/categories/info/Recent content in Info on BlogLabHugo -- gohugo.ioCopyright © 2021-2022, all rights reserved.Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-steam-deck-s-exclusive-carrying-case-and-how-to-get-it/Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-steam-deck-s-exclusive-carrying-case-and-how-to-get-it/ Often leading the way for PC gaming, Valve set the gaming world ablaze with the announcement of its new Steam Deck handheld earlier this month. With striking similarities to the Nintendo Switch, Valve will now allow gamers to take their PC games on the go with its easy-to-use device.  Reservations for the handheld opened last week, with three variations of the machine available at launch. For those still needing help deciding which model to purchase, we wanted to show you how to get the exclusive carrying case for the new Valve Steam Deck./post/players-achieve-ultra-unlock-bonuses-for-pokemon-go-adventure-week/Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/players-achieve-ultra-unlock-bonuses-for-pokemon-go-adventure-week/ As part of Pokémon Go Fest 2022, Niantic advertised Ultra Unlock bonuses again, giving players the ability to add more content to future events by completing certain challenges and reaching milestones before Go Fest ended.  Among the Ultra Unlock content available, players have already reached the milestones to change the upcoming iteration of Adventure Week event into Ultra Adventure Week.  This won’t change too much about the core aspects of the event, which is set to run from June 7 to June 12, but it does add several new pieces of content, including more bonuses and event-exclusive research./post/when-will-brawl-stars-season-9-brawlywood-release/Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-brawl-stars-season-9-brawlywood-release/ Brawl Stars fans were offered more information a few days ago on what’s to come next month in Supercell’s latest Brawl Talk on YouTube. The upcoming season will be called Brawlywood. Its name is self-explanatory: It will be Hollywood-themed, with new exclusive skins inspired by famous movies or film-making jobs and new cosmetic items. It will also feature Lola, a new Brawler of chromatic rarity. She’s a superstar using her fox to go into battle./post/the-best-landing-spots-for-10-of-the-biggest-league-of-legends-free-agents-this-offseason/Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-landing-spots-for-10-of-the-biggest-league-of-legends-free-agents-this-offseason/ The professional League of Legends offseason is still heating up, and countless rumors are already out in the ether. With that in mind, this year’s free agency period has the potential to be jam-packed with roster moves.  This offseason, teams across the globe will be looking to rebuild and re-tool their lineups, with more players poised to swap teams than ever before. Additionally, dozens of players are set to see their contracts expire in just a few days, setting up this upcoming offseason to be littered with buyouts, trades, and free agent signings across all four of game’s major regions./post/sources-soniqs-benches-crunchy-and-iyen/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-soniqs-benches-crunchy-and-iyen/ North American organization Soniqs has moved VALORANT players Iyengaran “Iyen” Raju and Ethan “Crunchy” Laker to the bench, multiple sources told Dot Esports on March 7. The team will be rebuilt around Bob Tran and Jason “JSUNG” Sung, who is the sole North American on the Australian roster.  Soniqs bowed out of both the NA VALORANT Champions Tour Challengers One open qualifiers following defeats to Knights on Jan. 30 and Luminosity on Feb./post/here-are-all-the-care-package-weapons-in-apex-legends-season-12/Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-care-package-weapons-in-apex-legends-season-12/ Apex Legends’ 12th season is bringing some changes to the weapon pool. Though most of the Care Package weapons will stay the same, fans can expect to see one weapon return to floor loot—and another one taking its place. In addition to changes to the Care Package, the Longbow and the Flatline will be exclusive to replicators come season 12, meaning fans will always know where to find them—if they have enough Crafting Materials to get them, that is./post/how-to-acquire-all-teamwork-and-strategy-challenge-titles-in-league-of-legends/Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-acquire-all-teamwork-and-strategy-challenge-titles-in-league-of-legends/ As much as some players would like to solo carry their games in League of Legends, most people know working together with your teammates is the best way to find success when trying to climb from the bottom of the ladder to the top. Good planning, communication, and coordination can be all you need to rack up a mean win streak, and Riot Games is ready to reward players with more than just their precious Elo./post/tencent-banned-over-3-8-million-hackers-in-pubg-mobile-last-week/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tencent-banned-over-3-8-million-hackers-in-pubg-mobile-last-week/ PUBG Mobile has seen more than its fair share of hackers, with Tencent banning millions of players every week for cheating. From June 18 to 24, the developer banned 3,883,690 accounts for cheating in the battle royale game. About 76 percent of those players were banned for modifying their character models. Five percent were using speed hacks, four percent were modifying the area damage, while seven percent were using x-ray vision and auto-aim hacks./post/hp-just-launched-two-new-omen-gaming-desktops/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hp-just-launched-two-new-omen-gaming-desktops/ HP has two new Omen desktops coming out at CES 2022. The company’s releasing its new top-of-the-range 45L and entry-level 25L to complement the mid-range 40L that’s already on sale on the HP site. Omen 45L The Omen 45L is HP’s new flagship gaming PC and the first to feature the new Cryo Chamber cooling technology. It’s designed for advanced users who want the most powerful gaming rig available and like to tinker and upgrade components./post/slacked-benched-by-florida-mutineers-following-stage-2-major-of-2021-call-of-duty-league-season/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/slacked-benched-by-florida-mutineers-following-stage-2-major-of-2021-call-of-duty-league-season/ The Stage Two Major of the 2021 Call of Duty League season just ended a few moments ago but some franchises are already making roster changes to prepare for Stage Three. Slacked has been benched by the Florida Mutineers, the 23-year-old announced today. Slacked said he’s “not sure what the future looks like” but he plans to keep competing in the Challengers scene. I’ve officially been benched by Florida. Not sure what the future looks like, but will continue to work hard in challengers./post/analyzing-win-conditions/Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/analyzing-win-conditions/ Win Conditions In order to understand what the win conditions of your team composition is, firstly we need to know what this term even means. I give credit to MonteChristo for this term, and it essentially is the series of steps needed to win the game. While the end goal is destroying the enemy nexus, there are a plethora of ways to achieve this goal. 1. Splitpushing: Done with an incredibly strong champion such as Jax or Zed, these champions go into a sidelane, most commonly bottom as it is farthest away from Baron./post/moistcr1tikal-announces-original-comic-book-godslap/Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/moistcr1tikal-announces-original-comic-book-godslap/ Twitch streamer Charlie “moistcr1tikal” White has paid homage to his love for slapping with a new comic book. The series called GODSLAP has its first issue, The Prologue, available for pre-order for the next 30 days. There are four cover variants, and the limited edition variants quickly sold out within the first hour of sales going live. Super excited to finally show this to you all https://t.co/LAMASQhbDR pic.twitter.com/ZuZiU7kPxh — Charlie (@MoistCr1TiKaL) July 5, 2021 In a YouTube video discussing the project, Charlie shared a little about the book and how it came to be./post/rated-joins-100-thieves-as-call-of-duty-warzone-player-and-content-creator/Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rated-joins-100-thieves-as-call-of-duty-warzone-player-and-content-creator/ Former London Royal Ravens player Rated has joined 100 Thieves as a Call of Duty: Warzone player and content creator, the organization announced today. He’s the latest Call of Duty player to join 100T in a content creator position rather than as a professional player.  Rated has years of experience in professional Call of Duty and was one of the first European players to make it to the grand finals of CoD Champs./post/all-leaked-skins-and-cosmetics-coming-to-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-leaked-skins-and-cosmetics-coming-to-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/ At last, after weeks of waiting, a new Fortnite season is finally upon us. Chapter Two, season eight, also known as “Cubed,” kicks off today. The island has been overwhelmed with an army of relentless creatures and dozens of giant, purple, scaring-looking, glowing cubes. But, thankfully, like any new season, it’s not all doom and gloom. According to leaks from a few of Fortnite’s most prominent data miners, including iFireMonkey, HYPEX, and Lucas7yoshi, a myriad of skins and cosmetics items are on their way to the game./post/how-to-play-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-with-mouse-and-keyboard-on-ps4-and-xbox-one/Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-with-mouse-and-keyboard-on-ps4-and-xbox-one/ Aiming with a controller has been the main problem of any PC player trying to switch to a console. Though players get used to playing on a controller over time, it’s hard to deny that aiming feels more natural with a mouse and keyboard setup. Even players who are well-versed with a controller in adventure games can prefer having a keyboard and mouse setup when it comes to playing first-person-shooter (FPS) games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare./post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-25th-anniversary-set-revealed-for-october/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-25th-anniversary-set-revealed-for-october/ The first Pokémon TCG product for October has been revealed and it’s a mini-set to celebrate the Pokémon franchise’s 25th anniversary.  The product will be released as mini-booster packs paired with normal packs from other sets and various promotional items. Each mini-booster will include four cards from the anniversary set.  For now, it sounds like the base mini-set will function similarly to the First Partner packs, which give players three Oversized cards based on the Starter Pokémon of a specific region and two booster packs./post/the-best-weapon-skins-in-cs-go-of-2021/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-weapon-skins-in-cs-go-of-2021/ CS:GO’s core gameplay mechanics are relatively easy to understand, and it doesn’t take long before a complete beginner can start picking up the ropes. While the gameplay is engaging enough to make thousands of players come back every day for more action, there’s more to enjoy in CS:GO. Some players enjoy collecting new skins and cosmetics, which allow them to show off their sense of style. Whenever there’s a major content patch, Valve adds new skins to the game, and 2021 was no different./post/where-to-find-a-thermal-fish-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-a-thermal-fish-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/ With the removal of building in Fortnite Chapter Two, season three’s new Zero Build mode, players are using stealth and cover more abundantly without the crutch of being able to spawn a makeshift tower out of nowhere. Items like the thermal-scoped assault rifle are now becoming more useful when scanning for enemies, as is the Thermal Fish. See Fortnite Action Figures on Amazon Thermal Fish is a Legendary rarity fishing item that when consumed, equips the player with temporary thermal vision for a minute, causing enemy player heat signatures to light up./post/alex-officially-leaves-vitality/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/alex-officially-leaves-vitality/ Vitality confirmed today that its CS:GO captain ALEX has left the team. The announcement confirms yesterday’s report from 1pv.fr, which claimed that ALEX was leaving due to the constant travel. That reason was confirmed by Vitality and ALEX today. “Last year we traveled 36 weeks of the year and by July I was struggling to keep up with the intense traveling schedule,” ALEX said in a TwitLonger. The former in-game leader said that the team wanted to cut the traveling down to 22 weeks, but that wasn’t possible due to CS:GO‘s current ecosystem./post/the-best-electric-type-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-electric-type-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go has regularly introduced new species of Pokémon to spice up its gameplay for players. In the mobile game, different species have a number of attacks and statistics unique to that specific Pokémon. With so many variables, it can be confusing for players to decipher which Pokémon are the strongest or best for the battle they’re about to enter into. There are 18 different types of Pokémon in the game, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses./post/today-is-the-last-day-to-purchase-hearthstone-s-winter-veil-bundle-and-the-sylvanas-hero-portrait/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/today-is-the-last-day-to-purchase-hearthstone-s-winter-veil-bundle-and-the-sylvanas-hero-portrait/ Hearthstone players don’t have much time left to grab two exclusive Hero Portraits. Today, Jan. 6 is the last day for players to purchase the Sylvanas Hunter Hero Portrait. It’s also the last chance they’ll have to snag the Winter Veil Bundle, which includes the Dame Hazelbark Druid Portrait. Both the Sylvanas Hero Portrait and the Winter Veil Bundle were released in December. This means players have had nearly a month to ponder the purchase./post/apex-legends-players-are-reporting-another-error-code-in-their-games/Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-players-are-reporting-another-error-code-in-their-games/ Apex Legends has been plagued by glitches and errors since its release in February. And now, another error code is preventing players from even playing the game, this time called Code: Wheel. Code Wheel does the exact same thing as Code Leaf, where players are timed out of their games. It’s a recurring error that’s affecting multiple players. Some people are even joking around and saying that Code Wheel is just Code Leaf renamed while the developers try to find a fix for the issue./post/changes-to-swain-coming-to-league-s-pbe-this-week/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/changes-to-swain-coming-to-league-s-pbe-this-week/ The Noxian General, Swain, one of League of Legends’ most conniving figures, has existed as one of the more underwhelming champions in the game for years. Swain’s lack of reliability in favor of more meta mages has led Riot Games to pursue changes for the champion, hoping to make him more viable in the lanes he can be used. Riot Truexy, associate game designer on the Summoner’s Rift team for League, detailed changes to Swain that are set to go live on the PBE later this week./post/oshawott-revealed-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-september-community-day/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/oshawott-revealed-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-september-community-day/ The Unovan Community Day trifecta will be completed in September with Oshawott making an appearance as the featured Community Day Pokémon in Pokémon Go. Running from 11am to 5pm local time on Sept. 19, players will be encountering the Sea Otter Pokémon more frequently, with shiny Oshawott also available.  Oshawott will be appearing all over in the wild and attracted to active Rainy Lure Modules. That means you can camp out at a PokéStop, pop a Rainy Lure Module, and watch the otters flood in./post/houston-outlaws-adds-former-player-bischu-in-management-role/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/houston-outlaws-adds-former-player-bischu-in-management-role/ As the Overwatch League offseason kicked off, the Houston Outlaws jumped directly into the fray and made some big roster changes. But it took a few months for the organization to sort out its staff lineup ahead of the 2022 season.  The team has added former Overwatch League player Aaron “Bischu” Kim in a management position, Houston announced today. His official title is manager of player operations and content, which means he’ll have a close relationship with the team’s players and content creators during the 2022 season./post/how-to-evolve-buneary-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-evolve-buneary-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, players often run into many Bunearys and snatch them up. But their first interaction with Lopunny is a massive Alpha located in the Obsidian Fieldlands, and that one is definitely not easy to catch. This makes evolving Buneary the easiest way to get Lopunny early in the game and maybe even through the mid-game. Lopunny is pretty scary looking and is definitely not easy to defeat unless you have a Pokémon that can counter it at a level similar to (or above) the Alpha Lopunny’s./post/pok%C3%A9mon-ocg-sky-stream-towering-perfection-full-regular-card-list-revealed/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-ocg-sky-stream-towering-perfection-full-regular-card-list-revealed/ With a week until its release, Pokémon fans have finally got a look at a full list of the regular cards joining Pokémon OCG in the dual set Sky Stream and Towering Perfection. In a post to Pokémon forum Pokebeach, a list of all the regular cards coming in the set was showcased with the extra secrets to come soon. This 134 card dual Dragon-themed set boasts plenty of familiar faces as well as some species appearing for the very first time./post/hearthstone-principal-game-designer-mike-donais-teases-lightfang-enforcer-nerf/Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-principal-game-designer-mike-donais-teases-lightfang-enforcer-nerf/ Hearthstone’s latest patch introduced a variety of balance changes to the game’s new mode, Battlegrounds. But it looks like more alterations could be on the way soon. Lightfang Enforcer will be nerfed in an upcoming patch, according to a screengrab of a comment in Twitch chat from Hearthstone principal game designer, Mike Donais. During a stream where Lightfang Enforcer was apparently dominating, Donais chimed in to put fans at ease. Lightfang Enforcer will be nerfed in the patch set to release on Dec./post/knights-valorant-player-frosty-found-not-guilty-of-assault/Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/knights-valorant-player-frosty-found-not-guilty-of-assault/ Third-party investigators found Knights VALORANT player Ashton “Frosty” Rakoske not guilty of assault, the organization announced today.  The 16-year-old was accused of sexual assault by former girlfriend Chennie in December, with the alleged assault taking place in July 2021, she claimed. The third-party investigation, which was conducted by the Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote law firm, found that Rakoske “did not commit an assault.” Instead, they found that his conduct, while not assault, was “inappropriate” and “disrespectful,” they said in the statement released by Knights today./post/how-much-dust-does-a-hearthstone-set-cost/Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-dust-does-a-hearthstone-set-cost/ With each new Hearthstone set release, fans of the game around the world are looking to budget either their money or their in-game dust to decide what kind of decks they can go for in the new metagame. It’s rare to see someone craft a full set with just Dust since those completionists usually either have a ton of reserve in-game gold or enough real-life currency to splash on the pre-orders./post/iem-katowice-2021-scores-and-schedule/Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/iem-katowice-2021-scores-and-schedule/ This event has concluded. Gambit defeated Virtus Pro 3-1 in the grand finals. The Intel Extreme Masters Season XV World Championship in Katowice has begun. The popular CS:GO event will run through the end of February. Twenty-four of the world’s best CS:GO teams are competing in the biggest tournament of the year so far with $1 million on the line. This year’s tournament saw both the prize pool and the number of teams increase compared to last year./post/ninja-to-guest-star-on-animated-show-duncanville/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ninja-to-guest-star-on-animated-show-duncanville/ Popular streamer Ninja is set to guest star in Duncanville, the animated comedy series, in the season three premiere on May 1.  Duncanville is a popular animated series on Fox, featuring a notable cast including Amy Poehler, Ty Burrell, Rashida Jones, and Wiz Khalifa. The series focuses on Duncan, a 15-year-old boy, and his immediate family. Ninja will join the cast as a guest star in the season three premiere called “Gamer vs Gamer./post/prime-gaming-gives-out-new-200-iq-valorant-spray/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/prime-gaming-gives-out-new-200-iq-valorant-spray/ Riot and Prime Gaming this month are giving out in-game VALORANT sprays to users who want to show off their big-brain plays.  The “200 IQ” spray features Yoru postured in a thinking position with math problems floating behind him. The spray is one of more than a handful of cosmetics that will be added to the game throughout the year. So far, Prime Gaming has released a “Hot Take” Gun Buddy that looks similar to a bottle of Sriracha, or hot sauce./post/cloud9-signs-alex-to-3-year-1-65-million-deal-to-lead-its-new-cs-go-lineup/Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-signs-alex-to-3-year-1-65-million-deal-to-lead-its-new-cs-go-lineup/ North American organization Cloud9 has signed British CS:GO player Alex McMeekin as the first piece of its new lineup, the organization announced today. The 24-year-old had been on Vitality since December 2018 when he arrived to replace Vincent “Happy” Schopenhauer. With ALEX’s help, Vitality became a solid top-10 team in the world over the course of 2019 and won four championships, including the ECS season seven finals in June. ALEX, however, opted to move away from competition in March due to CS:GO’s stressful travel schedule./post/how-to-complete-the-jungle-habitat-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021/Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-jungle-habitat-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021/ Pokémon Go Fest 2021 features rotating habitats again, which means different bonuses, content, and Pokémon will be featured at different times from 10am to 6pm local time on July 17.  Part of the rotating content this year is the Go Fest 2021 Collection Challenge, which has been split up into four parts, one for each of the habitats. In total, there are four different habitats that will be active at different times: Jungle, Desert Mountain, Ocean Beach, and Cave./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-i-as-the-second-letter/Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-i-as-the-second-letter/ Wordle is a fun game that can relax its players for a while as they try to discover the secret word alone or with others. Wordle’s success was so great that it didn’t take long for many alternative versions to appear, bringing more fun to players who quickly solved the day’s challenge. There are versions that change the words chosen to groups of words about a specific topic, and most of these versions have a way of replaying with a different hit./post/here-are-all-the-takeovers-coming-in-apex-s-war-games-event/Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-takeovers-coming-in-apex-s-war-games-event/ The War Games event in Apex Legends took off, but not without major obstacles. Respawn had to remove three out of five takeovers from the event after a series of issues, including glitches with progression and server outages. The War Games event was slated to add five different takeovers, each with its own mutators that range from auto banner pick-ups and one free respawn to shield regeneration. Out of the five takeovers, only two made a full cycle in the rotation without major instability, and they will remain in rotation until the event ends./post/how-to-get-dada-zarude-and-shiny-celebi-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-dada-zarude-and-shiny-celebi-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ In conjunction with a new Netflix movie, Secrets of the Jungle, two special Pokémon will be added to Pokémon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch. A new form of Zarude, Dada Zarude, is one of the main characters in the new movie. He raises Koko, a human boy who’s been raised by Pokémon. Zarude looks the same as the normal version but Dada Zarude has a purple cape. A special trailer was released so that players could see what he looks like in-game and even showed a Gigantimax version./post/something-funky-is-going-on-with-fortnite-s-8-ball-vs-scratch-skin/Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/something-funky-is-going-on-with-fortnite-s-8-ball-vs-scratch-skin/ Intrepid Fortnite gamers noticed something weird with Chapter Two, season one’s 8-Ball vs. Scratch skin today—and it could have some implications on the game’s story moving forward. After today’s 11.31 update, Fortnite data miner HYPEX called attention to the fact that the skin is somehow getting corrupted or infected with a virus the more that you use it. The More you use the "8-Ball Vs Scratch" Skin the more it gets corrupted (infected with a virus) maybe a storyline related thing?/post/nunu-s-snowballs-curve-around-the-top-and-bot-alcoves-on-summoner-s-rift/Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nunu-s-snowballs-curve-around-the-top-and-bot-alcoves-on-summoner-s-rift/ If you find yourself in Summoner’s Rift playing Nunu in League of Legends any time soon, there might be something you want to try on either the top or bot lane. Players over on Reddit have found out that you can actually use Nunu’s Snowball (W) and curve around the alcoves on the top and bottom of the map without the Snowball breaking or hitting what should be a wall./post/how-to-unlock-buzz-in-brawl-stars/Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-buzz-in-brawl-stars/ Buzz joined the roster of Brawl Stars alongside the latest season, Jurassic Splash, earlier today. Using his whistle, the cute dragon will wreak havoc on the battlefield. He has a chromatic rarity, however, which doesn’t make him the easiest Brawler to acquire, similar to Belle in the previous season. Run to the closest water slide because the #JurassicSplash Season is ON! 🦖☀️ pic.twitter.com/XbU2kxjDC7 — Brawl Stars (@BrawlStars) June 21, 2021 Here are his abilities and gadget:/post/houston-outlaws-sign-jecse/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/houston-outlaws-sign-jecse/ More support is heading to the Houston Outlaws. The team has added Lee “Jecse” Seong-soo for the 2020 Overwatch League season. Jecse, a former support player for the Seoul Dynasty, joins his former teammate Kim “Rapel” Jun-geun on the new Outlaws roster. Jecse was signed by the Seoul Dynasty as a main support before the second season of the Overwatch League began. He joined the team after a previously successful run as support for Element Mystic, a team in Korean Overwatch Contenders./post/how-to-catch-machop-and-evolve-it-into-machoke-machamp-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-machop-and-evolve-it-into-machoke-machamp-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon GO is a game developed by Niantic in conjunction with The Pokémon Company. This game was released in 2016 and is different compared to the mainline Pokémon games. While the older Pokémon games mostly stuck to the RPG formula with some exceptions, Pokémon GO is an augmented reality game released for the iOS and Android mobile platforms. In Pokémon GO, players utilize the GPS on their mobile devices to physically travel to locations o capture Pokémon in an AR environment./post/twitch-rivals-to-host-streamer-baking-competition-with-qtcinderella/Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-rivals-to-host-streamer-baking-competition-with-qtcinderella/ Popular Twitch streamer QTCinderella will host a new baking competition in conjunction with Twitch Rivals. The event, set to be held on May 19 at 4pm CT, will feature Twitch streamers Hasan, Myth, Cyr, and Rich Campbell. Well known for her IRL streamer collaborations, QTCinderella has conceptualized and run events such as ShitCamp, The Streamer Awards, as well as the (canceled) Girls Trip. This will be one of QTCinderella’s first Twitch-affiliated events, however, and will see two teams of four predominant Twitch streamers compete in the website’s first-ever bake-off./post/all-rivals-week-event-exclusive-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-rivals-week-event-exclusive-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Rivals’ Week is bringing out the spirit of competition in Pokémon Go players and several species of Pokémon, too.  Running from April 13 to 18, the Rivals’ week event will be the first time players can encounter and capture Skrelp and Clauncher. Other Pokémon known for their rivalries, including Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Makuhita, Meditite, Zangoose, and Seviper, are appearing more often in the wild.  Therian Forme Landorous is also going to appear in five-star Raids for the first time, with new event-exclusive research and even a Global Challenge also going live during the event./post/best-mtg-kaldheim-standard-metagame-challenge-decks/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-mtg-kaldheim-standard-metagame-challenge-decks/ The Standard Metagame Challenge event is returning to Magic: The Gathering Arena this weekend, offering loads of Kaldheim booster packs as rewards for multiple wins.  Wizards of the Coast is running the Standard Metagame Challenge via MTG Arena from Feb. 6 to 9. An entry cost of 400 gems or 2,000 gold is needed to play, offering players up to 30 Kaldheim booster packs for seven wins. Since the digital release of KHM on Jan./post/ea-introduces-totw-2-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-introduces-totw-2-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added the second Team of the Week (TOTW) to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today while the game is still in early access. Every week, EA creates a new version of players who performed well after the leagues’ fixtures or national team matches end. Next week’s TOTW will replace this one with new cards. You can acquire them through the FUT market or from FUT packs if you’re lucky enough. The best players on this TOTW are a 90-rated Karim Benzema from Real Madrid, an 86-rated Jesús Navas from Sevilla, an 86-rated Nicolò Barella from Internazionale, an 86-rated Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City, and an 84-rated Lukáš Hrádecký from Bayer Leverkusen./post/second-dnf-duel-open-beta-test-begins-on-april-1/Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/second-dnf-duel-open-beta-test-begins-on-april-1/ As many players expected, Dungeon & Fighter Duel (DNF Duel) will have a second open beta test to give players another chance to try out the game while Arc System Works gathers data to improve online functionality and netcode before the game launches in June.  The second open beta test will run from 9pm CT on April 1 to 9am CT on April 4. It will be available on both PlayStation 4 and PS5 for anyone who wants to participate, though no data will carry over to the final version of the game when it is released./post/gog-predictably-skipping-out-on-steam-deck-support/Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gog-predictably-skipping-out-on-steam-deck-support/ Valve’s Steam Deck launch library looks healthy enough unless you main GOG as your platform. CD Projekt-owned GOG informed Steam Deck users on Twitter that it will not be providing official support. The news came in a reply to YouTuber Metal Jesus Rocks who will be reviewing the Steam Deck at launch. Instead of bringing support to Valve’s new venture, GOG will be banking on the open architecture of the Steam Deck./post/gnar-transforms-in-legends-of-runeterra-with-pokey-stick-buff/Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gnar-transforms-in-legends-of-runeterra-with-pokey-stick-buff/ The final day of Legends of Runeterra spoilers for A Curious Journey added Gnar to the champion roster, reducing the cost of Pokey Stick while having the yordle potentially transform at the start of each round. Scheduled to officially release on Feb. 16, the LoR A Curious Journey expansion goes wild in the Bandle City/Freljord region via Gnar. The yordle was joined in today’s spoilers by Minitee and Megatee, another transforming follower, along with the spells Primal Strength and Wallop./post/xqc-reveals-more-subathon-details-teases-a-june-1-start-date/Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-reveals-more-subathon-details-teases-a-june-1-start-date/ XQc’s highly-anticipated subathon stream has quickly turned from fantasy to reality, and now we may have a date for when it will begin. In screenshots from discord, the Twitter account xQcUpdates shareed some of what xQc had said regarding his subathon prior to starting his stream. BREAKING: xQc has said that the subathon will start June 1st! This is not a final date so this may change. He will have alot of new equipment to help with the stream such as computers, cameras, wifi points, IRL backpacks, maybe a dog cam, cat cam, cat tree./post/pok%C3%A9mon-ocg-vmax-climax-introduces-new-holographic-style-and-return-of-god-packs/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-ocg-vmax-climax-introduces-new-holographic-style-and-return-of-god-packs/ Pokémon OCG has today released its latest set to players and collectors in Japan, and since VMAX Climax went on sale, a ton has been revealed about the contents of these packs. Thanks to a post by PokeBeach that breaks down everything collectors have learned over the past 24 hours, we now know that God Packs are back in this high-class set. God Packs are those found within boxes that contain all rare cards./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-l-a-and-s-on-them/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-l-a-and-s-on-them/ Wordle is a daily game where its players try to search for a random secret word and the only clues come from the words the players try to use first. If you’re lucky when you’re playing, your first word will have lots of green letters. But it’s rare that this happens, and you might end up needing some help if you don’t know where to go after running out of information./post/how-to-fix-high-ping-in-league-of-legends/Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-high-ping-in-league-of-legends/ Keeping track of your ping is important when playing any competitive game. High ping can sometimes mean the difference between winning and losing a game of League of Legends, causing you to miss skillshots, overstep boundaries with your opponents, or even unwillingly walk to your death in Summoner’s Rift. While the default settings in the game won’t show your ping, it’s easy to monitor it in case it wildly fluctuates, leading to lag spikes./post/a-beginner-s-guide-to-the-cs-go-economy-eco-rounds/Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-beginner-s-guide-to-the-cs-go-economy-eco-rounds/ Saving in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can be hard for players who are impulsive buyers, so it’s a really good idea to check yourself before you wreck yourself. Imagine that you just lost a costly gun round, you press tab during the next freeze time, and you notice you and your team’s money is way below the amount needed for a full buy—welcome to an eco round. An eco round is a round in which a team collectively opts to not buy expensive weaponry (AKA “save”) so that they can preserve their money for the next buy round./post/every-mechanic-in-mtg-kaldheim/Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-mechanic-in-mtg-kaldheim/ Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming set Kaldheim is one of the wordiest sets in the history of the game. Kaldheim has 14,520 words of rules text, according to Scryfall, a website with deckbuilding tools and a powerful card search engine.  Kaldheim is scheduled for digital release on Jan. 28 with a full tabletop release on Feb. 5. Magic’s new set is Viking themed and many of the new mechanics are flavorful additions and returns./post/what-time-does-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor-dlc-release/Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-time-does-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor-dlc-release/ Trainers finally have a set date for Pokémon Sword and Shield’s first Expansion Pass DLC, The Isle of Armor. But fans don’t know what time it’ll be released on June 17 yet.  Most of the time, games will release as soon as the clock strikes midnight and the date changes to the release day. But Nintendo doesn’t always follow that trend to the letter. Instead, the company is known to set its own schedule for releasing content to the eShop./post/gen-g-out-of-vct-2022-after-loss-to-built-by-gamers-academy/Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gen-g-out-of-vct-2022-after-loss-to-built-by-gamers-academy/ Gen.G is out of VALORANT Champions Tour after an upset loss to Built By Gamers Academy.  We fall 0-2 to @builtbygamers Academy, bringing our #VCT Open Qualifier 2 run to an end. Not the results we wanted, but we'll be back stronger for our next run. Thanks for all your support #TigerNation 🐯💛#GenGVAL pic.twitter.com/F2N8KjyTlI — Gen.G Esports (@GenG) May 8, 2022 Gen.G is no longer in the VCT after failing to qualify for either Challengers main events in 2022./post/the-best-lapa-loadout-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-lapa-loadout-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Call of Duty: Warzone’s latest addition to its arsenal is the LAPA submachine gun as part of Black Ops Cold War’s last hurrah during The Haunting seasonal event. The LAPA’s in-game description says it’s a full-auto SMG that’s a “lightweight prototype with reliable damage and good firing control,” offering “improved handling and range with a slower fire rate” when compared to other submachine guns in Warzone. It’s an apt description. The LAPA’s fire rate definitely hamstrings it when compared to other higher fire rate SMGs, especially in Warzone’s up-close and personal engagements./post/zofia-s-jill-valentine-skin-is-now-available-in-rainbow-six-siege/Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/zofia-s-jill-valentine-skin-is-now-available-in-rainbow-six-siege/ The first Rainbow Six Siege – Resident Evil crossover skin is now live. The Jill Valentine elite uniform will be available on Zofia, an operator tailored to entry fragging, and arguably one of R6‘s strongest characters. The skin pays homage to the S.T.A.R.S. unit of Resident Evil infamy, and includes skins for Zofia’s KS70 Lifeline grenade launcher, M762, LMG-E, and RG15 pistol. It also comes with an elite Zofia chibi charm./post/apex-legends-seemingly-increased-visibility-in-caustic-s-gas-and-bangalore-s-smoke/Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-seemingly-increased-visibility-in-caustic-s-gas-and-bangalore-s-smoke/ Respawn seemingly increased the visibility in Caustic’s gas and Bangalore’s smoke in Apex Legends’ latest patch. Comparisons show that the particle effects seem easier to see through after the Chaos Theory update—a visual change that can affect the efficiency of both legends. Players can see through both Caustic’s Nox gas and Bangalore’s smoke grenades more easily after the latest patch. The effect is noticeable even from a distance and can make the two legends easy targets for enemy fire./post/how-do-you-play-mystery-at-croft-manor-in-fortnite-creative/Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-do-you-play-mystery-at-croft-manor-in-fortnite-creative/ Fortnite isn’t afraid of partnering with companies to create new and innovative ways to enjoy its content while also promoting special announcements. Lara Croft’s mansion has made its way back into Fortnite ahead of a new game announcement shortly after the v20.10 update was released earlier today. The Mystery at Croft Manor is a puzzle level made in the game’s Creative mode by Alliance. In this new mode, players will be free to search the manor and unlock the secrets it holds within./post/mendokusaii-s-apex-legends-settings-and-keybinds/Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mendokusaii-s-apex-legends-settings-and-keybinds/ Former Overwatch League pro Lucas “Mendokusaii” Håkansson might be one of the most naturally gifted first-person shooting gamers in the world. Early in the life of just about every shooting game that has come out in the past few years, Mendo has quickly jumped to the top of the competitive ranks, and when Apex Legends came out in February 2019, it was no different. Since 2016, Mendo has racked up close to $50,000 in prizes from various tournaments across different games, but his best results have come from Apex./post/the-future-of-speed-razer-viper-8khz-review/Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-future-of-speed-razer-viper-8khz-review/ Razer has proven itself to be a forward-thinking brand several times over. The company seemingly strives to innovate and improve with each peripheral release. From the original Viper’s revolutionary weight and design to the brand’s wickedly fast optical keyboard switches, Razer has continued to experiment with its products to great success.  After a wildly successful launch in 2019, the Viper received both a wireless and miniature update. Each model in the Viper line received praise for its price and feature set./post/it-s-always-winnable-san-francisco-shock-s-nero-talks-travel-and-tribulations/Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/it-s-always-winnable-san-francisco-shock-s-nero-talks-travel-and-tribulations/ Off the high of a second championship win, the San Francisco Shock added a few new faces to round out its roster in late 2020. Charlie “nero” Zwarg, one of two new DPS additions, quickly made waves and earned himself a near-constant starting position this year among the Overwatch League team’s set of champions.  Before he became the Shock’s go-to flex DPS during the 2021 season, nero spent several years on the Guangzhou Charge, garnering attention for his constant visa issues during the COVID-19 pandemic./post/best-ice-gauntlet-build-in-new-world/Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-ice-gauntlet-build-in-new-world/ One of the most unique things about New World is its weapon mastery system that allows players to try out any or all of the game’s weapons on a single character, substituting the class-based system present in many MMO titles. Of the magical weapons in New World, the Ice Gauntlet boasts the most crowd-controlling abilities and is a great way to slow and stop offense for both PvE and PVP. With so many abilities to choose from, there are several different ways to level up this weapon to tailor your style of gameplay./post/fleeceking-becomes-first-legit-player-to-reach-level-50-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fleeceking-becomes-first-legit-player-to-reach-level-50-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ With the addition of the Go Beyond Update, Pokémon Go players have slowly been grinding their way from the previous level cap of 40 to the new goal of level 50. And just a day after some of the first players started hitting the level 48 mark, the first recorded trainer has reached level 50 in the game.  Pokémon Go enthusiast and streamer FleeceKing made history by becoming the first player in the world to hit level 50 today./post/how-to-increase-combat-level-in-runescape/Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-increase-combat-level-in-runescape/ We all want to be the strongest–and in Runescape your combat level is a huge factor in that endeavor. While Runescape lets players level a range of different skills, you’ll need a high combat level if you want to do damage. Damage can come in handy in many different situations. Whether you’re questing, dungeoning, or being attacked by another player while traveling through the Wildy, this skill can save your life and your items from being taken./post/xqc-viewers-lose-312-million-channel-points-over-demon-s-souls-bet/Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-viewers-lose-312-million-channel-points-over-demon-s-souls-bet/ Much like other Souls games, Demon’s Souls is known for its extremely difficult gameplay that will see even the best players struggle at times. Due to this, it’s been a popular choice for streamers to challenge themselves with on stream. During a recent stream, xQc encouraged his chat to predict whether he’d defeat the boss fight against Old King Allant. Most of his viewers didn’t see him doing this because it was only his third attempt, so 97 percent of xQc’s audience bet channel points against him while a mere three percent had faith he could do it./post/where-to-find-klombo-sized-snow-mounds-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2-all-locations/Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-klombo-sized-snow-mounds-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2-all-locations/ Klombos had a short stint in Fortnite during Chapter Three, season one. They were removed from the game with the start of Chapter Three, season two, a recent challenge indicated that they could be returning to the game. This challenge requires players to find three Klombo-sized snow mounds in Fortnite. Finding these snow mounds can take longer than expected if you haven’t spent too much time on the latest season’s map. You can reduce the time it takes to complete the challenge by finding out where exactly you need to go on the map, however, and here’s where to find all the Klombo-sized snow mounds in Fortnite Chapter Three, season two./post/everything-to-know-about-chaotic-chuo-the-field-boss-in-lost-ark/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-chaotic-chuo-the-field-boss-in-lost-ark/ While playing Lost Ark, the first instinct of most players will be to rush toward Field Bosses. These aren’t your ordinary monsters, however: they pack a bigger punch and are much harder to take down. Chaotic Chuo is one of the many Field Bosses you’ll fight against in Lost Ark. Chaotic Chuo is a challenging opponent capable of dealing fatal damage, but studying the encounter beforehand can give you an advantage. Before you set out to take on this Lion-like Field Boss, you should make sure you have everything you need to on your character and check your repair status./post/what-does-it-mean-to-get-ganked-in-gaming/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-it-mean-to-get-ganked-in-gaming/ When you first start playing a game, the core mechanics aren’t the only aspects you’ll need to master. Alongside grasping the basics, you’ll also need to become familiar with the commonly used terms and slang. Doing so will help you be on the same page with your teammates, especially in games with a voice chat feature. While you can get ganked in almost all multiplayer games, the term usually sees more usage in MOBA titles like League of Legends, Dota 2, and SMITE./post/who-is-a-part-of-the-dream-smp-minecraft-server-all-dream-smp-members/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-is-a-part-of-the-dream-smp-minecraft-server-all-dream-smp-members/ Depending on the game mode, Minecraft can feel like a completely different game every time you join a new server. Some servers will focus on parkour or survival, but others will have a story to tell. Formed in May 2020, Dream SMP has become the home of high-quality Minecraft content since its release. The server that started with the core members of Dream Team and a few others grew massively over the past few months./post/how-to-catch-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-shiny-hunting-guide/Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-shiny-hunting-guide/ Shiny hunting is one of the biggest post-game activities for players in every new Pokémon game, and that fact remains true in the revamped Sinnoh region featured in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.  Whether you are looking for Shinies before you even beat the game via one of the regular methods, or want to wait until you have access to the Shiny Charm and Poké Radar after you become the Champion, there are plenty of ways to start hunting./post/how-to-complete-showdown-god%C3%ADn-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-showdown-god%C3%ADn-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a 95-rated Showdown version of Diego Godín from Cagliari to FIFA 21 today. It’s obtainable through FIFA 21 Ultimate Team’s squad-building challenges (SBC) menu. EA also added a 95-rated version of Samuel Castillejo from Milan. These players will play against each other in real life on Sunday, Aug. 29. The winner will receive a +2 overall in-game upgrade. You have until that match happens to complete this SBC. EA greatly mainly increased Godín’s Pace (+35) and Dribbling (+20), but still greatly upgraded his Passing (+16), Passing (+16), Physical (+11), Shooting (+10), and Defending (+10) when compared to his 85-rated base gold card./post/detective-pikachu-2-is-still-in-the-works/Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/detective-pikachu-2-is-still-in-the-works/ Fans of 2016’s Nintendo 3DS exclusive Detective Pikachu haven’t had a lot of news recently related to the game’s announced sequel but rest assured it is still in the works, as confirmed by an employee listing on Creatures official recruitment website. On an internal page introducing one of Creatures’ developers, long-awaited confirmation that Detective Pikachu 2 is definitely still in the works can be found. “I am in charge of programming around drawing in the project related to the sequel to “Detective Pikachu”,” the page reads, as translated by Google./post/shayura-s-wrath-god-roll-and-best-perks-in-destiny-2/Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shayura-s-wrath-god-roll-and-best-perks-in-destiny-2/ Shayura’s Wrath can drop bodies both in the Crucible and throughout the rest of the Sol System. Don’t let the submachine gun fool you: It packs a punch, especially with the right perks—or the god roll. See Destiny 2 on Amazon Shayura’s Wrath is available through Trials of Osiris whenever it’s in rotation and farming for it may be a long endeavor, especially for Destiny 2 players who don’t do well in Trials./post/the-best-streamers-to-watch-for-animal-crossing-new-horizons/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-streamers-to-watch-for-animal-crossing-new-horizons/ The release of the newest Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch is only one day away. Fans waited for seven years to see Animal Crossing: New Horizons get revealed to the world. It’s one of the most anticipated titles of 2020. That’s why a great number of streamers are set to create content on the game as soon as its release on March 20, even if the majority of the content will be uploaded on YouTube, such as guides and reviews./post/splitgate-s-new-map-creator-allows-8-players-to-create-maps-at-once/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/splitgate-s-new-map-creator-allows-8-players-to-create-maps-at-once/ Splitgate’s new update drops today, bringing with it a new map creator and Beta Season One, which comes with an “array of new features, modes, and enhancements including a custom map creator,” according to 1047 Games. Details around the new features have now been released, including the fact that eight players can collaborate and work on creating a map together at the same time. New Season. New Battle Pass. New Look./post/amouranth-says-alleged-stalker-was-arrested-after-attempted-home-break-in/Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/amouranth-says-alleged-stalker-was-arrested-after-attempted-home-break-in/ Popular Twitch streamer Amouranth reported that her alleged stalker, who followed her from Estonia to Houston for over a month, has finally been arrested. Amouranth previously revealed that she had been aware of a stalker in her immediate area since early May. The man would livestream on Twitch in Amouranth’s neighborhood and obsessively search for the streamer. Posting snippets of his DMs and streams, Amouranth expressed genuine fear for her life./post/best-cards-to-pull-from-the-pok%C3%A9mon-go-tcg-special-collection/Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-cards-to-pull-from-the-pok%C3%A9mon-go-tcg-special-collection/ Pokémon Go and the Pokémon TCG are set to collide with a collaboration special set that starts releasing in waves on July 1, containing new takes on old favorites and multiple cards that weave elements of the mobile game directly into the card game.  Players will be able to pull iconic Pokémon like Pikachu and Mewtwo with art unique tying them back into Pokémon Go, along with entirely unique cards such as Radiant Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise./post/lost-ark-servers-undergo-maintenance-for-weekly-update-a-day-ahead-of-schedule/Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lost-ark-servers-undergo-maintenance-for-weekly-update-a-day-ahead-of-schedule/ As Lork Ark players continue to discover new content introduced from the last major patch, the weekly maintenance is rolling out to improve player experience and fix various bugs in the game. The most recent maintenance was launched today and will last for approximately seven hours, according to the devs. As such, it should end at 9am CT. You can verify the server status at any time on the game’s official website./post/definitely-not-the-move-cooler-master-mm731-mouse-review/Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/definitely-not-the-move-cooler-master-mm731-mouse-review/ Cooler Master has its hands in nearly every PC hardware pie imaginable, from gaming mice and keyboards to CPU coolers and GPU support brackets. One of its most surprising runaway successes of the past couple of years is its Mini-ITX MasterBox NR200 case. But with being spread so thin, it’s almost impossible to reach the same level of greatness in every field. This much is evident with Cooler Master’s newest wireless mouse, the MM731./post/twitch-donates-1-million-to-ablegamers-during-glitchcon/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-donates-1-million-to-ablegamers-during-glitchcon/ Twitch is continuing its tradition of teaming up with popular streamer Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo to make big donations to various charities. Today, the company gave $1 million to AbleGamers, an organization dedicated to improving accessibility and enabling people with disabilities in the video game space.  This was done live during the platform’s online-only GlitchCon event that replaced the usual TwitchCon, which was canceled earlier this year due to concerns surrounding COVID-19./post/mtg-arena-june-2-patch-notes-full-notes-and-updates/Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-june-2-patch-notes-full-notes-and-updates/ An update to Magic: The Gathering Arena via Patch 2022.16 marked the release of the Alchemy: New Capenna expansion, along with cosmetic and gameplay updates.  A total of 30 new digital-only cards were released via Patch 2022.16 on June 2 as the third Alchemy expansion to get added to MTG Arena since the launch of the format. Two events marked the launch of the Alchemy: New Capenna expansion, along with a code for three free booster packs./post/how-to-play-with-your-buddy-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-with-your-buddy-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Playing with your Buddy Pokémon is a feature that was added to the Buddy Update in Pokemon Go. It can reward you with specific things depending on when and how you use it. First, you need to open the Buddy Menu on your phone and click the big play button under your current Buddy Pokémon. This will activate the game’s camera. From there, throw your Pokémon onto an open stretch of land and it’ll appear in the AR function./post/how-to-complete-future-stars-tanganga-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-future-stars-tanganga-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ Two 88-rated Future Stars versions of Japhet Tanganga from Tottenham Hotspur joined FIFA 22 on Feb. 12. You can get this item through the squad-building challenge (SBC) in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. Future Stars players are young talents who have shown great promise to potentially change the soccer world in the future. The selected players receive a permanent upgrade and, in Tanganga’s case, fans can choose between a left-back (LB) or a right-back (RB) version./post/lcs-adds-grubhub-as-official-food-delivery-partner/Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lcs-adds-grubhub-as-official-food-delivery-partner/ The League of Legends Championship Series is coming into 2021 with a new sponsor to go along with its new branding.  The LCS announced today it has added GrubHub as its official food delivery partner. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Activation of the deal is coming swift with the LCS season that starts its first Lock In tournament tomorrow. The LCS and GrubHub will have “co-branded inclusions and activations” across the league’s different channels during the event./post/lor-spoilers-showcase-demacia-region-cards-potentially-supporting-galio/Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lor-spoilers-showcase-demacia-region-cards-potentially-supporting-galio/ A total of six Legends of Runeterra cards within the Demacia region are joining the digital card game with the release of A Curious Journey, potentially confirming Galio as the next champion. The next round of A Curious Journey spoilers showcased the Demacia region and a new keyword called Formidable. Units that have the new LoR keyword strike with their health instead of power upon attacking. No spells have been revealed with the Formidable keyword yet, but it’s possible that tomorrow’s A Curious Journey’s spoilers will contain spells./post/pubg-mobile-version-1-8-introduces-new-map-called-aftermath/Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-mobile-version-1-8-introduces-new-map-called-aftermath/ PUBG Mobile’s update 1.8 is here, introducing a new map to the battle royale. The new map carries on Tencent’s recent ambitions to make the game more futuristic. The new map, Aftermath, is a revamped version of the once picturesque Livik. Bombs and volcanic eruptions have completely transformed the map to give it rough terrain. Set in the future, all weapons have been fitted with a new technology called AC Core Module./post/how-to-connect-discord-to-your-playstation-network-account/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-connect-discord-to-your-playstation-network-account/ Discord is easily one of the best ways to communicate with friends while gaming, but it wasn’t always the easiest to use while gaming on PlayStation consoles. In May 2021, Discord and Sony announced a new partnership that is just now bearing fruit. Discord and Sony are changing the game by slowly rolling out the ability to link your PlayStation Network account to your Discord account. Both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 players can link their accounts to Discord./post/when-will-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-08-be-released/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-08-be-released/ While many players are still busy completing the content that was released alongside Endwalker in Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix is working to bring more content and changes to keep the game fresh. The next update, Patch 6.08, is going to bring some adjustments and minor changes to improve the game experience. This patch will mainly focus on “job tuning,” according to game director and producer Naoki Yoshida in an interview with Radio Mog Station./post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-in-lost-ark-s-sapira-cave-dungeon/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-in-lost-ark-s-sapira-cave-dungeon/ Dungeons are a crucial part of Lost Ark’s content to test out following its release in the West on Feb. 11. You’ll likely need to complete them several times because there are many hidden things to get, in addition to the usual enemies and bosses waiting to be slain. The Mokoko seeds are among the items included in most of these dungeons. The Sapira Cave will be one of the first dungeons you’ll encounter, so you might have missed those on your first run./post/how-much-does-it-cost-to-boost-a-twitch-stream/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-does-it-cost-to-boost-a-twitch-stream/ Twitch’s Boost this Stream feature allows viewers to pay to increase their streamer’s potential exposure on Twitch’s homepage. Announced in late September 2021, this upcoming feature has had little in the way of public testing during its months-long development stage. The feature has also been met with a harsh reception from viewers and streamers alike. Criticism for the Boost this Stream includes claims that it cultivates a pay-to-win environment on the platform./post/best-holiday-gifts-for-overwatch-fans/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-holiday-gifts-for-overwatch-fans/ As the holiday season approaches, gift shopping surges. If you have an Overwatch fan on your list, we have some options for you. Overwatch has 32 playable characters spread across three different roles. In the game’s community, there are “mains” who devote more of their playtime to a specific hero whose playstyle they resonate with the most. Someone that plays a lot of Mercy, for example, would be a Mercy main./post/the-best-overwatch-pick-up-lines/Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-overwatch-pick-up-lines/ As Valentine’s Day threatens to sneak up on gamers everywhere, love connections are at the forefront of most people’s minds.  The best pick-up line is always a simple hello, but some fans might be looking for quips that are a little more relevant to their gameplay. Whether you’re looking to impress a possible duo partner or gently annoy your entire team, this comprehensive list of terrible Overwatch pick-up lines should do the trick./post/fortnite-best-friendzy-start-and-end-dates/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-best-friendzy-start-and-end-dates/ Epic Games unveiled a new two-week Fortnite event today that’s all about playing with your besties. The Best Friendzy event allows players to earn special rewards, including an Aquari-axe pickaxe, simply by playing with someone on your Fortnite friends list. You earn points for every 10 minutes you play with friends, and there’s a three-times multiplier during a specific “daily bonus” time period. Players can get started on their friendship adventure by registering on the Best Friendzy website./post/pok%C3%A9mon-created-an-8-minute-video-with-bidoof-as-the-main-star/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-created-an-8-minute-video-with-bidoof-as-the-main-star/ The Pokémon Company recently released “Bidoof’s Big Stand,” a heartful animation centered around a Bidoof’s journey to find its place in the world—and it’s a must-watch for any Pokémon fan. Anyone who’s played through the Sinnoh region at one point has owned a Bidoof, an early-game Pokémon throughout the Sinnoh region games. Usually not considered a great Pokémon in battle, Bidoof has become synonymously known as the Sinnoh region’s “HM slave,” a term used to describe a Pokémon who can use a wide range of HM moves./post/where-is-commander-o-neil-located-in-elden-ring/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-is-commander-o-neil-located-in-elden-ring/ Most Elden Ring players prefer to spend as little time in the hellscape that is Caelid as possible, but there are some optional bosses in the zone for those looking for a challenge. Commander O’Neil is one such boss, and defeating him will reward you with a unique halberd as well as some Runes for your troubles. Commander O’Neil can be a bit tricky to find, so here’s everything you need to know about his location and how to beat him./post/green-receives-versatile-removal-on-boseiju-who-endures-in-mtg/Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/green-receives-versatile-removal-on-boseiju-who-endures-in-mtg/ Legendary lands are sparingly used in Magic: The Gathering because of the design issues it presents. When Kaldheim was released in 2021, much was made about The World Tree not being legendary. Senior designer Gavin Verhey commented on why The World Tree was not legendary, explaining the issue with legendary lands is that you can only control one of them at a time because of the legend rule. This makes extra copies dead in hand and discourages running more than one copy in a deck./post/renekton-has-a-100-percent-ban-rate-in-the-lck-this-split/Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/renekton-has-a-100-percent-ban-rate-in-the-lck-this-split/ A total of 31 games have already been played since the 2022 LCK Spring Split started earlier this month—and there’s one champion that hasn’t missed a draft. Renekton, one of the best top lane champions in the game at the moment, is highly valued by teams in South Korea. TODAY'S #LCK MATCH SCHEDULE Join us in just one hour as these teams face off: 1️⃣ @DRXGlobal vs @T1LoL 2️⃣ @Brionesports vs @GenG 📺https://t./post/best-tft-11-19-comps-to-rank-up-the-ladder/Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-tft-11-19-comps-to-rank-up-the-ladder/ The Teamfight Tactics Worlds patch 11.19 has opened the door for a couple more comps within the meta. Players seeking to rank up the ladder have a wide variety of TFT comps to choose from following the release of Patch 11.19. With Set Six launching in early November, players have time to take advantage of comps like Rangers, Kayle, Draven, and Abomination. According to TFT tacticians Bunny Muffins and Wrainbash, there are six Worlds comps worth playing during the final days of the Set 5./post/progress-guild-clears-all-3-phase-one-wow-the-burning-crusade-raids-a-day-after-launch/Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/progress-guild-clears-all-3-phase-one-wow-the-burning-crusade-raids-a-day-after-launch/ Shortly after being the first five-man group to reach level 70 in WoW: The Burning Crusade Classic, the Progress guild moved onto raids. A guild member streamed their entire run on his Twitch channel, where the community could see all the decision-making from the Progress guild to ensure that they’d be the first to clear the raids. The veteran players made quick work out of the available Phase One raids in TBC Classic and overcame another popular guild, APES, who were the first to clear the Molten Core in Classic./post/all-gemstones-in-new-world-how-to-find-and-use-them/Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-gemstones-in-new-world-how-to-find-and-use-them/ Affixing gems and jewels to armor and weapons has become a staple of many MMOs and RPGs—and the latest MMORPG from Amazon, New World, is no exception. Certain pieces of armor, weapons, and trinkets that are Uncommon quality or higher and have Empty Gem Sockets can be fit with Cut Gemstones. These Cut Gemstones can provide various buffs, including increased damage, extra protection, and threat reduction/increases. Finding Raw Gemstones Finding Raw Gemstones in New World takes just a little effort and a bit of luck./post/how-to-craft-recurrent-impact-in-destiny-2/Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-craft-recurrent-impact-in-destiny-2/ Apparently, the Cabal really like machine guns. Players could already obtain Heir Apparent in the Guardian Games, but Season of the Risen added two more Cabal machine guns to the pool: the Grand Overture Exotic and the Recurrent Impact as a Legendary. See Destiny 2 on Amazon Recurrent Impact is a craftable weapon, meaning players can unlock its Pattern and head to the Enclave to craft a copy of it for their own./post/maciejay-s-rainbow-six-siege-streaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/maciejay-s-rainbow-six-siege-streaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/ MacieJay is an American Rainbow Six: Siege streamer. He has a massive 1.45 million Youtube subscribers and over one million Twitch followers. Before becoming a full-time gamer, MacieJay studied at college and supplemented his income by working in a store. He started playing Rainbow Six in late 2015 to pass the time after breaking his leg in a skateboarding accident. By early 2016 started uploading content to Twitch and quickly gained a considerable following due to his gameplay and persona./post/the-best-ak-74u-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-s-alpha/Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-ak-74u-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-s-alpha/ A classic Call of Duty weapon returns in Black Ops Cold War, and it’s easily one of the most formidable weapons in the game. The AK-74u is a compact version of the AK-47, but it packs a punch. It was dominant in 2010’s CoD: Black Ops, and in the direct sequel to that game, it might be just as good. In the early days of Black Ops Cold War, the AK-74u is one of the best weapons in the game./post/what-is-the-difference-between-ansi-and-iso-keyboards/Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-the-difference-between-ansi-and-iso-keyboards/ Whether you are trying to find the most comfortable keyboard for work or trying to gain a competitive advantage while gaming, a keyboard layout is as important as the keyboard itself. With so many types of keyboards available today, you will likely come across both ANSI and ISO keyboards. These are two of the most popular keyboard layout types. But what is the difference between ANSI and ISO keyboards? ANSI and ISO keyboards are similar in many ways; however, they have a few key differences in the layout and size of the Enter, backslash, left Shift, and right Alt keys./post/best-ahri-skins-in-league-of-legends/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-ahri-skins-in-league-of-legends/ Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox, is one of the most popular mid lane champions in League of Legends. She offers players a unique playstyle as an assassin who quickly closes gaps and lures her opponents in with her charm to inflict damage. While the champion is extremely powerful, she is also popular due to the variety of impressive skins in her collection. There is a number of different cosmetics available for the champion, highlighting many different styles and looks./post/new-status-effects-and-weather-conditions-leaked-for-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-status-effects-and-weather-conditions-leaked-for-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ The upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus game is introducing many new mechanics to the series, some of which were recently revealed through leaks. Among these leaked features are new status conditions and weather effects, possibly changing the trajectory of the series into the future. Various leaks from Twitter accounts such as @CentroLeaks revealed multiple new status effects and weather conditions debuting in Legends: Arceus. Like previous titles in the series, these impact how a Pokémon performs in battle and are normally triggered through the use of various moves./post/riot-acknowledges-jett-bugs-but-explains-a-fix-might-not-be-released-until-valorant-patch-3-09/Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-acknowledges-jett-bugs-but-explains-a-fix-might-not-be-released-until-valorant-patch-3-09/ Riot Games has publicly acknowledged the Jett bugs introduced in VALORANT Patch 3.08. But since they aren’t severely impacting gameplay, according to Riot, a fix might not come until Patch 3.09.  