/categories/news/Recent content in News on BlogLabHugo -- gohugo.ioCopyright © 2021-2022, all rights reserved.Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-old-dodge-stat-is-actually-still-in-the-game-but-riot-s-never-going-to-turn-it-on-again/Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-old-dodge-stat-is-actually-still-in-the-game-but-riot-s-never-going-to-turn-it-on-again/ Long-time League of Legends players will remember a since-forgotten stat that used to factor into the game—”Dodge.” While it hasn’t played a part for years, it seems Riot Games never actually removed the controversial old stat from the game. While responding to a post on the League subreddit, a developer confirmed, to their knowledge, Dodge is still present in the game, though there are no plans to re-enable it. Riot Galaxy Smash prefaced their Reddit response by ensuring League fans that the Dodge mechanic won’t be coming back into use, but for now, every champion does have their own dodge stat./post/where-to-find-your-screenshots-in-genshin-impact/Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-your-screenshots-in-genshin-impact/ The world of Genshin Impact is a beautiful utopia for you to explore. You could find yourself staring at an epic sight or enjoying a fight and taking a screenshot to remember it. However, after taking that picture, where on earth does it go? The screenshot won’t appear in-game when you take a picture using the Camera option in the main menus and there’s no way to open the photos in-game at all./post/talon-esports-signs-q-to-dota-2-roster/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/talon-esports-signs-q-to-dota-2-roster/ Talon Esports made waves when it revealed it would be entering Dota 2 for the first time to compete in the 2022 Dota Pro Circuit. That initial venture, however, ended with a middling run in Southeast Asia’s Division II regional league and management deciding to make a few changes.  Now, as teams finalize their rosters before the second Tour of the DPC, Talon has signed Worawit “Q” Mekchai to its roster./post/how-to-unlock-allied-races-in-wow-shadowlands/Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-allied-races-in-wow-shadowlands/ World of Warcraft features 10 Allied Races with Void Elf, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron Dwarf, Kul Tiran Human, and Mechangnome for the Alliance and Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Zandalari Troll, Mag’har Orc, and Vulpera for the Horde.  Each Allied Race has its own emote, mount, heritage armor set, and racial ability, along with a unique look. But unlike the other 14 playable races in the game, unlocking Allied Races requires completing a questline and obtaining various achievements./post/izpah-and-angelarcher-join-g2-esports-league-of-legends-staff/Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/izpah-and-angelarcher-join-g2-esports-league-of-legends-staff/ G2 Esports has strengthened its case to become champions of Europe once again. The organization picked up Oliver “IzpAH” Steer as its League of Legends manager and Luciana “AngelArcher” Nadrag as an analyst today. IzpAH was formerly the manager for Fnatic during the team’s legendary undefeated regular season in the 2015 Summer Split before he decided to join OG as its Dota 2 manager. That team went on to win The International in 2018 and 2019./post/aatrox-quick-start-guide-items-runes-abilities-and-counters/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/aatrox-quick-start-guide-items-runes-abilities-and-counters/ Aatrox’s massive update finally arrived today with League of Legends Patch 8.13. He doesn’t just look prettier, either. This was a complete update of his gameplay, from his abilities to his animations, and that means if you want to play him, you need to re-learn him. Fortunately, we were able to snag him a few times on the PBE during his testing cycle, as well as during a couple of games immediately after his full release, so we’re able to help you out./post/apex-player-lands-3-cross-map-arc-stars-in-arenas/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-player-lands-3-cross-map-arc-stars-in-arenas/ One Apex Legends player has given new meaning to the phrase “going long” with three incredible blind Arc Star throws. Reddit user talalm5 shared a clip of the play to Reddit, and it’s already earning tons of acclaim. At the start of the video, talalm5 stands at the ready in spawn on the Phase Runner Arenas map, pulling out an Arc Star for good measure. Fuse play of the day from apexlegends As soon as the gate opens, they immediately shoot three Arc Stars toward the opposing team’s spawn without taking even a single step forward./post/elden-ring-holds-top-spot-in-us-game-sales-beats-out-already-huge-launch-month/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/elden-ring-holds-top-spot-in-us-game-sales-beats-out-already-huge-launch-month/ Elden Ring, the fantasy action role-playing game from FromSoftware and Bandai Namco, retained the first position in the NPD Group US game sales ranking, as shared by Mat Piscatella, director of NPD, on Twitter today. The March chart from NPD of the top 20 video games is based on surveys carried out in most of the country’s major distributors and lists the most profitable games — not just in units sold either, as digital sales are also counted./post/wild-rift-s-free-champion-rotation-june-16/Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wild-rift-s-free-champion-rotation-june-16/ League of Legends: Wild Rift has over 70 champions right now, but new characters are constantly joining the fold. While Riot gives players many ways to unlock these champions through events and in-game currency, it can be a tedious and slow process. Players can still, however, get a feel of all of the champions by playing them during the free rotation. Every week, Riot adds 10 champions to the free-to-play rotation./post/best-wireless-controllers-for-nintendo-switch/Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-wireless-controllers-for-nintendo-switch/ The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons offer a simple way to experience some of the unique games the Switch has to offer. However, not everyone is a fan of the Joy-Cons. Thankfully, there are alternative controller options for the Switch.  With the Switch having access to nearly 50 years worth of Nintendo games spanning across multiple platforms, gamers may need more than one type of controller. Listed below are the best wireless Nintendo Switch controllers./post/steam-deck-is-now-home-to-over-2-000-verified-and-playable-games/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/steam-deck-is-now-home-to-over-2-000-verified-and-playable-games/ The Steam Deck has surpassed 2,000 Verified and Playable titles, Valve revealed in a tweet. Considering where these numbers were a couple of months ago, Valve looks to have kept busy. Valve’s handheld launched Feb. 25 to fairly positive reception, but its library of Verified titles wasn’t quite as strong as it is today. At launch, there were only about 400 Verified games and 327 Playable games. Since then, Valve has gradually been chipping away at the Steam catalog, verifying titles when possible and also tagging them as Playable if the experience doesn’t check its four boxes: input, display, seamlessness, and system support./post/overwatch-hero-junkrat-has-a-new-horde-skin-in-heroes-of-the-storm/Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-hero-junkrat-has-a-new-horde-skin-in-heroes-of-the-storm/ A new battleground is coming to Heroes of the Storm, bringing with it a bunch of World of Warcraft–inspired skins. The best one? That’s Sapper Junkrat. The Overwatch hero is getting a Horde-themed makeover for the Echoes of Alterac event in Heroes of the Storm. Echoes of Alterac kicks off on June 12 and runs through July 9. The new battleground, Alterac Pass, is coming the week of June 19, while a new hero, Yrel, unlocks the week of June 12./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-i-in-the-middle/Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-i-in-the-middle/ Wordle is a game that exercises its players’ vocabulary while challenging them to discover a different secret word every day. All answers have the potential to be a new word for some players, in addition, the guessed words may also require some research, especially if the hard mode is on, where players need to use the letters confirmed in the previous words in the new guesses. When the correct answers are words already known to the player, the game can be much easier./post/how-to-fix-halo-infinite-crashing-on-startup/Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-halo-infinite-crashing-on-startup/ Starting up a game is one of the simplest tasks that any gamer can perform, but it may turn into a struggle during launch periods. While most game-breaking errors during launch periods come in the form of errors, there can also be sudden crashes that prevent players from launching the game. Halo Infinite fans have been going through somewhat of a similar situation since the game has been crashing on startup for some players./post/repeat-gg-and-ggwp-academy-partner-up-to-host-esports-tournament-series/Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/repeat-gg-and-ggwp-academy-partner-up-to-host-esports-tournament-series/ Written in partnership with Repeat.gg and GGWP Academy. Esports tournament platform Repeat.gg and Australian esports startup Good Game Well Played Academy have announced a global partnership. Their goal is to host esports tournaments for aspiring content creators starting on Jan. 12 in Fortnite, Dota 2, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, and VALORANT. GGWP Academy has assisted countless gamers and content creators in building up their careers and online presence./post/how-long-is-the-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-campaign/Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-long-is-the-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-campaign/ By now, you’ve probably seen the trailer. Explaining the threat of the Soviet Union during the Cold War in the 1980s, the final things fans were told in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reveal video came from President Ronald Reagan.  “I know you won’t fail us,” he says to punctuate a video of gameplay that hypes up one of America’s most significant modern historical conflicts. Now it’s up to you as a player to prove that you won’t let the President down in a campaign mode for the latest CoD that was officially released today./post/rng-s-wei-finishes-msi-2022-with-highest-kda-of-all-players/Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rng-s-wei-finishes-msi-2022-with-highest-kda-of-all-players/ From the group stage of MSI 2022 to the finals, Royal Never Give Up made it clear they were set on bringing the trophy back to China for the second year in a row. For their jungler Wei in particular, he can not only revel in another MSI win, but also in achieving the highest KDA at the tournament. Wei ended MSI 2022 with the highest KDA of any player in the tournament at 7./post/cod-black-ops-4-s-jan-8-update-addresses-new-zombies-features-blackout-looting-improvements-and-league-play/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/cod-black-ops-4-s-jan-8-update-addresses-new-zombies-features-blackout-looting-improvements-and-league-play/ Treyarch has provided Call of Duty fans with information about new features and improvements coming soon to Black Ops 4. Most notably, Treyarch wrote about mastery camos in Zombies and Blackout, upcoming features in Zombies, improved looting for console Blackout players, and the highly-anticipated League Play. Welcome to a new year of #BlackOps4! In today’s update, we've got details on some of our most anticipated upcoming features: • Mastery Camos in Zombies and Blackout/post/league-of-legends-twisted-treeline-mode-shuts-down-tomorrow/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-twisted-treeline-mode-shuts-down-tomorrow/ Twisted Treeline is being retired tomorrow (Nov. 19) at 2am CT, marking the end of the 2019 season and the end of one of League of Legends’ longest game modes. Riot Games senior quality analyst Bazaam informed fans of the shutdown time on Twitter today, encouraging the community to play the three-vs-three game mode while they can. In just under 14 hours, at midnight PST, the Twisted Treeline will shut down./post/new-pokemon-special-deck-set-announced-featuring-shiny-zacian-and-zamazenta-v-eternatus-and-more/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-pokemon-special-deck-set-announced-featuring-shiny-zacian-and-zamazenta-v-eternatus-and-more/ A unique Pokémon OCG Special Deck Set has been announced for distribution in Japan starring shiny forms of Zacian and Zamazenta. The Special Deck Set, called Zaican, Zamazenta vs. Eternatus, includes two 60 card decks featuring the previously mentioned two shiny forms for the first time in Pokémon OCG, as well as reprints of Eternatus V and V Max. ポケモンカードゲームの新商品「スペシャルデッキセット ザシアン・ザマゼンタ vs ムゲンダイナ」が、11月5日（金）に発売！ 色違いのザシアンとザマゼンタが、ポケモンVとなって登場するよ！ ぜひチェックしてね！https://t.co/2eOgjdePSR #ポケカ pic.twitter.com/MkJUTCI4Ub — ポケモン公式ツイッター (@Pokemon_cojp) October 1, 2021 Also included in the set are two deck cases with four dividers each, two coins, a card box to safely store your cards, a damage counter case, a player guide, and damage counters./post/the-best-pok%C3%A9mon-plush-toys/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-pok%C3%A9mon-plush-toys/ Even if you haven’t watched any of the many Pokémon seasons, you’ve probably played a game of two, collected and traded Pokémon cards, or thrown a Poke Ball or two in Pokémon GO. So if that’s you, why not go the extra mile and add the best Pokémon plush toys to your collection? Pokémon Eevee and Pikachu 2 Pack First up on our list of best Pokémon plush toys, we have the two iconic Pokémon that started it all: Eevee and Pikachu!/post/trainwreck-lashes-out-at-narcissistic-twitch-streamers-for-trying-to-be-role-models-online/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/trainwreck-lashes-out-at-narcissistic-twitch-streamers-for-trying-to-be-role-models-online/ Controversial Twitch star Trainwreck has launched into a tirade on other popular streamers attempting to act as role models, dubbing it “narcissistic.” In the wake of xQc’s return to sponsored gambling streams, Twitch has become a battleground for the moral debate of streamer responsibility. Popular content creators like YouTube duo Ludwig and Sykkuno and Twitch queen Pokimane have sworn off gambling or claimed to ‘have no price.’ Trainwreck, one of Twitch’s longest-running sponsored gambling streamers, took issue with content creators trying to condemn his content./post/how-to-change-the-guild-leader-in-lost-ark/Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-the-guild-leader-in-lost-ark/ Smilegate’s Lost Ark includes a lot of different social features, which are at the core of any MMO game. Guilds are one of them, and they continue to be improved by further updates. Joining a guild is more than just a way to meet people in the game. The Sylmael Bloodstone currency allows players to buy honing materials and other useful items to progress through the game and upgrade gear, which is one of the main advantages of being in a guild./post/how-to-complete-summer-heat-bruno-fernandes-objectives-in-fifa-20-ultimate-team/Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-summer-heat-bruno-fernandes-objectives-in-fifa-20-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a Summer Heat 94-rated version of Bruno Fernandes from Manchester United to the objectives’ menu in FIFA 20 today. Bruno Fernandes’ objectives are similar to what EA did with Summer Heat Ferland Mendy from Real Madrid last week. There are four versions of Bruno Fernandes: 90-rated, 91-rated, 92-rated, and 94-rated. You’ll have to use every version in the objectives to finally earn his ultimate 94-rated one. Bruno Fernandes #SummerHeat Objectives!/post/how-to-add-a-chat-overlay-to-stream-with-obs-and-slobs/Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-add-a-chat-overlay-to-stream-with-obs-and-slobs/ Each streamer tries to create unique content to draw viewers’ attention. While the type and quality of content you produce will be essential in attracting new viewers, there are other variables in the equation that will convince them to stay. Twitch chat is arguably one of the most impactful features of a stream, so much so that there will be viewers tuning in just to hang out in your chat. The chat portion of a stream is usually glued next to the visual feeds, but keeping an eye on it might turn into a cumbersome task when viewers switch to watching your stream on full screen./post/riot-is-giving-away-a-free-league-of-legends-refund-token/Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-is-giving-away-a-free-league-of-legends-refund-token/ Most League of Legends players used up their precious refund tokens years ago. But now, to celebrate the 2020 season, Riot is giving them out for free.  Refund tokens offer players the opportunity to refund a skin, a champion, or any other cosmetic goodie available in League’s shop. If you misclick or simply have a change of heart, you can cash in one of your tokens for a no-questions-asked refund. Once you’ve used up your three tokens, though, they’re gone for good./post/lol-stat-tracker-op-gg-is-now-available-on-overwolf/Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lol-stat-tracker-op-gg-is-now-available-on-overwolf/ This article brought to you by Overwolf. Your path to perfection on Summoner’s Rift just got easier. OP.gg, an analytics website with 30 million monthly active users, now has its own app on Overwolf. Op.GG gives League players the tools to improve their game thanks to billions of data points collected every day by the website. The service is available in 11 regions across 20 different languages, and also provides statistics for other games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds./post/remove-gods-with-erebos-s-intervention-in-theros-beyond-death/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/remove-gods-with-erebos-s-intervention-in-theros-beyond-death/ Players should start saving Rare wildcards in MTG Arena to unlock today’s Theros: Beyond Death spoiler, Erebos’s Intervention.  A solid answer toward removing indestructible Gods from Theros: Beyond Death (THB) was revealed today. Erebos’s Intervention allows a player to target a creature with -X/-X or exile twice X target cards.  Erebos’s Intervention’s first ability is efficient removal for creatures with indestructible, like the Gods of THB. But it can be used on any type of creature./post/where-to-find-iron-ore-and-iron-ore-veins-in-new-world/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-iron-ore-and-iron-ore-veins-in-new-world/ After learning the basics of combat and exploration in New World, the game throws you into a dynamic and rich world where one of the foundational facets is crafting. Go to any settlement and you’ll see players surrounding the crafting stalls in the town center, turning resources into goods or other materials. One of the most important resources for making weapons, armor, and other vital goods is iron. Iron is smelted from iron ores, which can be found by harvesting iron ore veins with a pickaxe./post/the-worst-pok%C3%A9mon-cards-of-all-time/Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-worst-pok%C3%A9mon-cards-of-all-time/ The Pokémon trading card game has been around for over two decades. Thousands of unique cards made their way to the game during that time—and not all of them are good. There are two types of people who collect Pokémon TCG: those who actually play it by the rules and those who just collect the cards. Either way, a handful of cards are unappealing either due to their aesthetic or lack of usefulness in-game./post/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-will-introduce-a-mentor-system-to-help-new-players/Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-will-introduce-a-mentor-system-to-help-new-players/ Starting with the next expansion of World of Warcraft, veteran players will be able to sign up in-game as a mentor, giving them access to a special chat that all newcomers will be put into, according to WoW site Wowhead. This system is now being beta tested. WoW newcomers can encounter several issues when they attempt to get answers for all sorts of questions. They’re usually met with toxicity or sarcasm in the General or Looking For Group chats./post/former-phoenix1-valorant-player-king-claims-organization-failed-to-pay-out-tournament-winnings/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-phoenix1-valorant-player-king-claims-organization-failed-to-pay-out-tournament-winnings/ Before the organization rebranded in 2018, Sentinels was originally known as Phoenix1. An unaffiliated group brought the brand back last August to begin competing in VALORANT.  But the Phoenix1 organization is now being accused of withholding payment from one of its former players, Aiden King. My Phoenix1 Situation Read: https://t.co/5neavPxTWQ — King (@theKingFPS_) February 14, 2021 King, along with the entire Phoenix1 roster, parted ways with the organization on Jan./post/riot-details-extensive-yoru-rework-with-new-fakeout-clone-ability-ultimate-changes-and-more-coming-in-valorant-episode-4-act-2/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-details-extensive-yoru-rework-with-new-fakeout-clone-ability-ultimate-changes-and-more-coming-in-valorant-episode-4-act-2/ When Yoru made his VALORANT debut back in January 2021, many people were excited to experiment with his unique, decoy-based kit. But players quickly realized that he didn’t bring enough to the table, and now he’s become the least-played agent in the game’s roster, according to stats aggregate Valorbuff. See Valorant on Amazon In response to his drastically dropped play rate, Riot is set to revamp a majority of his kit for launch during Episode Four Act Two./post/all-free-and-premium-battle-pass-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-season-1/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-free-and-premium-battle-pass-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-season-1/ Pokémon UNITE is a free-to-play MOBA, which means the developers at TiMi Studio needed to design a reward system that would keep players coming back, while also opening the door for premium content.  Like most FTP titles, UNITE has a Battle Pass system that offers rewards for players who don’t want to spend any money. Additional content is available in the form of a Premium Battle Pass that unlocks even more rewards, including some exclusive Holowear for your Pokémon./post/c%C3%B3mo-evolucionar-feebas-a-milotic-en-pok%C3%A9mon-diamante-brillante-y-perla-reluciente/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/c%C3%B3mo-evolucionar-feebas-a-milotic-en-pok%C3%A9mon-diamante-brillante-y-perla-reluciente/ Feebas y Milotic son dos de los Pokémon más difíciles de adquirir en Pokémon Diamante Brillante y Perla Reluciente. Atrapar a Feebas es toda una tarea, pero una vez que lo atrapas, evolucionar a Milotic tampoco es tan simple. Feebas solo se puede capturar desde una ubicación específica dentro del juego en un radio de pesca de cuatro cuadrados que rota a diario. Si lograste capturar a Feebas, querrás aprovecharlo al máximo y convertir al Pokémon en Milotic./post/legends-of-runeterra-buff-to-iceborn-legacy-busts-elusive-poro-improves-spiders/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/legends-of-runeterra-buff-to-iceborn-legacy-busts-elusive-poro-improves-spiders/ A buff to Iceborn Legacy within Legends of Runeterra Patch 3.0 has shaken up the meta with the five-cost spell going from Slow to Burst speed.  A large number of balance changes were applied within LoR Patch 3.0. Iceborn Legacy was having a major impact on the meta via the Elusive Daring Poro. The adjustment from Slow to Burst speed was likely meant to improve Shadow Isles spider builds, which it has./post/apex-fan-designs-valentine-s-themed-skins-for-every-legend-and-weapon-in-the-game/Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-fan-designs-valentine-s-themed-skins-for-every-legend-and-weapon-in-the-game/ A dedicated Apex Legends fan artist has created a complete holiday event for Valentine’s Day. Since Respawn failed to do anything special for everyone’s favorite capitalist holiday of romantic love this year, Reddit user nobletwelvexp took it upon themselves to treat players to a nice time. They paid homage to the joys of flowers, chocolate, and bubblegum pink by drawing up a Valentine’s-themed Apex extravaganza they called Matrimony Mayhem. The fan-made celebration features skins for every single legend and weapon in the game, as well as some weapon charms./post/what-is-piranha-plant-s-release-date-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-piranha-plant-s-release-date-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrived on Nintendo Switch a few weeks ago with the biggest roster in the series’ history. With over 60 characters to choose from, you’d think fans would be happy with the choices that they had. Nintendo, however, has other plans and is already working on six new DLC characters to shake up the character select screen over the next two years. The first of these is Piranha Plant, a free DLC character for anyone who buys and registers their copy of Super Smash Bros./post/how-to-complete-85-player-pick-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-85-player-pick-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added an 85+ Player Pick squad-building challenge (SBC) today that will reward players who complete it with an option to choose one out of four 85-rated or higher cards in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. This SBC was added amid the Festival of FUTball promotion in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team, which features some of the best cards in the game, such as 95-rated Roberto Firmino from Liverpool, 95-rated Paul Pogba from Manchester United, and 95-rated Eden Hazard from Real Madrid, so this is an additional opportunity to pack one of these cards./post/riot-confirms-pools-for-worlds-2021-group-stage-draw-lcs-first-seed-no-longer-in-pool-a/Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-confirms-pools-for-worlds-2021-group-stage-draw-lcs-first-seed-no-longer-in-pool-a/ Riot Games has finally provided more details about the format of the 2021 League of Legends World Championship. In terms of this year’s pools for the group stage draw, it’s been confirmed that the PCS’ first seed, PSG Talon, has been pushed up into Pool A. North America’s first seed, 100 Thieves, has been placed in Pool B. This is the first time since 2018 that the LCS first seed hasn’t been featured in the top pool of teams./post/twitch-streamer-xqc-joins-luminosity-gaming/Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-streamer-xqc-joins-luminosity-gaming/ Luminosity Gaming added one of the biggest streamers on Twitch to its lineup today, on top of introducing a new livestream talent show. Former Overwatch League player xQc has joined Luminosity, the first organization he’s been under since his stint with the Dallas Fuel in 2017. XQc, known for his variety content and reaction videos, has amassed one of the largest fan bases on Twitch.  THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!/post/will-valorant-come-to-console-ps5-xbox-series-x-and-nintendo-switch/Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/will-valorant-come-to-console-ps5-xbox-series-x-and-nintendo-switch/ VALORANT, the free-to-play FPS game made by Riot Games, has gained legions of fans since its launch in June 2020 for PC. The game has grown immensely among FPS fans so much that those still playing shooters such as CS:GO and Overwatch have dedicated themselves to learning the ropes in VALORANT, including professional players who went on helping to build the now-massive competitive landscape of the game across the world./post/where-do-you-farm-aquilok-s-skin-in-lost-ark/Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-do-you-farm-aquilok-s-skin-in-lost-ark/ Regardless of whether you focus on the Player vs. Player (PvP) or Player vs. Environment (PvE) aspect of Lost Ark, you’ll find yourself chasing valuable items. Players are rewarded with various collectibles throughout their Lost Ark journeys, some harder than others to obtain. This makes them rarer. Aquilok’s Skin is one such rare item and players will need to get familiar with the Adventurer’s Tome to unlock it. Adventurer’s Tome includes a chapter for all regions in Lost Ark./post/hazed-leaves-tsm-joins-nrg-s-valorant-roster/Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hazed-leaves-tsm-joins-nrg-s-valorant-roster/ After spending a year and a half on TSM’s VALORANT roster, James “hazed” Cobb has found a new home with NRG. Hazed parted ways with TSM and signed with NRG ahead of the next season, the organizations announced today. NRG, who is currently ranked 12th in North America, has struggled to break into the top echelon in North America, but hazed might be the change needed for success.  