost ability, Tamiyo is a combination of old and new designs and further portents the looming Phyrexian presence in the multiverse./post/the-winners-and-losers-of-the-pgl-stockholm-major/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-winners-and-losers-of-the-pgl-stockholm-major/ It’s just now setting in that the first CS:GO Major in over two years has ended. Many fans hope there won’t be another two-year delay until the next Valve-sponsored Major and an exciting post-Major roster shuffle is already in the works. But before we look ahead to the near future of CS:GO, we have to look back at the glorious return to crowds that took place at the PGL Stockholm Major./post/apex-legends-mobile-beta-is-coming-to-latin-america-on-sept-21/Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-mobile-beta-is-coming-to-latin-america-on-sept-21/ Electronic Arts will be launching the next beta test for Apex Legends Mobile on Sept. 21, it confirmed in a tweet today. The beta will be coming to Mexico, Colombia, and Peru for limited players. To get into the beta, you need to pre-register for the game through the Google Play Store. It seems the beta will only be released for Android devices. 🚨Actualización.🚨 ¡El tiempo del pre-registro se extiende!/post/sylas-needs-more-than-a-tiny-hotfix-to-make-par-in-the-meta/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sylas-needs-more-than-a-tiny-hotfix-to-make-par-in-the-meta/ It’s a crime to think that someone with abs as chiseled as Sylas could possibly be weak, but that’s the grim reality we’re living in at the moment. The poor lad is struggling in the current League of Legends meta, and we don’t think yesterday’s hotfix is nearly enough to save him. Just in case you missed the specifics of the hotfix yesterday, all it did was raise his base AD from 55 to 58, his MR per level by 0./post/tft-loot-trait-and-tahm-kench-return-in-set-6-gizmos-and-gadgets/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-loot-trait-and-tahm-kench-return-in-set-6-gizmos-and-gadgets/ Gaining gold and loot for loss streaks is returning to Teamfight Tactics in Set Six Gizmos & Gadgets via the Mercenary trait. The new set also brings Tahm Kench digesting enemies for stat buffs and items.  Scheduled to launch officially on Nov. 3, TFT Set Six Gizmos & Gadgets will mash together previous loot traits into Mercenary. The newtrait provides tacticians with a treasure chest that will continually make them richer with each combat loss./post/where-to-get-pirate-coins-in-lost-ark/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-get-pirate-coins-in-lost-ark/ Lost Ark has an overwhelming amount of content and activities to participate in. From Guardian Raids and Abyss Dungeons to island exploration, however, gathering some Pirate Coins will help you on your journey regardless of how you decide to play Lost Ark One of the primary reasons Pirate Coins are so valuable is due to the Song of Resonance, which allows players to access special locations across Arkesia and can be purchased for 16,500 Pirate Coins./post/streamer-reveals-xqc-s-kind-side-they-have-done-more-for-me-than-people-i-ve-been-friends-with-for-years/Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/streamer-reveals-xqc-s-kind-side-they-have-done-more-for-me-than-people-i-ve-been-friends-with-for-years/ XQc is usually known for his controversial persona—and his stellar Winston play. The streamer’s name is tied to bans, fits, rages, and trash talking. But that persona is very different from his genuine character, at least according to fellow streamer Jaycgee. She recently revealed that XqC offered her a place to say when she was on the verge of losing her home. During a lengthy Destiny 2 queue—and with xQc’s stream on-screen—she talked about her experience with the famous streamer./post/the-best-dragon-type-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-dragon-type-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Among all the Pokémon species in Pokémon Go, Dragon types have some of the highest damage output in the mobile game. These Pokémon are perfect attackers for taking down enemy players or raids. In the game, there are 18 different types of Pokémon, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Dragon-type Pokémon are strong against other Dragons but weak to Ice and Fairy. There are plenty of options to choose from when it comes to Dragons in the game, with many boasting dual typings./post/mobalytics-the-lol-tool-that-helps-players-identify-their-own-weaknesses-is-growing-fast/Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mobalytics-the-lol-tool-that-helps-players-identify-their-own-weaknesses-is-growing-fast/ Mobalytics, the esports program that analyzes a player’s strengths and weaknesses, is growing very, very fast. The app began its open beta testing on Aug. 15, and since then, it has brought in almost 400,000 new users, with around 4,000 new registrations per day, according to Amine Issa, Mobalytics’ Warchief of Science. And now, the company has signed on for a partnership with technology company HP Inc., with the Mobalytics app coming preloaded as a default feature on all OMEN PCs, according to a press release./post/pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-have-received-a-new-update/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-have-received-a-new-update/ Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl continue to receive updates into 2022 with patch 1.2.0 rolling out today bringing some small changes to the game. The update is now live and available for players to download. There are no major additions added in this patch like the Global Wonder Station, which fans have been eagerly awaiting since launch. There are some small additions, however, that add some new QOL features for players./post/shroud-plays-overwatch-and-finishes-placements-in-platinum/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-plays-overwatch-and-finishes-placements-in-platinum/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Michael “shroud” Grzesiek tried playing a few Overwatch matches last weekend and he did well. He played all of his ranked placement matches and finished with a Skill Rating of over 2,500, which makes him a Platinum player. He didn’t understand what that number meant at first, though, and didn’t seem to care much about it. Shroud is a high-skilled player in first-person shooter games, so the heroes he chose in Overwatch were mostly DPS./post/cloud9-keep-worlds-dreams-alive-with-sweep-against-evil-geniuses-in-lcs-championship/Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-keep-worlds-dreams-alive-with-sweep-against-evil-geniuses-in-lcs-championship/ The teams in the lower bracket of the LCS Championship have been fighting tooth and nail for one last shot at qualifying for the League of Legends World Championships, but Evil Geniuses fell short today. Cloud9, on the other hand, took one step forward in atoning for not qualifying for Worlds last year with a dominant 3-0 victory over EG. Despite EG’s loss, they end the year with some of the most exciting games in the 2021 LCS under their belt, as well as the praise of fans around the world./post/learning-cs-go-basics/Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/learning-cs-go-basics/ In the first two sections of the Learning CS:GO series, we introduced the game and its weapons. Today we will talk about gameplay basics, which you need to know and train to become better. As we did in the Weapon Guide, we will underpin everything with useful videos. At the most basic level there are two components a player needs to master to become successful: mentality and physical skill. Reaction time, aiming, motion control, and f ine motor skills are all physical skills./post/sources-faze-in-discussions-to-sign-poised-supamen-and-shanks/Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-faze-in-discussions-to-sign-poised-supamen-and-shanks/ FaZe Clan is in discussions to acquire three players from the Rise VALORANT roster, multiple sources told Dot Esports.  Rise in-game leader Kevin “POISED” Ngo is set to join FaZe’s VALORANT team alongside Phat “supamen” Le, while Ryan “Shanks” Ngo will likely join the team as a content creator. Shanks could also act as the squad’s substitute player or sixth man, according to multiple sources.  The deal is said to be in the closing stages and will conclude soon./post/is-twitch-down-here-s-how-to-check-twitch-s-status/Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-twitch-down-here-s-how-to-check-twitch-s-status/ Not being able to watch your favorite content creator can be frustrating sometimes. But luckily, Twitch has a way for you to troubleshoot any issues you’re having connecting to the platform from home. Along with keeping a close eye on the official Twitch Support account on Twitter, people can check to see if there are any outages or technical issues on status.twitch.tv. 🔎 We are aware of several issues affecting Twitch services./post/mtg-arena-presents-free-xp-and-pack-codes-with-innistrad-midnight-hunt-release/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-presents-free-xp-and-pack-codes-with-innistrad-midnight-hunt-release/ Wizards of the Coast revealed two MTG Arena codes with the launch of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt today, rewarding players with XP and booster packs.  