Patch 3.08 was released yesterday, adding a few exciting options like being able to equip any skin level of the default version of a skin, notifications when Riot takes action against a player you reported, and several bug fixes. But players quickly noticed multiple changes to Jett’s abilities, slightly nerfing the agent./post/how-to-use-sprays-in-valorant/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-use-sprays-in-valorant/ Like many first-person shooters before it, VALORANT is a friend of street art. Players can adorn the walls of VALORANT with various sprays, taunting enemies and showcasing some cool, champion-specific graffiti. The concept isn’t exactly revolutionary since games like Overwatch and CS:GO use the feature as well. But Riot still managed to incorporate its own twist on the mechanic for maximum level BM. Here’s how to use sprays in Riot’s tactical FPS./post/cod-mobile-players-unhappy-about-upcoming-movement-nerf/Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cod-mobile-players-unhappy-about-upcoming-movement-nerf/ A new public test build for Call of Duty: Mobile was released last week, containing a lot of new features coming to the game in future seasons. But a player movement nerf that’s removed the ability to ADS while sliding is facing backlash from the community. Call of Duty: Mobile players could previously open their scope while sliding to take down enemies and make it harder for an opponent to fire back./post/best-pistols-in-pubg/Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-pistols-in-pubg/ Among the extensive weapon variety in PUBG, few players prioritize Pistols over firearms like Assault Rifles, DMRs, and Sniper Rifles. That’s not to say Pistols are bad in PUBG—they’re just more of an afterthought. Still, side-arms can be the difference-maker out on the Battlegrounds, and it’s important to recognize which pistols to favor. Pistols make for a ton of fun in PUBG, especially during close-quarter combat. Attachments like the Suppressor can encourage stealth-like playstyle, while the Extended Magazine can turn the Deagle into a miniature DMR./post/how-to-earn-twitch-drops-from-watching-the-algs-stockholm-lan/Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-earn-twitch-drops-from-watching-the-algs-stockholm-lan/ The $1 million prize pool ALGS Stockholm LAN starts Friday, April 29, and viewers can earn rewards for watching the action on Twitch with in-game cosmetics when they tune into the finals on Sunday, May 1. The finals of the largest tournament in Apex Legends esports to date will be broadcast on Twitch on the official Apex account starting at 9am CT on May 1. This weekend #ALGS history will be made./post/the-story-behind-the-incredible-imaqtpie-mural-in-los-angeles/Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-story-behind-the-incredible-imaqtpie-mural-in-los-angeles/ Riot Games is taking big steps towards improving how it interacts with League of Legends fans. The developer released anime-style videos over the past couple of months dedicated to actual players, and it also created the League Partner Program to boost up video content creators. Last month in Oakland, California, the project continued with a streamer showmatch at the NA LCS finals featuring the most popular League streamers in the community./post/aceu-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-and-more/Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/aceu-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-and-more/ If you want to stream like a VALORANT pro, it’s a good idea to check out how Aceu sets up his gaming station.  With nearly 900 hours of airtime on Twitch playing VALORANT in the past year and more than 400 playing Apex Legends, it’s safe to say that he knows how to play shooters, whether they’re tactical or battle royale. In the past year, Aceu’s channel has averaged more than 8,000 concurrent viewers, and the figures have continued to grow./post/evil-geniuses-will-start-contractz-for-match-against-tsm-svenskeren-remains-team-s-starting-jungler/Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/evil-geniuses-will-start-contractz-for-match-against-tsm-svenskeren-remains-team-s-starting-jungler/ LCS fans might be reeling after the plethora of roster changes that have occurred across the league, but here’s another, courtesy of Evil Geniuses. EG announced today plans to move Academy jungler Contractz into the starting lineup for their match on Saturday against TSM. This time, however, this switch doesn’t seem to be cause for alarm—EG’s head coach Peter Dun said that the coaching staff wants to give Contractz a shot on the main stage after performing so well in the 2021 Proving Grounds, as well as putting up some impressive games in the Academy scene./post/pair-of-green-cards-support-dragons-in-mtg-commander-legends-battle-for-baldur-s-gate/Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pair-of-green-cards-support-dragons-in-mtg-commander-legends-battle-for-baldur-s-gate/ It only makes sense that the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons crossover set, Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate, will have plenty of cards that further strengthen the archetype. Over the course of Battle for Baldur’s Gate preview season, a cycle of Mythic Rare dice rolling Dragon Creatures was revealed. Each Creature triggers a dice rolling triggered ability when it deals combat damage to a player. These effects range from drawing cards to creating treasure tokens./post/how-to-survive-an-invasion-in-elden-ring/Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-survive-an-invasion-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring has finally launched and given fans a chance to explore its breathtaking open world and defeat terrifying monsters. But some players have decided to hone their skills in multiplayer. These activities range from battling enemies with friends to invading other players, and have been a staple of Dark Souls games since the beginning. Elden Ring features both co-op multiplayer and competitive multiplayer, but for this guide, we’ll be focusing on the competitive side of the online modes./post/how-to-unlock-iv-judge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-iv-judge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ If you’re getting into competitive battling in Pokémon Sword and Shield, one of the main features you’ll need to unlock is the ability to look at your Pokémon’s IVs. This is done through the IV Judge, an unlockable feature in the PC Box that tells you if the IVs for your Pokémon are good, great, or perfect. This IV Judge can be unlocked during the late-game segments of Pokémon Sword and Shield./post/regional-price-changes-hitting-valorant-starting-in-september/Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/regional-price-changes-hitting-valorant-starting-in-september/ Riot Games is making changes to its VALORANT regional pricing. The company outlined its plans today to raise costs in nine countries while cutting them in one. Due to “currency fluctuations, taxation, and regional discrepancies,” Riot has decided to evaluate its global pricing and make specific adjustments starting Sept. 8. To compensate for the price hike, the company will double the bonus currency offered to players who purchase VP bundles for a limited time only./post/riot-introduces-new-tank-item-anathema-s-chains-to-league-pbe/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-introduces-new-tank-item-anathema-s-chains-to-league-pbe/ Riot Games has introduced another new item to the League of Legends PBE, a tank item named Anathema’s Chains. The item was teased several weeks ago when Riot previewed some of the new items it was working on for upcoming patches.  The item gives a whopping 650 health in addition to 20 ability haste. And while the stats are solid enough on their own, the passive effect of Anathema’s Chains really steals all the glory./post/best-screen-protectors-for-iphone-13/Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-screen-protectors-for-iphone-13/ Apple’s newly-released iPhone 13 range has one of the toughest screens of any phone on the market. It uses Corning’s Ceramic Shield material and is stronger than the company’s famed Gorilla Glass. While the screen is sturdy and somewhat resistant to scratches, it can easily crack if the iPhone 13 drops. Screen protectors can protect the iPhone from damage and save users from high repair costs. They are also inexpensive, especially when compared to the price of the iPhone./post/g2-jungler-jankos-receives-24-hour-ban-on-twitch/Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/g2-jungler-jankos-receives-24-hour-ban-on-twitch/ G2 Esports’ jungler Jankos was hit with a 24-hour ban from streaming on Twitch earlier today. The League of Legends veteran confirmed the news on Twitter and told his followers that he’d “be back on Thursday.”  The reason for Jankos’ ban is unknown at this time. And judging from his mildly vague confirmation statement, it looks like a detailed explanation won’t be given.  Banned for 24h. I'll be back on Thursday 🥲 Reformed of course https://t./post/niantic-officially-details-pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league-season-8-stardust-reward-changes/Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/niantic-officially-details-pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league-season-8-stardust-reward-changes/ Niantic has detailed the updated Stardust rewards for the Pokémon Go Battle League, which was put into effect due to the community speaking out about a change made at the start of season eight.  At the end of GBL Season Seven, Niantic reduced the Stardust rewards for GBL by roughly 50 percent per set of battles, which the community was quick to point out.  Really interesting post on Reddit today, set Stardust nerfed in #GBL with no announcement?/post/how-to-get-gigantamax-cinderace-inteleon-and-rillaboom-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor-expansion/Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-gigantamax-cinderace-inteleon-and-rillaboom-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor-expansion/ One of the most compelling features in Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Isle of Armor expansion is the inclusion of Gigantamax forms for all three of the Galar region’s starter Pokémon.  It was odd that the trio didn’t have these forms included in the base game, but they’re finally here and ready for players to bust out in battle against some of the toughest opponents on the Isle of Armor.  You won’t be able to unlock these Gigantamax forms right away, but it won’t take you too long to get your starter into fighting shape./post/how-to-half-flip-in-rocket-league/Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-half-flip-in-rocket-league/ Rocket League, at its core, can be boiled down to a simple game of car soccer. With its free-to-play accessibility growing the game’s popularity, and its prominent rise in esports viewership, many are beginning to realize just how technical this game actually is. While watching the best of the best pull-off ceiling double-taps and flip resets to score on other professional players, non-professional players can get a sense of what it really takes to be at the top./post/riot-introduces-remake-feature-for-ranked-valorant-matches/Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-introduces-remake-feature-for-ranked-valorant-matches/ In a similar fashion to the feature that was introduced to League of Legends in 2016, Riot has given players the ability to completely remake games in another title, VALORANT.  Coming in Patch 1.07, competitive games of VALORANT that begin with lopsided teams (four-vs-five) will prompt players with “the option to end the game they’re in and queue for a new one.” Beyond that point, if a player disconnects at the start of a match or at any point during the first round, the team at a player disadvantage will be given a chance to remake the game and start completely by typing “/remake” in chat./post/dr-disrespect-says-youtube-is-nowhere-close-to-twitch-from-a-functional-standpoint/Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/dr-disrespect-says-youtube-is-nowhere-close-to-twitch-from-a-functional-standpoint/ With two of the biggest streaming stars, DrLupo and TimTheTatman, leaving Twitch over the past few days to sign an exclusive deal with YouTube Gaming, people have started to wonder which platform is better to stream on nowadays. Plenty of streamers wouldn’t be comfortable with answering this type of question since it could lead to them burning bridges with a platform, but Dr Disrespect isn’t one of them. The Two-Time was permanently banned from Twitch in June 2020 and started streaming on YouTube Gaming in August./post/how-to-flick-in-rocket-league/Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-flick-in-rocket-league/ The flick is one of the most important skills for mid to upper level Rocket League players, especially when competing in the one-vs-one playlist. This offensive technique is used to throw the ball off the top of your car by using various types of dodges. It is useful for juking opponents, setting up passes, and of course, shooting on goal. Those who master the flick are fearsome foes in this game, so many aspire to learn this technique./post/who-won-destiny-2-s-vault-of-glass-world-first-race/Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-won-destiny-2-s-vault-of-glass-world-first-race/ Destiny 2’s Vault of Glass raid launched on live servers yesterday, with teams competing in a worldwide race to finish the new raid as quickly as possible. Just one hour and 43 minutes after the launch of the raid, a clan by the name of Elysium became the first group to fully clear the Vault of Glass.  The team featured Destiny 2 streamer Saltagreppo, as well as several other players including Cruz, Kyros, Moople, Quazz, and Slap./post/super-smash-bros-ultimate-4-0-update-full-patch-notes/Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/super-smash-bros-ultimate-4-0-update-full-patch-notes/ The full version 4.0 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate patch notes have finally been released, giving fans a look into what has changed about their favorite characters. With the patch, The Hero from DragonQuest also becomes available worldwide and brings with him a host of spirits to unlock on the Spirit Board. To bring you up to speed, here are the full patch notes from the folks over at Nintendo, as well as everything new that has been added to the game and the various buffs and nerfs for each character./post/where-can-you-buy-flower-seeds-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-can-you-buy-flower-seeds-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Battling bosses and other players can make up the core gameplay experience in Final Fantasy XIV, but the roleplaying title has a lot more to offer. Players will have the option to grow their garden in FFXIV, and you’ll need to obtain flower seeds before you can start planting. You’ll also need planters and, if you have everything set, here’s where you can find all flower seeds in FFXIV. FlowerNPCCoordinatesApartmentsApartment Merchant–EmpyreumMaterial Supplier(X10./post/how-to-play-prison-breakout-in-fortnite/Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-prison-breakout-in-fortnite/ Regular Fortnite matches are fun, but they may start to get stale if you’ve been playing the game for a long time. There’s always something new to try in Fortnite, however. And with the Creative mode, you’ll hardly be likely to run out of new game modes to try out. Prison Breakout is one of the most fun game modes in Creative. If you’re a fan of the TV show Prison Break and were wondering if you could pull off similar escapes, this mode gives you the chance to find out./post/qu%C3%A9-significa-nt-en-valorant/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/qu%C3%A9-significa-nt-en-valorant/ Todos lo hemos visto aparecer en el chat de la partida una vez acaba una ronda de VALORANT. Mientras «gg» está reservado para el final del partido, normalmente entre las rondas puedes ver un chat lleno de toxicidad, rabia, bromas o memes. Pero también hay algunas menciones de una abreviación llamada «nt». El léxico gamer cuenta con muchas abreviaciones que normalmente pueden ser difíciles de entender. Algunas nacen naturalmente a lo largo del tiempo y se convierten en parte de nuestro vocabulario común./post/chicago-s-united-center-confirmed-as-venue-for-2022-lcs-summer-split-finals/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/chicago-s-united-center-confirmed-as-venue-for-2022-lcs-summer-split-finals/ A venue for the 2022 LCS Summer Split finals has been revealed by the league. The grand finals of the Summer Split will be played at Chicago’s United Center, Riot Games announced today. The LCS Summer Finals will take place on Sept. 10 and 11, with tickets going on sale later this month. The league confirmed that the finals will take place in Chicago following the release of a promotional video that teased the arena as a potential venue for the event./post/mibr-replaces-wood7-with-brnz4n-on-cs-go-roster/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mibr-replaces-wood7-with-brnz4n-on-cs-go-roster/ Brazilian CS:GO team MIBR has benched the in-game leader and AWPer Adriano “WOOD7” Cerato and promoted the academy rifler Breno “brnz4n” Poletto for the vacant spot, according to a report from HLTV’s Brazilian vertical Dust2 Brasil. This roster change comes less than a week after MIBR were eliminated from the PGL Antwerp Major at the hands of Bad News Eagles in the 2-2 pool of the Challengers Stage. Sources have told Dust2 Brasil that brnz4n already left Brazil for Germany, where MIBR are training to play at the Pinnacle Cup Championship and ESL Pro League Conference season 16./post/otk-games-expo-2022-all-games-and-viewer-prize-winners/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/otk-games-expo-2022-all-games-and-viewer-prize-winners/ Esports organization and streaming collective OTK recently produced their inaugural gaming exposition, OTK Games Expo 2022. Hosted by popular streamers Asmongold, Rich Campbell, Nmplol, and more, the entire organization showed out to debut their newly acquired WePlay Esports studio. The OTK Games Expo featured thirty indie game development studios showcasing or debuting their projects on the WePlay stage. Boasting $50,000 in cash contributions, the OTK Games Expo allowed viewers to directly vote for potential prize winners./post/psg-talon-have-the-longest-active-win-streak-in-league-esports-at-11/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/psg-talon-have-the-longest-active-win-streak-in-league-esports-at-11/ The 2021 Summer Split has been rough for many MSI representatives across the world, with multiple defending champions failing to find the same level of success that they saw in the previous season. For PSG Talon, however, the PCS’ current champions have continued to destroy the competition with an 11-game winning streak through their first three weeks of play. That gives them the longest active win streak in League of Legends esports./post/all-skins-coming-in-league-of-legends-patch-12-8/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-skins-coming-in-league-of-legends-patch-12-8/ League of Legends Patch 12.8 is expected to hit the live servers on Wednesday, April 27, and players are naturally on the lookout for new things coming to the game. Many changes are soon hitting the live servers, including buffs to champions like Jhin, Kassadin, Fiddlesticks, and many more. At the same time, a few champs will be getting slammed by the nerf hammer, including Soraka and Xayah. Some champion adjustments, specifically for AP Kai’Sa and Swain, will also be heading to the game./post/amouranth-makes-ludicrous-trade-offer-for-justaminx-s-boxing-gloves-and-jill-strap-from-creator-clash/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/amouranth-makes-ludicrous-trade-offer-for-justaminx-s-boxing-gloves-and-jill-strap-from-creator-clash/ Popular Twitch hot tub streamer Amouranth made a public offer for JustaMinx’s boxing gloves and jill strap used during her recent Creator Clash bout. In return for the boxing equipment, Amouranth requested to trade several of her notorious fart jars. During the recent influencer boxing event Creator Clash, JustaMinx flaunted her boxing prowess and emerged as one of the most impressive fighters of the night. Winning her match against TikTok star Yodeling Haley, Minx won her first boxing match by TKO in front of the sold-out Tampa Bay audience of over 10,000 people./post/all-final-starter-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-final-starter-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ With every new region in the Pokémon world comes a new set of starter Pokémon and Hisui is no different. Pokémon Legends: Arceus brings players to the ancient Hisui region which would one day become Sinnoh. Given this familiarity, the three starter Pokémon are species that have been available in other games. Cyndaquil, Rowlet, and Oshawott all appeared before Legends: Arceus, but now there is more to these creatures. As they evolve the evolution path takes a turn ushering in new Hisui forms for each of their final evolutions, Typhlosion, Decidueye, and Samurott./post/here-are-the-valorant-patch-3-09-notes/Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-valorant-patch-3-09-notes/ VALORANT Patch 3.09 is introducing two major changes to the game in the form of a long-awaited nerf to the right-click alt-fire of the Classic pistol and a handful of alterations to the new Fracture map. The change to the right-click alt-fire of the Classic pistol is by far the most significant. The alt-fire has long been considered overpowered by many pros and content creators, especially for a weapon that costs zero credits./post/what-time-does-minecraft-championships-mcc-18-start/Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-time-does-minecraft-championships-mcc-18-start/ Noxcrew’s Minecraft Championship (MCC) doesn’t have a fixed schedule, but it’s grown into a monthly tradition for the fans. The event’s dates usually depend on the availability of all the invited content creators and finding a date that works for all of them can be difficult at times. While there are new additions to the event in each iteration, MCC has a decent cast of returning content creators for each event. One could expect the event to be repetitive with the same players, but Noxcrew fixes that problem by shuffling the teams from scratch./post/cloud9-defeat-100-thieves-in-na-vct-2022-main-event-opening-match/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-defeat-100-thieves-in-na-vct-2022-main-event-opening-match/ In the first match of the NA VCT Challengers One main event, Cloud9 walked away with a 2-0 victory over 100 Thieves.  The first game of the series took place on Split, and C9 dominated 100T in the first half. 100 Thieves won round three but didn’t win another round until round 11. They won the last two rounds of the half to finish with a 3-9 scoreline and performed much better on defense./post/respawn-s-weekend-check-in-addresses-exp-invitational-dev-tracker-and-more/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-s-weekend-check-in-addresses-exp-invitational-dev-tracker-and-more/ Respawn Entertainment checked in today with the community regarding the EXP Invitational, updates to the dev tracker, and an error that’s been affecting PC users. Respawn’s community manager, Jayfresh, discussed it all in a Reddit post. Apex Competitive Events Today marked the beginning of the Apex Legends EXP Invitational, which is taking place at the X Games in Minneapolis. The tournament features 20 professional teams competing for a $150,000 prize pool./post/nunu-falls-in-a-one-vs-one-duel-against-volibear-but-gets-avenged-by-a-cannon-minion/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nunu-falls-in-a-one-vs-one-duel-against-volibear-but-gets-avenged-by-a-cannon-minion/ When you think of minions in League of Legends, what usually comes to mind are small creatures that aren’t dangerous and are just a source of gold. And that is true most of the time, especially as the game goes on: The stronger your champion gets, the less of a danger minions are to you. But from time to time, minions can be great allies. While this might be hard to believe for some, a recent post on Reddit showed that they can aid you in a time of great need./post/pubg-new-state-mobile-reveals-upcoming-collaboration-with-among-us/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-new-state-mobile-reveals-upcoming-collaboration-with-among-us/ While PUBG New State Mobile’s second season is still ongoing, players can expect a new event to be introduced soon thanks to a collaboration with Innerloth’s party game Among Us. The crossover event will kick off on April 21 and will last until May 19. Players will be able to earn themed rewards for special missions, such as icons, titles, and frames. Related: All PUBG New State season start and end dates/post/team-liquid-expands-its-ownership-group-with-investments-from-hungrybox-elige-and-more/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-liquid-expands-its-ownership-group-with-investments-from-hungrybox-elige-and-more/ Team Liquid has selected five players or content creators close to the organization and invited them to directly invest in the company by buying shares with their own capital. These new co-owners include Super Smash Bros. legend Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma and professional Counter-Strike player Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski, both players who have been with Liquid since 2015. WNBA star Aerial Powers, professional poker player and streamer Alexander “Lex” Veldhuis, and actor Asa Butterfield are also among the investors./post/what-you-need-to-survive-in-cod-black-ops-4-zombies-map-ix/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-you-need-to-survive-in-cod-black-ops-4-zombies-map-ix/ If you’re looking for a Call of Duty Zombies experience that has a variety of boss zombies, a new wonder weapon, and other unique features, IX might be the perfect map for you. IX is one of the new Zombies maps available in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 at launch—and it’s a lot of fun. It might not be as difficult as Blood of the Dead, but IX definitely features its own set of unique challenges for zombie slayers to conquer./post/funplus-phoenix-benches-nuguri-temporarily-promotes-xiaolaohu-to-main-lpl-roster/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/funplus-phoenix-benches-nuguri-temporarily-promotes-xiaolaohu-to-main-lpl-roster/ FunPlus Phoenix has benched 2020 League of Legends world champion Nuguri, according to a translation of the org’s latest Weibo post by well-known LPL journalist Ran. In his place, FPX will “temporarily promote” FPX Blaze top laner Ping “xiaolaohu” Xiao-Hu to the org’s starting LPL lineup. The 18-year-old top laner has played well this year in the LDL alongside his team, finishing the 2021 Spring Split with 21 wins and four losses. Even though his team lost in the finals of the playoffs against Young Miracles, xiaolaohu had a strong performance./post/hearthstone-s-patch-19-4-full-notes-and-updates/Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-s-patch-19-4-full-notes-and-updates/ With the new mid-set for The Madness at the Darkmoon Faire expansion on the horizon, Hearthstone received its corresponding patch notes for the 19.4 update ahead of time today. The Darkmoon Races mini-set is coming on Jan. 21, the same day as Patch 19.4. Aside from the 35 new cards being added to Constructed Ladder, there are multiple updates to both the Battlegrounds and Duels mode. Related: Every Hearthstone card coming in The Darkmoon Races mid-set expansion/post/all-invocation-spells-in-mtg-s-kamigawa-neon-dynasty/Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-invocation-spells-in-mtg-s-kamigawa-neon-dynasty/ Playing a spell in Magic: The Gathering that requires four of a specific color of mana can sometimes be difficult to justify, but there’s a cycle of rare spells in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty that may be worth the dedication to one color. Depending on what type of deck you’re playing, these five mono-colored sorcery spells with “Invoke” in their name could be a powerful tool. But it’ll be difficult to play them in many multi-color decks because they all require intensive amounts of one color./post/asmongold-breaks-personal-viewership-record-for-second-time-in-less-than-a-week/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-breaks-personal-viewership-record-for-second-time-in-less-than-a-week/ Popular Twitch streamer Asmongold reached over 367,000 viewers on a Feb. 11 stream, beating his previous concurrent viewership record set only three days ago. After a nearly four-month hiatus from his main stream, the MMO veteran has returned with several Lost Ark streams driving in unprecedented viewership. In his initial return from his secondary stream, Zackrawr, Asmongold was met with over 285,000 viewers. During his nine-hour stream, Asmongold held an average of 194,000 viewers and accumulated over 1./post/shroud-streaming-is-not-f-g-work-it-s-a-god-damn-joke/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-streaming-is-not-f-g-work-it-s-a-god-damn-joke/ While watching VALORANT Champions Berlin today, popular streamer and former CS:GO pro Shroud was asked by several viewers if he would ever consider returning to professional play through either a coaching or player position. Quickly denying any possibility of making a comeback to the esports scene, Shroud elaborated on his answer. “You guys got to realize, I don’t like work. That’s why I stream,” the Canadian streamer said. “I don’t like work./post/thirty-seconds-until-minions-spawn-a-look-at-level-one-strategies-in-competitive-play/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/thirty-seconds-until-minions-spawn-a-look-at-level-one-strategies-in-competitive-play/   Introduction Level one strategies are a very key part in every competitive League Of Legends match, because no matter what, all games start with an even playing field where no team has a gold or vision advantage. The first two minutes are very crucial, because lane match ups, early vision control and therefore early advantages can be generated trough a superior level one strategy. In this article I will take a look at the level one in game 1 of the first round of the Korean qualifiers between the Jin Air Green Wings on blue side and Najin e-mFire on red side./post/balinda-stonehearth-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-upcoming-expansion-fractured-in-alterac-valley/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/balinda-stonehearth-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-upcoming-expansion-fractured-in-alterac-valley/ If you’ve taken a look at Mage’s win rate in Hearthstone over the past month, you’re probably very disappointed. Fear not, fellow Mages. Balinda Stonehearth is on her way to save us. Balinda Stonehearth is a new Mage Legendary that will be joining Hearthstone alongside the Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion. Balinda is a six-cost 5/5 minion with a powerful Battlecry. When Balinda enters the field, you will get to draw two spells./post/vikkstar-claims-to-have-open-line-of-communication-directly-with-activision-after-quitting-warzone/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/vikkstar-claims-to-have-open-line-of-communication-directly-with-activision-after-quitting-warzone/ One of Call of Duty‘s largest content creators, Vikkstar, said today that he has an “open line of communication directly with Activision” in regard to cheating in Warzone following his decision to quit the battle royale game. Warzone players have been frustrated with the amount of cheating in the battle royale game for some time, but tensions seem to be reaching a boiling point. Thank you all for your support alongside my recent concerns to the current state of cheating in Warzone./post/joindota-one-of-dota-2-s-oldest-tournament-organizers-to-shut-down-march-31/Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/joindota-one-of-dota-2-s-oldest-tournament-organizers-to-shut-down-march-31/ JoinDOTA, one of the earliest tournament organizers for Dota 2, announced its departure from the scene earlier today.  While the name joinDOTA may sound unfamiliar to players who’ve recently started following the game, the website has been a cornerstone of the game’s competitive scene, making incredible contributions from 2011 to 2020.  After organizing the first-ever International in 2011, joinDOTA became the go-to place for tier two teams who were looking to make it into the big leagues or compete with their friends at a higher level./post/will-neff-ends-partnership-with-hellofresh-over-labor-concerns/Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/will-neff-ends-partnership-with-hellofresh-over-labor-concerns/ 100 Thieves content creator Will Neff has announced he will no longer be partnering with HelloFresh after learning about the company’s working conditions and stance on worker unionization. Neff tweeted yesterday evening saying he was previously unaware of the issues HelloFresh workers are facing and will no longer be partnering with the meal kit brand after learning of the situation. Didn’t know about the Hello Fresh union situation. I do now./post/how-to-earn-all-of-valorant-s-riotx-arcane-pass-and-world-of-riotx-arcane-rewards/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-earn-all-of-valorant-s-riotx-arcane-pass-and-world-of-riotx-arcane-rewards/ Riot Games is celebrating the launch of Arcane with the RiotX Arcane pass and the World of RiotX Arcane narrative experience. VALORANT’s largest event to date includes 12 exclusive rewards inspired by elements from the show.  See Valorant on Amazon The three-act Netflix series, which is based on League of Legends, follows the balance between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and the seedy, oppressed underground of Zaun, and features iconic characters including sisters Jinx and Vi./post/l%C3%BAcio-oh-s-are-available-early-at-the-kellogg-s-store-in-new-york-city/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/l%C3%BAcio-oh-s-are-available-early-at-the-kellogg-s-store-in-new-york-city/ Overwatch-inspired cereal Lúcio-Oh’s is ready for sampling at the Kellogg’s NYC store right now, despite the full release being scheduled for December. Overwatch concept artist Anh Dang tweeted from the store on Nov. 26, showing the green and yellow cereal in Kellogg’s wall-dispenser. The Kellogg’s NYC venue is essentially a cereal bar for patrons to create their own extravagant breakfast creations. And now, just before Lúcio-Oh’s launch, cereal lovers can try out the new Overwatch offering—and a bunch of other cereal offerings, too./post/yu-gi-oh-tch-lightning-overdrive-full-card-list/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/yu-gi-oh-tch-lightning-overdrive-full-card-list/ With the pre-release event over for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG set Lightning Overdrive, we now know every card that is included in the product.  Set to release on June 4 globally, Lightning Overdrive is going to include new support for more than a dozen existing archetypes such as Utopia and Black Rose, while also introducing the Amazement and Attraction archetype.  In total, the set will feature 100 cards. It will break down into 50 Commons, 26 Super Rares, 14 Ultra Rares, and 10 Secret Rares./post/all-flying-mounts-in-wow-shadowlands/Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-flying-mounts-in-wow-shadowlands/ Every expansion in World of Warcraft eventually adds the possibility to fly in the new zones—and Shadowlands is no exception to that rule. In Patch 9.1, which was released a couple of weeks ago, Blizzard added the ability to acquire flying mounts to make it easier to travel around the world, do your dailies, and reach a dungeon or raid. There are 16 flying mounts available in the current expansion, four for each Covenant—and every one of them has different requirements to acquire it./post/legendary-duelists-synchro-storm-gets-an-earlier-release-date-as-konami-updates-yu-gi-oh-tcg-2021-calendar/Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/legendary-duelists-synchro-storm-gets-an-earlier-release-date-as-konami-updates-yu-gi-oh-tcg-2021-calendar/ Konami has shaken up the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG release calendar once again, with great news for players who were hoping to get their hands on the Legendary Duelists: Synchro Storm set and all of the powerful cards inside.  Synchro Storm, which was previously delayed from a July 14 release all the way to Jan. 19, 2022 has now been moved forward again, along with another small delay to the Structure Deck: Cyber Strike./post/minecraft-player-discovers-creepers-can-now-deal-damage-without-exploding/Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/minecraft-player-discovers-creepers-can-now-deal-damage-without-exploding/ Minecraft’s creeper mob is a notorious icon of the game and is known for silently sneaking up on players to ruin their day when they explode. Now, under the right circumstances, creepers can also deal direct damage to players, just as other mobs do, and not immediately explode when they get near players. One Reddit user discovered that if players swim directly under a creeper and make sure that it does not explode, it will cause direct damage to them./post/riot-plans-to-buff-rengar-make-adjustments-to-tahm-kench-and-lethal-tempo-in-league-of-legends-patch-12-2/Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-plans-to-buff-rengar-make-adjustments-to-tahm-kench-and-lethal-tempo-in-league-of-legends-patch-12-2/ League of Legends Patch 12.1 dropped this week, marking the start of the 2022 season. The patch, though, was on the smaller side of things, offering just a few changes to gameplay, including an update to Teleport and adjustments to several champions. Thankfully, there’s much more to come in the next patch, according to Matt Leung-Harrison, the design lead for the Summoner’s Rift team at Riot Games. The game developer pinpointed three major changes that are being worked on for Patch 12./post/season-2-of-call-of-duty-vanguard-and-warzone-delayed-to-feb-14/Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/season-2-of-call-of-duty-vanguard-and-warzone-delayed-to-feb-14/ Call of Duty: Vanguard season two has been delayed 12 days to Feb. 14, Activision announced today. The upcoming content drop, also coming to the free-to-play Warzone, was originally planned for release on Feb. 2. The extra time will give the developers more opportunities to fix bugs and overall game stability. We’ve deployed a number of updates, but more needs to be done. Thank you for being patient while we delay the release of Season Two in #Vanguard and #Warzone to prioritize ongoing work to balance and optimize your current gameplay experience./post/how-to-get-all-of-eevee-s-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-all-of-eevee-s-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Eevee, the Evolution Pokémon, returns in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, alongside its many evolutions that sport a variety of different types. See Pokémon on Amazon Two new Eevee-lutions were introduced in the original Pokémon Diamond and Pearl games—Leafeon and Glaceon—that will be returning to their original evolution methods from these games instead of the new methods introduced in Pokémon Sun and Moon. However, since these remakes only include Pokémon in the National Pokédex up to Arceus, Eevee’s Fairy-type evolution, Sylveon, will be unobtainable./post/the-best-dribblers-in-fifa-21/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-dribblers-in-fifa-21/ EA Sports released a list yesterday that contains the players with the highest Dribbling rating in FIFA 21. EA has been making all sorts of lists with ratings since last week. This list of the best dribblers can help you in almost all FIFA modes, from Ultimate Team to Career Mode. The Dribbling stat includes Agility, Balance, Reactions, Ball Control, and Composure. The best dribbler in FIFA 21 is Lionel Messi from Barcelona./post/anivia-player-puts-together-a-massive-minion-army-to-storm-the-enemy-s-base-in-arurf/Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/anivia-player-puts-together-a-massive-minion-army-to-storm-the-enemy-s-base-in-arurf/ All Random Ultra Rapid Fire (ARURF) has returned to League of Legends for a limited time and players are finding more creative ways to use the gameplay changes in the mode. A Reddit user recently shared a video showcasing a surprising use of Anivia’s wall in ARURF. After their team earned the Baron buff, the Anivia player had the idea to begin assembling a large minion army to attack the enemy base./post/here-are-the-valorant-patch-3-10-notes/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-valorant-patch-3-10-notes/ VALORANT Patch 3.10 will finally give players a chance to try Chamber, the exciting new sentinel agent with a deadly ability set. Patch 3.10 introduces Chamber, the latest sentinel with a focus on gunplay. Chamber’s ability set includes two unique weapons: a heavy pistol with an ADS option and a rifle that’s a one-shot hit on enemies. Chamber can also teleport to outmaneuver enemies with his Rendezvous ability or slow them down with Trademark./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-unified-minds-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-set/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-unified-minds-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-set/ We are a few short months off of getting our hands on the 11th seventh generation set of Pokémon cards based off of the Sun and Moon series with the expansion set “Unified Mind” set to release on Aug. 2. But what exactly should fans expect to get from the set? And what important information do you need to know before pre-ordering packs or a box for yourself? Well, that’s what we are here to help you with./post/what-does-kat-profile-mean/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-kat-profile-mean/ When it comes to keyboard customization, the options are limitless. Users have various methods to completely alter their setups to make them stand out and reflect their personalities. One popular way of customizing a keyboard is modifying it with a KAT profile keycap set.  Keycaps come in a variety of heights and shapes, otherwise known as keycap profiles. Keycap profiles aim to alter ergonomics, feel, and style. KAT keycaps provide users with an alternative to standard OEM keycaps./post/faker-teams-up-with-razer-to-design-and-develop-gaming-peripherals/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/faker-teams-up-with-razer-to-design-and-develop-gaming-peripherals/ The greatest League of Legends player of all time is collaborating with computer hardware and electronics company Razer to design a series of gaming peripherals including a mouse and mouse pad. In the player’s first exclusive sponsorship, three-time world champion Faker will be working with Razer to develop a line of peripherals that will be sold in esports organization T1’s shop in Seoul, Korea.  “It is great to work with Razer again who has maintained its high standards for gaming hardware,” Faker said in a press release./post/riot-set-to-nerf-akali-karma-nocturne-xin-zhao-will-buff-darius-graves-illaoi-and-seraphine-in-patch-11-14/Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-set-to-nerf-akali-karma-nocturne-xin-zhao-will-buff-darius-graves-illaoi-and-seraphine-in-patch-11-14/ It looks like Riot Games is making some changes to a few big names in the current competitive League of Legends meta with adjustments being brought to some champions who have all taken their place at the top of many teams’ priority lists. Riot’s lead game designer Jeevun Sidhu has outlined that champions like Akali, Karma, Nocturne, and Xin Zhao will be getting nerfed next patch, as well as Malzahar, Shaco, and Ziggs./post/all-of-the-new-skins-from-overwatch-s-2020-winter-wonderland-event/Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-of-the-new-skins-from-overwatch-s-2020-winter-wonderland-event/ It’s the jolliest time of the year. Overwatch‘s 2020 Winter Wonderland event is kicking off today. The event runs until Jan. 5. And until then, players will be able to fight it out in special game modes like Mei’s Snowball Offensive and the new Freezethaw Elimination.  For many players, the big focus is on the game’s newest skins. This year’s Winter Wonderland event includes eight new skins for everyone to unlock over three weeks of play time./post/when-does-rainbow-six-mobile-release/Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-rainbow-six-mobile-release/ Ubisoft today announced that soon gamers will be able to play Rainbow Six on the go with Rainbow Six Mobile. The mobile game aims to bring everything you’d expect from the tactical first-person shooter and put it on your phone, but the team developing it isn’t the same as the one that works on Rainbow Six Siege. Instead, the group Ubisoft enlisted to work on the project is specifically curated to develop a mobile experience./post/conhe%C3%A7a-gaules-o-streamer-brasileiro-que-faz-sucesso-na-twitch/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/conhe%C3%A7a-gaules-o-streamer-brasileiro-que-faz-sucesso-na-twitch/ Alexandre “Gaules” Borba Chiqueta é o maior streamer do Brasil e também um dos maiores do mundo. Ele foi eleito Personalidade do Ano e Melhor Streamer do Ano em 2020 pelo Prêmio eSports Brasil. Embora muitos jovens assistam ao seu canal, muitos não sabem sua história completa. O streamer de 37 anos jogou Counter-Strike 1.6 profissionalmente, ajudou a alavancar a profissão de treinador no Brasil, investiu no setor e trouxe mais empresários para investir no setor de esportes eletrônicos./post/best-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-cards-that-shook-up-the-mtg-historic-meta/Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-cards-that-shook-up-the-mtg-historic-meta/ Historic has remained largely stable for the past year, with very few changes in the Magic: The Gathering format’s metagame. The format is still Blue-heavy, with Izzet Phoenix and U/W Control some of the most played decks. This is enabled by cheap, powerful Blue cards introduced to the format over the last year. Cards like Expressive Iteration, Consider, and Archmage’s Charm are dominant spells. Red is another color that makes up the majority of Historic’s top decks./post/asmongold-fears-shallow-diablo-immortal-has-irreversibly-damaged-diablo-iv-hype/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-fears-shallow-diablo-immortal-has-irreversibly-damaged-diablo-iv-hype/ Diablo Immortal, the latest addition to the dearly beloved Diablo series, enjoyed the biggest launch in the franchise’s history. However, it’s also been controversial. Players are furious because the game is riddled with microtransactions, many of which are ‘pay-to-win.’ It’s not a new fad in mobile gaming, but it is new to the Diablo series, and it’s left a bitter taste in players’ mouths. Asmongold is one such aggrieved fan. The Twitch star was vocal about concerns and has now quit, passing his verdict on the game and claiming its problems run deep./post/gravity-gaming-sold-for-roughly-1-million/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gravity-gaming-sold-for-roughly-1-million/ After listing its League Championship Series (LCS) spot for sale on Nov. 8, Gravity Gaming has sold this past week for roughly $1 million, sources close to the team’s management tell the Daily Dot. The winning bidder for the spot is currently unknown, but one source says that he has not been affiliated with esports before this endeavor. Gravity is now the fourth LCS franchise to sell this year, joining Team Dignitas EU (now Splyce), Team Coast (now NRG Esports), and Team 8 (now Immortals), but they likely won’t be the last as three more teams are still on the market—Elements, Gambit Gaming, and Team Impulse./post/best-vladimir-build-in-league-of-legends-season-12/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-vladimir-build-in-league-of-legends-season-12/ Mages have become immensely popular in the mid lane in season 12 of League of Legends. And with them returning to their roots, Vladimir comes back as well. With his kit, players are granted impressive sustain to keep themselves going in the early minutes of the game. As the match goes on, however, Vladimir becomes one of the best burst champs that there is. But he’s not perfect. With relatively low mobility and not many resistances, it’s easy to shut down Vladimir./post/fortnite-leaks-reveal-cosmetics-themed-after-the-day-of-the-dead-in-the-6-20-update/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-leaks-reveal-cosmetics-themed-after-the-day-of-the-dead-in-the-6-20-update/ The Fortnite data miners we love, @TwoEpicBuddies, have found new outfits, gliders, emotes, and pickaxes in the 6.20 Fortnite update that went live earlier this morning. As has been the case for several weeks, the cosmetics they found hidden in the game files might be coming to Fortnite: Battle Royale in a few days. Several items are themed after the upcoming Mexican national holiday Day of the Dead, celebrated on October 31./post/the-best-cards-to-pull-from-the-pok%C3%A9mon-unbroken-bonds-tcg-set/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-cards-to-pull-from-the-pok%C3%A9mon-unbroken-bonds-tcg-set/ The Pokémon Unbroken Bonds TCG expansion set is nearly upon us, bringing with it a whole host of different cards to strengthen your deck. Related: Everything you need to know about the Unbroken Bonds Pokémon TCG Set The set contains over 200 cards, so some are always going to be more valuable than others. While kids will be happy to get their hands on that holo Lucario card, the competitive players and collectors will definitely be keeping their eyes open for some of the better cards in the set./post/lor-reveals-kennen-champion-coming-in-magic-misadventures/Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lor-reveals-kennen-champion-coming-in-magic-misadventures/ Riot Games revealed today that Kennen is the newest Legends of Runeterra champion with solid baseline stats in the upcoming Magic Misadventures expansion.  Scheduled to release on Dec. 8, Magic Misadventures will contain Kennen, a new dual-region LoR champion. Kennen is a one-drop 2/1 with Quick Attack, creating a Mark of the Storm in hand upon getting summoned. The yordle’s dual regions are Bandle City and Ionia, synergizing with existing Aggro LoR champions like Zed./post/nadeshot-calls-on-treyarch-to-dial-back-skill-based-matchmaking-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nadeshot-calls-on-treyarch-to-dial-back-skill-based-matchmaking-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ 100 Thieves CEO Nadeshot called on Treyarch yesterday to reduce the skill-based matchmaking in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to avoid pushing players and content creators away. “I know you’re probably tired of hearing about [skill-based matchmaking], but I truly believe it is imperative that Treyarch dials back the difficulty of lobbies,” Nadeshot said. “We’re gonna drive so many big creators away, these games have been no joke.”/post/here-is-the-new-map-for-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-is-the-new-map-for-fortnite-chapter-2-season-8/ Fortnite’s upcoming season, aptly titled Cubed, takes place directly after the end-of-season event held for season seven yesterday. After the Mothership crashed, many Cubes began to populate the island, likely triggering several events in the future. See Fortnite Action Figures on Amazon This had changed things up regarding the appearance of the island, and you’ll notice some new additions in the new map for Fortnite Chapter Two, season eight. Map of Fortnite Chapter Two, season eight Data miners have unearthed the new map for this upcoming season and there doesn’t seem to be any new locations to explore, to the disappointment of some fans./post/20-most-expensive-magic-the-gathering-cards-reserve-list/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/20-most-expensive-magic-the-gathering-cards-reserve-list/ A total of 572 Magic: The Gathering cards are on the Reserve List, a list created by Wizards of the Coast that prevents reprints of specific cards from 18 early sets.  The creation of the Reserve List was viewed by most MTG collectors as a positive measure concept with its creation in 1996. The list was revised and a WotC made a newreprint policy in 2002. This left 572 Mythic Rare and Rare MTG cards on the Reserve List that will never get reprinted again unless the list is removed by Hasbro./post/best-hu-tao-genshin-impact-build-weapons-artifacts-and-more/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-hu-tao-genshin-impact-build-weapons-artifacts-and-more/ When built right, Hu Tao’s impressive Pyro abilities make her one of the most powerful characters in Genshin Impact. The five-star Polearm character hails from Liyue and is the current Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, which is part of the reason she is seen alongside a ghost friend. Hu Tao has only been available twice as the featured character on two special event wish banners. Thus, she is currently one of the rarer characters in Genshin Impact, but will likely have many reruns of her banner in the future as has been the pattern with other characters./post/new-project-lore-introduces-storyline-with-mordekaiser-as-unshackled-rogue-ai-looking-to-strip-humans-of-all-free-will/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-project-lore-introduces-storyline-with-mordekaiser-as-unshackled-rogue-ai-looking-to-strip-humans-of-all-free-will/ The League of Legends lore is rich with different stories and characters across its multiple universes, but not many are as exciting as the PROJECT universe. In the latest event, Riot Games has introduced a new enemy that will cause both the PROJECT Command Line and G/NETIC rebellion to join forces for the first time. The antagonist of the new event, Mordekaiser, was once a security AI created by the PROJECT Corporation, according to Riot./post/when-does-the-wow-classic-season-of-mastery-begin/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-wow-classic-season-of-mastery-begin/ Blizzard announced today that the World of Warcraft Classic Season of Mastery is set to begin soon.  Even though the developer is still testing the new version of legacy content in WoW, the team seems to be confident enough in the product to release it in the middle of next month. World of Warcraft Classic’s first Season of Mastery is set to launch worldwide on Nov. 16 at 5pm CT./post/mtg-angels-get-a-boost-from-innistrad-midnight-hunt-transform-mechanic/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-angels-get-a-boost-from-innistrad-midnight-hunt-transform-mechanic/ Transform is returning to Magic: The Gathering via Innistrad: Midnight Hunt on the card Enduring Angel, changing it to Angelic Enforcer and saving its controller from lethal damage. The MTG mechanic Transform will come back to Standard via the global release of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) on Sept. 24. Cards that Transform are duel-faced, featuring a front side with a casting cost and a backside of the transformed creature. Enduring Angel and its transformed backside Angelic Enforcer were revealed during the first day of MID spoilers./post/hearthstone-patch-21-4-4-nerfs-mechs-and-elemental-millhouse-manastorm-strategy-in-battlegrounds/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-patch-21-4-4-nerfs-mechs-and-elemental-millhouse-manastorm-strategy-in-battlegrounds/ Hearthstone’s Patch 21.4.4 is a small, but pleasant surprise for Battlegrounds players. The main focus of today’s changes is to target Mech strategies that use Omega Buster and Holy Mecherel. Omega Buster was a vital card to players aiming to spike six drops, since it could provide immense bonuses to wide boards of Mechs. These strengths were boosted when combined with cards like Baron Rivendare or Monstrous Macaw (if Beasts were in the minion pool for that lobby)./post/the-best-overwatch-sprays/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-overwatch-sprays/ Sprays are the ultimate form of expression in Overwatch. They can be used to disrespect an entire team after a team kill, to meme, or to even make friends on your team without speaking. The sheer amount and variety of them makes them very versatile. Each hero has their own set of sprays that can be bought or unlocked, and then there’s a whole other subset of sprays that can be equipped by anyone./post/call-of-duty-warzone-weapon-rarity-explained/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-warzone-weapon-rarity-explained/ Call of Duty: Warzone is the latest in a long line of battle royale games over the past few years and it features its own designated weapon rarity system. As you move around Warzone’s massive map, you’ll come into contact with weapons that have different colored glows. The color of the glow denotes the weapon’s rarity and how good it might be. It’s important to understand the weapon rarities in Warzone so you can quickly determine if a gun is worth looting before heading into a fight./post/niantic-will-run-makeup-dates-for-shadow-zapdos-offer-free-items-for-team-go-rocket-bug/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/niantic-will-run-makeup-dates-for-shadow-zapdos-offer-free-items-for-team-go-rocket-bug/ Pokémon Go players have been encountering issues involving Team Go Rocket for over a week now. Niantic has not only fixed the issue, though, but is also providing a makeup bonus as an apology.  The specific issue involved players initiating a battle with a Team Go Rocket NPC and having their game completely freeze up, forcing them to close out of the app entirely in order to reset things.  To make up for the time that Team GO Rocket was away, Shadow Zapdos will be returning as an encounter when you defeat Giovanni from Tuesday, June 1, at 12 a./post/where-to-find-tadpoles-in-new-world/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-tadpoles-in-new-world/ MMO stories typically get more epic as you play through them. It’s not always about the story, however, and you’ll need to do a bit of grinding to progress your characters in New World. While playing New World, you may find yourself looking for certain items for crafting or completing quests. If you’ve been looking for Tadpoles to complete a quest and have been having a tough time, some research may be able to help you out./post/heydoubleu-makes-incredible-animation-based-on-twitch-culture/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/heydoubleu-makes-incredible-animation-based-on-twitch-culture/ Animator HeydoubleU has once again produced another high-quality animation following on his previous work regarding the popular streamer XQC. Initially, the content creator had made an impressive animated short of QXC’s nose titled “Big Schnozer” which he shared with the streamer’s Reddit. From there it was seen by QXC who appeared offended by the creation stating that he would not hire HeydoubleU and that the video was dumb. Following this HeydoubleU put out his second creation which would be a longer video portraying himself with a Pepe emote styled appearance waking up at his computer to see XQC had gone live./post/tft-patch-11-9-full-notes-and-updates/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-patch-11-9-full-notes-and-updates/ It’s the moment of truth, Teamfight Tactics fans. Reckoning is finally here. The gigantic set features new champions and traits, along with the Shadow mechanic, new Armory shops, and the game’s first lab, Hyper Roll. Reckoning, according to the devs, brings players “more dynamic moments” to highlight their decision-making “like never before.” The set also includes a new ranked season, as always, with new items and units that “deepen positional play” and traits that bring “unprecedented flexibility./post/valorant-champions-tour-2021-guide-schedule-results-moments/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-champions-tour-2021-guide-schedule-results-moments/ The VALORANT Champions Tour is Riot Games’ first official attempt at a global circuit for stoking competitive VALORANT. Spawned out of the early success of the First Strike events, the Champions Tour is a year-long circuit of regional competition culminating in a Champions event to crown the first world champion. Champions is currently ongoing; keep up with the scores, schedule, and brackets here. For all things VALORANT Champions Tour, including the circuit structure, participating teams, scheduling, notable moments, and more, we’ve created a comprehensive guide to keep you informed./post/all-ground-emotes-coming-in-apex-legends-legacy-update/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-ground-emotes-coming-in-apex-legends-legacy-update/ The Legacy update is finally bringing standing emotes to Apex Legends. Players will be able to show off their moves during matches or during the champion screen in both battle royale and in Arenas. Each of the new animations is designed to keep in line with the legends’ personalities and characteristics. You can make Mirage dance, for instance, but we probably won’t see Bloodhound do the same. Loba, on the other hand, plays golf with one of Revenant’s heads—very much in line with her character arc after dropping the simulacrum’s source code into the Phase Runner./post/all-minecraft-championships-mcc-18-teams/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-minecraft-championships-mcc-18-teams/ It feels like the time between Minecraft Championships (MCC) events is shrinking while Noxcrew continues to optimize and expand on the successful event. Now, entering a cycle of tournaments alongside MCC Rising, a series focusing on up-and-coming Minecraft streamers, MCC 18 will take place on Oct. 23 and feature a Halloween theme.  The Halloween theme doesn’t change much, though. MCC 18 will still feature 10 teams of four content creators or streamers who will play eight different mini-games to earn coins and try to finish in the top two./post/derke-tests-negative-for-covid-will-be-traveling-to-join-fnatic-in-iceland-for-vct-masters/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/derke-tests-negative-for-covid-will-be-traveling-to-join-fnatic-in-iceland-for-vct-masters/ Last week, Fnatic VALORANT fans were given a scare when the team announced that Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev had contracted COVID-19. Luckily for the squad, they’ve gotten some good news today: The 19-year-old has confirmed that he’s tested negative for COVID. As a result, he will be able to rejoin Fnatic in Iceland for 2022 VCT Masters Reykjavík, which is set to begin on Sunday, April 10. When reports surfaced around the situation, sources told Dot Esports that Derke wasn’t experiencing any symptoms./post/all-league-of-legends-champions-from-the-freljord-region/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-league-of-legends-champions-from-the-freljord-region/ The vast League of Legends universe and lore are among the game’s most important and unique features. You can always play League without knowing anything about it, because it will not affect your gameplay. But you will probably be missing out on great stories. Arcane’s success and widespread acclaim among fans and critics alike, for example, proves the universe Riot Games has created with Runeterra has enough depth and potential to expand the borders of the games—and bring new players in./post/v1-vanity-scream-tweets-this-meta-is-rough-but-you-guys-just-aren-t-playing-the-meta/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/v1-vanity-scream-tweets-this-meta-is-rough-but-you-guys-just-aren-t-playing-the-meta/ To the surprise of many, except perhaps the players themselves, Version1 pulled off a stunning victory over Team Liquid at VCT Masters Reykjavik. Many thought Liquid, viewed as a favorite for the entire event heading into the first North America vs. Europe series, would come out victorious. It looked like that might be the case after Liquid stole V1’s map pick of Split in overtime, but V1 responded with a dazzling display on Liquid’s pick of Ascent, where they had won 18 straight times./post/can-you-have-multiple-save-slots-in-elden-ring/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-have-multiple-save-slots-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring is still one of the hottest games on the market. The open-world vision of FromSoftware is sought after by many due to its vast landscape and absurd amount of content. Players can spend tons of hours in the starting area alone only to find out that the map just gets bigger and bigger. Much of this large cookbook of content includes traversing dungeons and challenging, or getting challenged by, area bosses./post/gmhikaru-banned-on-twitch-says-reason-is-for-watching-dr-disrespect-on-stream/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gmhikaru-banned-on-twitch-says-reason-is-for-watching-dr-disrespect-on-stream/ Popular chess streamer GMHikaru has been banned on Twitch today. While the reason for his ban has yet to be confirmed by the Amazon-owned platform, Hikaru and fans speculated it is the result of Hikaru watching Dr Disrespect on stream. GMHikaru tweeted, seemingly confirming the reason for his three-day ban. “The Doc tweeted that things are settled with twitch… guess he was wrong. See everyone in 3 days,” Hikaru said./post/cahlaflour-criticizes-ninja-for-not-showing-up-to-accept-his-shorty-award-ninja-s-wife-responds/Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cahlaflour-criticizes-ninja-for-not-showing-up-to-accept-his-shorty-award-ninja-s-wife-responds/ Twitch streamer Cahlaflour took a jab at Tyler “Ninja” Blevins on Twitter for not showing up to accept his Shorty Award. But it turns out Ninja didn’t even know it was happening. Both Cahlaflour and Ninja were nominated for the Twitch Streamer of the Year award, but unlike Cahlaflour, Ninja didn’t show up at the award show. “If I ever get to the level of creator where I don’t even care if I’ve won an award… shoot me,” Cahlaflour said on Twitter./post/505-games-ends-work-on-indivisible-following-lab-zero-games-mass-exodus/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/505-games-ends-work-on-indivisible-following-lab-zero-games-mass-exodus/ Following the utter collapse of Lab Zero Games surrounding lead design director and a programmer Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont’s inappropriate behavior toward multiple members of the community and a former co-worker, 505 Games has decided to end work on Indivisible.  