Today we part ways with @hazedCS You were with us from the start, through all our ups and downs./post/how-to-reduce-wait-times-in-new-world-queues/Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-reduce-wait-times-in-new-world-queues/ With the release of Amazon’s MMO New World proving to be immensely popular, there are numerous players who have struggled to get into the game because of long queue times on popular servers. While there isn’t a way for players to bypass those queues, there are a few things you can do to get into the game faster by playing on less populated servers or logging into the game at lower traffic times of the day in your region./post/how-to-turn-on-gyro-aiming-and-flick-stick-in-fortnite/Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-turn-on-gyro-aiming-and-flick-stick-in-fortnite/ In the v19.30 update in February 2022, Gyro Aiming was added to Fortnite as a new way for players to control the movement of their character and gain even more precision over their aim. In traditional controller aiming, players control the camera by moving the right stick in the direction they want the camera to point at. Gyro comes with a new approach, allowing players to control the camera by simply turning the controller./post/como-mudar-de-regi%C3%A3o-em-league-of-legends/Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/como-mudar-de-regi%C3%A3o-em-league-of-legends/ Se você ficar preso em uma região de que não gosta ou sentir necessidade de começar de novo, você sempre pode mudar sua região, desde que tenha os RPs necessários para fazê-lo em League of Legends. O que costumava ser um grande aborrecimento no passado tornou-se muito fácil e acessível a qualquer pessoa. Tudo que você precisa fazer é seguir algumas etapas simples e você estará pronto para um novo começo. Como mudar a região do seu LoL  Faça login na sua conta do LoL Vá para a Loja e encontre a guia Conta (destacada em vermelho)Escolha a região desejada na lista disponível para transferências Você receberá uma lista de avisos antes de completá-la, como:/post/mystical-archive-brings-63-powerful-spells-to-shake-up-strixhaven-school-of-mages-limited/Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mystical-archive-brings-63-powerful-spells-to-shake-up-strixhaven-school-of-mages-limited/ The upcoming Magic: The Gathering set Strixhaven: School of Mages will shake up its Limited format with the addition of the Mystical Archive, a collection of Instants and Sorceries spanning Magic’s history. One card from the Mystical Archive will be found in draft booster packs and can be played in Draft and Sealed. Collector booster packs will have three Mystical Archive cards. The Mystical Archive includes 18 uncommons, 30 rares, and 15 mythic rares./post/top-10-s-best-burn-spells-of-all-time/Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/top-10-s-best-burn-spells-of-all-time/ Introduction Let the haters hate. I love aggro. Always have, and, admittedly, always will. Ever since my early MTG days, using an army of small minions to take down a game has always been more fun to me than slowly grinding my opponent down or playing big minion after big minion. However, in Hearthstone aggro decks are built in two parts. You can’t just rely on attacking through taunts or pushing through giant chunks against every deck you see./post/this-apex-legends-bloodhound-cosplay-is-almost-perfect/Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-apex-legends-bloodhound-cosplay-is-almost-perfect/ One person’s in-progress Bloodhound cosplay is well on its way to perfection. Reddit user and new cosplayer astronautgecko created the outfit themselves, which included the painstaking process of sculpting and painting the helmet and body armor. In the comments, they mentioned that this is their first time cosplaying and “foamsmithing,” or working with foam to create lightweight imitations of armor. Not everything was made by hand, though. They used firm grip gloves to imitate Bloodhound’s own gloves./post/dota-2-mmr-and-ranking-system-explained/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/dota-2-mmr-and-ranking-system-explained/ Dota 2 is one of the most intense MOBA titles in the market. Not only is Dota 2 as demanding as it gets when it comes to mechanics, but there’s also the strategic side of the game, which separates it from the rest of the competition. While playing casually is more than enough to get a taste of the game, it best shows itself as you start climbing up the ranks./post/shroud-officially-retires-from-competitive-cs-go-leaves-cloud9/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-officially-retires-from-competitive-cs-go-leaves-cloud9/ One of North America’s most beloved esports personalities is moving on from the world of Counter-Strike. Michael “shroud” Grzesiek announced his retirement from competitive CS:GO on Twitter earlier today. Not only is shroud saying goodbye to competing, but he is also leaving the Cloud9 organization. Shroud will continue streaming on his Twitch channel, he just won’t be representing Cloud9 from now on. Related: Cloud9 signs Tarik and RUSH “There isn’t a rule book for how to become a professional video game player,” shroud said on Twitter./post/here-is-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-loot-table/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-is-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-loot-table/ Destiny 2‘s The Witch Queen sent players through the Pyramid as part of the Vow of the Disciple raid, with the Guardians taking the fight straight to Rhulk, the Disciple of the Witness. Of course, if there’s a constant in Destiny 2, it’s that players want their loot, and a supernatural, Darkness-powered demigod responsible for the demise of several civilizations isn’t gonna get in the way. The Vow of the Disciple raid brought a series of new weapons and armor with a unique look inspired by the Darkness./post/patch-9-23-won-t-include-champion-balance-changes/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/patch-9-23-won-t-include-champion-balance-changes/ Big changes are on their way as the end of Ranked Season Nine approaches. Patch 9.23 will include a massive makeover for the Summoner Rift’s map and transform the way Dragons operate.  But not everything is changing once the preseason patch hits live servers. No champion will receive any buffs or nerfs, according to Riot’s lead gameplay designer Mark “Scruffy” Yetter. “After looking at 9.22 data, we don’t have any significant champion outliers that we want to do balance work on before 9./post/this-new-live-action-trailer-for-pubg-s-chinese-mobile-game-brings-the-excitement-to-life/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-new-live-action-trailer-for-pubg-s-chinese-mobile-game-brings-the-excitement-to-life/ If you ever wondered what a live action PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds movie would look like, wait no longer. This commercial for PUBG’s mobile version in China features everything players have come to know and love from the battle royale title, all in live action with actors and special effects. In the video, the competitors drop out of a plane, pick up guns, and fight it out for a chicken dinner just like in the game, all while dodging explosives and enemy fire./post/twistzz-says-faze-clan-s-cs-go-team-will-use-olofmeister-on-a-more-permanent-basis/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/twistzz-says-faze-clan-s-cs-go-team-will-use-olofmeister-on-a-more-permanent-basis/ Ahead of the team’s next event in the BLAST Premier 2021 Spring Finals, FaZe Clan is intending to use legendary lurker Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer Gustafsson in a more permanent capacity following Marcelo “coldzera” David’s decision to step down from the active roster. When asked about a potential fifth today in an interview with Dot Esports, Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken confirmed that the CS:GO team will be using olofmeister “on a more permanent basis./post/best-steelseries-mice-for-gaming/Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-steelseries-mice-for-gaming/ SteelSeries is a Danish company known for its excellent gaming gear. The company makes a wide selection of products ranging from gaming mice and keyboards to headsets and controllers.  The gaming mice in the SteelSeries range include wired and wireless models to suit a variety of budgets. All SteelSeries gaming mice share outstanding build quality and are capable of the speed and precision required by competitive games. Comfort is a crucial factor to consider when choosing a mouse./post/league-of-legends-concept-art-leaks-potentially-point-to-new-freljordian-champion/Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-concept-art-leaks-potentially-point-to-new-freljordian-champion/ It appears a new Freljord may be joining the ranks. A League of Legends data miner posted alleged concept art for a new champion on Reddit today, claiming the Freljordian’s name is rumored to be Aidyn. While leaks usually require evidence to be posted, a League subreddit moderator claims that the original poster wants to “protect their identity” and that the leak “looks like it’s legit.” The early concept art gives a first look at Aidyn’s potential weapons and helmet./post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-ffxiv-patch-6-05/Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-ffxiv-patch-6-05/ Players are heading back to Final Fantasy XIV after the holiday season to explore the new content that was introduced alongside Patch 6.05. See Dot Esports Gaming Deals While the latest expansion, Endwalker, was released in December 2021, Square Enix has started introducing more content for players to complete, including the four first Pandaemonium raids, and their Savage counterpart, which was released earlier today with Patch 6.05. Related: Square Enix offers more free game time, suspends digital sales in FFXIV/post/how-to-get-dark-frosting-in-destiny-2-s-the-dawning/Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-dark-frosting-in-destiny-2-s-the-dawning/ Destiny 2‘s Dawning event is here for another year and guardians are once again flocking to the Tower to bake cookies for their favorite NPCs. Depending on who they want to bake for, players will need different ingredients. Some are easier to obtain than others, but in general, they all drop from final blows—and the manner of that final blow determines the ingredient. There are two categories of ingredients. Common ingredients are based on the type of enemy defeated, while rare ingredients take into account how they were defeated./post/og-signs-entirely-new-dota-2-roster-led-by-misha-and-taiga-features-two-16-year-old-standouts/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/og-signs-entirely-new-dota-2-roster-led-by-misha-and-taiga-features-two-16-year-old-standouts/ OG built one of the biggest names in esports by dominating the competitive Dota 2 scene, surviving turmoil, and becoming the first team in history to ever win two times at The International, even doing so in consecutive seasons. But that era of OG has come to a close. The organization is moving in a new direction and signing an entirely new roster. Both Topson and n0tail are stepping down from the active Dota roster to take extended breaks, and Ceb announced his retirement earlier this week./post/tryndamere-nerfs-rengar-changes-and-more-to-coincide-with-release-of-league-patch-12-6/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tryndamere-nerfs-rengar-changes-and-more-to-coincide-with-release-of-league-patch-12-6/ After a short hiatus, League of Legends Patch 12.6 is coming soon, this time with plenty of changes tackling champions that have over and underperformed in solo queue and professional play—and long-awaited Tryndamere nerfs. Riot Phlox, designer on the Summoner’s Rift team for League, posted a new patch preview today, documenting the plethora of changes set to release with Patch 12.6 on March 30. This includes buffs to less-popular champions in the top lane, as well as major adjustments to Rengar, who has fallen out of the jungle meta./post/where-to-find-jumpstart-historic-horizons-spoilers/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-jumpstart-historic-horizons-spoilers/ The Historic format in Magic: The Gathering Arena will receive a large number of cards via the Jumpstart: Historic Horizons event that includes cards from Modern Horizons and Modern Horizons 2, along with 31 new digital-only cards.  A total of 46 Jumpstart: Historic Horizons packets will become available to play in MTG Arena from Aug. 12 to Sept. 9. The event will include over 700 Magic cards, of which around 200 are new to MTGA, including digital-only cards./post/how-to-complete-potm-f%C3%A9lix-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-potm-f%C3%A9lix-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ A new March player of the month (POTM) card was added to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team on April 8. It’s an 87-rated POTM version of João Félix from Atlético de Madrid, which is available through a squad-building challenge (SBC) you can complete in-game. Players can vote monthly on select players and decide who deserves to receive an upgraded POTM version based on their performance. Félix is representing the best of LaLiga with this POTM version./post/zed-s-ultimate-lulu-s-polymorph-among-abilities-to-be-nerfed-in-league-patch-12-2/Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/zed-s-ultimate-lulu-s-polymorph-among-abilities-to-be-nerfed-in-league-patch-12-2/ The second major balance patch of the 2022 League of Legends season is on its way. Earlier today, Riot Games released a detailed list of changes coming to the game in Patch 12.2. In total, 16 champions are set to be buffed, nerfed, or adjusted in the upcoming patch, with five in particular on the table to receive nerfs.  One of the most prominent nerfs coming to a champion in Patch 12./post/arc-v-world-pendulum-summoning-and-more-coming-to-yu-gi-oh-duel-links-on-sept-28/Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/arc-v-world-pendulum-summoning-and-more-coming-to-yu-gi-oh-duel-links-on-sept-28/ We already knew that Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links would be getting content from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V era, including the addition of Pendulum Monsters, but Konami has now officially confirmed that the next big update will be hitting the mobile game on Sept. 28.  In a new trailer, Konami showed off a majority of the characters from the Arc-V anime that will be making an appearance once the new Duel Links world goes live, along with displaying several of the ace monsters for those playable characters too, such as Yuya Sakaki’s Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon./post/best-fiora-counter-picks-in-league-of-legends/Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-fiora-counter-picks-in-league-of-legends/ Fiora is one of the most popular top lane champions in League of Legends. Since her rework, she has become a champion who is able to close gaps quickly and land impressive damage with a combination of basic attacks on vitals. The champion also has multiple ways to counter abilities and give herself the upper hand in a dueling situation. As with every champion in League, Fiora is not without weaknesses./post/relyks-valorant-settings-keybinds-sensitivity-and-crosshair/Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/relyks-valorant-settings-keybinds-sensitivity-and-crosshair/ Skyler “Relyks” Weaver is a professional VALORANT player who most recently spent nearly a year playing for Cloud9. Prior to becoming a VALORANT pro, Relyks played CS:GO for a wide array of teams dating back to 2013. The 26-year-old American retired from the scene to become a VALORANT player on June 24, 2020. Though he is currently not on a team, his time with Cloud9 was highlighted by qualifying for the VCT 2021: North America Stage Two Challengers One./post/riot-introduces-summoner-s-rift-arena-banners-in-league-of-legends/Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-introduces-summoner-s-rift-arena-banners-in-league-of-legends/ Riot Games is adding another opportunity for promotion within its flagship esports title, League of Legends. Summoner’s Rift will now feature customizable arena banners that will allow for more “esports branding” directly on the map, Riot announced today. Riot’s aspiration is “to create an environment that exudes the energy found in traditional sports,” hereby creating a “richer viewing experience” around pro League. This announcement comes ahead of the Summer Split, where Riot said different leagues will “experiment” to help “engage local and regional fan bases./post/the-russian-ruble-is-now-worth-less-than-1-riot-point/Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-russian-ruble-is-now-worth-less-than-1-riot-point/ The Russian Ruble, the official currency of the country, is now worth less than one Riot Point. One Euro is currently valued for a little more than 150 Rubles, according to Bloomberg. Players in Europe can obtain 310 Riot Points for €2.50. If you were to convert that amount to Rubles, you would receive around 375, meaning that the Russian currency is now worth less than the digital currency in League of Legends./post/funplus-phoenix-apologizes-to-ange1-and-rescinds-payment-freeze/Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/funplus-phoenix-apologizes-to-ange1-and-rescinds-payment-freeze/ Chinese-based esports organization FunPlus Phoenix has apologized to VALORANT player Kirill “ANGE1” Karasiow and his agent, Jérôme Coupez, it was revealed today.  Coupez, the founder of Prodigy Agency to which ANGE1 is represented, said today FPX will continue to pay the player without asking him to play. ANGE1, who lived in Kyiv, was forced to flee the capital city a few days ago following the barrage of attacks by the Russian military in Ukraine./post/where-to-farm-crystal-cores-in-genshin-impact/Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-farm-crystal-cores-in-genshin-impact/ Genshin Impact’s robust open world consists of many places to discover and people to meet. But it’s also home to numerous mysterious creatures—some friendly, but many dangerous. By interacting with the animals and monsters that roam the land, either through slaying them or successfully catching them, players will gain materials they can use to power up their adventurers. One of the more elusive items gained by encountering creatures in the wilds of Teyvat is Crystal Cores./post/veigar-will-be-added-to-legends-of-runeterra-s-beyond-the-bandlewood-through-bandle-city-and-shadow-isles/Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/veigar-will-be-added-to-legends-of-runeterra-s-beyond-the-bandlewood-through-bandle-city-and-shadow-isles/ Veigar is the third champion joining Legends of Runeterra’s upcoming set, Beyond the Bandlewood, Riot Games announced today on Twitter and in collaboration with Mobalytics. Veigar is a four-mana yordle champion from Bandle City and Shadow Isles with 1/4 combat stats and a summon ability that creates a Darkness in your hand if you do n’t have one. Darkness is an uncollectible three-mana slow spell that deals two damage to an enemy unit./post/destiny-2-s-pvp-will-finally-receive-new-maps-modes-in-2022-and-beyond/Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/destiny-2-s-pvp-will-finally-receive-new-maps-modes-in-2022-and-beyond/ Destiny 2’s long-dormant Crucible PvP mode will receive new maps and modes starting in 2022. The information was revealed in a long Twitter thread by Destiny 2’s assistant game director Joe Blackburn, who spoke candidly about the Crucible and how it’s been such a work-in-progress of late. Season 15 of Destiny 2 is scheduled to begin on Aug. 24, and while it will include some revamping to Trials of Osiris, further additions will begin in season 16./post/ender-is-leaving-the-lec-after-3-years-as-a-caster/Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ender-is-leaving-the-lec-after-3-years-as-a-caster/ Christy “Ender” Frierson is stepping away from the LEC broadcast after three years as one of the league’s most prominent members of the on-air talent team.  “It’s not been an easy decision to make,” Ender said in a YouTube video explaining his decision earlier today. “This has been something I’ve been thinking about for nearly a year, now, and I’ve pushed it off countless times.” Ender joined the LEC in 2018 after applying for the league’s open color commentator position via Twitter./post/most-played-agent-compositions-in-na-vct-challengers-one-group-stage/Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/most-played-agent-compositions-in-na-vct-challengers-one-group-stage/ Do-or-die playoffs for the North American VCT Challengers One stage is right around the corner after five weeks of exciting VALORANT action in the group stage. The round-robin saw both Cloud9 and Version1 notch perfect 5-0 records, while teams like The Guard, Sentinels, and OpTic put together impressive campaigns as well. All ten teams used different compositions, with every single agent getting at least one map of play time, including Yoru!/post/yu-gi-oh-master-duel-normal-and-rare-rarity-festival-launching-march-23/Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/yu-gi-oh-master-duel-normal-and-rare-rarity-festival-launching-march-23/ Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is getting its next Festival event on March 23, though this time it won’t be themed around something as simple as a specific summoning mechanic.  Running from March 23 to April 4, the “N and R Rarity Festival” will require players to only use decks that feature Normal and Rare cards.  Because most decks are comprised of a solid mix of Normal, Rare, Super Rare, and Ultra Rare cards in Master Duel, this will force anyone who wants to participate in the Festival to use new strategies that don’t feature many of the most powerful cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!/post/chicago-huntsmen-names-sender-head-coach-for-2020-call-of-duty-league-season/Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/chicago-huntsmen-names-sender-head-coach-for-2020-call-of-duty-league-season/ Chicago’s Call of Duty League team officially has a coach. Troy “Sender” Michaels will be the head coach of the Chicago Huntsmen, the organization announced today. Sender will coach Chicago’s starting lineup that features Seth “Scump” Abner, Matthew “FormaL” Piper, Peirce “Gunless” Hillman, Alec “Arcitys” Sanderson, and Dylan “Envoy” Hannon. Last week, Chicago also added former Enigma6 captain Jordon General as a substitute and Search and Destroy streamer John “x2Pac_ThuGLorD” Hartley was named an SnD analyst for the team./post/lec-power-rankings-2022-spring-split-week-5/Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lec-power-rankings-2022-spring-split-week-5/ Now that we’re into the second half of the Spring Split, the LEC finally has a real identity. The true players and contenders in this split’s playoff race are becoming a lot more clear-cut heading into the final three weeks before the playoffs.  After this week’s games, the discussion will likely broaden to include playoff seeding, potential tiebreaker scenarios, and high-end matchups to keep an eye on as the split twirls to a ceremonious end./post/how-to-redeem-a-code-in-valorant/Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-redeem-a-code-in-valorant/ Finding a gift for a VALORANT fan you know might look like a challenging task at first. While most gamers will appreciate physical mementos from their favorite game, none of them will pass out on a chance to purchase more skins. The number of skins and cosmetic items available in VALORANT continues to rise with every patch, meaning one can never have enough VALORANT points. If you’ve just received a gift card for VALORANT or are looking to surprise a fan with one, you’ll want to know how you can redeem them since you’ll want to start browsing the in-game shop as soon as possible./post/nintendo-reveals-new-splatoon-3-website/Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nintendo-reveals-new-splatoon-3-website/ Nintendo has created a new Japanese-language website for the upcoming Splatoon 3. The website launched recently and appears to be Nintendo’s official Japanese hub for Splatoon 3 content. The site contains much of the same content as the English Nintendo store listing for the game, including the summer 2022 release window, information on the game’s Turf War and Salmon Run modes, and plenty of screengrabs. While Splatoon 3 has a product listing on the English-language Nintendo store, it does not yet have a full English website./post/call-of-duty-vanguard-s-april-18-update-focuses-on-stability-bug-fixes/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-vanguard-s-april-18-update-focuses-on-stability-bug-fixes/ A new, minor update just went live for Call of Duty: Vanguard, focusing on a few specific bug fixes and adding to the overall stability of the game. A few of the major fixes in the patch include one for an error that wasn’t letting players access the Armory while cross-play was disabled, while another was kicking players from Zombies matches while reviving a player and using a melee and tactical items only./post/how-to-get-the-stonks-diamond-hanz-skin-in-fortnite/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-stonks-diamond-hanz-skin-in-fortnite/ Fortnite Chapter Two, season six recently added many new skins to the game at the beginning of March—and it looks like Epic Games doesn’t plan on stopping. With April Fools’ Day now in the rear-view mirror and Easter on the horizon, the developer has revamped the in-game shop with thematic cosmetics. The To The Moon bundle features a skin for the famous financial meme “stonks,” which dates back to 2017. The skin is making its debut in Fortnite as Diamond Hanz, one of many names associated with the meme./post/league-fan-delivers-spectacular-coven-braum-skin-concept/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-fan-delivers-spectacular-coven-braum-skin-concept/ League of Legends fans continue to impress the community by delivering high-quality, fan-made skins. Coven Braum is the latest skin created by Ivan Dudar, where he showed off various prototype models, plus an in-game mockup of how the hero would look like. The skin moves away from the light-hearted and cheering personality of Braum into a more sinister direction. Coven Braum has antlers and dark colors, reminiscent of Druids from other games./post/when-does-diablo-immortal-release/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-diablo-immortal-release/ More than three years since Diablo Immortal was announced, Blizzard Entertainment has finally revealed a release date for the game. The game will be released on June 2 for Android and iOS devices along with an open beta on PC. While the game was originally announced as a mobile-only title, Blizzard surprised players on April 25 by announcing a beta for PC. How to Pre-Register for the Diablo Immortal Open Beta Players can currently pre-register for the game on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store./post/c%C3%B3mo-corregir-el-c%C3%B3digo-de-error-no-se-puede-conectar-al-servicio-de-autenticaci%C3%B3n-de-league-of-legends/Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/c%C3%B3mo-corregir-el-c%C3%B3digo-de-error-no-se-puede-conectar-al-servicio-de-autenticaci%C3%B3n-de-league-of-legends/ Si estás experimentando el error «no se puede conectar al servicio de autenticación» (unable to connect to authentication service) cuando juegas a League of Legends, podrías tener varios problemas. El origen podría ser una conexión defectuosa a Internet, un firewall interrumpido o algo completamente diferente. El mensaje de error puede aparecer durante la selección del campeón, en la pantalla de inicio de sesión o a mitad de la partida. De cualquier manera, el problema es relativamente sencillo./post/how-to-download-escape-from-tarkov/Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-download-escape-from-tarkov/ Escape from Tarkov is one of the most intense and challenging first-person shooters on the market and is the perfect game for players looking for a high-stakes experience. Players lose all items if they die while on a run and escaping with your life is easier said than done. Despite this tedious experience, thousands of players enjoy the game daily and new players consistently join the fight.  