The digital release of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) went live today with only a few minor bugs so far. Renewal reward eggs might not show up after downloading the new patch, but a simple restart of MTG Arena will trigger all renewal rewards. WoTC is aware of a bug in Sealed events that’s causing deck issues./post/when-will-the-attack-on-titan-bundle-be-released-in-call-of-duty/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-the-attack-on-titan-bundle-be-released-in-call-of-duty/ Call of Duty is teaming up with Attack on Titan to give players access to special cosmetics that will help you show your fandom for the popular manga and TV series in Vanguard. The game is introducing a Tracer Pack: Attack on Titan – Levi Edition Bundle filled with a plethora of legendary items, including a Survey Corps operator skin that will have you looking like the manga’s character Levi Ackerman./post/asmongold-says-he-will-quit-streaming-if-he-takes-another-break/Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-says-he-will-quit-streaming-if-he-takes-another-break/ Asmongold is one of the most popular content creators to ever stream on Twitch. But earlier this week, he wasn’t shy about saying that if he takes any time away from the platform again, it will be for good. While talking to his viewers, the well-known MMO streamer said that if he is in a situation where he feels like he needs to “take a break” from streaming for an extended period of time, he will instead quit for good./post/xbox-party-chat-will-no-longer-require-xbox-live-gold/Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xbox-party-chat-will-no-longer-require-xbox-live-gold/ Gamers soon won’t need to have Xbox Live Gold to hop into party chat with their friends on Xbox Live. The requirement will be lifted at around the same time Microsoft removes the Xbox Live Gold barrier for free-to-play games. The “service changes” are in the process of being tested. Xbox Insiders in Alpha Skip Ahead & Alpha today we are flighting some new features. Multiplayer in Free-to-play games, Looking 4 Groups and Party Chat on Xbox no longer requires an Xbox Live Gold membership as we flight and test these service changes ahead of general availability/post/d%C3%B3nde-recoger-los-artefactos-para-tarana-en-fortnite-cap%C3%ADtulo-2-temporada-6/Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/d%C3%B3nde-recoger-los-artefactos-para-tarana-en-fortnite-cap%C3%ADtulo-2-temporada-6/ El parche 16.10 de la temporada 6 de Fortnite Capítulo 2 hizo disponible el segundo desafío de La Aguja. Ahora deberás recoger artefactos para Tarana. Estos artefactos se encuentran en Ciudadela Calavera (Boney Burbs), un punto de referencia hacia el noroeste de La Aguja. El primer artefacto El primer artefacto se encuentra en la parte oeste de Ciudadela Calavera, justo debajo de la primera «B» en Boney. Está dentro de una vieja tienda que ahora está casi en ruinas./post/the-keyboards-for-competitive-gaming-2022/Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-keyboards-for-competitive-gaming-2022/ Getting a new keyboard used to be quite simple. There were only a couple of brands competing in the market and the choices were limited. But it’s quite the opposite now since new players in the market have started giving the big names a run for their money. Everyone looks for something different when searching for a keyboard. Some value looks, while others value performance above all else. Nowadays, manufacturers try their best to satisfy both wants and stack their products with every deal-breaker aspect./post/what-is-raw-input-buffer-in-valorant/Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-raw-input-buffer-in-valorant/ Like most competitive first-person shooters, VALORANT is a game of inches. From the mouse they choose to external supplements like caffeine, players looking to be at the top of their game will use any advantage they can find. And in VALORANT Patch 3.07, Riot Games introduced yet another way for players to get that extra inch against their opponents. Riot explained Raw Input Buffer is a way for players to improve the “performance of input device processing,” but what does this setting actually do?/post/best-one-handed-gaming-keyboards/Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-one-handed-gaming-keyboards/ One-handed gaming keyboards, also known as gaming keypads, are an alternative to conventional keyboards. Keypads are compact and have all the buttons you need to game without taking up as much space as traditional keyboards. Most one-handed gaming keyboards allow you to configure macros and custom keymapping to your preferences.  The compact size of keypads makes them convenient to use. Keypads can be easily positioned for the most comfortable angle, and many have ergonomically-placed buttons and a wrist rest./post/fan-recreates-akali-in-risk-of-rain-2-as-a-custom-playable-survivor-mod/Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fan-recreates-akali-in-risk-of-rain-2-as-a-custom-playable-survivor-mod/ You aren’t the only one if you think Akali was undeservedly nerfed in League of Legends‘ Patch 10.3. It’s led to an outcry among fans and Akali mains. One enterprising fan’s solution, though, was to mod her into another game entirely. Matarra used existing assets of Akali’s KDA Prestige skin in League and proceeded to adapt it into Risk of Rain 2. In a video preview showcasing the skills, the modded Akali didn’t lose a step in the transition./post/guild-wars-2-end-of-dragons-is-getting-meta-changes-for-the-last-zone/Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guild-wars-2-end-of-dragons-is-getting-meta-changes-for-the-last-zone/ The Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Jade Sea meta is one of the most challenging metas players have experienced since the beginning of the game. Many players who have completed the expansion are having trouble defeating it, even with the most well-prepared groups. But a new set of changes have been patched into the game that will alter some of the mechanics to make it easier to defeat. For those who haven’t finished the game yet, there are spoilers below regarding the mechanics for the last fight in Dragon’s End./post/how-to-unlock-the-fara-83-and-lc10-in-call-of-duty-warzone-and-black-ops-cold-war/Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-fara-83-and-lc10-in-call-of-duty-warzone-and-black-ops-cold-war/ Season two of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War introduced two of the game’s strongest weapons. The FARA 83 is a “fully-automatic assault rifle is a heavyweight among its peers, as it claims one of the fastest fire rates in its class and outstanding effective range for solid damage,” Activision said. “In the hands of a capable Operator, the FARA 83 can be a true force in crushing the opposition./post/can-you-play-the-witcher-3-on-steam-deck/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-the-witcher-3-on-steam-deck/ The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released by CD Projekt Red 2015 to critical acclaim and won multiple gaming awards, including Game of the Year, Best Visual Design, and Best Gaming Moment at the Golden Joystick Awards. Initially available on PC, the PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, the game’s Nintendo Switch version was released in 2019, and CD Projekt Red is still working on updates for the current-gen PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S./post/morgana-gets-a-big-nerf-in-league-of-legends-latest-pbe-update/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/morgana-gets-a-big-nerf-in-league-of-legends-latest-pbe-update/ Morgana, the recently reworked Fallen Angel, has been a strong pick in the support role for many seasons now. It seems like Riot Games is adamant on keeping her in the bottom lane, as it is giving the champion a series of pretty large nerfs in the upcoming League of Legends public beta environment update. In the PBE, Morgana’s Dark Binding will have its AP ratio lowered from 90 percent to 75 percent./post/new-league-champion-qiyana-s-abilities-revealed/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-league-champion-qiyana-s-abilities-revealed/ Brought to you by IKON, challenging you to share your greatest game moments and win amazing prizes. The next champion coming to League of Legends, Qiyana, was officially revealed yesterday. But today, the Empress of the Elements’ abilities were unveiled. Passive: Royal Privilege The first attack or ability against an enemy champ deals bonus damage. This cooldown resets when she draws a new element. Q: Edge of Ixtal Qiyana slashes the area in front of her dealing damage./post/best-keyboard-and-mouse-for-ps4/Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-keyboard-and-mouse-for-ps4/ The PS4, like every other console, uses a controller by default. Controllers are convenient for most games, but they are not always ideal for competitive gaming. The analog stick on a controller offers very little accuracy. This difference in accuracy is why PC gaming is considered by many to be superior to console gaming. However, with the release of the PS4, a keyboard and mouse have become more common with console gamers./post/brax-steps-back-from-active-valorant-competition-shifting-to-full-time-streaming-schedule/Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/brax-steps-back-from-active-valorant-competition-shifting-to-full-time-streaming-schedule/ T1 VALORANT member Braxton “brax” Pierce is stepping back from active competition and will pursue a full-time streaming career beginning on Oct. 25. In his announcement via TwitLonger, brax said he needed to step back and focus on “finding [his] happiness again after a crazy year of ups and downs both in and out out of game.” He said he’s found himself “already in a completely different head space from before” after making the decision to start streaming full-time, Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm CT./post/mordekaiser-and-ivern-are-played-so-little-in-league-that-some-stats-sites-can-t-track-them/Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mordekaiser-and-ivern-are-played-so-little-in-league-that-some-stats-sites-can-t-track-them/ There are a ton of League of Legends players out there that use the stats site OP.gg to review their performance, look up data on champions, and scout out their competition. If you visit the site to figure out how to play Ivern or Mordekaiser right now, though, you’re