The publisher’s statement on Indivisible’s production comes after a majority of Lab Zero’s staff formed a new studio and Autumn Games, the IP holder for Skullgirls clarified the situation with the other series that was developed by the Mike Z and that team./post/the-best-gta-v-rp-servers-and-how-you-can-join/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-gta-v-rp-servers-and-how-you-can-join/ GTA V’s multiplayer portion is an excellent place to come together with friends. From racing to simply doing missions, the possibilities are endless, and a tiny bit of imagination completely reshapes GTA V’s multiplayer experience. Role-playing (RP) is one of the most fun ways of enjoying GTA V after you’re done with the story mode. There are even players who buy the game just for the RP experience since it’s also been quite popular among Twitch streamers./post/gridiron-apex-s-next-cinematic-drops-jan-4-will-follow-bangalore/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gridiron-apex-s-next-cinematic-drops-jan-4-will-follow-bangalore/ Apex Legends is kicking off the year with another installment of Stories from the Outlands. The next episode, “Gridiron,” launches on Jan. 4 at 10am CT and will shed some more light on Bangalore’s past. Although she’s one of the original members of the Apex cast, Bangalore only started receiving more lore recently. Her chapter in Apex‘s lore book, Pathfinder’s Quest, shows a glimpse of her past as a soldier and about her family life./post/best-ps5-skins/Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-ps5-skins/ The PlayStation 5 comes with a minimalist black and white design, far more attractive than the previous generation. But one downside with the new PS5 was its limited color options. In the CES 2022, Sony unveiled five new colors for the PS5, and they will soon head to the market. But for PS5 owners who already bought the device, this might not be pleasant news. However, if you already have a black and white PS5 and want to give it a new look, using skins is the best possible solution./post/best-teemo-skins-in-league-of-legends/Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-teemo-skins-in-league-of-legends/ There’s a case to be made that Teemo is the most famous League of Legends champion of all-time. With his trademark green hat, infamous laugh, and known-far-and-wide mushrooms, even people who don’t play League recognize Teemo.  Beyond his iconic base look, though, Teemo has a wide array of skins and cosmetic options that practically turn him into an entirely different character in-game. Since he was one of the game’s original champions, being released alongside League’s launch in 2009, Teemo has over a dozen skins to choose from./post/high-noon-ashe-hecarim-and-darius-revealed-for-league-patch-9-20/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/high-noon-ashe-hecarim-and-darius-revealed-for-league-patch-9-20/ New High Noon skins have been unveiled on the League of Legends PBE ahead of their expected release in Patch 9.20. Ashe, Darius, and Hecarim join the ever-growing lineup of other High Noon champions that includes Lucian, Thresh, and more. Here are the upcoming High Noon skins. High Noon Ashe High Noon Hecarim High Noon Darius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJctdx5Bo0Q No prices for the skins have been revealed yet, but we expect them to follow previous trends and be priced at 1,350 RP each./post/how-to-watch-boomtv-s-code-red-25-000-co-ed-call-of-duty-warzone-tournament/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-boomtv-s-code-red-25-000-co-ed-call-of-duty-warzone-tournament/ BoomTV is back once again to help kick of the 2022 Call of Duty: Warzone online tournament circuit with a $25,000 co-ed competition. Today’s tournament features 16 female captains and 16 male captains making up 32 duo teams that will face off in two-vs-two bracket play with both winners and losers brackets. 🚨$25,000 Code Red 2v2 Teams🚨@ZLanerOFFICIAL + @KaleiRenay 🪂 16 Female Captains/16 Male Captains 🤑 $25,000 Prize Pool + $5K in Bounties/post/you-can-now-send-voice-messages-in-apex-legends-without-a-mic/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/you-can-now-send-voice-messages-in-apex-legends-without-a-mic/ Apex Legends continues to add more accessibility options for players. The latest addition is the ability to send voice messages to your teammates in a match without a microphone on Xbox One and PS4. Previously, you could only send a text message on console like in any other game, but that requires your teammate to temporarily leave the game, check the message, and then come back. That takes up precious time, especially if you have something urgent to say./post/the-best-tight-ends-in-madden-nfl-22/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-tight-ends-in-madden-nfl-22/ Tight ends are often as productive as wide receivers in a modern NFL offense. Players like Travis Kelce and George Kittle are dominant receivers that barrel their way down the field for yards after the catch. Big catches get on SportsCenter, but a great tight end must be a potent pass blocker. This position is unique because of the variety of roles players fill in a modern offense. In Madden NFL 22, tight ends are powerful threats with quick slants./post/valve-adds-cs-go-text-filter-to-block-profane-words/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valve-adds-cs-go-text-filter-to-block-profane-words/ In the wake of nationwide protests against systemic racism and police brutality, Valve has implemented a new feature to stop offensive text chat messages in CS:GO. Valve announced today it added “Text Filtering,” a new setting in CS:GO that blocks “profane” words in the text chat. This feature is enabled by default and can be disabled by going into the communication part of the settings. A similar feature is used in Riot Games’ first-person shooter VALORANT, which replaces profanity with nicer, somewhat-random words./post/how-to-redeem-free-zeraora-launch-bonus-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-redeem-free-zeraora-launch-bonus-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ Pokémon UNITE has officially launched, with players all over the world now able to play the first Pokémon MOBA on Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. UNITE is a free-to-play game that only gives players a certain number of Pokémon when they first download it and complete the tutorial. The remaining roster needs to be unlocked through purchasing or grinding to receive UNITE Licenses, or the method used to unlock various Pokémon to use in matches./post/asia-pacific-shines-and-emea-stumbles-in-algs-losers-bracket-stage/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/asia-pacific-shines-and-emea-stumbles-in-algs-losers-bracket-stage/ The losers bracket stage of the Apex Legends Global Series Split 2 playoffs on Saturday was as surprising as the tournament’s group stage. Several favorites to win the playoffs exited early, and many teams from EMEA struggled despite the region’s reputation as one of the best in the world. Instead, teams from both the North and South regions of Asia Pacific proved they shouldn’t be underestimated. The first round of losers was a place for several big names to prove that their first-day issues weren’t indicative of their quality as a team./post/rogue-mage-and-priest-classes-will-be-available-to-all-races-in-wow-dragonflight/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rogue-mage-and-priest-classes-will-be-available-to-all-races-in-wow-dragonflight/ More race/class combinations are set to be added to World of Warcraft upon the launch of the game’s upcoming expansion, Dragonflight.  In an interview with WoW content creator MrGM, the game’s lead combat designer Brian Holinka confirmed that all races in WoW will have access to the Rogue, Mage, and Priest classes when Dragonflight is released.  “We want to move towards a world where the race of a character is not a limiter for what they can do or what they can become in the World of Warcraft,” Holinka said./post/hate-raids-return-to-twitch-another-wave-of-attacks-target-lgbtqia-streamers/Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hate-raids-return-to-twitch-another-wave-of-attacks-target-lgbtqia-streamers/ Hate raids have once again propagated across Twitch. But this time, viewers from an entirely different platform are targeting LGBTQIA+ streamers on Twitch. Streamers such as EarthToBre, Blizzb3ar, and xProvexx were all among the first to report on hate raids stemming from Cozy.tv. Users descending on Twitch reportedly spammed Twitch chatrooms, Discord servers, and flooded creators’ DMs with hateful, homophobic messages. EarthToBre said that users on Cozy.tv encouraging these hate raids also restreamed targeted streamers’ broadcasts while mocking them./post/raven-software-says-it-s-aware-of-call-of-duty-warzone-hitmarker-bug/Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/raven-software-says-it-s-aware-of-call-of-duty-warzone-hitmarker-bug/ Raven Software, the developer handling Call of Duty: Warzone, has acknowledged a new issue with hitmarkers in the battle royale game. Not long after last night’s update, players began reporting that hitmarkers weren’t showing up when shooting enemies in Verdansk. Thankfully, the developer is acutely aware and has responded quickly, acknowledging the issue on Twitter today. The official Black Ops Cold War and Warzone Trello board was updated with the information this afternoon./post/all-free-rewards-in-halo-infinite-s-cyber-showdown-event/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-free-rewards-in-halo-infinite-s-cyber-showdown-event/ Halo Infinite’s latest foray into free-to-play events is Cyber Showdown, a two-week affair drenched in a synthwave aesthetic and spotlighting a new game mode called Attrition. Players who took part in the Winter Contingency or Fracture: Tenrai events will recognize the format for the event well, with a free track of rewards available alongside the store’s premium offerings. Similar to Winter Contingency, this event won’t be returning beyond its end date on Feb./post/taking-stock-of-new-look-skt/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/taking-stock-of-new-look-skt/ SK Telecom T1 started off the 2019 season with a bang. Two quick wins had fans of the brand-new all-star roster salivating at the possibility of another deep Worlds run. But victories over rebuilding teams like Jin Air and Afreeca were not all that impressive. SKT’s first real test was a three-game stretch beginning the second week of the season when they would face Sandbox Gaming, Damwon Gaming, and Griffin back-to-back./post/former-method-players-form-new-world-first-caliber-raiding-guild/Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-method-players-form-new-world-first-caliber-raiding-guild/ A new World of Warcraft raiding guild is coming in Shadowlands, and it looks strikingly similar to one that racked up a handful of World First Cutting Edge kills during Battle for Azeroth.  A Twitter account with the handle EchoGuild posted a video yesterday announcing the formation of a top-tier raiding squad that includes members of WoW’s most well-known organization Method.  The former Method members left the guild following turmoil amid sexual harassment allegation brought to the forefront regarding a healer from the guild, MethodJosh./post/loba-s-p2020-skin-may-come-to-apex-legends-according-to-data-miner/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/loba-s-p2020-skin-may-come-to-apex-legends-according-to-data-miner/ Apex Legends introduced Loba with her unique weapon, a modified P2020. And players may soon be able to use it in-game. A data miner uncovered the model for the weapon, with heavy indications that it could come as part of an upcoming summer sale. Shrugtal, one of Apex‘s most prolific data miners, shared the model of the weapon today. The gun is Loba’s personal P2020 and made an appearance in the season five launch trailer when Loba pointed it at Revenant./post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-the-battle-of-tol-barad/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-the-battle-of-tol-barad/ If you aren’t satisfied with the amount of RNG in Standard Hearthstone right now, the latest weekly Tavern Brawl should give you your fill. This week’s Tavern Brawl is called the Battle of Tol Barad. For those who played World of Warcraft during the Cataclysm expansion, the name Tol Barad should be familiar. During Cataclysm, Tol Barad acted as a contested world PvP zone. With Tol Barad, players were forced to battle on timed intervals./post/clg-league-of-legends-streamer-rush-to-begin-mandatory-military-service-soon/Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/clg-league-of-legends-streamer-rush-to-begin-mandatory-military-service-soon/ CLG League of Legends streamer Lee “Rush” Yoon-jae will begin his mandatory military service in Korea soon after the end of season 10, the streamer announced on a recent Twitch stream. “This is actually my last month of playing League of Legends—no joke,” Rush said. “I’m going to be probably playing for a week to let people know that I’m leaving… Then I’ll quit streaming and League of Legends both to serve for military, I guess./post/respawn-will-give-out-free-apex-legends-badge-to-honor-black-history-month-and-blm/Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-will-give-out-free-apex-legends-badge-to-honor-black-history-month-and-blm/ Respawn is honoring Black History Month and the Black Lives Matter movement with a free badge for Apex Legends players. Dev director Tim Lewinson unveiled the badge today, which features a fist in the air surrounded by a gold background. For Respawn, it’s a small reminder of solidarity in the “fight against racism and social injustice.” Working together with this team, creating this in-game badge to honour the fight for #BlackLivesMatter as part of Apex Legends has been one of the BEST experiences of my career./post/what-does-mirai-from-miraidon-mean-in-pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet/Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-mirai-from-miraidon-mean-in-pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet/ Following both games’ first reveal during the Pokémon presentation last February, a second trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has been revealed on June 1, providing a closer look into what to expect once both versions are released later this year. One of the major features both Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will have is the multiplayer feature that will allow four trainers to battle and trade side by side all at once./post/100-thieves-ethan-cs-was-getting-really-stale-everything-right-now-in-valorant-seems-very-fresh/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/100-thieves-ethan-cs-was-getting-really-stale-everything-right-now-in-valorant-seems-very-fresh/ Ethan Arnold recently transitioned to VALORANT, leaving behind CS:GO after five years to join 100 Thieves. And while there may be a bit of learning curve, he’s “excited” about diving into it a new game. Following a 2-0 sweep over Immortals in the VCT NA Masters One quarterfinals, Ethan discussed his reasoning behind switching to VALORANT. And competing in a “very fresh” game is a big part of it. The 1 tap from @ethanarnold to maintain Garage control and save the round./post/apex-s-2-5-million-algs-championship-lan-kicks-off-in-july/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-s-2-5-million-algs-championship-lan-kicks-off-in-july/ The grand finale of the 2022 ALGS season will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina, between July 7 and 10. The details on location and date were revealed at the end of Apex Legends’ Stockholm LAN playoffs today, where Australian team Reignite won $250,000 for their first-place finish. See Apex Legends on Amazon While a full list of the qualified teams isn’t yet available, 30 teams have already qualified, including most of the teams who were just competing in the $1 million prize pool playoff tourney that concluded this afternoon./post/faze-corey-there-is-no-reason-to-switch-up-everything-for-just-one-little-loss/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/faze-corey-there-is-no-reason-to-switch-up-everything-for-just-one-little-loss/ FaZe’s VALORANT squad suffered their first loss in the VCT Masters One tournament at the hands of Sentinels yesterday. The team’s aggressive playstyle ultimately fell short against the strong team, but FaZe’s Corey Nigra still believes his team’s playstyle is effective.  FaZe were previously undefeated in the Masters One event and took down XSET and Envy before facing Sentinels in the upper finals. This was one of the most anticipated matches as FaZe 2-0’d their two previous opponents, and Sentinels dominated with the help of TenZ./post/riot-to-issue-heavy-nerfs-to-zeri-s-base-stats-4-active-abilities-in-league-patch-12-7/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-issue-heavy-nerfs-to-zeri-s-base-stats-4-active-abilities-in-league-patch-12-7/ Riot Games is targeting several League of Legends champions with buffs and nerfs in Patch 12.7, with changes specifically coming to Wukong, Lee Sin, Ryze, and others. But while there are over a dozen champions set to see their power levels increased and decreased in Patch 12.7, no champion is receiving a heavier set of changes in the patch than Zeri.  With nerfs coming to all four of her active abilities, as well as her base stats, the Spark of Zaun is on deck to be practically gutted by Riot as the 2022 League season nears the halfway point./post/the-6-best-power-forward-builds-in-nba-2k21/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-6-best-power-forward-builds-in-nba-2k21/ Before you start playing NBA 2K21‘s My Career mode—which includes The Long Shadow campaign, where you can play in high school games, college games, or even at the NBA G League if you’re on new-gen consoles—you’ll have to create your character’s build. The builds are custom basketball avatars made up of pie charts that consist of four major pieces: finishing (blue), shooting (green), playmaking (yellow), and defense/rebounding (red). It’s an important part of the NBA 2K21 My Career experience because your build will determine the way you’ll play with your character./post/when-does-overwatch-season-27-end/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-overwatch-season-27-end/ Overwatch’s competitive season 27 had a slightly delayed start, beginning on March 9 instead of its originally expected date of March 4. Typically, seasons of Overwatch last about two months before the next one begins—and many people anticipate that this season will have a similar trajectory. That means season 27 could have an end date around the first or second week of May. Last year, season 21 of Overwatch began around the same time that season 27 did on March 5./post/all-cs-go-major-winners/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-cs-go-major-winners/ There is truly no game like Counter-Strike, and there is no greater achievement in the iconic shooter than capturing the Major. Since 2013, Valve has sponsored the prize pool of the most illustrious CS:GO tournament, giving players and teams a top accolade to chase across months, years, and careers. To this date, 17 of these Majors have been put on, with 12 different organizations claiming iterations of the trophy. Currently, Astralis holds the record with four total, and are the only team to win three straight./post/halo-and-dr-squatch-create-new-soap-called-spartan-scrub/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-and-dr-squatch-create-new-soap-called-spartan-scrub/ “Feel like a man, smell like a hero” is the slogan for Dr. Squatch’s newest soap called Spartan Scrub, which is a collaboration between the popular soap subscription company and Halo. The soap uses Sevenbark Root, Ralangal Root, and Bishops Wart to create a scent of silver sage, yuzu, and cedarwood. There’s light exfoliation, which is normal for most of Dr. Squatch’s lines. The soap is a forest green color with swirls of orange in the bar, representing the color of Master Chief’s armor./post/here-s-how-to-get-mei-s-legendary-mm-mei-skin-in-overwatch/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-how-to-get-mei-s-legendary-mm-mei-skin-in-overwatch/ Mei is getting an awesome new Legendary skin to commemorate the Overwatch League’s May Melee tournament. The “MM-Mei” skin for Mei suits her up in an MMA fighter outfit, complete with fighting gloves, a fighter’s robe, and some sweet-looking MMA fighter braided hair. Put 'em up, MM-Mei is stepping into the ring 🥊 Secure this legendary Mei skin TODAY, just in time for the #OWL2021 May Melee! Read more ➡️ https://t./post/how-to-beat-the-beastman-of-farum-azula-in-the-groveside-cave-in-elden-ring/Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-the-beastman-of-farum-azula-in-the-groveside-cave-in-elden-ring/ Groveside Cave is one of the first mini-dungeons that you’ll come across in Elden Ring and it’s also a great place for players to get the hand of the game’s tricky combat against a fairly simple boss. Located in Limgrave and accessible from the getgo, Groveside Cave is home to the Beastman of Farum Azula, who players can take on and beat for Runes and unique loot. Whether you’re a new Souls player or a returning veteran, this is a great place to start, and here’s everything you need to know about this location in Elden Ring./post/here-are-the-best-mtg-planeswalkers-ruling-the-wots-standard-metagame/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-best-mtg-planeswalkers-ruling-the-wots-standard-metagame/ With 36 planeswalkers in the MTG War of the Spark expansion, players expected a change—but not like this. Esper, Mono-Red Aggro, Bant, Gruul, Dimir, Simic, Azorius, and Four-Colored Dreadhorde are ruling the WotS Standard metagame. Since the release of Magic: The Gathering War of the Spark, the Standard metagame has gone through a variety of changes. While some archetypes like Mono-Red Aggro haven’t made any huge adjustments, others like Esper Midrange and Jeskai Superfriends have./post/hisuian-growlithe-themed-outfit-revealed-as-as-mystery-gift-for-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hisuian-growlithe-themed-outfit-revealed-as-as-mystery-gift-for-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Hisuian Forms of Pokémon are making their way into Pokémon Legends: Arceus, showcasing how certain Pokémon looked and behaved in the early days of the Sinnoh region—before it was even known as Sinnoh. And one of these Hisuian Forms is inspiring an outfit that will be available for players to commemorate the release of the new adventure. From Jan. 28 to May 9, 2022, all players of Pokémon Legends: Arceus will be eligible to obtain an outfit inspired by the newly revealed Hisuian Growlithe./post/how-to-get-star-points-in-clash-royale/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-star-points-in-clash-royale/ Unlocking all of the cards in Clash Royale is one of the first goals of every new player in the game. When a player unlocks the full set, they’ll have access to all the tools they need to build decks, allowing them to come up with a range of creative strategies. The grind doesn’t end there, though. New cards are frequently introduced to the game and players can collect cosmetics to change their appearance./post/apex-legends-will-receive-a-post-match-player-report-feature-soon-developer-says/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-will-receive-a-post-match-player-report-feature-soon-developer-says/ Apex Legends players will soon be able to report others in-game after a match ends, a Respawn developer has confirmed. The feature should be coming “in the next patch or two,” the developer said on a Reddit thread. The developer hasn’t detailed how the report system will work, but it’ll apparently let players report more than hacking, cheating, and gameplay abuse. In the thread the developer replied to, a player complained about being verbally insulted by another player, and he was unable to report them because they had left the match already./post/when-does-zenless-zone-zero-release/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-zenless-zone-zero-release/ The developer behind the massively successful game Genshin Impact is working on a new game titled Zenless Zone Zero. After launching a series of teasers leading to May 9, miHoYo followed up May 13 with an official trailer and announcement. Zenless Zone Zero centers around a city called New Eridu, which is futuristic, post-apocalyptic, and entirely opposite of the classic fantasy style of Teyvat in Genshin Impact. New Eridu is a refuge and shelter from the chaos of the outside world./post/call-of-duty-players-on-ps4-may-have-to-make-room-to-download-modern-warfare-and-black-ops-cold-war-content-activision-says/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-players-on-ps4-may-have-to-make-room-to-download-modern-warfare-and-black-ops-cold-war-content-activision-says/ After months of regular updates to enhance the games’ experience and offer new content to fans, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, including Warzone, and Black Ops Cold War might have become too big to both fit on a standard PlayStation 4 with other titles, according to Activision. In that case, some players may have to uninstall one or both games, or packs, to open up space in the console’s memory storage, even though CoD: Black Ops Cold War was released less than a year ago./post/here-s-every-mtg-innistrad-crimson-vow-spoiler-from-the-preview-stream/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-every-mtg-innistrad-crimson-vow-spoiler-from-the-preview-stream/ Wizards of the Coast revealed a number of new Magic: The Gathering cards within the upcoming Innistrad: Crimson Vow set today that will release in November.  MTG spoilers revealed in the preview stream by WotC for Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)—scheduled to globally launch on Nov. 19 and digitally on Nov. 11—ranged from legendary creatures and planeswalkers to vampires and humans with new mechanics. Olivia Voldaren’s wedding to Edgar Markov is the main focus of the story, with Sorin joining up with the Gatewatch to prevent it from happening./post/league-s-champion-and-skin-sale-june-13/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-champion-and-skin-sale-june-13/ Each week, five champions and 15 skins in League of Legends are put on sale for an up to 60 percent price reduction. If you want to make the most out of your Riot Points and buy the best skins the game has to offer, look no further than the deals listed below. See League of Legends on Amazon Here are this week’s champion and skin sales. Champions Qiyana: 487 RP (-50 percent) Kayn: 536 RP (-45 percent) Illaoi: 487 RP (-44 percent) Jinx: 352 RP (-60 percent) Malphite: 234 RP (-60 percent) Skins Debonair Draven: 975 RP (-27 percent) Debonair LeBlanc: 975 RP (-27 percent) Cafe Cuties Sivir: 975 RP (-27 percent) Dragonslayer Diana: 742 RP (-45 percent) Infernal Varus: 742 RP (-45 percent) Arcade Caityln: 742 RP (-45 percent) Battle Principal Yuumi: 675 RP (-50 percent) Dunkmaster Ivern: 810 RP (-40 percent) Worldbreaker Trundle: 375 RP (-50 percent) Pool Party Renekton: 633 RP (-35 percent) Bear Cavalry Sejuani: 540 RP (-60 percent) Scorched Earth Xerath: 540 RP (-60 percent) Jaximus: 536 RP (-45 percent) Tango Evelynn: 338 RP (-35 percent) Cowgirl Miss Fortune: 300 RP (-60 percent) This article includes affiliate links, which may provide small compensation to Dot Esports./post/how-does-mystery-gifting-work-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-does-mystery-gifting-work-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Mystery Gifting is a feature in Pokémon that has been around for many generations now. Using this allows players to get items and other goodies that wouldn’t typically be around in their current region. See Pokémon on Amazon For Sword and Shield veterans, who have had plenty of distributions through the method over the past years, Mystery Gifting should be familiar. If you’ve been away from the games for a while, you might not remember how it works./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-e-and-i-in-them/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-e-and-i-in-them/ A pro tip to reach the correct Wordle answer is to try out five-letter words with as many vowels as you can to narrow down your options. Only having two green vowels, however, is definitely not easy if you are running out of tries. Players can easily struggle with a green E and I and no other green letters. To help out players who are stuck in this situation, here is a list of five-letter words with E and I in them./post/best-tft-6-5-hextech-augments-to-play-in-neon-nights/Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-tft-6-5-hextech-augments-to-play-in-neon-nights/ More than 80 new Teamfight Tactics Hextch Augments were added in Set 6.5 Neon Nights to over 100 existing Gizmos & Gadgets Augments, creating a number of possibilities and flexible gameplay.  Hextech Augments within TFT Set 6.5 create opportunities to improve your best comp, earn econ, or open the door for a build you weren’t planning on creating. There are a number of best Hextech Augments to pick when playing a specific meta comp, along with general Hextech Augments that improve your board state./post/all-regular-cards-from-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-silver-lance-and-jet-black-poltergeist-sets-revealed/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-regular-cards-from-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-silver-lance-and-jet-black-poltergeist-sets-revealed/ Less than a week away from the launch of Pokémon TCG Silver Lance and Jet Black Poltergeist sets, all regular cards have been revealed. The two sets are themed around the Sword and Shield Crowned Tundra DLC and include many of the Pokémon reintroduced in the expansion alongside some new additions. A full list of normal cards from both sets was shared to the Pokémon forum Pokebeach earlier in the week./post/hearthstone-battlegrounds-designers-discuss-the-mode-finally-leaving-beta-improving-customization-options-and-upcoming-heroes/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-battlegrounds-designers-discuss-the-mode-finally-leaving-beta-improving-customization-options-and-upcoming-heroes/ Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds mode marked Blizzard Entertainment’s entry into the autobattler genre and has become a popular alternative to the constructed format. The game’s latest major update aimed to shake up the Battlegrounds meta in a big way. Patch 20.0.2 went live on May 4, adding three heroes and introducing a new minion type, Quilboars, which gathers strength through the use of Blood Gems. But this is hardly the first time Blizzard has thrown a curveball at Battlegrounds fans since the mode was released over a year ago back in November 2019./post/rainbow-six-siege-servers-unreachable-error-code-3-0x0001000b-explained/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rainbow-six-siege-servers-unreachable-error-code-3-0x0001000b-explained/ Designing a game is a challenging task. If there’s something even remotely more challenging than developing the game itself, it would be maintaining it. Rainbow Six Siege is more than five years old, and it’s had its fair share of problems that prevented players from connecting to the game. Considering most gamers only have a limited time on their hands, launching their game to face a connection error will be the last thing they’d like to see./post/best-gunslinger-builds-in-lost-ark/Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-gunslinger-builds-in-lost-ark/ The Gunner is among the classes of Lost Ark that offer the most specializations, which can be confusing at first. The Gunslinger is the advanced class that uses several weapons, depending on the situation. They can decimate enemies from afar and at a close distance. The Gunslinger isn’t the most popular class, but it’s fun to play and it’s strong in combat. They have to be careful about their positioning at all times since they’re more squishy than melee DPS classes./post/how-to-change-servers-in-new-world/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-servers-in-new-world/ Transferring characters from one server to another is a common feature found in MMOs like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, and many more. And it’s now available in New World, Amazon’s new open-world MMO. New World attracted hundreds of thousands of players when it launched on Sept. 27, 2021, only to leave many of them waiting and wondering for hours on end in lengthy server queues. Amazon has acknowledged the issues that many players have experienced and is now actively looking to add new servers and expand the capacity of the existing worlds./post/league-of-legends-patch-12-10b-full-notes-and-updates/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-patch-12-10b-full-notes-and-updates/ A myriad of changes has made their way to League of Legends in Patch 12.10b. The initial update, Patch 12.10, went live on Wednesday, May 25, and brought massive changes across the board. Every champion got a boost to their health, health per level, magic resistance, and armor per level. Healing mechanisms in the game were also targeted with the nerf hammer, shifting the meta sideways. Naturally, the update caused quite a stir on Summoner’s Rift./post/prime-gaming-page-leaks-new-valorant-agent/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/prime-gaming-page-leaks-new-valorant-agent/ VALORANT players got their first look at the upcoming agent on the VALORANT Prime Gaming loot page today, which featured an image of the new character that likely wasn’t supposed to be posted yet. A new VALORANT agent is always an exciting change since they can shake up the meta and breathe fresh life into the game. The agents are typically hinted at for months before being officially revealed, giving players Easter eggs and other cryptic hints to decipher./post/crumbz-announces-departure-from-lcs-talent-desk-looking-at-other-options-for-the-future/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/crumbz-announces-departure-from-lcs-talent-desk-looking-at-other-options-for-the-future/ One of the LCS’ longest-standing casters and analysts is stepping away from the desk in 2022—and may possibly be stepping away from League of Legends as a whole. Alberto “Crumbz” Rengifo, former LCS player, caster, and analyst for many years, announced last night that he won’t be involved in the LCS in any capacity in 2022. Crumbz has long been a proprietor on and off the air for the growth of North American talent to improve the strength of the region and it’s likely that he’ll continue to do so from a viewer’s perspective as the 2022 Spring Split nears./post/how-to-unlock-legends-in-apex-legends/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-legends-in-apex-legends/ Every new account in Apex Legends is given six free characters to choose from to play the battle royale. That’s less than a third of the possible characters players can use in the game, however: the rest must be unlocked before fans can play as them. The good news for new players is there are multiple ways to unlock characters, and they can be unlocked for free. That’s because there are multiple types of currency in Apex, and two specific types of currency that can be used to unlock legends: Legend Tokens and Apex Coins./post/xqc-unbans-viewer-who-allowed-him-to-win-fall-guys-game/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-unbans-viewer-who-allowed-him-to-win-fall-guys-game/ Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is still in beta, but it captured the hearts of many streamers and viewers before its full release. Each match of Fall Guys features 60 players and put them through maps filled with obstacles. Only survivors advance through the next rounds, giving the game a battle royale-like vibe. On one particular map today, with only 12 players remaining in the match, xQc pushed his way to the victory crown by overcoming giant boulders falling from the sky and pedals that spin around like a carousel./post/best-keyboards-for-mac-studio/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-keyboards-for-mac-studio/ Mac Studio is a compact and portable Mac workstation from Apple that offers incredible performance thanks to its M1 Max or M1 Ultra. Also, an array of ports are available. Mac Studio could be a top-tier choice for professional users. Having a good keyboard lets you make the most out of your Mac Studio and luckily dozens of keyboards are available on the market. However, not all of them are fully integrated with macOS and offer a satisfying typing experience./post/cs-go-pro-dev1ce-says-there-are-so-many-cheaters-in-valorant/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cs-go-pro-dev1ce-says-there-are-so-many-cheaters-in-valorant/ Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, one of the best CS:GO players of all time, recently expressed how unhappy he is with VALORANT‘s matchmaking system and stated cheaters he encountered in the game were openly toggling on their aimbots. The CS:GO pro not only voiced his frustrations about the number of cheaters—which is massive, according to him—but also how these hackers admitted to using hacks. Dev1ce said he was involved in instances where he was called a cheater by players who turned on their aimbots to match his skills./post/flame-fatales-speedrunning-event-raises-over-126-000-for-malala-fund/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/flame-fatales-speedrunning-event-raises-over-126-000-for-malala-fund/ The Flame Fatales speedrunning event raised over $126,000 in support of the Malala Fund this past week. Hosted by Games Done Quick and the Frame Fatales all-female speedrunning community, the event took place virtually on Twitch and the GDQ website, with women from all over the world beating their favorite games in record time to raise money for a good cause. The group has previously hosted the Fleet Fatales event, which raised over $80,000 for charity./post/how-to-unlock-the-gjallarhorn-catalyst-in-destiny-2/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-gjallarhorn-catalyst-in-destiny-2/ Gjallarhorn launched in Destiny 2 with the 30th Anniversary Pack. And as if the launcher couldn’t get any stronger, Bungie also added a catalyst to it, making it even more deadly. Getting it requires a trip to the Grasp of Avarice and a few secret steps. The Gjallarhorn catalyst is locked behind a set of secret chests in the new dungeon, which can only be opened with the Burdened by Riches buff./post/how-to-find-and-unlock-fortbyte-88-in-fortnite-season-9/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-and-unlock-fortbyte-88-in-fortnite-season-9/ Will the quest for Fortbytes in Fortnite: Battle Royale season nine ever end? Well, it will eventually. And with today’s Fortbyte, we’re one step closer to getting all 100. Fortbytes, a new collectible item added in season nine, task players with doing a series of missions to try and unlock them all. After you get 90, you’ll unlock this season’s secret costume. The next mission from Epic Games is a bit more obscure and asks fans to unlock Fortbyte 88, which is “found somewhere within map location J3./post/mtg-secret-lair-returns-in-january-with-year-of-the-rat/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-secret-lair-returns-in-january-with-year-of-the-rat/ Wizards of the Coast revealed a second Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair promotion today, this time featuring a rat theme.  A new Secret Lair bundle was unveiled today, showcasing four artists and their interpretations on rat-themed Magic cards. The bundle contains a total of eight foil cards and a one-of-a-kind card sleeve for $39.99. Sales for Year of the Rat will begin on Jan. 27. The bundle includes five copies of Rat Colony, Marrow-Gnawer, Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni, and Pack Rat./post/respawn-lead-level-designer-reveals-heatmap-used-during-apex-legends-development/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-lead-level-designer-reveals-heatmap-used-during-apex-legends-development/ Respawn lead level designer Jason McCord posted a heatmap that gives fans insight into the game’s development process. McCord’s tweet explained that the heatmaps were used to show Legend movement over six months of internal testing, before Apex Legends was shipped. During development, we use heatmaps to look at where players land, move through the map, die, etc. We use this data to draw conclusions on map flow and balance./post/endpoint-signs-rejin-as-new-cs-go-head-coach/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/endpoint-signs-rejin-as-new-cs-go-head-coach/ Endpoint has appointed Allan “Rejin” Petersen as the head coach of its CS:GO team in place of Allan Hender. The move comes after the conclusion of the PGL Antwerp Major and days after the organization transfer-listed Mohammad “BOROS” Malhas. The squad is now down to just four players. Rejin is mostly known for the period in which he served as MOUZ’s head coach between April 2019 and September 2020. The Danish tactician helped them win multiple tournaments, such as CS:GO Asia Championships in November 2019 and ESL Pro League season 10 in December 2019./post/where-to-dance-at-different-holiday-tree-locations-in-fortnite-operation-snowdown/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-dance-at-different-holiday-tree-locations-in-fortnite-operation-snowdown/ Just as gamers around the world started dusting off their Christmas trees, Epic Games decided to do the same with Fortnite’s seasonal events and introduced Operation Snowdown to the game. The map’s bottom right side is completely covered in snow now, and the developer brought out a new set of challenges, rewarding players with decent amounts of XP. In addition to the sweet battle pass XP you’ll gain by completing the Operation Snowdown challenges, you’ll also unlock free cosmetics designed exclusively for the event./post/valve-adds-winter-lineage-fantasy-treasure-increases-fantasy-league-rewards-with-new-dota-2-patch/Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valve-adds-winter-lineage-fantasy-treasure-increases-fantasy-league-rewards-with-new-dota-2-patch/ Valve has rolled out its latest content for Dota 2 in a small patch. The patch introduced the new Winter Lineage Fantasy Treasure, which features seven skins that were re-themed for the DPC season. Players will be able to claim a treasure for every three Fantasy Levels they’ve earned. While players will have quite a few Fantasy Levels from their earlier predictions, they’ll also be able to earn more in the upcoming days./post/how-to-unlock-all-operators-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-all-operators-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ Players who finished Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s campaign mode will be familiar with all of the side characters they run into throughout the story. Though playing as the protagonist may get boring in the story mode, players will have quite a few options to choose from in other game modes. These options are called operators and they don’t provide any gameplay advantage. Changing an operator is similar to using different skins in other games because it only changes only your character’s appearance and voice lines./post/blizzard-provides-an-update-on-the-2020-overwatch-path-to-pro/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-provides-an-update-on-the-2020-overwatch-path-to-pro/ Halfway through 2020, Blizzard has officially provided an update to the Overwatch Path to Pro initiative, including some thoughts around current issues and investments within the community.  Trevor Housten and Dan McHugh, the pair in charge of esports initiatives outside of OWL, touched on a lot of hot topics, including third-party tournaments, tier-two and three sustainability, and promoting players more.  Blizzard has already acknowledged that some of these issues are going to be hard to overcome in a short period of time, but the Path to Pro team said it is already working on ways to improve each of the most pressing areas of concern./post/dr-disrespect-s-home-reportedly-shot-at-during-livestream/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/dr-disrespect-s-home-reportedly-shot-at-during-livestream/ Popular Twitch streamer Guy “Dr DisRespect” Beahm was reportedly shot at this afternoon while livestreaming. Dr DisRespect quickly shut down the stream after the incident occurred. What sounds like gunshots can be heard on Twitch clips of the stream as Dr. Disrespect plays the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 battle royale mode. He leaves the scene once the shots are heard and returns moments later. “I  have to end the broadcast,” he said./post/mag-mell-s-new-world-server-was-down-for-maintenance-due-to-absolute-chaos/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mag-mell-s-new-world-server-was-down-for-maintenance-due-to-absolute-chaos/ Players on the New World US West server Mag Mell were in for a rude awakening during their prime time play when all of a sudden, all hell broke loose. At the time of writing, there is no explanation as to what caused the server time to jump 20 days into the future. Players immediately started reporting multiple issues, and none of them were small. Every town was being invaded, wars were instantly won and flipped to the attacker’s side, crafting stations were downgraded, people lost their homes, the server time was wrong, and people were getting Steam achievements for playtime./post/sneaky-confirms-he-won-t-be-playing-for-cloud9-next-year/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/sneaky-confirms-he-won-t-be-playing-for-cloud9-next-year/ Following ESPN’s report that Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen is joining Cloud9, veteran AD carry Zachary “Sneaky” Scuderi confirmed earlier today that he’ll no longer be on C9’s starting League of Legends roster next year. Sneaky also revealed a few issues between him and C9, saying that he didn’t want to compete for his starting spot on the team because there were a few people on the squad that didn’t want to play with their current bottom lane./post/the-biggest-competitive-mobile-games-of-2020/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-biggest-competitive-mobile-games-of-2020/ This year was an eventful one for the mobile gaming industry. Epic Games shook things up with its legal feud with Apple, Call of Duty: Mobile celebrated its one-year anniversary, and Riot Games launched the first beta for Wild Rift, the mobile version of its 10-year-old MOBA League of Legends, in select countries. Similar to the past few years, the mobile gaming industry grossed half of the global gaming market’s revenue in 2020 and is expected to reach the $100 billion mark in 2021, according to Newzoo./post/how-to-earn-victorious-blitzcrank-in-league-of-legends/Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-earn-victorious-blitzcrank-in-league-of-legends/ League of Legends players ranked gold or higher will get Victorious Blitzcrank as a reward for the 2021 rank season in November. On Oct. 5, Riot Games revealed which champion is getting get the Victorious skin in 2021. Unlike players thought from the teaser, though, it’s not Annie. This season, Blitzcrank, the Great Steam Golem, will receive the Victorious skin. At the end of each League ranked season, Riot rewards players who achieved gold or higher with a special skin, chromas, and matching icons./post/hirit-vander-neon-and-shlatan-set-to-star-in-misfits-gaming-s-lec-roster/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hirit-vander-neon-and-shlatan-set-to-star-in-misfits-gaming-s-lec-roster/ As we ramp up toward a new year, Misfits Gaming is getting ready for a retooling before the next LEC season. According to Jacob Wolf, the team has re-signed HiRit and Vander, signed Neon as starting AD carry, and promoted Shlatan to the main LEC roster. HiRit and Neon are reportedly signing for two years, while Vander is joining for one year only. Shlatan, on the other hand, is getting a promotion from the Misfits Premier roster in the LFL./post/idubbbz-confirms-valkyrae-has-shown-interest-in-next-creator-clash/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/idubbbz-confirms-valkyrae-has-shown-interest-in-next-creator-clash/ Following the conclusion of iDubbbz’s influencer boxing event, Creator Clash, a wide variety of streamers and fellow content creators publicly considered stepping into the ring. Popular YouTube streamer and 100 Thieves co-owner Valkyrae has been among the most vocal about potentially fighting on a future card. In an interview with Dexerto, iDubbbz seemed to confirm that contact had been made with Valkyrae, though ultimately her decision on whether to fight or not is still unclear./post/riot-gives-inside-look-into-master-yi-s-younger-days-of-training-with-new-league-short-story/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-gives-inside-look-into-master-yi-s-younger-days-of-training-with-new-league-short-story/ Becoming a Wuju swordsman can be a tough task for any person, no matter how strong they are. In Riot Games’ latest short story, called Poetry with a Blade, fans get a behind-the-scenes look at how Master Yi became one of the best users of the art of Wuju. The story starts off with a fiery, 15-year-old Yi heading off to train with Master Doran, a master weaponsmith who was well respected by Wuju’s own smiths and masters./post/1-million-artifact-tournament-scheduled-for-2019/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/1-million-artifact-tournament-scheduled-for-2019/ Last night, Valve president Gabe Newell revealed more details about Artifact, the upcoming online collectible card game developed by the Dota 2 publisher. The game is now in closed beta, with industry insiders and pro gamers alike trying it out for the first time. After the press conference, Valve dropped something else about the game: it’ll be hosting a tournament next year with a total prize pool of $1 million. The news was broken about an hour after the press event by Valve’s social media and community manager Wykrhm Reddy, via his Twitter account./post/can-the-exp-share-be-turned-off-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-the-exp-share-be-turned-off-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ The release of Pokémon Sword and Shield is quickly approaching and that means players are preparing to explore the Galar region. The EXP Share allows players to level up their entire team by using just one Pokémon in battle. Without the device, only Pokémon who have appeared on the battlefield throughout the battle will gain experience points. But with the EXP Share, all Pokémon will earn a chunk of experience from the safety of their Poké Balls./post/how-to-set-up-voicemail-on-iphone-13/Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-set-up-voicemail-on-iphone-13/ Even if you’re on your iPhone all the time, sometimes you’ll miss a call or two. Though some people may call you again in a few hours, others may prefer leaving a message if they have the option to do so. Setting up Voicemail on your iPhone 13 will allow callers to leave you messages, and you can listen to them whenever you’d like. If you’ve just made the switch to iPhone 13 from an Android device, it may be difficult to find out how you can set up your Voicemail on iPhone 13./post/how-to-perform-a-low-cross-in-fifa-21/Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-perform-a-low-cross-in-fifa-21/ You may not be able to master all of FIFA 21’s mechanics, but there are some key tricks that will improve your gameplay if you learn them. In FIFA 21, just like in real-life soccer, there are a variety of different ways to cross the ball for attackers. You have the classic high crosses, hanging crosses, whipped crosses, and low crosses, which are quite overpowered in the newest edition of FIFA./post/mtg-s-ikoria-lair-of-behemoths-mechanics-and-themes/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-s-ikoria-lair-of-behemoths-mechanics-and-themes/ Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is Magic: The Gathering‘s newest set. That means there are new and returning mechanics, as well as a slew of themes to build decks around. Here’s what you need to know about this monstrous set. Mechanics Ikoria is all about monsters and that means the mechanics complement big creatures. In this set, you’ll be able to befriend monsters with companion, change monsters by mutating them or giving them new keywords, and even exchange them for value using cycling./post/all-landing-spots-of-the-helicopter-in-fortnite-battle-royale-s-season-8/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-landing-spots-of-the-helicopter-in-fortnite-battle-royale-s-season-8/ The new obsession of Fortnite: Battle Royale is another object—but this time, it’s much more familiar than a giant purple cube with superpowers. A helicopter has been moving around the Fortnite island in season eight, and it’s been spotted a few times near the edge of the map. The helicopter was first seen northeast of Lazy Lagoon. It was then spotted moving east of that area, then all the way down along the coast to south of Paradise Palms until it started to move west toward Happy Hamlet./post/all-soft-caps-for-stats-and-attributes-in-elden-ring/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-soft-caps-for-stats-and-attributes-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring is an immersive role-playing game with nearly limitless customization for The Tarnished during your journey through the Lands Between. Aside from armor and weapons, the primary way Elden Ring allows you to personalize your character is with eight Attributes that can be increased with Runes. These Stats aren’t without limits, however. Each Attribute has multiple Soft Caps that, when reached, will cause diminishing returns for additional Runes spent on them. Below are the Soft Caps for each Attribute in Elden Ring./post/everything-we-learned-about-wow-classic-burning-crusade-during-blizzconline/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-we-learned-about-wow-classic-burning-crusade-during-blizzconline/ We didn’t get an official release date for the expected World of Warcraft Classic expansion into The Burning Crusade during BlizzConline, but a plethora of information was unveiled. Most of Blizzard’s announcements about TBC revolved around the approach the developers are taking in creating a vintage content expansion, including the potential for purchasable level boosts and making minor adjustments to the 15-year-old content. In regard to a release timeline, Blizzard said that TBC will be coming out sometime this year, but the exact timing wasn’t disclosed./post/how-to-craft-legendary-items-in-wow-shadowlands/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-craft-legendary-items-in-wow-shadowlands/ Legendaries, World of Warcraft’s strongest and most sought-after items, made their return in Shadowlands. This time around, instead of the long and arduous grind players have come to expect from Blizzard, Legendary items are crafted with the easy-to-use Runecarver system. Max-level players (60) can craft a Legendary of their choice by unlocking and speaking to the Runecarver in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. Legendary items can be customized through Legendary powers, which are unlocked by collecting Memory of the Runecarver recipes from Shadowlands content./post/how-to-play-winston-overwatch-strategy-tips-and-tricks/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-winston-overwatch-strategy-tips-and-tricks/ He’s not just a gorilla who was born and raised on the moon. He’s not just a primate that gets angry and pushes everyone around. He’s a scientist. Winston is a key component of Overwatch’s roster of heroes and he’s especially prevalent in certain team compositions that would basically fail to work without his presence. In the right hands, he can be an absolute game-changer. Here are some general tips and strategies to maximize your potential as a giant, angry, super-smart gorilla in Overwatch./post/wolfey-glick-wins-pok%C3%A9mon-players-cup-ii/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wolfey-glick-wins-pok%C3%A9mon-players-cup-ii/ After a long leadup and a delayed airing time to make sure the finals broadcast would be at its highest quality, the Play! Pokémon Players Cup II has crowned former world champion Wolfe “Wolfey” Glick as its victor. Wolfey is almost always considered a favorite in any Pokémon tournament he competes in, and he proved why after battling back from an early playoff loss to take a clean 2-0 victory over Davide “Nirinbo” Carrer./post/all-snubbull-limited-research-day-rewards-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-snubbull-limited-research-day-rewards-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The fifth Pokémon Go Limited Research Day is going to launch May 9, with a focus on the Fairy Pokémon Snubbull.  This will be a direct tie into the Johto Throwback Challenge event going on right now, as the Johto native Fairy-type brings 20 pages of Research Tasks for players to complete, with each offering a minimum of three reward encounters.  Limited Research tasks will appear as Timed Research in the Today’s View menu rather than alongside the Research Tasks you would normally receive from spinning PokéStops./post/macaiyla-apologizes-after-receiving-2-week-ban-on-twitch/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/macaiyla-apologizes-after-receiving-2-week-ban-on-twitch/ Twitch streamer Macaiyla addressed her two-week suspension from the platform on Twitter shortly after her ban was announced. Late on June 3, StreamerBans first broke the news that League of Legends and IRL streamer Macaiyla had been hit with a two-week suspension. This is the Twitch partner’s third ban since she started streaming in July 2019. Without word from Macaiyla herself initially, many viewers speculated about the reasons for her ban./post/south-korea-s-government-thanks-blizzard-for-promoting-its-culture-through-overwatch-and-d-va-s-hanbok-skin/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/south-korea-s-government-thanks-blizzard-for-promoting-its-culture-through-overwatch-and-d-va-s-hanbok-skin/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Blizzard revealed on its Korean website earlier today that it was awarded the “Hanbok Love” certificate by the government of South Korea for the modern Hanbok skin of D.Va. Each year, the new Lunar Year is celebrated in Overwatch with exclusive skins inspired by Chinese and Korean cultures. In 2017, the featured skin was for D.Va. Other Lunar Year skins also promote South Korean culture, like Magistrate McCree, Hong Gildong Tracer, and Sanye Orisa./post/apex-fan-gets-incredible-play-with-mad-maggie-using-riot-drill-mastiff-and-flatline/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-fan-gets-incredible-play-with-mad-maggie-using-riot-drill-mastiff-and-flatline/ Mad Maggie came to Apex Legends a month ago and players already figured out clever ways to use her kit. A fan, however, took advantage of her abilities to take down four enemies in Kings Canyon. Reddit user the1true_chicken employed a combination of Maggie’s affinity for shotguns, her highlighting enemies, and a clever use of her Riot Drill to take down two squads near Kings Canyon’s Bunker, as seen in a video they posted to Reddit./post/rarest-mirage-skins-in-apex-legends/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rarest-mirage-skins-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends prides itself on a variety of characters will different styles for players to chose from. While each character has its own dedicated fanbase, one of the most popular legends is Mirage. The Holographic Trickster has many different looks available in the game for players to chose from. These skins range from Common to Epic and Mythic skins, which vary from simple recolors to complete redesigns of the character./post/what-is-spoofing-in-pokemon-go/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-spoofing-in-pokemon-go/ During quarantine, Pokémon Go surged back into popularity as more people worked remotely and had time to kill without those tedious commutes to and from work. See Pokémon on Amazon So, people grabbed their phones, ventured across unique locations, reliving their oft-long-forgotten childhood dreams of being a real-life Pokémon trainer all over again. But during this time, some people were able to progress in Pokémon Go from the comfort of their homes./post/neptune-s-contract-with-immortals-valorant-roster-has-come-to-an-end/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/neptune-s-contract-with-immortals-valorant-roster-has-come-to-an-end/ It looks like Immortals will continue to rebuild its roster ahead of 2021’s VALORANT Champions Tour. Jason “neptune” Tran announced today that his contract with Immortals “has come to an end.” Though the 18-year-old primarily played sentinels for Immortals, he says he’s “comfortable and flexible” playing any agent for a new team. My contract has come to an end with @Immortals; I would like to thank them for all the achievements and experiences we had./post/all-valorant-season-start-and-end-dates/Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-valorant-season-start-and-end-dates/ Even if players start their VALORANT journey casually playing only a few normal matches a day, it’s almost inevitable to find yourself queuing up for ranked matches to put your skills to the test against other players. VALORANT’s ranked mode is the perfect place to see how you stack up against the competition and a great way to improve over time. As you get better at the game, you’ll slowly start climbing the ranked ladder and start facing better players./post/here-are-the-2021-lcs-summer-split-standings/Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-2021-lcs-summer-split-standings/ The LCS is back with some major format changes.  Riot believes these changes, combined with an “overhaul” of the amateur ecosystem, will help develop North America into a competitive region in League of Legends.  The regular season has been expanded to five games a day, three days a week. Instead of the usual spring and summer seasons, though, the splits have now been combined to seed the end-of-summer LCS Championship./post/the-best-graphics-settings-for-monster-hunter-rise/Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-graphics-settings-for-monster-hunter-rise/ Monster Hunter Rise is no longer exclusive to the Nintendo Switch because it’s finally made its way to PC via Steam. Overall, the game has been spruced up nicely for its PC debut, which is a welcome sight. So, choosing optimal graphics settings is vital for enjoying the game to its fullest. If you’re running Monster Hunter Rise on a lower or medium tier rig, no worries, because Monster Hunter Rise isn’t too demanding—the minimum system requirements require a mere GT 1030 or Radeon RX 550./post/fortnite-cheater-loses-lawsuit-to-epic-damages-paid-to-be-donated-to-charity/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-cheater-loses-lawsuit-to-epic-damages-paid-to-be-donated-to-charity/ Fortnite’s status as one of the most popular games in the industry can attract people who want to take advantage of the game and its players. As long as there have been games, people have been willing to pay for an unearned advantage. But now, a cheater in Fortnite has lost their lawsuit and must pay Epic Games for the damages they caused. Brandon “BlazeFN” Despotakis was a Fortnite hacker who was known for selling cheats and artwork that looked just like what the actual game was putting out./post/wow-classic-season-of-mastery-to-launch-globally-on-nov-16/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wow-classic-season-of-mastery-to-launch-globally-on-nov-16/ The next installment in WoW: Classic, the Season of Mastery, is coming to servers on Nov. 16, Blizzard Entertainment announced today.  Season of Mastery gives WoW: Classic players a chance to start fresh and experience the game in a new setting. Players will be able to start the game over from level one again and the WoW: Classic team will be rolling out the game’s original content over six phases over the span of the next year./post/fortnite-retakes-top-spot-on-twitch-for-battle-royales-over-apex-legends-warzone/Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-retakes-top-spot-on-twitch-for-battle-royales-over-apex-legends-warzone/ Epic Games’ Fortnite has reclaimed the top spot on Twitch in the battle royale genre after months of trailing behind competitors Apex Legends and Warzone. Over the past 30 days, Fornite has seen a significant resurgence across Twitch, quickly becoming the streaming platform’s fastest-growing title in terms of viewership. With more than 84 million total hours viewed, Fortnite has seen a 38 percent increase, according to Sully Gnome The Epic Games hit game also currently boasts the most hours streamed at over 4 million, a 13 percent increase over the past month./post/how-to-purchase-a-loadout-drop-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-purchase-a-loadout-drop-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Looting is one of the most random in-game mechanics in any battle royale. When you land in Warzone, you can simply get outclassed by an opponent if you happen to find your least favorite weapon as your first loot. Loadout Drops aims to fix this randomness at a later stage of the game since it allows players to access their custom loadouts. Not only do players get to have their favorite weapons, but they’ll also get their hands on perks in a Warzone match./post/olaf-taliyah-pantheon-and-kai-sa-had-100-percent-presence-rate-during-first-week-of-2021-lec-spring-split/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/olaf-taliyah-pantheon-and-kai-sa-had-100-percent-presence-rate-during-first-week-of-2021-lec-spring-split/ The 2021 LEC Spring Split kicked off this past weekend. The 10 best teams in the region showcased their potential, battling each other over three days. All of the teams had clear preferences when it came to the drafting phase. Olaf, Taliyah, Pantheon, and Kai’Sa were the four League of Legends champions that had a 100-percent presence rate during the first week of the 2021 LEC Spring Split. ChampionPicksBansWin rate (%)Olaf31266./post/throw-glaive-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-upcoming-madness-at-the-darkmoon-faire-expansion/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/throw-glaive-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-upcoming-madness-at-the-darkmoon-faire-expansion/ The final card reveal stream for Hearthstone’s upcoming Madness at the Darkmoon Faire expansion is underway. So far, we’ve seen some exciting new toys, including Throw Glaive for the Demon Hunter class. Throw Glaive is a one-cost Demon Hunter spell that you should get used to seeing a lot of. Throw Glaive deals two damage to a minion. If that minion dies, Throw Glave then generates a temporary copy of itself in your hand./post/valorant-s-latest-skin-line-g-u-n-is-inspired-by-1960s-science-fiction/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-s-latest-skin-line-g-u-n-is-inspired-by-1960s-science-fiction/ Riot Games showcased its next set of VALORANT skins today, previewing Gravitational Uranium Neuroblaster—or G.U.N. for short.  Inspired by 1960s science fiction, retro-futurism, and the works of authors like Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Charles Clarke, and the Strugatsky brothers, G.U.N. brings a totally new aesthetic to the tactical shooter.  The extra-terrestrial weapons included in the bundle are the Classic, Bucky, Spectre, Operator, and melee weapon. The premium edition skins will coincide with VALORANT’s Patch 1./post/riot-reveals-samira-as-sharpshooter-slayer-in-tft-set-4-5/Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-samira-as-sharpshooter-slayer-in-tft-set-4-5/ Riot Games officially unveiled Samira today as Teamfight Tactics‘ newest five-cost champion in Set 4.5.  