Understanding how to download Escape from Tarkov is simple, although you won’t find the game on any major services like Steam./post/chicken-fighters-add-atf-replace-chessie/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/chicken-fighters-add-atf-replace-chessie/ Chicken Fighters are making another pretty substantial change, replacing veteran offlaner Rasmus “Chessie” Blomdin with Ammar “ATF” Assaf. This move comes as the team struggles to find their footing in the lower division of the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit Europe regional league.  Chicken Fighters were signed by High Coast Esports during season one of the DPC while they were competing in the upper division. They failed to retain that spot and were relegated to the lower division for season two, however, with High Coast dropping the roster and leaving the Dota scene shortly after the season started./post/buddha-makes-cop-panic-with-ridiculous-jailbreak-attempt-in-gta-v-roleplay/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/buddha-makes-cop-panic-with-ridiculous-jailbreak-attempt-in-gta-v-roleplay/ Twitch streamer Buddha and his character Lang Buddha, one of the most popular on the Grand Theft Auto V NoPixel roleplaying server, nearly pulled off the greatest escape from jail ever today. After being arrested by Officer Sur Lee, played by Twitch streamer Sur_Lee, Buddha took a ride down to the slammer to be jailed and formally charged. Just as Officer Lee unlocked the building door for Buddha to walk in, the infamous criminal took off./post/playstation-plus-extra-premium-subscriptions-are-now-live-in-the-us/Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/playstation-plus-extra-premium-subscriptions-are-now-live-in-the-us/ The new subscription tiers for PlayStation Plus are now live on the PlayStation Store in the U.S. as of this morning. The Extra and Premium tiers can be found immediately from the PS5’s menu under the PlayStation Plus icon, with the very first option being an Upgrade function to allow those under the existing PS Plus tier, called Essential, to get the new goods. Upgrading will allow users to pay the price left for the days remaining on their existing subscription option, bringing it current to when the next recurring payment date is due./post/crown-ranks-and-golden-costumes-coming-to-fall-guys-in-season-3/Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/crown-ranks-and-golden-costumes-coming-to-fall-guys-in-season-3/ The new snowy season of Fall Guys will be released tomorrow, Dec. 15, bringing several changes to the game, including a Crown Rank feature and Golden Costumes, Mediatonic announced today in a PlayStation blog post. The more crowns you earn, the higher your Crown Rank rises, which will unlock a variety of rewards such as colors, patterns, and Golden Costumes. Well-known costumes like the wolf, knight, and hot dog will receive golden versions./post/here-are-all-of-cs-go-s-dreams-and-nightmares-skins/Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-cs-go-s-dreams-and-nightmares-skins/ The newest CS:GO case, Dreams and Nightmares, features 17 weapon skins made by community designers. As the name suggests, the skins feature dreamy and psychedelic aesthetics. Most of the popular weapons in the game, including the AK-47, M4A1-S, and USP-S, received a new look, with a few exceptions. The Dreams and Nightmares case is the first case to join the game in over half a year. Snakebite, the previous case, was added in May 2021./post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-12-9/Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-12-9/ Written in partnership with Gamer Sensei. Dot Esports has joined forces with the incredibly capable coaches at Gamer Sensei to break down League of Legends Patch 12.9. We’ll go through the full list of champion changes, including the multiple mid-scope updates, and analyze how they will affect the meta. Gamer Sensei is a service that provides online coaching for 18 different games, including League. This week, we have two coaches giving us insight on these major champion changes: Nicholas “NicoThePico” Korsgård and Justin “JalYt Justin” Robbins./post/dallas-empire-wanted-to-replace-huke-with-clayster-according-to-crimsix/Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/dallas-empire-wanted-to-replace-huke-with-clayster-according-to-crimsix/ Earlier this season, Huke, a member of the Dallas Empire’s 2020 Call of Duty League Championship team, was benched in favor of FeLo in an extremely surprising move. Crimsix revealed via Twitter today, though, that FeLo was not a permanent part of the Empire’s plan, but rather a move to let iLLeY run the SMG in preparation for the return of Clayster.  “The person we wanted was Clayster above everyone,” Crimsix tweeted./post/bjergsen-officially-joins-team-liquid-for-2022-lcs-season/Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/bjergsen-officially-joins-team-liquid-for-2022-lcs-season/ Former TSM mid laner and head coach Bjergsen has joined Team Liquid as its LCS starting mid laner for the 2022 season, the team confirmed today.  Bjergsen, a nine-year veteran of the professional League of Legends scene, previously played mid lane for seven seasons with TSM between 2014 and 2020. Last season, he transitioned to a head coaching role with the organization but opted to not renew his contract with TSM this offseason in favor of a return to pro play./post/fortnite-players-can-hop-on-stink-bombs-and-ride-them/Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-players-can-hop-on-stink-bombs-and-ride-them/ Stink Bombs are the new vehicle in Fortnite: Battle Royale. Fine, they’re not. But Fortnite player Zolo turned them into one by doing a tricky play that ended with a game-finishing sniper shot. The player was in a Squads match with one opponent left. They built a structure a few meters up with a teammate, and they both stood on a wooden floor. Zolo jumps and his teammate throws a Stink Bomb while they’re in mid-air./post/game-boy-emulator-for-switch-online-reportedly-leaked/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/game-boy-emulator-for-switch-online-reportedly-leaked/ Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games may be coming to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, according to a recent leak reported by Nintendo Life. The new leak corroborates rumors from last year that Nintendo would be bringing over Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to Switch Online. Now, thanks to Twitter user Trash_Bandatcoot, Nintendo’s emulation plans may have been outed. So Nintendo's official Game Boy Advance emulator for the Nintendo Switch just leaked./post/how-to-get-to-the-grand-lift-of-rold-in-elden-ring/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-to-the-grand-lift-of-rold-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring does a great job of guiding players along with the main story and keeping it in a tight progression. Players are often required to obtain key items or kill specific bosses to unlock areas. These key items are obtained in a variety of ways that include looting corpses or treasure chests, progressing NPC questlines, or being dropped by specific enemies. Altogether, FromSoftware encourages players to adventure and explore the Lands Between to progress./post/dragonskin-crypto-cosmetic-now-available-with-apex-legends-prime-gaming-loot/Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/dragonskin-crypto-cosmetic-now-available-with-apex-legends-prime-gaming-loot/ This month’s Apex Legends Prime Gaming loot lets players harness the power of dragons—well, sort of. The Dragonskin Crypto cosmetic is now available exclusively for Amazon Prime members until Aug. 12. Like all Prime Gaming loot, members can claim the skin for free and equip it immediately after logging in to the battle royale. This fight will make quite the tail! 🐉 Tip the scales with the Dragonskin Crypto skin, available now through August 12 when you link your #PrimeGaming account./post/every-card-in-mtg-strixhaven-school-of-mages-that-dies-to-bonecrusher-giant/Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-card-in-mtg-strixhaven-school-of-mages-that-dies-to-bonecrusher-giant/ As Magic: The Gathering’s new set Strixhaven: School of Mages enters Standard, the shadow of 2019 looms heavily over fan’s excitement about the new cards. Spoiler season introduced new fans to 275 new cards and possibilities to build their Standard decks. these cards were graded on their ability to play around the powerful Adventure spells from Throne of Eldraine. Bonecrusher Giant has been one of the most powerful cards in Standard since Throne of Eldraine was unleashed upon Standard in 2019./post/ps4-vs-xbox-one-controller-which-is-better-for-pc-gaming/Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ps4-vs-xbox-one-controller-which-is-better-for-pc-gaming/ With the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release came two new controllers: The DualShock 4 and the Xbox One Wireless controller. Gamers, especially PC gamers, praised both controllers. The DualShock 4 overhauled the traditional PlayStation controller, while the Xbox One controller was a slight but necessary improvement of the Xbox 360 controller’s design.  On the surface, the DualShock 4 and Xbox One controller are relatively similar. Both controllers have directional pads, two thumbsticks, two triggers, and four face buttons./post/everything-to-know-about-first-tournament-of-2022-vct-game-changers/Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-first-tournament-of-2022-vct-game-changers/ After a year of Cloud9 White dominance, VCT Game Changers is back and the teams are readying up to claim the crown for the first tournament of the 2022 season. Open qualifiers were held last week and eight VALORANT teams have made it through to the main event, where they will now compete for a share of the $50,000 prize pool and points to make it to the Game Changers World Championship./post/esam-mvd-and-samsora-all-re-sign-with-their-super-smash-bros-ultimate-sponsors/Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/esam-mvd-and-samsora-all-re-sign-with-their-super-smash-bros-ultimate-sponsors/ The start of the year is usually a big transfer window for the various fighting games with thriving professional circuits, and the last several days have been a busy time for Super Smash Bros Ultimate in particular.  Several top players have either re-signed or departed from their sponsors, setting up the free agent pool for the next few Majors.  Three of the biggest names in the scene all re-upped with their current sponsors./post/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-servers-appear-to-be-undergoing-maintenance/Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-servers-appear-to-be-undergoing-maintenance/ Over the last week, players have had a shaky time trying to use the online functionality in Pokémon Sword and Shield for various reasons. But now, it looks like the game’s servers are undergoing some maintenance.  It doesn’t look like the outage is just affecting one region, either. Players across the globe are no longer able to connect to the internet to trade, battle, or compete in Max Raid Battles. /post/best-zamazenta-hero-of-many-battles-moveset-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-zamazenta-hero-of-many-battles-moveset-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go has now introduced both of its generation eight legendary Pokémon. Zamazenta Hero of Many Battles makes its way into the game to join Zacian. The Fighting-type Pokémon is now available to face off against in Legendary five-star raids for the next week when players will have the chance to add them to their collection. Zamazenta has quite a variety of moves to choose from, and it can be confusing to pick out the best./post/when-does-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021-start/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021-start/ Pokémon Go Fest 2021 marks the return of the biggest event for players around the world, bringing new content, bonuses, and other enticing reasons to get out, or stay in, and catch some Pokémon.  Go Fest itself will run on July 17 and 18, with players needing to purchase a $4.99 event ticket through the in-game shop to gain access to all of the event-exclusive content that will only be available to ticketed players./post/the-best-gibraltar-skins-in-apex-legends/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-gibraltar-skins-in-apex-legends/ Gibraltar, the one and only shielded fortress of Apex Legends, has some really great skins. If you’re looking to defend in style, you’ve come to the right place; Gibraltar’s skins span a wide variety of styles and concepts, so there really is a little something for everyone. Here are the best Gibraltar skins in Apex Legends. Booming System Easily Gibraltar’s most unique skin, Booming System reimagines the legend as a DJ who wears his turntable as a shield./post/xset-zekken-pulls-off-ace-with-4-bullets-in-valorant/Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/xset-zekken-pulls-off-ace-with-4-bullets-in-valorant/ VALORANT pro XSET Zekken showed off his skills earlier this week with a clip of him killing an entire team with only four Sheriff bullets in less than five seconds.  The Sheriff is arguably one of the best weapons in VALORANT, although it is a tough weapon to master with a low margin for error. The large handgun can takeout enemies without armor with a single headshot, and a headshot on an armored opponent does a whopping 145 points of damage./post/best-weapon-attachments-in-rainbow-six-siege/Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-weapon-attachments-in-rainbow-six-siege/ Outfitting your weapons with the right attachments is key to winning your gunfights in Rainbow Six Siege. Selecting the correct barrel can help with a particular gun’s recoil, selecting the right sight for your positioning can help you win gunfights. With Siege’s one-shot head-shot mechanic, getting your loadout right the first time is the most effective way to secure kills. Which grip should I use? Siege only has two grips: the angled and the vertical./post/yu-gi-oh-duel-links-forbidden-and-limited-card-list-october-2021/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/yu-gi-oh-duel-links-forbidden-and-limited-card-list-october-2021/ With every variant of Yu-Gi-Oh! comes some type of Forbidden and Limited card list Konami uses to help maintain a balanced competitive meta. For the mobile game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, Konami implements not only an original ban list, but also utilizes a completely different classification system for cards included with each iteration.  Unlike the official TCG Forbidden and Limited Card, the Duel Links Forbidden and Limited list is broken up into four specific parts instead of three./post/pokimane-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-headset-and-more/Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pokimane-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-headset-and-more/ Pokimane is one of the most popular streamers on Twitch. She began streaming in 2013 while attending college in Canada. Pokimane is one of the first channels to focus on audience engagement as opposed to pure gameplay. Pokimane found success as a League of Legends streamer attracting viewers with her friendly personality and the relaxed nature of her streams. Like other streamers, Pokimane would see her stream explode with the release of Fortnite./post/how-do-you-fix-inappropriate-activity-detected-in-elden-ring/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-do-you-fix-inappropriate-activity-detected-in-elden-ring/ The ‘inappropriate activity detected’ error can strike at any time while playing Elden Ring. The error sounds serious and may cause players to feel stressed when they first receive it. While most players will be able to fix the error with simple tricks, others may not be so lucky. The ‘inappropriate activity detected error also appears for players who’ve been engaged with illegal activities like selling runes on eBay or using cheats./post/best-multiplayer-weapons-for-beginners-in-cod-black-ops-4/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-multiplayer-weapons-for-beginners-in-cod-black-ops-4/ It’s Christmas morning, and you’ve just unwrapped your copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. You run to your room, turn on your console of choice, pop in the disc, and download the game. Congratulations, you’re officially ready to begin your journey as a Christmas noob. Starting from level one is never easy—especially if you don’t have a permanent unlock token, which lets you immediately get a weapon that’s unlocked in the later levels of multiplayer./post/modder-releases-rainbow-six-black-ops-2-0-a-compilation-of-7-games-with-56-missions/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/modder-releases-rainbow-six-black-ops-2-0-a-compilation-of-7-games-with-56-missions/ Rainbow Six had all of its early games compiled into a single version for fans of the franchise to play. Menrva is the modder responsible for releasing Rainbow Six Black Ops 2.0, which he said is “the ultimate Rainbow Six experience from the Rogue Spear era.” He worked on another compilation released in 2014 by another modder called HardcoreHacker, and Black Ops 2.0 includes the following Rainbow Six titles: Rainbow Six (1998)Rainbow Six: Eagle Watch (1999)Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)Rainbow Six: Urban Operations (2000)Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials (2000)Rainbow Six: Black Thorn (2001)Rainbow Six: Take Down – Missions in Korea (2001) In total, 56 missions can be played with all operators, difficulties and other content unlocked from the start./post/overwatch-renaming-mccree-due-to-blizzard-lawsuit/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-renaming-mccree-due-to-blizzard-lawsuit/ One of Overwatch’s original characters, gunslinger Jesse McCree, will be renamed this fall as a part of a new narrative arc, the game’s development team announced today.  In the wake of widespread sexual harassment allegations and lawsuits levied against Activision Blizzard Entertainment, various developers were implicated and removed from the company. Among them was developer Jesse McCree, part of the “Cosby Suite” BlizzCon group chat, who was the namesake for one of Overwatch’s most iconic characters./post/ea-adds-totw-35-cards-to-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-adds-totw-35-cards-to-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ Team of the Week (TOTW) 35 cards are live for players to get starting today in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. This week’s main set includes players with overall ratings ranging from 84 to 94. The TOTW promotion presents the players who stood out during certain real-life games over the past week and releases their upgraded version in the game. Since it’s a weekly promo, the cards being added today will be replaced next week./post/how-much-does-mizkif-make-on-twitch/Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-does-mizkif-make-on-twitch/ Mizkif is one of the staple content creators on Twitch when it comes to just hanging out. The streamer, who began to gain notoriety after working with Ice Poseidon, spends a vast majority of his time on Twitch in the “Just Chatting” category. But he’s not short on creative ideas for his streams. Along with having a broadcast in which all he did was sleep on stream, Mizkif has also hosted the social experiment called “Twitch Plays Pokemon” in which his viewers had to work together to beat Pokemon Red through chatting on Twitch./post/how-to-get-stone-brick-in-v-rising/Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-stone-brick-in-v-rising/ Stone Brick is an important material in V Rising that is required to progress the questline and transform your castle from a wooden fort into a legitimate fortress. Understanding how to get Stone Brick in V Rising is crucial since you won’t be able to craft Reinforced Walls or Stone Floors without it.  The best way to get Stone Brick is with a Grinder. This production item can be created with eight Planks, four Copper Ingots, and four Whetstones./post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone-get-double-xp-this-weekend-for-season-3-reloaded/Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-and-warzone-get-double-xp-this-weekend-for-season-3-reloaded/ Double XP is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone a day after the season three reloaded update hits both games, Treyarch announced today. The midseason update, ’80s Action Heroes, will go live in the early hours of May 20, adding new content to both games. But the double XP period begins on Friday, May 21 at 12pm CT and will run all weekend long to celebrate the update./post/league-player-shows-off-power-of-ap-kai-sa-with-pentakill/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-player-shows-off-power-of-ap-kai-sa-with-pentakill/ League of Legends players can build ability power on Kai’Sa in the mid lane so effectively right now that they can get easy pentakills. Sometimes, though, they’ll also die immediately after.  In a clip on Reddit shared by user NamiUltedJP, a League player who selected the Daughter of the Void hunted their enemies down one by one, only to be taken down immediately after scoring a pentakill.   The match was already in its late stage when a fight in front of the fourth drake of the game broke out./post/tmnt-krang-skin-now-available-in-smite-through-prime-gaming/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tmnt-krang-skin-now-available-in-smite-through-prime-gaming/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fans are in for a treat this Halloween season. Krang has arrived in Smite for free through Prime Gaming. Krang brings his unique brand of punishment to Smite in the form of a skin for Xiang Tian. In his original form, Xing Tian is wearing armor and wielding a massive ax, plus he has a hole in his stomach. This makes Xiang Tian a perfect fit for TMNT’s Krang./post/twisted-fate-player-secures-pentakill-using-only-blue-cards-in-urf-game/Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/twisted-fate-player-secures-pentakill-using-only-blue-cards-in-urf-game/ A League of Legends player used an unorthodox approach when attempting to snag a pentakill with Twisted Fate in a game of URF.  In a clip posted to Reddit earlier today, a Twisted Fate player secured a pentakill in an URF match by utilizing only the blue cards made available to them through Pick a Card (W).  "Just the luck of the draw." from leagueoflegends In this specific URF game, the cooldown of Twisted Fate’s Pick a Card (W) was just about two seconds, so by the time the Twisted Fate player had used an enhanced auto-attack to take care of one enemy, the ability was back up, and the Twisted Fate player could move onto their next target./post/the-5-best-professional-league-of-legends-matches-of-2020/Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-best-professional-league-of-legends-matches-of-2020/ In a season of professional League of Legends unlike any other, countless teams had their moment in the spotlight. The truly unique season set the stage for unprecedented matchups and intriguing face-offs, the likes of which the professional scene had never seen before.  From regular season games on the domestic level to the most star-studded matchups that the international stage paid host to, 2020 was filled to the brim with competitive League matches that could most definitely be chalked up into the “Instant Classic” column./post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-dev-error-6345-explained/Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-dev-error-6345-explained/ Though triple-A games may look more injury-proof than indie titles from outside, even titans can shiver. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players aren’t strangers to occasional server problems that come and go whenever a double XP weekend kicks off, but a fundamental error that prevents you from even launching the game can be scary. Dev error 6345 usually appears after your game gets shut down by itself while opening and forces you to go back to the Battle./post/maister-opens-up-about-hate-he-receives-from-super-smash-bros-community/Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/maister-opens-up-about-hate-he-receives-from-super-smash-bros-community/ Enrique “Maister” Hernández Solís has been playing competitive Super Smash Bros. for almost three years now. But as a top player in the Ultimate scene, he has faced plenty of hate and criticism from the game’s community for anything from using Mr. Game and Watch to posting memes on social media.  But as he continues to grow as a personality within the Smash community, his patience for the negative interactions has been worn down to the point where he has decided to limit his social media presence./post/how-mythic-items-have-completely-changed-the-scope-of-league/Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-mythic-items-have-completely-changed-the-scope-of-league/ Each League of Legends preseason brings about a massive new change to the game. Following last year’s successful Summoner’s Rift updates that introduced Elemental Souls and Rifts, this year’s preseason aimed to tackle one of the game’s clunkiest features since its release: items. The in-game item shop was completely overhauled at the end of 2020, no longer requiring players to scroll through pages and pages of items to look for what they needed (unless they still want to do that, in which case that feature lives on)./post/oricorio-dances-into-pok%C3%A9mon-go-with-revamped-festival-of-colors-event/Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/oricorio-dances-into-pok%C3%A9mon-go-with-revamped-festival-of-colors-event/ For the first time, players around the world will be able to take part in the Festival of Colors in Pokémon Go when Niantic rolls out a new event themed around the popular Hindu celebration. Running from March 15 to 20, players will see Oricorio, the Dancing Pokémon, appearing in its various Styles depending on where you encounter it in the world, along with other bonuses and boosted encounters.  