going to have a bad time. The site can’t track or display the stats on either champion because the sample size for each is just too low, according to the depressing little pop-up that appears when you try to click on them./post/clear-as-day-the-rise-of-snake-esports-kryst4l/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clear-as-day-the-rise-of-snake-esports-kryst4l/            “30%, probably”. This is how Yang “kRYST4L” Fan rated his performance after Snake Esports handed the future champions of China EDward Gaming what would be their only loss in a best of 2 series of the entire split. His unperturbed demeanor during his post-match interview was an accurate representation of his low-key 9-7-20 combined score on Draven and Caitlyn, respectively. kRYST4L’s modest approach to his role was very different than what the League of Legends scene was used to as top tier AD Carries such as Counter Logic Gaming’s Doublelift, Gambit Gaming’s Forgiven, and LGD’s Imp grew an infamous reputation out of cold banter, but don’t let that fool you./post/riot-devs-test-katarina-nerfs-on-league-of-legends-pbe/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-devs-test-katarina-nerfs-on-league-of-legends-pbe/ With her AD-based build, Katarina continues to bully other mid laners in League of Legends. Players have pleaded for Riot to look into the champion for quite some time now, and it seems they are finally getting what they wanted. A series of Katarina nerfs have made their way to League’s PBE server, targeting AD ratios across the board. Katarina changes on PBE: * Dagger AD ratio reduced from 75% bAD to 65%/post/all-the-new-skins-in-apex-s-war-games-event/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-the-new-skins-in-apex-s-war-games-event/ Apex Legends’ War Games event begins Tuesday, April 13, and of course, there are some new cosmetics to look forward to.  In a post made on Apex Legends‘ official website, EA announced they would be adding new skins for Pathfinder, Wraith, Lifeline, Gibby, Mirage, and Bloodhound. The skins are being advertised as “re-imagined takes on classic looks.” Among the skins that have been listed, there’s a theme of recoloring popular skins that have already been released./post/hearthstone-streamer-kripp-weighs-in-on-twitch-gambling-debate-gambling-is-fine-under-lots-of-conditions/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-streamer-kripp-weighs-in-on-twitch-gambling-debate-gambling-is-fine-under-lots-of-conditions/ Twitch veteran and avid Hearthstone player Kripp shared his opinion about gambling on Twitch, claiming it could be acceptable if done under the right conditions. The gambling meta has taken over Twitch and driven a rift in the livestreaming platform’s community. After Twitch’s single largest streamer, xQc, returned to gambling sponsor Stake, the discourse surrounding the ethics of gambling on Twitch has been vehemently debated. Though there have been countless critics of sponsored gambling streams, coming from creators both on and off Twitch, the trend has only seemed to grow./post/wired-vs-wireless-gaming-headsets-pros-and-cons/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wired-vs-wireless-gaming-headsets-pros-and-cons/ Having a reliable headset is critical to winning matches and having the most immersive gaming experience possible. Some players stick to tried-and-true wired headsets for their convenience and sound quality. Others prefer the mobility and freedom offered by wireless headsets. Both types of headsets have their advantages and disadvantages.  Here is a look at the pros and cons of both headset connection types to see which is the best option for you./post/best-braum-build-in-league-of-legends/Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-braum-build-in-league-of-legends/ Braum is one of the most popular supports in League of Legends due to his powerful yet easy-to-play kit. The Heart of the Freljord is tailor-made to defend AD carries and is often built to maximize health and create openings for the marksman. Braum’s passive makes dueling difficult for opponents since they may find themselves stunned after taking four hits. Since his release, Braum has maintained his status as one of the most consistent tanks in the bot lane, even when more popular picks like Nautilus and Leona attempt to take over./post/faker-on-t1-coaching-changes-everyone-has-their-perspective-of-the-story-so-i-urge-everyone-to-not-make-any-wrong-assumptions/Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/faker-on-t1-coaching-changes-everyone-has-their-perspective-of-the-story-so-i-urge-everyone-to-not-make-any-wrong-assumptions/ T1 League of Legends star Faker discussed the removal of head coach Yang “Daeny” Dae-in and coach Lee “Zefa” Jae-min, who were fired yesterday as a result of T1’s middling campaign (6-5) in the 2021 LCK Summer Split, following their 2-0 victory over KT Rolster today. “After we heard the news, I presumed that everyone would [be] upset, and they definitely still are,” Faker said in a post-match interview with Inven Global./post/how-to-play-the-ghosts-of-verdansk-limited-time-mode-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-the-ghosts-of-verdansk-limited-time-mode-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Dark and spooky Verdansk is returning in this year’s The Haunting event in Call of Duty: Warzone and there’s a special new mode with it—Ghosts of Verdansk. In Ghosts of Verdansk, dying turns you into a ghost instead of sending you to the Gulag. Ghosts function similarly to the way that zombies did in last year’s Halloween mode. But this one is a bit more unique in a few ways./post/mlg-announces-gears-of-war-4-launch-invitational/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mlg-announces-gears-of-war-4-launch-invitational/ Major League Gaming announced their first event for Gears of War 4today, the Gears of War 4 Launch Invitational onOct. 22-23. Eight teams from four regions will compete in thedouble elimination event at MLG’s Columbus Arena.  https://twitter.com/MLG/status/764235640875524097  Enemy.GG, Team EnVyUs and Dream Team have already qualified forthe event. Two North American teams, two European teams and oneteam each from Latin America and Oceania will also qualify at alater date.  Between Aug. 13 and Oct./post/modern-warfare-aim-response-curve-types-explained/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/modern-warfare-aim-response-curve-types-explained/ The out-of-the-box gaming experience for Modern Warfare will be close to perfect for the average gamer. But if you consider yourself a competitive gamer, there are multiple tweaks you can apply to your settings to give yourself slight advantages while playing Modern Warfare or Warzone. In addition to all the visual adjustments you can make to allow your game to run better, you can also tinker with some of the mechanical settings to improve your gameplay./post/where-to-find-the-uchigatana-in-elden-ring/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-the-uchigatana-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring is full of powerful weapons that can give you an edge against tough bosses and enemies. Some are large weapons that require two hands, while others are smaller and can be dual-wielded. Players must decide which weapons are best for their build, and sometimes specific weapons are needed to capitalize on their stats and abilities.  A powerful blade players can find relatively early in Elden Ring is the Uchigatana, which is a deadly sword with a blood loss passive ability./post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-heart-of-the-sunwell/Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-heart-of-the-sunwell/ Celebrate the lives of the Blood elves by taking part in this week’s Tavern Brawl, Heart of the Sunwell. This is a preconstructed Brawl that looks to put an exciting spin on an ordinary game of Hearthstone. After making your deck, you’ll be dropped into a game of Hearthstone with one specific rule change. During this Brawl, both players will start the game with 10 mana. Since you’ll start the game with so much mana, this will heavily impact your playstyle./post/best-water-pok%C3%A9mon-in-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-water-pok%C3%A9mon-in-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ With many popular species returning from previous generations for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you’ve got a ton of good options for Water-type Pokémon. This means that your decision-making should come down to exactly what you need in a party mainstay. Whether you are after something specific or just a great all-rounder, this list has plenty of options for you to choose from. Feraligatr The Johto starter evolution Feraligatr is one of the most popular returning Water-type Pokémon in the new gen-four remakes./post/can-you-play-the-division-2-on-steam-deck/Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-the-division-2-on-steam-deck/ Ubisoft games and the Steam Deck have a complicated relationship. Because a few Ubisoft titles were originally sold through Steam before moving to Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Connect, some games are playable and others are not. Unfortunately for fans of The Division 2, you won’t be able to run the streets of Washington D.C., even after applying a little elbow grease. Because Ubisoft Connect and the Epic Games Store are not compatible with the SteamOS, you’ll need to install Windows to make The Division 2 remotely playable on Steam Deck./post/how-to-hurdle-in-madden-21/Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-hurdle-in-madden-21/ Hurdling is an effective way to avoid defenders in Madden 21, but it’s a move that will likely be used less often than a stiff arm or juke. Players should still know how to hurdle, however, since it can make a difference in a close game.  