A full release of every champion and trait in the set will likely drop on Jan. 4 with the 11.1 patch notes. Set 4.5 is scheduled to go live on Jan. 21, and spoilers have included champions such as Swain, Tryndamere, and Olaf.  The reveal of Samira as a Sharpshooter and Slayer today completes the TFT champion spoilers for both traits./post/pokimane-women-have-leg-up-on-twitch-because-they-stand-out-so-much/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pokimane-women-have-leg-up-on-twitch-because-they-stand-out-so-much/ Women have an “easier” time breaking into Twitch streaming in the early days, Pokimane suggests, due to the fact they stand out among the hordes of hopefuls on the platform across all its many categories. “When you have 100 viewers or less, there’s so many channels that when you’re a girl you stand out,” she said, “because there’s just less girls than guys on Twitch.” Pokimane’s comments come amid an ongoing debate on the platform spearheaded by several major Twitch streamers, including xQc and Mizkif./post/what-does-zwischenzug-mean-in-chess/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-does-zwischenzug-mean-in-chess/ Also known as an in-between move in English, a zwischenzug in chess is a surprise trick where you interpose a move before your expected response, changing the state of the board in the process and turning the game in your favor. Sometimes, it is also referred to as an intermezzo or an intermediate move. Zwischenzugs can remove defenders, deflect pieces, check kings, and otherwise mess up many of the best-laid plans./post/liquid-rebrands-league-roster-to-team-liquid-honda-ahead-of-2022-lcs-summer-split/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/liquid-rebrands-league-roster-to-team-liquid-honda-ahead-of-2022-lcs-summer-split/ Team Liquid has taken its partnership with car manufacturer Honda to the next level following today’s announcement that the org’s prestigious League roster will officially compete under the name “Team Liquid Honda.” This naming partnership has been made official just a day before the start of the 2022 LCS Summer Split. Aside from the Honda branding getting affixed to the official team name, the Honda logo is now front and center of the new 2022 Liquid League jersey, as revealed in an official announcement trailer./post/how-to-change-jobs-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-jobs-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ It’s hard to get bored in an MMORPG like Final Fantasy XIV. From challenges to PvP, there’s always something to do in the game. And if you’re feeling adventurous, you can even try out different classes or jobs. Unlike other MMORPGs, switching between classes or jobs in Final Fantasy XIV is relatively simple. You’ll need to unlock the class you’d like to try out first, however. You can do so by completing that class’ questline./post/all-alolan-geodude-pok%C3%A9mon-go-community-day-a-rocky-road-research-tasks-and-rewards/Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-alolan-geodude-pok%C3%A9mon-go-community-day-a-rocky-road-research-tasks-and-rewards/ Get ready to rock and load with the Pokémon Go May Community Day, as Alolan Geodude and its railgun of a final evolution begin appearing more frequently for players from 11am to 2pm local time on May 21.  As always, players will see an increased number of the featured Pokémon in the wild, with Shiny Alolan Geodude also being available as players encounter the Rock/Electric-type. And, for anyone who evolves an Alolan Geodude into an Alolan Golem, it will know the event-exclusive move Rollout./post/venonat-venomoth-will-appear-in-a-regional-pok%C3%A9dex-for-the-first-time-in-over-20-years-in-pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/venonat-venomoth-will-appear-in-a-regional-pok%C3%A9dex-for-the-first-time-in-over-20-years-in-pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet/ There are many different elements Pokémon fans focus on when a trailer for a new game drops, one of which is the number of new and returning Pokémon that make an appearance.  New Pokémon typically receive the most attention, which was still the case with the new Scarlet and Violet trailer thanks to the lovable little Lechonk. Venonat, however, appeared midway through the video, bounding through the grass, and fans around the world who recognized the significance of the moment celebrated./post/how-to-get-a-shiny-galarian-slowpoke-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-a-shiny-galarian-slowpoke-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Galarian Slowpoke is here. A free update in Pokémon Sword and Shield added it to the game today following the news that DLC expansions with hundreds of new and returning Pokémon are coming to the games. Obviously, with any new Pokémon release, shiny hunters are quick to try and get their hands on the shiny variant of that Pokémon—and Galarian Slowpoke is no exception. It seems as if the original encounter with Galarian Slowpoke in Wedgehurst is shiny locked, as far as we can tell./post/the-most-popular-champions-in-the-2022-lec-spring-split-regular-season/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-most-popular-champions-in-the-2022-lec-spring-split-regular-season/ The 2022 LEC Spring Split regular season has finally come to an end. While fans got the chance to see almost 100 unique champions played throughout the split, there have been some champs that have stood out among the crowd. Here are some of the most popular champions in the LEC this split. Jinx No surprises here, Jinx was the most popular champion in the regular season. She was picked 61 times out of 90 games, according to Leaguepedia./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hearthstone-s-newest-free-card-transfer-student/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hearthstone-s-newest-free-card-transfer-student/ Earlier this week, Blizzard introduced Hearthstone’s next expansion, Scholomance Academy. During this announcement, the company also gave every account two free copies of a card to preview that’s from the set, Transfer Student. Players can claim this card by simply logging into the game. The card will be added to their collection once they load in. Players have until Oct. 20 to get this card for free before it’s presumed that they must craft it with Arcane Dust or open it in Scholomance Academy packs./post/beast-liver-location-in-elden-ring-how-to-find-and-use-beast-liver/Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/beast-liver-location-in-elden-ring-how-to-find-and-use-beast-liver/ The new crafting system in Elden Ring is a great addition for new and returning FromSoftware players. Gone are the days of scavenging around the world, farming enemies, or finding vendors to buy the frequently used consumable items. FromSoftware added this system to give players the freedom and flexibility to craft their own consumable, and even throwable, items on-the-go. The items created through this new system aid the player in a variety of ways./post/cod-mobile-s-undead-siege-mode-will-not-be-available-in-season-8/Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cod-mobile-s-undead-siege-mode-will-not-be-available-in-season-8/ After months of requests by the community, Activision finally released a new zombies mode to Call of Duty: Mobile in season six. The Undead Siege mode takes place on the battle royale map, Isolated, with players having to defend a mobile base from hordes of zombies. See Call of Duty on Amazon With a huge number of players enjoying the Undead Siege, Activision extended the limited time mode until the game’s ongoing seventh season./post/cod-champs-age-restrictions/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cod-champs-age-restrictions/ The recent excitement regarding the Call of Duty World Championship comes with a disappointing realization that all players must be 18 years old before Jan. 17 to be able to compete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUsh8TV3ZwE Although the actual event takes place from March 27-29 in Los Angeles the online qualifying tournaments begin on January 17, requiring all competing players to be 18 years old before the qualification process begins. This rule is upheld for legal purposes to meet various laws regarding the age of people competing for a large amount of money./post/league-players-are-reporting-a-never-ending-loading-screen-bug-plaguing-their-games/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-players-are-reporting-a-never-ending-loading-screen-bug-plaguing-their-games/ If you’ve been stuck on the League of Legends loading screen recently, you aren’t alone. Many players have been reporting annoying loading issues that have even cost them some of their games. Players have said that while in the loading screen, their League client crashes without any warning. The screen, however, doesn’t change from the champion portraits. The game will then start while the player sits in a crashed loading screen waiting for their game to begin./post/flandre-saves-the-day-on-malphite-in-edg-s-hard-fought-win-over-fpx/Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/flandre-saves-the-day-on-malphite-in-edg-s-hard-fought-win-over-fpx/ EDward Gaming took down FunPlus Phoenix today in two close games in week five of the 2022 LPL Spring Split. EDG drafted a teamfight-heavy composition with the rising Hecarim pick to help mitigate FPX’s mid to late-game scaling damage. So if EDG were going to win game one, it needed to be done in the early game. The first play of the game started at five minutes when Scout was caught overextended and pathed toward Jiejie’s Hecarim./post/new-valorant-rgx-11z-pro-bundle-introduces-katana-kill-counter-and-unique-wall-hit-decals/Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-valorant-rgx-11z-pro-bundle-introduces-katana-kill-counter-and-unique-wall-hit-decals/ VALORANT players will soon get to enjoy the new RGX Pro bundle, inspired by “high-end gaming hardware,” featuring LED lights and spinning mechanical components. The bundle also introduces a new kill counter and the first Katana in VALORANT. Gaming hardware has a unique aesthetic consisting of LED lights and mechanical components that are often on display. Most players embrace this aesthetic and the new RGX Pro Bundle is the perfect option for fans who want the same experience in-game./post/zp-joins-overwatch-league-broadcast-talent-to-partner-with-jake/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/zp-joins-overwatch-league-broadcast-talent-to-partner-with-jake/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Andrew “ZP” Rush is joining the Overwatch League broadcast talent lineup to cast matches alongside Jake Lyon. ZP has been casting Overwatch from near the beginning of its esports existence. Longtime fans will immediately recognize his voice from some of the most grassroots moments of Overwatch as a competitive game dating back to the title’s beta. Very happy to announce that my fifth year of casting @PlayOverwatch will be done with the @OverwatchLeague for the 2020 season!/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-s-season-5-update/Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-s-season-5-update/ Season five is here in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and it includes a whole lot of new content for CoD grinders to sink their teeth into. As with all previous seasonal updates in Black Ops Cold War, the update includes new maps, weapons, Operators, and more inside of the battle pass’ 100 tiers of unlocks. Even Hudson from the Black Ops campaign is joining the game. Five Multiplayer maps./post/wii-dsi-shop-channels-experiencing-unexplained-outages/Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wii-dsi-shop-channels-experiencing-unexplained-outages/ Over the last several days, starting on March 16, users have reported that the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel has remained inaccessible globally on both the original Wii and Wii U’s Wii menus. Additionally, the Nintendo DSi Shop is giving users similar issues.  Nintendo hasn’t provided official information about these outages, leaving fans and users of the older hardware hoping this is just an unexpected problem that will be resolved and not the sudden removal of all functionality./post/all-festive-fervor-challenges-and-rewards-in-call-of-duty-vanguard-and-warzone/Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-festive-fervor-challenges-and-rewards-in-call-of-duty-vanguard-and-warzone/ ‘Tis the season to run from a Santa Claus goat-man who wants to rip your head off. Festive Fervor is now live in Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone, bringing a bunch of new challenges and seasonal gameplay elements for the holiday season in both games. The end period of the year is definitely a festive one in CoD. As part of the event, little elves will randomly spawn on multiplayer maps in Vanguard and on Caldera in Warzone./post/cliodhna-and-more-go-live-tomorrow-with-smite-patch-8-10/Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cliodhna-and-more-go-live-tomorrow-with-smite-patch-8-10/ If you’re craving a new deity, then it’s almost time to head back to the Battleground of the Gods. Starting tomorrow, Smite players will be able to assume the role of Cliodhna, the Queen of the Banshees. The Banshee Queen will go live alongside the above skin, Deadly Doll Cliodhna. She’ll also have a standard recolor, as well as a series of standard mastery skins. Deadly Doll Cliodhna will only be available through the Halloween chest./post/tft-cloud9-fates-na-qualifier-standings/Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-cloud9-fates-na-qualifier-standings/ A total of 24 Teamfight Tactics players competed in the North American Cloud9 Qualifiers this weekend, with four tacticians earning an invite to the NA Fates Qualifier four tournament.  Players competing in the C9 Fates NA Qualifier showcased a new TFT meta from the launch of Fates: Festival of Beasts. The third NA Fates Qualifier took place from Jan. 29 to 31. Each day of competition featured a slightly new format to the TFT esports scene./post/how-to-evolve-pancham-into-pangoro-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-evolve-pancham-into-pangoro-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Now that Pancham has been added into Pokémon Go, players are going to start seeing more of the unique evolution mechanics that were introduced in Pokémon X and Y be retooled in new ways for the app.  Typically, Pancham would evolve by leveling it up to level 32 while having another Dark-type Pokémon in your party. This would trigger the evolution, causing Pancham to evolve into Pangoro.  Similarly to the recently introduced Spritzee, Swirlix, and Goomy, Pancham also requires a different method than its main-series counterpart in order to evolve in Pokémon Go./post/how-to-play-pubg-mobile-s-hundred-rhythms-mode/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-pubg-mobile-s-hundred-rhythms-mode/ PUBG Mobile’s patch 1.3 is here with the Hundred Rhythms mode, equipping players with a “music armband” which gives them different power-ups to get the chicken dinner. The update also comes with the new Mosin-Nagant Sniper Rifle and the Motor Glider. The Hundred Rhythms mode is only available on the Erangel map. It will follow the same rules as the classic battle royale mode with 100 players dropping to get the victory./post/queued-for-download-error-is-forcing-players-to-reset-their-ps5-consoles/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/queued-for-download-error-is-forcing-players-to-reset-their-ps5-consoles/ There are always going to be little errors that pop up when new hardware is released, but one error that some players are encountering with their new PlayStation 5 consoles is causing a lot of problems.  The “Queued for Download” error that’s popping up for some users today essentially requires a full factory reset to fix the issue.  The bug pops up when you go to download a game or app onto the console./post/all-vow-of-the-disciple-raid-weapons-in-destiny-2/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-vow-of-the-disciple-raid-weapons-in-destiny-2/ The Vow of the Disciple raid in Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion brought with it a host of new weapons with a powerful Origin Trait. Vow of the Disciple features six new Legendary weapons and a new Exotic Pulse Rifle to chase. Each of the Legendary weapons has an acquirable pattern for crafting, as well as their own set of unique perks tied to the raid. Vow of the Disciple’s Origin Trait, Souldrinker, is integrated on all of these guns and allows the player to gain health based on the number of hits before reloading./post/tracer-pack-attack-on-titan-bundle-coming-to-call-of-duty-vanguard/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tracer-pack-attack-on-titan-bundle-coming-to-call-of-duty-vanguard/ Call of Duty: Vanguard is receiving an Attack on Titan bundle to celebrate the show’s final season, allowing fans to use a Captain Levi Ackerman-inspired operator skin.  Attack on Titan, one of the most popular anime series, is now in its fourth and final season. Fans everywhere are anxiously tuning in to see the show’s climax and this Vanguard crossover is a great way to celebrate the end of the series./post/underdog-system-will-be-added-in-next-brawl-stars-update/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/underdog-system-will-be-added-in-next-brawl-stars-update/ A new solution to unbalanced matchmaking in 3-vs.-3 matches has been found and will be introduced in the upcoming Brawl Stars update, Supercell announced earlier today. In the 3-vs.-3 mode, players are usually matched with teammates and opponents of the same number of trophies. But it gets more complicated to get balanced matchmaking when two friends of different levels want to play together: the third player can have a number of trophies different than the average./post/valorant-s-give-back-bundle-results-are-in-reaver-sheriff-and-vandal-ion-op-and-valorant-go-spectre-are-making-a-comeback/Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-s-give-back-bundle-results-are-in-reaver-sheriff-and-vandal-ion-op-and-valorant-go-spectre-are-making-a-comeback/ The votes have been counted and the polls are closed—we have our winners. Riot unveiled the four weapon skins that will be in the Give Back Bundle, allowing fans to decide which cosmetics make a return. The Reaver Sheriff, Ion Operator, VALORANT GO! Vol. 1 Spectre, and Reaver Vandal will be available in one neatly-wrapped collection between June 22 and July 8, according to today’s announcement. And a portion of the proceeds will go toward Riot’s Social Impact Fund./post/the-rarest-loba-skins-in-apex-legends/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-rarest-loba-skins-in-apex-legends/ Since its launch in 2018, Apex Legends has released countless skins. Some were time-limited with seasonal events, while others were obtainable through the battle passes. Like all of Apex‘s playable characters, Loba joined the game with 15 basic skins, 15 rare, five epic, and four legendary skins—all of which can be purchased at any time in the game menu for crafting materials. On the other side, she doesn’t have dedicated chromas yet, which usually belong to the category of the rarest skins since they require their Legendary variant and can only be purchased when they rotate in the game’s shop on rare occasions./post/witch-queen-to-raise-destiny-2-s-power-level-floor-to-1350-soft-cap-to-1500/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/witch-queen-to-raise-destiny-2-s-power-level-floor-to-1350-soft-cap-to-1500/ Destiny 2‘s upcoming The Witch Queen expansion will give fans a familiar power level boost when it launches on Feb. 22. In a blog post today, Bungie detailed a series of changes coming with The Witch Queen, including the Power Level thresholds throughout the first season of the expansion. The Power Level floor will raise to 1350, meaning all existing items will drop with at least 1350 Power Level—even if you pulled them from the Collections tab./post/certain-affinity-deepening-relationship-with-halo-developer-343-industries/Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/certain-affinity-deepening-relationship-with-halo-developer-343-industries/ Season one of Halo Infinite is coming to a close and the live team at developer 343 Industries is looking to nestle into a consistent production schedule after season two’s release on May 3. To help shape that schedule and paint a bright future for Halo’s newest title, independent developer Certain Affinity has announced that its partnership as a support studio is evolving into something deeper. Halo Infinite hasn’t had the smooth launch that 343 probably hoped for, with the game’s second multiplayer season delayed for a two to three month period that led to its new May release date./post/respawn-balance-designer-wants-to-see-gibraltar-get-buffed-in-apex/Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-balance-designer-wants-to-see-gibraltar-get-buffed-in-apex/ Among the top players in the Apex Legends community, Gibraltar reigns supreme. The Shielded Fortress is widely acknowledged as one of the best legends in the game, even after getting nerfed several times. Gibby is versatile: His bombardment ultimate and passive gun shield make him a strong damage dealer and his tactical bubble is near-broken on defense. There’s no other ability that comes close to the team reset Gibraltar’s bubble can provide./post/best-renata-glasc-build-in-league-of-legends/Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-renata-glasc-build-in-league-of-legends/ Renata Glasc is the 159th champion to join League of Legends. The Chem Baroness is the first support added to the game in more than a year, and her unique kit makes her one-of-a-kind. With the release of Renata Glasc, a new mechanic called Berserk has been introduced to the game. It causes enemies to attack each other, before switching to neutral monsters. Seeing as how Renata’s ultimate is an AoE spell, players should aim to use it on groups of enemies for maximum impact./post/where-to-find-trivial-enigmatic-and-ascendant-mysteries-in-destiny-2-shattered-realm-forest-of-echoes/Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-trivial-enigmatic-and-ascendant-mysteries-in-destiny-2-shattered-realm-forest-of-echoes/ Destiny 2‘s Shattered Realm: Forest of Echoes hides far more than just the location of the lost Techeuns. Players can find a series of secret chests as part of Trivial Mysteries if they know where to look. Looting the chest will automatically conclude the Trivial Mystery, so they are essentially the same thing. Finding the Mysteries involves a fair bit of going back and forth through the Ascendant Plane. The effort is worth it, though./post/where-to-find-a-thunder-stone-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-a-thunder-stone-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ When dealing with evolutions involving the use of specific items, some will only be used once depending on how general their applications are. The exception to that rule is typically Evolution Stones or other items dealing with typings because they have a wide range of Pokémon they can apply to.  Pokémon Legends: Arceus uses all of the Evolution Stones at least once, with some, like the Thunder Stone, being usable on multiple species that appear in the game./post/dwg-kia-take-home-2021-lck-summer-finals-after-3-1-victory-against-t1/Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dwg-kia-take-home-2021-lck-summer-finals-after-3-1-victory-against-t1/ DAMWON Gaming took home the 2021 LCK Summer Finals in a 3-1 victory against T1 today. The result marks the team’s third consecutive LCK championship win, after last year’s LCK Summer playoffs and the 2021 Spring finals—with the 2020 League of Legends World Championship between the two. 🎉 Congratulations to the 2021 #LCK Summer Split Champions: @DWGKIA 🎉 pic.twitter.com/i7gtYdQv5C — LCK Global (@LCK_Global) August 28, 2021 Only one other organization had won three LCK titles in a row./post/garruk-returns-to-mtg-standard-in-throne-of-eldraine/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/garruk-returns-to-mtg-standard-in-throne-of-eldraine/ The fairy tale spoilers from Throne of Eldraine continue to roll in with Garruk, Cursed Huntsman. Throne of Eldraine (ELD) brings back a fan-favorite planeswalker that everyone in the MTG community has been asking for. Garruk, Cursed Huntsman could have a huge impact on Standard following the fall rotation.  Rolling with a wolf tribal theme, Garruk, Cursed Huntsman creates two wolf tokens (two/two) at a zero-cost loyalty counter. Combine this with Nightpack Ambusher and they become instant three/three tokens./post/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-set-to-host-mythical-melee-online-tournament-on-sep-10/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-set-to-host-mythical-melee-online-tournament-on-sep-10/ A brand-new tournament is set to begin in Pokémon Sword and Shield–and it will require players to create a party of strictly legendary Pokémon. The brand new Mythical Melee tournament was announced to begin on Sep. 10 and is a single battle event with only legendary Pokémon allowed. 『ポケモン ソード・シールド』の公式インターネット大会「レジェンド オブ ラウンド」のエントリーが、9月10日（金）8時59分まで受け付け中！ 伝説のポケモン・幻のポケモンだけが使用可能なシングルバトルだよ！ 「バトルスタジアム」から「インターネット大会」を選んで参加してね！#ポケモン剣盾 pic.twitter.com/b0rK3lzfyt — ポケモン公式ツイッター (@Pokemon_cojp) August 26, 2021 This is one of the more unique premises for an online tournament, given that most of the time, legendary Pokémon are restricted./post/the-6-best-gaming-glasses/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-6-best-gaming-glasses/ Gaming monitors and chairs play a significant role when it comes to ergonomics, they make sure you don’t strain your body during prolonged gaming sessions. A gaming monitor and color profiles are influential on dry eyes after long periods gaming, but the best gaming glasses can help. They can block off UV light along with some blue light so you can sleep better at night by protecting and cutting down on eye strain. High energy blue light is well-documented to boost alertness, which isn’t great if you’re trying to sleep soon!/post/ibdw-beats-mang0-and-zain-wins-smash-summit-12/Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ibdw-beats-mang0-and-zain-wins-smash-summit-12/ In what was likely the most stacked Super Smash Bros. Melee event of 2021, iBDW overcame several of his biggest bracket demons to claim his second Major title at Smash Summit 12 last night.  Starting in pools, iBDW beat Hungrybox 3-1 to claim the top seed out of his bracket, leading into a high-level Fox ditto with Leffen, who was making his 2021 international LAN debut.  HE BE GETTING W'S IN #SmashSummit 12 GRAND FINALS!/post/twitch-officially-launches-more-than-350-new-stream-tags-related-to-gender-sexual-orientation-race-and-more/Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-officially-launches-more-than-350-new-stream-tags-related-to-gender-sexual-orientation-race-and-more/ Twitch has officially launched its new set of stream tags for all creators on its platform. This includes more than 350 tags related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health, and other important descriptors.  Twitch decided to launch these new stream tags as a way to give streamers more descriptive choices in terms of how they label their streams for additional discoverability.  📢 The new tags are now available./post/is-widowmaker-blue-or-purple/Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-widowmaker-blue-or-purple/ Amélie Lacroix—that’s Widowmaker before she was Widowmaker—hasn’t always been an emotionless sniper. Overwatch bad guys Talon captured Amélie as a way to get at her husband, Gérard Lacroix—an Overwatch agent. She underwent neural reconditioning after being kidnapped by Talon. That’s when she killed her husband in his sleep. The next step in her Talon transformation was to alter her physiology. By slowing her heart, Widowaker became unable to feel human emotions./post/ence-secure-their-first-esl-pro-league-final-over-ninjas-in-pyjamas/Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ence-secure-their-first-esl-pro-league-final-over-ninjas-in-pyjamas/ ENCE have confidently beaten Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0 in the first semifinal of the ESL Pro League Season 15 today. The Finnish team continue their admirable run through the tournament. In today’s game, their squad full of up-and-coming players were arguably the underdogs. With a firm showing on Nuke and incredible resilience on Ancient, however, ENCE advanced to their first ESL Pro League grand final. The match began on ENCE’s pick, Nuke, giving NiP the option to choose the sides on which they would begin./post/overwatch-competitive-mode-ranks-explained/Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-competitive-mode-ranks-explained/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. For many people, Overwatch is a game they play to relax with friends and have fun. For others, who crave the thrill of victory, the game’s competitive mode calls to them. Players can compete against others to prove their expertise in the game at seven distinct ranked tiers of competitive Overwatch. Each season of competitive mode lasts two months./post/galio-was-massively-overbuffed-in-today-s-patch/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/galio-was-massively-overbuffed-in-today-s-patch/ Patch 7.21 arrived today, and Galio has become an absolute monster. The changes sprinkled all throughout Galio’s kit aimed to lower his power on the pro stage, in a controlled and coordinated team environment, while simultaneously boosting his solo queue power through laning. The base damage was lowered on almost all of his abilities, and the defensive capabilities of his taunt were lowered. To compensate, the AP ratio on nearly all of his damaging abilities was cranked up, and the result is terrifying./post/intel-s-future-bet-for-performance-stacking-transistors/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/intel-s-future-bet-for-performance-stacking-transistors/ AMD’s 3D stacking isn’t too far away, but Intel has already provided a window into where CPU technology might go next: stacking transistors. Intel’s Research Components Group announced a roadmap for the next ten years at a conference in San Francisco. One of the company’s new innovations was a research paper into a method for stacking transistors, something Intel argues could improve transistor density by as much as 50 percent./post/los-mejores-pok%C3%A9mon-de-tipo-hielo-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/los-mejores-pok%C3%A9mon-de-tipo-hielo-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ En Pokémon Go, los tipos de Dragón pueden convertirse en enemigos feroces dada la gran cantidad de daño que pueden dar. Sin embargo, no están completamente indefensos. Los Pokémon de tipo hielo son el contraataque perfecto para esta amenaza. Ya sea que te enfrentes a un oponente de tipo Planta, Tierra, Volador o Dragón, las especies de tipo Hielo son la mejor opción. En Pokémon Go hay 18 tipos de Pokémon que varían en eficacia cuando se enfrentan a otros./post/where-to-claim-your-trident-at-coral-cove-for-the-aquaman-skin-in-fortnite/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-claim-your-trident-at-coral-cove-for-the-aquaman-skin-in-fortnite/ A big, buff, burly, and long-haired Aquaman skin inspired by Jason Momoa is making its way to Fortnite in a future patch.  To unlock the skin, players must first complete a set of challenges. The next challenge on the list involves a trident at Coral Cove. To claim your trident at Coral Cove, you’ll have to make your way to the very southwest part of the map. You can do this by parachuting out of the Battle Bus, taking a boat, or swimming./post/apex-legends-r-99-will-replace-the-devotion-as-a-care-package-weapon-in-season-6-boosted/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-r-99-will-replace-the-devotion-as-a-care-package-weapon-in-season-6-boosted/ Getting your hands on the coveted R-99 will be a lot harder in Apex Legends season six. The powerful SMG will become a Care Package weapon in Boosted, with the Devotion replacing it in the regular loot pool. And the addition of the Volt SMG, which brings the Apex weapon roster to 24, means that there will be plenty of energy guns to toy with. The R-99 is a staple in most players’ loadouts./post/how-to-beat-the-slitherfang-in-horizon-forbidden-west/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-the-slitherfang-in-horizon-forbidden-west/ Once you begin your adventure in Horizon Forbidden West, you’ll be quickly thrown into your first main story mission in which you’ll need to defeat Slitherfang. It’s a machine reassembling an enormous snake, which has a variety of attacks. Overcoming it isn’t easy. At the beginning of the fight, your best move will be to aim arrows at Slitherfang’s gears on its neck. It’s one of its weak points, and by damaging it in this area, it will spit out acid./post/mrbeast-criticizes-music-labels-over-copyright-claims-sparks-controversy-on-twitter/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mrbeast-criticizes-music-labels-over-copyright-claims-sparks-controversy-on-twitter/ Popular YouTuber and philanthropist MrBeast publicly slammed major music labels on Twitter, saying that YouTubers generate billions of impressions for artists. Copyright claims have long been the bane of content creators. DMCA strikes are often the cause of video takedowns, demonetization, and occasionally outright bans from any given platform. YouTube’s content ID system has prevented creators on the platform from incorporating popular songs in their videos. A major music label should stop copyright striking YouTubers every opportunity it gets and instead let us use their music and then we YouTubers all rally and get them 10s of billions of impressions on their music for not being cunts to us./post/microsoft-boasts-3-74-billion-in-gaming-revenue-from-increased-xbox-game-pass-growth-console-sales/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/microsoft-boasts-3-74-billion-in-gaming-revenue-from-increased-xbox-game-pass-growth-console-sales/ Microsoft just had its best non-holiday quarter for Xbox hardware and software ever, posting a total revenue of $3.74 billion for the fiscal quarter that ended on March 31. This is a six percent increase year-over-year from the $3.53 billion recorded for gaming revenue in the same period from 2021. That total is split in favor of Xbox and gaming-related content and services, which continues to do well for Microsoft as its offering expands and userbase grows./post/how-to-unlock-the-rathalos-mount-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-rathalos-mount-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Final Fantasy XIV has no shortage of fearful beasts as mounts, but some are more popular than others. That’s the case with the Rathalos mount, which is especially sought after by fans who are also Monster Hunter World players since the beast comes from the action RPG game. But due to its majestic appearance, highly detailed scales, and dedicated music track, the mount is also widely popular in the Final Fantasy community./post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone-season-4-combat-pack-dlc-available-now-for-playstation-plus-subscribers/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone-season-4-combat-pack-dlc-available-now-for-playstation-plus-subscribers/ A new Call of Duty DLC pack for PlayStation Plus subscribers is available for free starting today. The season four Combat Pack, “Skyhook,” features a cool new operator skin for Park in both Black Ops and Warzone. In the new outfit, Park is rocking a blue shirt, a boonie hat, and khaki pants to go along with her sweet sledgehammer. Bring a hammer to a gun fight 🔨 The #Warzone and #BlackOpsColdWar Season 4 Combat Pack is available to PlayStation Plus members now: https://t./post/new-fusion-support-confirmed-for-yu-gi-oh-ocg-set-dawn-of-majesty/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-fusion-support-confirmed-for-yu-gi-oh-ocg-set-dawn-of-majesty/ The next Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG set, Dawn of Majesty, looks like it might be defined by adding new Fusion Monsters and support for the summoning style.  This includes multiple new Fusion Monsters that are tied to the recently revealed Despia archetype and a few more generic cards that are also new to the format.  収録カード公開‼️ 【4/17（土）発売 DAWN OF MAJESTY（ドーン・オブ・マジェスティ）】✨『無の畢竟 オールヴェイン』✨、✨『簡素融合』✨収録❗️商品HPはこちら👉https://t.co/1lFhquJ1ZY pic.twitter.com/ck8uOrFJsW — 【公式】遊戯王OCG (@YuGiOh_OCG_INFO) April 9, 2021 Arguably the biggest reveal of this entire set is the new Normal Spell, Retort Fusion./post/c9-summit-wins-2022-lcs-spring-mvp-award/Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/c9-summit-wins-2022-lcs-spring-mvp-award/ Cloud9’s new top lane star Summit has won the 2022 LCS Spring Split MVP award for his outstanding play during the regular season, Riot Games announced today. The 23-year-old made his competitive North American debut this past spring when he was picked up alongside two new players on C9’s revamped League of Legends team. The offseason represented a fundamental shift in the team’s roster-building philosophy after having signed only European and NA-born players since 2016./post/how-much-xp-is-needed-for-each-level-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3/Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-xp-is-needed-for-each-level-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3/ Fortnite‘s battle pass is the seasonal challenge that allows players to unlock new skins and other cosmetics inside the game. With Fortnite Chapter Three, season three starting today, many players are wondering just how long it will take to scale through the ranks. It turns out that this season will follow a similar battle pass layout as previous seasons. To level through the battle pass, players will need to get a certain amount of experience per level./post/os-melhores-jogos-de-ps5-lan%C3%A7ados-em-2021/Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/os-melhores-jogos-de-ps5-lan%C3%A7ados-em-2021/ A nova geração de consoles já tem um ano, então há muitos jogos incríveis para jogar no PlayStation 5. O PS5 ainda é quase impossível de manter em estoque para a maioria dos varejistas, o que significa que muitos jogadores não puderam experimentar alguns dos melhores jogos de 2021. Mas aqueles que não têm, podem esperar um grande acúmulo de ótimos títulos para acompanhar. O ano passado foi repleto de experiências incríveis no PS5 e 2022 está parecendo ainda mais empolgante./post/who-won-the-destiny-2-vow-of-the-disciple-raid-world-first-race/Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-won-the-destiny-2-vow-of-the-disciple-raid-world-first-race/ The race to become the world’s first Destiny 2 fireteam to finish the Vow of the Disciple raid kicked off at 2pm CT on March 5. The teams had 24 hours to compete on an even playing field, ensuring that the group with the best overall skill and communication will be the first to claim victory. During this time period, players competed in contest mode, which put them at a capped Power level of 1530—20 points below the recommended level of 1550./post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-s-oct-18-update/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-nickelodeon-all-star-brawl-s-oct-18-update/ The developers behind Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl have officially released a new balance patch for the game on Steam.  Unlike the previous patch, which was mainly focused on removing broken mechanics and improving general gameplay, this is a more traditional set of patch notes. Dash dancing was added into the game, along with working to better balance 12 different fighters.  Michelangelo and Patrick are among those fighters that have received sizable changes, with Mikey being nerfed so his neutral air isn’t “dumb” anymore and Patrick getting super armor on his command input./post/how-to-watch-the-london-royal-ravens-25-000-call-of-duty-warzone-ravenstorm-tournament/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-the-london-royal-ravens-25-000-call-of-duty-warzone-ravenstorm-tournament/ The Call of Duty League’s London Royal Ravens will play host to the first Warzone tournament of 2021. The $25,000 Call of Duty: Warzone Ravenstorm event will feature 10 teams of trios facing off for the prize pool and it’ll all take place over the course of one day, so the action will be fast-paced and intense. There's a storm coming…⛈️ 1 day, 10 teams, $25k prize pool. Teams to be revealed soon 👀 #6thRaven pic./post/noble-esports-deletes-twitter-account-after-employees-claim-they-are-owed-wages/Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/noble-esports-deletes-twitter-account-after-employees-claim-they-are-owed-wages/ Noble Esports, an organization that fields teams in Apex Legends, Fortnite, Gears of War, and multiple other esports titles, appears to have suddenly folded after employees alleged they had not been paid. Around 4:45pm CT, Noble’s partnerships manager, Dan “Dizbog” Goodman, tweeted that he was no longer contracted with the company. At the end of the farewell message, he specifically named Noble’s owner, Kyle McDougal, as a key reason for his departure./post/how-to-sign-up-for-the-honkai-star-rail-beta/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-sign-up-for-the-honkai-star-rail-beta/ Honkai: Star Rail is the latest entry in the Honkai franchise of games from the Chinese developer HoYoverse, formerly known as miHoYo. The creators of Genshin Impact announced the second closed beta sign-up for its new open-world role-playing game with a turn-based combat system today.  This closed beta test for Honkai: Star Rail will call for a limited number of participants, so the process of signing in does not guarantee your participation./post/afreeca-freecs-completes-roster-with-four-new-players/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/afreeca-freecs-completes-roster-with-four-new-players/ Park “Teddy” Jin-Sung, Ryu “Hoit” Ho-Sung, Yoo “FATE” Su-Hyeok, and Choi “Ellim” El-Lim joined Afreeca Freecs’ 2022 League of Legends roster, the organization revealed today. These four players filled out the previously vacant ADC, support, mid laner, and jungler positions. The four joined longtime top laner Kim “Kiin” Gi-in to complete the Afreeca Freecs roster. The LCK organization has also extended the contracts of its LCK CL coaches Byun “Citrus” Ji-Woong and Suh “Moon” Hyeon-Kwon./post/here-are-the-mtg-forgotten-realms-cards-worth-money/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-mtg-forgotten-realms-cards-worth-money/ Multiple Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms booster fun Magic: The Gathering cards remain valuable via dungeon Showcase, borderless, extended-art, and prerelease promo foils. The Standard-legal MTG set was released on July 23, breaking Magic tradition by replacing the typical Core Set, while also breaking sales records. Similar to previous Core Set releases, a majority of the Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR) cards dropped in price after other Magic sets were released./post/when-does-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3-start/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3-start/ Fortnite Chapter Three, season two is quickly coming to a close. The collective forces of The Seven and the IO have engaged in an all-out war with each other, and it looks like all the fighting is coming to a head at the end of the season with the Collision event. The Seven need to stop the IO from setting off The Collider, and they plan on doing that with the newly re-built mecha, which players helped them restore in some of this season’s challenges./post/clg-reveals-2022-lcs-roster-featuring-jenkins-contractz-palafox-luger-and-poome/Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clg-reveals-2022-lcs-roster-featuring-jenkins-contractz-palafox-luger-and-poome/ CLG has revealed the five players who will be starting for its League of Legends team in the upcoming 2022 LCS season. The team’s lineup consists of former Team Liquid top laner Jenkins, longtime LCS veteran Contractz in the jungle, former FlyQuest starter Palafox in the mid lane, and the one-time 100 Thieves Academy bottom lane duo of Luger and Poome.  𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐠𝐞. We are excited to announce our 2022 #LCS roster./post/how-to-get-gjallarhorn-in-destiny-2/Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-gjallarhorn-in-destiny-2/ Gjallarhorn, one of Destiny’s most overpowered Exotics, came to Destiny 2 alongside Bungie’s 30th Anniversary Pack, much to the joy of veteran players. Thanks to its tracking rockets and sheer firepower, it became nearly mandatory in raiding groups during the original Destiny—and it packs a punch in the sequel as well. The weapon is only available for 30th Anniversary Pack holders and buying the expansion is just the first step. Players can find the Gjallarhorn quest, called “And Out Fly the Wolves,” in Xûr’s inventory in Eternity./post/asmongold-watches-in-amazement-as-hundreds-of-twitch-prime-subs-flood-his-chat/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-watches-in-amazement-as-hundreds-of-twitch-prime-subs-flood-his-chat/ Popular streamer Asmongold gave his audience a glimpse into his side of the stream, as he showed his activity feed being bombarded with Twitch Prime subscriptions. Twitch Prime is undoubtedly one of the most effective tools Twitch has in its arsenal to leverage the website as the world’s leading streaming platform. Users with Amazon Prime can connect their Twitch account and gain a free subscription to any partnered or affiliate content creator of their choosing./post/florida-mayhem-adds-support-rupal-drops-tank-adam/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/florida-mayhem-adds-support-rupal-drops-tank-adam/ Days before the Overwatch League’s Midseason Madness tournament qualifiers are set to begin, the Florida Mayhem is mixing up its roster in major ways.  The team announced today that it’s adding flex support Rupal Zaman, formerly of Redbird Esports, to its roster. He’ll be filling a support slot left by veteran flex Bak “KariV” Young-seo, who will be moving to a coaching position.  Rupal is another talented North American rookie to join the Overwatch League out of the collegiate scene this year./post/how-to-kill-an-enemy-spartan-with-a-shade-turret-in-halo-infinite/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-kill-an-enemy-spartan-with-a-shade-turret-in-halo-infinite/ Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode is now available for everyone to enjoy for free and is an excellent way to get your Halo fix before the full game releases on Dec. 8. Players can jump into the multiplayer for the classic Halo experience and battle enemies in iconic modes like Oddball and Slayer. Players can also purchase the battle pass and grind their way through 100 levels to earn exclusive premium content./post/temporada-19-do-pubg-mobile-come%C3%A7ou-com-um-novo-royale-pass/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/temporada-19-do-pubg-mobile-come%C3%A7ou-com-um-novo-royale-pass/ A temporada 19 do PUBG Mobile, chamada Traverse, começou. Ele também trouxe um novo Royale Pass para o jogo, contendo muitas recompensas emocionantes. A temporada vai durar cerca de dois meses até 12 de julho. O tema Traverse da temporada é baseado no novo modo Microcosm que será lançado no PUBG Mobile em 9 de junho. Neste modo, os jogadores podem se transformar em um insetoide usando dispositivos de transformação quântica disponíveis em alguns locais de Erangel./post/riot-wants-to-buff-tryndamere-and-master-yi-in-patch-8-3/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-wants-to-buff-tryndamere-and-master-yi-in-patch-8-3/ Master Yi and Tryndamere are glorified basic attack bots, and according to Riot’s post on the official League of Legends forums today, they’re both about to be buffed. No context has been given on the upcoming buffs, but it’s clear that they’re both underperforming. The current meta favors playmaking tanks with gratuitous amounts of crowd control, and hard crowd control is the worst enemy of any attack speed-oriented champion. Assassins are also abundant, but most of them boast high mobility that allows them to kite around Trynd and Yi too much for them to handle./post/sentinels-reportedly-acquires-tenz-in-7-figure-buyout-from-cloud9/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sentinels-reportedly-acquires-tenz-in-7-figure-buyout-from-cloud9/ Sentinels has acquired VALORANT star Tyson “TenZ” Ngo from Cloud9 in a deal worth around seven figures, according to a report by Kevin Hitt of The Esports Observer. The loan contract signed between C9 and Sentinels back in March included an option for Sentinels to buy out the contract, which the org has now reportedly exercised. This reported buyout comes just days after Sentinels won the VCT Masters Two Reykjavik LAN event./post/cod-mobile-and-warzone-crossover-event-is-giving-away-3-epic-soldiers/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cod-mobile-and-warzone-crossover-event-is-giving-away-3-epic-soldiers/ As a nuke demolished Verdansk in Call of Duty: Warzone, the time has rewound to give players a new map. To celebrate the launch of Verdansk ’84, Activision is bringing a crossover event to CoD: Mobile, which is giving away three epic soldiers. The Radioactive Agent Redemption is currently live in the events menu of CODM. Through it, players can get one of three epic soldiers, which are the Hazmat Bomber, Soap – Hazmat, and T./post/here-are-the-2021-lck-spring-split-standings/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-2021-lck-spring-split-standings/ The 2021 LCK Spring Split is the first franchised split of the current season of League Champions Korea. Ten teams compete in the double round-robin group stage. The top six teams advance to the Spring playoffs with a new playoff format. All matches are best-of-three series during the regular season, while the playoffs will feature best-of-five series. This means that winning every game is crucial since it increases the number of points a team has, even if they don’t win the overall match./post/how-to-do-an-en-passant-in-chess/Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-do-an-en-passant-in-chess/ Chess has a number of advanced plays contestants can perform that a vast majority of players don’t know about. One of these is en passant, a special rule that allows a pawn to capture an adjacent pawn in both a weird and interesting way to turn the tide of battle. For those unfamiliar with the en passant move, its a rule in chess which allows a pawn to take adjacent pawn that have advanced two squares in one move from the original square it might have been captured in./post/gen-g-defeat-dwg-kia-with-ophelia-filling-in-for-chovy-in-2022-lck-spring-split/Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gen-g-defeat-dwg-kia-with-ophelia-filling-in-for-chovy-in-2022-lck-spring-split/ Gen.G kicked off the eighth week of the 2022 LCK Spring Split with a 2-1 victory over DWG KIA today. And they got this win without their standout mid laner Chovy, who tested positive for COVID-19 and was replaced by rookie Baek “Ophelia” Jin-seong from the org’s Academy team. Ophelia showed promise in today’s League of Legends series against DWG KIA. He didn’t crumble under the pressure, rather pulling off clean laning phases and following his teammates’ shot calls afterward./post/former-dota-2-pro-sexybamboe-dies/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-dota-2-pro-sexybamboe-dies/ Former professional Dota 2 player, streamer, and commentator Alaan “SexyBamboe” Faraj has died, according to statements from multiple close friends, former teammates, and community members.  See Dota 2 on Amazon Faraj had been an active member of the Dota community dating back to competing professionally in the original game before transitioning to Dota 2 in 2011. He played for more than 18 different teams between 2011 and 2021, with notable runs as part of mousesports, Evil Geniuses, Team Zephyr, and Team Bald./post/how-to-farm-soul-cinders-in-wow-shadowlands/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-farm-soul-cinders-in-wow-shadowlands/ Introduced in World of Warcraft Patch 9.1 on June 29, Soul Cinders are a new currency used to upgrade Legendary items to the fifth and sixth rank. The first five ranks can be achieved through farming Soul Ash from Torghast, Tower of the Damned, up to item level 235. The first rank costs 1,250 Soul Ash, while the fourth costs 5,150. The fifth rank (item level 250), costs 400 Soul Cinders, and the sixth rank (item level 260) costs 1,650./post/how-to-watch-e3-2022/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-e3-2022/ News of E3 has been shared early in 2022, and while fans didn’t get a date for when the three-day video game expo is scheduled to take place, they did get some information on how things will go down. For a second-year running, E3 will be held digitally, meaning that fans won’t be able to attend in person. Despite this new development, there’s no reason to miss out on any of the action thanks to streaming bringing it right to the comfort of your home./post/league-worlds-2018-group-stage-results-and-standings/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-worlds-2018-group-stage-results-and-standings/ The seventh day of the 2018 League of Legends World Championship group stage kicked off today with NA’s favored roster, Team Liquid, taking on the LCK’s top seed, KT Rolster. This portion of Worlds is regarded by Riot as the main event of the tournament, and many fans don’t seem to qualify a team as world-class unless they make it this far. That means that there’s a lot of pressure on rosters from the major regions to make it through the play-in stage to arrive here./post/player-nominations-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate-summit-3-were-briefly-affected-by-botting/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/player-nominations-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate-summit-3-were-briefly-affected-by-botting/ Beyond the Summit’s Super Smash Bros. events always involve some element of community voting. This usually means that fans can vote on a certain number of players that they want to see compete in the tournament, leading to battles between communities to get their favorite players in.  Earlier today, however, both BTS and tournament hosting platform smash.gg were affected by an influx of nominations from bots that impacted the layout of Smash Ultimate Summit Three./post/sonic-the-hedgehog-co-creator-yuji-naka-working-on-smaller-project-following-departure-from-square-enix/Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sonic-the-hedgehog-co-creator-yuji-naka-working-on-smaller-project-following-departure-from-square-enix/ Yuji Naka, the Sonic the Hedgehog’s co-creator and former head of Sonic Team at Sega, has returned from a brief hiatus and is now working on a new project despite contemplating retirement earlier this year after leaving Square Enix.  Naka joined Square Enix in 2018 to lead a new project, which eventually became Balan Wonderworld. The game was met with poor reviews when it launched on March 26 and shortly thereafter, Naka resigned from his position, although he didn’t officially announce it until June 5./post/apex-legends-holo-day-bash-is-live-with-the-winter-express-limited-time-mode/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-holo-day-bash-is-live-with-the-winter-express-limited-time-mode/ The holiday celebrations in the Outlands just started. Apex Legends‘ Holo-Day Bash event is now live. During the event, the popular Winter Express limited-time mode is making a month-long comeback alongside new cosmetics, store offers, and a new event track available to all players—all until Jan. 4. 🚂 🎄 ALL ABOARRRRRRRD! 🎄 🚂 Holo-Day Bash is officially here and with it, a new Devstream! Get in on the festivities as we talk about the return of Winter Express and roll through some gift ideas for the legends in your life./post/how-many-nintendo-switch-oled-model-colors-are-there/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-many-nintendo-switch-oled-model-colors-are-there/ Nintendo announced today a new Nintendo Switch model set to arrive later this year, the OLED model. With upgrades to the Switch console’s specs, as well as a few new added features to the Switch’s dock, the newer version of the console builds upon the foundations of the Switch’s already-impressive hardware. A larger OLED screen will be included with the new console, in addition to a built-in, hardwired ethernet port—two features that fans have been asking for since the launch of the console./post/how-to-get-the-heir-apparent-catalyst-in-destiny-2/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-heir-apparent-catalyst-in-destiny-2/ The Heir Apparent Exotic machine gun is a Guardian Games special in Destiny 2. Both the weapon and its catalyst are exclusively available through the Guardian Games event, a limited-time competition of the classes hosted by Eva Levante in the Tower. While Heir Apparent is strong on its own, its catalyst is what has made the Exotic LMG so notorious in the Crucible since it received a buff last year./post/what-is-salvo-in-apex-legends/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-salvo-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends’ season seven quest has started to point toward a new part of the Frontier. Salvo is a mysterious planet that just gave in to the Syndicate—and it could have big repercussions for the evolving story. So far, only two pieces of lore have mentioned the new planet: a chapter of the Family Portrait season quest and an Easter egg-filled image of Wattson’s room. Her desk contains a memo from Syndicate PR director Jacob Young, but the quest introduces the planet in a less subtle manner./post/how-to-get-a-free-shiny-amoonguss-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-a-free-shiny-amoonguss-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Pokémon Sword and Shield players can get a free Shiny Amoonguss thanks to a Korean event that is running this weekend.  Until Aug. 10, anyone with access to an internet connection can enter a Mystery Gift code and receive a blue variant of the bulky Grass/Poison-type.  This distribution is part of the Trainer’s Cup stream hosted by Pokémon Korea. The Amoonguss being distributed actually matches the set of top-level player Baik Jongyoon’s from the 2019 World Championships./post/meet-overwatch-s-junkertown-queen/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/meet-overwatch-s-junkertown-queen/ Move over, Doomfist. We’re now obsessed with a new character referenced in Overwatch’s lore. Meet the queen of Junkertown. Once just a disembodied voice speaking over the Junkertown Escort map preview, the queen has got many Overwatch players hoping she’ll become a playable character—especially after finding a poster of her on the new map. She looks badass—not that we didn’t know that before, though. “Listen up you wretched scum,” she says in the Junkertown video./post/when-and-what-time-does-elden-ring-release/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-and-what-time-does-elden-ring-release/ Elden Ring’s highly anticipated release finally has a set date of Feb. 25 after it was pushed back from its original Jan. 21 release date. In Elden Ring, the player will travel through the Lands Between in search of all the Great Runes, restore the Elden Ring, and become the Elden Lord. Players have had to wait to go on that quest to become the Elden Lord, however, since the game was delayed for a month in October 2021./post/how-to-watch-the-weeknd-s-jan-6-concert-on-twitch/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-the-weeknd-s-jan-6-concert-on-twitch/ The Weeknd, one of the most popular R&B singers of the past and current decade, will perform a live concert from somewhere in Los Angeles today that will be broadcast free of charge on the Amazon Music Twitch channel. The live concert is a part of the 31-year-old artist’s promotion for his next album, Dawn FM, which will feature other artists such as Tyler, the Creator and Lil Wayne and is set to launch tomorrow, Jan./post/pokimane-streams-as-a-vtuber-receives-backlash/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pokimane-streams-as-a-vtuber-receives-backlash/ When Pokimane started her stream last night, her fans were in for a surprise. The usual Pokimane everybody knows wasn’t on camera. It was an anime-like 3D virtual avatar of her instead. This is an AI feature used by the VTuber community on YouTube. The most famous VTubers are Japanese, like Kizuna AI, Kaguya Luna, and Mirai Akari. Their content is versatile, ranging from vlogs to music videos, gaming, and comedy./post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-update-version-1-12-is-live/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-update-version-1-12-is-live/ Today’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare update introduces loads of new content while reintroducing some oldies. Update version 1.12 is now live. It’s a 15 GB download file on PC, 14.05 GB for Xbox One, and 10.2 GB for the PlayStation 4, according to CharlieIntel. While the patch certainly satiates players’ needs for new maps, missions, and game modes, it also promises a fix to several pesky bugs plaguing the Modern Warfare experience./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-ultra-unlock-time-bonus-week-will-introduce-shiny-dialga-shieldon-and-cranidos/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-ultra-unlock-time-bonus-week-will-introduce-shiny-dialga-shieldon-and-cranidos/ Pokémon Go Fest 2021 might be over, but Niantic still has three more weeks of bonus content for players to enjoy after they managed to complete all 24 challenges in the Global Challenge Arena during the event.  These Ultra Unlock bonus weeks begin on July 23 with an event themed around time that will introduce three new shiny Pokémon to the game: Dialga, Shieldon, and Cranidos.  See Pokémon on Amazon Niantic previously teased the inclusion of shiny Shieldon and shiny Cranidos when the Ultra Unlock events were first teased since we already knew the first week would focus on Pokémon from different ages./post/wilbur-soot-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-headset-and-more/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wilbur-soot-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-headset-and-more/ Hailing from the United Kingdom, Will “Wilbur Soot” Gold is a popular English Youtuber and Twitch streamer, largely recognized for his Minecraft streams and singer-songwriter creations. He also happens to be a member of the Dream SMP: a private, whitelisted survival multiplayer Minecraft server played on by the Dream Team and their friends—a Minecraft ‘crew’ that’s as exclusive as it gets. The Brit has amassed millions of subscribers across his several Youtube channels and Twitch channel./post/how-to-easily-grind-for-star-coins-in-kirby-and-the-forgotten-land/Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-easily-grind-for-star-coins-in-kirby-and-the-forgotten-land/ Kirby at its core has always been a platformer that puts a focus on using its titular character’s special abilities, collecting various items, and saving whatever world is currently being threatened by the villain of the game. Kirby and The Forgotten Land takes that core DNA and expands upon it, bringing Kirby into his first fully 3D adventure and using familiar mechanics in ways to play into new ideas.  Star Coins are one way that HAL Laboratory facilitates several changes within Kirby and The Forgotten Land, using the item as a currency in the Waddle Dee Town hub and a way to score players on their runs through levels./post/how-to-get-cold-front-in-destiny-2-s-dawning-event/Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-cold-front-in-destiny-2-s-dawning-event/ Cold Front is back to Destiny 2‘s loot pool this Dawning, and it’s bringing in a few new perks. This festive submachine gun has become a staple of the Dawning in Destiny 2 and players can once again obtain it until Jan. 4. Cold Front is coming with new perks this year. It can roll Perpetual Motion in the first column or Harmony on the second, in addition to the usual perks such as Surplus or Swashbuckler./post/magic-the-gathering-pioneer-format-reveal-causes-major-price-spikes/Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/magic-the-gathering-pioneer-format-reveal-causes-major-price-spikes/ The reveal of Magic: The Gathering’s new sanctioned format, Pioneer, has increased the value of older cards up to 600 percent.   Expanding upon Magic esports, Wizards of the Coast recently introduced the non-rotating format, Pioneer. Having included it as the feature format in fourGrand Prix tournaments in the upcoming 2020 season, WotC is pushing Pioneer forward at an astounding pace. Cards that are legal within Pioneer begin with Return to Ravnica and goup to the present-day Throne of Eldraine set./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-january-2022-research-tasks-and-rewards/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-january-2022-research-tasks-and-rewards/ A new month and year are underway. And for Pokémon Go fans, that means there are new Research Tasks to complete and rewards to collect. Thanks to these monthly resets, there’s always something new to do in Pokémon Go. Completing Research Tasks may take a while depending on their requirements, but the rewards make completing them more than worth it. The following Field Research Tasks will be available until Jan. 31, so you should grab their rewards before they get replaced with a new set of tasks./post/rocket-league-season-3-introduces-tyranno-model-crossovers-with-nascar-and-formula-1/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rocket-league-season-3-introduces-tyranno-model-crossovers-with-nascar-and-formula-1/ Psyonix has locked in the start date for Rocket League Season Three, telling players to get their engines ready for April 7.  Following up the extended second season, Season Three is kicking off with a double feature crossover with NASCAR and Formula 1. The racing juggernauts will both have bundles featuring new items dropping throughout the season, starting with NASCAR in early May. F1 will have some content dropping in mid-May, and you can get an early first-look at some of the items that will be launching now in the Season Three trailer./post/here-are-the-tft-set-5-reckoning-s-final-pbe-patch-notes/Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-tft-set-5-reckoning-s-final-pbe-patch-notes/ Quite a large number of Teamfight Tactics balance changes were included in today’s Set Five PBE patch, touching on just about everything ahead of the game’s official launch on live servers on April 28.  Principal game designer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer released the patch notes today, saying that TFT players have helped to “fix a ton of bugs and balance changes,” and that “the set is going to live in a much better state because of everyone who played on PBE./post/how-to-change-your-name-in-cs-go/Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-your-name-in-cs-go/ If you ever get bored of your gamertag or just want a fresh start in CS:GO, changing your name is an easy process. Although you can change your nickname in and out of the game, both rely on you having to tweak your nickname in Steam. To change your name in CS:GO, start by opening Steam. Once you’re in Steam, navigate to “Friends,” the third menu option in the upper left row./post/how-to-fix-the-invalid-platform-error-when-installing-new-world/Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-the-invalid-platform-error-when-installing-new-world/ Amazon Games’ upcoming MMO, New World, is available to pre-load through the Steam client now. But some prospective New World players are running into an error when installing the game when Steam tells them they’re unable to complete the installation process due to an “Invalid Platform.” The error message reads “an error occurred while installing New World (invalid platform).” The cause of the error is unknown at this time, but the steps for getting past the obstacle are surprisingly easy and should help players get New World into their Steam library prior to tomorrow’s launch./post/should-you-play-the-witch-queen-campaign-on-normal-or-legendary-difficulty-in-destiny-2/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/should-you-play-the-witch-queen-campaign-on-normal-or-legendary-difficulty-in-destiny-2/ For seemingly the first time, Bungie is offering Destiny 2 players a difficulty choice when it comes to the latest campaign for The Witch Queen expansion, released on Feb. 22. Players who load up The Witch Queen for the first time will be treated to a short cinematic after they select a character. But before the next part begins, they must make a choice: Be Brave or Become Legend? Normal or Legendary?