This is the second time a Festival of Colors event has run in Pokémon Go, though the 2021 iteration was a regional-exclusive event for India with only a few global bonuses./post/how-to-get-and-use-lucky-cookies-in-pokemon-masters-ex/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-and-use-lucky-cookies-in-pokemon-masters-ex/ Pokémon Masters EX isn’t your traditional Pokémon game, with the mobile hit boasting quite a few new mechanics to complement its unique style of thre vs. three gameplay. With synergy being so important, crafting the right team of three Pokémon is the main key to victory, and stats are more important than ever. While each Pokémon already has a variety of skills and stats, players have the ability to add bonus passive skills through the Lucky Skills system./post/these-are-all-of-overwatch-hero-orisa-s-skins/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/these-are-all-of-overwatch-hero-orisa-s-skins/ Orisa, Overwatch’s new quadrupedal robot hero, is one of developer Blizzard Entertainment’s first female tanks that can match Winston’s or Reinhardt’s size—besides D.Va’s mech, but that’s just her mech. Her hulking presence was of great interest to Blizzard, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan said in a Developer’s Update, as no other woman in the game had such a challenging look. And her look is incredibly cool. Using the body of an OR15 defense robot, 11-year-old inventor Efi Oladele created the hero of the future./post/lcs-commissioner-greeley-apologizes-to-perkz-after-mid-laner-was-forced-to-wear-a-cap-on-stage-due-to-his-eyes-light-sensitivity/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/lcs-commissioner-greeley-apologizes-to-perkz-after-mid-laner-was-forced-to-wear-a-cap-on-stage-due-to-his-eyes-light-sensitivity/ Fans who tuned in to watch Cloud9’s latest win last night caught the team’s mid laner Perkz wearing a hat on stage. Many people were confused as to his choice, but the star explained that it was due to his eyes being too sensitive to light due to his recent LASIK surgery. He also explained that he has been having a hard time adjusting to stage play this season because of how sensitive his eyes are to the lights in the studio./post/ranked-and-vgc-competitions-will-still-be-hosted-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-not-brilliant-diamon-shining-pearl-or-legends-arceus/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ranked-and-vgc-competitions-will-still-be-hosted-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-not-brilliant-diamon-shining-pearl-or-legends-arceus/ With all of the new information coming out about Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Pokémon Legends: Arceus during the most recent Pokémon Presents showcase, The Pokémon Company has confirmed competitive play will continue to be hosted in Sword and Shield. This is a similar method to how the competitive scene was run when Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! were released for Nintendo Switch in 2018. Because those games were the only Pokémon titles available on Switch at the time and had features that differentiated them from the main series of games, specifically in the area of battling, TPC continued to host VGC and ranked events using Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon on the 3DS./post/tips-and-tricks-for-shipment-1944-in-call-of-duty-wwii/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tips-and-tricks-for-shipment-1944-in-call-of-duty-wwii/ One of the most popular maps in Call of Duty history was recently remastered and added to the franchise’s latest title. Shipment 1944—a remake of Shipment from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare—was introduced to Call of Duty: WWII last week, and most fans are thrilled to play on this map once again. Related: Shipment 1944 is now live in Call of Duty: WWII But newcomers to the Call of Duty franchise, or anyone who never played CoD4 or Modern Warfare Remastered, might have a few questions about Shipment 1944./post/creatures-inc-acquires-pok%C3%A9mon-rumble-developer-ambrella/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/creatures-inc-acquires-pok%C3%A9mon-rumble-developer-ambrella/ In a move that flew under the radar of most Western fans, Creatures Inc., a development studio that’s directly tied to The Pokémon Company and Nintendo, acquired Ambrella, another company that’s worked with the Pokémon brand for years. The acquisition actually took place last October, but the news only recently broke on social media due to Joe Merrick, the webmaster for independent Pokémon database Seribii, bringing it up.  Huh, looks like we all completely missed this./post/how-to-take-a-screengrab-on-nintendo-switch/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-take-a-screengrab-on-nintendo-switch/ One of the cooler things to be added to the recent generations of gaming consoles is the ability to screengrab your games without having to take a grainy off-screen picture with your phone camera. Whether you want to record an awesome vista in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, show off your team in Pokémon Legends Arceus, brag about a score in Metroid Dread, or hold on to a memory in any other game, it can be done with a simple button press./post/11-mtg-streets-of-new-capenna-cards-to-shake-up-standard/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/11-mtg-streets-of-new-capenna-cards-to-shake-up-standard/ Magic: The Gathering’s new set Streets of New Capenna is the first three-color set since Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths in May 2020. With a three-color set comes great mana fixing in the form of a tri-color land cycle and a handful of common options for budget deck builders. There are plenty of multi-colored spells that support primarily three-color strategies. Like Ikoria, players should expect New Capenna to help three and four-color archetypes thrive./post/best-gaming-monitor-under-150/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-gaming-monitor-under-150/ Top-of-the-range gaming monitors have outstanding capabilities but are often quite pricey. Many gamers don’t need the highest specs for the games they play, and some players can’t afford to spend hundreds on a monitor. Luckily, it doesn’t cost much to get a gaming monitor with decent specs. There are many reasonably-priced options with fast refresh rates and low response times. Many monitors in this low price range include gamer-friendly features, like adaptive sync technology and software modes to optimize performance./post/is-tiny-tina-s-wonderlands-cross-platform-crossplay/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-tiny-tina-s-wonderlands-cross-platform-crossplay/ Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands’ release date is getting closer and players are wondering whether the game will have cross-platform capabilities. While the Borderlands franchise wasn’t crossplay compatible, except for Borderlands 3, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will support crossplay, allowing Xbox, PlayStation, and PC players to play together. The only cross-platform compatible Gearbox Software game has been Borderlands 3, and the feature was only added after three years from the game’s release. While this may seem normal for most gamers, it can be a milestone for Gearbox Software./post/the-best-fortnite-aim-courses/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-fortnite-aim-courses/ Raw talent won’t be enough to stay on top of the Fortnite leaderboards. You’ll need plenty of practice to sharpen your skills and keep your muscles warmed up. Most competitive Fortnite players spend as much time in practice courses as they spend in normal matches. There are countless customized practice courses in Fortnite, each specializing in different aspects of the game. You’ll find courses to help you practice building and aiming./post/insec-reveals-story-behind-the-famous-faker-vs-ryu-outplay/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/insec-reveals-story-behind-the-famous-faker-vs-ryu-outplay/ Former KT Rolster Bullets jungle Choi “inSec” In-seo revealed the story behind the famous Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok vs. Ryu Sang-wook outplay that took place in the Korean OGN finals in 2013. Famed for his prowess on Lee Sin, inSec explained on his stream earlier this week, the famous Zed vs. Zed duel between SKT Telecom T1’s Faker and KT Rolster Bullets’ Ryu. It was fifth game of the qualification series for the/post/ninja-surpasses-100-000-kills-in-fortnite-battle-royale/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ninja-surpasses-100-000-kills-in-fortnite-battle-royale/ Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has officially reached 100,000 eliminations in Fortnite: Battle Royale. The Twitch superstar eclipsed the milestone last night while playing with Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo. After getting his 100,000th kill, Ninja celebrated by mimicking the emote of his in-game character. 100K KILLS BABY! Although ma boy @HighDistortion was first it feels GOOD to be a part of this club <3 Shoutout to all the ninja fans who have been here since the first ELIM!/post/profit-becomes-first-overwatch-league-player-to-reach-10-000-eliminations/Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/profit-becomes-first-overwatch-league-player-to-reach-10-000-eliminations/ Seoul Dynasty DPS player Park “Profit” Joon-yeong secured his place in Overwatch League history today by becoming the first pro player to reach 10,000 total eliminations. The player achieved the landmark accomplishment during Seoul Dynasty’s winners bracket final match against Shanghai Dragons, which they ended up losing in a close 3-2 battle. Profit was playing Pharah when he confirmed his 10,000th elimination. History. With this elimination, @ProfitOW has become the first player in Overwatch League history to record 10,000 total eliminations!/post/malphite-and-leblanc-work-together-to-secure-aram-pentakill-in-under-2-seconds/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/malphite-and-leblanc-work-together-to-secure-aram-pentakill-in-under-2-seconds/ Pentakills in League of Legends are often the result of great teamwork, opening the door for one player to reap the coveted achievement. While most pentakills require chasing down the last enemy trying to escape imminent doom, sometimes the stars align and, in mere seconds, the enemy team vanishes. Reddit user u/Athamax showcased that when your team’s champion pool has great synergy and the enemy team mispositions, pentakills don’t require the strenuous effort to achieve./post/amazement-attraction-cards-showcased-for-yu-gi-oh-tcg-set-lighting-overdrive/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/amazement-attraction-cards-showcased-for-yu-gi-oh-tcg-set-lighting-overdrive/ The Lightning Overdrive reveal week is rolling on in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, this time with YouTuber RevzCards helping showcase the new Amazement archetype.  Amazement will run on an engine focused on riding out various Attraction Trap Cards and Amazement Spell Cards. The big monster for the archetype that was featured in the showcase is Amazement Administrator Arlekino, which lets you Banish any number of Attraction Traps from your Graveyard then target that many cards your opponent controls and destroy them./post/how-to-play-dota-2-s-void-spirit/Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-dota-2-s-void-spirit/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Dota 2 strategy tool. The huge Dota 2 Outlanders update introduced two new heroes, Snapfire and Void Spirit, at the end of November. They represent almost polar opposite playstyles and both can be bonkers in the right lineup. Inai the Void Spirit is a high-skill cap and mobile hero that plays most akin to one of his spirit brethren, Xin, the Ember Spirit or the faerie dragon Puck./post/reviewing-every-lec-and-lcs-team-s-performance-at-worlds-2021/Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/reviewing-every-lec-and-lcs-team-s-performance-at-worlds-2021/ After Cloud9’s unceremonious quarterfinals loss to Korea’s Gen.G, both Europe and North America have been eliminated from the 2021 League of Legends World Championship. The last time both regions failed to reach the semifinals was back in 2017, when Samsung Galaxy took down the SKT dynasty. Some people might have expected a result like this, due to the overall forms that a majority of the representatives were in prior to the event./post/when-does-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-1-release/Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-final-fantasy-xiv-patch-6-1-release/ The Endwalker expansion was released a few months ago and the Final Fantasy XIV developers are already working on more content to keep the game fresh. Called “Newfound Adventure,” Patch 6.1 will be the first major update since Endwalker’s release. The spotlight will be the release of new Main Scenario chapters. It will also include new role quests, a new 24-player raid, the final Trial Extreme from Endwalker, the new small-scale PvP mode called Crystal Conflict, and much more./post/riot-releases-new-akali-short-story/Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-releases-new-akali-short-story/ A new piece of League of Legends lore titled “The Bow, and the Kunai” was recently published. It documents a young Akali and her friends’ lives growing up in a war-torn Ionia. The story begins with an Ionian neophyte named Faey who has secretly gone on a mission with a few other younglings to hunt a silver boar. Faey’s well-coordinated plan falls apart when a nine-year-old Akali interrupts the hunt in an attempt to take down the boar herself./post/will-deltarune-chapter-2-be-free/Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/will-deltarune-chapter-2-be-free/ Deltarune Chapter 2 is set to be released on Sept. 17. It’s been three years since the release of Deltarune Chapter 1 and fans have been waiting since that time for the next iteration of the story, only to find out that the next part is being released this week. There’s no official word on whether it will be free, but considering the Deltarune Chapter 1 description says “By the way, this first chapter is FREE, so please feel free to check it out,” indicates that Chapter 2 could cost some amount of money./post/boston-uprising-parts-ways-with-halo-mikeyy/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/boston-uprising-parts-ways-with-halo-mikeyy/ After a disappointing 2020 Overwatch League season, the Boston Uprising is attempting to clean house. The team announced today it was parting ways with main support Kobe “Halo” Hamand and main tank Michael “Mikeyy” Konicki.  Mikeyy served as a substitute main tank under Cameron “Fusions” Bosworth for the Boston Uprising. He joined the team in May 2020, coming from North American Overwatch Contenders team Noble. Mikeyy also previously played for Skyfoxes./post/how-to-get-the-cryosthesia-77k-in-destiny-2/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-cryosthesia-77k-in-destiny-2/ The new season of Destiny 2 is adding in new ways to fight the Darkness, and one of the stars of the show is the Cryosthesia 77K, a Stasis-powered Sidearm that lets any Guardian freeze their enemies almost at will. Charging up a shot after getting a kill will send in a bolt of stasis that freezes its target at the expense of all the ammo in the magazine. Despite being a Kinetic weapon, the Cryosthesia has Stasis as an element—a rare occurrence in Destiny 2./post/version1-signs-female-valorant-roster-fueling-a-growing-women-s-scene/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/version1-signs-female-valorant-roster-fueling-a-growing-women-s-scene/ Version1 announced the signing of an all-female VALORANT squad today. The new roster, competing as VersionX, will have their sights set on the third NA VCT Game Changers event scheduled to begin at the end of September. Introducing: VersionX | #VXVAL Our all-female #VALORANT squad 💥@NaomiFPS | @NattyFPS | @BasedGodMilk | @karraOf | @rushhh___ pic.twitter.com/KYcqtRXbXx — Version1 (@version1gg) September 23, 2021 The roster consists of Kiara “Milkyway” Blue Kukilakilaokalani Makua (in-game leader/controller), Natalia “Natty” Jackson (main duelist/secondary flex), Rachel Lynn “Rush” Hang (initiator), Katherine “Karra” Lee (smoker/Sage), and Naomi Sauvola (sentinel/flex Skye)./post/dr-disrespect-s-streaming-schedule-what-time-does-doc-stream/Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/dr-disrespect-s-streaming-schedule-what-time-does-doc-stream/ Dr Disrespect is one of the premier live content creators online, known for his egomaniacal persona.  Since being banned on Twitch for reasons that have still not been made public, the Two-Time has gone to YouTube for his streams. And while he doesn’t stream as much as many other content creators, the production that he puts into his broadcasts makes them appointment watching. Living in California, Dr Disrespect’s streams typically start in the afternoon for viewers on the East Coast./post/4-new-legendaries-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-fractured-in-alterac-valley-expansion/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/4-new-legendaries-revealed-for-hearthstone-s-fractured-in-alterac-valley-expansion/ Today the Hearthstone community learned about the game’s next expansion, Fractured in Alterac Valley. We also got our first look at some of the new Legendaries coming alongside the expansion. Two of the newly revealed Legendaries give fans the long-awaited return of Hero Cards. Wildheart Guff is a new Druid Hero that costs five mana and rewards five armor. Wildheart’s Battlecry sets your max mana to 20 and allows you to gain a mana crystal and draw a card./post/here-are-the-control-capture-zones-for-the-2019-cwl-ruleset/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-control-capture-zones-for-the-2019-cwl-ruleset/ The 2019 Call of Duty World League ruleset has officially been unveiled, introducing fans to a new third game mode: Control. Control is a new multiplayer game mode in Black Ops 4, and it’ll replace Capture the Flag in the upcoming competitive season. It’s almost like a combination of Hardpoint and Search and Destroy. Related: The initial ruleset for the 2019 CWL season Control is a round-based game mode. Both teams will have 25 lives per round./post/rampart-spray-paints-over-her-signs-in-new-apex-town-takeover-teaser/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/rampart-spray-paints-over-her-signs-in-new-apex-town-takeover-teaser/ Rampart added her own touch to the signs in Lava City in today’s teaser. The signs first appeared on Sunday, announcing the modder’s move to World’s Edge, and should indicate that a Rampart Town Takeover is on the way. The sign boasts a series of new messages. It now reads “R’s new place” instead of “Renewal Plaza,” for instance. World’s Edge will also be the “exclusive home to Big Maude,” as per the sign, and a colossal, stylized ship appears on the right, with “mine” written above it./post/clg-s-huhi-becomes-a-permanent-resident-of-the-us/Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/clg-s-huhi-becomes-a-permanent-resident-of-the-us/ CLG’s mid laner Choi “Huhi” Jae-hyun is no longer an import in the NA LCS—he’s now a permanent resident of the United States, the player revealed on Twitter last night. Huhi made the announcement shortly after CLG’s victory over Echo Fox in the opening match of the NA LCS’ week four schedule, defying all expectations and disrupting the four-way tie for first place in the process. The NA LCS only permits two imports on a starting roster, forcing teams to have three North American players when they compete./post/new-league-of-legends-mystery-skin-shard-available-for-prime-gaming-subscribers-today/Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-league-of-legends-mystery-skin-shard-available-for-prime-gaming-subscribers-today/ Prime Gaming subscribers can redeem another new Mystery Skin Shard in League of Legends today. The drop is number 22 of 36 Mystery Skin Shards that will be gifted to members of the service throughout 2021. ⚠️ If you’re reading this you just got dunked on. It’s not all bad though, we’ve got another @LeagueofLegends mystery skin shard for ya 😉 https://t.co/FLGlPqmP9p pic.twitter.com/9A0QMMvKRY — PrimeGaming (@primegaming) August 13, 2021 To add this to your collection, you’ll need to navigate to the Prime Gaming website and click the Claim Now button that’s accompanied by the Mystery Skin Shard images./post/how-to-remove-and-insert-your-sim-card-into-iphone-13-and-13-pro/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-remove-and-insert-your-sim-card-into-iphone-13-and-13-pro/ Before you can even use your new iPhone 13, 13 Pro, 13 Mini, or Pro Max, you need to know how to insert your SIM card into your device. Thankfully for users, the process for putting your SIM card into the phone hasn’t really changed in a while when it comes to iPhones. Customers still have to use a small pin to open the hatch on either side of their phones and slot in the card./post/we-re-having-way-too-much-fun-playing-mill-druid-in-hearthstone/Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/we-re-having-way-too-much-fun-playing-mill-druid-in-hearthstone/ Milling in Hearthstone used to be a fun, if misguided, dream. Load up your deck with cards like Coldlight Oracles, Naturalizes, and Dancing Swords, which force your opponent to burn through as many cards as possible. It wouldn’t work 90 percent of the time, the other player usually tipping his hat towards your generous gift of card draw—but on the rare occasion where you made that Control Warrior burn his Alexstrasza and Grommash Hellscream on a Coldlight?/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-super-bullets-are-created-thanks-to-weapon-fire-rate-and-server-tick-rate/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-super-bullets-are-created-thanks-to-weapon-fire-rate-and-server-tick-rate/ If you’ve ever been playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and died to an enemy really quickly, you aren’t alone. Also known as being “beamed,” “melted,” or “joked,” it happens often, and it’s not always the Stopping Power field upgrade that does it. According to multiplayer netcode analyst BattleNonSense, it has to do with a combination of things: a gun’s fire rate and the game’s server tick rate. If #CallofDutyModernWarfare has guns with a firing rate of more than 600RPM, then this causes "/post/riot-to-add-dedicated-valorant-servers-for-mena-region-tomorrow/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-add-dedicated-valorant-servers-for-mena-region-tomorrow/ VALORANT players located in the Middle East and North Africa have struggled with poor connection since the game launched earlier this year. But Riot Games has taken steps to address this problem by establishing a new data center to help players in these regions.  VALORANT executive producer Anna Donlon announced a new VALORANT data center located in Bahrain today, which will help players in the Middle East and North Africa have a more stable in-game connection./post/apex-legends-season-8-lore-recap/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-season-8-lore-recap/ Apex Legends’ eighth season kicked off with a blast. Walter “Fuse” Fitzroy was the 16th legend to join the Apex Games. He hails from Salvo, the seventh planet to join Syndicate space, and he took advantage of the new treaty to make a name for himself—much to the disdain of his friend-turned-nemesis, Margaret “Mad Maggie” Kōhere. Fuse’s arrival in the Apex Games created some trouble for the legends when Maggie came knocking in Kings Canyon with an armed ship in hand./post/best-life-staff-build-in-new-world/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-life-staff-build-in-new-world/ New World is nearing its official release, and thanks to the beta testing phases, players have gotten an idea of the weapon choices in the game and what works best for them. The best choice for those who are planning to go the route of healing in New World is undoubtedly the Life Staff. While there are plenty of different ways to build this weapon, there are some keys you need to know if you want to do work in both PvP and PvE./post/riot-to-set-up-clash-trophy-case-for-league-players-to-view-past-accomplishments/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-set-up-clash-trophy-case-for-league-players-to-view-past-accomplishments/ League of Legends players will soon be able to look back on all their Clash glory days straight from the client. League lead gameplay designer Mark “Scruffy” Yetter discussed the new feature in today’s Dev Corner post, explaining that the “Trophy Case” tab will store all your monumental Clash achievements. Just posted Gameplay Thoughts: -Clash Trophy Case -Updated Elite Balance Framework -Our Covid-19 Priorities Hope everyone is staying safe and happy out there./post/hackers-take-down-apex-servers-as-a-plea-to-save-titanfall-from-hackers/Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hackers-take-down-apex-servers-as-a-plea-to-save-titanfall-from-hackers/ Hackers took down some of Apex Legends’ servers this Sunday as part of a plea to “save Titanfall” from the relentless hacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that plague the game. The attacks appear to spread over multiple regions and platforms. Numerous players reported that the usual game modes, from the Firing Range to Arenas, were unavailable. The only exception was another banner under the guise of a limited-time mode, which directed players to a website called savetitanfall./post/how-can-remaining-teams-qualify-for-2022-vct-na-challengers-one/Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-can-remaining-teams-qualify-for-2022-vct-na-challengers-one/ Four teams have secured qualification for the group stage of the 2022 NA VALORANT Champions Tour Stage One Challengers event, but there are another four slots up for grabs.  Teams like TSM, Akrew, Rise, and T1 failed to qualify for the upcoming tournament through the open qualifier, which concluded on Jan. 31. But each team will have another shot at earning a spot in Stage One Challengers One in a few days./post/paris-eternal-add-nosmite/Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/paris-eternal-add-nosmite/ More tanks, fewer problems? The Paris Eternal have signed former Hangzhou Spark tank Jeong “NoSmite” Da-Un to their growing mixed-roster team, the team announced today. NoSmite played for X6 Gaming in Overwatch Contenders Korea before being picked up by the Hangzhou Spark in 2018. In the early stages of the Overwatch League’s second season, NoSmite shared stage time with fellow main tank Xu “Guxue” Qiulin. NoSmite showed an understanding of Reinhardt and the tank skills necessary to succeed in the triple-triple meta./post/everything-to-know-about-mtg-arena-strixhaven-pre-order-bundles-and-mastery-pass-rewards/Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-mtg-arena-strixhaven-pre-order-bundles-and-mastery-pass-rewards/ The upcoming release of Strixhaven: School of Mages via MTG Arena will have a Kasmina pre-order pack bundle, a Professor Onyx pre-order play bundle, and a number of rewards via the Mastery Pass.  School launches on April 15 with the digital release of Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX). Players can purchase two STX preorder bundles in the MTG Arena store prior to the set’s release. Wizards of the Coast has a preorder pack bundle for booster pack enthusiasts, along with a preorder play bundle that includes a Mastery Pass and Limited play tokens./post/here-s-fortnite-s-current-loot-pool/Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-fortnite-s-current-loot-pool/ Fortnite: Battle Royale keeps reinventing itself and adding new elements to the game through regular updates. The game receives weekly updates to fix bugs, add elements, and balance the stats. In Chapter Two, Season Two the updates are coming out every 14 days. The change in the schedule should not affect the game in any way, and we could see Epic Games going back to weekly patches.  Epic vaulted a long list of items including the Minigun, Slurp Juice, and even Stink Bombs./post/how-to-play-surf-maps-and-servers-on-cs-go/Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-surf-maps-and-servers-on-cs-go/ Grinding the ranked ladder of CS:GO day in and out can be fun at first, but even the best players in the world experience burnout somewhere along the line. While taking a break from the game will be the ultimate recharging method, it’s also possible to unwind while playing CS:GO. There are countless different casual game modes in CS:GO, each taking the legendary shooter title to places one would never imagine./post/when-does-overwatch-s-2021-archives-event-end/Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-overwatch-s-2021-archives-event-end/ Overwatch’s 2021 Archives event started yesterday, giving players access to a plethora of new in-game cosmetics as well as the ability to unlock older seasonal skins.  