Hurdling in Madden 21 is simple, but performing the maneuver at the right time is essential. Players must press the Traingle/Y button to perform a hurdle while controlling an offensive player, such as a wide receiver or running back, running with the ball./post/inside-the-mind-of-the-man-who-ran-the-worst-cs-go-event-of-all-time/Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/inside-the-mind-of-the-man-who-ran-the-worst-cs-go-event-of-all-time/ “We don’t have the money. We are still working on it. There is a plan.”  This is what Sasa Bulic tells me several minutes into what can only be described as an unintentional interview. The line might conjure a scene from a Martin Scorcese film: a close-up of a junkie with a long sleeve T-shirt, nervously scratching the track marks on his arms while being interrogated by the local drug lord./post/how-to-complete-otw-kluivert-s-objectives-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-otw-kluivert-s-objectives-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a 78-rated Ones to Watch (OTW) version of Justin Kluivert from OGC Nice to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team’s objectives menu on Oct. 2. This is Kluivert’s first special card in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, but it has the same rating as his gold version. His future upgrade will depend on how well he and his team do in real-life games throughout the season. His highest skills are 89-rated Pace, 81-rated Dribbling, and 72-rated Passing./post/pok%C3%A9mon-fan-crafts-incredibly-detailed-vaporeon-doll/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-fan-crafts-incredibly-detailed-vaporeon-doll/ One Pokémon fan artist created an incredibly detailed and lifelike Vaporeon posable art doll from scratch. Artist umbratundra shared a sped-up video of the process, which took 30 hours, on TikTok and Reddit. They began by creating an adjustable wireframe in the shape of Vaporeon’s body and drawing a pattern on faux fur. They used a mold to create the shape of Vaporeon’s skull and shaved it down to size before attaching a pair of eyes and fastening it to the wireframe./post/all-increased-spawns-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-and-event-raids-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-mountains-of-power-event/Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-increased-spawns-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-and-event-raids-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-mountains-of-power-event/ Pokémon Go is kicking off 2022 by continuing its Season of Heritage. The newest event, Mountains of Power, is set to start on Jan. 7, and as the name suggests, it will focus on rock and steel-type Pokémon. It is also set to bring a new form to the game, Mega Aerodactyl, in addition to a ton of shiny Pokémon and raids. During this event, a bonus will be in place to help you earn hearts with your Pokémon buddy faster./post/dreamer-returns-to-overwatch-league-joins-houston-outlaws/Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dreamer-returns-to-overwatch-league-joins-houston-outlaws/ Sanglok “Dreamer” Song is back in the Overwatch League, joining the Houston Outlaws after a brief stint in Contenders.  Dreamer joined OWL in 2019 as part of the Los Angeles Valiant’s roster for the 2020 season and was released along with all of the organization’s players and staff on Jan. 29. After being released by Valiant, Dreamer played in a few events with SEUNG before joining DarkMode NA alongside teammate Adam Soong and a handful of other players./post/cupid-s-crossbow-is-returning-to-fortnite-just-in-time-for-the-share-the-love-valentine-s-event/Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cupid-s-crossbow-is-returning-to-fortnite-just-in-time-for-the-share-the-love-valentine-s-event/ The infamous crossbow is making its way back to Fortnite: Battle Royale just in time for Valentine’s Day, which is coming up on Thursday, Feb. 14. Cupid’s Crossbow returns to Fortnite tomorrow in the v7.40 update, when the Share The Love limited time event will also begin. In the event, you can also earn a free wrap cosmetic skin and many other unannounced items by completing challenges. Related: Fortnite’s v7./post/best-streamers-to-watch-on-youtube-gaming/Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-streamers-to-watch-on-youtube-gaming/ YouTube Gaming has made big moves in the streaming world over the last couple of years, snatching a surprising number of top creators from Twitch and creating a comfortable streaming environment, enticing many to make the switch. And with the number of creators joining the platform only growing, it may become difficult to pick out the streamers that are right for you. It’s no secret that YouTube Gaming’s streaming directory is quite poor in comparison to Twitch, making the task of finding creators that you might like a hassle, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the most entertaining streamers on the platform./post/nrg-co-ceo-h3cz-reportedly-reacquires-optic-gaming-brand/Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nrg-co-ceo-h3cz-reportedly-reacquires-optic-gaming-brand/ NRG Esports co-CEO Hector “H3CZ” Rodriguez has acquired his previously owned organization, OpTic Gaming, according to The Esports Observer.   The long-standing CEO helped make OpTic one of the most popular esports organizations in history. Although he left his position as the CEO of OpTic last year, H3CZ has reportedly reacquired the brand for an undisclosed fee.  The report says H3CZ has acquired the intellectual property in its entirety. So H3CZ, in turn, owns the Call of Duty League franchise slot held by OpTic Gaming Los Angeles, according to The Esports Observer./post/snakebite-s-controller-layout-and-settings-for-halo-infinite/Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/snakebite-s-controller-layout-and-settings-for-halo-infinite/ Halo Infinite is back in a big way with an overwhelmingly popular release on both PC and Xbox while jumpstarting an esports scene that was considered on life support for years. For those PC players trying to hold on to their keyboard-and-mouse ways, your dedication is admirable but ultimately foolish. The aim-assisted controller is the way to go if you have aspirations of reaching Onyx in the open ranked playlist—or if you have dreams of competing in HCS events./post/mtg-reveals-5-planeswalkers-for-core-set-2020-planeswalker-decks/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-reveals-5-planeswalkers-for-core-set-2020-planeswalker-decks/ The five planeswalkers in each of the Core Set 2020 pre-constructed Planeswalker Decks, which are catered toward beginning Magic: The Gathering players, have been revealed. After only having two Planeswalker Decks in MTG War of the Spark, the M20 set will have five. Showcasing the five colors of Magic: The Gathering, each deck is constructed around a specifically-designed planeswalker. Some planeswalkers work outside their Planeswalker Decks, but others don’t. In MTG War of the Spark, both Jace and Gideon proved they function in a variety of archetypes./post/where-to-find-haunted-household-furniture-in-fortnite-chapter-two/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-haunted-household-furniture-in-fortnite-chapter-two/ A bunch of challenges have just been added to Fortnite Chapter Two as part of the new Halloween event, with one tasking players to find illusive Haunted Household Furniture to get a sizeable amount of EXP. First, the furniture will only spawn in the new “Storm King” mode that was just added to the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kir94N-L52w&feature=youtu.be After jumping into that mode, you want to head to one of the town areas on the map./post/you-can-unlock-overwatch-league-away-skins-now/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/you-can-unlock-overwatch-league-away-skins-now/ Overwatch League’s away skins, which wraps heroes in white with pops of teams’ colors, are now available in Overwatch. Players can unlock away skins alongside any home skin—so it’s two new skins for 100 Overwatch League tokens. Away skins were added to Overwatch with the game’s Winter Wonderland 2018 update. For fans that already bought Overwatch League skins, away skins will be automatically unlocked the next time Overwatch is opened. The deal applies to all 2018 season teams—Boston Uprising, Dallas Fuel, Florida Mayhem, Houston Outlaws, London Spitfire, Los Angeles Gladiators, Los Angeles Valiant, New York Excelsior, Philadelphia Fusion, San Francisco Shock, Seoul Dynasty, and Shanghai Dragons./post/asmongold-plays-final-fantasy-xiv-for-the-first-time/Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-plays-final-fantasy-xiv-for-the-first-time/ Twitch’s top World of Warcraft streamer Asmongold took a dive into a different MMORPG yesterday by playing Final Fantasy XIV for the first time. Overall, his 10-hour stream, which opened with about an hour of talking, averaged 145,320 viewers according to Twitch tracking website Sully Gnome. The stream had 1.47 million hours watched. After years of requests from fans who wanted to see his reaction to the MMO, Asmon downloaded the game and made a character full of pomp and circumstance./post/how-to-use-a-laptop-as-a-second-monitor/Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-use-a-laptop-as-a-second-monitor/ Using a laptop as a second monitor is a nifty way of expanding a display in a pinch, and it doesn’t require any cabling or ports. Some users may also find it cheaper and more convenient to use their outdated laptop as a display instead of spending cash on a new monitor. The only requirement for using a laptop as a monitor is that both devices must be on Windows 10./post/mccreamy-s-fortnite-settings/Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mccreamy-s-fortnite-settings/ McCreamy is a well-known content creator in the Fortnite community. While he’s a talented player, his comedic approach served as the most crucial factor behind his success.  