/post/mtg-eradicator-valkyrie-slays-with-new-boast-mechanic/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-eradicator-valkyrie-slays-with-new-boast-mechanic/ Angels in Magic: The Gathering color Black may have received an upgrade via the Kaldheim spoiler, Eradicator Valkyrie.  The new KHM Standard-legal Magic set features a heavy metal Viking-theme, centered around 10 realms connected to the World Tree within the plane Kaldheim. Dropping in today’s round of spoilers, Eradicator Valkyrie was revealed by Carlos Romao on Twitter. It’s a four-drop 4/3 Angel Berserker with Hexproof from planeswalkers, utilizing the new Boast mechanic to eliminate an opponent’s creature or planeswalker, while also having Flying and Lifelink./post/over-half-of-the-league-players-in-bronze-or-silver-climbed-out-of-those-tiers-in-2018/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/over-half-of-the-league-players-in-bronze-or-silver-climbed-out-of-those-tiers-in-2018/ Brought to you by IKON, challenging you to share your greatest game moments and win amazing prizes. Have you ever wondered how hard it is to climb out of a tier in League of Legends? If you’re silver, for example, are you supposed to stay that way at the end of the season? Or is getting to gold a realistic goal? According to data from League stats and guide site Mobalytics, you should, in fact, be able to climb out of silver./post/apex-legends-shakes-up-its-weapon-meta-with-peacekeeper-change/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-shakes-up-its-weapon-meta-with-peacekeeper-change/ Apex Legends season five dropped today alongside the standard patch notes that usually accompany updates. One big change players didn’t expect, however, happened to a certain shotgun that’s been one of the strongest weapons in the game since launch. The Peacekeeper is no longer in the loot pool. Instead, it’s a weapon that only drops randomly in care packages. THE PEACEKEEPER IS NOT A REGULAR WEAPON ANYMORE pic.twitter.com/25aXsYxcgN — laura (@dykemorrigan) May 12, 2020 The Peacekeeper has enjoyed universal popularity throughout the lifespan of Apex thanks to its high damage output and power in close-range battles./post/here-are-all-of-valkyrie-s-abilities-apex-s-newest-legend/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-valkyrie-s-abilities-apex-s-newest-legend/ There’s no better way to help a new Apex Legends season get off the ground than with a jetpack. New legend Kairi “Valkyrie” Imahara will take to the skies in the battle royale’s ninth season, Legacy, delivering a unique perspective to dishing out destruction. Her ability kit lets her soar high with her allies, rain down explosives, and provide much-needed intel. Here are all of Valkyrie’s abilities. Meet Valkyrie, the ultimate wingman and a Legend who's poised to dominate the sky./post/esl-pro-league-season-14-group-stage-schedule-unveiled/Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/esl-pro-league-season-14-group-stage-schedule-unveiled/ ESL has revealed the full schedule of the ESL Pro League season 14 group stage, which is set to kick off on Aug. 16, one day after the end of the summer CS:GO player break. All four groups will be played out separately, with Group A scheduled for Aug. 16 to 20, followed by Group B on Aug. 21 to 26. Group C will be played from Aug. 27 to 31, whereas Group D’s action will take place on Sept./post/lanm-is-the-oldest-player-and-the-only-one-born-in-the-80s-who-will-attend-ti-2019/Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lanm-is-the-oldest-player-and-the-only-one-born-in-the-80s-who-will-attend-ti-2019/ Esports, where twitch reflexes are king, was long thought to be for the youthful. In the lead up to the ninth edition of The International, though, one man is proving that theory wrong. At The International next month, Zhang “LaNm” Zhicheng will be the only player that was born in the 1980s, Dota desk host Paul “Redeye” Chaloner pointed out. 29 days until the start of #TI9 pic.twitter.com/geHvoMUEeW — Redeye (@PaulChaloner) July 17, 2019 The community is obsessed with the TI 2060 meme, so the focus on LaNm’s age seems fitting./post/valorant-dev-nick-wu-addresses-shooting-accuracy-while-moving/Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-dev-nick-wu-addresses-shooting-accuracy-while-moving/ VALORANT dev Nick Wu discussed shooting accuracy while moving during his Twitch broadcast last night. While the Riot dev believes accuracy “doesn’t need to be binary,” Wu feels that mid-range aim while in motion can be nerfed a bit. “I think you need to be perfectly still to be perfectly accurate, but I don’t think any amount of movement should make it so that you’re wildly inaccurate,” Wu said. “I think that we can be harsher on what movement penalties are currently, but I don’t think we want to be in a world where moving can never be a viable tactic even when up close./post/all-fortnite-singularity-helmet-locations-to-unlock-secret-styles/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-fortnite-singularity-helmet-locations-to-unlock-secret-styles/ This article is brought to you by HLG, game at the next level. Fortnite’s season nine exclusive skin Singularity is now available. All players who own the Battle Pass and have collected 90 Fortbytes will unlock her automatically with two styles, one with a helmet and another without. But there are secret styles that players can unlock for Singularity that aren’t listed on her page in the Locker. Players can get another five suit and helmet colors for her if they use Singularity to interact with helmets spread out on the Fortnite island./post/crab-game-developer-says-game-is-safe-after-ddos-scare/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/crab-game-developer-says-game-is-safe-after-ddos-scare/ Crab Games developer DaniDev announced via Twitter that the multiplayer battle royale is once again safe for streamers to play. The developer claims that streamers playing in public lobbies will no longer risk IP leaks. Previously, Crab Game was built on the FacePunch Steam P2P network, which proved to be incredibly insecure. This lead to countless streamers, including the likes of Sodapoppin, xQc, and Nick Polom getting their IP leaked and consequently DDoSed./post/riot-introduces-kay-o-a-new-valorant-agent-whose-suppress-mechanic-brings-players-back-to-basics-in-episode-3-reflection/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-introduces-kay-o-a-new-valorant-agent-whose-suppress-mechanic-brings-players-back-to-basics-in-episode-3-reflection/ Video games are chock full of loveable robots. Overwatch has Bastion, Apex Legends has Pathfinder, and Borderlands has Claptrap. And now, VALORANT has KAY/O. Riot introduced KAY/O today, a killer robot debuting in Episode Three: Reflection whose single purpose is to neutralize radiants. As such, the initiator has the unique ability to suppress enemies and render their abilities useless. The devs wanted his kit to feel “familiar to FPS players,” allowing fans to rely on gunplay more than anything else./post/xbox-creator-nearly-fired-after-comparing-gaming-to-masturbation-in-2001/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xbox-creator-nearly-fired-after-comparing-gaming-to-masturbation-in-2001/ One of the original creators of the first Xbox console, Seamus Blackley, was almost fired back in 2001 after he compared gaming to masturbating. Years later, it was revealed that Blackley was almost fired for his comment, which came to light after Bloomberg reporter Dina Bass revealed that Blackley said it to her a few weeks ahead of the original Xbox launch. The original comment that almost got Blackley fired was “Gaming is like masturbation./post/best-tft-set-6-11-23-b-patch-comps/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-tft-set-6-11-23-b-patch-comps/ Qualifiers for Teamfight Tactics Worlds have begun across multiple regions, showcasing a mostly established meta that will likely see a few shakeups via Patch 11.24.  Despite an 11.23 B-patch nerf to Katarina, the assassin continually is sought after on the Set Six TFT ranked ladder. Reroll comps that don’t include Katarina have also inched their way into top-tier status via Trundle and Lissandra, while Lux is still the strongest AP carry via four to six Archanist units./post/magic-the-gathering-s-historic-format-explained/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/magic-the-gathering-s-historic-format-explained/ The Magic: The Gathering Historic format was introduced to MTG: Arena in November 2019 as a fun and casual way for players to experiment with their entire collection. The cards in this format come from various sets throughout the entire life of MTG, unlike other formats that feature only recent releases. Historic allows you to play your entire collection even after certain cards are removed from the Standard format. You get a completely different experience by being able to create super decks from plenty of expansions./post/mtg-throne-of-eldraine-best-and-worst-black-limited-cards/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-throne-of-eldraine-best-and-worst-black-limited-cards/ Black in Magic: the Gathering’s upcoming set, Throne of Eldraine (ELD) has four archetypes: Black-Green Food, Black-Blue Graveyard, Black-White Midrange Knights, and Black-Red Equipment Knights. Functionally, this means that the Black cards need to be evaluated differently based on whether you’re using a Knights deck—and if you aren’t, Knights get a major downgrade. Still, Black is the go-to color for removal and punishing mechanics, and Throne of Eldraine isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to these cards./post/pok%C3%A9mon-masters-ex-johto-villain-arc-has-been-announced/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-masters-ex-johto-villain-arc-has-been-announced/ Pokémon Masters EX has revealed its next Villian Arc now live in the game. Team Rocket has returned to Pasio for the Johto Chapter of the Villain Arc. Alongside these story missions, a new sync pair has been revealed which will arrive in the game later this week. Synga Suit Giovanni & Nidoking is the next sync pair headed to the game on May 18. The new addition will be available through the Poke Fair Scout from May 18 until June 15./post/razer-zephyr-release-date-price-filter-type-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/razer-zephyr-release-date-price-filter-type-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know/ RGB lights join everyday life as Razer unveiled the final version of its Zephyr facemask. During RazerCon 2021, Razer revealed its RGB facemask is finally consumer-ready after a year and a half of concept showcases. Those willing to don the mask can order the Zephyr beginning today. What is Razer Zephyr? The Razer Zephyr is a premium facemask that incorporates Razer’s signature Chroma RGB LED lights. Original concepts for the Zephyr, codenamed Project Hazel, had a voice amp to improve clarity when speaking./post/the-best-white-gaming-desks-of-2022/Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-white-gaming-desks-of-2022/ As RGB computer peripherals continue to become more popular, gamers have become more specific about all aspects of their gaming setup. One of the major parts of any gaming setup is going to be the desk. This will be used every time the player chooses to game and can make or break the aesthetic they are trying to achieve. While there are many fantastic gaming desks on the market, most of these are only available in black since that is the most popular color and will complement the majority of gamers’ desired look./post/shroud-s-apex-legends-settings-and-keybinds/Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-s-apex-legends-settings-and-keybinds/ Since his retirement from competitive CS:GO in 2018, shroud has developed a keen interest for the battle royale genre. With his strong background in tactical shooters, Apex Legends was just another target in the former pro’s scope. Shroud’s transition from a professional player to a full-time streamer also increased his viewer base. Thousands of people tune into his stream on Mixer every day to watch him dominate whatever server he joins./post/how-to-sign-up-for-the-back-4-blood-alpha-test/Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-sign-up-for-the-back-4-blood-alpha-test/ The 2020 edition of Game Awards was full of surprises. Alongside Among Us becoming available on Nintendo Switch, Back 4 Blood was one of the titles that caught the attention of gamers tuning in. Turtle Rock Studios, one of the original developers of Left 4 Dead, will be revisiting the roots of the co-op zombie survival genre with Back 4 Blood. The game is scheduled to be released in June 2021. Though June 2021 is still a bit far away, lucky gamers around the world will have a chance to try out the current state of the game in the closed alpha test starting on Dec./post/when-will-brawl-stars-season-5-begin/Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-brawl-stars-season-5-begin/ Brawl Stars’ season five is right around the corner. It’s called Starr Force and will bring a new Brawl Pass to the game. The update for Starr Force launched yesterday. It introduced a new chromatic Brawler to the game known as Colonel Ruffs and a number of “space-themed” skins as well. Related: Here are the patch notes for Brawl Stars’ Starr Force update Colonel Ruffs is a dog who serves on the Starr Force spaceship./post/baron-gets-2-600-more-health-more-aoe-damage-and-other-big-changes-on-the-way-for-league/Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/baron-gets-2-600-more-health-more-aoe-damage-and-other-big-changes-on-the-way-for-league/ There are huge changes planned for the Baron Nashor, League of Legends’ resident tentacle monster, according to Riot’s post on the official game forums today. For starters, the big guy’s base damage is dropping dramatically by over 100, but both AoE damage and health are being cranked up. In total, the Baron’s base health is going all the way up to 9,000. For reference, it’s only at 6,400 right now, so that’s a buff of 2,600 to its health bar./post/team-heretics-introduces-new-valorant-lineup/Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-heretics-introduces-new-valorant-lineup/ Team Heretics has revealed its revamped roster for the 2022 VALORANT season. The Spanish organization is looking to make a resurgence with the team’s new mix of former Counter-Strike and Overwatch players to add on to its 2021 lineup. Heretics’ new additions consist of Jesper “tenzki” Plougmann Mikalski, Daniel Mertz, and Jose Antonio “Bromas” Ramos Gonzalez, the organization announced today. They’ll be joined by returning players Felix “al0rante” Brandi and captain Christian “lowel” Garcia Antoran, who was the organization’s first rostered VALORANT player./post/all-game-awards-2021-nominees/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-game-awards-2021-nominees/ With the end of the year approaching, the full list of nominees has been revealed for the 2021 iteration of The Game Awards. In a 10-minute showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley on Nov. 16, the categories and nominated games were revealed. Fans can now start voting before the show on Dec. 9. Here are all The Game Awards 2021 nominees. Best Performance Erika Mori – Life is Strange: True ColorsGiancarlo Esposito – Far Cry 6Jason Kelley – DeathloopMaggie Robertson – Resident Evil VillageOzioma Akagha – Deathloop Best Multiplayer Back4BloodKnockout CityMonster Hunter RiseNew WorldIt Takes TwoValheim Best Ongoing Game Apex LegendsCall of Duty WarzoneFinal Fantasy XIVGenshin ImpactFortnite Best Art Direction DeathloopKena: Bridge of SpiritsPsychonauts 2Ratchet & Clank: Rift ApartThe Artful Escape Best Score & Music Cyberpunk 2077DeathloopNieR Replicant ver./post/beginner-s-guide-to-cs-go-s-economy/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/beginner-s-guide-to-cs-go-s-economy/ Counter-Strike might look like a simplistic game, but once you start watching and playing more, you’ll begin to see its intricacies. It has a complex economic system that requires a good sense of mental math and critical thinking, along with the bread and butter gameplay mechanics—moving, aiming, fragging, and, of course, winning.  You have to understand and manage your own team’s economy and predict your opponent’s financial situation. But with enough time, practice, and mental fortitude, you can easily learn to coordinate buys for you and your team without hesitation./post/kfc-tries-and-fails-to-meme-about-apex-legends-updates-developer-responds/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/kfc-tries-and-fails-to-meme-about-apex-legends-updates-developer-responds/ KFC—yes, the fast food restaurant—has joined the vocal community of Apex Legends fans who want more content and updates for the game. The fried chicken fast food company’s gaming account posted a meme making fun of the lack of any new content for Apex. The tweet featured an illustration of a character literally poking Apex Legends with a stick. “C’mon, do something,” the caption reads. The tweet didn’t exactly get the best reception./post/league-of-legends-reportedly-generated-1-75-billion-in-revenue-in-2020/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-reportedly-generated-1-75-billion-in-revenue-in-2020/ League of Legends is unsurprisingly still a revenue-generating machine for Riot Games. The massively popular MOBA brought in around $1.75 billion in revenue in 2020, according to intelligence firm SuperData. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, League was reportedly the highest-earning, non-mobile free-to-play title over the last year and the sixth highest-earning FTP title overall. Riot’s expansion into other gaming genres with Legends of Runeterra and VALORANT didn’t impact the success of League./post/noble-mutually-part-ways-with-valorant-lineup/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/noble-mutually-part-ways-with-valorant-lineup/ Noble announced the departure of its VALORANT roster today, less than six months since re-entering the scene. While Noble’s Aleko “Leviathan” Gabuniya is reportedly joining TSM for the NA VCT Stage Three Challengers Two open qualifier, the remaining four players are seeking a new organization and a fifth player, according to Upcomer’s George Geddes. pic.twitter.com/STwKEbqiFF — Noble (@NobleGG) July 9, 2021 Noble recently unveiled its new lineup ahead of NA’s VCT Stage Three, finding relative success in the Challengers One open qualifier./post/evil-geniuses-danny-breaks-all-time-lcs-postseason-kill-record/Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/evil-geniuses-danny-breaks-all-time-lcs-postseason-kill-record/ In addition to hoisting the LCS trophy in just his second season in the league, Evil Geniuses AD carry Danny broke the record for most kills earned by a single player during an LCS postseason. Danny racked up 111 kills in the 2022 Spring Split playoffs, the most in a postseason bracket by any LCS player, according to League stats site Oracle’s Elixir.  See League of Legends on Amazon During the final game of EG’s championship-clinching series against 100 Thieves, Danny secured his 111th kill of the postseason, breaking an LCS record that stood for nine years./post/what-are-the-best-minecraft-seeds/Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-best-minecraft-seeds/ One of the best aspects of Minecraft is the game’s random seeds, which means every world you load into is uniquely generated and can tell a new story. There’s one drawback to that system though; it also means some seeds are better than others. The best Minecraft seeds will depend on what exactly you are looking for, and which game modes you’re playing, so here is a wide variety of different seeds to choose from./post/where-to-get-the-frenzied-flame-seal-in-elden-ring/Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-get-the-frenzied-flame-seal-in-elden-ring/ Faith builds have been all the rage in Elden Ring, with some of the best moments coming from timely incantation usage, be it heals, buffs, or sudden bursts of damage coming in with clutch plays. With recent patches buffing incantations even further, there has never been a better time to get acquainted with faith builds and sacred seals. Today, however, we will be discussing a certain sacred seal in particular. This sacred seal is different from the rest since it enhances incantations of a particular type./post/what-is-kekw-in-twitch-chat/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-kekw-in-twitch-chat/ Twitch chat can be a scary place sometimes, especially when there’s tens of thousands of users spamming nonsense all at once. Through the flood of emotes, berating of streamers and fellow chatters, PogChamps and more, there’s a phrase that can be confusing to some if you don’t know it’s origins: KEKW. KEKW has taken over Twitch chats in 2020, and if you’re not equipped with the meme knowledge to understand it, it can become quite annoying when the chat is filled with the phrase./post/invictus-gaming-signs-3-north-american-tft-players/Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/invictus-gaming-signs-3-north-american-tft-players/ Invictus Gaming, the Chinese organization most well known for its international titles in League of Legends and Dota 2, has announced the signing of three North American Teamfight Tactics players as it continues to expand the international division of affiliated talent. Daniel “DQA” Li, Hanyuan “Noobowl” Ye and Andrew “guubums” Cheung are all highly-ranked and well-established competitive TFT players in North America with previous experience competing at national and international level events./post/every-skin-revealed-for-smite-patch-9-3/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-skin-revealed-for-smite-patch-9-3/ The machine that is the Smite development team continues to crank out quality skins at an alarmingly fast rate. Just on the heels of patch 9.2, patch 9.3 is on its way with a plethora of new skins. Thanks so much for joining us for the 9.3 #HeavenLightUpdate Show! Check out the Update Notes for all the details of what's headed to the Battleground. 9.2 Bonus: https://t.co/zIjzFQTA0t 9.3 Update: https://t.co/P3JLaV5PV0 pic./post/indiefoxx-banned-on-twitch-for-sixth-time-in-2021/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/indiefoxx-banned-on-twitch-for-sixth-time-in-2021/ One of Twitch’s most controversial streamers, Indifoxx, has been banned on the platform less than a week after finishing up her latest three-day suspension. Right now, it isn’t clear exactly why the streamer was banned, however, this will be the sixth time she has been banned from the streaming platform so far in 2021. On June 19, Indiefoxx was suspended for three days after breaching the platform’s sexually suggestive content policy while streaming the “ASMR meta./post/nbk-switches-from-cs-go-to-valorant/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nbk-switches-from-cs-go-to-valorant/ Two-time CS:GO Major champion Nathan “NBK-” Schmitt revealed today that he’ll be moving to VALORANT after spending the last four months on OG’s bench. The 27-year-old dedicated over 10 years of his life to Counter-Strike. He started competing professionally in CS: Source in 2009. NBK- found major success in CS:GO, though, having played for numerous prestigious teams such as VeryGames, Titan, LDLC, Envy, G2, Vitality, and OG. He won several tournaments, including the DreamHack Winter Major in 2014 with LDLC and the DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca Major with Envy in 2015./post/how-to-catch-and-evolve-snorunt-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-and-evolve-snorunt-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Snorunt isn’t a Pokémon introduced in generation four, but it is one of several older Pokémon that received a new evolution in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.  Using a Dawn Stone on any female Snorunt you capture will net you a Froslass—a powerful, if frail, Ice/Ghost-type that provides Snorunt with a nice alternative evolutionary path to the physical living glacier that is Glalie.  It isn’t hard to find the Snow Hat Pokémon in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl either./post/merk-pro-player-turned-mlg-employee/Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/merk-pro-player-turned-mlg-employee/ This past Friday, Joe “ MerK” DeLuca announced his decision to retire from competitive Call of Duty and work for Major League Gaming full-time as a Console FPS Manager. MerK has had an incredibly storied career, with achievements that most players can only dream of. MerK began to make a name for himself when he signed onto OpTic Gaming in 2010, playing alongside future legends such as BigTymeR, JKap, NaDeSHoT, ProoFy, Rambo, and Scump over the next three years./post/optic-gaming-los-angeles-parts-ways-with-coach-pacman/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-gaming-los-angeles-parts-ways-with-coach-pacman/ After having their best event of the inaugural Call of Duty League season, OpTic Gaming Los Angeles is making some changes. OGLA has parted ways with their head coach, Pacman, who joined the team Jan. 8, the former national champion announced via Twitter. Before signing with OpTic, Pacman served as an analyst on Call of Duty World League broadcasts in 2019. I am no longer a part of @OpTicGaming. I will miss being with the team on a daily basis but my time here has come to an end./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hearthstone-s-new-hero-portrait-madame-lazul/Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hearthstone-s-new-hero-portrait-madame-lazul/ Blizzard revealed the new Rise of Shadows expansion that’s coming to Hearthstone on April 9. Luckily for Hearthstone fans, a new expansion means a new hero portrait. This time, Hearthstone’s new portrait will be an alternate Priest hero named Madame Lazul. Hearthstone veterans who played during the Whispers of the Old Gods expansion may recognize Madame Lazul as the creepy fortune teller who debuted in its cinematic trailer. Recently, Madame Lazul has returned to her role as fortune teller, revealing a league of evil through Hearthstone’s most recent series of cinematics./post/hasan-says-xqc-profits-off-fans-losing-money-on-gambling/Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hasan-says-xqc-profits-off-fans-losing-money-on-gambling/ The hot button issue of gambling sponsorships on Twitch came back to the forefront this week after xQc made the controversial decision to do a sponsored stream for gambling website Stake. XQc is the most-watched streamer on Twitch in the past year by a large margin, with more than 245 million hours watched in the past 365 days, according to Sully Gnome, and his acceptance of a gambling sponsor has raised numerous ethical concerns and conversations among fans and fellow streamers on social media./post/how-to-unlearn-a-profession-in-world-of-warcraft-classic/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlearn-a-profession-in-world-of-warcraft-classic/ Professions in World of Warcraft Classic aim to benefit players in a number of ways.  They can be used to enhance your character with gear, enchants, and gems, or they can be exploited as a gold-making tool in conjunction with the auction house. But what if you want to unlearn a profession and pick up a new one? You can perform this action in Classic and The Burning Crusade Classic via the skills tab./post/blizzard-released-an-entire-album-of-l%C3%BAcio-s-music-called-synaesthesia-auditiva/Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-released-an-entire-album-of-l%C3%BAcio-s-music-called-synaesthesia-auditiva/ Blizzard Entertainment seems to be going all-in on Lúcio, Overwatch’s Brazilian DJ. After just revealing his own brand of cereal at BlizzCon last week called Lúcio-Oh’s, the company just published an entire album of his music. The album, called Synaesthesia Auditiva, features entirely electronica-style music, which he’s known for in the Overwatch lore universe, and similar to the beats Lúcio plays while in-game. There are 11 songs in total, and the album is free to download on the website Lúcio Music./post/senna-with-5-000-stacks-takes-down-baron-and-dragon-without-leaving-base/Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/senna-with-5-000-stacks-takes-down-baron-and-dragon-without-leaving-base/ A League of Legends player has showcased just how strong Senna’s passive can be by accumulating 5,000 stacks with the champion. With the game’s custom practice tool, Reddit user lIlIIlIlI gathered this impressive amount of stacks for Senna’s passive ability Absolution and, in doing so, increased her attack range and damage by a significant amount. Here is Senna with 5000 stacks! from leagueoflegends In a video posted to Reddit, the player demonstrated what 5,000 stacks can do, taking out Red Buff with a single basic attack from the red base’s walls./post/this-year-s-pool-party-skins-are-going-to-caitlyn-gangplank-and-zoe/Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-year-s-pool-party-skins-are-going-to-caitlyn-gangplank-and-zoe/ There are three new skins joining the summer-ocious, splish-splashin’, fan-servicin’ Pool Party family, according to Riot’s teaser today on social media. Those three skins will go to Gangplank, Zoe, and Caitlyn. The Pool Party skin line is typically an annual set, with past additions going to Rek’Sai, Draven, Zac, Fiora, Leona, and many, many more. In total, there are 13 Pool Party skins (14 if you say Surfer Singed belongs in that camp), not including this year’s three for Zoe, Cait, and Gangplank./post/bronny-james-son-of-nba-star-lebron-james-joins-faze-clan/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/bronny-james-son-of-nba-star-lebron-james-joins-faze-clan/ Bronny James, son of NBA superstar LeBron James, is joining FaZe Clan, the organization announced today. The announcement comes just two days after FaZe revealed Philadelphia 76ers point-forward Ben Simmons had joined the organization as an investor and brand ambassador. Simmons is also signed to Clutch Sports, the same agency that signed LeBron James years ago. He's got n̶e̶x̶t̶ now. Join us in welcoming Bronny James to FaZe Clan 👑 pic./post/valorant-player-creates-phantom-gun-controller/Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-creates-phantom-gun-controller/ A VALORANT player made a working Phantom gun controller, giving a new meaning to the term first-person shooter.  Gun controllers aren’t a new concept. Anyone who’s ever been to an arcade has likely seen dozens of games with some type of gun controller that add a fun mechanic. Some games have supported gun controllers on PC or console, providing the same experience from the comfort of your home. But a gun controller for VALORANT is a new experience that significantly changes the gameplay and mechanics./post/how-to-play-dying-light-2-stay-human-early-access/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-dying-light-2-stay-human-early-access/ Dying Light 2 Stay Human is almost here. The game will debut on Friday, Feb. 4 on several platforms, including PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Series X/S. It’s the highly anticipated sequel to Dying Light, which was released by Techland in 2015. In a similar fashion to the first entry in the franchise, players will be once again be thrown into the middle of a zombie apocalypse./post/twitch-affiliates-can-now-make-money-through-game-sales/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-affiliates-can-now-make-money-through-game-sales/ After launching the Twitch Affiliate program in April, the streaming service is now ready to open up more monetization features. In addition to Cheering with Bits, Twitch Affiliates are now able to earn money from sales of games and in-game items from their channel page. If a Twitch Affiliate is playing a game that’s available for sale on Twitch, viewers will see a purchase button on the Twitch user’s page. Before today, only Twitch Partners were able to receive a five percent share of the revenue from purchase, but now Twitch Affiliates can earn that amount, too./post/best-fortnite-maps-mods-and-add-ons-for-minecraft/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-fortnite-maps-mods-and-add-ons-for-minecraft/ It should surprise no one that creations inspired by the über-popular building game Fortnite have made their way into the über-popular building game Minecraft. You can add a little Fortnite to your Minecraft experience with remakes of popular locations, a battle bus, and a plethora of custom skins. If you’re looking for a more Minecraft-ian Fortnite experience, you’ll certainly want to check out Fortnite’s Playground Mode while it’s available. In this article, we’re detailing our favorite Fortnite-themed maps, mods, and add-ons for Minecraft Java and Bedrock Editions!/post/how-to-get-the-chrysalax-wonder-weapon-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-zombies-map-forsaken/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-chrysalax-wonder-weapon-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-zombies-map-forsaken/ Forsaken, the latest round-based Zombies map in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, is now available for free for anyone who owns the game. Like all of the other round-based maps in Black Ops Cold War Zombies, Forsaken has its own unique Wonder Weapon. Following the release of Mauer der Toten and the CRBR-S in July, some Zombies fans might have been concerned about Treyarch’s ability to deliver another phenomenal Wonder Weapon./post/jhin-is-coming-to-legends-of-runeterra-breaking-regional-rules/Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/jhin-is-coming-to-legends-of-runeterra-breaking-regional-rules/ A partial Legends of Runeterrra 2022 roadmap was released today by Riot Games, revealing Jhin as an upcoming new Runeterra Champion that interacts with regions differently than other champions within the digital card game.  Scheduled to release sometime in May, Jhin will join the LoR champion roster. Unlike other champions, the Virtuoso is a Runeterra Champion, bringing “new mechanics and depth to gameplay” by “breaking out of traditional regional rules,” according to design director Andrew “RiotUmbrage” Yip via the LoR 2022 dev video./post/pok%C3%A9mon-masters-ex-update-teases-upcoming-events-and-new-sync-pairs/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-masters-ex-update-teases-upcoming-events-and-new-sync-pairs/ Game producers Yu Sasaki and Tetsuya Iguchi today shared their latest dev blog for Pokémon Masters EX and it has provided players a glimpse of upcoming Story Events and sync pairs that will be joining the game. On Jan. 30, Sweet Shenanigans, the Valentine’s Day Story Event is coming to the game. The event will introduce two new sync pairs to the game, Marnie & Mawile and Bea & Vanilluxe with seasonal outfits./post/pubg-update-11-2-adds-survivor-pass-pajama-party-erangel-changes-and-more/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-update-11-2-adds-survivor-pass-pajama-party-erangel-changes-and-more/ PUBG update 11.2 is live on PC, which means players are getting a new season 11 content drop—Survivor Pass: Pajama Party. The update itself is also bringing some quality-of-life changes and balance adjustments for the game, including some big updates to the Erangel map and how in-vehicle shooting works for passengers.  Starting with Survivor Pass: Pajama Party, players will have more than 30 slumber party-themed rewards to unlock by completing challenges while they grind through 50 Survivor Pass levels./post/here-are-the-changes-introduced-to-clash-royale-matchmaking-after-latest-maintenance/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-changes-introduced-to-clash-royale-matchmaking-after-latest-maintenance/ A few changes focused on matchmaking and bug fixes were added to Clash Royale after a short maintenance earlier today. Although they seem to be minor changes, they sparked quite a number of reactions in the community. Supercell reduced the number of tutorial bots below 4,000 trophies, which covers a large part of game progression for casual players and beginners, and reverted the previous King Level matchmaking changes above 5,000 trophies./post/how-to-get-to-the-royal-pools-in-the-derelict-leviathan-in-destiny-2/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-to-the-royal-pools-in-the-derelict-leviathan-in-destiny-2/ The Leviathan is back in Destiny 2‘s Season of the Haunted, but with a twist. Calus’ ship has been overrun by the Egregore Spores and by Scorn after the former Cabal emperor’s latest venture with the Darkness, and it plays a vital role in the seasonal story and Season of the Haunted activities. To progress through the seasonal storyline, players will have to explore the Leviathan and go through the Royal Pools and the Pleasure Gardens./post/pok%C3%A9mon-home-s-magearna-gift-unlock-now-only-requires-you-to-complete-the-national-pok%C3%A9dex/Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-home-s-magearna-gift-unlock-now-only-requires-you-to-complete-the-national-pok%C3%A9dex/ Game Freak pushed out a server-side fix for Pokémon Home earlier today to finally address a bug that involved missing challenges in some players’ games. Additionally, Game Freak has fixed the issue revolving around the Magearna that was only unlocked for players who completed the full Pokédex. Now, players can unlock the special Pokémon by completing a full National Pokédex instead, which means you’ll have to catch a lot less Pokémon to get your hands on one./post/where-to-buy-coiled-cables/Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-buy-coiled-cables/ Cable management can be a headache for many PC gamers. Few things are more annoying than having to untangle a mouse cable from the keyboard during a gaming session. To solve this issue, many gamers turn to coiled cables for their keyboards. Below are eight places that sell coiled cables. What is a coiled cable? Keyboard coiled cables work like standard cables but with more customization and additional benefits. Coiled cables are typically made of paracord, similar to paracord mouse cables, and come with heat-shrink on the USB connections./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-no-tilt-clash-royale-world-championship/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-no-tilt-clash-royale-world-championship/ The No Tilt World Championship for Clash Royale is just around the corner. This time, the championship will start with an in-game challenge and shall have four stages. One world champion will emerge from the championship.  Unlike the franchised Clash Royale League (CRL), the No Tilt World Championship is open to all players around the world. Players can start competing in the tournament by simply participating in the upcoming “20 win challenge” inside Clash Royale./post/konami-confirms-yu-gi-oh-cross-duel-will-still-release-at-some-point/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/konami-confirms-yu-gi-oh-cross-duel-will-still-release-at-some-point/ While Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel took the digital card game world by storm when it launched earlier this year, many fans forgot that another new digital Yu-Gi-Oh! title was originally announced at the exact same time—Yu-Gi-Oh! Cross Duel. Konami has now, however, assured its investors that the game is still a product that will be released.  Cross Duel was revealed as a unique, four-player card battle variant of the traditional Yu-Gi-Oh! card game for mobile, where players would face each other in a free-for-all format with entirely original rules./post/apex-legends-switch-trailer-reveals-exclusive-pathfinder-skin-hints-at-ground-emotes/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-switch-trailer-reveals-exclusive-pathfinder-skin-hints-at-ground-emotes/ Apex Legends is coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 9 and the latest trailer gave fans a look into what to expect from the new version—including a glimpse at a function that might be coming to the battle royale in the future. A short segment of the video shows the legends performing a series of actions, from dancing to boxing, that isn’t a part of banner poses and might make their way to the battle royale as ground emotes at some point—although Respawn hasn’t officially confirmed this yet./post/how-to-share-and-import-decks-in-legends-of-runeterra/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-share-and-import-decks-in-legends-of-runeterra/ Fortunate players who already have access to Riot’s new card game, Legends of Runeterra, are experimenting with champions, spells, and decks. And just like in any card game, some players love to build decks and share their awesome creations with the community, while others who aren’t that creative just want to use those same creations. In LoR, the first group of players will use the deck share feature most of the time, while the second group will prefer the deck import feature./post/the-best-minecraft-mods/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-minecraft-mods/ Minecraft is a game to get lost in. It allows players nearly endless possibilities and as such has been a popular game for over ten years and doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon with many updates planned for its future and a massive community still invested in it. See Minecraft on Amazon Sometimes, however, it’s nice to refresh a game you’ve been invested in for a long time with mods by talented creators in the community./post/how-to-unlock-the-marshal-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone/Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-marshal-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone/ A new weapon in season five of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone is already here—and it really packs a punch. The Marshal is a break-action pistol, which is a “hand loaded double barrel pistol” that “fires 12 gauge shells.” This means that it’s basically a handheld shotgun, so it has “excellent damage at close range with a one-shot kill potential.” This thing is likely going to be a beast but only in very close proximity, so it’s good to whip it out in a pinch when up close with an enemy./post/mtg-modern-horizons-rewards-exiling-with-soulherder-reveal/Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-modern-horizons-rewards-exiling-with-soulherder-reveal/ Exiling cards is a common theme in various Magic: The Gathering formats, which is why the new Modern Horizons Soulherder reveal could have an impact in Commander and Modern. MTG Modern Horizons is only a week away from premiering via Magic Online on June 6, along with a pre-release weekend June 8-9 in paper form. The set is different from previous Modern sets in that it promotes all the formats outside of Standard./post/all-event-exclusive-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-solstice-event-2021/Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-event-exclusive-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-solstice-event-2021/ Pokémon Go’s solstice-themed event is coming back from June 17 to 20 and features different Pokémon depending on which hemisphere you’re playing in. This will include global encounters with Lunatone, Solrock, Spheal, and more, while other Pokémon like Yanma and Snorunt will only appear in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, respectively. Regigigas will also be appearing in five-star raids until July 1, with shiny Regigigas and new raid-related Field Research being added to the game./post/how-many-times-has-dream-won-the-minecraft-championship-mcc/Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-many-times-has-dream-won-the-minecraft-championship-mcc/ With Minecraft Championships (MCC) 16 in the books, there are now two different competitors who have managed to win the event four different times: Dream and HBomb94.  HBomb94 was the first to reach that milestone, having won his fourth with the Aqua Axolotls in MCC 14.  Dream is now the second player to reach the milestone after winning back-to-back competitions. He helped lead the Red Rabbits to a strong win in MCC 15, before following it up with a Pink Parrots comeback victory in MCC 16./post/what-accessories-does-the-nintendo-switch-oled-come-with/Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-accessories-does-the-nintendo-switch-oled-come-with/ While maybe not the 4K Nintendo Switch many people wanted, the Nintendo Switch OLED is finally here and serves as a high-quality entry point for new Switch players. With a new OLED display for the handheld, many people will want to dive into their library of Nintendo games right out of the box. For those looking to upgrade their Switch consoles, take a look at the accessories the Nintendo Switch OLED comes with./post/here-s-every-game-mode-in-battlefield-2042/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-every-game-mode-in-battlefield-2042/ After three long years, we’ve finally gotten a taste of Electronic Arts’ next installment in the Battlefield franchise, Battlefield 2042. The new trailer injected every single fan with enough hype to last them until this October, which is when the game is slated to be released. The series has always been known for its vast, populated warfare that spans across multiple facets of battle, including jet fighters, tanks, boats, and more./post/how-to-get-the-tm-flash-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-tm-flash-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ If you try to enter Wayward Cave in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you’ll be walking in the dark. To get through the maze-like cavern, you’ll need TM70, also known as Flash, Without it, you’ll be walking around in the dark and won’t be able to see much on your screen. Getting Flash is a simple process. You can find it in the basement of Oreburgh Gate, or you can purchase it once you get to Veilstone City./post/how-to-rekindle-an-eternals-set-in-league-of-legends/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-rekindle-an-eternals-set-in-league-of-legends/ Eternals are League of Legends’ version of stat-tracking achievements and have been a part of the game since 2020. While each champion has a common set of Eternals that track your general progress in-game, champions also have tailor-made sets of Eternals that track specific achievements you can unlock. Eternals have even more purpose, as they’re used to complete specific challenges introduced to the game’s client in 2022. Some of the most notable Eternal-related challenges can be completed by “rekindling” an Eternals set./post/the-best-asus-monitors/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-asus-monitors/ Asus is one of the leading brands when it comes to gaming equipment and its monitors are some of the best options available. The best monitors feature high resolution and refresh rates to keep up with competitive titles. Performance gaming monitors should also have adaptive sync technology to reduce screen tearing. These performance features are great, but any good gaming monitor must also have decent color accuracy.  Asus manufactures everything from motherboards to graphics cards and laptop cases./post/guilty-gear-strive-open-beta-test-2-begins-on-may-13/Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guilty-gear-strive-open-beta-test-2-begins-on-may-13/ ArcSystemWorks has confirmed the dates for its second Open Beta Test for Guilty Gear Strive, with additional characters available to try out while playing.  The #GuiltyGearStrive Open Beta Test #2 details have been announced and will be available on PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 from 8:00pm PST on May 13th to 7:59am PST on May 16th. Full details here: https://t.co/aEO2Y2f4Fd pic.twitter.com/0irV3UNCDT — ArcSystemWorks ➡️ #GuiltyGearStrive 06.11.21 (@ArcSystemWorksU) April 28, 2021 The beta will open on May 13 at 10pm CT and will run until May 16 at 9:59am CT on both PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles./post/weplay-animajor-group-stage-begins-with-4-way-ties/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/weplay-animajor-group-stage-begins-with-4-way-ties/ The evenly matched pace of the Wild Card round seems to have carried over into the group stage at the WePlay Esports AniMajor, with the first day ending in two different sets of four-way ties.  Of the eight teams competing, four managed to win one of their best-of-two series outright and then split their other series. Those four teams, Evil Geniuses, PSG.LGD, Nigma, and Vici Gaming, are all tied for first place in the rankings after day one, with a 3-1 game record./post/what-new-world-server-is-asmongold-in/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-new-world-server-is-asmongold-in/ New World is finally launched, and players will be looking to decide on the right server for them and their friends to group up and adventure together. When making this decision, you’ll likely want to know what the server population will look like or if there are any large streamers joining in on the action. See Dot Esports Gaming Deals One of the biggest names on Twitch when it comes to MMOs is Asmongold./post/noxcrew-discusses-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-mc-championship-mcc/Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/noxcrew-discusses-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-mc-championship-mcc/ When a group of strangers became friends through playing the sandbox game Garry’s Mod in 2011, they likely had no idea they would later form a group of talented creatives and eventually develop everyone’s favorite Minecraft tournament. While the MC Championship (MCC) wasn’t founded until 2019, Noxcrew’s journey from individuals to a collective creative group is where the idea began. Noxcrew has gone on to host a number of Minecraft experiences, including MCC, a monthly competition where 10 teams of four content creators come together to battle it out in a series of Minecraft mini-games that test skills like parkour, teamwork, communication, survival, and combat./post/best-mtg-sealed-forgotten-realms-cards-to-build-around/Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-mtg-sealed-forgotten-realms-cards-to-build-around/ Players only have a short time to capitalize on the MTG Arena Limited Sealed event to earn Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms booster packs and gems. Sealed is a Limited format in Magic in which players receive six booster packs and must craft a deck from them. The Limited event follows a best-of-one format on MTG Arena, offering players an additional three AFR booster packs for any number of wins and up to 2,200 gems for six wins and no more than two losses./post/how-to-complete-summer-stars-bonnuci-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-summer-stars-bonnuci-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a 90-rated Festival of FUTball (FOF) Summer Stars version of Leonardo Bonucci from Piemonte Calcio to FIFA 21 today. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. This is Bonucci’s second special card in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. The FOF Summer Stars celebrates some of the best national team performances since the start of the FOF promo. EA greatly upgraded all of Bonucci’s skills, including Pace (+28), Dribbling (+17), Passing (+16), Physical (+16), Shooting (+14), and his Defending (+9), when you compare this new card to his 76-rated gold version./post/call-of-duty-warzone-pacific-is-now-live-featuring-the-new-map-caldera/Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-warzone-pacific-is-now-live-featuring-the-new-map-caldera/ Call of Duty: Warzone’s massive Pacific update, and the new map Caldera, are now live in-game on all platforms for those who own Call of Duty: Vanguard. Caldera was playable an hour ahead of schedule for some players. The 24-hour early access period allows owners of this year’s newest Call of Duty series entry to jump into the new Pacific island-themed map set in World War II. It will be available for free to all players starting tomorrow./post/guilty-gear-strive-leads-evo-2022-in-entrants-on-early-bird-leaderboard/Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guilty-gear-strive-leads-evo-2022-in-entrants-on-early-bird-leaderboard/ The Evolution Championship Series (Evo) is making its return to Las Vegas in August after two years away from offline competition, and the first round of sign-ups for the event has just concluded.  Just like with most fighting game competitions, Evo offered players looking to compete in any of the nine titles featured in the event’s main lineup. And, now that the early registration period has ended, a new number one title has emerged as the Evo team released the leaderboards, though no specific numbers were shared./post/where-to-find-ditto-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-ditto-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Ditto is one of the most important Pokémon in every game. The purple blob-like monster enables players to breed whatever Pokémon they want as long as its species is capable of doing so. This makes it really easy to get all of the moves or abilities you want on a level one Pokémon right out of the egg.  In Sword and Shield you can only find Ditto in one place, and it is the most overcrowded area in the entire game: the Lake of Outrage zone in the Wild Area./post/discord-cancels-teased-nft-integration/Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/discord-cancels-teased-nft-integration/ After user backlash, Discord has canceled a teased integration with non-fungible tokens, according to a tweet from its CEO. A few days ago, Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron tweeted a screengrab of a new integration on Discord’s Connections screen. The integration seemed to allow players to connect their MetaMask and WalletConnect apps with Discord. (Both MetaMask and WalletConnect are cryptocurrency and blockchain platforms.) Citron captioned the tweet “probably nothing,” leading Discord users to believe that the platform was going to roll out cryptocurrency compatibility and the ability to purchase non-fungible tokens, or NFTs./post/here-are-the-full-notes-and-updates-for-valorant-patch-2-06/Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-full-notes-and-updates-for-valorant-patch-2-06/ VALORANT Patch 2.06 is set to hit the live servers soon. The update is bringing with it a huge set of buffs for two of the game’s most underused agents and a nerf to one of its most overused weapons. Here are the full notes for VALORANT Patch 2.06. Viper, Yoru buffed The primary focus of Patch 2.06 is the extensive buffs to both Viper and Yoru. The Toxin used in all of Viper’s abilities now instantly inflicts enemy players with at least 50 decay and that level increases the longer they touch it./post/just-48-perfect-pick-em-submissions-remain-after-upset-filled-worlds-2021-group-stage/Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/just-48-perfect-pick-em-submissions-remain-after-upset-filled-worlds-2021-group-stage/ With the group stage of the 2021 League of Legends World Championship in the books, only 48 participants in this year’s annual Worlds pick’em game still have perfect submissions. Last year, over 3,000 pick’em players still had perfect entries after the group stage, so to see such a low number before the knockout stage even begins is staggering. The ridiculously low number of perfect pick’ems remaining can most likely be attributed to the unprecedented volume of games played at Worlds, as well as the highly improbable upsets that the tournament has already seen./post/pokimane-teases-she-is-done-playing-rust-unless-a-rp-pve-server-is-created/Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pokimane-teases-she-is-done-playing-rust-unless-a-rp-pve-server-is-created/ Offline TV member Pokimane appears to be finished with the group’s Rust server after a slew of drama over the past few days. In a post, Pokimane said she may return to VALORANT or chess instead of the extremely popular streamer server on Rust, although she said she would return to the game if a new role-play or PvE server was created. ((unless a new RP/PVE oriented server is out)) 😄/post/all-24-rank-up-requirements-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league-season-6/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-24-rank-up-requirements-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-battle-league-season-6/ Pokémon Go Battle League season six is receiving a massive overhaul from what players are used to, including the format changing from 10 ranks to 24 ranks and a three-month run time.  Along with the extended time that seasons will run, the changes to ranks extend to how players will earn a rank up through competing in matches.  The main change made to the progression system for the Battle League revolves around winning “additional battles./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-dr-disrespect/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-dr-disrespect/ Originating from Encinitas, California, Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV is one of the most unique streamers on Twitch, but you probably don’t know him by that name. Using ridiculous amounts of violence, speed, and momentum, Beahm rose to Twitch stardom under the guise of Dr Disrespect and has been one of the faces of Twitch since the day he began streaming in 2016. If you’re a regular viewer, then you may be familiar with the mantra of violence, speed, and momentum./post/former-skt-top-laner-untara-retires-from-professional-league-of-legends/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-skt-top-laner-untara-retires-from-professional-league-of-legends/ Park “Untara” Ui-jin is hanging up his mouse and keyboard. The former SKT top laner retired from professional League of Legends today, according to Fomos reporter Kenzi. The 23-year-old competed in three regions during his professional career but never won a title. He was regarded as a stable top laner who wouldn’t carry games by himself but also wouldn’t lose them. He knew how to play from a deficit and how to extend a gold advantage regardless of team composition./post/the-old-ways-event-is-now-live-in-apex-legends/Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-old-ways-event-is-now-live-in-apex-legends/ Bloodhound mains, rejoice. Apex Legends’ newest event, named The Old Ways, is now on the live servers and fans of the battle royale can partake in the limited-time event to dive into Bloodhound’s past. Duos is back and the game mode is here to stay. With the start of the two-week event, Respawn Entertainment has permanently added the queue to the game. Similarly, the Apex developer has released a permanent map rotation that gives players the ability to play either Duos or classic squads on Kings Canyon and World’s Edge./post/how-to-get-the-crabe-de-la-crabe-minion-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-crabe-de-la-crabe-minion-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Final Fantasy XIV offers over a hundred options to customize your character, and mounts and minions are some of its most popular.dw The Crabe de la Crabe minion is a red crab with big eyes and claws. It’s larger than the Smallshell, the other crab minion in FFXIV. It’s native to Thavnair, one of the new regions added alongside the latest expansion, Endwalker. Rather than fishing it like most other crabs in the game, you’ll be able to make it accompany you in your journey./post/t1-faker-the-korean-solo-queue-quality-is-so-low-compared-to-eu/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/t1-faker-the-korean-solo-queue-quality-is-so-low-compared-to-eu/ One of the most recognizable players in professional League of Legends, who is often touted as the greatest of all time, displayed some doubts about solo queue in his region after venturing to Europe for the 2021 World Championship. Faker, the starting mid-laner for T1 and semi-finalist at Worlds 2021, expressed during his stream that solo queue games on the Korean server are worse than those in EU, where he played while in Reykjavik, Iceland./post/tft-set-7-pbe-patch-balances-final-changes-during-testing/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-set-7-pbe-patch-balances-final-changes-during-testing/ The final big Teamfight Tactics Set Seven PBE patch prior to the branch cut was released today, hitting more bug fixes while balancing traits, Augments, and champions. A smaller, yet significant PBE patch for TFT Set Seven will go live today shortly after 3pm CT. The update is the last one prior to the branch cut which testers will be playing on for the remainder of the week. Multiple Dragonlands champions getting used as primary carriers were hit with nerfs in today’s patch, along with traits like Mirage, Dragon, and Whispers./post/the-best-lw3-tundra-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-lw3-tundra-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ Call of Duty games are synonymous with their sniper rifles. Legendary sniper rifles like the Intervention, M40A3, Barrett 0.50 Cal, and more have gone down in history. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has a bunch of sniper rifles and tactical rifles to choose from, but the best one is the LW3 Tundra. It’s a great sniper for both sitting back and picking off enemies at a distance, and for running around and quick-scoping./post/are-shiny-hoopa-and-shiny-hoopa-confined-available-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/are-shiny-hoopa-and-shiny-hoopa-confined-available-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The Season of Mischief continues with full force in Pokémon Go with a Special Research project, Misunderstood Mischief, which will be live throughout the season. The Research project will go live at 11am local time on Sept. 5. You’ll have a chance to capture Hoopa’s Confined version as you complete the tasks that will become available. Though the encounter is guaranteed, you’ll need to bring your A-game to successfully add it to your collection./post/everything-we-know-about-riot-s-tellstones-king-s-gambit/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-we-know-about-riot-s-tellstones-king-s-gambit/ Riot filed a trademark for a new tabletop game called Tellstones: King’s Gambit last year, and now it’s finally coming into fruition. Tellstones is a game of “bluffing, strategy, and recollection,” according to the board game’s website. But the ins and outs of the Tellstones still remain to be seen. Here’s everything we know about Tellstones so far. What did League’s Patch 9.20 tell us about Tellstones? To celebrate League’s 10th anniversary in October 2019, a set of new tips were added to the loading screen with Patch 9./post/how-to-play-dvd-and-blu-ray-on-xbox-series-x/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-dvd-and-blu-ray-on-xbox-series-x/ Consoles are mostly associated with gaming, but they’re more resourceful than one would think. They’re entertainment hubs that can double as media consumption machines. Both the Xbox Series X and S can browse through the web and run apps like Netflix, YouTube, or any supported streaming service. This allows you to use your console even while watching your favorite TV shows and movies, eliminating the need for a PC or laptop./post/the-best-awp-skins-in-cs-go/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-awp-skins-in-cs-go/ The AWP sniper rifle is one of the most iconic weapons in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. This one-hit kill machine is the most important power weapon in competitive CS:GO due to how dangerous it is at mid to long range, and how expensive it is to purchase. Considering the key role the AWP plays in the game, it is no surprise that many players cherish their AWP skins above most other weapons in the game./post/valorant-to-celebrate-lunar-new-year-with-leaked-celestial-skin-line-for-frenzy-judge-ares-phantom-and-melee/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-to-celebrate-lunar-new-year-with-leaked-celestial-skin-line-for-frenzy-judge-ares-phantom-and-melee/ The new VALORANT skins never seem to stop coming. The latest skin line to be leaked is called Celestial and it’s for the Frenzy, Judge, Ares, and Phantom, along with a melee weapon that turns into a fan. It’ll cost 7,100 RP for the whole pack and 1,775 for each individual skin, according to a leak by a YouTube channel called Black Valorant en Español. The Celestial line should be released alongside GO VOLUME 1, an anime-inspired skin line that features a kunai knife with Jett’s likeness on it./post/broxah-to-take-a-break-from-professional-league-play-will-focus-on-streaming-in-2022/Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/broxah-to-take-a-break-from-professional-league-play-will-focus-on-streaming-in-2022/ One of the longest-standing players in professional League of Legends history is stepping back this year to demonstrate his talent through full-time streaming. Mads “Broxah” Brock-Pederson—former jungler for teams like Fnatic, Team Liquid, and CLG—announced on his Twitch stream today that he will not be participating in pro play in 2022. Instead, he said his current endeavor is to climb the League ranked ladder through streaming from his home in Denmark./post/judge-program-for-magic-the-gathering-is-coming-to-an-end/Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/judge-program-for-magic-the-gathering-is-coming-to-an-end/ The days of the Wizards of the Coast Judge Program are over. All MTG judging responsibilities will now transfer over to an independent organization. The judge program for MTG will end on Oct. 1 of this year, Wizards of the Coast has announced. An independent organization called the Judge Academy has partnered with WotC to handle a majority of the responsibilities once held by the Judge Program.  Seeking to make a mark in competitive esports, the Judge Academy is owned by Tim Sheilds, operator of Cascade Games./post/rainbow-six-siege-tips-for-beginners/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rainbow-six-siege-tips-for-beginners/ Jumping into Rainbow Six Siege can be an overwhelming experience. Siege is a first-person shooter that plays like no other game on the market right now. Because of the unique nature of the game, it’s hard to shake muscle memory learned in other FPS titles.  The game also has some deceptively complex mechanics that aren’t always apparent to newcomers. We’ve put together a list of some basic tips for beginners that should help ease newcomers into the game./post/drdisrespect-says-he-is-suing-twitch-for-banning-him/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/drdisrespect-says-he-is-suing-twitch-for-banning-him/ Popular streamer Dr Disrespect said today he is suing streaming platform Twitch over his ban in June 2020, the reason for which has not been given by Twitch or Dr Disrespect. The ‘Two-Time’ has since found a home on YouTube, but he has rarely commented on his Twitch ban despite June 26 marking the one-year anniversary. He did say today on his stream, however, that he is aware of the reason for the ban and he is in the process of suing Twitch./post/fnatic-moves-moon-to-inactive-dota-2-roster/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fnatic-moves-moon-to-inactive-dota-2-roster/ Fnatic is looking for a new mid laner ahead of The International 10 qualifiers. The Southeast Asia titans have moved Kam “Moon” Boon Seng to the Dota 2 team’s inactive roster, the organization announced today. Moon will be allowed to “explore his options and pursue new opportunities,” likely indicating that he’s still under contract and has yet to find a new team. Today we announce that @moon_dota moves to our inactive roster, allowing him to explore his options and pursue new opportunities./post/effys-valorant-settings-and-crosshair/Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/effys-valorant-settings-and-crosshair/ When VALORANT was launched in 2020, the first respondents were longtime CS:GO players. Professional CS:GO players all over the world slowly decided to focus more on VALORANT—and Loic “effys” Sauvageau was one of them. Originating from Canada, effys has been a part of VALORANT’s competitive scene since the beginning. Playing for Version1 right now, effys and his team qualified for the first international LAN for the game, VCT 2021: Stage Two Masters Reykjavík. Despite an explosive start in the upper bracket, V1 eventually dropped to the lower bracket where they had to face off against Fnatic, the runner-up of the tournament./post/dragon-ball-fighterz-hits-pc-game-pass-on-feb-24/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dragon-ball-fighterz-hits-pc-game-pass-on-feb-24/ Dragon Ball FighterZ is headed to PC Game Pass on Feb. 24, giving even more players a chance to try out the base version of the fighting game.  