Lasting three weeks, the event features a number of PvE “missions” that give players the opportunity to earn loot boxes and achievements. The PvE instances also give fans a chance to dive into some of the lore associated with their favorite characters. The missions available are “Uprising,” “Retribution,” and “Storm Rising./post/shiny-grookey-sobble-scorbunny-and-their-shiny-evolutions-have-been-leaked/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shiny-grookey-sobble-scorbunny-and-their-shiny-evolutions-have-been-leaked/ The starter Pokemon for Sword and Shield have reportedly had their shiny forms leaked ahead of the game’s official release. Grookey’s shiny form is a lot lighter in color and seems to resemble an Autumn leaf. Scorbunny’s is also more orange than red and seems to be developing light grey fur. Sobble’s though is by far the best Shiny, taking a more purple color that shiny Water Pokémon are known for./post/the-best-pubg-settings-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-pc/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-pubg-settings-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-pc/ Almost all game titles on PC can adjust their graphical settings automatically based on the player’s hardware. It doesn’t matter how advanced these algorithms are, however; no game will be able to tell your personal graphical preferences on your first login. A mixture of decent quality and performance won’t cut it for competitive gamers since you’ll want to squeeze the last bit of performance out of your system to ensure a smooth gaming experience./post/deficio-will-still-be-on-the-lec-analyst-desk-next-year-but-will-he-cast/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/deficio-will-still-be-on-the-lec-analyst-desk-next-year-but-will-he-cast/ When Martin “Deficio” Lynge became a League of Legends caster in 2014, he’d already carved out a name for himself as one of the founding personalities of competitive League in Europe. But over the last five years, his career as a caster has been simply extraordinary. Before he left to become general manager of LEC team Origen, he had become the most popular caster in the world and could have been one of the most beloved casters ever./post/this-elderwood-skin-concept-envisions-zoe-as-a-spirit-and-protector-of-the-forest/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-elderwood-skin-concept-envisions-zoe-as-a-spirit-and-protector-of-the-forest/ League of Legends‘ Elderwood skin line is one of the more aesthetic cosmetic series that the game has to offer. One talented artist has imagined the Aspect of Twilight, Zoe, as a protector of the woodland that many others have struggled to protect. Artist Elisa Rio gave Zoe a great Elderwood makeover, complete with a new color palette and design. The concept still stays true to the champion’s original adventurous, joyful self, while also splashing in some necessary accents to differentiate her from the other versions./post/ardent-censer-will-no-longer-work-on-self-shields-in-patch-10-1/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ardent-censer-will-no-longer-work-on-self-shields-in-patch-10-1/ In League of Legends Patch 10.1, the first update of the new year, Ardent Censer will no longer work with self-shields, according to a Reddit comment from a Riot staffer. This is a big change to the item, as some strange uses of the item have become more and more popular since the feature was added during the pre-season. Ardent Censer is an item that increases the amount of healing and shielding a champion can do, but it also applies on-hit damage and attack speed to those you shield./post/how-to-identify-items-in-diablo-2-resurrected/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-identify-items-in-diablo-2-resurrected/ Getting to grips with Diablo 2: Resurrected can be an uphill battle.  The game has a steep learning curve. Some mechanics are intuitive and are all-too-familiar to players with a background in action role-playing games, but others are more nuanced and include multiple layers. The identify mechanic is a staple of the Diablo series, with its origins rooted in the first game. But Blizzard has iterated on the formula throughout the years./post/league-of-legends-player-respawns-and-instantly-dies-to-long-range-ziggs-ultimate-in-fountain/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-player-respawns-and-instantly-dies-to-long-range-ziggs-ultimate-in-fountain/ One League of Legends player recently had no time to get back into the game after respawning because they were killed by a long-range ability upon immediately returning to the battle.  In a League clip posted on Reddit today, a Caitlyn player had respawned looking to join a late-game teamfight in defense of their base. But when a Mega Inferno Bomb (R) from an enemy Ziggs player standing practically three full screens away came raining down on their fountain, the Caitlyn player was thrown back into black-and-white mode immediately after coming back to life./post/breach-s-ultimate-sends-player-flying-in-valorant/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/breach-s-ultimate-sends-player-flying-in-valorant/ A VALORANT player was launched high up into the air after being hit by Breach’s ultimate ability but managed to to clutch the round regardless.  The player was watching A site on Ascent and killed two enemies who pushed into the site before focusing on the other entrance. The enemy Breach used his Rolling Thunder ultimate ability, which concusses and knocks up players caught in the blast.  But this time, the ability launched the player significantly higher into the air and allowed them to see most of the map./post/youtube-and-twitch-star-el-rubius-set-to-appear-in-uncharted-movie/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/youtube-and-twitch-star-el-rubius-set-to-appear-in-uncharted-movie/ The days of streamers appearing in major films or television appearances are only getting more common, and the latest of these comes with the newly revealed Uncharted movie. Taking to Twitter today, Spanish streamer and YouTuber El Rubius that he will be appearing in the film alongside star Tom Holland for an “NPC role.” The content creator who has a Twitch following of 10 million and 40 million YouTube subscribers shared images from the set of the film./post/pestily-raises-1-million-for-starlight-children-s-foundation/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pestily-raises-1-million-for-starlight-children-s-foundation/ Popular Escape From Tarkov streamer Pestily achieved his goal of raising $1,000,000 for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. The streamer redirected all donation links on his channel at the beginning of 2020 to positively impact his community.  Pestily stood as the most-watched streamer of Escape from Tarkov in 2019 and finished with over 2,000 hours of airtime throughout the year. His channel became more popular when Battlestate games enabled in-game drops for the game towards the end of the year./post/programmer-creates-pok%C3%A9mon-emerald-bot-where-whole-discord-server-can-play/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/programmer-creates-pok%C3%A9mon-emerald-bot-where-whole-discord-server-can-play/ Pokémon fans are always seeking out creative ways to play through games in the series and one fan has crafted one of the most inventive yet. Programmer Constantin Liétard showcased a bot he had created to play Pokémon Emerald from inside of Discord. The bot is controlled by users’ reactions to the game’s stream. With each react, the character in-game is moved accordingly. Liétard is encouraging Pokémon fans to join his discord and get in on the action, along with over 2,000 members at the time of writing./post/the-8-best-gifts-for-apex-legends-fans/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-8-best-gifts-for-apex-legends-fans/ It’s hard to believe, but the holiday season is approaching quickly. It’s already time to make your list and check it twice, particularly for any gamers you may know. What do you get the fan who already has everything? If the gamer in your life is a big fan of Apex Legends, we’ve got you covered. We’ve rounded up the eight best Apex-themed gift ideas on the internet and collected them here for your ease of shopping./post/arena-of-valor-international-championship-aic-2022-will-take-place-in-june-with-2-million-prize-pool/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/arena-of-valor-international-championship-aic-2022-will-take-place-in-june-with-2-million-prize-pool/ The Arena of Valor International Championship (AIC) 2022 will take place from June 16 to July 10, Garena revealed in a press release today. Sixteen teams from around the world will be competing for a share of the $2 million prize pool, the highest in the history of the AIC. The 16 teams will qualify for the AIC through 10 regions. These are as follows. Garena Challenger Series (GCS): Three teamsRoV Pro League (RPL): Three teamsArena of Glory (AOG): Three teamsAOV Star League (ASL): One teamSEA Wildcard (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines): One teamBrazil: One teamWest Europe: One teamTurkey: One teamThe Middle East and North Africa: One teamSouth Asia: One team The AIC will happen virtually and is split into the group stage, quarterfinals, semifinals, and the grand finals./post/gismo-to-join-ultra-academy-eu-after-moving-to-london-royal-ravens-bench/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/gismo-to-join-ultra-academy-eu-after-moving-to-london-royal-ravens-bench/ The London Royal Ravens is loaning Gismo to Toronto Ultra’s European academy team for the Call of Duty Challengers Elite Series Three and Call of Duty League Major Three Open 2022, Team Singularity announced today. On May 2, Gismo was moved to the bench for the U.K-based team, which meant Harry was inserted into London’s starting lineup, joining forces with Zer0, Afro, and Nastie for the foreseeable future. We've agreed to loan @JGismo_ from the @RoyalRavens ahead of the Elite Stage 3./post/how-to-get-the-regalia-type-g-mount-on-final-fantasy-xiv/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-regalia-type-g-mount-on-final-fantasy-xiv/ Although Final Fantasy XIV is a fantasy MMO game, it features an incredibly varied aesthetic style, ranging from typical fantasy themes to modern looks. The Regalia Type-G mount belongs to the latter, and it’s one of the most popular mounts. The Regalia Type-G is a fancy car in black that can carry up to four players, which makes it one of the few mounts with over one seat despite not being in the Mog Station./post/fortnite-s-v9-30-content-update-1-unvaults-the-pump-shotgun/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-s-v9-30-content-update-1-unvaults-the-pump-shotgun/ Epic Games released a Fortnite: Battle Royale Content Update this morning that can turn the game meta upside down. With this update, four items and weapons have been vaulted, four others unvaulted, and eight others adjusted to some extent. This update came as a surprise for players who were expecting Epic to first announce the time and date it would push the changes live, as usual. It didn’t happen this time, and everything went live with no need of server downtime or download of files./post/how-to-farm-sea-ganoderma-in-genshin-impact/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-farm-sea-ganoderma-in-genshin-impact/ The vast world of Teyvat in Genshin Impact is full of unique resources for players to collect. Every character in the game requires a different set of materials to build them up and newly added five-star Electro Catalyst user Yae Miko is the second one to require Sea Ganoderma for Ascension, the other being fellow Inazuman character Kazuha.  Sea Ganoderma is not a newer resource within the game, but the area it first appeared in, the Golden Apple Archipelago, was a special event area that is now inaccessible to players./post/new-air-strike-goal-explosion-in-rocket-league-blows-up-nearby-vehicles/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-air-strike-goal-explosion-in-rocket-league-blows-up-nearby-vehicles/ The new Air Strike Goal Explosion in Rocket League adds an exciting animation to goals and destroys nearby vehicles.  One player shared a clip yesterday of the new animation destroying his vehicle when playing in a private match. They scored goals, stayed near the explosion, and witnessed their car blow up multiple times.  New Airstrike goal explosion actually blows up nearby cars! from RocketLeague The explosion doesn’t impact gameplay since it occurs after a goal is scored, but it’s an excellent way to rub in a goal./post/geowizard-makes-insanely-accurate-guess-without-seeing-location-on-ludwig-s-stream/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/geowizard-makes-insanely-accurate-guess-without-seeing-location-on-ludwig-s-stream/ GeoGuessr is a game that shows players a location on Google Maps and asks them to pinpoint where the location appears on the map only using hints within the showcased area. Making an accurate guess is extremely difficult given a number of different factors, but making an accurate guess without ever seeing the location itself is something insane. That is what the YouTuber GeoWizard was able to pull off on Ludwig’s stream, though./post/atlanta-reign-s-daniel-dafran-francesca-retires-from-overwatch/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/atlanta-reign-s-daniel-dafran-francesca-retires-from-overwatch/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Atlanta Reign DPS and popular streamer Daniel “Dafran” Francesca is retired from the Overwatch League—a stunning move that comes just before the beginning stage two of the Overwatch League. In a statement, the Atlanta Reign said Dafran “didn’t want to draw attention to himself” while the team was still playing, so he waited to announce this change after the stage was over./post/how-to-appeal-a-dmca-strike-on-twitch/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-appeal-a-dmca-strike-on-twitch/ It can be challenging to figure out how to submit an appeal for a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strike on Twitch. There have been many changes and updates to the DMCA policy for Twitch and just googling it can lead you to many different sites. Suppose, for example, you have received a DMCA strike and believe it’s a mistake since your video qualifies as fair use under U.S. law or it was a misidentification./post/why-sodapoppin-isn-t-playing-wow-anymore-on-stream/Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/why-sodapoppin-isn-t-playing-wow-anymore-on-stream/ Sodapoppin was one of the most-watched personalities on Twitch last year when he was playing World of Warcraft Classic, both during its beta and after it went live. But in his first stream back from a one-month hiatus today, the streamer said he doesn’t plan on playing the game again on air.  “I’m not going to play WoW on stream again for a long time,” Soda said. “I still have to do my MC raid every week, where I manage 39 retards./post/extensive-hotfix-nerfs-to-master-yi-pushed-live-to-league-patch-12-5/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/extensive-hotfix-nerfs-to-master-yi-pushed-live-to-league-patch-12-5/ Master Yi, a champion long known to take over lower ELO League of Legends, recently received massive changes that shifted power away from his Lethality build. This resulted in a large increase to the champion’s win rate in just a few days, leading Riot Games to deploy a hotfix to his kit last night. Following buffs aiming towards an on-hit build for Master Yi in Patch 12.5, Riot has pushed hotfix nerfs to live servers to take some newfound power away from the Wuju Bladesman./post/ladybug-bulletfish-and-moth-pok%C3%A9mon-reportedly-leaked-for-sword-and-shield/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ladybug-bulletfish-and-moth-pok%C3%A9mon-reportedly-leaked-for-sword-and-shield/ Editor’s Note: The leaked images that were previously featured in this article have been removed due to a Digital Millenium Copyright Act claim from The Pokémon Company International, Inc. (“TPCi”). Even more Pokémon appear to have leaked for Pokémon Sword and Shield ahead of the games official release on Nov. 15, throwing a wrench into the works for Nintendo and Game Freak, who have remained tight-lipped about the games so far./post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-minecraft/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-minecraft/ Lag is one of the major annoyances that some Minecraft players have had to put up with over the years. Just like in any other title, Minecraft can suffer from frame drops to stuttering and everything in between. Luckily, since the open-world game has been out for so long, players have come up with some creative ways to get around the lag. This applies to both the single-player and multiplayer sides of Minecraft./post/how-to-fix-steam-error-e502-l3/Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-steam-error-e502-l3/ Steam is one of the largest gaming platforms on the planet, hosting millions of users playing thousands of different games every day. With such a wide net of data being processed, error codes and other problems are a common occurrence when trying to use the service.  Just like with most games and live services, a majority of the problems Steam encounters have to do with a user’s connection to the platform’s server./post/nadeshot-will-leave-optic-karma-tapped-as-replacement/Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nadeshot-will-leave-optic-karma-tapped-as-replacement/ After a disappointing finish at the Call of Duty Championship, the planet’s biggest console gaming team is in for a massive shakeup. Team captain Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag is stepping down from competitive gaming. In his stead two-time title winner Damon “Karma” Barlow will join the roster of the winningest team in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, OpTic Gaming. Haag might be the most popular pro gamer in the West bar none. The 22-year-old is a phenomenon, a professional who has managed to build a brand that almost overshadows the game he plays itself./post/the-best-stoner-63-loadout-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-stoner-63-loadout-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ Call of Duty: Warzone hasn’t seen a dominant light machine gun since the nerfing of the Bruen last year. Since then, Warzone’s meta has been all about shotguns, tactical rifles, akimbo pistols, and snipers. But LMGs might be ready to make a comeback with the Stoner 63 from Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The Stoner 63 is the best light machine gun in Black Ops Cold War and it’s also a great addition to the roster of weapons in Warzone./post/overwatch-streamer-banned-from-twitch-for-hate-speech-toward-south-american-players/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-streamer-banned-from-twitch-for-hate-speech-toward-south-american-players/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Fareeha Andersen, an Overwatch streamer known as a Grand Master and Top 500 player, received a 30-day suspension Tuesday for hate speech after referring to South American players as “shit.” The wording in context took place on Feb. 7, where Fareeha played against a non-professional team of South American players. During the match, she can be heard saying “it’s alright, we can still beat them, South American players are shit./post/todas-las-ubicaciones-de-pastel-de-cumplea%C3%B1os-en-fortnite/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/todas-las-ubicaciones-de-pastel-de-cumplea%C3%B1os-en-fortnite/ Ya se cumple el segundo cumpleaños de Fortnite, y Epic Games lanzó algunos desafíos para que las y los jugadores completen y desbloqueen elementos cosméticos. Dos de ellos tienen que ver con encontrar tortas de cumpleaños esparcidas por la isla de Fortnite. En la primera, tendrás que bailar o usar cualquier emoticono delante de las 10 tortas. En el otro, deben recuperar 50 de vida o escudo comiendo trozos de pastel que rodean a estas enormes tortas, con un total de 10 trozos ya que cada uno recupera cinco puntos de vida./post/hydration-leaves-the-houston-outlaws/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hydration-leaves-the-houston-outlaws/ The Lone Star State is about to get a little lonelier for the Houston Outlaws. João Pedro “Hydration” Goes Telles, veteran flex DPS of the team, has decided to part ways with the Texas organization.  Hydration began his career in the Overwatch League as a part of the Los Angeles Gladiators, often stunning fans with his aerial destruction on heroes like Pharah. During the 2019 offseason, he was acquired by the Houston Outlaws to add some flexibility to its roster./post/snow-returns-to-mtg-standard-in-kaldheim-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade/Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/snow-returns-to-mtg-standard-in-kaldheim-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-decade/ Vikings hail from Scandinavia, an area that receives heavy snowfall. So it’s fitting that Magic’s upcoming Viking-inspired set Kaldheim features the return of Snow as a mechanic in a Standard set for the first time since Coldsnap in 2006. Snow is a supertype that appears on all types of permanents. A Snow card doesn’t necessarily do anything on its own, but various cards have payoffs for controlling multiple Snow permanents. The most common type of Snow permanent is Snow-Covered lands./post/upcoming-league-season-10-buffs-aim-to-improve-junglers-early-game-xp/Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/upcoming-league-season-10-buffs-aim-to-improve-junglers-early-game-xp/ Riot game designer Kevin “Captain Gameplay” Huang broke down the jungle XP buffs slated to hit the Rift soon in a tweet today. After League of Legends junglers complained of being far under-leveled in comparison to other roles, Riot devs are increasing XP gain from the four to 18-minute mark. While the preseason jungle nerfs certainly affected high-rank players, it was most felt in lower elos where players have less consistent clear paths./post/free-brawl-stars-gifts-handed-out-daily-to-celebrate-second-anniversary-of-launch-in-china/Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/free-brawl-stars-gifts-handed-out-daily-to-celebrate-second-anniversary-of-launch-in-china/ A few days following Bonnie’s launch, Supercell is giving fans free daily gifts in the Brawl Stars shop to celebrate the second anniversary of the game’s launch in China. A new design has also taken over the game’s interface and shop in the theme of the Worst Bunch skin bundle. They have joined the shop for a few days, and players can receive a skin for Byron, Bonnie, and Lola. They can get a price reduction for buying the whole bundle, but they’ll have to own Bonnie./post/multiversus-is-bringing-2-vs-2-action-and-a-100-000-prize-pool-to-evo-2022/Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/multiversus-is-bringing-2-vs-2-action-and-a-100-000-prize-pool-to-evo-2022/ Before the official Evo 2022 lineup was revealed in March, fans speculated that Warner Bros.’ platform crossover fighter MultiVersus might be included since it was already scheduled for a 2022 release and it would be a good way to promote the free-to-play title. And while it wasn’t featured in the original announcement, Player First Games has now confirmed that MultiVersus will in fact be featured at the event from Aug. 5 to 7 with a $100,000 prize pool./post/what-are-the-old-verse-items-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-the-old-verse-items-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus does a lot to expand on the lore and legends of the Pokémon universe, providing players with more opportunities than ever to learn about the world and the creatures inhabiting it.  Legends: Arceus also goes beyond that by setting up a mythos surrounding “The Ancient Sinnoh,” which players will learn about throughout the game by talking to NPCs. While traveling around Hisui, you will learn more about the legends that have been shared from person to person in the region, specifically when it comes to the Diamond and Pearl clans, who each believe Ancient Sinnoh to be something different than the other./post/players-can-fly-in-apex-legends-using-crypto-and-pathfinder/Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/players-can-fly-in-apex-legends-using-crypto-and-pathfinder/ From flying across trains to getting speed boosted, Pathfinder has some incredible abilities on the new Apex Legends map. But now he can fly with the help of the new legend, Crypto.  To fly around the map, players need to first launch Crypto’s Surveillance Drone into the air, ensuring that it’s in an open space and not secluded under a building or inside a cave. Next, Pathfinder needs to use his Grappling Hook (Q) ability to latch onto the Drone./post/best-common-map-callouts-in-rainbow-six-siege/Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-common-map-callouts-in-rainbow-six-siege/ In Rainbow Six Siege, it’s important to know the maps inside and out. To help you out with that, there are tons of online resources, including these detailed map blueprints from Steam user “muchbetterthanthis.” In addition, if you’re inside the map’s building, you can look at the compass in the bottom right of your screen and find where you are. Regardless, there are several spots that aren’t readily available on the compass that you need to know on the ranked map playlist, as well as some that apply to all maps./post/streamer-almost-beats-near-impossible-super-mario-maker-level-but-falls-at-the-last-hurdle/Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/streamer-almost-beats-near-impossible-super-mario-maker-level-but-falls-at-the-last-hurdle/ After 1520 days and 3000 hours of progression, Twitch streamer ChainChompBraden almost beat one of the hardest levels ever created in Super Mario Maker.  Trial of Death is a 10-minute seizure-inducing free-for-all. Its long-length, its intricacies, and its chaotic and seemingly random nature make it one of the most difficult levels in Super Mario Maker. Most levels take hours to complete, but Trial of Death has taken years. Since 2015, ChainChompBraden has attempted to complete the level, combining pinpoint accuracy, luck, and patience./post/top-10-s-best-finishers-of-all-time/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/top-10-s-best-finishers-of-all-time/ Introduction This week on Top 10’s, we are going to shift gears a little bit. Let’s call it the Picasso episode. While the past few weeks of this series have been razor-edge focused, this time around we are going to go a little more abstract. I say this because today we are looking at the best finishers of all time, and to do that we need to define exactly what a finisher is./post/which-agency-to-choose-in-nba-2k22-mycareer/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/which-agency-to-choose-in-nba-2k22-mycareer/ NBA 2K22 players who start playing MyCareer, the popular game mode where you create your own prospect to compete in the NBA, will once again be presented with the option to choose between two different agencies to represent them throughout their journey. You’ll have to decide to either go with the Palmer Athletic Agency or Berry and Associates in the Draft Day quest. Each agency has its own perks and it depends on what you want for your player./post/riot-says-a-ranked-mode-is-not-the-right-answer-to-bring-a-competitive-feel-to-aram/Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-says-a-ranked-mode-is-not-the-right-answer-to-bring-a-competitive-feel-to-aram/ Since its release in 2012, ARAM has been one of the most popular League of Legends modes, especially among more casual fans. There will always be a portion of diehard ARAM players who want a competitive lobby. But Riot Games confirmed today that it won’t add a ranked ARAM mode to the game. Riot designer Jon “IAmAWalrus” Moorman said that what makes ARAM so great is the “random” aspect. If people start to place too much focus on the competitive side of the mode, then the randomness of the champions won’t be as fun for the player base anymore since they’d be losing LP./post/tft-data-reveals-popularity-of-playing-yuumi-and-kindred/Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-data-reveals-popularity-of-playing-yuumi-and-kindred/ Yuumi and Kindred are the most often two-starred three-cost champions in Teamfight Tactics, according to data revealed today by lead designer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer. Three-cost champions play a vital role in mid-game TFT strategies, providing trait synergy and power. Several three-cost champs share trait synergies, but none can produce healing, speed, and power like Yuumi and Kindred. In a Twitter contest created by Mortdog, it was revealed today that the two most often two-starred three-cost champions are the Spirit duo of Yuumi and Kindred./post/best-pink-computer-mice/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-pink-computer-mice/ “Pink everything” is the motto of many gamers when they set out to buy a new gaming peripheral. There are pink controllers, pink chairs, pink keyboards, and pink computer mice available for purchase.  