He started his YouTube channel around 2016 and was primarily uploading Overwatch montages. He then moved onto PUBG until the release of Fortnite in 2017. His sense of humor and fun personality drew the attention of thousands, and he eventually exploded in popularity with videos featuring rare moments in Fortnite./post/b1t-s-settings-crosshair-and-viewmodel-for-cs-go/Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/b1t-s-settings-crosshair-and-viewmodel-for-cs-go/ Valeriy “b1t” Vakhovskiy jumped into the Natus Vincere’s CS:GO roster for good in the middle of 2021. Since then, the team has been pretty much unstoppable. Despite being only been 19-year- old, b1t has already proven that he’s an individual of a world-class caliber. Until now, he’s helped NAVI claim numerous important trophies, with the PGL Stockholm Major 2021 being one of them. B1t’s skill doesn’t go unappreciated. The Ukrainian was chosen to be HLTV’s ninth-best player in 2021./post/asmongold-twitch-must-start-using-way-more-common-sense-when-banning-streamers/Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-twitch-must-start-using-way-more-common-sense-when-banning-streamers/ Asmongold has taken aim at Twitch and its suspension policies, calling for the Amazon-owned platform’s admins to use “way more common sense” when it comes to banning streamers⁠—big and small⁠ alike—after one of his profiles was blocked from the site earlier this month. The top Twitch star believes the platform’s powerbrokers must start applying more context and common sense to suspensions, or risk impacting the site. The biggest issue, Asmongold explains, is Twitch’s approach has led to a total disconnect between the site and its stable of stars./post/how-to-complete-the-defenses-down-exhibition-challenge-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-defenses-down-exhibition-challenge-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/ Exhibition may be one of the trickiest, most high-pressure encounters in Destiny 2’s Vow of the Disciple raid, depending on your fireteam’s performance. Juggling three different relics with a limited amount of time across several different rooms and finding out the correct callouts can feel almost like hitting a rock wall if you’re not used to the mechanics. And that’s even before throwing a challenge in the mix. The encounter normally requires a degree of relic shuffling, and the Exhibition challenge doubles down on that aspect of the encounter./post/mtg-arena-gets-ready-for-kaladesh-remastered-in-november-state-of-the-game/Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-gets-ready-for-kaladesh-remastered-in-november-state-of-the-game/ Wizards of the Coast addressed Kaladesh Remastered and an update to the popular Historic Brawl format in the Magic Arena’s November State of the Game released today. In the monthly update, Wizards spent a majority of the announcement covering the upcoming set, Kaladesh Remastered, which will be released on Nov. 12, bringing a new draft environment to Arena and 303 cards for Historic. To kick off the release of Kaladesh Remastered, there will be three Limited events available with Draft Challenge coming later in November./post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-11-20/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-11-20/ Riot Games is taking a breather with this week’s League of Legends patch. After two big updates, which included a myriad of changes in the name of Worlds 2021, the devs are making just a handful of champion tweaks and adjustments to keep things “brewing smoothly” in Patch 11.20. A few champions that are set to receive changes include Amumu, who had been wreaking havoc in the support position, and Singed, who had been getting a little “out of hand” in the top lane./post/here-are-the-5-mtg-kaldheim-clans-of-bretagard-and-their-leaders/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-5-mtg-kaldheim-clans-of-bretagard-and-their-leaders/ A new plane is coming to Magic: The Gathering with the Kaldheim set, containing five human clans within the realm of Bretagard.  The plane of Kaldheim in MTG contains a total of 10 realms and creature types within the new Viking-inspired set. In the human realm of Bretagard, there are five human clans constantly in “conflict with one another,” according to Wizards of the Coast’s Kaldheim guide. The five clans that reside in the realm of Bretagard are Beskir, Omenseekers, Skelle, Tuskeri, and Kannah./post/horizon-player-creates-cargo-bot-hot-air-balloon-in-apex-legends/Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/horizon-player-creates-cargo-bot-hot-air-balloon-in-apex-legends/ A new day means new bugs in Apex Legends. This time around, players have discovered even more shenanigans possible at Phase Driver, the newest point of interest on Olympus that arrived with the Defiance update. Phase Driver was introduced in the Defiance launch trailer as a machine that could teleport (and subsequently, nearly destroy) the whole of Olympus. In-game, it’s matched that sort of chaotic energy since the cargo bots it can spawn into the game can easily be manipulated to do things the developers weren’t intending./post/how-to-solve-wordle-5-letter-words-that-end-with-st/Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-solve-wordle-5-letter-words-that-end-with-st/ Word-guessing puzzles like Wordle and its variations have become a fun way to start the day with a simple challenge. Each day, the game will pick a new five-letter word, and players need to guess it in up to six tries. Your only clues will be the letters themselves, which will change colors if they’re present in the word. Depending on how you start your guesses, however, you may find yourself stuck with a combination of letters at the end of the word and have no idea of what the beginning of it should be./post/tender-defender-skin-added-to-fortnite-after-a-child-s-suggestion/Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tender-defender-skin-added-to-fortnite-after-a-child-s-suggestion/ Fortnite developer Epic Games added a new chicken-themed cosmetic set to Battle Royale last night. It’s called Fowl Play and features a pickaxe, back bling, glider, and an outfit called Tender Defender. And it was a child who had the idea for the set. My son was thrilled to come home today from school to see how Redditors made his Chicken Trooper request a big deal! Thanks for all the support./post/world-s-edge-won-t-be-in-rotation-in-apex-s-season-12/Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/world-s-edge-won-t-be-in-rotation-in-apex-s-season-12/ Apex Legends’ map rotation in season 12 is giving World’s Edge some time to rest. The Talos arena won’t be in the map rotation during the game’s upcoming season, Defiance, Respawn Entertainment confirmed. The map rotation in the casual pool will be comprised of Storm Point, Kings Canyon, and Olympus, as confirmed in a press conference yesterday. Respawn did not provide details about whether World’s Edge will see professional play during this season./post/wunder-thinks-g2-s-lec-roster-for-2022-is-not-looking-that-strong/Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wunder-thinks-g2-s-lec-roster-for-2022-is-not-looking-that-strong/ Fnatic’s Wunder had some harsh words for his former League of Legends team in a recent Q&A stream. Fnatic went live on Twitch on Dec. 13 with Wunder, Razork, Upset, and Hylissang to answer some of the most asked questions from fans about the team’s new roster for 2022. Among the new faces who joined the team for the upcoming LEC season, there’s Wunder, G2’s top laner who left the team after four years./post/clash-royale-s-season-20-is-called-the-forbidden-palace/Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clash-royale-s-season-20-is-called-the-forbidden-palace/ Clash Royale’s season 20, The Forbidden Palace, is here. The season is themed around the Lunar New Year and has introduced a new arena, tower skin, emotes, and more. The Forbidden Palace tower skin is available in tier 10 of the Pass Royale. Supercell has brought Elite Barbarian emotes to the game for the first time as well. The Elite Barbarian Candy will be available in the shop while the Elite Barbarian Kiss can be unlocked at tier 20 of the Pass Royale./post/how-to-enable-two-step-verification-2fa-on-xbox/Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-enable-two-step-verification-2fa-on-xbox/ Securing your email and gaming accounts may seem unimportant at first, but it can be vital even if you don’t have anything valuable inside your accounts. A compromised Xbox account password can lead to more accounts getting hacked on other websites if you’re also using the same email/password combination in each of them. If you aren’t a fan of having a different password for every website you frequently visit, then you’ll need to activate two-factor authentication (2FA) to make sure no one gets into your account without your knowledge./post/apex-legends-players-are-attaching-rampart-s-minigun-to-crypto-s-drone-thanks-to-a-bug/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-players-are-attaching-rampart-s-minigun-to-crypto-s-drone-thanks-to-a-bug/ Enemies in Apex Legends can come from any direction, even from above. A new bug lets players attach Rampart’s mounted minigun to Crypto’s flying drone in Apex and unleash a flurry of bullets from above. Squads and streamers have been replicating the glitch throughout matches on Olympus—at least while Respawn doesn’t patch it. The bug is surprisingly simple. If Crypto’s drone is close to the ground, it counts as a piece of cover on which Rampart can set down her emplaced minigun, Sheila./post/how-to-inspect-your-weapon-in-call-of-duty-warzone-and-modern-warfare/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-inspect-your-weapon-in-call-of-duty-warzone-and-modern-warfare/ It might have taken about 10 months, but a highly-requested feature has finally been added to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. In season five’s update, which went live earlier today, Infinity Ward has added the option to inspect your weapon in both Warzone and Modern Warfare. Whether you’re running the hills of Verdansk or dominating Shipment 24/7, you can now inspect your tools of destruction. It’s the ultimate way to flex on your opponent in the killcam or to just check out the camo and stickers you’ve placed on your gun./post/d-va-s-voice-actress-is-teasing-an-overwatch-reveal-but-her-cryptic-tweets-aren-t-helping-much/Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/d-va-s-voice-actress-is-teasing-an-overwatch-reveal-but-her-cryptic-tweets-aren-t-helping-much/ D.Va voice actor Charlet Chung has been hyping a Friday Overwatch announcement since Monday, but we’re still puzzled as to what it could be. The initial tweet shows Chung clutching a giant pachimari plush, sitting in front of an Overwatch sign, likely at Blizzard headquarters. “Friday reveal,” she captioned the image. “Sneak peeks all week.” Immediately, fans assumed this meant that a D.Va cinematic was on its way, but Chung quickly shut that down./post/hearthstone-s-september-card-back-has-been-revealed/Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-s-september-card-back-has-been-revealed/ All month long, players have patiently watched as cards from Hearthstone’s upcoming expansion, United in Stormwind, have been revealed. But now, players can take a look at a delicious new card back coming during the second month of United in Stormwind’s lifespan. Blizzard has revealed the Hearthstone ranked reward for the month of September. Suitably titled “Ramen,” this card back appears to show a delicious bowl of the popular Asian dish./post/how-to-play-mercy-overwatch-strategy-tips-and-tricks/Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-mercy-overwatch-strategy-tips-and-tricks/ Playing Mercy, Overwatch’s Swiss field medic, can almost feel like playing an entirely different game. Mercy’s role is not to annihilate enemy heroes and dish out lots of damage. Positioning and timing are much more important in keeping other heroes alive so that they can make those big plays. Among Overwatch’s support heroes, Mercy has seen her highs and lows when it comes to pick rates. Lucio, Ana, and Moira have dominated the competitive scene for some time, but Mercy has had her moments over the past few years./post/gargoyle-winston-is-a-legendary-skin-coming-for-the-overwatch-anniversary-2019/Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gargoyle-winston-is-a-legendary-skin-coming-for-the-overwatch-anniversary-2019/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. A new Winston skin has been revealed for the 2019 Overwatch Anniversary event. Gargoyle Winston will be the character’s Legendary skin that’s set to be released tomorrow when the Anniversary event starts. It’s the second character skin revealed for the event following Academy D.Va. “WinSTONE checking in,” Blizzard said. “Protect the payload as Gargoyle Winston!” WinSTONE checking in./post/pok%C3%A9mon-unite-has-a-premium-battle-pass-additional-gacha-mechanics/Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-unite-has-a-premium-battle-pass-additional-gacha-mechanics/ TiMi Studios were upfront with the fact that Pokémon UNIT Ewould include plenty of options for microtransactions, but it looks like neither the developers nor The Pokémon Company wanted to share just how many there are.  Within UNITE, not only is there a premium currency, Aeon Gems, that can help players unlock items, Pokémon, and cosmetics quicker, but there is also a premium Battle Pass. And, along with that Battle Pass, there is a separate gacha mechanic for unlocking specific items too./post/how-to-complete-tots-te-vrede-s-objectives-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-tots-te-vrede-s-objectives-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added an 89-rated TOTS version of Mitchell te Vrede from Al-Fateh to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team’s objectives menu today. This is te Vrede’s first special card. The Team of the Season promotion celebrates and highlights the best players who had a major impact on their respective clubs in the different leagues across Europe. EA massively boosted all of te Vrede’s skills, including Pace (+46), Passing (+39), Dribbling (+31), Shooting (+25), Defending (+20), and his Physical (+17), when compared to his 66-rated silver version./post/world-s-edge-season-10-map-update-to-change-sorting-factory-train-yard-and-refinery-bring-back-blue-skybox/Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/world-s-edge-season-10-map-update-to-change-sorting-factory-train-yard-and-refinery-bring-back-blue-skybox/ Hammond Robotics has pushed World’s Edge to its limits. The map is going to sport a new look when Apex Legends’ season 10 drops on Aug. 3. The map update will bring deep changes to Sorting Factory, Train Yard, and Refinery, according to an official post from today. The developers will also open up a few minor rotation options and bring back the blue skybox, a long-standing demand from fans./post/best-rocket-league-toys/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-rocket-league-toys/ Nearly six years after its 2015 release, Rocket League is still going strong with an active player base across multiple gaming platforms. As a result of its popularity, the game also spawned toys from several companies, though not as many as you’d think. Most of the Rocket League toys are just simple tokens from the game, with one impressive exception to the rule.  These are the best Rocket League toys./post/how-esports-agents-help-protect-players-and-legitimize-the-industry/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-esports-agents-help-protect-players-and-legitimize-the-industry/ The esports industry is slowly but surely catching up to traditional sports in terms of viewership, money, and legitimacy. Esports revenues grew to over $1 billion in 2021—according to Newzoo, a game market insights and analytics company—for a year-over-year growth of 14.5 percent compared to 2020. Smaller agencies that serve video game influencers and esports athletes, like Evolved Talent, Electronic Sports and Gaming Law, and Level Up, are getting bigger. Established companies like CAA and UTA are entering this new world, leveraging the influx of young fans and riding the wave of growing popularity./post/how-to-get-into-lenne-s-rise-tower-in-elden-ring/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-into-lenne-s-rise-tower-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring has a ton of hidden passageways and buildings for players to explore. One of these can be found at the Lenne’s Rise Site of Grace within the large tower. See Elden Ring on Amazon Like other locations, the entry to this building is sealed shut by magic and there looks to be no way to open it. While it might seem like all hope is lost, with a plan and a little searching you can find your way into the building with ease./post/how-to-watch-the-team-summertime-150-000-call-of-duty-vanguard-prosim-invitational/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-the-team-summertime-150-000-call-of-duty-vanguard-prosim-invitational/ OpTic Hitch and Team Summertime are back with BoomTV and a big-money tournament, this time in Call of Duty: Vanguard, in the $150,000 Prosim Invitational. Eight high-profile team captains will draft squads to compete in Vanguard, featuring some of the best players, biggest names, and most entertaining streamers in the world of CoD or content creation in general. 🚨$150,000 TST PROSIM INVITATIONAL🚨 No one better than @hitchariide and Team Summertime to bring together some of the best in Call of Duty./post/questing-beast-is-a-pushed-midrange-beater-coming-to-mtg-in-throne-of-eldraine/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/questing-beast-is-a-pushed-midrange-beater-coming-to-mtg-in-throne-of-eldraine/ Magic: The Gathering just got its new midrange all-star. Meet Questing Beast, a new creature in the game’s upcoming set, Throne of Eldraine (ELD). With six abilities, a good body, and a cost of just four mana, Questing Beast is going to be a must-play for some of the game’s top decks. Questing Beast looks to be a set-defining card for ELD. Its first three abilities alone form a great combination: Vigilance means it can attack without tapping (and stick around to block), Deathtouch means it can kill any creature it deals damage to, and haste allows it to attack on the same turn you play it./post/uzi-reportedly-reaches-over-8-million-viewers-on-stream/Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/uzi-reportedly-reaches-over-8-million-viewers-on-stream/ May has certainly been a month to remember for Royal Never Give Up’s ADC, Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao. After winning the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational on May 20, the RNG marksman has reportedly reached an incredible milestone on his livestream. Uzi apparently had roughly 8.5 million concurrent viewers watching him stream League of Legends earlier today, according to Inven Global (the screengrab taken by Maisesports shows Uzi at 7.9 million viewers). RNG’s ADC was streaming on Huya./post/qu%C3%A9-significan-los-diferentes-colores-de-incienso-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/qu%C3%A9-significan-los-diferentes-colores-de-incienso-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Hay algunos elementos en Pokémon Go que se pueden usar para ayudarte a personalizar tu experiencia en el juego, incluido el incienso. Este elemento atraerá de forma pasiva a los Pokémon hacia un jugador o jugadora durante una hora completa, normalmente con un promedio de un encuentro por minuto mientras está activo. Pero a medida que Niantic continúa desarrollando Pokémon Go y añade más contenido, también hubo una ligera actualización del incienso./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-t-as-the-fourth-letter/Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-t-as-the-fourth-letter/ Sometimes, to reach the Wordle answer faster, it’s necessary to look for hints online. If a player is stuck with only one green letter, a word list can be a good tool to look for inspiration for the words. If you are looking for some extra Wordle help, check out this list of five-letter words with T as the fourth letter.  