DBFZ was added to Xbox Game Pass last October, bringing Bandai Namco and Arc System Work’s critically acclaimed title to anyone who used the subscription service across multiple Xbox platforms. And for players who have Game Pass Ultimate, they can now enjoy the game on console or PC at no additional cost./post/secret-cards-revealed-for-pok%C3%A9mon-ocg-sky-stream-and-towering-perfection-includes-rayquaza-vmax-raihan-and-zinnia/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/secret-cards-revealed-for-pok%C3%A9mon-ocg-sky-stream-and-towering-perfection-includes-rayquaza-vmax-raihan-and-zinnia/ A week after regular cards for the upcoming Sky Stream and Towering Perfection Pokémon OCG dual set were revealed, the remaining secret cards have also made their way online. The newly revealed cards were leaked in a post to Pokémon forum Pokébeach. The set launches on July 9 and features plenty of Dragon-type Pokémon, including its two stars Rayquaza and Duraludon. Both of these species, plus many others, received the secret treatment in this set./post/four-new-fighters-join-the-marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-roster/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/four-new-fighters-join-the-marvel-vs-capcom-infinite-roster/ Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite has four new characters joining the roster, with Spider-Man, Haggar, Nemesis, and Frank West entering the battle. Capcom revealed the trailer yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, then announced the new characters on the Marvel vs. Capcom Twitter afterwards. Most of these characters return from Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and seem to use the same movesets.  The first character we see in the trailer is Haggar, the mayor of Metro City from the Final Fight series of games./post/rocket-league-s-halloween-themed-haunted-hallows-event-is-live-with-ghostbusters-cosmetics/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rocket-league-s-halloween-themed-haunted-hallows-event-is-live-with-ghostbusters-cosmetics/ Halloween has come to Rocket League. The game’s spooky Haunted Hallows event is now live with Ghostbusters-themed cosmetics, extra challenges, and two returning limited-time modes. Players have approximately two weeks to earn their rewards before the whole event gets sucked into a Proton Pack on Nov. 2. This year’s collection is available through challenges, but a few returning cosmetics will make their way to the Item Shop—including the Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1 Battle-Car and the Stay Puft explosion./post/can-you-get-a-master-ball-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-get-a-master-ball-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ In the Hisui region that players explore in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, players have access to crafting different types of Poké Balls using a variety of items found in the wild. Many of these Poké Balls return from other entries in the series, while others debut in this single-player experience to aid players in catching different types of Pokémon. The most powerful Poké Ball in the Pokémon series is the Master Ball, which is able to catch any Pokémon without fail, including Legendary and Mythical Pokémon./post/everything-to-know-about-the-future-games-show-spring-2022-showcase/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-the-future-games-show-spring-2022-showcase/ The Future Games Show: Spring Showcase presented by GamesRadar+ will feature more than 40 games that are coming this year. The event takes place on March 24. The showcase will have dozens of game trailers, including eight world premieres. The show will last an hour and will be hosted by Horizon Forbidden West voice actors Ashly Burch (Aloy) and John Macmillan (Varl). Fans can expect game trailers, announcements, and a glimpse of what’s to come in 2022./post/pubg-season-13-adds-map-updates-new-emergency-landing-and-secret-room-mechanics-for-taego/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-season-13-adds-map-updates-new-emergency-landing-and-secret-room-mechanics-for-taego/ PUBG is getting a big update in August, with Season 13.1 bringing some fixes and the introduction of the Taego Secret Room for the game’s newest map when it launches on Aug. 4.  The Taego Secret Room is a randomly spawning area that will appear on the map and contain some of the best gear available in PUBG. Players can try to track the room down or just randomly stumble upon it, but anyone who wants to enter will need to find the secret key, too./post/the-best-ducky-keyboards/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-ducky-keyboards/ Founded in 2008, Ducky is now one of the leading mechanical keyboard brands. The company makes a range of full-size and compact keyboards geared toward gamers wanting the best performance.  Ducky makes a wide range of keyboards with similar features and characteristics. Most Ducky keyboards use reliable Cherry MX switches, and some are available with Gateron or Kailh switches. You can choose between the many variants on offer to personalize your experience./post/where-to-find-eevee-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-eevee-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ To complete your national Pokédex for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you’ll need to find Eevee. But it’s not as easy to find as most Pokémon in the game. There are some big requirements you’ll need to find Eevee. First, you must beat the Pokémon League, and you must have completed your Sinnoh Pokédex and unlock the National Pokédex. Then, starting in Hearthome City, head south to Route 212 and stay all the way to the right./post/a-tale-of-two-brother-darius-draven/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-tale-of-two-brother-darius-draven/   Year 4017- In our recent expedition to the fallen nation of Noxia, we uncovered some historical artifacts, mainly scrolls. While we continue to excavate and search for more clues, here are some previously unknown facts about two legendary figures: Darius and Draven. “He was the best of brothers, he was the worst of brothers, he was the figure of wisdom, he was the figure of foolishness, he was the individual of belief, it was the individual of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Noxia’s High Command, we were all going direct the other way./post/how-to-download-apex-legends-mobile-apk-and-obb-for-android/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-download-apex-legends-mobile-apk-and-obb-for-android/ Though other battle royales have been on mobile platforms for a while now, Apex Legends has remained on PC and consoles. That changed when Respawn Entertainment decided to design Apex from ground zero for mobile platforms. Considering the demands are off the charts, some players may not see Apex Legends Mobile in the Google Play Store, especially when there’s an update available for the game. When that’s the case, you can resort to alternative methods that will help you skip waiting for Apex to show up in the Google Play Store./post/lachlan-gives-sneak-peak-of-his-icon-series-fortnite-skin/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lachlan-gives-sneak-peak-of-his-icon-series-fortnite-skin/ Australian YouTuber Lachlan teased fans today with a picture of his upcoming Icon Series Fortnite skin.  The character cosmetic looks like everything you’d expect out of Lachlan, including his sparkling, slicked-back hair.  Along with having an identical face to Lachlan, the teaser photo looked to be electrified, matching the content creator’s lightning bolt-themed branding. Lachlan x @FortniteGame Icon Series⚡ Available in the Fortnite item shop November 12th 7pm EST Use Code Lachy #Ad pic./post/facebook-gaming-expands-music-streaming-protection-to-level-up-creators/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/facebook-gaming-expands-music-streaming-protection-to-level-up-creators/ Facebook Gaming is continuing its effort to protect its creators from potential issues with the Digital Media Copyright Act (DMCA).  The platform announced today that it’s expanding protection for its streamers who want to use copyrighted music in the background during their livestreams to include its “Level Up” creators, which is a tier below being a “partnered” streamer on Facebook. The move comes nearly a year after the platform announced that it had worked with top music labels to give partnered streamers the rights to have background music for popular songs from Universal, Warner, Sony, and Kobalt, among others./post/moonmoon-finally-completes-elden-ring-level-one-only-run-dying-2-037-times-along-the-way/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/moonmoon-finally-completes-elden-ring-level-one-only-run-dying-2-037-times-along-the-way/ Popular streamer Moonmoon has completed his level one only Elden Ring run, although he died 2,037 times in the process.  Elden Ring is difficult. The Lands Between are full of deadly enemies and bosses that can sometimes kill you in a few hits, and having the appropriate gear and weapons is crucial. Leveling up is also an important part of the game since it increases your stats and ensures you can handle the new challenges presented in each area./post/infinite-impermanence-lighting-storm-get-reprints-in-cyber-style-yu-gi-oh-ocg-structure-deck/Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/infinite-impermanence-lighting-storm-get-reprints-in-cyber-style-yu-gi-oh-ocg-structure-deck/ Less than a week out from its release, Konami is making Yu-Gi-Oh! players very happy with a few reprints that will be included in the Cyber Style Structure Deck.  Two of the most powerful cards in the game, Infinite Impermanence and Lighting Storm, will be generic reprints in the new product when it drops on May 15 in the OCG.  ❰𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗸: 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲❱ The upcoming OCG Structure Deck: “Cyber Strike” will include these two reprints 🤖 #遊戯王 #YuGiOh #유희왕 pic./post/what-is-the-shuro-chi-wish-in-destiny-2/Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-the-shuro-chi-wish-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2’s Last Wish raid had players go through the Dreaming City to undo the influence of Riven of a Thousand Voices. It’s an iconic moment for the Forsaken expansion and one that ultimately sealed the Dreaming City’s fate into a time-looping curse that still lingers. Now, years after Last Wish’s release, players are still finding an unlikely use for the Wish Wall—more specifically, for the Shuro Chi wish. The Wish Wall lets players trigger specific effects throughout the Last Wish raid./post/how-to-fix-resource-unavailable-error-on-apple-music/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-resource-unavailable-error-on-apple-music/ Apple Music is one of the most popular streaming services that thousands of music fans use daily to enjoy their favorite tunes. Sometimes, technical issues can prevent you from using the app or service, creating an annoying problem. One issue users might encounter is the “Resource Unavailable” message when trying to enjoy a song or other media. There are a few ways around this problem and a couple of ways to check if it is a widespread issue impacting all users./post/nats-settings-keybinds-and-crosshair-for-valorant/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nats-settings-keybinds-and-crosshair-for-valorant/ Gambit’s Ayaz “nAts” Akhmetshin was one of the standout players at VCT Champions in 2021. The 19-year-old was key to the team’s continued success throughout the competitive year. Known for his unique skillset on Viper and Cypher, the talented young Russian is now considered to be one of the very best VALORANT players in the world. Not only does nAts record incredible numbers, often top-fragging for his team, but he’s also capable of controlling and dictating the pace of the game with his intelligent reads on the meta./post/best-restricted-pok%C3%A9mon-to-use-for-series-12-vgc-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-restricted-pok%C3%A9mon-to-use-for-series-12-vgc-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Series 12 VGC has been around in Pokémon Sword and Shield for nearly four months now, and the meta surrounding the dual-restricted Pokémon format has developed quite significantly since these new rules were first introduced in February. While some trends and archetypes continue to dominate the meta, there are tons of new restricted Pokémon that are showing players they have some serious hidden potential. While it’s always fun to use your favorites, there’s no comparison to the results a tried-and-tested restricted Pokémon will yield./post/dwg-kia-s-showmaker-claims-his-200th-win-in-the-lck/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dwg-kia-s-showmaker-claims-his-200th-win-in-the-lck/ Heo “ShowMaker” Su, the 21-year-old mid laner, has just added another accolade to his already historic career after securing his 200th win in the LCK. From an outside perspective, DWG KIA’s win against the ninth-placed Hanwha Life Esports was a given. While the series went as expected, with DWG KIA dominated in both games, this win marked an important milestone for ShowMaker. Congratulations to @DWGKIA ShowMaker for earning his 200th #LCK win!/post/former-witcher-3-cyberpunk-2077-designer-joins-riot-games-for-upcoming-league-of-legends-mmo/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-witcher-3-cyberpunk-2077-designer-joins-riot-games-for-upcoming-league-of-legends-mmo/ The upcoming MMORPG from Riot Games, which is set in the League of Legends universe, added its quest designer to its team earlier today.  Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who previously worked for game development studio CD Projekt Red, will join Riot’s MMO team presumably as a quest designer. Tomaszkiewicz designed much of the questing material for recent CD Projekt Red games, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077.  Big career update – I spent last few months meeting and talking to a number of great people and Teams, and now I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be joining @riotgames on their upcoming MMO project./post/ukraine-bombing-caught-on-twitch-livestream/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ukraine-bombing-caught-on-twitch-livestream/ In Ukraine’s early morning hours, Russia began a move into the country in what has been described as a full-scale invasion. There have been reports of Russian attack helicopters and explosions in cities as Russia hits major zones inside the sovereign country. And a streamer captured the sounds from the early stages of a bombing live on their Twitch channel. The clip was captured around 11am EET (3am CT) as streamer Katymentooll walked her dog in an urban area in Odessa, Ukraine./post/tft-mortdog-madness-returns-during-neon-nights-6-5-fun-patch/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-mortdog-madness-returns-during-neon-nights-6-5-fun-patch/ Riot Games game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer is partnering with Wisdom (Giant SlayerTFT) for the return of Mortdog Madness, a team-based Teamfight Tactics tournament pitting Europe against North American players.  Mortdog Madness tournaments have become a staple for the past two TFT sets, showcasing players battling it out for bragging rights and cash. In a partnership between the autobattler’s game design director and Wisdom, the Neon Nights Mortdog Madness tournament will feature a total prize pool of $10,000 and a showdown between the best EMEA and NA players./post/new-valorant-bug-causes-cypher-players-to-trigger-their-cyber-cage-without-looking-at-it/Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-valorant-bug-causes-cypher-players-to-trigger-their-cyber-cage-without-looking-at-it/ Over the past day, many VALORANT players have complained about another annoying Cypher bug that’s popped up after Riot Games’ latest patch for the game. Cypher’s Cyber Cage is glitched to where players are triggering the ability without even looking at the cage, according to multiple fans. This also means that if the player is trying to use another ability, like Cypher’s tripwire, or trying to climb up a rope, they won’t be able to do so if the Cyber Cage is in the same direction./post/all-fortnite-birthday-cake-locations/Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-fortnite-birthday-cake-locations/ Fortnite’s second birthday is here, and Epic Games released a few challenges for players to complete and unlock cosmetic items. Two of them are about finding birthday cakes spread across the Fortnite island. In the first one, players have to dance or use any emote in front of all 10 of them. In the other, they must recover 50 health or shield by eating slices of cake that surround these huge cakes, which add up to 10 slices since each recovers five points of health./post/valorant-s-space-themed-g-u-n-collection-is-now-available-includes-classic-bucky-spectre-operator-and-melee/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-s-space-themed-g-u-n-collection-is-now-available-includes-classic-bucky-spectre-operator-and-melee/ Get ready to pew pew the competition. VALORANT fans can finally get their hands on the Gravitational Uranium Neuroblaster (G.U.N.) Collection, which is now in the store. The bundle includes skins for the Classic pistol, Bucky shotgun, Spectre SMG, Operator rifle, and melee weapon. The G.U.N. bundle offers Premium Edition skins, costing 7,100 VP for all five weapon skins, a player card, a gun buddy, and a skin. Each skin will run you 1,775 VP on its own, aside from the melee weapon, which costs 3,550 VP./post/when-is-the-release-window-for-rainbow-six-siege-s-operation-shifting-tides/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-the-release-window-for-rainbow-six-siege-s-operation-shifting-tides/ Operation Shifting Tides is the newest season of content coming to Rainbow Six Siege. And while the release date is still unknown, we have a pretty good idea of when fans can expect a full release.  Looking at past seasons, fans will notice that there’s normally a full season reveal at a major LAN event that’s followed by a Test Server (TS) period. These Test Server periods can vary but generally last within the three-week range./post/all-classes-in-tiny-tina-s-wonderlands/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-classes-in-tiny-tina-s-wonderlands/ Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is releasing later this week as one of the most highly-anticipated games this month. Although it’s set in the Borderlands universe, this game will be far different from the main games before it. Players will have access to an extensive character creation system, including choosing a class. Players will get to choose two of the six available classes, a unique twist on the original game’s format. This mix and match mechanic will provide a variety of unique playstyles and ability combinations with a vast range of possibilities./post/na-vct-stage-2-challengers-valorant-main-event-schedule-scores-and-standings/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/na-vct-stage-2-challengers-valorant-main-event-schedule-scores-and-standings/ Following OpTic Gaming’s triumph at VCT Masters Reykjavík, all eyes are turning toward North America after the region claimed its second international VALORANT LAN trophy in Iceland. The NA VCT Stage Two Challengers main event is all set, with 12 teams set to go toe-to-toe in a round-robin group stage before a decisive double-elimination playoff bracket. With only two stages taking place during the 2022 VALORANT Champions Tour, it’s all on the line for these teams that want to make an appearance at Masters and make a run at Champions at the end of the year./post/respawn-to-nerf-prowler-and-l-star-in-apex-patch-later-today-plans-to-balance-seer-next-week/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-to-nerf-prowler-and-l-star-in-apex-patch-later-today-plans-to-balance-seer-next-week/ Apex Legends players complained and Respawn listened. A quick balance patch shipping later today will target a couple of overperforming weapons, including the Prowler SMG and L-Star LMG. While fans may have wanted to see some Seer nerfs come sooner, Respawn plans on balancing the new legend next week. Later today we'll also ship a quick balance patch that: ⬇️ Reduces Prowler damage from 15>14 🔫 Reduces speed while ADSing with the L-Star/post/c%C3%B3mo-obtener-pok%C3%A9mon-shiny-con-el-m%C3%A9todo-masuda-de-cr%C3%ADa-de-huevos-en-espada-y-escudo/Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/c%C3%B3mo-obtener-pok%C3%A9mon-shiny-con-el-m%C3%A9todo-masuda-de-cr%C3%ADa-de-huevos-en-espada-y-escudo/ Los Pokémon shiny (brillantes o variocolor) en Espada y Escudo son relativamente difíciles de encontrar. Solo hay unas pocas opciones disponibles para aumentar tus posibilidades de atrapar a una de las criaturas esquivas. Si bien las cadenas existen en el juego, encontrar un brillante de este método puede ser una tarea difícil en un lapso breve. Afortunadamente para los cazadores de shiny hay un método mucho más fácil, aunque lleva tiempo, para obtener Pokémon variocolor./post/ultimate-spellbook-returning-to-league-of-legends-this-winter-will-feature-new-ults/Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ultimate-spellbook-returning-to-league-of-legends-this-winter-will-feature-new-ults/ Riot Games has revealed many of its intentions surrounding planned changes and updates to League of Legends in the near future. While much of Riot’s announcement today centered around standard play, the developer also gave some insight into League’s rotating game modes.  See League of Legends on Amazon Riot confirmed that Ultimate Spellbook, the breakout game mode from the 2021 season, will be available to play in League “this winter,” according to the developer’s announcement earlier today./post/fly-returns-to-evil-geniuses-dota-2-roster/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fly-returns-to-evil-geniuses-dota-2-roster/ Pivoting from a new look to a tried-and-true method of victory, Evil Geniuses is bringing back Fly to helm its Dota 2 roster today as the organization heads into the final leg of the 2022 Dota Pro Circuit.  Fly returns to North America after a brief stint in Southeast Asia with the original iteration of Talon Esports, stepping back into the captain role for the organization he played with from 2018 until late 2021./post/here-are-the-updates-and-notes-for-league-of-legends-patch-10-16/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-updates-and-notes-for-league-of-legends-patch-10-16/ Yasuo and ADC mains are in for a treat with this League of Legends patch. Yasuo’s long lost brother, Yone, will finally make an appearance on the Rift with a kit that’s similar to the Unforgiven. A couple of underplayed ADCs are also getting some love in this patch, which could help them make more appearances both in solo queue and professional play. The usual contenders that are causing havoc have been taken down a bit, too./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-ending-with-rce/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-ending-with-rce/ Wordle is the latest game acquired by the New York Times. Created by Josh Wardle, for his wife who loved word games, the game combines a casual and fun experience with the possibility of developing your vocabulary by discovering new words in addition to the secret word of the day. Wordle has many different types of players, from the casual ones to the ones who have a greater desire to solve the secret word every day and keep their winning streak recorded on the Wordle website./post/respawn-addresses-netcode-servers-and-why-it-s-not-upgrading-apex-s-tick-rate-soon-in-deep-dive-blog-post/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-addresses-netcode-servers-and-why-it-s-not-upgrading-apex-s-tick-rate-soon-in-deep-dive-blog-post/ For a layman, words like “tick rate” and “netcode” can be hard to understand—so Respawn brought in the experts. Lead engineer Samy Duc explained a series of issues and common scenarios that happen to players in Apex Legends, their causes, and what the developers are doing to fix them in a 5,000-word blog post today. In addition, Duc touched on a highly debated topic: The reason why Apex runs at a 20 Hz tick rate—and why upgrading it may not have as significant an impact as some fans think./post/golden-backpack-and-body-shield-facing-big-changes-in-apex-legends-season-3/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/golden-backpack-and-body-shield-facing-big-changes-in-apex-legends-season-3/ Critics of the Legendary Body Shield are getting a small victory tomorrow. An Apex Legends fan’s Reddit post today listed every update coming to the battle royale in season three, which releases tomorrow at 2pm CT. Fans will be happy to hear that the useless perk on the Golden Body Shield, as well as the Golden Backpack’s, will be undergoing some practical changes. “Golden Body Shield takes the old Fast Use perk from the backpack,” the fan said./post/the-best-hide-and-seek-fortnite-codes-for-creative-mode-june-2022/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-hide-and-seek-fortnite-codes-for-creative-mode-june-2022/ Fortnite’s Creative mode allows players to build a variety of impressive maps highlighting different custom game modes such as Hide-and-Seek. As the name suggests, Hide-and-Seek tasks players with navigating the map to find a place to hide while one player is appointed the seeker role and must locate and eliminate the hiding players. This mode is one of the most popular creative modes in Fortnite since it requires more than one player and is perfect for a team of players to participate in together./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-at/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-at/ Since its Oct. 2021 release, Wordle has become a popular way to start the day for many players. Every 24 hours, a new word will pop up, and you need to guess it within that timeframe to maintain your streak. You have a maximum of six guesses, and there are no clues to start. After entering a good first word, the game will give you some visual feedback: letters absent from the word of the day will turn gray, while the ones that are part of the answer will be either yellow or green, depending on whether they are in the right or wrong place./post/android-21-lab-coat-banned-for-dragon-ball-fighterz-at-ceo-2022/Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/android-21-lab-coat-banned-for-dragon-ball-fighterz-at-ceo-2022/ It took an additional Major for the decision to finally be made, but Android 21 (Lab Coat) has officially been banned from use in Dragon Ball FighterZ at Community Effort Orlando (CEO) 2022.  This was a decision made after a long discussion between tournament organizer Alex Jebailey and various members of the DBFZ community, which resulted in the character being banned from tournament play at the event.  After a formal review with the CEO Board of Directors (@jebailey/post/wardell-s-valorant-streaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wardell-s-valorant-streaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/ Matthew “Wardell” Yu represents TSM as a part of its VALORANT roster. Wardell started his career with CS:GO but switched to VALORANT soon after its release. He was named the MVP during the FaZe’s 2020 VALORANT Invitational. Here is Wardell’s streaming setup, but you can find Wardell’s VALORANT settings here. Headset Logitech G PRO X Wireless Lightspeed Audio is an important aspect of many games like VALORANT, and a reliable headset doesn’t just give you quality audio but enough comfort to stay focused on the game./post/team-smg-parts-ways-with-kpii-heading-into-next-dota-2-season/Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-smg-parts-ways-with-kpii-heading-into-next-dota-2-season/ Damien “kpii” Chok is on the move again, parting ways with Team SMG after just six months with the organization.  Since forming at the start of the year, SMG has gone through several iterations. Management has changed up the roster twice since the start of the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit, where the team had mixed results early. TI marks the end of a season, and with that, we say thank you and farewell to @kpiidota./post/riot-s-gameplay-design-director-scruffy-set-to-join-the-league-mmo-team-as-game-director/Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-s-gameplay-design-director-scruffy-set-to-join-the-league-mmo-team-as-game-director/ After spending over eight years working on League of Legends, popular Rioter and gameplay design director Mark “Scruffy” Yetter has announced that he’ll be leaving the MOBA team to become the new game director of Riot Games’ upcoming League MMO. Scruffy will be joining former League game designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street on the new game project, even though they’re still figuring out the details of his transition between games. His replacement as gameplay design director has not been announced just yet, either./post/2pac-joins-atlanta-faze-as-search-and-destroy-analyst/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/2pac-joins-atlanta-faze-as-search-and-destroy-analyst/ The Atlanta FaZe have hired John “2Pac” Hartley as a Search and Destroy analyst, head coach Crowder announced on his Twitch stream. 2Pac, a Search and Destroy tournament veteran, previously served on the Chicago Huntsmen’s coaching staff during the first season of the Call of Duty League. After not being re-signed to OpTic Chicago’s staff, he had been vocal about wanting to be involved with another team. FaZe, who currently sit atop the CDL standings, have been one of the top Search and Destroy teams in the league./post/animal-crossing-new-horizons-player-turns-pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet-starters-into-villagers/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/animal-crossing-new-horizons-player-turns-pok%C3%A9mon-scarlet-and-violet-starters-into-villagers/ While many Animal Crossing: New Horizons players may have left their islands vacant in favor of new releases across various platforms, one fan opted to bring the newest entry in a popular franchise to their island, reinvigorating it once more. Twitter user @doom_mori created a mod for Animal Crossing: New Horizons that turned the starters for the upcoming Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games into villagers on their island. They showcased the custom designs in an area resembling a Pokémon lab, complete with Poké Balls in front of them waiting for new trainers to pick their choice./post/malik-fort%C3%A9-on-the-overwatch-league-i-guess-they-didn-t-think-i-was-worth-what-i-asked-for/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/malik-fort%C3%A9-on-the-overwatch-league-i-guess-they-didn-t-think-i-was-worth-what-i-asked-for/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Since the end of 2019, five people have departed from the Overwatch League talent team and announced that they won’t be returning for the 2020 season in February.  The list of names features some of the biggest personalities in the league, including commentators Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles, Erik “DoA” Lonnquist, Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat, and host. Chris Puckett. And now, Malik Forté is the lastest person to reveal that he isn’t returning to the Overwatch League broadcast team./post/how-to-walk-together-with-a-living-crystal-of-snow-and-catch-regice-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-walk-together-with-a-living-crystal-of-snow-and-catch-regice-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/ The Crown Tundra is a vast area that’s full of strong Pokémon that you need to track down and capture. Some species are even hiding deep inside of ruins scattered around the new map.  To complete the main quest for Pokémon Sword and Shield’s newest expansion, The Crown Tundra, you’ll need to solve multiple riddles to challenge Regirock, Registeel, and Regice. By capturing the trio, you’ll then be able to encounter either Regieleki and Regidrago in the final set of ruins./post/twitch-drops-coming-to-lost-ark-to-promote-game-s-launch/Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-drops-coming-to-lost-ark-to-promote-game-s-launch/ Lost Ark drops are coming to Twitch in celebration of the game’s launch and there’s a variety of in-game items players can unlock just by watching streamers play the game this month. Starting next Tuesday, Feb. 8, viewers can start watching Twitch content creators who have early access to the game and unlock a Twitch drop for every four hours of viewership. The campaign will end on Feb. 28 at 2am CT./post/rengar-kha-zix-bring-masters-of-the-hunt-event-to-wild-rift/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rengar-kha-zix-bring-masters-of-the-hunt-event-to-wild-rift/ Rengar and Kha’Zix have arrived into League of Legends: Wild Rift along with a new event. The Masters of the Hunt event makes players choose a side between the two champions and settle the old rivalry between them. The event began on May 6 and will end on May 18. Finally, it will wrap up on May 25, so players must collect all their rewards before this. On opening the event page in Wild Rift, you will have to choose a side: Rengar or Kha’Zix./post/doja-cat-gets-trolled-by-twitch-copypasta-thinks-she-s-being-accused-of-cheating/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/doja-cat-gets-trolled-by-twitch-copypasta-thinks-she-s-being-accused-of-cheating/ Doja Cat was slightly confused when viewers in her Twitch chat started accusing her of cheating before realizing it was a copypasta. Copypastas are long messages that live stream viewers will copy and paste repeatedly in chat as a joke or meme. Most are harmless nonsense, while some can confuse those unfamiliar with the format. Multiple viewers will often spam the same message repeatedly, creating a wall of text with the same message./post/how-to-complete-a-legendary-quest-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-5/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-a-legendary-quest-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-5/ Fortnite’s Chapter Two, season five is finally live and players are ready to dive into what went down after their mind-blowing fight against Galactus. Fortnite players teamed up with the cast of Marvel heroes, featured in the previous season, to take down Galactus at the end of the last season. Though the efforts seemed to work out in the end, Galactus was able to damage the fundamentals of the Fortnite world by consuming some of the End Point and causing a loop./post/how-to-sign-up-for-rumbleverse-early-access/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-sign-up-for-rumbleverse-early-access/ Epic Games is expanding its holdings in the marketplace for battle royale games with a fighting game style take on the genre. Wnd while Rumbleverse won’t release until next year, some players will get an opportunity to try it out through early access. If brawling it out in a last-man-standing fighter on a large map sounds like fun to you, then you can sign up on the official Rumbleverse website./post/the-cs-go-gambling-scandal-everything-you-need-to-know/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-cs-go-gambling-scandal-everything-you-need-to-know/ Over the course of a month, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, has been hit with arguably the biggest scandal in the game’s history and one which threatens to change the complexion of the professional scene forever.   Dozens of sites that allow Counter-Strike players to gamble with virtual in-game items have exploded in popularity in recent years. They sponsor some of the biggest streamers, players, and even some teams. The market has been largely unregulated because the sites largely exist in a legal gray area./post/what-order-should-you-play-the-final-fantasy-games/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-order-should-you-play-the-final-fantasy-games/ The Final Fantasy series, one of the largest franchises in gaming history, has turned into a legendary name among gamers, even among ones that haven’t even played the game, as its brilliance has been spread through word of mouth very well at this point. With its first game releasing all the way back in 1987 and the newest installment set to release in Summer 2023, the franchise has been running for more than three decades with a ton of games under its belt./post/animator-creates-terrifying-custom-league-login-screen-for-reworked-fiddlesticks/Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/animator-creates-terrifying-custom-league-login-screen-for-reworked-fiddlesticks/ It’s been a long time since a new League of Legends champion has received their own login screen, but animator Ligno has brought Fiddlesticks to life in a fan-made login screen that will definitely make you jump out of your skin. By combining the recent Fiddlesticks animated trailer, his splash art, and some music from the 2016 DOOM soundtrack, Ligno created an awesome video that would have forced some people to turn off animations on their login screens—that is, if Riot was still making them./post/how-to-complete-aug-15-s-81-player-pick-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-aug-15-s-81-player-pick-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added an 81+ Player Pick squad-building challenge (SBC) on Sunday, Aug. 15 that will reward players who complete it with an option to choose one out of four 81-rated or higher cards in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. This is a good time to open a pack like this since there are 200 special cards in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team as of Friday, Aug. 13, which is when EA introduced the third batch of the best re-releases in packs./post/new-arcade-skins-on-the-way-battle-boss-malzahar-brand-and-ziggs/Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-arcade-skins-on-the-way-battle-boss-malzahar-brand-and-ziggs/ There are three new Battle Bosses on their way to Summoner’s Rift—Brand, Malzahar, and Ziggs are getting their very own arcade-themed skins, according to the latest update to the PBE. The Arcade skin line is one of League of Legends’ most popular cosmetic sets, and it’s not hard to see why. Between the bright colors, pixel art, and retro sound effects, these skins have always been awesome since they made their debut with Arcade Sona in 2012./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chromie-time-in-wow-shadowlands/Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chromie-time-in-wow-shadowlands/ At BlizzCon 2019, the World of Warcraft developers identified three key features of the leveling system that needed improving: the time it takes to reach the max level, the satisfaction gained throughout the process, and the consistency of the quests and storylines.  Chromie Time, introduced in WoW’s Shadowlands expansion, is Blizzard’s answer to leveling. When experienced players complete the starting zone and reach level 10 with a new character, they’ll now be able to level to 50 in any expansion they desire./post/optic-gaming-los-angeles-benches-jkap-for-chino-ahead-of-call-of-duty-league-florida-home-series/Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-gaming-los-angeles-benches-jkap-for-chino-ahead-of-call-of-duty-league-florida-home-series/ One of the last-place franchises in the Call of Duty League is making a roster change before this weekend’s online tournament. OpTic Gaming Los Angeles has benched two-time world champion JKap and replaced him with Chino for the Flordia Home Series, the organization announced today. This will reunite Chino with Kenny, who won two championships together during the WWII season on Team Kaliber. Chino will now compete alongside Kenny, Dashy, SlasheR, and TJHaLy—he previously played with SlasheR in 2014 and TJ in 2015./post/regigigas-distribution-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl-and-legends-arceus-announced-for-south-korea/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/regigigas-distribution-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl-and-legends-arceus-announced-for-south-korea/ The Pokémon Company has announced a new special distribution for both Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Pokémon Legends: Arceus involving the Legendary Pokémon Regigigas.  The Pokémon is readily available in both BDSP and Legends: Arceus, but this special Regigigas is being used as a way to celebrate Pokémon fans in South Korea getting a theatrical release for the movie Giratina & The Sky Warrior for the first time./post/how-to-unlock-gaz-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-warzone/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-gaz-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-warzone/ Gaz is back. The classic Call of Duty 4 hero reimagined in Modern Warfare is now a playable Operator in Warzone and more. The cheeky SAS operative was one of the main characters in Modern Warfare’s campaign. But now, he’s arrived in the storyline for Warzone to help out his friend and comrade Captain Price. If you want to play as Gaz, here’s how to unlock him in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone./post/the-best-mega-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-mega-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Mega Evolutions are some of the most powerful Pokémon in Pokémon Go. These temporary states for select Pokémon grant an increase in damage output and overall strength. But after a while, the Pokémon will revert to its base form. There are plenty of Pokémon capable of Mega Evolving currently in Pokémon Go. Some of the evolutions focus solely on damage output and making quick work of their opponents, while others are the perfect defenders with incredible durability to take on attackers./post/optic-gaming-los-angeles-releases-dashy-chino-goonjar-and-hollow/Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-gaming-los-angeles-releases-dashy-chino-goonjar-and-hollow/ The OpTic Gaming Los Angeles Call of Duty League franchise has parted ways with four of its core players in preparation for the start of the Black Ops Cold War season. Three substitutes from OpTic Gaming—Dashy, Chino, and Goonjar—as well as recent starter Hollow were released from the roster today. A huge shoutout and thank you to @DashySZN. Young in your career, you’ve made an incredible impact on the Call of Duty scene./post/amouranth-indiefoxx-unbanned-from-twitch-after-3-days/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/amouranth-indiefoxx-unbanned-from-twitch-after-3-days/ After three days two of Twitch’s most popular and controversial personalities, Amouranth and Indiefoxx have both been unbanned from the platform. The two streamers were handed suspensions after kickstarting the “ASMR meta,” a style of streaming where the creators would face away from the camera while licking the microphone. While neither revealed what exactly the ban was for, it’s likely Twitch banned the creators for breaking their sexually suggestive content policy./post/how-to-establish-device-uplink-near-seven-outpost-ii-sanctuary-and-synapse-station-in-fortnite/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-establish-device-uplink-near-seven-outpost-ii-sanctuary-and-synapse-station-in-fortnite/ Fortnite’s third chapter wrapped up its first season and the second is now underway. In addition to new mechanics like removing buildings and the additional shields, there’s a new battle pass featuring Doctor Strange. See Fortnite Action Figures on Amazon Players will need to complete challenges to max out their battle passes, and Rebuilding Quests is one of many. This Fortnite questline features multiple steps, and players will need to complete the first stages to unlock the remaining ones./post/mad-lions-force-first-4-way-tie-in-league-worlds-history-after-overpowering-lng-esports/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mad-lions-force-first-4-way-tie-in-league-worlds-history-after-overpowering-lng-esports/ For the first time in the history of the League of Legends World Championship, a group is ending the group stage in a four-way tie. The dream of the LEC to make it to the knockout stage of Worlds 2021 remains attainable. MAD Lions bounced back from their previous losses in the group stage to win earlier today against Team Liquid and then dominate LNG Esports to make Worlds history. All of the teams in Group D are now tied at 3-3, meaning for the first time, each team will have to go into tiebreaker games./post/lec-caster-medic-no-longer-under-contract-with-riot/Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lec-caster-medic-no-longer-under-contract-with-riot/ In the latest of a spate of League of Legends offseason announcements, LEC caster Medic said earlier today that his contract with Riot is “officially up.” Medic has been a mainstay of the LEC broadcast since the EU LCS days. He joined the broadcast in the latter half of 2017 after finding his feet in the now-extinct EU Challenger Series.  With the end of Worlds, my contract with Riot is officially up./post/here-are-all-of-astra-s-abilities-in-valorant/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-astra-s-abilities-in-valorant/ The wait is finally over for VALORANT’s newest agent—Astra is here. Inspired by African Futurism and the unknowns of outer space, the Ghanaian agent harnesses the energies of the cosmos. Astra is a controller agent with a few tricks up her sleeve. With full command of her astral form, she disperses stars across the battlefield to search and destroy her enemies. Whether she’s locking down a site with her Nebula smoke or entering one with her Nova Pulse concussion, she has all the tools she needs to take hold of the game./post/how-tft-set-7-draconic-augments-work-full-list-and-updates/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-tft-set-7-draconic-augments-work-full-list-and-updates/ Augments are returning to Teamfight Tactics with improved balance and strategic gameplay options within Set Seven Dragonlands. The return of Augments to TFT Set Seven highlights what these effects bring to design and gameplay. No longer known as Hextech, the Set Seven effects are now called Draconic Augments. And with the new name come a few changes worth noting. Draconic Augments will appear at Stages 2-1, 3-2, and 4-2. Players have the option in TFT Set Seven to reroll Augment options for one gold, but only once per game./post/8-games-scheduled-to-join-xbox-game-pass-in-second-half-of-february/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/8-games-scheduled-to-join-xbox-game-pass-in-second-half-of-february/ Xbox Game Pass users have something to look forward to throughout the rest of this month. Microsoft has confirmed eight more games will be making their way to the platform in the coming days. The list is spearheaded by Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which is available as of today with Xbox Cloud Gaming via EA Play. This edition includes the well-known trilogy of the franchise and more than 40 DLCs. *opens Twitter, starts typing*/post/los-angeles-gladiators-sweep-atlanta-reign-will-play-in-owl-kickoff-clash-finals/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/los-angeles-gladiators-sweep-atlanta-reign-will-play-in-owl-kickoff-clash-finals/ In a dominant 3-0 sweep, the third-seed Gladiators defeated the Atlanta Reign, who had surprised players and fans alike by pushing the Florida Mayhem and San Francisco Shock to the loser’s bracket. The Gladiators successfully qualified for the Overwatch League Kickoff Clash finals, where they will have the opportunity to bring home their second OWL trophy in one of the best years the organization has had to date. The Gladiators maintained their status as a cohesive unit on Ilios, the first map of the series./post/battleye-data-shows-that-99-percent-of-banned-pubg-cheaters-are-from-china/Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/battleye-data-shows-that-99-percent-of-banned-pubg-cheaters-are-from-china/ A new report has revealed a surprising truth about the hacking problem in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, as one region is to blame for the vast majority of it. New data from anti-cheat software BattlEye reveals that 99 percent of accounts banned for cheating are from China, according to YouxiStory. It’s no secret that PUBG is immensely popular in China, as the region now accounts for 46 percent of its total player base./post/chloe-kim-is-coming-to-fortnite-through-the-icon-series/Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/chloe-kim-is-coming-to-fortnite-through-the-icon-series/ Fortnite has brought dozens of celebrities and sports stars into the game through its Icon Series. And now, Chloe Kim will be next person to get a skin. Kim is a two-time Olympic gold medalist who became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding competition in 2018 at 17. In a tweet posted this morning, Fortnite announced that Kim will be “sliding in” to the game starting on March 26 at 7pm CT./post/fortnite-reveals-ali-a-icon-series-cosmetics/Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-reveals-ali-a-icon-series-cosmetics/ One of the oldest Fortnite content creators, Ali-A received the latest Icon Series cosmetic today. The Youtuber is often known for his edgy intro music, and the Diplodocus dinosaur meme is about to join Chica and other prominent content creators such as Loserfruit, Ninja, Lachlan, TheGrefg, Lazarbeam, and Bugha as another addition to the Fortnite Icon Series.  The YouTuber dropped a teaser yesterday wearing his iconic Guild cosmetic and saying goodbye to the fans./post/mtg-arena-standard-metagame-challenge-launches-this-weekend/Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-standard-metagame-challenge-launches-this-weekend/ Standard format in Magic: The Gathering will undergo its first widely played meta test since the launch of Innistrad: Crimson Vow with the MTG Arena Standard Metagame Challenge this weekend. The MTG Arena Standard Metagame Challenge is a staple tournament that takes place after a new Standard-legal set is released. Scheduled from Nov. 19 to 22, the Standard Metagame Challenge will showcase an Aggro and Control-dominant meta with a splash of Orzhov Clerics./post/lcs-team-of-the-week-2022-spring-split-week-5/Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lcs-team-of-the-week-2022-spring-split-week-5/ In North America, the top of the LCS has started to separate itself from the rest of the pack, with both Team Liquid and Cloud9 going on their own respective winning streaks through week five of the 2022 Spring Split. The two juggernauts are tied for first place with 9-2 records, while the rest of the league is struggling to keep up with their rapid pace. Because of this, our latest Team of the Week features players from each of these rosters with their expansive authority over the league./post/here-are-the-groups-for-stage-5-of-the-2021-call-of-duty-league-season/Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-groups-for-stage-5-of-the-2021-call-of-duty-league-season/ The Call of Duty League’s 2021 season is entering the final leg of its regular season. With that comes the announcement of the groups for the season’s final stage. Like every other stage this season, the groups were announced via a selection show. After winning the Stage Four Major, the Atlanta FaZe found themselves in Group A, while Dallas Empire were placed in Group B after their second-place run.  Here are the groups for Stage Five of the 2021 CDL season./post/mtg-dealer-discovers-fake-japanese-alt-art-foil-wots-planeswalkers/Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-dealer-discovers-fake-japanese-alt-art-foil-wots-planeswalkers/ A dealer in Japan has discovered multiple fake foil War of the Spark Japanese alternative-art planeswalker cards in circulation and has informed potential buyers what to watch for.  During the War of the Spark release, Magic: The Gathering ran a promotion featuring alternative-art planeswalkers illustrated by popular Japanese artists. The demand for these Japanese foil planeswalkers skyrocketed, with the Liliana, Dreadhorde General foil selling for around a $1,000. Because the demand for the WotS alt-art planeswalkers is so high, fakes have reportedly begun circulating in the MTG community./post/team-liquid-take-down-g2-to-win-esl-pro-league-season-9-finals/Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-liquid-take-down-g2-to-win-esl-pro-league-season-9-finals/ Team Liquid resisted G2’s efforts today to lift the trophy of ESL Pro League season nine, winning their third major title since May. The best-of-five grand finals started on one of G2’s map picks, Dust II. G2 were leading in the opening rounds with a solid defense. Kenny “kennyS” Schrub looked on point with the AWP, but Liquid managed to recover after Jake “Stewie2K” Yip denied G2’s retake on the A bombsite with a one-vs-three clutch./post/scry-triumph-qualify-for-algs-playoffs-over-sentinels-complexity/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/scry-triumph-qualify-for-algs-playoffs-over-sentinels-complexity/ In a day dominated by underdogs, it was Mexican team SCRY that proved the most improbable of winners. Taking the lobby win and knocking off several favorites in the process, the free-agent Apex Legends squad sealed their victory in the final match of the day, and qualified for the Split 2 playoffs in the process.  The day began with a few playoff spots attainable for several teams on the bubble, and nearly all of them were playing in the same lobby: Complexity, CLG, Sentinels, Torrent, RCO eSports, SCRY, and Dubblyew all stood a realistic shot of qualifying if things went their way./post/shanghai-dragons-san-francisco-shock-win-overwatch-league-may-melee-tournament/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shanghai-dragons-san-francisco-shock-win-overwatch-league-may-melee-tournament/ After a lengthy weekend of close games, two regional winners have been crowned in the Overwatch League’s May Melee tournament. The entire month of May was dedicated to the tournament, which will award thousands of dollars in prize money and bonus wins for high-placing teams.  All 20 teams in the Overwatch League participated in the tournament after being divided into two regional brackets, Asia and North America. Each bracket crowned a single championship team, which will receive $40,000 as well as three bonus wins added to their season record./post/how-to-get-a-froglight-in-minecraft/Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-a-froglight-in-minecraft/ The Minecraft community is always looking for more light-emitting blocks to be added to the game as they are essential for both looks, survival, and gameplay. The Wild Update introduced froglights, which are gained through gameplay with frogs and come in three colors. Unfortunately, attaining froglights is a bit of a complicated process. Players hoping to gain any of the three froglights must bring together a frog and a tiny magma cube./post/epicskillshot-becomes-authorized-vod-distributor-for-the-lcs/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/epicskillshot-becomes-authorized-vod-distributor-for-the-lcs/ Longtime League of Legends YouTube channel EpicSkillshot announced today that it’s become an official VOD distributor for the LCS. The owner of the channel revealed that they reached a deal with the league to allow them to continue posting North American VODs of the broadcast after the eight-year-old channel was disabled without any explanation three days ago. Exciting news! I've reached a deal with @LCSOfficial to continue posting LCS VODs on my channel as an Authorized VOD distributor after their new content policy goes into effect!/post/ryan-reynolds-free-guy-skin-now-available-in-fortnite/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ryan-reynolds-free-guy-skin-now-available-in-fortnite/ Fortnite players have already been treated with the addition of multiple new skins in August, but another movie star has joined the mix. This time, it’s none other than Ryan Reynolds’ Dude character from his upcoming film Free Guy. Dude is now available in the item shop and will cost 1,200 V-Bucks to purchase. Along with the skin, you can also earn yourself a new emote “Good Guy” by completing challenges around the island./post/how-to-win-when-there-is-no-building-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-win-when-there-is-no-building-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-2/ Fortnite’s newest season launched on March 20 and brought changes to fundamental parts of the game. One of the most significant is the temporary removal of the build mode that’s become a core mechanic in Fortnite. The reason for the removal of the ability is a result of the Imagined Order’s invasion of the island. However, while the Seven work to return the feature, players will need to learn how to fight without it./post/how-to-choose-the-best-valorant-sensitivity-settings-and-dpi/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-choose-the-best-valorant-sensitivity-settings-and-dpi/ Your settings in VALORANT generally come down to personal preference. But there are still a few important things to keep in mind, such as your mouse sensitivity and your dots per inch (DPI).  Precision matters in VALORANT. If your sensitivity is too high, you’ll have a hard time accurately clicking or tapping on your opponent’s heads. But if it’s too low, reacting to a shot, a flank, or a flash can be equally demanding./post/riot-confirms-victorious-orianna-reveals-other-end-of-season-rewards/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-confirms-victorious-orianna-reveals-other-end-of-season-rewards/ League of Legends season eight is almost over, and that means it’s time for Riot Games to show off what players can earn at the end of the season. Riot confirmed that Victorious Orianna is the skin that players will receive if they reach at least Gold in any ranked queue for season eight. All ranked players who’ve reached at least Honor level two will earn rewards, regardless of what rank they’ve achieved./post/when-does-apex-legends-season-8-end/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-apex-legends-season-8-end/ Apex Legends’ season eight, Mayhem, introduced the reckless, fight-loving character Fuse and featured a destroyed version of Kings Canyon as its map.  While it may seem like the fun has just started, the season that began on Feb. 2 is closer to its end than its beginning.  Apex season eight will end on May 4.  That leaves players just a couple of weeks to rank up their battle pass and earn those last few cosmetics, like the legendary Longbow DMR skins DMR X-1 and Blinding Light./post/tft-set-5-5-traits-and-champions-hit-with-major-pbe-balance-changes/Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-set-5-5-traits-and-champions-hit-with-major-pbe-balance-changes/ A huge PBE patch for Teamfight Tactics Set 5.5 will take place today. Only one more update is planned before the midset’s launch next week. Heading into the second week of Set 5.5 PBE testing, the TFT team uploaded a massive patch that will run for the rest of the week, according to Riot game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer.  Good morning. Here's todays PBE changes for Dawn of Heroes. It's a big batch, but likely our last one./post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-on-golden-wave-island-in-lost-ark/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-on-golden-wave-island-in-lost-ark/ Golden Wave Island is one of the smaller islands in Lost Ark, with not much to do outside of collecting Shipwreck Scrap for the T-82 robot found in the center of the island. Still, once you’ve completed the quests that are present and exhausted the island for its materials, there are a few Mokoko Seeds to add to your collection on Golden Wave Island.  Golden Wave Island is located off the coast of Arthenine, just south of the Arid Path; it’s one of the first islands you’ll encounter off the shores of Arthenine, and it should be relatively easy to reach./post/apex-pros-streamers-call-on-respawn-to-extend-ranked-split-following-server-issues/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-pros-streamers-call-on-respawn-to-extend-ranked-split-following-server-issues/ The end of Apex Legends’ first Emergence ranked split is just around the corner. But after recent server issues put a halt to many players’ ranked climbs, a number of prolific streamers and pro players are asking the game’s developer to extend the split to make up for lost time. Respawn Entertainment shared an update today about the ongoing issues with Apex’s server stability, saying several fixes are scheduled for tomorrow but problems could remain until the start of the next week./post/how-to-use-throne-of-eldraine-s-food-mechanic-in-mtg/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-use-throne-of-eldraine-s-food-mechanic-in-mtg/ Artifact tokens have the potential to play a major role in the Magic: The Gathering Standard meta thanks to Food tokens found in the upcoming release of Throne of Eldraine. Treasure Artifact tokens have influenced the Standard metagame for the last two years. With the release of the Throne of Eldraine (ELD) set on Oct. 4 comes Standard rotation, where only two of the 28 Magic cards that use Treasure tokens will survive (Smothering Tide and Rapacious Dragon)./post/best-ps5-wall-mount/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-ps5-wall-mount/ There are many cool stands for PS5 that allow gamers to enjoy playing while saving space in your room and clear up desk space. Some of these wall mounts even provide fans to prevent overheating. Sometimes, gamers may need to mount your PS5 on the wall to keep it out of reach of toddlers or pets. There are a lot of great PlayStation 5 wall mounts out there but some stand out more than others./post/how-to-remove-the-health-debuff-in-elden-ring/Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-remove-the-health-debuff-in-elden-ring/ Health is arguably the most important stat in Elden Ring as it determines if you’ll survive the dozens of challenging boss fights and encounters in the game. Some upgrade their Vigor as much as possible to stay alive longer, while others risk it all and focus on other skills. Regardless of how you build your character, health is important.  That’s why a hidden five percent debuff can be devastating, especially when you don’t realize what caused it or where it came from./post/call-of-duty-warzone-friends-lists-are-not-working-showing-everyone-as-offline/Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-warzone-friends-lists-are-not-working-showing-everyone-as-offline/ An issue in Call of Duty: Warzone is currently causing players friends to appear offline. Thankfully, Raven Software tweeted it’s aware of the situation and are investigating it, promising to “provide more information ASAP.” Currently, players looking to join or invite friends are completely unable to do so. ❗️We are aware of an issue in #Warzone causing Player's friends to appear offline. We are investigating and will provide more information ASAP./post/fortnite-s-dusty-depot-meteor-is-cracking/Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-dusty-depot-meteor-is-cracking/ More changes could be coming to Fortnite: Battle Royale’s season X island. When the season started, it reintroduced the old Dusty Depot to the game. The area is now frozen in time and the meteor that crashed into it at the end of season three is now static in the sky in the same position it was a few seconds before impact. And the meteor, instead of moving, is now cracking and becoming more unstable./post/furia-officially-adds-saffee-to-cs-go-roster/Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/furia-officially-adds-saffee-to-cs-go-roster/ FURIA has signed Rafael “saffee” Costa to its CS:GO lineup. The 27-year-old officially joins the squad following rumors reported in December 2021. Saffee will fill the gap of VINI, whose departure from FURIA was confirmed in late November by both the team and the player. Seja bem-vindo à FURIA, @saffeecsgo! 🔥#DIADEFURIA #FURIACS pic.twitter.com/Zo9MnoLxbL — FURIA (@FURIA) January 6, 2022 For the past year and a half, saffee has been a part of paiN Gaming’s lineup./post/here-s-how-to-unlock-underwater-demo-team-classic-ghost-bundle-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-how-to-unlock-underwater-demo-team-classic-ghost-bundle-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare/ Call of Duty fans received the exciting news that the remaster of Modern Warfare 2’s campaign is out today on PlayStation 4—and with it comes a new bundle. The iconic 2009 campaign is sure to bring back nostalgic memories for CoD fans around the world. And the Underwater Demo Team Classic Ghost Bundle gives the skull-masked Operator back his original outfit, according to an Activision blog post. The bundle includes tons of other content and is available now on PS4./post/how-to-sign-up-for-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-beta/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-sign-up-for-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-beta/ Battle for Azeroth has come to its bloody and brutal end. N’Zoth, the Corrupter is dead and all is well in the World of Warcraft. Or is it? The battle may be over, but the war has just begun.  While the champions of Azeroth were busy fighting an Old God, Sylvanas Windrunner was up to no good. She took the Helm of Domination from Bolvar Fordragon, ripped it into 1,000 tiny pieces, and opened up a rift between the world of the living and the dead./post/gangplank-hasn-t-received-a-non-esports-league-skin-in-over-1-000-days/Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gangplank-hasn-t-received-a-non-esports-league-skin-in-over-1-000-days/ Over the years, various League of Legends champions have joined the infamous “1,000-day skinless club.” The latest addition to this exclusive club is League’s main pirate, Gangplank. The last original skin that Gangplank received was his Pool Party skin, which was released on Aug. 2, 2018. Since then, he’s only gotten a Worlds skin on April 30, 2020 to commemorate FunPlus Phoenix’s victory at the biggest League event of the year./post/how-to-complete-jackson-s-bow-out-challenge-in-apex-legends/Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-jackson-s-bow-out-challenge-in-apex-legends/ The Warriors collection event launched in Apex Legends on March 29 and brought with it an unexpected story experience in the form of The Williams Sendoff. Each chapter of the story that releases brings with it a new challenge to conquer within Apex’s Firing Range, starting with the Scout of Action challenge in chapter one and continuing with the new Jackson’s Bow-Out challenge as part of chapter two’s release. Whether you’re here to flex a challenge record to your friends, warm up before a session of battle royale, or just enjoy the developing lore surrounding Bangalore, these unique challenges evolve the capabilities of the Firing Range in a way fans should try out, even if just to try a different shot at the game./post/seattle-surge-roll-past-optic-texas-3-0-move-on-to-winners-round-2-at-2022-call-of-duty-league-major-2/Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/seattle-surge-roll-past-optic-texas-3-0-move-on-to-winners-round-2-at-2022-call-of-duty-league-major-2/ In one of the most shocking results in the 2022 Call of Duty League season, the Seattle Surge took down OpTic Texas 3-0 today, snapping OpTic’s 12-match win streak and punching their ticket to the next round of the winners bracket in the season’s second Major.  Early in the season, Seattle were looked at as one of the best teams in the league. The team knocked off the Atlanta FaZe at the preseason Kickoff Classic and made a run all the way to grand finals before losing to the Toronto Ultra./post/super-smash-bros-ultimate-tier-list/Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/super-smash-bros-ultimate-tier-list/ Are you looking to be the best in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Or are you playing the game for the first time and just wondering who to play? Well, do we have a tier list for you. After unlocking all the characters and putting hours into the game to collect every Spirit, you probably feel that you can reach greater heights, take on the best, and step up to challenge some of the best players in the world./post/epic-games-confirms-fortnite-competitive-play-details-are-coming-soon-will-host-a-huge-e3-competition/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/epic-games-confirms-fortnite-competitive-play-details-are-coming-soon-will-host-a-huge-e3-competition/ Some of the world’s greatest athletes, entertainers, and top Fortnite players will be heading to E3 this year to take part in a huge, 100-player tournament, Epic Games has announced. Fifty pro players will be teamed up with 50 celebrities from across the globe to clash in the premier Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am in Los Angeles during E3. These teams will then face off against each other in Fortnite’s popular Battle Royale mode for a chance at claiming the ultimate bragging rights./post/pantheon-arrives-in-league-of-legends-patch-9-16/Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pantheon-arrives-in-league-of-legends-patch-9-16/ Get ready, League of Legends fans. The new, reworked Pantheon is finally hitting the live servers with Patch 9.16. The Aspect of War turned human has had multiple changes to his kit and should be fun for everyone, whether you’re a Pantheon one-trick or if you’re trying him out for the first time. His whole kit and lore have been reimagined and his look has changed accordingly. Riot Games has made Pantheon look as epic as he feels to play./post/what-year-is-hogwarts-legacy-set-in/Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-year-is-hogwarts-legacy-set-in/ Scheduled for a holiday 2022 release, Hogwarts Legacy is looking to give the franchise’s fans a chance to experience the school of magic for themselves.  