While some gamers may settle for black and gray everything, there are more aesthetically-driven gamers who want everything in their gaming setup to match a specific color palette. Colorful setups are fun, personal, and can add to the enjoyment of gaming./post/call-of-duty-league-loadouts-for-the-kar98k-and-ratt/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-league-loadouts-for-the-kar98k-and-ratt/ Sniper rifles have been a controversial topic in the competitive Call of Duty community over the last two weeks. They were restricted by pro players a week before the Call of Duty League’s Kickoff Classic and then brought back 24 hours later after community backlash. After bringing snipers back, players have done their best to balance the weapon by restricting multiple attachments over the last few weeks. It’s hard to tell exactly which ones they’ve added to Gentlemen’s Agreement list, however./post/all-minecraft-mc-championship-9-teams/Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-minecraft-mc-championship-9-teams/ The ninth edition of the MC Championship is less than a month away and the countdown has already started with Noxcrew announcing the date of the event. MC Championship 8 was filled with some of the most famous names in the Minecraft community and even featured unexpected alliances between long-time competitors. The event surely lived up to the hype with its nail-biting final game. The Minecraft community is already looking forward to the next chapter of the monthly roller coaster of emotions that is MC Championship./post/fortnite-chapter-2-season-7-battle-pass-trailer-revealed/Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-chapter-2-season-7-battle-pass-trailer-revealed/ With Fortnite Chapter Two, season seven launching later today, fans have been treated to the reveal of what exactly this new season will include. Part of this reveal is the battle pass trailer, which showcases plenty of new skins and weapons coming in the game’s latest season. The most notable inclusions are Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty and Superman. There were reports that Fortnite planned to collaborate with Rick and Morty during the upcoming season and it seems like the collaboration won’t be limited to a single skin./post/how-to-play-the-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-open-beta/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-the-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-open-beta/ The highly-anticipated release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is quickly approaching. But yesterday, Activision provided details about the first two beta weekends. There are two “weekends” planned for the Modern Warfare beta, but each “weekend” will last around five days.  Unfortunately for Xbox or PC users, the first beta is exclusive to PlayStation 4 owners. The first two days of the beta will be available for PS4 owners who pre-ordered Modern Warfare./post/ninja-tweets-out-a-phone-number-so-fans-can-text-him/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ninja-tweets-out-a-phone-number-so-fans-can-text-him/ Popular streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is giving fans a way to contact him outside of his stream chat and social media. Ninja tweeted a video today revealing a phone number (312-584-4684) that anyone can use to text him. “Yes this is my number,” Ninja said. “Yes I will receive each and every text. I’ll try to reply to as many as possible.” 312-584-4684 yes this is my number. Yes I will receive each and every text./post/valorant-player-discovers-wall-bang-spot-on-split/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-discovers-wall-bang-spot-on-split/ A VALORANT player found a new spot where players can wall bang enemies in A main from B Link by shooting through a wall in Sewer. I discovered a crazy new 1 way wall bang on spilt. from VALORANT A VALORANT player uploaded a short clip of an enemy agent killing them by firing through the wall in Sewers on Split. They were confused by the takedown since it’s an unusual and mostly unknown wall bang spot, so they jumped into a custom game to recreate the incident./post/how-to-perform-a-drag-back-in-fifa-21/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-perform-a-drag-back-in-fifa-21/ You have to learn at least a few skill moves in FIFA games, whether it’s to beat your friends, online opponents, or just against the AI. A well-done skill move helps you create space when on the attack—and the drag back is one of the best and easiest skill moves to perform. The dribbling move was quite overpowered in FIFA 20 and has undergone a slight tweak in FIFA 21./post/all-the-cards-available-in-the-pok%C3%A9mon-forbidden-light-tcg-expansion/Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-the-cards-available-in-the-pok%C3%A9mon-forbidden-light-tcg-expansion/ The next Pokémon Trading Card Game set, Forbidden Light, has launched today after months of waiting, bringing with it over 140 new cards for eager trainers to collect. The set is a combination of the Japanese Forbidden Light set with a few extra cards from the Ultra Force expansion that released a few months ago. As the second set based on Pokémon from Ultra Sun and Moon games, the expansion introduces five new Prism Star cards, eight Pokémon-GX, six Ultra Beasts, 15 Trainer cards, two Special Energy cards, and over 100 different common and rares that you can check out for yourself below./post/esl-rio-major-completely-sells-out-in-an-hour/Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/esl-rio-major-completely-sells-out-in-an-hour/ All tickets for the ESL Rio CS:GO Major set for October 2022 are completely sold out after less than an hour, according to ESL. The Rio Major was only announced on May 24, just days after the completion of the PGL Antwerp Major. Tickets officially went on sale at 12pm CT, but within just an hour, multiple users on Twitter were stuck in an overloaded queue trying to get tickets. All those tickets were gone within the hour, according to ESL./post/how-to-get-the-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021-exclusive-pop-star-or-rock-star-avatar-poses/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021-exclusive-pop-star-or-rock-star-avatar-poses/ Pokémon Go Fest 2021 is adding in a lot of new content, including Pop Star Pikachu and Rock Star Pikachu as bonuses in a new set of event-exclusive Special Research. These are two additional variants of the iconic Electric-mouse Pokémon from the cosplay line, with each having an exclusive move, along with their signature looks. Both Pop Star Pikachu and Rock Star Pikachu are available to players who complete “The Melody Pokémon” Special Research, though you can only get one of them, not both, at the moment./post/riot-introduces-new-lcs-2021-on-air-talent-including-emily-rand-hai-razleplasm-and-allorim/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-introduces-new-lcs-2021-on-air-talent-including-emily-rand-hai-razleplasm-and-allorim/ The LCS might have just revealed its extensive rebrand yesterday, but more changes are still coming in as the week goes by. Riot Games unveiled the league’s 2021 on-air talent team today and there are plenty of new faces ready to add some spice to the broadcast. Some of the new faces of the broadcast crew include former ESPN staff writer Emily Rand, former pro player and coach Hai, former Golden Guardians Academy coach and LPL caster Razleplasm, and former Immortals top laner Allorim./post/here-s-how-tft-set-4-5-ranked-reset-works/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-how-tft-set-4-5-ranked-reset-works/ A soft ranked Teamfight Tactics reset is scheduled to take place with the launch of Set 4.5 Fates: Festival of Beasts at the end of January.  The first mid-set ranked reset in TFT occurred with the release of Galaxies Set 3.5. Sets last a total length of six months, with a mid-set update taking place three months after the release of a new set. Scheduled to launch via live servers on Jan./post/is-eneba-a-legit-site-for-game-codes-answered/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-eneba-a-legit-site-for-game-codes-answered/ With so many games releasing at a rapid pace, buying all of your favorite games could start to do some damage to your wallet. Thankfully, many game companies and sales providers offer discounts on old and new games alike. While it is a new player to the mix, Eneba is becoming a popular website to buy games. But is Eneba a legit site for game codes? Let’s take a look./post/best-gpu-water-coolers/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-gpu-water-coolers/ A solid cooling system is a must for any graphics card. However, base GPU fan coolers can struggle when overclocking the graphics card. This is where GPU water blocks come in. GPU water blocks provide better cooling for GPUs, allowing users to overclock their cards to higher speeds and squeeze out more performance. However, users will need a complete cooling kit to facilitate a GPU water block. Be sure to double-check GPU water block compatibility before purchasing a specific model./post/overwatch-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-game-developers-choice-awards/ After a massively successful launch period, one of the most acclaimed games of last year has picked up another award to add to its collection. Overwatch picked up the Game of the Year gong at the Game Developers Choice Awards last night at the conclusion of the annual Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, California. Overwatch also picked up the award for best design and was nominated for visual art, technology and audio categories./post/how-to-change-region-in-league-of-legends/Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-region-in-league-of-legends/ If you ever get stuck in a region you don’t like or feel the need for a fresh start, you can always change your region as long as you have the required Riot Points to do so in League of Legends. What used to be a huge hassle in the past has become very easy nowadays and is accessible to anyone. All you have to do is follow a couple of simple steps and you’ll be ready for a fresh start./post/how-to-play-the-reworked-tahm-kench/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-the-reworked-tahm-kench/ Tahm Kench, the River King, received a mini-rework in League of Legends recently that revolved around swapping his Devour (W) and Abyssal Dive (R) abilities. The main goal of this change was to have his kit focus less on constantly being able to protect allies with Devour and give Abyssal Dive the ability to improve his dueling potential. While the ability to protect his allies with Devour is still possible, a longer ultimate-styled cooldown means players have an important choice to make in skirmishes and teamfights./post/yu-gi-oh-master-duel-card-crafting-system-craft-points-explained/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/yu-gi-oh-master-duel-card-crafting-system-craft-points-explained/ Prior to the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, fans were skeptical about how Konami would balance the ease to collect the more than 10,000 cards included at launch and the company’s need to profit from its free-to-play title. Thankfully for fans, as more information about the game was revealed ahead of its Jan. 18 release, Konami unveiled a detailed crafting system that would be present in the game, allowing players to easily recycle cards they didn’t need or want into materials that would help them craft the ones they would use./post/how-many-league-of-legends-skins-are-there/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-many-league-of-legends-skins-are-there/ Even if they don’t directly affect the gameplay, skins are a core part of League of Legends. They’re a nice way for players to customize their favorite champions and a decent monetization model that doesn’t negatively impact the experience of players who choose not to spend any money on League. Considering the game was released in 2009, there are quite few skins to choose from. In fact, a few would be an understatement./post/where-to-find-johtonian-sneasel-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-johtonian-sneasel-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Multiple Pokémon received new forms and evolutions in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but that doesn’t mean Game Freak skipped out on bringing at least a few of the originals into the new game.  You will end up seeing a lot of Hisuian Sneasel and its evolved form Sneasler as the latter is one of the Pokémon that helps you traverse the varied landscapes of the Hisui region. You won’t be running into any Johtonian Sneasel in the wild unless you go out of your way to find them, though./post/wmd-could-be-coming-to-call-of-duty-black-ops-4/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/wmd-could-be-coming-to-call-of-duty-black-ops-4/ A classic Call of Duty map might be remastered in the latest installment in the franchise. WMD, a multiplayer map from the original Call of Duty: Black Ops released in November 2010, might be coming soon to Black Ops 4. ☢️ pic.twitter.com/V6wYgCY4OH — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) April 27, 2019 The official Call of Duty Twitter account posted a brief seven-second clip of what appears to be the map WMD. It’s unclear exactly what this means, however./post/alinity-is-fed-up-with-twitch-fans-blaming-her-when-others-get-banned/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/alinity-is-fed-up-with-twitch-fans-blaming-her-when-others-get-banned/ Popular Twitch streamer Alinity recently explained that she’s tired of people tagging her on Twitter when their favorite streamers are banned. Alinity has been an incredibly divisive figure on Twitch. Countless viewers have claimed that the streamer has received “special treatment” preventing her from being banned. Aside from this, Alinity has been the subject of several animal abuse-related scandals but was cleared by animal protective services of any wrongdoings. It’s been 3 years./post/best-morgana-builds-in-wild-rift/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-morgana-builds-in-wild-rift/ The wildly popular League of Legends only continued to gain popularity over time as the years passed and the player base grew. So much so that Riot Games developed its own mobile spin-off to the original game, named League of Legends: Wild Rift. Wild Rift is very similar to the original game, carrying on a lot of the same elements from the PC version. This includes the roster from the original League of Legends./post/how-to-train-your-aiming-and-movement-in-apex-legends/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-train-your-aiming-and-movement-in-apex-legends/ Written in partnership with Aim Lab. Apex Legends is one of the most unique FPS games out there in terms of required skill sets. Movement is just as integral as aiming, if not more. To be an amazing Apex player, you must be able to keep your aim steady, even when trying to make your opponents miss. Aim Lab has you covered. These six scenarios are great for honing your mouse control while your keyboard hand stays busy./post/valkyrae-confirms-month-long-streaming-hiatus-for-new-unknown-project/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/valkyrae-confirms-month-long-streaming-hiatus-for-new-unknown-project/ Popular YouTube streamer and 100 Thieves co-owner Valkyrae intends to take an extended streaming hiatus after accepting an unknown project set to take her out of the country. Her break will last for about a month and will begin in early May, she revealed recently. On March 30, Valkyrae revealed on her alternate Twitter account that she had been offered a mysterious project. Though thrilled about the prospect of the potential move, Valkyrae showed hesitation about accepting it, calling it “exciting but scary” and saying there was “lots to think about./post/magifelix-hits-eye-watering-1-900-lp-on-eu-west-servers/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/magifelix-hits-eye-watering-1-900-lp-on-eu-west-servers/ Carl Felix “MagiFelix” Boström currently leads the solo queue ladder on the EU West server in League of Legends with an impressive 1,920 LP, according to op.gg. The player is far ahead of his competition, with the second player on the ladder being Muhammed “Agurin” Kocak, who is almost 300 points behind him. When you glimpse over at MagiFelix’s recent match history, you’ll find that he’s been playing support and mage champions like Karma, Twisted Fate, Neeko, and Ryze over the past few days./post/pool-play-results-for-cwl-las-vegas-2018/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pool-play-results-for-cwl-las-vegas-2018/ The first Call of Duty World League LAN event for Black Ops 4 is officially here. The group stage of CWL Las Vegas 2018 began today. Teams from across the globe traveled to Sin City this week for the chance to earn their share of the $250,000 prize pool.   Related: How to watch the 2018 CWL Las Vegas Open Sixteen of the best teams in the world have been divided into the four groups for pool play at CWL Las Vegas./post/how-to-complete-the-base-information-caretaker-challenge-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-base-information-caretaker-challenge-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/ Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion brought the Vow of the Disciple raid, a journey through a Pyramid stuck in Savathûn’s Throne World. To get to Rhulk, the Disciple of the Witness, players have to fight their way through the raid—and this means they have to get past the quasi-Abomination known as the Caretaker. While the Caretaker fight can be tricky in itself, Bungie has added the Base Information challenge to the encounter, which tasks players with a few extra steps but gives them another chest at the end of the fight./post/nrg-signs-infinite-to-valorant-roster/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nrg-signs-infinite-to-valorant-roster/ NRG’s VALORANT roster is finally complete after months of using stand-in players at various events. Now, another CS:GO veteran is being brought in as the organization officially announced the signing of Gage “Infinite” Green earlier today.  Infinite played for dozens of teams during his CS:GO career, with some of the highlights being Spacestation Gaming, Dignitas, and Chaos Esports Club. But back in May, the rifler made his intent to pursue VALORANT competitively clear, retiring to focus on the new game./post/when-will-sora-be-released-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-sora-be-released-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ In today’s final reveal stream for Super Smash Bros Ultimate, series creator Masahiro Sakurai introduced the last fighter: Sora from Kingdom Hearts. Earlier in the presentation, Sakurai showed off the final Mii Fighter costumes, and all the new content will share the same release date of Oct. 18. Aside from the confirmed release date, this means a new balance patch will occur later this month. So players who want to save any of their replays or highlights will need to archive them before Sora is added to the roster./post/best-cards-to-pull-from-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-evolving-skies/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-cards-to-pull-from-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-evolving-skies/ Pokémon TCG is set to get a new set later this month when Evolving Skies hits stores on Aug. 27. Boasting over 200 cards, the set will bring a variety of new and fan-favorite Pokémon into the card game. As a mix of the OCG sets Eeveelutions, Sky Stream, and Towering Perfection, you’ve got quite a variety of cards to collect in the set, including some that were cut from June’s Chilling Reign./post/here-are-all-the-bat-signal-locations-in-fortnite/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-bat-signal-locations-in-fortnite/ Gotham City is the new Rift Zone in Fortnite, which means the Caped Crusader himself has dropped off of the Battle Bus to fight in some battle royales.  Now that Batman has officially crossed over into the game, several themed challenges based on the long legacy of the character have also been added. One of those is locating three different Bat Signals and lighting them up with the iconic symbol. /post/riot-reportedly-in-talks-to-hold-bubble-system-for-2020-league-of-legends-world-championship/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reportedly-in-talks-to-hold-bubble-system-for-2020-league-of-legends-world-championship/ Riot Games is reportedly looking into holding this year’s League of Legends World Championship in a “single-city, bubble hub format” like the NBA, according to a report from ESPN. The report comes after China canceled all international sports events through the end of 2020 earlier today. Given the international nature of Worlds, the event could be postponed, although Riot has yet to announce any changes to the tournament. The League of Legends World Championship and other esports events reportedly do not fall under the “sporting” classification, however./post/best-valorant-agents-to-run-on-bind/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-valorant-agents-to-run-on-bind/ Bind has been a VALORANT mainstay since the original beta. And until there are more maps in the game, you’re going to have to learn how to play it. Here’s the best agent composition to run on Bind, based on the agents seen most frequently during the NA VCT Masters One tournament. OmenRazeSovaCypherPhoenix/Jett Omen is strong for obvious reasons. His utility is nearly unmatched on the map. From Paranoia to Dark Cover, he has so many uses, including blocking Operator angles and flashing his teammates in./post/what-to-do-if-fall-guys-isn-t-working-a-complete-guide-for-all-connectivity-issues-in-fall-guys/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-to-do-if-fall-guys-isn-t-working-a-complete-guide-for-all-connectivity-issues-in-fall-guys/ After a brief beta period that drew the interest of many party game enthusiasts, Fall Guys released earlier in August. Though most gamers anticipated the game’s popularity, Mediatonic the developer, was caught off-guard with the actual turnout. This caused servers to overload with jelly beans, the in-game avatars each Fall Guys players get to customize.  Server issues can make it impossible to join a match or prevent you from even launching the game./post/nongshim-redforce-destroy-dwg-kia-in-ghost-s-return-to-starting-roster-climb-to-second-place-in-2021-lck-summer-split/Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/nongshim-redforce-destroy-dwg-kia-in-ghost-s-return-to-starting-roster-climb-to-second-place-in-2021-lck-summer-split/ Nongshim RedForce took down the 2020 world champions DWG KIA in an intense 2-1 series in the 2021 LCK Summer Split. Going into the series, DK reverted to their original roster that won Worlds, with Ghost coming back to the starting roster instead of Malrang. ShowMaker and Canyon also reverted to their main roles after experimentation through the past couple of series. While this change helped DK secure the first game of the series on a high note, they collapsed as the series progressed./post/when-does-the-apex-legends-system-override-event-begin/Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-apex-legends-system-override-event-begin/ With a new month comes a new Apex Legends event. The System Override Collection Event announced today boasts new skins, cosmetics, modes, items, and an Heirloom set for Adrenaline Junkie Octane. And with less than a week until it goes live, players won’t have to wait long. When does the System Override event go live? The System Override event kicks off on March 3. Judging from when previous events began, it’ll likely start at 12pm CT./post/best-thermal-paste-brands-for-cpu-and-gpu/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-thermal-paste-brands-for-cpu-and-gpu/ Thermal paste comes in a variety of forms and is sold by a large number of manufacturers. Despite the seemingly simple design and use cases, thermal paste is key in preserving the life of a CPU or a GPU. When applied to the heat sink of either component, thermal paste acts as a conductive mass that fills out any air pockets between a CPU or GPU and its cooling solution, such as an air cooler or all-in-one liquid cooler (AIO)./post/how-to-unlock-fortnite-chapter-3-photo-negative-scarlet-blackout-and-gilded-reality-skins/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-fortnite-chapter-3-photo-negative-scarlet-blackout-and-gilded-reality-skins/ Fortnite Chapter Three continues the tradition of having super styles for battle pass cosmetics, and players can find these under the Bonus Content tab. Super styles are an enhanced version of the base variant of battle pass skins which are available to players who have reached a certain level in the game. These super styles incentivize players to earn more levels in the game to unlock exclusive looks. Battle pass cosmetics named Ronin, Spider-Man, Lt./post/shahzam-s-valorant-settings-keybinds-crosshair-and-mouse-sensitivity/Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/shahzam-s-valorant-settings-keybinds-crosshair-and-mouse-sensitivity/ Shahzeb “ShahZaM” Khan is the in-game leader for the Sentinels VALORANT team. The 27-year-old former CS:GO pro spent time playing the game with Cloud9, Complexity, and OpTic before joining the Sentinels as one of the team’s original members in April 2020. Under his leadership, the team has boasted impressive performances including a first place victory at the VCT 2021: Stage Two Masters in Reykjavík. The team also won numerous VCT Challengers events as well./post/league-players-facing-mysterious-permanent-bans-in-likely-bug/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-players-facing-mysterious-permanent-bans-in-likely-bug/ Many League of Legends players hoping to play the game this weekend were greeted today with a message indicating they had committed the worst offenses in the game, thus terminating their accounts completely. A large number of League players are reporting that, upon logging into the game, they receive a message that indicates their accounts have been “permanently suspended.” There appears to be no pinpoint reason as to why these suspensions have been issued en masse, and many players are saying they have not committed any acts that would result in this punishment./post/ps5-owners-can-now-access-screengrabs-and-videos-on-ps-app/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/ps5-owners-can-now-access-screengrabs-and-videos-on-ps-app/ PlayStation 5 players have a new way to access the recordings and screengrabs from their consoles on the PS App, providing an easier way to access their content.  Recording videos or taking screengrabs on the PS5 is a great way to preserve exciting moments or clips. Accessing these videos or images on a mobile device makes it easier to share with friends or followers—and a new update has answered the prayers of fans everywhere./post/when-does-apex-legends-season-4-begin/Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-apex-legends-season-4-begin/ Apex Legends content is slowly beginning to wind down in anticipation for the next season, which is expected to start soon.  But before the new season, Respawn Entertainment has events planned in the meantime. The Grand Soirée Arcade event is set to begin on Jan. 14, which will give players plenty of time to enjoy new skins and gamemodes before the conclusion of season three. This event will rotate seven different limited time modes including Gold Rush Duos and an all-new Third-Person Mode, which is the traditional style of competing battle royale title Fortnite./post/hafu-ranked-first-in-mmr-during-teamfight-tactics-beta/Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/hafu-ranked-first-in-mmr-during-teamfight-tactics-beta/ With Teamfight Tactics set to hit live servers tomorrow, Riot Games has revealed that Twitch streamer and pro gamer Rumay “Hafu” Wang ended the gamemode’s beta with the highest MMR of any player. #1! 🏆 https://t.co/DKHEn2vOae — Hafu (@itshafu) June 25, 2019 “I’m just so thankful to Riot for posting it, it means a lot to me,” Hafu said on her personal stream after Riot revealed the beta MMR ranking./post/how-to-play-zombies-mode-in-pubg/Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-zombies-mode-in-pubg/ Compared to Fortnite, PUBG always had a more strict military concept that made it feel closer to the real deal. If a battle royale scenario were to occur in real life, it would probably be close to the PUBG experience. But sometimes thinking outside of the box is key to keeping the gameplay fresh. With the release of PUBG Mobile in 2017, the developers started experimenting with more game modes, and those that were well-received by the community were slowly added to the PC and console versions of the game./post/here-s-the-twitch-rivals-mtg-arena-metagame-breakdown/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-the-twitch-rivals-mtg-arena-metagame-breakdown/ Following the Magic: The Gathering Standard bans on Nov. 18, Twitch Rivals hosted an MTG Arena tournament this week to show off the new meta.  