abateacuteagateamityaortaauntybastebattyberthbirthbittyblitzboothbootybrothbrutebuttecacticastecattychuteclothcratedeathdeitydeltadepthdirtydittodittydustyearthelateeliteemptyfaithfattyfifthfiftyfilthfluteforteforthfortyfritzfrothgirthgrategustogustyhastehastyhauteheathheftyiratejettyjuntajuntokittylatteleftyloathloftylustymeatymintymirthmonthmottomouthmustynastyninthnorthnuttyovatepartypastapastepastypattypestopettyphotopietypintoplatepoutyputtyquitequotaquotequothrattyrouterustysaltysautesixthsixtyskateslateslothsmitesmithsmotesootysouthspitestatesuiteswathtastetastytattyteethtenthtestythetatoothtritetruthuniteunityvistawaltzwartywastewhitewidthwittyworthwrathwritewroteyouthzesty It is possible that some words are not accepted by Wordle./post/how-to-play-sam-zero-fisher-in-rainbow-six-siege/Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-sam-zero-fisher-in-rainbow-six-siege/ Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Shadow Legacy is now on the live servers and with that comes Sam “Zero” Fisher, the newest operator on Team Rainbow.  With every new operator comes changes to the meta and optimal ways to play that character. Here are some of the specifications and playstyles you’ll want to employ as Zero.  Zero comes with two primary weapons: the MP7 and the SC300K.  The MP7 will be comfortable for older Rainbow Six players./post/how-to-get-inferno-jacket-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-inferno-jacket-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ For a long time, the Inferno Jacket cosmetic wasn’t available for players on Square Enix’s MMO game Final Fantasy XIV. But things have changed after it was introduced in the recurring event called Moogle Treasure Trove on Oct. 19. For a few years, the item was only up to purchase in the Asian Mog Station, but it’ll soon be tradeable in the upcoming event. Moogle Treasure Trove regularly comes back, bringing new and returning items that can be purchased with Irregular Tomestones./post/call-of-duty-teams-up-with-mountain-dew-and-doritos-for-double-xp-promotion-once-again/Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-teams-up-with-mountain-dew-and-doritos-for-double-xp-promotion-once-again/ It’s the most wonderful time of the year—time to grab double XP codes for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War from specially marked Mountain Dew and Doritos packages. Keep your eyes peeled at the grocery store for Black Ops Cold War logos on Mountain Dew and Doritos. These items will come with a code that can be submitted on a Dew and Doritos website to earn double XP codes for the upcoming CoD title./post/should-you-choose-regieleki-or-regidrago-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/should-you-choose-regieleki-or-regidrago-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/ Game Freak really likes to push players to trade with each other by making them choose which Pokémon they want to encounter in certain situations.  Similar to how every player could only get one of Kubfu’s evolutions in the Isle of Armor, The Crown Tundra includes two tough choices involving some legendary Pokémon that were added in this DLC.  One of those choices revolves around the new Regis: Regieleki and Regidrago./post/valorant-adds-left-handed-view-model-in-patch-1-11/Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-adds-left-handed-view-model-in-patch-1-11/ In addition to an overwhelming amount of buffs, nerfs, and general changes, Riot Games has added the option to play VALORANT in left-handed mode in the game’s latest patch. The change is completely optional but still presents a new viewpoint on the game’s HUD to those who want it.  This patch Skye enters the fray, Initiators and most Sentinel Agents get balanced, and the Economy ruleset is tuned. And those are just the highlights./post/best-dragon-pok%C3%A9mon-in-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-dragon-pok%C3%A9mon-in-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl bring together a ton of Pokémon from a range of different generations, and there a plenty of powerful species from which to pick. When it comes to making up your team, you’ll likely want a Dragon-type Pokémon to cover all bases and deal some incredible damage. While the Sinnoh Pokédex doesn’t boast a ton of options, thanks to the National Pokédex, there are a few different ways to go./post/call-of-duty-warzone-s-new-update-buffs-ots-9-and-fennec-nerfs-as-val-and-amp-63/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-warzone-s-new-update-buffs-ots-9-and-fennec-nerfs-as-val-and-amp-63/ A new update is live for Call of Duty: Warzone, containing bug fixes and a balance pass to multiple weapons in the game. Overall, it’s a minor update, but Raven Software also said it’s looking at updating weapons even further. Generally, the weapon meta in Warzone is pretty solid right now, but there’s still work to be done to iron out fixes for some of the more powerful guns. 🛠️A #Warzone update is now live!/post/the-5-best-shock-lands-in-magic-the-gathering/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-best-shock-lands-in-magic-the-gathering/ Shock lands are dual lands that can be tapped for one of two types of mana. There are currently 10 cards of these types in Magic: The Gathering, making it easy to fit them in your decks. The main difference between shock lands and traditional dual land cards is that you can pay two life to have them enter the battlefield untapped and ready to be used the turn they are played./post/when-will-wow-shadowlands-patch-9-0-5-go-live/Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-wow-shadowlands-patch-9-0-5-go-live/ Ever since Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft Shadowlands Patch 9.0.5 at BlizzConline, players have been wondering when to expect the new patch.  The wait is almost over, though. Blizzard announced earlier today that the patch will arrive after the scheduled weekly maintenance on March 9 for North American servers and March 10 for European servers. The update will come with a slew of changes to retail WoW systems and notably introduces Valor Points./post/how-to-get-the-banished-knight-s-halberd-8-in-elden-ring/Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-banished-knight-s-halberd-8-in-elden-ring/ There are many different weapon types in Elden Ring. Each boasts its own unique attributes, scaling, moveset, and weapon art. With short-ranged daggers, colossal greatswords, magic staves, and a mix of bows and crossbows, FromSoftware offers a lot of options for Tarnished to choose from to dominate their foes across the realm of Lands Between. One choice that players have been looking for in particular is the Banished Knight’s Halberd +8./post/the-top-prize-money-winners-in-league-of-legends/Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-top-prize-money-winners-in-league-of-legends/ League of Legends most certainly doesn’t havethe biggest prize pools in esports, but that hasn’t stopped a handful of players from earning well over $500,000 throughout their careers. While some games, likeDota 2,offer huge tournament winnings, League provides players with a stable income. Pros can make up to $300,000 a year on salary alone and that’s not including sponsorship deals or streaming revenue.  Most League organizations keep player salaries hidden behind closed doors, making tournament winnings the only reliable metric we can use to compare earnings./post/blizzard-to-host-an-event-regarding-overwatch-2-next-pvp-beta-and-more-in-june/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-to-host-an-event-regarding-overwatch-2-next-pvp-beta-and-more-in-june/ The Overwatch team told players today that there will be more information coming about Overwatch 2 next month and there may even be a new PvP beta on the horizon that will be announced at an event that will be broadcast on June 16. Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller, on behalf of Team 4, had some words to say to players, including a thank you for participating in the PvP beta for Overwatch 2./post/everything-to-know-about-circuit-royal-in-overwatch-2/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-circuit-royal-in-overwatch-2/ Overwatch is full of maps that show regular places decimated by war and the Omnic Crisis, but it’s considerably lacking in representation for the ultra-rich who appear unbothered by plebian problems.  Enter Circuit Royal, the game’s newest Escort map, introduced to the world as a part of Overwatch 2. This immaculate map was known during its development as Monte Carlo, based on the real-life territory of glitz, glamor, and gambling. Within the Overwatch universe, Circuit Royal is an upper-tax-bracket paradise and base of operations for Maximilien, a Talon-affiliated omnic with money to burn./post/jankos-iwilldominate-and-sneaky-make-their-worlds-2021-predictions/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/jankos-iwilldominate-and-sneaky-make-their-worlds-2021-predictions/ The 2021 League of Legends World Championship is underway and that also means it’s prediction time. You can already choose the team that you think will triumph at Worlds 2021 on Riot’s pick’em.  