A recent State of Play revealed 14 minutes of gameplay, and considering there weren’t many familiar faces from the Harry Potter franchise in the video, most fans are wondering when exactly Hogwarts Legacy is set in. Hogwarts Legacy takes place in the late 1800s. The open-world RPG will allow players to venture around the halls of Hogwarts and let them live their lifelong dream of becoming a student at Hogwarts./post/mtg-arena-forgotten-realms-mastery-passes-and-pre-order-bundle-contents/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-forgotten-realms-mastery-passes-and-pre-order-bundle-contents/ Details for the Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Mastery passes in MTG Arena and pre-order bundles were revealed today by Wizards of the Coast. Scheduled to release digitally on July 8, the MTG Adventures in Forgotten Realms (AFR) set contains 281 unique Standard-legal cards and is packed with flavor. Prior to the digital release on July 8, Magic Arena players can pre-order two AFR bundles. Once the new set launches, players can earn free-to-play and bonus rewards via the Mastery pass./post/the-10-best-mtg-red-limited-common-and-uncommon-kaldheim-cards/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-best-mtg-red-limited-common-and-uncommon-kaldheim-cards/ The color Red in Magic: The Gathering has gained a few new tricks for the Limited format within Kaldheim.  Aggro players in Magic love playing Red in the Limited format, and Kaldheim (KHM) has provided a wide variety of cards for players seeking to defeat opponents quickly. There are plenty of cheap and low-powered creatures to go wide with, utilizing the new Boast mechanic for extra value. Removal in Red synergizes with tribal themes, and combat tricks like Run Amok can quickly end a game./post/valve-releases-spring-cleaning-update-for-dota-2/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valve-releases-spring-cleaning-update-for-dota-2/ Every spring, Valve rolls out a cleaning update, fixing various bugs while adding quality of life features to Dota 2. The developer just pushed the latest Spring Cleaning update to the live servers, and it’s a packed one. With the Aghanim’s Shard arrival, Dota 2 heroes received various new abilities and buffs. While the new changes were impactful enough to change the metagame, the tooltips could get confusing at times, meaning players wouldn’t be able to picture the full benefits of an upgrade without purchasing the item./post/hearthstone-streamer-amaz-compares-blizzard-hong-kong-controversy-to-ramen/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-streamer-amaz-compares-blizzard-hong-kong-controversy-to-ramen/ Popular Hearthstone streamer Amaz addressed the ongoing controversy involving Blizzard Entertainment and Hearthstone Grandmaster Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai in a unique way. While streaming a game, Amaz was asked by a viewer if he had a comment on Blizzard suspension’s of Blitzchung for supporting Hong Kong’s independence on a recent stream. Instead of directly commenting on it, though, Amaz dove into an analogy. “I have a comment about the chat right now,” Amaz began./post/how-to-spectate-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-spectate-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ Pokémon UNITE’s first major update on Aug. 4 bought with it the addition of a test for spectator mode. This allowed players to check out their friends while they’re in-game to support or learn from their playing ability. The feature has since been removed. But with the positive feedback from its test, it will likely return as a permanent feature in the future. If you didn’t have the opportunity to test it out for yourself, you may be wondering how you’ll be able to use it when it does eventually make its way back into the game./post/siege-s-y7s1-to-replace-goyo-s-volc%C3%A1n-shield-with-volc%C3%A1n-canister/Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/siege-s-y7s1-to-replace-goyo-s-volc%C3%A1n-shield-with-volc%C3%A1n-canister/ Goyo is receiving a significant update in Rainbow Six Siege Year Seven season one. The Operator’s Volcán Shield will be replaced with the Volcán Canister to balance his ability.  Goyo is a strong operator capable of holding an area with his Volcán Shield, which allowed players to activate an intense explosion and fiery blaze when they shot the explosive canister on the back of the shield. This ability was tough to counter for attackers, who needed to get behind the shield to destroy the canister./post/a-brief-history-of-how-clans-shaped-halo/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-brief-history-of-how-clans-shaped-halo/ Clans have been a part of Halo ever since Xbox Live was launched. Many believe that clans were the main contributor in growing the Halo community. Many also believe that they helped make the game feel a bit more competitive than it already was with ranks. The fact is that almost all of us who play Halo have had an encounter with a clan at least once in our time of gaming./post/cutler-benched-from-tsm-s-valorant-squad/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cutler-benched-from-tsm-s-valorant-squad/ Stephen “reltuC” Cutler has been benched by TSM’s VALORANT team, the organization announced today. “Whilst Cutler explores his options, he’ll continue to stream under the TSM banner,” TSM said. “We’ll forever be grateful for what he achieved with us, and we wish him nothing but the best.” As of today @reltuC is benched from our starting Valorant roster. Whilst Cutler explores his options, he’ll continue to stream under the TSM banner./post/everything-about-the-may-magic-the-gathering-arena-open/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-about-the-may-magic-the-gathering-arena-open/ The Magic: The Gathering Arena Open for the month of May will feature gameplay via Streets of New Capenna Limited Sealed and Draft.  Scheduled to take place from May 14 to 15, all Magic players who are 18 years of age or older may compete in the Arena Open to earn up to $2,500 in prize money. The entry fee for an Arena Open is 25,000 gold or 5,000 gems, and all players who enter will earn a Urabrask, Heretic Praetor Phyrexian card style./post/riot-drops-new-2021-worlds-collection-will-donate-proceeds-to-covid-relief/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-drops-new-2021-worlds-collection-will-donate-proceeds-to-covid-relief/ The 2021 World Championship is here, and League of Legends fans can now watch their favorite teams in style—and at a discount. Riot Games has officially launched the 2021 World Championship merch so every fan can look like a legend. This year’s tournament was first scheduled to take place in Shenzhen, China, and although it was later moved to Iceland, the items in the collection still reflect unique designs inspired by the event’s original location./post/pok%C3%A9mon-unite-update-to-fix-gengar-s-hex-ability-and-adjust-ranked-values/Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-unite-update-to-fix-gengar-s-hex-ability-and-adjust-ranked-values/ TiMi Studio will roll out a new update for Pokémon UNITE this evening that will bring a bug fix to an ongoing problem, as well as some adjustments to the pacing of its ranked mode. While Gengar did receive a nerf in the recent major update that went live earlier this month, the update seemingly caused problems for the Pokémon that made it impossible for the Hex ability to deal damage under certain circumstances./post/modern-horizons-2-iterates-on-magic-staples-pushes-suspend-cycle/Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/modern-horizons-2-iterates-on-magic-staples-pushes-suspend-cycle/ Modern Horizons 2 is a Magic: The Gathering set that’s focused on printing unique cards directly into Modern. But Commander will also receive a substantial boost from the new cards that are being introduced. The first Modern Horizons set was jokingly referred to as a “Commander masters” set because of how many of the cards found homes in Commander. The set introduced eight new Commanders and several dozen spells that are played in the 99./post/where-to-download-the-otv-and-friends-minecraft-server-modpack/Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-download-the-otv-and-friends-minecraft-server-modpack/ Offline TV recently relaunched their OTV & Friends Minecraft server, but this time there are some new features to spice things up. Unlike the original OTV & Friends server, the current one is intended to provide a vanilla Minecraft experience with a helping hand from mods to add both cosmetic and progression-based enhancements. The server right now boasts around 40 creators and includes some of Twitch’s most popular personalities. Each week there is a plan to introduce more creators into the mix, however, at this stage, it doesn’t look like there will be any opportunities for fans to get involved./post/gearbox-s-next-big-project-is-a-first-person-moba/Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gearbox-s-next-big-project-is-a-first-person-moba/ Gearbox Software is famous for developing the Borderlands series, and infamous for developing Duke Nukem Forever. Their last game was Aliens: Colonial Marines, and their first original IP was Brothers In Arms. First person shooters are Gearbox’s stock and trade. The immensely-successful Borderlands games are mash-ups of FPS and role playing games. The just announced its latest game, Battleborn, and according to details shared by Game Informer, the company is trying another unique combination of genres./post/how-to-recover-a-free-fire-account/Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-recover-a-free-fire-account/ A Free Fire account can be created using a valid Facebook, VK, or Google account. With this account, all progress, items, skins, characters and diamonds are saved for the player who earned them. To recover a lost Free Fire account, though, Garena has set some ground rules. According to Free Fire’s support page, progress made in guest accounts, when a player does not use any valid logins, are not saved in the battle royale’s servers and cannot be recovered./post/liquid-and-tsm-will-battle-for-another-chance-at-glory-in-2020-lcs-summer-split-playoffs/Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/liquid-and-tsm-will-battle-for-another-chance-at-glory-in-2020-lcs-summer-split-playoffs/ We’re nearing the end of the 2020 LCS Summer Split playoffs and two of the three remaining teams—TSM and Team Liquid—are meeting in the losers bracket finals. TSM were sent down to the losers bracket earlier in the playoffs after falling to Golden Guardians in the first round, while Liquid lost in the semifinals last weekend to FlyQuest, who secured a spot in the finals with that victory.  While all of these teams qualified for the 2020 League of Legends World Championship with their strong playoff performances, Liquid and TSM will fight for a chance to return to their former glory of being LCS champions./post/pubg-new-state-is-getting-an-extreme-battle-royale-mode/Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-new-state-is-getting-an-extreme-battle-royale-mode/ PUBG: New State’s January patch is almost here, bringing a lot of new content. One of the features coming to the game is a new battle royale mode with faster and more intense matches. The “extreme” BR mode will provide players with a way to participate in casual action with matches lasting 20 minutes. In the mode, 64 players will parachute into a smaller area of Troi to fight for victory./post/how-to-drop-the-spike-in-valorant/Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-drop-the-spike-in-valorant/ When attacking in VALORANT, any player can pick up the Spike from the ground with the intention of planting it at any of the map’s bomb sites. But figuring out how to drop it might not be clear to everyone. There isn’t a button that tells you how to drop it and mashing your keyboard will have minimal results. Instead, there is, in fact, a way to drop it that the game doesn’t tell you./post/how-to-make-a-potion-of-strength-in-minecraft/Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-make-a-potion-of-strength-in-minecraft/ Potions in Minecraft are a great way to get buffs that can help you survive tricky situations or deal with enemies with ease. One of the most common potions is the Potion of Strength, which is relatively easy to make. You’ll need a few ingredients and an Awkward Potion, but we’ll break down how to make those first.  Before making any potion, you need a glass bottle. Brewing stands allow you to make three potions at a time, so make three bottles to maximize your production./post/how-to-track-your-apex-legends-stats-in-game/Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-track-your-apex-legends-stats-in-game/ Apex Legends is one of the hottest games to date, complete with a wide range of classes, weapons, and cosmetics. But despite it being the go-to battle royale for first-person shooter fanatics, it’s not without its flaws. It lacks a solid stat tracker, falling short to some of its more child-friendly competitors.  There are multiple options for players who want to dive deep into their stats and compete with the best, but few are available in-game./post/discord-server-officially-reaches-1-million-members/Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/discord-server-officially-reaches-1-million-members/ Discord’s official Snowsgiving server has reached 1 million members, a first for the platform. While many of Discord’s most popular public servers for individual games and personalities have reached incredible heights, none had surpassed 1 million members. Discord usually imposes member caps on servers and requires official requests for cap increases for servers approaching 100,000 and 250,000 members. Discord generally requires servers with that many members to have an active moderation team and no community guidelines violations, according to the company’s support website./post/dynamic-queue-what-it-means-to-you/Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dynamic-queue-what-it-means-to-you/ After a tarnished promise of Solo Queue surfaced, the community was in a frenzy. Solo bronze players are now getting choked out by a 5-man DQ squad well on their way to silver. Meanwhile, an aspiring young talent’s dream is torn up as the confetti of elo rains down on an LCS party’s accounts. In sum, Season 6 rank ladder is WWE. So cut the drama for just one second and take a breath./post/streamer-iitztimmy-s-subathon-ends-after-29-days-and-50-000-subs/Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/streamer-iitztimmy-s-subathon-ends-after-29-days-and-50-000-subs/ After nearly a full month and gaining more than 50,000 subscriptions, iiTzTimmy’s subathon has finally ended. The timer on his subathon clock hit zero this morning while the streamer was still asleep, during viewer media share hours. While Timmy couldn’t shut off his stream when the subathon timer hit zero, being asleep, his mods changed the title of his stream to “FIN. // DAY 29/29” shortly after, and subscriptions no longer added time to the subathon clock./post/shaco-support-with-smite-showcases-the-power-of-counterjungling/Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shaco-support-with-smite-showcases-the-power-of-counterjungling/ Mind-blowing strategies and outplays are common in League of Legends. But some players want to try something different, experiment, or simply annoy the enemy team. A player called ‘the loudest fart’ showcased Shaco support with Smite and Ignite in a post on Reddit. And as you probably already imagine, it’s terrifying to watch. Just a little trolling with smite support shaco. from leagueoflegends Naturally, with these Summoner’s Spells, the strategy is to annoy the enemy jungler as much as possible./post/the-best-m4a1-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-warzone-and-modern-warfare/Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-m4a1-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-warzone-and-modern-warfare/ Years down the line when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a distant memory, players will immediately think of the M4A1 when reminiscing about the game. Since launch, the M4 has been a dominant gun and one of the top weapons in the latest CoD title. And Warzone’s no different. Even after a slew of new guns have been added to Warzone since Modern Warfare’s release, the M4 is still an incredibly solid offering when it comes to good damage at range in the assault rifle class./post/when-is-joker-s-release-date-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-joker-s-release-date-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s DLC Fighters Pass will introduce five new characters to the game over the course of 2019 and 2020. The five characters were kept a mystery by Nintendo when the Fighters Pass was first announced in November 2018. No one knew who they are or when they’ll be unveiled, which makes every future Nintendo Direct a potential character reveal. The first of these characters, Joker from Atlus’ Persona series, was revealed just before the game launched on Dec./post/dota-2-ti9-teams-picked-81-percent-of-the-game-s-heroes-in-a-single-day/Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dota-2-ti9-teams-picked-81-percent-of-the-game-s-heroes-in-a-single-day/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Dota 2 strategy tool. Dota 2’s The International 2019 group stage started today. All 18 teams played at least one series of two matches during the early hours of Aug. 15 for a total of 40 games. In these 40 games on the first day, players picked 95 of the 117 heroes available in the Dota 2 roster, which makes up 81 percent of all heroes./post/microsoft-job-posting-suggests-new-halo-project-is-in-development/Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/microsoft-job-posting-suggests-new-halo-project-is-in-development/ Halo Infinite is set for a holiday 2020 release, but 343 Industries already has their eyes on a new project. The company is looking for a Senior Producer for a new project in the Halo Universe, according to a new job posting.  The job listing explains that the position provides the opportunity to work on one of the most famous intellectual properties in the industry. The Senior Producer is a core part of the team and works alongside other leadership to maintain the overall vision of the project./post/the-best-qbz-83-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-qbz-83-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ Formerly known in previous Call of Duty games as the Type 95, the QBZ-83 is back in Black Ops Cold War as the fourth unlockable assault rifle at launch. The QBZ-83 is often overlooked due to guns like the XM4, AK-47, and FFAR 1 being so strong. But the QBZ is a solid weapon in its own right—and with the right attachments, it can be very fun to use./post/the-jailer-nerfed-in-final-stretch-of-wow-race-to-world-first/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-jailer-nerfed-in-final-stretch-of-wow-race-to-world-first/ The Jailer, the final boss of the Sepulcher of the First Ones, has been nerfed in the dying hours of the World of Warcraft Race to World First. With North America’s Liquid and Europe’s Echo neck and neck on the 11th boss of the raid, Blizzard has implemented a hotfix targeting the third phase of the fight. The devs have reduced the number of missiles fired by Desolation from 20 to 15 and have fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Chains of Anguish to pull players who had already broken their chains./post/winota-tibalt-s-trickery-banned-in-mtg-arena-explorer/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/winota-tibalt-s-trickery-banned-in-mtg-arena-explorer/ In the first Banned and Restricted announcement to affect Explorer, Tibalt’s Trickery and Winota, Joiner of Forces are banned in Magic Arena‘s newest eternal format, Wizards of the Coast announced today. Explorer is Arena’s true-to-paper eternal format that’s intended as a pathway to supporting Pioneer on the digital client. The format features all Pioneer-legal cards found on Magic Arena. This makes the format similar to Pioneer with several key omissions./post/is-fortnite-down-how-to-check-problems-outages-and-server-status/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-fortnite-down-how-to-check-problems-outages-and-server-status/ Epic Games has the daunting task of maintaining one of the world’s most popular battle royales. Fortnite, despite its increasing popularity, isn’t without its issues though, and catering for over 100 million players certainly isn’t easy. The game often goes down for maintenance, especially when a new chapter, season, or patch has recently been installed.  Fortnite could be facing any number of issues at any time. The servers are usually stable, but they’re not always up and running./post/msi-2015-where-are-they-now/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/msi-2015-where-are-they-now/ As the May 4, 2016 Mid-Season Invitational gets ready to kick into gear, ghosts and echoes of the 2015 MSI glimmer. While the only team to be making a reappearance at the 2016 tournament will be tournament favorites SK Telecom T1, many of the storylines laid out in the 2015 tournament remain poignant. From EDG’s upset of SKT to TSM’s implosion, and from the rise of Fnatic to IWC support Dumbledoge’s first blood kill on Faker, MSI 2015 was a fun and unexpected tournament that kept fans on their toes./post/all-enemy-types-in-rainbow-six-extraction/Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-enemy-types-in-rainbow-six-extraction/ In Rainbow Six: Extraction, you’re not taking on your fellow operators like you would in Siege. Instead, you and up to two other operators will take on a new, evolving alien threat known as the Archaeans. There are a grand total of 13 different types of enemies, ranging from the basic tier-one Archaeans up to the more advanced and deadly Proteans. Here’s a list of all the different enemy types you will face in Rainbow Six: Extraction, starting with the easiest of the bunch./post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-in-glass-lotus-lake-in-lost-ark/Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-in-glass-lotus-lake-in-lost-ark/ There are many benefits to collecting Mokoko seeds in Lost Ark, and one of them is earning all sorts of rewards. It’s also a whole journey in itself since there are seeds to collect in pretty much every map you’ll wander into in the game. There are over a thousand Mokoko seeds to collect in the game, and Rohendel is home to 70 of them. Many of the seeds hidden in Glass Lotus Lake, similar to the other maps in the region, require traveling to specific conditions to be collected./post/trick-retires-from-professional-league-of-legends/Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/trick-retires-from-professional-league-of-legends/ From G2 Esports to SK Gaming, Kim “Trick” Gang-yun has been a consistent figure in the competitive League of Legends community since 2015. But after several months of exploring his options for the 2021 season, the 25-year-old jungler officially decided to retire earlier today. Trick last competed with SK in the LEC, where he helped the team earn a sixth-place finish in the 2020 Summer Split playoffs, just missing out on a spot at Worlds./post/best-venusaur-moveset-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-venusaur-moveset-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Bulbasaur, the Seed Pokémon, is the star of today’s first-ever Pokémon Go Community Day Classic, giving fans easier access to its Shiny colors and its evolutions, Ivysaur and Venusaur. The final evolution of this line, Venusaur, stands out as one of the tankiest Grass-Poison Pokémon in the game, despite power creep lowering this Pokémon’s spot in the meta. Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur debuted in the first Pokémon titles, Pokémon Red and Green, and have since been staple creatures in the series./post/the-10-best-cs-go-players-of-all-time/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-best-cs-go-players-of-all-time/ CS:GO has a ton of star players. Through its rich competitive history and what could almost be described as a cult-like following, the franchise has seen players take the game to another level all-together.  Whether it’s down to intuition or a complete grasp of the game’s mechanics, the best players are rewarded for their practice by pulling off shots and strategies that leave audiences baffled. With so many ways for players to show their talents both mechanically and tactically, the best players always found a way to rise above the rest and prove what they’re made of./post/where-is-the-sleeping-dragon-in-elden-ring/Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-is-the-sleeping-dragon-in-elden-ring/ Whether players are going through their first or fifth playthrough of Elden Ring, Runes will always be an essential part of the gameplay. They allow players to either level up or purchase gear, items, etc. to make their character stronger. The normal course of Elden Ring doesn’t always allow players the best chances to earn Runes, though. To compensate for that, players have resorted to farming Runes using various methods. One of the best methods of earning a large number of Runes involves finding and killing a sleeping dragon./post/why-xqc-is-refusing-to-play-lost-ark-despite-mmo-s-huge-hype/Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/why-xqc-is-refusing-to-play-lost-ark-despite-mmo-s-huge-hype/ Felix “xQc” Lengyel has put his foot down after Twitch fans kept demanding he try gaming’s latest viral sensation, Lost Ark, dubbing the hit South Korean MMO “grindy” and boring to play. The superstar French-Canadian streamer has built his Twitch empire on variety gaming, regularly playing “flavor of the month” titles to rake in a few extra viewers. This time, however, xQc has no interest in going with the popular crowd./post/how-to-complete-tots-moments-osimhen-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-tots-moments-osimhen-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ Victor Osimhen from Napoli received a 92-rated Team of the Season (TOTS) Moments version today in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. This special card will be granted to players who complete a squad-building challenge (SBC) in the game. EA offers upgraded versions of the best players from the 2021-2022 season based on their performance for the TOTS promotion. This SBC has a twist since it’s a Moments card, however. EA is celebrating Osimhen’s match-winning brace against Verona./post/valorant-s-ranked-system-explained/Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-s-ranked-system-explained/ The VALORANT competitive mode is one of the most popular playlists in the game. Players enjoy testing their skills against similarly matched opponents and climbing into higher ranks.  But many players don’t understand how the ranked mode works and how the game determines their skill level.  Here’s everything you need to know about VALORANT’s ranked mode. Placement matches and requirements for VALORANT ranked play Before unlocking the competitive mode, players must win 10 unrated matches and have an account level of 20./post/wow-burning-crusade-classic-pricing-level-boosts-character-clones-and-cosmetics/Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wow-burning-crusade-classic-pricing-level-boosts-character-clones-and-cosmetics/ It’s been nearly 15 years since people walked through the Dark Portal for the first time. And many will be doing it all over again on June 1 with the release of WoW Burning Crusade Classic. But this time around, there will be a few paid services involved in the expansion. While players won’t have to pay any extra fee to play on a Burning Crusade Classic server, they’ll be able to purchase a character clone, level 58 boost, and an in-game cosmetic package./post/overwatch-s-new-map-petra-is-set-in-an-underground-cavernous-city/Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-s-new-map-petra-is-set-in-an-underground-cavernous-city/ Blizzard took a break from tonight’s Overwatch League matches to showcase its upcoming Overwatch map, Petra. The new Deathmatch map will debut with the Overwatch Anniversary event on May 22. Multiple videos of the new map leaked earlier today, but the official video from Blizzard provides a closer look at the details. Petra is a hidden city carved into the mountains in the Middle East. Winding passageways snake around a large, open cavern—an arena where players will fight over control of an extra-large health pack./post/all-pois-and-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3-s-new-map/Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-pois-and-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3-s-new-map/ Fortnite‘s map is constantly undergoing changes as the battle royale evolves with each new season. Now, as players eagerly await to join Chapter Three, season three, there are many questions about how the new map has changed. In a lot of ways the map will look familiar to players of last season, but with a couple of new POIs and a new biome. A number of locations have remained the same as previous seasons./post/all-event-exclusive-research-tasks-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-an-egg-citing-spring-surprise-limited-research-day/Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-event-exclusive-research-tasks-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-an-egg-citing-spring-surprise-limited-research-day/ As part of the Spring into Spring event, Niantic is also hosting the eighth Pokémon Go Limited Research Day, with a specific focus on Exeggcute.  These Limited Research Days only last for one day and give players an added double Catch XP bonus, along with some specific Pokémon that will spawn more frequently in the wild.  Because this An Egg-citing Spring Surprise event is taking place during the Season of Alola, Exeggcute was selected because it can evolve into Alolan Exeggutor under the right circumstances./post/how-to-play-kay-o-valorant-s-new-robotic-initiator/Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-kay-o-valorant-s-new-robotic-initiator/ Upcoming VALORANT agent KAY/O is a robot designed to kill Radiants—and his ability kit certainly supports that narrative. Riot unveiled KAY/O yesterday, the newest addition to the VALORANT cast. Armed with a flash, a grenade, a revive, and suppression, a new mechanic that prevents enemies from using abilities, the killer robot is the perfect counter to the post-plant. And while he’s categorized in the initiator class, KAY/O can do plenty of entrying as well./post/best-garchomp-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-garchomp-build-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ The Gible line has long been one of the most popular evolutionary lines in the Pokémon series. The inclusion of the final evolution, Garchomp, as Champion Cynthia’s partner in the Sinnoh region only helped its popularity. These Pokémon are taking over Unite Battles in Pokémon UNITE and have quickly risen to the top of the meta. Gible, Gabite, and Garchomp enter UNITE as All-Rounders, meaning they don’t excel in any single stat./post/varden-dawngrasp-revealed-in-hearthstone-s-forged-in-the-barrens-expansion/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/varden-dawngrasp-revealed-in-hearthstone-s-forged-in-the-barrens-expansion/ The card reveal season for Hearthstone’s Forged in the Barrens expansion continues and Mage’s second Legendary minion has been revealed. The newest card that will be joining the game is Varden Dawngrasp, a four mana minion with 3/3 stats that has a powerful Battlecry effect that can Freeze every enemy minion. If any of the enemy minions are already Frozen then Varden Dawngrasp will deal four damage instead. While Mage was ready to lose both Frost Nova and Blizzard in Standard with the announcement of the Core Set, Varden will now be able to fill that void with their potent Battlecry./post/how-to-get-the-octopus-head-helmet-in-elden-ring/Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-octopus-head-helmet-in-elden-ring/ Previous FromSoftware titles and their communities coined the terms “Fashion-souls” and “Demon’s Drip,” which refer to players prioritizing the look of their character as opposed to the most optimal damage or defenses. This concept returns in Elden Ring in the form of “Elden Bling,” and players all over are trying to get their hands on the coolest and most unique weapons and armor. One of these trendy armor pieces is the Octopus Head, a headpiece that looks nearly identical to the enemy that players have to kill for it./post/blizzard-nerfs-shards-of-domination-set-bonuses-adjusts-sod-and-adds-excess-anima-broker-in-latest-wow-hotfix/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-nerfs-shards-of-domination-set-bonuses-adjusts-sod-and-adds-excess-anima-broker-in-latest-wow-hotfix/ Blizzard issued a hotfix yesterday in World of Warcraft, targeting Sanctum of Domination, excess Anima, and an undocumented change targeting Shards of Domination. While some changes are already live, the others will be live with the next realm restart during the weekly maintenance. Sanctum of Domination’s adjustments was targeted at Remnant of Ner’zhul and Kel’Thuzad to make the fights smoother by having consistent cast time of certain key mechanics. Sanctum of DominationRemnant of Ner’zhulAdjusted the recast of Orb of Torment to ensure it is cast more consistently on Mythic difficulty./post/how-to-collect-floating-rings-at-misty-meadows-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-4/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-collect-floating-rings-at-misty-meadows-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-4/ Chapter Two, season four of Fortnite went live this morning and marked the arrival of some of the most famous Marvel characters. The roster consists of Thor, Storm, Wolverine, Groot, She-Hulk, Mystique, and Doctor Doom. They’ll be battling against Galactus once again but with a little help from Fortnite characters this time. Like previous seasons, Chapter Two, season four also came bearing gifts and brought a battle pass, in addition to weekly quests./post/cohh-carnage-urges-twitch-to-implement-new-revenue-reporting-tools-following-sub-pricing-change/Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cohh-carnage-urges-twitch-to-implement-new-revenue-reporting-tools-following-sub-pricing-change/ Twitch has recently expanded its local sub pricing service to Europe, a change that will see the price for a subscription drop slightly than those in some areas of the country. While this change does benefit the viewer, it has been causing some issues for creators on the platform. In a response to Twitch’s announcement, veteran streamer Cohh Carnage called for the platform to implement new reporting tools that would help creators project their income based on the change to subscriber revenue./post/valorant-player-showcases-how-to-skip-equip-animation-of-a-gun-by-tapping-spike-plant/Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-showcases-how-to-skip-equip-animation-of-a-gun-by-tapping-spike-plant/ VALORANT fans may have some new tech to toy around with. One savvy player discovered a way to skip the equip animation when pulling out a gun by tapping the Spike plant key, posting their findings in a video yesterday. And while there are instances where it can come in handy, it does seem to be situational. You can completely skip the pullout animation of any gun by quickly switching to the gun, then tapping the spike plant./post/minnesota-r%C3%B8kkr-sticking-with-2021-roster-heading-into-call-of-duty-vanguard/Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/minnesota-r%C3%B8kkr-sticking-with-2021-roster-heading-into-call-of-duty-vanguard/ The Minnesota RØKKR will enter the 2022 Call of Duty League season with the same starting four it ended the 2021 season with, the franchise announced today.  With Minnesota’s lineup of Standy, Attach, Priestahh, and MajorManiak, the team finished fourth at last month’s CDL Playoffs and won the Stage Five Major after a historic reverse sweep of the Toronto Ultra. Minnesota and Toronto, along with 2021 CDL champions Atlanta FaZe, are the only teams in the league expected to retain the same lineup heading into CoD: Vanguard./post/where-to-find-the-pok%C3%A9mon-with-two-tail-fins-for-the-double-the-tails-double-the-fun-request/Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-the-pok%C3%A9mon-with-two-tail-fins-for-the-double-the-tails-double-the-fun-request/ Hisui is a region where most inhabitants rarely interact with Pokémon beyond giving them a passing glance, but once you arrive in Jubilife Village, many of the villagers will begin asking you to gather information or even bring them a specific Pokémon so they can see it up close.  Some of these quests won’t pop up until after you see a Pokémon in the wild for the first time, leading to a consistent stream of jobs to do as you progress through Pokémon Legends: Arceus./post/elden-ring-quickly-rises-to-top-of-twitch-following-release/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/elden-ring-quickly-rises-to-top-of-twitch-following-release/ FromSoftware’s new ARPG Elden Ring is already making waves on Twitch just a day following the games official launch, and all of the personalities you expect to be diving into the game are present. Viewers have watched a combined 7 million hours of Elden Ring in just 24 hours, making it the most-watched game on Twitch since yesterday morning, according to statistics from SullyGnome. The game has also outperformed Just Chatting, which is typically the most-watched category on the platform, for all but a short period around 1pm CT yesterday./post/best-splitscreen-multiplayer-games-for-ps5/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-splitscreen-multiplayer-games-for-ps5/ Video games have been a way for people to unwind and relax for the last few decades. As the gamer population steadily increases, the number of people wanting to play multiplayer games does as well. Playing multiplayer games is a way to enjoy a good time with friends and also socialize with new people.  As such, there have been a lot of multiplayer games released since the old NES days of Contra, where friends and siblings would play together to defeat a challenging boss or clear that annoyingly difficult level./post/boston-uprising-signs-free-agent-marve1-ahead-of-2022-overwatch-league-season/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/boston-uprising-signs-free-agent-marve1-ahead-of-2022-overwatch-league-season/ Longtime Seoul Dynasty tank player Marve1 has signed a deal with the Boston Uprising, further bolstering the team’s growing roster ahead of the 2022 Overwatch League season.  Since joining the Overwatch League in 2019, Marve1 has played for just one franchise, the Dynasty. Now, moving into 2022, the veteran tank will make the first organizational swap of his career.  Activating Marve2. Welcome to Boston, @ow_Marve1! — Boston Uprising (@BostonUprising) October 28, 2021 “I am excited to welcome Marve1 to the Boston Uprising,” Uprising president Chris “HuK” Loranger said in a team statement made earlier today./post/how-to-download-games-faster-on-nintendo-switch-and-switch-oled/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-download-games-faster-on-nintendo-switch-and-switch-oled/ If you’ve ever bought a digital game or owned a video game console, you know that downloading games can take hours at a time before you even have a chance to play them. The PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and even the Nintendo Switch require some downloading of the games to the system’s memory before you have a chance to play them. This is done to make load times faster or because part of the game isn’t included on the disc and needs internet downloads to be able to play the game at all./post/here-s-the-access-code-to-open-call-of-duty-warzone-s-prison-bunker/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-the-access-code-to-open-call-of-duty-warzone-s-prison-bunker/ Call of Duty: Warzone’s Verdansk map is full of secrets and secrets sometimes lead to top-tier loot that can help you dominate the competition. Some of the best ground loot in the game can be found inside of bunkers, but there’s a trick to opening them. Bunker loot often contains legendary weapons, lots of money, scorestreaks, and field upgrades. Bunkers are placed all around Verdansk. If you know the codes to enter them, you can head inside for a bunch of high-tier loot./post/apex-legends-fans-collaborate-to-create-100-page-digital-artbook-for-game-s-2nd-anniversary/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-fans-collaborate-to-create-100-page-digital-artbook-for-game-s-2nd-anniversary/ Over 200 Apex Legends fan artists are celebrating the battle royale’s second anniversary with a present to the writers and the community: a 100-page digital artbook. The endeavor was organized by four creators, who enlisted 225 artists and writers as a token of their appreciation for the battle royale. The end result is a gallery of vivid art that portrays 15 legends, alongside 35 heartfelt letters that expose the impact that the battle royale had in their lives./post/how-to-clean-a-playstation-5/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-clean-a-playstation-5/ No product will stay in pristine condition after you take it out of its box. The PlayStation 5 may retain its performance over time, but it could start throttling and overheating due to an immense amount of dust, preventing it from maintaining a decent airflow. This doesn’t happen overnight, of course, but if you neglect your PS5 long enough in a dusty room, it’ll start acting up. Cleaning a PlayStation has become a lot easier since the introduction of the removable lid with the PS4./post/how-to-watch-the-call-of-duty-vanguard-multiplayer-reveal/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-the-call-of-duty-vanguard-multiplayer-reveal/ The wait is almost over, Call of Duty gamers. The Call of Duty: Vanguard multiplayer reveal is nearly upon us. CoD-heads everywhere will be tuning in when Sledgehammer Games and Activision pull back the curtain on the multiplayer component of the next entry in the long-running FPS franchise. Return to World War II in Vanguard for some addictive online play. We're dropping a 🔥 HOT 🔥 #Vanguard multiplayer livestream on Sept 7th at 10AM PT!/post/pokemon-legends-arceus-players-can-get-an-amazon-exclusive-pre-order-skin/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pokemon-legends-arceus-players-can-get-an-amazon-exclusive-pre-order-skin/ The Pokémon Legends: Arceus page on Amazon.com has revealed that it’ll be possible to receive an exclusive Garchomp Kimono Set skin for your main character in-game by pre-ordering the upcoming title. It was previously revealed that players who pre-ordered the game on Amazon Japan would receive this skin. But now, anyone who buys the game on Amazon.com, both in its physical and digital versions, should be able to receive the exclusive Garchomp Kimono Set./post/hearthstone-pro-savjz-says-he-s-being-blacklisted-from-competing-by-blizzard/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-pro-savjz-says-he-s-being-blacklisted-from-competing-by-blizzard/ Professional Hearthstone player Savjz said he believes he’s been blacklisted from competitions by Blizzard over tweets by his wife. Savjz’s wife, ZerinaX, publicly criticized the company after she, along with about 800 others, were laid off by Blizzard. Zerina says the reason for this blacklisting stems from a specific tweet in July 2019 in which she replied to Chris Attalus, a Hearthstone community manager. In his tweet, Attalus encouraged people to apply for a job at Blizzard./post/here-is-the-schedule-for-the-pmpl-2022-spring-season/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-is-the-schedule-for-the-pmpl-2022-spring-season/ Tencent has unveiled the schedule for the spring season of the PUBG Mobile Pro League (PMPL) for all regions. Fourteen PMPLs will happen in 2022 across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. These PMPLs will likely lead to larger Championships in each region, just like last year. Tencent hasn’t officially announced the format for the championships. The spring season of the PMPL will lead to the Mid-Season Championship 2022, a new global competition which will take place in June./post/the-mrvn-in-olympus-has-a-new-message-from-pathfinder-s-creator/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-mrvn-in-olympus-has-a-new-message-from-pathfinder-s-creator/ Apex Legends’ Fight Night patch brought more than just the chance to fistfight your opponents to death today. One of the MRVNs in Olympus has an important message from Pathfinder’s creator, Dr. Amelie P. Interacting with the MRVN in Hammond Labs reveals another voice recording from Dr. Amelie—and it mentions elements that we’ve seen before in Apex lore. THE LORE!!!! MRVN is now awake, and he has important things to say pic./post/best-supports-to-pair-with-samira-in-league-of-legends/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-supports-to-pair-with-samira-in-league-of-legends/ The League of Legends meta is constantly evolving, with new champions and items getting changed on a patch-by-patch basis. The case is no different with Samira, who, in light of recent updates, has risen from the ashes and is once again one of the best marksmen in the game.  She’s one of the most aggressive champions in the game as well, which sets her apart from many ADCs in the game, including those who rely on sticking to the backline and shredding through any enemy they come by./post/where-to-find-the-dusk-stone-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-the-dusk-stone-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ If you want to evolve your Murkrow or Misdreavus into Honchkrow and Mismagius, you’ll need to find a Dusk Stone to force their evolutions in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. See Pokémon on Amazon There isn’t a simple way to get the Dusk Stone, since one of its sources requires a Pokémon with the Pickup ability. There are a plethora of Pokémon in the Sinnoh and National Pokédex that can have the ability, but one of the easiest ones to find in the game is a Pachirisu./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-pr/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-pr/ For most longtime players, it won’t take long to find the answer to the daily Wordle puzzle. Every day, the game will pick a five-letter word from the English dictionary for players to figure out within a 24-hour and six-guess limit. There are no clues except the letters in the words, which will change colors depending on their presence and position in the final answer. It’s a format reminiscent of the classic code-breaking puzzle game Mastermind./post/a-great-follow-up-with-only-one-drawback-pwnage-ultra-custom-symm-review/Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-great-follow-up-with-only-one-drawback-pwnage-ultra-custom-symm-review/ Pwnage built its reputation with the original Ultra Custom Ergo, a right-handed, ergonomic mouse aimed at consumers looking to add some flair to their setup. After a somewhat unorthodox release through Indiegogo, the mouse was widely praised for its performance and unique customization features. A year later, Pwnage is back with the Ergo’s symmetrical sibling: the Ultra Custom Symm. The Symm is Pwnage’s new symmetrical design that retains many of the original’s key characteristics while improving on a few of its predecessor’s missteps—save for one./post/the-international-10-group-stage-scores-standings-and-results/Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-international-10-group-stage-scores-standings-and-results/ The International is Dota 2’s biggest stage and brings the top players, teams, and talent from around the world to one centralized location to compete for the largest prize pool in all of esports.  Despite being delayed for more than a year, including one just months before the actual tournament that saw it change locations to Bucharest, Romania, TI10 is finally here. And, from Oct. 7 to 17, 18 teams will fight for their shot at $40 million./post/halo-infinite-multiplayer-drops-ahead-of-release-date/Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-multiplayer-drops-ahead-of-release-date/ Rumors swirled just before today’s 20th anniversary of Xbox video celebrating the history of the console that Halo Infinite was going to drop multiplayer during the celebration. And it turns out those rumors were true: Halo Infinite multiplayer is now available to play. Shortly before it was announced, players started seeing pre-downloads for the game and a screen that said the game was ready to play “when you are.” Though all of those things were visible to players, no one was able to actually play the game./post/g2-esports-headline-the-2019-six-major-set-for-raleigh/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/g2-esports-headline-the-2019-six-major-set-for-raleigh/ Ubisoft has revealed that the second annual Six Major will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina. The list of qualified teams guarantees fans an eye-melting showdown featuring the top squads in the world. Qualifying teams include the 2019 Six Invitational champions, G2 Esports, as well as the top lineups from season nine. There are a total four open qualifier spots up for grabs—one from each division of the R6 Pro League./post/when-does-monster-hunter-rise-sunbreak-release/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-monster-hunter-rise-sunbreak-release/ Capcom today unveiled details for the DLC to Monster Hunter Rise, which will be coming in just a few months just in time for the summer.  Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak will include a slew of new content from a fresh story to, obviously, monsters that you can fight, and it’s price will range from $39.99 for the standard edition of the game to $49.99 for the deluxe edition.  Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is set to release on June 30 on Nintendo Switch and PC./post/how-to-fix-controller-not-working-in-elden-ring/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-controller-not-working-in-elden-ring/ If you’ve been trying to play Elden Ring on PC with a controller during the launch, you may have been experiencing setbacks. Even when the controller gets picked up by other games, numerous reports have claimed Elden Ring has been having a hard time detecting controller inputs. Though FromSoftware will need to roll out a permanent fix in the upcoming days to fix all the controller-related bugs and errors, there are a few troubleshooting methods that players can try out./post/is-the-jeweled-gauntlet-a-good-teamfight-tactics-item/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-the-jeweled-gauntlet-a-good-teamfight-tactics-item/ Teamfight Tactics Patch 9.19 graced the autobattler with a number of new items, one of which is the Jeweled Gauntlet. Since its rapid rise to popularity, though, one fan has questioned the item’s efficiency. A TFT fan posted an in-depth analysis on Reddit today that examines the Jeweled Gauntlet’s damage in comparison to the Ability Power (AP) powerhouse, Rabadon’s Deathcap. The Gauntlet gives units 20 percent critical strike chance and 20 extra AP, while also allowing the wearer’s special ability to crit./post/how-to-get-arcane-jinx-and-vi-skins-in-wild-rift/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-arcane-jinx-and-vi-skins-in-wild-rift/ Dota: Dragon’s Blood isn’t the only game-based animated series on Netflix anymore since Riot Games’ Arcane is dropping on Nov. 6. To celebrate its highly-anticipated League of Legends-inspired show’s release, Riot’s holding events in all of its games, and Wild Rift isn’t an exception. The RiotX Arcane event kicked off today and players can look forward to collecting various free cosmetics throughout its duration. When the series’ first episode airs on Nov. 6, Riot will roll out Arcane-themed features and the surprises will continue to grow as Arcane develops./post/what-are-providence-stones-in-lost-ark-and-how-can-you-get-them/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-providence-stones-in-lost-ark-and-how-can-you-get-them/ While traveling in the world of Lost Ark, players might find a peculiar heart-shaped item called the Providence Stone. This little rose-colored trinket “symbolizes new relationships,” according to the game’s description, and they do serve a very important purpose for anyone vying for the favor of their favorite non-playable characters. Providence Stones are used to buy rapport items, which can be found through specific traveling merchants or Nada in Luterra Castle. Rapport items are special gifts that you give to NPCs to increase your rapport with those characters./post/what-is-shroud-s-net-worth/Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-shroud-s-net-worth/ Michael Grzesiek, more famously known as Shroud, is a Canadian Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and all-around competitive gamer. He’s one of the most followed, most popular, and highest earning streamers and content creators to date, amassing over ten million followers on Twitch and approaching the seven million subscriber mark on YouTube. His rise to prominence is largely hinged on his exceptional first-person shooter and battle royale ability, including titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, PUBG, Apex Legends, Escape from Tarkov and Valorant./post/valorant-player-discovers-ascent-audio-bug-that-plays-wrong-footstep-sound-on-catwalk/Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-discovers-ascent-audio-bug-that-plays-wrong-footstep-sound-on-catwalk/ The latest VALORANT bug may force players to get their hearing checked. One VALORANT player discovered a potentially game-breaking audio bug on Ascent, posting their findings today. It appears that the game’s engine picks up the wrong footstep sound on Mid Catwalk, which can easily confuse opposing players. Dot Esports tested the bug out in a custom game and found similar results. Here is a game-breaking audio exploit that came in with the lastest patch from ValorantCompetitive Walking on Catwalk makes a distinct sound as an agent’s feet hit the metallic walkway./post/yu-gi-oh-forbidden-and-limited-card-list-may-2022/Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/yu-gi-oh-forbidden-and-limited-card-list-may-2022/ Just like with every competitive game, Konami has to put in additional work to make sure Yu-Gi-Oh! maintains a balanced competitive meta with the release of every few sets.  This is done through the use of a Forbidden and Limited card list that’s constantly updated and makes sure no card can be abused in a format for more than a few months at a time.  See Dot Esports Gaming Deals This ban list is broken down into three specific parts, with a fourth being included at the end of every update simply to show which cards are no longer having their usage limited./post/all-equipment-and-field-upgrades-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-equipment-and-field-upgrades-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/ Call of Duty: Vanguard, the World War II FPS extravaganza, is here, offering a deep look into the tools of warfare from the time period. Just like perks and killstreaks, equipment and field upgrades are crucial components of any player’s loadout in Call of Duty. Selecting which equipment to use could define your playstyle and a well-placed and well-timed field upgrade could also spell victory or defeat. Equipment has been around forever in Call of Duty, giving players both lethal and tactical grenades and other items to fill out their loadout./post/all-dlc-coming-to-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-dlc-coming-to-lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga/ The highly anticipated upcoming Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga game has revealed the seven currently planned DLC packs players can get to expand their character and gameplay options. Players will be able to get the DLC packs featuring exclusive characters by purchasing either the Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Character Collection Season Pass, which grants access to the seven DLC packs, or by purchasing each pack individually. The DLC packs that will be available to players center around pieces of the Star Wars universe outside of the main Skywalker Saga and are as follows./post/best-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-loot-weapon-and-gear-locations-at-world-s-edge-in-apex-legends/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-loot-weapon-and-gear-locations-at-world-s-edge-in-apex-legends/ Battle royale games have inherent randomness and Apex Legends usually isn’t an exception. Apex’s System Override event introduced the limited-time Déjà Loot mode, however, which doesn’t just water down the RNG in the game but throws it out the window and blasts it with a Peacekeeper. In Déjà Loot, everything is fixed. Loot will always spawn in the same spots and the path of the dropship and ring pattern will only change once a day./post/who-is-playing-on-the-offlinetv-rust-server/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-is-playing-on-the-offlinetv-rust-server/ OTV & Friends’ Rust server is back and with it is sure to come many classic moments as players attempt to survive within the world of Rust amongst groups of fellow streamers. Similar to its previous iteration, there are plenty of your favorite streamers taking part on the server, but this time, there have been some new rules introduced. July 5th 12PM PT OTV Rust Server pic.twitter.com/uIOQefsu8e — Abe (@BaboAbe) June 30, 2021 One of the rules introduced to stop players from building too many alliances limits the size that teams can be and also restricts players from creating truces between multiple teams./post/codemiko-banned-on-twitch-again/Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/codemiko-banned-on-twitch-again/ Twitch streamer and VTuber CodeMiko has once again been banned from the streaming platform. No specifics about the ban were shared, as is usually the case with situations like this, but fans have already put together some likely reasons why she was banned from previous streams. In a recent stream, Miko made alterations to her usual VTuber model, removing all clothing outside of her shoes and leaving everything else censored by a blur effect./post/incredible-valorant-play-from-zoomer-academy-leaves-casters-dumbfounded/Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/incredible-valorant-play-from-zoomer-academy-leaves-casters-dumbfounded/ The best VALORANT play of the day yesterday may not have come from the VCT Masters at all. In the round of 16 of the Vanguard Championship Series, a smaller North American event with a $1,000 prize pool, the team Zoomer Academy showed their smarts and ingenuity with a genius play. when the play works as intended pic.twitter.com/grs8phdUyZ — parallel seven (@sevvn) March 15, 2021 Up 11-7 on Ascent, the defending Zoomer Academy players stacked the A-site and shut down the site rush before it even started./post/the-next-big-champion-releases-and-updates-in-league-of-legends/Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-next-big-champion-releases-and-updates-in-league-of-legends/ League of Legends is now over 10 years old after being released in early 2009. With more than 150 champions in the game, some of the MOBA’s oldest champions are a bit tired and run down, both in terms of graphics and gameplay.  The most recent champion reworks—including Fiddlesticks, Volibear, and Mundo—have been VGUs instead of simple visual updates. VGUs differ from regular visual updates in that they change the skill kits of the reworked champion, or even just one of the abilities./post/forsen-banned-from-pubg-for-abuse/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/forsen-banned-from-pubg-for-abuse/ Forsen, one of Twitch’s most recognizable streamers, has been banned from PUBG. The Swedish personality has been streaming PUBG since March 27, regularly garnering over 10,000 average viewers on his broadcasts, according to stats site Snully Gnome. The 31-year-old announced on his most recent stream that he has been indefinitely banned from the game. Forsen was shocked since he supposedly got banned from the game “for abuse,” which is questionable because the streamer doesn’t use the in-game voice chat./post/valorant-player-discovers-unusual-viper-boost/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-discovers-unusual-viper-boost/ The element of surprise is one of the best advantages to have against your opponents in VALORANT. Hitting your opponents with the unexpected should give you the upper hand while climbing the game’s ranks. A VALORANT fan recently shared an unusual way of boosting up allies and allowing them to glide in the air. Toxic Screen, which allows Viper to deploy a long line of gas emitters, is commonly used to close out angles and secure pushes to bombsites./post/twitch-s-new-mod-love-competition-will-send-one-mod-and-creator-to-san-diego-twitchcon-give-out-100-250-gift-cards-to-mods/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-s-new-mod-love-competition-will-send-one-mod-and-creator-to-san-diego-twitchcon-give-out-100-250-gift-cards-to-mods/ Twitch has launched its first ever ‘Mod Love’ sweepstakes, a contest with nominated mods from Twitch Partners or Affiliate streamers. The grand prize is two tickets to the San Diego TwitchCon, while 100 other winners will receive $250 in Twitch gift cards. Partnered and affiliate streamers can nominate one moderator from their respective channel. To make their mod eligible, streamers will need to record a quick video (shorter than three minutes) meeting some criteria from the competition./post/best-fortnite-prop-hunt-codes-june-2022/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-fortnite-prop-hunt-codes-june-2022/ Fortnite’s Creative mode has allowed players to build a variety of impressive maps for different custom modes such as Prop Hunt. Prop Hunt pits a team of props against a team of hunters with the props’ goal to collect all the puzzle pieces or survive before the hunters can eliminate them. Players who are given the prop role will be able to transform their appearance into many of the objects around the map to blend in and hide./post/c9-win-nail-biter-at-halfway-mark-of-apex-pro-league-split-2/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/c9-win-nail-biter-at-halfway-mark-of-apex-pro-league-split-2/ Cloud9 played ferocious Apex Legends last night, earning first place in a remarkably close competition that came down to the wire. They won two out of the six games played, completing a massive comeback after they were left in 19th place with only four games to go and a mere one point to show for their efforts. Yesterday’s matches marked the sixth day of Pro League, the midpoint of its second split./post/the-messenger-god-roll-and-best-perks-in-destiny-2/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-messenger-god-roll-and-best-perks-in-destiny-2/ The overhauled Trials of Osiris means more players can get their hands on shiny new loot exclusive to the game mode—including one of the best Pulse Rifles in the game. The Messenger is a one-of-a-kind weapon thanks to its perk pool, which comes with the unique Desperado perk. With Desperado, reloading after a precision final blow vastly increases fire rate, making it a guaranteed presence in any god roll. Though that’s easily the best choice in the slot, it’s certainly not the only good one—especially not with the stacked pool of damage-boosting perks in this gun./post/what-is-nacho-customz/Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-nacho-customz/ Nacho Customz is a Miami-based company known for modding mice, keyboards, and controllers. It also sells other peripherals, including mice, mouse pads, and cables. Users have the option to buy mice from the company and select whichever customization options they prefer. They can also send their own mice in for a paint job or performance upgrade.  Some of the mice stocked by Nacho Customz include options from G-Wolves, Grexta, and Ninjutso./post/xset-s-dephh-turned-down-an-offer-from-g2-to-stay-in-north-america/Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xset-s-dephh-turned-down-an-offer-from-g2-to-stay-in-north-america/ British in-game leader Rory “dephh” Jackson could have gone back to Europe after five years in North America. British in-game leader Rory “dephh” Jackson has been competing in North America for years since he arrived in the continent to play for Complexity Gaming in CS:GO, which lasted from 2016 to 2019. So far in VALORANT, he played for Dignitas and is leading XSET since June, having helped them to grab a runners-up finish to Sentinels at the NA VCT Stage Three: Challengers One./post/a-pikachu-that-knows-sing-will-soon-be-available-to-players-of-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-pikachu-that-knows-sing-will-soon-be-available-to-players-of-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ After 25 years, Pikachu has finally learned how to sing—and it’s looking to show off its new skill in Pokémon Sword and Shield. A special Pikachu knowing the move Sing will soon be available for players of Pokémon Sword and Shield via a distribution, The Pokémon Company announced today. This event coincides with Pokémon’s P25 Music program initiative, which will connect the franchise with the biggest names in music to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series./post/best-starting-classes-to-use-in-elden-ring/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-starting-classes-to-use-in-elden-ring/ With many new Tarnished getting their hands on Elden Ring, a large question is looming within the community — what are the game’s best starting classes?  While this is a seemingly important question to those new to the genre as they begin their journey in the Lands Between, every item from each starting class is available within the game. FromSoftware does a great job in allowing the player to play how they want and not restricting them to the class they chose at the beginning of the game./post/garena-parent-sea-ltd-shares-tank-as-news-of-free-fire-s-ban-in-india-emerges/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/garena-parent-sea-ltd-shares-tank-as-news-of-free-fire-s-ban-in-india-emerges/ Garena’s parent company Sea Limited shares have fallen substantially after reports emerged claiming its marquee mobile title Free Fire is getting banned in India. India was one of the biggest markets for Free Fire. According to data provided by App Annie to TechCrunch, the country accounted for 40 million of its 75 million global monthly active users. Additionally, Free Fire was the top-grossing mobile game in India according to a report by MoneyControl./post/legends-of-runeterra-self-mill-toss-followers-have-broken-potential/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/legends-of-runeterra-self-mill-toss-followers-have-broken-potential/ Riot Games revealed a new keyword today via two followers in the new Legends of Runeterra spoilers for the Shadows Isles region. A new champion has been added to the Shadow Isles and with the arrival of Maokai comes a self-mill strategy that could break the LoR meta. But for a self-mill strategy to pop off correctly, there has to be a proper supporting cast to help Maokai level up./post/how-to-complete-rulebreakers-parejo-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-rulebreakers-parejo-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added an 88-rated Rulebreakers version of Daniel Parejo from Villarreal to FIFA 22 on Nov. 6. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in the game. This is Parejo’s first special card in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. The Rulebreakers promo will give stat upgrades that change the way you play with certain players, decreasing one skill and increasing another that normally wouldn’t have been upgraded. EA massively increased Parejo’s Pace (+37) and somewhat upgraded his Dribbling (+4), Physical (+3), Shooting (+2), and Defending (+2) when you compare this new card to his 86-rated gold version./post/connoreatspants-wins-panda-all-star-nickvitational-event-raises-100-000-for-the-breast-cancer-research-foundation/Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/connoreatspants-wins-panda-all-star-nickvitational-event-raises-100-000-for-the-breast-cancer-research-foundation/ The first highly-publicized tournament for a new fighting game is always a treat to watch, but when you add in a character auction featuring Nickelodeon IP and big content creators with all of the proceeds going to charity, you get a recipe for chaotic success.  And, after hours of bidding, confusion, and a lot of self-destructs, ConnorEatsPants was crowned the champion of the Panda All-Star Nickvitational, showing off the sickest day-one Reptar anyone has ever seen./post/the-youngest-valorant-players-competing-in-na-vct/Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-youngest-valorant-players-competing-in-na-vct/ With only a year under its belts, the VALORANT Champions Tour still has a bright future ahead. After a successful first yearly campaign, the VCT is returning for its second stint in 2022 with the addition of national development leagues and a change to round-robin league-style play for Challengers series. One region to watch in particular is North America. NA events had some of the highest viewership numbers of all VCT events in 2021 and were a competitive force in the first two international VALORANT LANs at Masters Reykjavík and Masters Berlin./post/buffs-to-samira-rylai-s-crystal-scepter-and-more-detailed-for-release-in-league-patch-12-2/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/buffs-to-samira-rylai-s-crystal-scepter-and-more-detailed-for-release-in-league-patch-12-2/ League of Legends Patch 12.2 is bringing about extensive changes to the game, many of which positively impact champions and items that have struggled since Season 2022 began. Riot Phlox, designer on the Summoner’s Rift team for League, detailed the specifics in regards to buffs set to accompany Patch 12.2. Many of these changes are currently available for testing in League’s PBE, alongside the plethora of nerfs that this patch will also be including./post/pok%C3%A9mon-global-exhibition-2021-lineup-officially-revealed/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-global-exhibition-2021-lineup-officially-revealed/ The Pokémon Global Exhibition is slowly approaching, and the top Pokémon Sword and Shield players that will be competing in the tournament have officially been revealed.  The Pokémon Company originally announced the Global Exhibition back in June as an invite-only tournament that would require players to truly prove themselves in order to earn a spot on the roster. That statement has held true, as only six players have been invited to compete in the special event, which will air on Oct./post/ence-signs-maden-as-fifth-cs-go-player/Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ence-signs-maden-as-fifth-cs-go-player/ ENCE has acquired the services of CS:GO rifler Pavle “⁠Maden⁠” Bošković from FunPlus Phoenix, confirming a report by 1pv.fr from last week, and rounding out its roster for the 2022 season. The international team’s lineup was depleted to just Marco “⁠Snappi⁠” Pfeiffer, Olek “⁠hades⁠” Miskiewicz, Paweł “⁠dycha⁠” Dycha, Lotan “⁠Spinx⁠” Giladi, and coach Eetu “⁠sAw⁠” Saha after Joonas “doto” Forss was benched earlier this year. With the arrival of maden, ENCE wants to bolster their firepower./post/sources-new-york-subliners-in-discussions-to-acquire-sib-from-atlanta-faze/Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-new-york-subliners-in-discussions-to-acquire-sib-from-atlanta-faze/ The New York Subliners are aggressively pursuing a deal to acquire Atlanta FaZe substitute Sib, who would replace DiamondCon in the Subliners’ starting lineup, according to sources. If New York succeed in acquiring Sib, the team’s starting roster for Stage Three of the Call of Duty League is projected to be Clayster, Asim, Sib, and HyDra, meaning Mack and DiamondCon would be benched. Related: Sources: Legion, Subliners, and Mutineers looking to make changes heading into Stage 3 of 2021 Call of Duty League season/post/every-team-qualified-for-dota-2-s-the-international-10/Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-team-qualified-for-dota-2-s-the-international-10/ The International 10 is finally happening and not even additional delays or moving countries are going to keep players from stepping onto Dota 2’s biggest stage.  Instead of taking place in Stockholm, Sweden in early August. TI10 will now be held at the Arena Nationala in Bucharest, Romania from Oct. 7 to 17.  This change in scenery and subsequent two-month delay for the event came several weeks after Valve said it was looking for “possible alternatives elsewhere in Europe” to host the event following a vote by the Swedish government and the Swedish Sports Federation to not accept esports into the sports federation./post/all-tasks-and-how-to-complete-them-on-airship-in-among-us/Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-tasks-and-how-to-complete-them-on-airship-in-among-us/ The new Among Us map, the Airship, is live for players around the world and it brings some new tasks to add some extra spice to the game. In total, there are 18 locations, nine of which are new for this map, and throughout these locations are a series of new tasks. Tasks in Among Us function as one of the ways for crewmates to win the game by surviving and completing all tasks while avoiding the imposters./post/blizzard-nerfs-painsmith-raznal-tunes-down-dungeons-in-latest-world-of-warcraft-patch/Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-nerfs-painsmith-raznal-tunes-down-dungeons-in-latest-world-of-warcraft-patch/ Blizzard Entertainment has nerfed Sanctum of Domination’s Painsmith Raznal encounter almost a month after European World of Warcraft guild Echo first downed the Mythic boss.  Arguably one of the most difficult bosses in Shadowlands, Painsmith Raznal has been a roadblock for some guilds, requiring a higher level of coordination than expected at that stage of the raid. A gap will now appear in every row of spikes during stage two of the encounter on Mythic difficulty./post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-guilty-gear-strive/Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-guilty-gear-strive/ Even with the implementation of rollback net code in Guilty Gear Strive, some players will ultimately face lag at some point while playing the game. Depending on what your issue might be, there’s almost always a better way to improve your playing experience. Here are a few things you can do to reduce lag in your next online game. Check your region When going into games against other players, make sure you’re in the correct region./post/can-you-change-factions-in-new-world/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-change-factions-in-new-world/ Factions are one of the most important mechanics in New World. They allow players from all over Aeternum to connect with each other through meaningful in-game experiences such as faction missions and wars over the game’s territories. If you have a friend group or specific company you want to join that’s a part of a particular faction, you’ll want to make sure you’re part of that faction’s ranks to get the most out of New World’s social experience./post/rng-vow-to-play-on-at-msi-2022-despite-unfair-treatment-amid-ping-related-controversy/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rng-vow-to-play-on-at-msi-2022-despite-unfair-treatment-amid-ping-related-controversy/ After having their 2022 Mid-Season Invitational group stage record reset to 0-0 earlier today as a result of “discrepancies in latency” in their first three wins of the tournament, pro League of Legends team Royal Never Give Up made a brief statement on its official Twitter account. In the team’s tweet, which is attached to a video of a meeting between players and staff members, RNG referred to the situation as a byproduct of “unfair treatment./post/best-deals-on-overwatch-toys-and-collectibles/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-deals-on-overwatch-toys-and-collectibles/ While they won’t increase your skill, these toys and collectibles are the perfect way to decorate your gaming room with merchandise from your favorite game. Honor your main with an action figure, buff your catalog with an Overwatch board game, or increase your cooking level to 99 with the official Overwatch cookbook. There’s gear for the competitive players, and there’s gear for the die-hard fans. These current deals on Overwatch toys and collectibles definitely represent the latter, so if you’re in for some decorating, board game nights, or even cooking, take a look!/post/how-to-find-gigantamax-pok%C3%A9mon-in-sword-and-shield/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-gigantamax-pok%C3%A9mon-in-sword-and-shield/ Gigantamaxing, and Gigantamax Pokémon, are a new feature in Sword and Shield that change the form of certain Pokémon when Dynamaxing in battle. There are only a few Gigantamax Pokémon available in the series and they are honestly quite rare to come across. The only way to find Gigantamax Pokémon of any kind is through Max Raid Battles in the Wild Area. You will need to search each glowing Raid Den to see if it houses a Max Raid Battle and, if it does, take part in it./post/when-does-call-of-duty-warzone-pacific-and-vanguard-season-3-classified-arms-begin/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-call-of-duty-warzone-pacific-and-vanguard-season-3-classified-arms-begin/ For the past few years, every two months, like clockwork, a new Call of Duty season hits the servers and adds new things for Warzone players to enjoy. The two-month clock of season two is nearly up, with season three for Vanguard and Warzone on the way, and we now know exactly when players can expect to download a big update, hop online, and fry with their friends on some new content./post/all-legends-of-runeterra-worldwalker-spoilers-revealed-during-expansion-livestream/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-legends-of-runeterra-worldwalker-spoilers-revealed-during-expansion-livestream/ Riot Games revealed a total of 22 Legends of Runeterra cards today during the Worldwalker expansion Livestream from all different regions. Scheduled to release on May 25 via Patch 3.8 is the newest LoR expansion, Worldwalker. Included in the expansion are four new champions without a specific region, breaking the region rules established in the digital card game. There are a total of 65 new cards within the Worldwalker expansion, including new characters that haven’t been established in the League of Legends lore, like The Maker./post/how-to-catch-and-evolve-scyther-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-and-evolve-scyther-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Certain Pokémon are hard to find and even harder to evolve depending on the game you are playing. In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the classic Bug/Flying-type Scyther happens to be both.  Because BDSP is a remake of the original generation four titles, Scyther is exclusively obtainable in Brilliant Diamond, while Pinsir is available only in Shining Pearl. This means anyone who wants to hack and slash with Scyther or eventually get Scizor—one of the most used Pokémon in competitive play in 2006—will have to do some work./post/how-to-increase-fps-in-overwatch/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-increase-fps-in-overwatch/ Even if you have the best aim, you may fall behind the competition in Overwatch with frame rates that are below average. In general, you’ll want to average frame rates above 60fps for a smooth gameplay experience. Higher frame rates will be especially beneficial for players with high refresh rate monitors. While you can find alternative ways to increase your frame rate, like updating your drivers or operating system and disabling additional Windows features, the easiest way to gain more frames is through adjusting your in-game settings./post/how-to-solve-wordle-5-letter-words-that-start-with-squ/Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-solve-wordle-5-letter-words-that-start-with-squ/ In Wordle, sometimes life gets much more difficult if players have a few certain letters in the right spot compared to having no letters whatsoever. If players have no letters correctly structured, then they have a little freedom in what words they can guess. However, if they have a couple of letters in the correct position, then they’re more limited in what words they can type in. This situation could happen if players find themselves with a word starting with “SQU./post/100-thieves-break-into-2022-lcs-spring-finals-berth-pull-off-reverse-sweep-against-liquid/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/100-thieves-break-into-2022-lcs-spring-finals-berth-pull-off-reverse-sweep-against-liquid/ It was a tale of two halves in today’s series between Team Liquid and 100 Thieves, with two of the best League of Legends teams in North America battling for the first spot in the 2022 LCS Spring Finals. Mid-series draft adjustments and momentum was the name of the game, and only the Thieves adapted in time to take home the victory. In the first two games, 100T strayed away from what worked for them across the regular season and throughout the playoffs./post/dawnbringer-nightbringer-skins-hit-the-rift-in-league-of-legends-patch-11-19/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dawnbringer-nightbringer-skins-hit-the-rift-in-league-of-legends-patch-11-19/ Almost two years ago, League of Legends players had the chance to experience the Dawn & Night event for the first time. This week, players will receive six more skins of the same theme, along with a Prestige Edition and a Worlds-themed skin, with the release of Patch 11.19. The newest additions to the Dawnbringer line are Yone, Morgana, and the game’s latest champion Vex. Like the previous Dawnbringer skins, their principal traits will be a light-blue color and the goal of bringing order to the cosmos./post/how-to-get-ager-s-scepter-and-its-catalyst-in-destiny-2/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-ager-s-scepter-and-its-catalyst-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2‘s Season of the Lost brought with it Ager’s Scepter, a Stasis Exotic locked behind two different (but complementary) quests. At the time, players had to hunt Atlas Skews across the Dreaming City for weeks as part of the Tracing The Stars quest. After getting all of them, a quest called A Hollow Coronation appeared, sending players to actually grab the Exotic. The catalyst, on the other hand, would drop randomly from Astral Alignment, the seasonal activity for Season of the Lost./post/is-rocket-league-still-available-on-steam/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-rocket-league-still-available-on-steam/ Rocket League went free-to-play on Sept. 24, and with that massive update came some equally massive changes to how players can play the game.  Along with cross-progression between platforms and a single set of dates for the game’s Competitive Seasons, Competitive Tournaments, and the Rocket Pass, the game was also removed from the Steam Store.  That doesn’t mean the game has been completely removed from Steam, just that new players who want to get the game won’t be able to do so through that specific platform./post/new-mage-card-ray-of-frost-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-rise-of-shadows-expansion/Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-mage-card-ray-of-frost-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-rise-of-shadows-expansion/ If you ever played a Mage in World of Warcraft then you’ll recognize the newest spell card for the class in Hearthstone, Ray of Frost. Ray of Frost cost one mana and takes advantage of the games new Twinspell mechanic. The spell allows you to freeze an enemy minion, additionally, if the minion is already frozen the spell deals two damage. Since the card has Twinspell, this means you will get another copy of the card without Twinspell as soon as Ray of Frost is cast./post/splatoon-3-reveals-revamped-triple-inkstrike-weapon/Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/splatoon-3-reveals-revamped-triple-inkstrike-weapon/ Nintendo has started to roll out daily news updates to give fans more information about various items, features, and weapons that are going to be included in Splatoon 3 when it launches for Nintendo Switch on Sept. 9.  One of these new reveals is another modified version of a classic Splatoon weapon, the Triple Inkstrike.  Boom! We didn't want you to wait too long. Observe how a user can group ink strikes closely…or space them out strategically./post/los-angeles-thieves-reveals-2022-call-of-duty-league-roster-of-kenny-octane-envoy-and-drazah/Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/los-angeles-thieves-reveals-2022-call-of-duty-league-roster-of-kenny-octane-envoy-and-drazah/ Kenny and Octane will be joined by Envoy and Drazah to round out the Los Angeles Thieves’ Call of Duty League roster for 2022, confirming a Sept. 3 report by Dot Esports. Octane’s signing was made official yesterday, joining Kenny and Drazah as the holdovers from L.A.’s 2021 team. Today’s video by the Thieves confirmed Envoy, the former OpTic Chicago star, as the team’s fourth and final starting player going into the new season./post/how-to-scan-your-face-in-nba-2k22/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-scan-your-face-in-nba-2k22/ NBA 2K22 is finally here and it’s time for fans to switch over to the new title from the previous one. Alongside roster updates and quality-of-life changes, new adventures await players in the form of MyPlayer and The City mode. While some players will enjoy jumping right into the action, others may prefer taking their time while creating their characters. Customizing a character can take hours, especially if you’re trying hard to base your character on yourself./post/nike-will-debut-a-new-sneaker-on-twitch-tomorrow/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nike-will-debut-a-new-sneaker-on-twitch-tomorrow/ Nike is revealing its latest shoe live on Twitch on Jan. 15. Executives, athletes, and influencers will stream from the Nike headquarters in New York City in an exclusive Twitch stream. A preshow will kick off the event at 9am CT, hosted by Twitch sneakerheads FreshStock. The stream will be broadcast on the platform’s main channel. FreshStock is a sneaker culture show that’s hosted by Twitch staff members Bash “Bashlol” Mussa, Ray “Hypebeast” Li, and Zhi “Z” Chew./post/where-to-find-alolan-vulpix-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-for-the-snow-white-vulpix-in-the-snow-request/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-alolan-vulpix-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-for-the-snow-white-vulpix-in-the-snow-request/ Most of the Pokémon available in Pokémon Legends: Arceus are considered native to the region, so that means the number of non-Hisuian Regional Forms found throughout the game is fairly low.  That doesn’t mean you can’t find some of the more popular variants of Pokémon from other regions, as the Snow-White Vulpix in the Snow request you obtain in the late-game shows.  If they have access to the Alabaster Icelands, players can start a new request after encountering a Vulpix, which can be found near Veilstone Cape in the Cobalt Coastlands./post/replication-mode-swaps-in-for-escalation-in-valorant-s-patch-2-11/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/replication-mode-swaps-in-for-escalation-in-valorant-s-patch-2-11/ For VALORANT players who enjoyed creating an army of Killjoy turrets or raining down five Brimstone ultimates from the sky, Replication mode is coming back. Riot began a new approach to VALORANT’s game modes last month, which rotates Replication, Escalation, and Snowball Fight on a patch-by-patch basis. In Patch 2.11, which should go live today, Replication will swap in for Escalation. Introduced in Patch 2.09, Replication allows every player on a team to select the same agent after a brief voting system./post/the-best-support-builds-in-league-of-legends-2021-preseason/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-support-builds-in-league-of-legends-2021-preseason/ The recent item system rework in the League of Legends preseason has required players to learn the ropes of each archetype from scratch. There are plenty of support champions viable thanks to some of the new items, so finding out the champ that best fits your playstyle shouldn’t be too hard. There’s no best-in-slot archetype right now with various playstyles and archetypes fitting better in certain compositions. Here are some of the best preseason builds for the support role to help you win your games./post/when-does-the-apex-legends-lost-treasures-collection-event-begin/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-apex-legends-lost-treasures-collection-event-begin/ Season five of Apex Legends is going strong, and now players have more content to look forward to. The Lost Treasures Collection Event promises tons of things to do and cosmetics to buy. Players can look forward to new skins, a game mode, a Mirage heirloom, and a Crypto Town Takeover. And it’s only a few days away. When does the Lost Treasures event start? The new event kicks off next Tuesday, June 23, and ends July 7./post/100t-put-lock-in-performance-behind-start-2022-lcs-spring-split-with-win-against-liquid/Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/100t-put-lock-in-performance-behind-start-2022-lcs-spring-split-with-win-against-liquid/ While the 2022 LCS Lock In didn’t give 100 Thieves the opportunity to showcase why they won the 2021 LCS Championship, their first match in the 2022 Spring Split today let them prove to Team Liquid—the team against which they earned the title—that they are still a force to be feared. A gold lead in favor of Liquid throughout most of the game did little to deter 100T League of Legends squad, focusing their efforts into closing out the game and securing their first win of the regular season./post/does-fortnite-have-skill-based-matchmaking/Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/does-fortnite-have-skill-based-matchmaking/ Many of the most popular multiplayer shooters have a way to keep you with other players who match your skill level. This keeps you with players who play the same way you do, ensuring that each game is a fun and balanced experience. Fortnite also has skill-based matchmaking (SBBM), released in season X. Skill-based matchmaking in Fortnite has been an evolving mechanic for some time, occasionally causing backlash from the community./post/mtg-2020-grand-finals-day-1-standings-and-highlights/Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-2020-grand-finals-day-1-standings-and-highlights/ The Magic: The Gathering 2020 season Grand Finals began today with 32 of the best players in the world competing in six rounds of action. Autumn Burchett, Mythic Invitational winner and rising star, came out at the top of the field after finishing day one 6-0 with their Gruul Adventures deck.  In a tournament full of Omnath Ramp and Omnath Adventures, it was Gruul Adventures piloted by Emma Handy, Autumn Burchett, and Luis Salvatto that stood out by going 8-1 during the three Standard rounds of the day./post/apex-antagonist-duardo-silva-might-not-be-the-real-duardo-silva-new-quest-reveals/Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-antagonist-duardo-silva-might-not-be-the-real-duardo-silva-new-quest-reveals/ Apex Legends has been building up its newest big bad, pharmaceutical CEO Duardo Silva, for many seasons now. But the latest plot twist revealed in today’s episode of The Perfect Son seasonal quest might have turned everything we thought we knew about the man on its head. Lifeline, while rifling through a safe supposedly belonging to Duardo Silva, finds what the man stole from Olympus during the season’s opening cinematic: a death certificate./post/world-of-warcraft-battle-net-servers-suffer-technical-issue-preventing-players-from-logging-in/Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/world-of-warcraft-battle-net-servers-suffer-technical-issue-preventing-players-from-logging-in/ World of Warcraft’s servers have apparently gone down temporarily as of May 9 at 10:50am CT. The game is currently unavailable to play, most likely due to a technical issue. Some servers for Blizzard’s game launcher, Battle.net, have also been affected. While Battle.net appears to be slightly affected, other games under the Activision Blizzard umbrella don’t appear to be suffering from this issue. Right now, only World of Warcraft’s servers are affected./post/how-to-complete-player-moments-iniesta-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-player-moments-iniesta-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a Player Moments 93-rated version of Andrés Iniesta from Vissel Kobe to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team today. This item is obtainable after you complete two segments of squad-building challenges (SBCs). This is Iniesta’s first special card in the FIFA 21 Ultimate Team cycle. EA gave him this card to celebrate his extra-time goal for Spain against the Netherlands in 2010. This SBC will be available until Friday, June 25, so you’ll have a week to craft cards if you don’t want to build them completely from scratch./post/san-francisco-shock-adds-o2-blast-players-finn-kilo-and-proper/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/san-francisco-shock-adds-o2-blast-players-finn-kilo-and-proper/ One of the most successful franchises in the Overwatch League has started its rebuilding process. The San Francisco Shock has added support Oh “FiNN” Se-jin, main DPS Jung “Kilo” Jin-woo, and DPS Kim “Proper” Dong-hyun to its roster, the organization announced today. This comes after the Californian team decided to drop seven players from its roster earlier this month. The back-to-back Contenders champs, @O2Blast_OW are joining the back-to-back Overwatch League champs./post/twitch-streamer-kjanecaron-nearly-burns-down-kitchen-during-subathon/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-streamer-kjanecaron-nearly-burns-down-kitchen-during-subathon/ Twitch streamer kjanecaron almost burnt down her entire kitchen during a recent cooking stream as part of her subathon but escaped the harrowing situation mostly unscathed. Subathons were largely popularized after Ludwig’s month-long success back in March 2021 and countless other streamers have since conducted their own subathons with increasingly wilder concepts and runtimes. Kjanecaron was only one day into her subathon whenever she decided to spice her content up with a cooking stream./post/the-8-best-fortnite-stw-items-and-weapons/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-8-best-fortnite-stw-items-and-weapons/ When gamers think of Fortnite, almost all of them refer to the Battle Royale version of the game. While the game’s entrance to the Battle Royale (BR) genre was the main reason behind its impressive success, Fortnite existed long before it became a BR title in the shape of Save the World. STW is a PvE tower defense game that features quite similar characteristics with its younger BR brother. STW isn’t free, however, which creates a small barrier of entry for newer players./post/the-best-hunter-pets-for-leveling-raiding-and-arena-in-burning-crusade-classic/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-hunter-pets-for-leveling-raiding-and-arena-in-burning-crusade-classic/ The Burning Crusade expansion marks the beginning of Hunter’s reign of terror in World of Warcraft. Ahead of TBC Classic, Blizzard made some significant changes to the class. These changes, which reflect the changes made in the original expansion in 2007, included new talents, the removal of the dead zone, and a substantial buff to pets. Pets now benefit from ranged attack power, including that gained from flasks, elixirs, potions, and racial abilities like Blood Fury./post/hasanabi-fans-make-hysterical-compilations-of-jump-scares-during-the-quarry-playthrough/Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hasanabi-fans-make-hysterical-compilations-of-jump-scares-during-the-quarry-playthrough/ HasanAbi is known for his political commentary on Twitch, but his recent playthrough of The Quarry has proven to be popular among fans who have enjoyed seeing the popular reaction streamer get startled by the title’s numerous jump scares. The Quarry, which was released on June 10, is an interactive horror game that serves as a successor to Until Dawn. As its genre implies, it’s filled with tense moments that might put gamers and stream viewers on the edges of their seats./post/horizon-has-the-highest-win-rate-followed-by-wraith-gibraltar-apex-dev-says/Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/horizon-has-the-highest-win-rate-followed-by-wraith-gibraltar-apex-dev-says/ Apex Legends’ space mom is dominating the competition. Respawn lead game designer Daniel Z Klein discussed legend win rates in a Reddit thread yesterday, putting Horizon at the top. Wraith has the second-highest win rate, followed by Gibraltar, Lifeline, and Wattson to round out the top five. In the most recent Fight Night patch, Horizon’s Gravity Lift cooldown increased from 16 to 21 seconds. Despite the nerfs, however, Klein says she’s the “strongest legend in the game./post/the-fundamentals-of-counter-strike/Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-fundamentals-of-counter-strike/ Counter-Strike is arguably the most challenging first-person shooter in history.  The game has almost infinite levels of intricacy, spanning over a 20-year period. CS:GO isn’t your average shoot-kill-die-respawn deathmatch. It’s a dynamic and complex tactical shooter that often rewards intelligence over mechanical ability.  In CS:GO, brains are generally more sought-after than brawn. There’s always something to learn from a match, whether it’s casual matchmaking or professional play. It takes commitment and dedication to be considered one of the best in the game./post/c4lypso-and-shinobi-have-reportedly-created-a-new-valorant-team/Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/c4lypso-and-shinobi-have-reportedly-created-a-new-valorant-team/ Former Rise player Abdo “c4Lypso” Agha and former Cloud9 Blue player Josh “shinobi” Abastado have put together a new VALORANT team and will look for an organization to represent, according to a report by George Geddes from Upcomer. Aside from these two players, the team reportedly features former Complexity member Mike “sharky” Garity and Brenden “stellar” McGrath, who’s benched by Luminosity. The non-sponsored team is still looking for a fifth player and doesn’t have a coach to assist them./post/lg-aproto-on-yaboidre-and-moose-they-just-clicked-it-was-like-a-puzzle-piece-that-we-were-missing/Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lg-aproto-on-yaboidre-and-moose-they-just-clicked-it-was-like-a-puzzle-piece-that-we-were-missing/ Luminosity Gaming has had incredible success as of late, earning one of eight spots in the the NA VALORANT Champions Tour Masters One. And Alex “aproto” Protopapas believes his two new teammates have something to do with it. The organization signed Diondre “YaBoiDre” Bond and Kaleb “moose” Jayne in late February after a brief trial period. Luminosity’s been wildly successful with this new roster, beating elite squads like Envy, Sentinels, and 100 Thieves during the VCT Challengers circuit./post/the-nintendo-switch-will-officially-launch-in-brazil-soon/Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-nintendo-switch-will-officially-launch-in-brazil-soon/ The Nintendo Switch console will officially be launched in Brazil, Nintendo announced today. The company didn’t give a specific date but said it’ll “be coming soon to Brazil.” Despite being popular in the country, those interested in buying a Switch or any of its games have been forced to import them from third-party sellers. With Nintendo officially seeling the console in Brazil, though, prices should lower at least a little./post/activision-blizzard-launches-global-friends-list-for-battle-net-plans-further-worldwide-integration/Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/activision-blizzard-launches-global-friends-list-for-battle-net-plans-further-worldwide-integration/ Activision Blizzard has dropped a new update for Battle.net to coincide with upcoming changes to games like Overwatch, which include the launch of its cross-play beta.  Starting today, players will no longer need to rely on switching regions to communicate with their Battle.net friends, combining previously regional friend lists into a single entity, excluding China. The actual functionality behind this feature will take some time to fully roll out, however. Related: Everything you need to know about the Overwatch Cross-Play Beta/post/riot-teases-league-s-2021-victorious-skin/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-teases-league-s-2021-victorious-skin/ Another League of Legends champion is joining the annual Victorious skin line for the most competitive players—and it seems like they brought a little, cuddly friend. Riot posted a teaser image for this year’s Victorious skin today, depicting a stuffed bear that greatly resembles Tibbers—indicating that Annie seems to be the next recipient of the skin. While this has yet to be confirmed, no other champion in League has as close of a connection with stuffed bears as Annie, who’s been a part of the roster for over 10 years./post/mtg-alchemy-rebalance-patch-set-to-buff-non-meta-tribal-cards/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-alchemy-rebalance-patch-set-to-buff-non-meta-tribal-cards/ Wizards of the Coast will buff a total of 22 Magic: The Gathering tribal elves and warrior cards within the Alchemy and Historic formats, along with three individual spells.  Scheduled to take place on April 7, an Alchemy rebalance patch will buff 11 MTG Kaldheim elven tribal-themed cards, one AFR elf, 10 tribal-themed warrior cards, and three individual spells. The patch will not directly affect any top-tier decks within the Alchemy format, focusing on elf and warrior tribal decks, along with supporting deck diversity, according to WotC./post/when-does-the-fortnite-streamer-bowl-iii-start/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-fortnite-streamer-bowl-iii-start/ Over the years, the Twitch Rivals Streamer Bowl has become an event to look forward to for Fortnite players. Fans get to watch their favorite streamers compete against each other with a prize pool of $1 million to charity on the line. See Fortnite Action Figures on Amazon This year’s event will feature 60 players, making up 20 trios. The player pool will include Twitch streamers, Community Champions, and NFL stars, so finding a specific trio to root for may not be the easiest task./post/here-are-all-of-destiny-2-s-season-start-and-end-dates/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-destiny-2-s-season-start-and-end-dates/ The seasons change in real life just as they do in Destiny 2, Bungie’s fictional universe of space wizards and alien visitors. Each season brings a new storyline, new seasonal activity, new weapons, and new armor every few months. Some seasons also include new or re-mastered raids, like Destiny 1’s Vault of Glass that was added in season 14. There are also season Artifacts, new Eververse gear, and more. Most importantly, each season tells a story that moves the overall plot of Destiny 2 forward in interesting ways, even if it may not seem like it at first./post/clash-royale-s-sixth-anniversary-brings-the-royale-crown-down-its-biggest-community-event-ever/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clash-royale-s-sixth-anniversary-brings-the-royale-crown-down-its-biggest-community-event-ever/ March 2 marked six years of Clash Royale‘s release. Now, developer Supercell is celebrating the occasion by launching the game’s “biggest community event ever,” titled The Royale Crown Down, which will take place from March 12 to 24. Supercell hasn’t revealed many details about the event yet. More information will be revealed along with registrations on March 8. Supercell has also launched an official website for the event. Players have to join one of 12 teams led by different content creators who will be revealed on March 8./post/florida-mutineers-signs-neptune-as-substitute-player/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/florida-mutineers-signs-neptune-as-substitute-player/ The Florida Mutineers welcomed Travis “Neptune” McCloud as their substitute for the 2021 Call of Duty League season today. The Mutineers’ starting roster remains Havok, Owakening, Skyz, and Slacked. One more Mutineer for 2021. Welcome to The Crew, @NNeptuunE! #F3arTheDeep pic.twitter.com/IC9pUbTIJP — Florida Mutineers #f3f3 (@Mutineers) January 10, 2021 Owned by Misfits Gaming, the Mutineers had a much better 2020 CDL season than most anticipated. They won three online events—weeks five, nine, and 10—before falling down rankings as the season wore on./post/streamer-atrioc-finally-beats-elden-ring-boss-after-7-hours/Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/streamer-atrioc-finally-beats-elden-ring-boss-after-7-hours/ Elden Ring has officially been released all over the world and fans are finally getting their hands on a new FromSoftware title after three long years. Most of these players are taking their time enjoying the story and exploring the open world, but not Atrioc. The streamer spent almost the entirety of launch day fighting a single enemy. Atrioc began his Elden Ring stream on Feb. 24 with one goal in mind: to defeat every boss he encounters in one go./post/best-weapon-skins-in-call-of-duty-mobile/Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-weapon-skins-in-call-of-duty-mobile/ Call of Duty: Mobile has been a popular choice for mobile gamers since its release over a year ago. The handheld variant of the Call of Duty franchise has gotten over 250 million downloads worldwide.  One popular aspect of the series is the multitude of guns that the games provide players with. Each type of gun is perfect for different types of situations and CoD Mobile not only makes it possible to have each of these but also allows players to get their hands on exclusive items, like unique gun skins./post/ffxiv-to-get-major-graphics-overhaul-in-upcoming-patch-7-0/Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ffxiv-to-get-major-graphics-overhaul-in-upcoming-patch-7-0/ Final Fantasy XIV has allowed players to traverse through the lands of Eorzea and beyond for over 10 years, though its age has been visually apparent for some time. Players will soon experience FFXIV with a new look thanks to an upcoming graphic overhaul. During the recent Letter from the Producer livestream, the FFXIV team revealed that, for the first time in 10 years, the MMORPG will be undergoing extensive changes to its graphics to modernize the game./post/best-mtg-giant-cards-in-kaldheim/Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-mtg-giant-cards-in-kaldheim/ Giant tribal shows promise within Magic: The Gathering Standard format with the release of Kaldheim.  Standard in MTG was already running a number of powerful Giant cards, and with the release of Kaldehim (KHM) on Jan. 28, Giant tribal becomes a legitimate possibility in the colors Blue and Red (Izzet). Bonecrusher Giant is already a Standard staple in Red and Crystalline Giant slots nicely into a UR Giant tribal as another three-drop./post/valorant-patch-3-10-to-allow-5-stacks-of-any-ranks-in-competitive-queue/Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-patch-3-10-to-allow-5-stacks-of-any-ranks-in-competitive-queue/ VALORANT players can look forward to enjoying five stacks with their friends regardless of rank in Patch 3.10. But the update is also introducing changes to “mitigate against competitive integrity issues,” according to Riot Games.  Grinding ranked matches in VALORANT can be a tough experience, especially when solo queueing or playing with a smaller group. Sometimes it’s impossible to play with friends altogether if they’re a higher rank, making it a limiting and disappointing experience./post/100-thieves-owner-nadeshot-is-giving-away-thousands-of-dollars-to-random-people-on-twitter/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/100-thieves-owner-nadeshot-is-giving-away-thousands-of-dollars-to-random-people-on-twitter/ 100 Thieves CEO Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag apparently woke up in a good mood today because he’s been giving away lots of money for several hours to random Twitter users. After Nadeshot tweeted at 1pm CT, “Woke up today feeling grateful – what’s your cashtag?,” he proceeded to give away nearly $150,000 to Twitter users that replied to him with their cashtag, an identifier of the mobile payment transfer service Cash App./post/how-to-skip-cutscenes-and-dialogue-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-skip-cutscenes-and-dialogue-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Pokémon Sword and Shield finally gave players the option to skip movie cutscenes and even some of the most annoying bits of dialogue in the game, which saves a lot of time for people playing through for the second time.  This is an all-or-nothing option that will disable all of the cutscenes for the entire game, however. So if you want to save time, you can’t cherry-pick which cutscenes to skip once you make the choice./post/riot-reveals-darius-and-garen-as-tft-set-5-reckoning-god-kings-at-odds/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-darius-and-garen-as-tft-set-5-reckoning-god-kings-at-odds/ The battle between good and evil is coming to Teamfight Tactics in Set Five Reckoning, Riot Games revealed today. Garen and Darius will be pitted against one another as god-kings. Scheduled to release on April 28, Set Five Reckoning will feature champions facing off against one another in an ultimate battle of “order and chaos,” according to TFT lead designer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer. The god-kings Darius and Garen will be leading their respective sides of good and evil./post/fortnite-s-limited-pool-error-is-visual-only-epic-says/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-limited-pool-error-is-visual-only-epic-says/ A few Fortnite: Battle Royale players might have spotted what seems to be a new error in their game after today’s v8.11 update. When on the lobby ready to search for a match,a yellow warning sign might show up in the bottom right corner under the game mode name that reads “Limited Pool.” One of Epic Games’ engineers that goes by the Reddit name Dan wrote that “this is a visual-only issue” and that it should be corrected next time Epic updates Fortnite./post/we-need-booths-in-cs-go/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/we-need-booths-in-cs-go/ At the ESL-ESEA Pro League LAN, there was some discussion about the need for soundproofed booths and better setups for the pros. ESL said that soundproofed booths are too expensive, bulky, and are difficult to set up, but Gfinity uses them. They said that booths are not reliable, but ESL One Cologne’s sound issues show that the current method for blocking out noise is not reliable either. What should be done?/post/dream-wins-creator-of-the-year-award-at-the-game-awards-2021/Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dream-wins-creator-of-the-year-award-at-the-game-awards-2021/ Minecraft creators led the charge in content creation throughout 2021, amassing millions of viewers and interactions across streaming platforms. One Minecraft creator has stood out over others with his massive fanbase and community involvement, though. The faceless content creator known as Dream has won the honor of Creator of the Year at The Game Awards 2021. Dream’s influence within the Minecraft community ventures outside of streaming platforms and into social media, where his massive fanbase has often been compared to the strength and size of K-Pop supporters./post/when-does-apex-legends-season-10-s-ranked-split-2-end/Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-apex-legends-season-10-s-ranked-split-2-end/ Even though Apex Legends’ season 10 ranked split one has ended, there’s still time for you to become an Apex Predator in split two.  Apex’s ranked split two for season 10 started on Sept. 28, right after the first split came to a close.  The second split brought several changes, similar to the first split. As usual when Respawn Entertainment wants to keep things fresh, the map will change. As a part of Apex season 10, ranked split two is going to take place on Kings Canyon./post/minecraft-s-new-snapshot-showcases-the-warden-swift-sneak-darkness-effect/Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/minecraft-s-new-snapshot-showcases-the-warden-swift-sneak-darkness-effect/ The latest Minecraft snapshot, 22W12A, is bringing the Warden’s arrival and functionality to the game alongside a slew of other exciting new features. These features are huge and sure to massively affect all Minecraft gameplay once they’re officially released. Here’s a rundown of what this snapshot introduces. The Warden The terrifying creature of the Deep Dark has officially arrived. This formidable foe is blind but can use vibrations, smell, and proximity to hunt you down./post/does-iron-flesh-exist-in-elden-ring/Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/does-iron-flesh-exist-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring comes with a vast variety of different sorceries, buffs, and attack styles that give players a lot of freedom when building a character. Players can focus on pure magic or ranged-based damage output with sorceries and incantations, focus on melee combat and get in the faces of their foes, or even a combination of the two that involves using specific spells to buff their character. When it comes to the latter, there are many different items and spells in Elden Ring that provide various buffs, debuffs, damage boosts, and more./post/overwatch-s-latest-update-adds-4k-120-fps-support-on-xbox-series-x-s/Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-s-latest-update-adds-4k-120-fps-support-on-xbox-series-x-s/ Yesterday’s Overwatch update quietly added some cool graphical options on the Xbox Series X and S. The update added three new preset graphics options to the Xbox version of the game—Resolution, Balanced, and Framerate—that all offer different experiences for the player. Resolution mode outputs at 4K, 60 Hz on Series X and 1440p, 60 Hz on Series S, Balanced mode “prefers image-quality at the cost of resolution,” and Framerate mode will sacrifice image quality and resolution to run the game at 120 FPS as long as you have a TV or monitor that supports a 120 Hz refresh rate./post/ant-man-now-available-in-fortnite/Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ant-man-now-available-in-fortnite/ Ant-Man is now available for purchase in Fortnite in the Item Shop alongside other notable Marvel superheroes.  Ant-Man is an iconic member of the Avengers and has appeared in multiple movies, including two stand-alone features. He is known for his ability to shrink down to an ant’s size or become a giant if needed.  Sorry we didn’t see you there Ant-Man. Grab Ant-Man and more Marvel Heroes in the Item Shop now!/post/who-are-the-highest-earning-call-of-duty-warzone-players/Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-are-the-highest-earning-call-of-duty-warzone-players/ The Call of Duty: Warzone tournament scene is full of some big names who have risen to stardom in the hills of Verdansk and fields of Caldera, or even the close quarters of Rebirth Island. It seems like there’s a Warzone tournament every week or so with some big money on the line. There are grinders who have been pounding away at the game since it launched, competing in the majority of these tournaments and winning quite a few of them./post/yu-gi-oh-ghosts-from-the-past-full-card-list/Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/yu-gi-oh-ghosts-from-the-past-full-card-list/ The new reprint set for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, Ghosts From the Past, is now available in stores, which means the hunt for all of the new Ghost Rare cards is on.  And while most collector’s are going to be more interested in pulling a Ghost Rare Dark Magician, there are also some incredible cards that are easier to find within the set.  From strong reprints like Evenly Matched to a ton of new Dragunity support and new archetypes being printed for the first time in the TCG, there is something for everyone to look for in Ghosts From the Past./post/asmongold-trolls-fans-who-criticize-twitch-coverage-of-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-trolls-fans-who-criticize-twitch-coverage-of-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/ Reaction content has long been a staple of Twitch since the inception of the Just Chatting category in the latter half of 2018. And with the legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard intensifying, top streamers have looked to leverage the reality drama for views. Depp and Heard’s high-profile divorce has turned the heads of the masses over the past months and much of the current trial between the two has been available to content creators on Twitch to co-stream on their channel./post/can-you-play-yu-gi-oh-master-duel-on-the-steam-deck/Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-yu-gi-oh-master-duel-on-the-steam-deck/ The release of Steam Deck has many wondering how many of the thousands of games on Steam can play on the handheld PC. Among those is the immensely popular TCG Yu-Gi-Oh!: Master Duel from Konami. Yu-Gi-Oh!: Master Duel is one of the most popular games on the Steam platform. It has a concurrent player count of more than 50,000 players daily, according to SteamCharts. Over 10 million players have registered with the game since its release at the start of the year./post/best-draven-build-in-league-of-legends-season-10/Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-draven-build-in-league-of-legends-season-10/ While he’s a difficult champion to master, Draven is still one of the most popular ADCs in season 10 of League of Legends. This is likely due to his high damage output and his ability to dominate a match with early-game advantages. Just like many other champions in League, Draven will utilize a variety of items depending on the situation he finds himself in. There are core items that are going to be most helpful in maximizing the success with the Glorious Executioner, however./post/daniel-drakos-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-miss-first-week-of-lec-playoffs/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/daniel-drakos-tests-positive-for-covid-19-will-miss-first-week-of-lec-playoffs/ After a short break, the 2022 LEC Spring Split will return with the playoffs. The deciding phase of the competition is expected to begin on Friday, March 25. But during the first week of games, viewers won’t be hearing from Daniel Drakos due to the caster testing positive for COVID-19. “I tested positive for Covid this weekend so sadly I’ll miss EUphoria and LEC this week,” Drakos said in a post on social media./post/how-to-watch-tft-set-7-dragon-party-event/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-tft-set-7-dragon-party-event/ Content creators and Teamfight Tactics ladder grinders from the EMEA and North American regions will show off the new Set Seven Dragonlands set at the first-ever Dragon Party event. Scheduled to take place on June 11 at 12pm CT, eight players from NA will battle against eight EMEA players for a total of six rounds at the Dragon Party event. The Set Seven tournament was put together by the Rising Legends team and will have a broadcast via Twitch, in addition to the individual competitors streaming the event as well./post/ekko-to-be-added-to-legends-of-runeterra-rise-of-the-underworld-through-piltover-and-zaun/Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ekko-to-be-added-to-legends-of-runeterra-rise-of-the-underworld-through-piltover-and-zaun/ Legends of Runeterra: Rise of the Underworld’s reveal season has reached its conclusion. Riot Games, in collaboration with Mobalytics, introduced Ekko today as the last champion to join the upcoming expansion. Ekko is a four-mana champion with 4/2 combat stats and the Quick Attack keyword. In addition, he has an ability that creates a Fleeting Time Trick in your hand after he successfully strikes. Ekko levels up after you’ve Predicted five times./post/sparg0-wins-his-third-super-smash-bros-ultimate-major-defeats-kola-at-low-tide-city-2022/Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sparg0-wins-his-third-super-smash-bros-ultimate-major-defeats-kola-at-low-tide-city-2022/ Another week, another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Major win for Sparg0, as he rebounded from an off set of events with a big victory over Kola to complete a surprisingly deep loser’s bracket run at Low Tide City (LTC) 2022. Heading into the event Sparg0 was the heavy favorite, with PGstats noting he had not dropped an offline set to any players attending LTC since Aug. 2021 when he lost a set to Maister at the Smash World Tour Central America Finals./post/all-mythic-weapon-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mythic-weapon-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3/ Mythic weapons are some of the most powerful tools in Fortnite. Compared to the other weapons in the game, they deal more damage, giving players an advantage over others that may not have mythic weapons in their loadouts. Throughout the latest Fornite seasons, mythic weapons were generally guarded by bosses. Players needed to defeat these bosses to get their hands on mythic weapons. Though defeating bosses wasn’t that hard of a task, the competition made securing mythic weapons hard./post/pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-patch-1-3-0-is-now-live/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-patch-1-3-0-is-now-live/ Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have received a brand new update, taking the game to version 1.3.0, and with it comes a ton of additions fans have been waiting for since launch. The 3GB patch finally includes the addition of the Global Wonder Station, which is now accessible in Jubliffe City. This new location will allow players to trade with other people around the globe including Wonder Trades, which will randomly pair players up as they trade their chosen Pokémon./post/ubisoft-plans-to-shut-down-older-rainbow-six-servers-by-end-of-year/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ubisoft-plans-to-shut-down-older-rainbow-six-servers-by-end-of-year/ The online servers for older Tom Clancy titles, including Rainbow Six Las Vegas, Rainbow Six Las Vegas 2, and Ghost Recon Future Soldier, will be shut down by the end of the year.  As reported by Eurogamer, a post on a Ubisoft support forum announced that online services for multiple titles, including Assassin’s Creed 2, Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands, Far Cry 2, Anno 1404, Might and Magic- Clash of Heroes, Splinter Cell Conviction, The Settlers 7, and Might & Magix X – Legacy, will be shut down on June 1./post/how-to-find-drifloon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-drifloon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Drifloon, the floating balloon Pokémon, is found in the wild in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. See Pokémon on Amazon Drifloon can be found in several places, but one of the early places trainers can find it is in the Obsidian Fieldlands. Drifloon’s level at this location is level 10 and the spawn rates were sparse. Drifloon can only be found at the spawning locations at night. The locations in the Obsidian Fieldlands that house Drifloons are Aspiration Hill, Horseshoe Plains, Floaro Gardens, and Ramanas Island./post/guerri-to-stand-in-for-furia-in-esl-pro-league-season-14/Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guerri-to-stand-in-for-furia-in-esl-pro-league-season-14/ FURIA will have to use head coach Nicholas “guerri” Nogueira as its fifth player for ESL Pro League season 14, the organization announced today. It’s the second time the Brazilian CS:GO team has had to change its lineup for the $750,000 tournament. The organization initially wanted to play with one of its academy players, André “⁠drop⁠” Abreu, instead of Lucas “honda” Cano. ESL, however, denied an emergency transfer for the Brazilians and honda was set to travel to Europe to play one last event with FURIA’s main team./post/worst-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/worst-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ At the time of its launch on the Nintendo Switch, the first MOBA-style game in the Pokémon franchise, Pokémon UNITE boasts a roster of 20 characters that players can use in-game. With its five vs. five teamplay, there are plenty of options for diversity when it comes to team composition. But the balancing between these Pokémon is far from even. Due to this, most teams wind up being a combination of the most powerful Pokémon rather than those which complement each other’s strengths./post/league-fans-are-wondering-how-syndra-got-her-bod/Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-fans-are-wondering-how-syndra-got-her-bod/ Syndra has some of the most compelling lore of any League champion. Last summer, Riot released an amazing short story that detailed her pain and anguish, as well as the lengths to which the Ionians went to keep her bottled up. But she was too powerful to be held down for long. Now she’s free and is a terror in the mid lane where she floats like a butterfly and stings like a ton of bricks./post/riot-reveals-new-valorant-go-vol-2-skin-bundle/Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-new-valorant-go-vol-2-skin-bundle/ Riot Games has officially announced a new VALORANT GO! skin bundle after it was originally leaked on the ValorLeaks Twitter account earlier today.  The bundle, which is VALORANT’s second anime-inspired weapon bundle of the year, features skins for the Classic, Ares, Vandal, and Operator, as well as a new Melee skin. In traditional VALORANT GO! fashion, the skins each showcase anime-style artwork of the game’s agents on the sides of the weapons./post/a-beginner-s-guide-to-cs-go/Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-beginner-s-guide-to-cs-go/ Welcome to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, an online multiplayer first-person shooter that’s lived to tell the tale two decades later. CS:GO is a team-based game developed by Valve and released in August 2012. Valve first established the Counter-Strike series in November 2000, but the game only came to fruition three years later when Counter-Strike 1.6 was released. Since then, Counter-Strike has grown into one of the world’s most competitive games to date with its esports scene garnering a large Western audience./post/best-rgb-lights-for-pc/Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-rgb-lights-for-pc/ For some people, having a PC that looks as clean as it is functional is an important part of owning a gaming rig. Alongside proper cable management, cleaning, and color coding, Red Green Blue LED lights (RGBs) can brighten a PC up with warm colors and a thematic look you wouldn’t be able to achieve with standard components.  Functionally, RGB lighting provides about as much performance as downloading more RAM. But aesthetically, it’s in a league of its own./post/here-s-how-to-earn-the-become-war-medal-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-how-to-earn-the-become-war-medal-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s ’80s Action Heroes event is here, offering a number of cool new items for players to unlock via in-game challenges. Players can earn new calling cards, stickers, weapon charms, emblems, and a new weapon blueprint when all other challenges are completed. The challenges are mostly simple and can be done while playing the game, like the new Standoff 24/7 playlist. But it’s a bit unclear how to finish some tasks, like the challenge called “A War You Won’t Believe./post/the-best-xayah-counters-in-league-of-legends/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-xayah-counters-in-league-of-legends/ Xayah has recently risen in priority in League of Legends after other meta ADCs got nerfed. Her biggest assets are her ultimate, which makes her untargetable, and high area-of-effect (AoE) damage in teamfights. If you’re facing a Xayah, be prepared to have difficulties controlling her damage output in the later stages of the game. She is a hyper carry who can take over games if left uncontrolled. That’s why it’s important to draft properly from the get-go, so you don’t reach a point where she deletes your entire team in a couple of seconds./post/how-to-complete-tots-moments-deulofeu-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-tots-moments-deulofeu-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ A themed squad-building challenge (SBC) in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team is awarding players who complete it a 92-rated TOTS Moments version of Gerard Deulofeu from Udinese starting today. The TOTS promotion highlights the best players based on their 2021-2022 season performance by giving them an upgraded version. This SBC has a twist since it’s a Moments card. EA is celebrating Deulofeu’s brace against Cagliari. Deulofeu has incredible high skills, except for his 41-rated Defending./post/the-best-movesets-for-the-therian-forms-of-tornadus-thundurus-and-landorus-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-movesets-for-the-therian-forms-of-tornadus-thundurus-and-landorus-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The Therian Forms of Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus are making their way to Pokémon Go during the Season of Legends. These Legendary weather-altering Pokémon first discovered in the Unova region will soon be available in five-star raids. Compared to their Incarnate Forms, this legendary trio takes on a new power in their Therian Forms. The genies morph into beasts that harness the power of the elements, and by doing so gain new stat spreads that allow them to take on opponents in different ways./post/every-card-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-new-expansion-united-in-stormwind/Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-card-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-new-expansion-united-in-stormwind/ Hearthstone’s next expansion has finally been revealed. Starting on Aug. 3, players will be able to bust open packs from the all-new set, United In Stormwind. For the past few months, players have summoned minions and spells hailing from the land of the Horde, the Barrens. With United In Stormwind, you can expect to see more faces from the other faction in Azeroth, the Alliance. United In Stormwind is heavily themed around the homeland of the Alliance, Stormwind./post/gameplay-trailer-for-league-s-upcoming-champion-vex-released/Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gameplay-trailer-for-league-s-upcoming-champion-vex-released/ Get ready, League of Legends fans, because Summoner’s Rift might be getting a splash of drab and darkness soon. The champion spotlight video for Vex has been officially revealed after being prematurely released by Riot Games’ Brazilian Twitter account. The trailer begins with some of League’s cheeriest characters like Lux, Zoe, and Fizz jumping around being their bright, happy selves. But Vex is seen lying face down as she groggily replies to the noise, “leave me alone, I’m sleeping…”/post/how-to-fix-screen-tearing-in-destiny-2/Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-screen-tearing-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2 is a beautiful game, but like any game in 2022, it can suffer from an issue called screen tearing. Screen tearing is a problem in video games when your monitor’s refresh rate and the frame rate of your graphics card are out of sync. It manifests itself in ugly horizontal lines appearing on your monitor, and it can take you out of the gaming experience. To find out your monitor’s refresh rate click the Start button, then select Settings > System > Display > Advanced display settings./post/a-youtuber-played-megalovania-only-using-league-of-legends-sett/Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-youtuber-played-megalovania-only-using-league-of-legends-sett/ Have you ever been driving your car around town while listening to music and just get the overwhelming urge to slap your hands on the steering wheel to the beat of the song?  Well, that’s exactly what watching YouTuber Naerlyn playing “Megalovania” only using melee attacks from League of Legends champion Sett feels like.  “Megalovania” is the most recognizable song from the hit indie game Undertale, with countless memes and videos surrounding the catchy tune./post/flamie-becomes-a-free-agent/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/flamie-becomes-a-free-agent/ Egor “⁠flamie⁠” Vasilyev is free to explore other options since he’s no longer under contract with Natus Vincere, the Ukrainian organization announced today. The Russian CS:GO rifler, though, will play for Na’Vi Junior in WePlay Academy League season two to regain his individual form and share his experience with youngsters. He lost some time in the active lineup starting in December 2020 when the organization promoted Valeriy “⁠B1T” Vakhovskiy from Na’Vi Junior and the team rotated both players depending on the map./post/here-are-the-best-and-worst-limited-red-cards-in-theros-beyond-death/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-best-and-worst-limited-red-cards-in-theros-beyond-death/ Prepare for the Theros: Beyond Death Limited Sealed and Booster Draft in the Magic: The Gathering color, Red. A first look at Limited Draft competitive play took place at MagicFest Austin, with some of the best MTG players from around the world playing Theros: Beyond Death (THB) Booster Draft for the first time. Based on first impressions, Red is a solid color to pick from when crafting Aggro (White and Red) or Sacrifice (Black and Red)./post/all-beast-tribes-locations-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-beast-tribes-locations-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Take a break from Final Fantasy XIV‘s main scenario, and help various Tribes to gain reputation and unlock rewards. Over a dozen Beast Tribes have been released in-game, and more will be introduced alongside new expansions. Players can unlock the Tribes by completing main scenario quests and speaking to the representative NPC in specific areas. It’s possible to complete 12 Beast Tribe quests every day to gain XP, reputation points, and the tribe’s special currency./post/tyler1-begs-riot-to-revert-chat-redesign-in-league-of-legends/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tyler1-begs-riot-to-revert-chat-redesign-in-league-of-legends/ It’s the pre-season in League of Legends, meaning players are getting their first experiences on the Rift with some of the big changes made between seasons. While there is a completely redesigned item system in the game, one change went too far, according to popular Twitch streamer Tyler1 During a recent stream, Tyler loaded into his game and began as normal replying to a teammate using the in-game chat. The streamer immediately noticed the newly redesigned chat box that removed the rectangular block borders from the chat in place of a single transparent block./post/scores-and-standings-for-the-fortnite-world-cup-pro-am/Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/scores-and-standings-for-the-fortnite-world-cup-pro-am/ Celebrities are teaming up with Fortnite personalities and pros for the third Celebrity Pro-Am during day one of the battle royale’s World Cup today. Winners will take home a portion of the tournament’s $3 million prize pool for their charity of choice. There are 50 teams competing at the tournament, including 2018 champions Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and American DJ Marshmello, as well as the winners of the Summer Block Party Celebrity Pro-Am, Karim “Airwaks” Benghalia and American producer RL Grime./post/call-of-duty-warzone-pacific-season-2-reloaded-update-s-patch-notes-are-massive/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-warzone-pacific-season-2-reloaded-update-s-patch-notes-are-massive/ The patch notes for Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific’s Season Two Reloaded update are here, and they’re quite a read. The massive list of notes is comprehensive, covering everything from bug fixes and weapon changes to the map update for Rebirth Island Reinforced. The midseason update went live in Vanguard yesterday but is pre-loadable for Warzone right now. 📢 #Warzone Season Two Reloaded launches at 9AM PST ☣️🛡️ A new LTE – Rebirth Reinforced, Weapon Trade Stations, Deployable Buy Stations, new Modes, a new Weapon, new Operators, new Gameplay, and more!