The Twitch Rivals MTGA tournament had 250 Magic streamers from around the world participate. The first day of play featured six Swiss rounds with a somewhat balanced meta.  #TwitchRivals metagame. I only show decks with n>=2. Hopefully no mistakes here 😅 but remember I might miss something or not split certain archetype as I did with Golgari Adventures (There is heavy, Clover, Cat and Henge separately)./post/the-9-best-roblox-gifts-for-the-holiday-season/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-9-best-roblox-gifts-for-the-holiday-season/ Gaming in the early stages of anyone’s life is more of a learning experience than anything. While gamers born in the ‘90s had Mario Kart to teach them the core values of friendship, there weren’t many opportunities for them to let their creative juices loose. A younger generation of gamers has been luckier in that department. Games like Roblox have become popular among the newest generation of gamers. While these games can look relatively simple to outsiders, there’s a good reason behind their rise to the top./post/how-to-fix-invalid-access-to-memory-location-error-in-valorant/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-invalid-access-to-memory-location-error-in-valorant/ Multiplayer games like VALORANT always evolve with each major patch. Even if the base game is bug and error-free, future patches may come with their own set of problems. Whenever there’s a huge content patch, players may find themselves struggling to log into VALORANT due to crowded servers or experience a new error that prevents them from enjoying the game, like the Invalid Access to Memory Location error. The origins of the error aren’t that clear, but its patterns indicate that it may have something to do with not having enough memory on your system./post/here-s-every-tft-set-6-5-little-legend-and-battle-pass-arenas/Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-every-tft-set-6-5-little-legend-and-battle-pass-arenas/ Project Abyssia makes her Teamfight Tactics debut within Set 6.5 Neon Nights, alongside Fenroar, Lightcharger, QiQi, Plant Buddy Sprite, and Socialite Nixie.  Set 6.5 Neon Nights takes place after Progress Day, which was the setting for Set Six Gizmos & Gadgets. Scheduled to release on Feb. 14 via Patch 12.4, the Mythic Little Legend Project Abyssia arrives to stir up trouble. Joining her are Fenroar, Lightcharger, and QiQi—each having five variant skins./post/mtg-bans-3-cards-in-historic-brawl-with-alchemy-launch/Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-bans-3-cards-in-historic-brawl-with-alchemy-launch/ Leading up to the launch of the new Magic: The Gathering Arena format, Alchemy, Agent of Treachery, Field of the Dead, and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon are slated to get banned from the Historic Brawl format. Scheduled to take place on Dec. 9 with the release of Alchemy: Innistrad A22, Wizards of the Coast announced today that Agent of Treachery, Field of the Dead, and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon will get hit by the ban hammer within the Historic Brawl format./post/fortnite-hosting-emote-royale-2022-for-community-emotes/Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-hosting-emote-royale-2022-for-community-emotes/ Fortnite is a game that’s built by and for its community, often seeking community input through surveys or voting in-game. Now, the battle royale is hosting a competition for fans to see their own emote recreated in the game. The competition is called Emote Royale and will reward the best community submission with an emote in the game. Epic shared a video alongside the announcement that features a previous submission being recreated by some of the characters./post/how-to-acquire-league-of-legends-jinx-in-fortnite/Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-acquire-league-of-legends-jinx-in-fortnite/ League of Legends and Fortnite are teaming up to bring the first League champion to a non-Riot licensed game. Starting today, Nov. 4, at 7pm CT, Fortnite players will be able to purchase Jinx from League of Legends as a character in the game. Jinx will be one of the main characters of Riot’s upcoming animated series, Arcane, which will premiere on Netflix later this week on Nov. 6/post/optic-gaming-100-thieves-and-enigma6-go-undefeated-in-pool-play-at-cwl-anaheim-2019/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-gaming-100-thieves-and-enigma6-go-undefeated-in-pool-play-at-cwl-anaheim-2019/ The group stage of the latest major Call of Duty World League LAN event has come to an end with several teams going undefeated. Pool play at CWL Anaheim 2019 wrapped up with OpTic Gaming, 100 Thieves, and Enigma6 finishing 3-0 on Friday. E6’s scintillating play was undoubtedly the biggest surprise of the first day, considering they had been seen as a middle-of-the-road team (or worse) in the CWL Pro League to this point./post/league-s-new-item-anathema-s-chains-can-reduce-tenacity-past-zero-percent-which-will-extend-crowd-control-durations/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-new-item-anathema-s-chains-can-reduce-tenacity-past-zero-percent-which-will-extend-crowd-control-durations/ In League of Legends Patch 11.13, players will get their hands on a couple of new items that will be hitting Summoner’s Rift. One of them is Anathema’s Chains, a new tank item that allows whoever builds it to select an enemy champion as their “nemesis.” Over the course of 60 seconds, you will build a “vendetta” against your nemesis, causing you to take up to 30 percent less damage from them./post/steam-deck-resellers-are-being-removed-from-ebay-for-breaking-website-policy/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/steam-deck-resellers-are-being-removed-from-ebay-for-breaking-website-policy/ Online marketplace eBay will take down listings for Valve’s Steam Deck handheld device because the practice violates the website’s Presale Policy, the company told Kotaku. Scalpers were listing various models of the device on eBay just hours after official reservations went live. Users experienced widespread issues and errors with the Steam Deck pre-registration yesterday due to the significant number of customers trying to lock in a spot. The offering was just an early registration for Valve to gauge a user’s interest in actually purchasing the handheld PC, not an actual pre-order./post/new-winston-skin-revealed-soldier-24-reaper-skin-leaked-ahead-of-overwatch-event/Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-winston-skin-revealed-soldier-24-reaper-skin-leaked-ahead-of-overwatch-event/ Two new Overwatch skins have been revealed ahead of the Overwatch Archives event set to start later today—one was leaked, while the other was released officially through Blizzard. Blizzard teased an upcoming skin for Overwatch tank Winston on the official Twitter account. The skin is called Specimen 28 Winston, and it puts the space gorilla in the suit he would have worn while living on the moon. It’s not very different from his standard Overwatch skin, but it does have a few extra details./post/pok%C3%A9mon-evolving-skies-full-card-list-revealed/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-evolving-skies-full-card-list-revealed/ Pokémon TCG players who have been eagerly awaiting the release of August’s Evolving Skies set can now see exactly which cards have made the cut and joined the set after a full list was posted online. In a post to Pokémon forum PokeBeach, a full list of the cards coming with Evolving Skies was shared. This includes the 55 cards that were cut from the release of Chilling Reign and many of the cards from the OCG sets Eevee Heroes and Sky Stream & Towering Perfection./post/how-to-fix-fortnite-s-error-code-errors-com-epicgames-common-server-error/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-fortnite-s-error-code-errors-com-epicgames-common-server-error/ Fortnite players may face errors when connecting to game servers. This is something common that happens in all games and it usually happens in Fortnite shortly after new updates are released. One of the most common errors players face is described as “errors.com.epicgames.common.server_error,” which comes with the famous message “Not the llama you’re looking for.” Despite players’ connections playing a huge role in how their computer or console can communicate with Fortnite servers, this is one of the few cases when there’s nothing players can do because it’s not an issue on their end./post/all-division-rivals-rewards-in-fifa-22/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-division-rivals-rewards-in-fifa-22/ The next step in the FIFA franchise is finally here, and players are slowly streaming into FIFA 22 from last year’s title. This means that players will once again need to assemble their squad from scratch. After assembling your team with players from packs and the market, it’s only natural for players to improve their skill versus other players and the Division Rivals is the perfect mode to do that. Based on your rank, you’ll get to play against players from similar skill tiers, meaning the matches will be more competitive and balanced./post/all-rare-werewolf-cards-in-mtg-s-innistrad-midnight-hunt/Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-rare-werewolf-cards-in-mtg-s-innistrad-midnight-hunt/ Werewolves are one of the flagship creatures of MTG’s plane Innistrad, and for the game’s latest trip to the plane, all five colors are receiving a transforming Werewolf creature. All five of the creature cards are rare Humans that transform back and forth between their Human and Werewolf forms via Daybound and Nightbound triggers. In MTG, Daybound is a transform trigger that comes if a player does not cast a spell during their turn./post/how-to-deal-damage-inside-a-prevalent-sedan-in-fortnite-s-prison-breakout/Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-deal-damage-inside-a-prevalent-sedan-in-fortnite-s-prison-breakout/ The Island Games Quests went live this week and some of the most popular Creative maps in Fortnite have become featured game modes for a limited time. While Creative fans don’t need any quests or rewards to continue playing their favorite custom maps, adding rewards certainly helps draw in more players who usually stick to Classic game modes. Players are divided into two teams in Prison Breakout: Guards and Prisoners. Prisoners will try to escape, while Guards will try to prevent that from happening./post/5-best-mtg-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-sagas/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/5-best-mtg-kamigawa-neon-dynasty-sagas/ Sagas have a new look in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty as Dual-Faced cards with a Magic: The Gathering Enchantment creature on the backside.  Taking place some 1,200 years after the events showcased in the original MTG Kamigawa block, Neon Dynasty (NEO) showcases a mashup of modernity with tradition via Enchantments and Artifacts. Enchantments represent the traditional side of the plane while Artifacts showcase the new modern advancements. Sagas end up representing both sides, with a total of 23 at all rarities featured within the NEO set./post/evil-geniuses-leaves-professional-rainbow-six-siege/Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/evil-geniuses-leaves-professional-rainbow-six-siege/ After spending over two years in the professional scene, Evil Geniuses will be leaving competitive Rainbow Six: Siege for the foreseeable future. This also means that its entire roster will need to find new teams in the coming months. “We are extremely grateful to all of our players for their hard work, and are proud of the success they brought to Evil Geniuses and their true embodiment of the LIVEEVIL lifestyle,” The team said in its official announcement./post/when-does-overwatch-s-halloween-terror-event-end/Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-overwatch-s-halloween-terror-event-end/ Junkenstein is cackling from his tower once again, signaling the official start of Halloween season and Overwatch’s Halloween Terror. The limited-time event brings back a plethora of vaulted cosmetics from years worth of Halloween Terrors past. And as you’d expect, there are a few new skins as well. Starting today, the event will last three weeks—as it traditionally does. This means you have until Nov. 2 to collect as many Halloween-themed loot boxes as possible and unlock any legendary skins you might be missing./post/super-smash-bros-melee-tier-list/Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/super-smash-bros-melee-tier-list/ Smash Bros. Melee is considered one of the greatest fighting games ever made, so when it comes to playing the game, knowing which fighters are stronger is key to outperforming your opponents. Are you looking to compete? Are you rediscovering your retro glory? Or are you looking to keep track of all things Smash Bros. and keep tabs on the meta? Then do we have a tier list for you!/post/imaqtpie-says-playing-ad-carry-is-like-working-a-9-to-5-job/Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/imaqtpie-says-playing-ad-carry-is-like-working-a-9-to-5-job/ Popular League of Legends streamer Michael “imaqtpie” Santana commented on the current state of AD carry and explained how farm-dependent the role has become during a Twitch live stream today.  At 13 minutes into the game, imaqtpie, playing as Twitch, took the tier-one tower in bot lane while his mid laner and jungler pushed the enemy team’s mid lane inhibitor. And while doing so, he had a few comments on his role as an AD main./post/call-of-duty-mobile-season-one-2022-full-patch-notes-and-updates/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-mobile-season-one-2022-full-patch-notes-and-updates/ Call of Duty: Mobile’s first season of 2022 is here. See Call of Duty on Amazon The new season, which is called Heist, will mark the Lunar New Year. And a lot of in-game features have been added to the game for the occasion. This includes the Red Envelope mode and Nuketown Temple. Two new weapons, maps, modes, and other additions are also coming to the game this season./post/overwatch-player-reaches-level-2-000-after-1-694-hours-of-play/Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-player-reaches-level-2-000-after-1-694-hours-of-play/ Thought you had a lot of hours logged in Overwatch? Think again. Twitch streamer Dolyttle has logged nearly 1,700 hours in the game, becoming the first player to reach level 2,000. Released in late May, Overwatch has been out for just over 5,750 hours. By amassing more than 1,694 hours of in-game time, Dolyttle has spent 30 percent of time since May playing Overwatch, according to one Reddit user who crunched the numbers./post/best-decks-to-use-in-clash-royale-to-climb-the-ladder-after-reaching-arena-15/Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-decks-to-use-in-clash-royale-to-climb-the-ladder-after-reaching-arena-15/ After you’ve reached the first Challenger arena in Clash Royale, you should have access to most of the cards in the game. But the average level of players you face in one-vs-one matches will significantly rise at this point and you’ll no longer be able to advance with decks that don’t take the current meta into account. To facilitate this adaptation, you can choose pre-built popular decks, test them out, and see what best suits your playstyle./post/best-nintendo-switch-game-card-case/Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-nintendo-switch-game-card-case/ Did you know your Nintendo Switch game cards are prone to scratches, breakage, and dust? And even if you do manage to shield them from wear and tear, you can still lose them. It’s easy to misplace game cards. They’re so small and light, that they can slip or slide into some remote, unimaginable corner. This is why you need to invest in a good game card case. You can place all the cards in a case and never lose them./post/how-to-get-starstone-tuning-orb-in-new-world/Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-starstone-tuning-orb-in-new-world/ Some of New World’s best and most sought-after adventures come in the form of Expeditions. These are the game’s dungeon equivalent that tasks a small team of players with entering a location and completing it, taking out enemies and uncovering secrets in the process. See Dot Esports Gaming Deals The first Expedition that can be found in New World is the Amrine Excavation. This is an integral part of the game’s story, meaning that all players need to complete it./post/legendary-korean-league-of-legends-player-insec-officially-retires/Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/legendary-korean-league-of-legends-player-insec-officially-retires/ After a career spanning almost seven years and 10 teams, Choi “InSec” In-seok announced that he’s officially retiring in an interview with Inven Global. It’s pretty rare these days to find a League player who’s so well-known for a play that it’s unofficially named after them. You have the “Flame Horizon,” named after Lee “Flame” Ho-jong and his ability to gain a 100 CS lead on his lane opponent. You also have the “Xpeke,” which is basically backdooring an enemy team when they least expect it./post/pirates-no-longer-a-permanent-minion-type-in-battlegrounds-after-hearthstone-patch-17-6/Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pirates-no-longer-a-permanent-minion-type-in-battlegrounds-after-hearthstone-patch-17-6/ Hearthstone’s Patch 17.6 is finally live and Blizzard has released the full notes, which include massive changes to the popular game mode Battlegrounds. The patch features one new hero, two returning heroes, a single buff to the underperforming hero Aranna, a nerf to the best hero Hooktusk, a new minion, and a nerf to Beast comps. Aside from the adjusted and new content, an important change was also made to shifting minion pools./post/when-is-solos-returning-to-apex-legends/Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-is-solos-returning-to-apex-legends/ It’s hard to believe that Apex Legends is three years old. In those three years, players have been treated to a variety of modes that stretched the core tenants of battle royale in new and interesting ways, from the ring flares of the Chaos Theory event to the self-heal zones of Flashpoint during the Aftermarket event (which is making a return in the upcoming Unshackled event). One limited-time mode that players have consistently asked to see again is Solos./post/evil-geniuses-signs-goldenglue-according-to-riot-gcd/Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/evil-geniuses-signs-goldenglue-according-to-riot-gcd/ Evil Geniuses has added another player to its League roster this week. Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer has been signed by Evil Geniuses, according to Riot’s Global Contract Database. His contract is set to expire on July 22 in the database, which could mean his stay with the organization will be short-lived. Previously the starting mid laner for Golden Guardians, Goldenglue said his bittersweet departure from the team on July 3 was due to GG’s signing of mid laner Tanner Damonte./post/valorant-player-suggests-a-preferred-agents-option-to-help-with-agent-selection/Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-suggests-a-preferred-agents-option-to-help-with-agent-selection/ Agent selection in VALORANT is one of the most important parts of the game. Teams must select a group of agents that will allow them to be successful in all situations, which can be difficult. One VALORANT player recently suggested creating a “Preferred Agents” section that allows teams to see the agents each player is comfortable using to help with this process.  Preferred Agents from VALORANT Players must decide which agent they’ll use before each game and teams must ensure that they have the abilities needed to succeed./post/cs-go-fans-players-demand-esl-move-iem-rio-major-to-soccer-stadium/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cs-go-fans-players-demand-esl-move-iem-rio-major-to-soccer-stadium/ ESL and Valve began selling tickets for the IEM Rio CS:GO Major in a partnership with Eventbrite, but moments after the sales started, the website’s servers crashed while many fans attempted to secure their tickets. The biggest issue, in the eyes of Brazilian fans and players alike, is the size of Jeunesse Arena, the venue chosen for the playoffs. The arena has a maximum capability of 18,000 people, which is allegedly too small for the outspoken and proud Brazilian CS:GO community./post/kobe-announces-he-will-work-on-additional-projects-outside-of-riot-games/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/kobe-announces-he-will-work-on-additional-projects-outside-of-riot-games/ Sam “Kobe” Hartman-Kenzler, one of the most recognizable personalities in the North American League of Legends scene, has announced he will begin working on other projects outside of Riot Games. To reflect this change, he has changed his Twitter handle from @RiotKobe to @esportsKobe. Despite the announcement, though, Kobe said he will still be working full-time on with the LCS. Kobe has been apart of the LCS as a caster and analyst since 2012, but before that, he was actually a pro League player for popular organization Counter Logic Gaming./post/how-to-get-hawkmoon-in-destiny-2/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-hawkmoon-in-destiny-2/ Hawkmoon will bring back memories for the most veteran Destiny players, and Destiny 2 players too after this Exotic hand cannon hit the sequel in Season of the Hunt. This powerful hand cannon thrives when players can land precision shots, loading up the final round in the magazine with paracausal power and dealing a significant amount of damage to whatever is in its sights. Hawkmoon appeared in Destiny 2 as a reward from Harbinger, the Exotic mission in Season of the Hunt./post/players-who-own-sett-s-calling-card-will-get-the-champion-for-free/Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/players-who-own-sett-s-calling-card-will-get-the-champion-for-free/ Riot Games has good news for the small number of players who got Sett’s Calling Card in League of Legends over the past few months. Starting today, you’ll instantly unlock Sett for no additional cost if you earned the card, regardless of how you received it. The card was rewarded randomly for players who earned 10 or more first bloods in multiple matches. Due to the nature of this event, it’s unlikely that players who didn’t get Sett’s Calling Card can now obtain it after his release./post/all-aether-currents-on-ultima-thule-in-final-fantasy-xiv-s-endwalker/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-aether-currents-on-ultima-thule-in-final-fantasy-xiv-s-endwalker/ Players who’ve reached the last new area introduced with Final Fantasy XIV‘s expansion Endwalker will, once again, have to attune to Aether currents and complete four side quests to unlock flying in the area. And since the map is divided into multiple islands, much like Elpis, flying will be useful when you have to wander again in the area. Since the players are approaching the end of the main scenario introduced with the expansion, they won’t have to progress very far to be able to unlock every area of the map, unlike most previous ones, however./post/best-ryzen-cpus-for-gaming/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-ryzen-cpus-for-gaming/ The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is responsible for managing all of the data that a user interacts with. GPUs tend to get all of the glory these days, but the truth is that a strong CPU can have just as big of an impact on a gaming PC as a GPU can. For both gaming and every day media browsing, the Ryzen CPU lineup has a host of options for all budgets that can make the difference between a rig that lags and stutters and a rig that runs buttery smooth./post/full-ap-mid-lane-rakan-is-making-the-rounds-as-league-s-next-bizarre-build/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/full-ap-mid-lane-rakan-is-making-the-rounds-as-league-s-next-bizarre-build/ League of Legends has seen some extremely weird champion builds so far this year. There’s been AP Varus, jungle Singed, Jhinsoo’s Rageblade, and now, full-blast AP mid lane Rakan. Mid lane Rakan sounds weird, but after some sizable buffs to his AP scalings in Patch 8.6, it makes a little more sense. With impressive bursts of damage now coming out of his Grand Entrance and Gleaming Quill, the strategy is at least possible, albeit still not optimal./post/how-to-claim-lost-ark-s-spring-fever-rewards/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-claim-lost-ark-s-spring-fever-rewards/ There are many resources and tools in Lost Ark to help players win their fights through all of its game modes, from Abyss Dungeons to Guardians. There are also various pools of items to collect to become stronger, such as honing materials after reaching level 50 to upgrade gear or tools to use in combat like grenades and potions. Amazon Games has introduced another way to give players more opportunities to get those materials in the form of Fever rewards that can be claimed on some weekends./post/where-to-find-all-the-fish-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-6/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-all-the-fish-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-6/ Chapter Two, season six of Fortnite went live on March 16 with a new story and awesome skins. The first set of weekly quests is also available for players to complete and start unlocking new tiers of their battle passes. Alongside all the new cosmetics and changes, there are also a couple of new fish types that were added to the game this season. While it may not mean much to some players, collectors will be all over the map trying to discover all the new fish of this season./post/all-overwatch-2-heroes-and-their-abilities/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-overwatch-2-heroes-and-their-abilities/ Blizzard has always been known for its characters, and the Overwatch franchise is no exception. Like its predecessor, Overwatch 2 will feature a huge cast of characters who are diverse in both design and play style. Blizzard has announced all playable characters from Overwatch will be returning in Overwatch 2. Many won’t play exactly the same as fans are used to, though—a few are getting significant reworks, while many others are receiving balance changes and updates to freshen them up for the sequel./post/overnight-mtg-strixhaven-spoilers-showcase-power-of-prismari-archetype/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overnight-mtg-strixhaven-spoilers-showcase-power-of-prismari-archetype/ Spoilers for the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Standard-legal set, Strixhaven: School of Mages, continued overnight with the reveal of Expression of Repetition, Magma Opus, and Expressive Artist.  Scheduled to release digitally on April 15, the Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) set contains five colleges representing color pairs at odds with one another. The Prismari College contains the mana colors Blue and Red, with a conflict of intellect vs. emotion, according to head designer Mark Rosewater./post/can-you-play-rust-on-steam-deck/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-rust-on-steam-deck/ Rust is a brutal multiplayer survival game in which players start off with a rock and build up resources and craft tools to survive. The open-world environment is made more challenging by the bears and wolves roaming the land and the fact that all the other players are also trying to survive and won’t hesitate to attack you for your resources. To survive, you’ll have to build a base to keep out intruders, and it can be wise to join a clan because there’s safety in numbers./post/magic-the-gathering-card-rarities-explained/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/magic-the-gathering-card-rarities-explained/ Rarities in Magic: The Gathering are used by Wizards of the Coast as a means to distribute cards with varying degrees of scarcity.  There are four basic types of rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Mythic Rare.  