But fans aren’t the only ones making predictions. Former and current pro players do so as well. Most recently, three popular personalities from the League scene—Jankos, IWillDominate, and Sneaky—gave their predictions for this year’s best and worst teams and regions./post/how-to-get-the-first-partner-pack-pok%C3%A9mon-25th-anniversary-tcg-collection/Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-first-partner-pack-pok%C3%A9mon-25th-anniversary-tcg-collection/ As part of Pokémon’s 25th anniversary, a special collection of trading cards is among the limited-edition items that will be available for players to purchase.  The anniversary-themed collection of TCG called the First Partner Pack and will focus on special reprints of starter Pokémon cards. Each month, a new themed pack will be released, featuring three oversized starter cards from a specific region and two regular booster packs.  The cards include the first printing of each starter Pokémon from their initial sets, meaning it’ll be the Base Set look for Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle, while Cyndaquil, Chikorita, and Totodile will have one of their artworks from Neo Genesis./post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-update-version-1-15-is-live/Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-update-version-1-15-is-live/ The latest update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is now available for download on all platforms. Modern Warfare update version 1.15 went live today. It’s a 7.003 GB download file on PlayStation 4. Patch notes for today's update are now live! See what new playlists are available, general fixes, weapon tuning, and more! #ModernWarfare https://t.co/D2pPvydqYd pic.twitter.com/RHaYMiyi7i — Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) February 25, 2020 This update is set to introduce a new Gunfight map, Bazaar, as well as a “Ground War Realism mode variant” where “no tanks will be available on the battlefield./post/apex-dev-reveals-early-version-of-lifeline/Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-dev-reveals-early-version-of-lifeline/ Lifeline is one of the most beloved characters in Apex Legends. It’s easy to see why: The fun-loving combat medic and drummer has a magnetic personality and is also the only character in the game that can be classified as a healer, Wattson’s ultimate notwithstanding. Almost everything about Lifeline could have ended up very different, however. Moy Parra, lead animator for Respawn Entertainment, pulled back the curtain on the development of Lifeline’s character in a Twitter thread today./post/league-of-legends-fan-creates-incredible-elderwood-qiyana-skin-concept/Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-fan-creates-incredible-elderwood-qiyana-skin-concept/ A League fan has taken their love for their favourite champion and created a brilliantly creative take on the Elderwood skin line. The Elderwood Qiyana skin concept, created by artist Sarah Cho, perfectly encapsulates the spirit and whimsy of a storybook enchanted forest that the Elderwood skin line is known for. The skin itself is reminiscent of the Elderwood LeBlanc skin. The artist says that some of her initial concepts were “based on satyrs and poison ivy/oak” but she eventually went for a “fairy or nymph vibe since nymphs are connected to the elements./post/fortnite-s-the-device-event-reached-capacity-in-one-minute-players-now-met-with-checking-epic-services-queue/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-the-device-event-reached-capacity-in-one-minute-players-now-met-with-checking-epic-services-queue/ If you wanted to experience Fortnite’s season-ending event today in-game and you’re not already in a match, you might be out of luck. Fortnite’s “The Device” event reached capacity in just one minute, according to Epic Games. In a tweet put out by Fortnite’s status Twitter account, the company explained that the event was full. If players aren’t already in the game, their only option is to watch livestreams./post/shroud-bans-subscriber-on-twitch-for-saying-he-was-being-sponsored-to-stream-e3/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-bans-subscriber-on-twitch-for-saying-he-was-being-sponsored-to-stream-e3/ It’s E3 season, and the gaming community is looking at conferences that are announcing what’s coming within the next year. Twitch streamers are also part of this, and they’ve been hosting viewing parties in their channels to comment on conferences with their fans. Top Twitch streamer Michael “shroud” Grzesiek was hosting one yesterday, but he interrupted his stream during Microsoft’s presentation of Flight Simulator 2020 to ban one of his subscribers./post/liiv-sandbox-upsets-drx-in-first-series-of-2022-lck-spring-split/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/liiv-sandbox-upsets-drx-in-first-series-of-2022-lck-spring-split/ The 2022 LCK Spring Split, South Korea’s League of Legends competitive season, kicked off with an unexpected win by Liiv SANDBOX over DRX today. While DRX started the series in a dominant fashion, they faltered during the mid game when the team got picked off several times by SANDBOX players, who showed strong coordination and vision control. SANDBOX came back from an almost insurmountable 7,600-gold disadvantage and won the game following a crucial teamfight during the late game./post/weakness-policy-mystery-gift-available-now-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-for-players-cup-3/Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/weakness-policy-mystery-gift-available-now-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-for-players-cup-3/ As a sort of cross-promotion for the Pokémon Players Cup Three, players can now get a free Weakness Policy through Mystery Gift in Pokémon Sword and Shield.  The Weakness Policy code will only be active until April 26, so you’ll want to grab the item quickly before it’s no longer available.  All you need to do to use the code is make sure you’re connected to the internet and open up your normal menu in Sword or Shield./post/can-you-play-far-cry-6-on-steam-deck/Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-far-cry-6-on-steam-deck/ Far Cry 6 is the latest installment in Ubisoft’s open-world shooter franchise. This time around the action takes place on the fictional island of Yara. The story involves taking out the brutal dictator “El Presidente” Antón Castillo, and in true Far Cry fashion, there’s a vast array of weapons and vehicles at hand to complete the task. Exploring the island, hunting animals, and freeing enemies on a seven-inch display could be a fun and exciting experience, but there’s a minor issue./post/intel-has-fixed-the-12th-gen-alder-lake-drm-issues/Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/intel-has-fixed-the-12th-gen-alder-lake-drm-issues/ Intel revealed on its official site that it has handled the digital rights management (DRM) issues plaguing its 12th-generation Alder Lake CPUs. After an issue with DRM services, many popular titles were rendered unplayable. Since launching in November 2021, Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs have been troubled with DRM compatibility issues. These issues prevented players from playing titles on both Windows 10 and 11 due to a hiccup with DRM compatibility. The company announced that it’d be working with developers and Microsoft to resolve the issue and it has, according to an update on the Intel page./post/when-does-no-man-s-sky-come-to-switch/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-no-man-s-sky-come-to-switch/ No Man’s Sky has cemented itself as one of the greatest comebacks in the history of video games. Ahead of its initial release, the title was said to be one of the best open-world games to ever be created, with numerous possibilities allowing players to dive into dozens of hours of fun. Once No Man’s Sky launched in 2016, however, both critics and players shredded it to pieces with countless negative reviews./post/wizards-of-the-coast-details-new-design-philosophy-for-mtg-f-i-r-e/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wizards-of-the-coast-details-new-design-philosophy-for-mtg-f-i-r-e/ Wizards of the Coast is approaching Magic: The Gathering with an improved and new design philosophy for the Standard and Limited formats with F.I.R.E. Inspired by former Magic: The Gathering Pro and director of R&D, Aaron Forsythe, the design team at Wizards of the Coast initiated the acronym F.I.R.E. as the foundation of their new design philosophy going forward. For former MTG Pro Andrew Brown, design contractor for Wizards of the Coast, F./post/a-look-at-the-relationship-between-riot-games-and-the-league-of-legends-subreddit/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-look-at-the-relationship-between-riot-games-and-the-league-of-legends-subreddit/ If you aren’t working at Riot Games, the developer of the most popular online game in the world, there’s one position that gives you significant influence over the game’s community. Moderators at Reddit’s League of Legends subreddit hold sway over a community of more than 650,000. Both Riot and the subreddit tout their independence from one another. But their relationship has been called into question by one of the section’s moderators, who recently reached out to the Daily Dot with evidence of complications caused by their informal partnership./post/toronto-ultra-sign-scrappy-as-second-substitute-player/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/toronto-ultra-sign-scrappy-as-second-substitute-player/ Toronto Ultra has promoted academy player Thomas “Scrappy” Ernst as a substitute for the Call of Duty franchise, the team announced today. Scrappy’s Challenger career started last season when he struggled to find much success and ultimately placed top 24 at the North American Challenger Finals, despite placing first in Challenger Cup No. 16, just two months prior. Heading into Vanguard, he placed second in the first Challenger Cup alongside Havok, Capsidal, and GRVTY.