Basic land cards don’t count toward any of those four categories, despite being marked as Common. A typical booster pack of MTG cards comes with 15 cards. Out of those, 11 will be Common, three will be Uncommon, and one will be Rare or Mythic Rare./post/the-best-seer-counters-in-apex-legends/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-seer-counters-in-apex-legends/ Seer is one of Apex Legends‘ hidden powerhouses. This recon legend is capable of pinpointing enemies through walls and tracking them across large swaths of the battlefield. He’s a more slow, deliberate recon legend who provides a lot of important information for his teammates. In the face of all that information, it can sometimes feel oppressive to play against him. If you’re wondering who to choose to play effectively against Seer, you’re not alone./post/how-to-evolve-togetic-to-togekiss-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-evolve-togetic-to-togekiss-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go has an abundance of ways for players to collect ’em all and evolve their precious Pokémon partners to new stronger forms. One of the most popular Johto Pokémon is Togetic, the evolution of Togepi that takes 25 Togepi Candy to evolve. Since the Sinnoh update was added into the game, Togetic has been able to evolve into Togekiss, its final evolved form, using a certain method. But how exactly can you get your own Togekiss?/post/new-little-legends-dragons-rise-to-battle-in-teamfight-tactics-set-4-fates/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-little-legends-dragons-rise-to-battle-in-teamfight-tactics-set-4-fates/ Three new dragon Little Legends are converging on the Teamfight Tactics store within Set Four Fates, Riot Games revealed today.  Scheduled to release via TFT Patch 10.19 on Sept. 16, the new Fates set will feature Little Legend dragons Ao Shin, Umbra, and Choncc. Each dragon has its own unique personality that’s on full display through animations and new interactions, ready to support your efforts and taunt opponents.  The menacing-looking Umbra is a shadow dragon that demands respect on and off the battlefield./post/cloakzy-joins-complexity-as-co-owner/Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloakzy-joins-complexity-as-co-owner/ Former Fortnite professional and popular Twitch streamer Cloakzy has joined the organization Complexity Gaming as a content creator and part-owner. Cloakzy’s new role at Complexity comes nearly one year after his contract dispute and eventual departure from FaZe Clan. Following his poor experience with his previous organization, Cloakzy admitted on stream he was hesitant to join any new team despite the near-constant rumors surrounding his next destination. The former professional battle royale competitor said that he was convinced to join the organization after hearing the organization’s five-year plan./post/blue-wins-more-than-red-in-league-of-legends-the-stats/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blue-wins-more-than-red-in-league-of-legends-the-stats/ In chess everyone knows that the white side and black side are functionally even—the only real difference is that white goes first. League of Legends is set up exactly the same way, with the two opposing teams playing on what should be even sides of the field. But is that how it works out in reality? There’s been an ongoing debate about whether Red and Blue sides are truly equal in League of Legends since it was released in 2009./post/boarcontrol-retires-from-competitive-play-to-join-the-hearthstone-design-team/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/boarcontrol-retires-from-competitive-play-to-join-the-hearthstone-design-team/ George “BoarControl” Webb is living proof that when you’re good enough at something, the right people eventually take notice. BoarControl has been a mainstay in the competitive Hearthstone community since 2016. But now, he’ll be adding a different kind of title to his résumé: game designer. Starting next week, I’ll be joining Blizzard as an Associate Game Designer on the Hearthstone Final Design team. I’m thrilled for the opportunity to work on the game that I’ve loved playing for years and couldn’t be more excited to join the team./post/attach-joins-evil-geniuses-call-of-duty-team/Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/attach-joins-evil-geniuses-call-of-duty-team/ One of the most popular Call of Duty players not in the CWL Pro League this year has finally found a professional team to represent. Dillon “Attach” Price has joined Evil Geniuses on loan from FaZe Clan, the organization announced today. He’ll now play alongside John “Xotic” Bruno, Tyler “FeLo” Johnson, Jevon “Goonjar” Gooljar-Lim, and Matthew “Royalty” Faithfull. A big welcome to @Attach, who joins our Call of Duty roster on loan from @FaZeClan!/post/halo-infinite-aquarius-map-guide/Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-aquarius-map-guide/ Halo Infinite features several maps players will encounter whether they’re playing casual modes with friends or grinding the ranked playlist. Each map has a unique layout that each player must master if they want to help their team dominate their opponents.  A map players will see in multiple modes is Aquarius, a small indoor map in a botany lab. Memorizing the weapon spawn locations and the most important spots on the map will help you stay one step ahead of enemies and easily win matches./post/how-to-play-thorn-the-new-r6-siege-operator-coming-in-high-calibre/Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-thorn-the-new-r6-siege-operator-coming-in-high-calibre/ A new operator is joining the ranks of Rainbow Six Siege when High Calibre is released later this year. The Irish-born defender Thorn brings a great deal of explosive power to a team’s defensive rounds, as well as a new weapon via the UZK50Gi submachine gun. Thorn is a medium-speed, medium-armor operator with a unique ability that lets her deploy three Razorbloom Shells, throwable proximity devices that detonate a couple of seconds after an enemy walks into their radius./post/how-to-get-items-in-teamfight-tactics/Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-items-in-teamfight-tactics/ Items are essential to League of Legends’ new autobattler mode, Teamfight Tactics. They can be used for a number of reasons, including buffing up your force, bolstering stats, helping improve your DPS, or simply adding an additional unit to the board. There are several ways to get items in TFT. Riot’s new autobattler game mode requires skill and plenty of knowledge, but when it comes to items, luck comes into play./post/doinb-after-winning-worlds-2019-i-think-it-s-actually-a-similar-scenario-right-now-because-this-might-be-my-last-game/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/doinb-after-winning-worlds-2019-i-think-it-s-actually-a-similar-scenario-right-now-because-this-might-be-my-last-game/ Superstar mid laner and 2019 League of Legends world champion Kim “Doinb” Tae-sang suggested that he may retire following his success on the international stage. During FunPlus Phoenix’s post-game press conference, Korizon’s Ashley Kang asked the mid laner what he would tell the old Doinb, now that he has finally won the Summoner’s Cup. Doinb on almost considered retirement at the beginning of 2019: "I think it's actually a similar scenario right now because this might be my last game…If I could go back and tell @Doinbmid at the beginning of the year, I would tell him to not give up, there is always hope./post/how-to-change-nat-type-on-ps5/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-nat-type-on-ps5/ If you’ve tried everything to speed up your download speeds and make your connection more stable on your PS5, then it may be time to take a look at your Network Address Translation (NAT) settings. NAT basically translates into how open your internet connection is when it comes to incoming and outgoing network traffic. Your router and firewall will allow games and consoles to detect your NAT type automatically, but there may be times that the type it picks up can cause connectivity issues./post/all-the-easter-eggs-in-ruined-king-a-league-of-legends-story/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-the-easter-eggs-in-ruined-king-a-league-of-legends-story/ Ruined King: A League of Legends Story allows players to fully immerse themselves in the world of Runeterra, transporting them to Bilgewater and setting sail for the Shadow Isles. Riot Forge has been very careful to plan every detail of the game’s lore, adding mentions and Easter eggs from other Riot Games’ titles. Here are all the Easter eggs we found inside Ruined King. All champions mentioned in Ruined King In addition to the protagonists of the story and those champions present and visible in the game, Riot also added many mentions of League champions in the discussions that can be heard on the streets of Bilgewater, in conversations between the protagonist champions, and in the newspapers that can be found around./post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-pok%C3%A9mon-go-expansion-first-cards-revealed/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-pok%C3%A9mon-go-expansion-first-cards-revealed/ Niantic and The Pokémon Company have been slowly drip-feeding fans information about the upcoming Pokémon Go and Pokémon TCG collaboration that will release in waves starting on July 1. And now, the first actual cards for the special set have been revealed.  Just like the initial announcement of the collaboration set detailed, most of these cards capture a Pokémon Go-inspired aesthetic, with gameplay mechanics and other elements of the mobile game bleeding into many of the designs./post/riot-to-alter-unbound-thresh-skin-s-appearance-to-more-closely-mirror-night-at-the-inn-cinematic/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-to-alter-unbound-thresh-skin-s-appearance-to-more-closely-mirror-night-at-the-inn-cinematic/ Riot Games is “tweaking” the newly-released League of Legends and Wild Rift skin, Unbound Thresh, to more closely resemble the way the champ appears in the recently-premiered cinematic “Night at the Inn.” In the “Night at the Inn” cinematic, Thresh is featured as an older man with more distinguished features. Those features never necessarily made their way into League and Wild Rift when the skin was originally released but will be coming to the two games with their next respective updates./post/apex-fans-can-unlock-loba-s-rose-gold-bundle-now-with-prime-gaming/Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-fans-can-unlock-loba-s-rose-gold-bundle-now-with-prime-gaming/ A new month means it’s time for yet another new Prime Gaming skin in Apex Legends. And what better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a skin for the girl that always seems to have some flashy presents to share? Loba’s new epic skin—much like a new iPhone, trendy jewelry, or your favorite white shirt that accidentally got thrown into the wash with the dark colors—isn’t pink. It’s “Rose Gold./post/pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-leak-shows-new-item-that-replaces-trade-evolutions/Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-leak-shows-new-item-that-replaces-trade-evolutions/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus will officially release on Jan. 28, but information about the game has already been leaked online thanks to several copies that players obtained prior to launch.  As part of those leaks, we have learned a lot about how Game Freak reworked core mechanics of the Pokémon franchise as Arceus departs from the standard formula that has been in place for more than 25 years. And Pokémon evolution has been one area that has almost entirely changed./post/riot-targets-lee-sin-s-damage-jayce-s-tankiness-in-league-patch-12-7-preview/Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-targets-lee-sin-s-damage-jayce-s-tankiness-in-league-patch-12-7-preview/ The expanded patch preview for League of Legends Patch 12.7 was revealed by Riot Games earlier today, with a series of champions on the table to receive balance updates. Traditionally, Riot makes more balance changes at the halfway point of the League of Legends season to coincide with the Mid-Season Invitational, and this year is no exception. 14 champions are set to be altered in Patch 12.7, with more updates on the way before MSI kicks off on May 10./post/detroit-renegades-quietly-reveal-overwatch-acquisition/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/detroit-renegades-quietly-reveal-overwatch-acquisition/ The Detroit Renegades have picked up the former Kingdom Esports Overwatch roster—but they still haven’t made an official announcement. Casters for Next Generation Esports’ Overwatch Winter Premiere, of which group play began Jan. 3, announced on the tournament stream that the Kingdom roster would be playing as the Renegades. During the tournament, the official Renegades Twitter account expressed support for its new pickup, congratulating the players for closing out the series with a 2-0 win against FaZe Clan./post/how-much-does-summit1g-make-on-twitch-twitch-leaks/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-does-summit1g-make-on-twitch-twitch-leaks/ Summit1g is one of Twitch’s old guard when it comes to the platform’s most popular streamers. As the most-watched content creator on the platform in 2017, the man notorious for angrily punching his monitor on stream is also known for his ability to give a variety of titles a huge boost in viewership, like Grand Theft Auto and Sea of Thieves. So it makes sense that when Twitch streamer payouts were leaked this week, Summit1g was among the purportedly most paid./post/how-to-complete-festival-of-futball-challenge-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-festival-of-futball-challenge-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports has added a squad-building challenge (SBC) to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team today called the Festival of FUTball Challenge, which will reward the players who complete it with a gold players pack. The SBC was introduced alongside the Festival of FUTball, which replaces the Team of the Season (TOTS). In this new promo, the Festival of FUTball cards will be upgraded based on national team wins from June 11 to 16./post/best-second-monitors-for-streaming/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-second-monitors-for-streaming/ If you’re planning on streaming, it’s advisable to get a second monitor. You can play on the first and use the second one to view comments in the chat and interact with viewers. It’s also more professional to have a dual-monitor setup so viewers cannot see any behind-the-scenes processes while you switch between tabs on a single monitor. Whether you get a budget monitor to get the job done or an advanced monitor that can handle gaming is up to you./post/the-best-competitive-krig-6-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-competitive-krig-6-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ There’s a lot for assault rifle players to love in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. There are at least six assault rifles to mess around with—and basically all of them are formidable in a variety of situations. But as is usually the case, a few guns stand out above the pack. The Krig 6 is a favorite among AR players in Black Ops Cold War and the Call of Duty League pros have hopped on it quickly as a favorite in scrimmages and league matches./post/when-will-blackout-release-in-call-of-duty-mobile/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-will-blackout-release-in-call-of-duty-mobile/ Call of Duty: Mobile is getting a new Battle Royale map in the upcoming season eight, which will mark the game’s second anniversary. After dropping a teaser earlier this week, Activision confirmed the new BR map in CoD: Mobile is the large Blackout from Black Ops 4. Activision has said that the version of Blackout being added to CoD: Mobile is the “mid-launch year version.” That means it will have a lot of iconic locations like Ghost Town, Hijacked, and more./post/astralis-becomes-publicly-traded-on-us-stock-exchange/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/astralis-becomes-publicly-traded-on-us-stock-exchange/ Astralis is now officially trading on a U.S. stock exchange, the organization announced today. The news comes one month after the Danish powerhouse applied to OTC Markets Group’s Best Market exchange. Astralis first became a public company when it was listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Denmark market, a local exchange for Danish investors, 16 months ago. The company reported “satisfactory” financial performance in 2020 but also reported $8.5 million in losses./post/best-gaming-halloween-costumes-among-us-fortnite-and-more/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-gaming-halloween-costumes-among-us-fortnite-and-more/ As Halloween approaches, it’s time to start scouring the internet to find the most creative and fun costumes to wear during this fashion-fun holiday. And what better way to show your love of video games than by dressing up as your favorite gaming character, game, or peripheral? It’s Halloween, so be the gaming character you love instead of controlling it! It’s not every day that we receive compliments for walking around dressed as a Mortal Kombat ninja, a Final Fantasy boss, or a fan-favorite controller./post/final-fantasy-xiv-update-breaks-steam-deck-compatibility/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/final-fantasy-xiv-update-breaks-steam-deck-compatibility/ The latest Final Fantasy XIV patch may have caused issues for Steam Deck users, with the game now reportedly no longer playable on Valve’s new handheld console. As part of the new update, players who purchased the game on Steam will need to link their accounts to a Square Enix login, which is something that will need to be completed via the new launcher, which isn’t currently supported on Linux./post/new-world-trial-of-the-gladiator-quest-guide/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-world-trial-of-the-gladiator-quest-guide/ Factions are a big part of New World given that they dictate a player’s PvP experience, but they also have some impacts on PvE. While all three factions offer a similar experience, the missions that players acquire while increasing their reputation are unique to each faction. See Dot Esports Gaming Deals If you chose the Marauder faction, or Green faction, then you’ll encounter the Trial of the Gladiator quest to advance your reputation to the next rank./post/sentinels-benches-zombs-off-active-valorant-roster/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sentinels-benches-zombs-off-active-valorant-roster/ Jared “zombs” Gitlin is “stepping down” from the active Sentinels VALORANT roster, the organization announced today. Zombs will move to the inactive roster ahead of a potential transfer or move to content creation. The 23-year-old was a part of the original core of players who joined Sentinels when the organization entered VALORANT in late April 2020, with only Hunter “SicK” Mims and Shahzeb “ShahZaM” Khan now remaining (Michael “dapr” Gulino joined just over a month later)./post/final-fantasy-xiv-reportedly-surpasses-25-million-player-count/Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/final-fantasy-xiv-reportedly-surpasses-25-million-player-count/ Nearly a decade after its release, Final Fantasy XIV is still going strong. And with the official release of the Endwalker expansion earlier today, it seems like it’s far from stopping. Over the past month, the game’s player base has kept growing, with over one million players reportedly registering between October and November. The game’s player count has now surpassed 25 million, according to Eurogamer. The game also broke its all-time active player record on Steam following the early access launch of Endwalker./post/mtg-reveals-2020-expansion-release-plan-including-returns-to-theros-and-zendikar-planes/Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-reveals-2020-expansion-release-plan-including-returns-to-theros-and-zendikar-planes/ Wizards of the Coast unveiled its plan for all Magic: The Gathering set releases in 2020 yesterday, in addition to a mountain of spoilers and other changes for the upcoming set, Throne of Eldraine (ELD). The planned sets for 2020 are: Q1 – Theros, Beyond DeathQ2 – Ikoria, Lair of BehemothsQ3 – Core Set 2021 (themed around the planeswalker Teferi)Q4 – Zendikar Rising Theros, Beyond Death Theros’ first set block involved three sets heavily focused on enchantments./post/the-9-worst-legendary-cards-in-hearthstone/Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-9-worst-legendary-cards-in-hearthstone/ Each Hearthstone expansion introduces hundreds of new cards into the game. Though they all come from packs, not all Hearthstone cards are created equally.  Some cards quickly find a healthy spot in the meta due to their high utility levels, but certain ones can end up being forgotten. Unlike fill cards that players often have to use even if they would like to have a more powerful card in that slot, the worst cards in Hearthstone almost never see the light of day in the game’s ranked ladder./post/the-top-10-highest-prize-pools-in-esports/Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-top-10-highest-prize-pools-in-esports/ Esports players have seen some outrageous payouts over the last 20 years. While the overall size of a prize pool doesn’t determine the prestige of an event, it’s quite clearly one of the major factors players use to determine whether they’ll show up. The first esports prize was given away in 1997 when Dennis “Thresh” Fong won Quake developer John Carmac’s red Ferrari 328. In 2006, Johan “Toxjq” Quick won a Rolex from the WSVG Quake 4 championship./post/league-fan-embraces-ivern-s-past-with-this-freljord-skin-concept/Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-fan-embraces-ivern-s-past-with-this-freljord-skin-concept/ League of Legends fans never seem to disappoint when it comes to creating skins for their favorite champions. Ivern was released in 2016, but the champion only had two skins until 2019. Though Dunkmaster Ivern was a fun skin overall, it failed to meet some Ivern mains’ expectations. One League fan and an Ivern main shared their Freljord Ivern skin concept earlier today, showing how the Freljord theme would fit the Green Father./post/changes-coming-to-world-of-warcraft-classic-with-the-season-of-mastery/Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/changes-coming-to-world-of-warcraft-classic-with-the-season-of-mastery/ Blizzard is looking to reinvigorate World of Warcraft Classic players who want a “fresh” experience with Season of Mastery servers. And while the game will give players a fresh version of Classic to play, it won’t be quite the same as the product released in 2019. While the original mentality behind WoW Classic was #NoChanges, Blizzard has noticed an interest from players to have some potentially slight differences from the way WoW originally released in the mid-2000s./post/fall-guys-season-6-launches-with-epic-cross-progression-ghost-of-tsushima-items-and-new-fiesta-show/Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fall-guys-season-6-launches-with-epic-cross-progression-ghost-of-tsushima-items-and-new-fiesta-show/ Season six of Fall Guys has officially been released with a plethora of new changes and content including a new seasonal fame path full of rewards, a new show featuring all-new levels, and the integration of Epic Games accounts for the purposes of cross-progression. The first thing that players will notice is the required use of an Epic Games account to play Fall Guys. While players might be confused or irritated about this, it serves a purpose./post/asmongold-set-to-interview-blizzard-s-ion-hazzikostas/Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/asmongold-set-to-interview-blizzard-s-ion-hazzikostas/ Asmongold, the most popular MMO influencer, is getting an opportunity tomorrow to grill the head man in charge of World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, following last week’s expansion reveal. Hazzikostas, who regularly makes the rounds following big announcements like this, was on stream with the WoW content creation duo of Taliesin and Evitel, who make the popular video series “The Weekly Reset.” Asmongold watched the interview on his stream today, and at the end, he mentioned that there were a few questions that fans weren’t able to ask./post/everything-revealed-in-the-devolver-digital-summer-game-fest-show/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-revealed-in-the-devolver-digital-summer-game-fest-show/ Devolver Digital has quite a few things up its sleeve, so much, that it got its own 30-minute show during the 2022 Summer Game Fest. Fans were able to see a multitude of new games and some that were already announced during the show. If you missed the Devolver Digital showcase, here’s everything new that was revealed during the event. Cult of the Lamb Release date: Aug. 11, 2022 Spread the word through the flock, Cult of the Lamb launches August 11!/post/how-to-find-and-use-soul-shards-in-v-rising/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-and-use-soul-shards-in-v-rising/ During the early game in V Rising, much of your time will be dedicated to crafting new gear and raising your level. These are the most efficient ways to gain more power and take on progressively tougher bosses as you battle for vampire supremacy—and they’re also tasks that are a lot of fun. As you get closer to the endgame, though, you might be wondering what else you can do to increase your status and become the most powerful vampire in Vardoran./post/riot-explains-why-tft-is-being-kept-as-a-league-game-mode-instead-of-a-separate-game/Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-explains-why-tft-is-being-kept-as-a-league-game-mode-instead-of-a-separate-game/ Teamfight Tactics has been one of the most popular autobattler games since its release in June 2019. Its player base is strong and the game is constantly shifting with new content, so many people have wondered why it hasn’t been split off into its own game. But today, Riot Games provided some of the reasons why that’s the case in a recent developer’s blog. “The current approach gives development efficiencies when it comes to building code and content, both for TFT and for the MOBA side of LoL, meaning we can get more done than we otherwise could,” Riot game director Andrei “Meddler” van Roon said./post/pyke-nautilus-or-thresh-who-s-the-better-playmaker-in-league/Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pyke-nautilus-or-thresh-who-s-the-better-playmaker-in-league/ The support meta is in a very clear and concise point. There is one obvious archetype of champion that reigns supreme over the other types of supports. It isn’t enchanters with their Ardent Censer, and it isn’t mages. We’re right in the middle of a playmaker meta, where Thresh, Pyke, and Nautilus support reign supreme. If you’re a support player, or perhaps an aspiring support player, you might look at these three as the first champions you learn./post/how-to-solve-gone-astray-in-the-mirelands-request-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-solve-gone-astray-in-the-mirelands-request-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ As members of the Survey Corps, players will be tasked with doing all sorts of odd jobs when out in the field as they explore the Hisui region. This means Pokémon Legends: Arceus has a number of requests that will have players exploring certain areas to help out NPCs.  After defeating the Noble Pokémon Lilligant, players can talk to an NPC named Zeke at the Galaxy Hall. He will ask you to find his sister Wanda, a member of the Security Corps who has gone missing in the Crimson Mirelands./post/evelynn-s-new-k-da-all-out-skin-won-t-have-long-hair-because-of-rig-plus-animation-limitations/Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/evelynn-s-new-k-da-all-out-skin-won-t-have-long-hair-because-of-rig-plus-animation-limitations/ League of Legends fans and mains of the diva jungler will be disappointed to learn that Evelynn’s latest skin won’t be able to do justice to her fantastic splash art. “Rig plus animation limitations” made it “not feasible to style her hair” accordingly to Evelynn’s promotional art, according to Riot Games’ skins quality assurance lead, Katey Anthony. An update re: K/DA ALL OUT Evelynn's hair. After discussion + investigation with the team, it is not feasible to style her hair to reflect what Eve's promotional piece has./post/apocalypse-and-express-are-joining-the-map-pool-for-call-of-duty-league-stage-2/Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apocalypse-and-express-are-joining-the-map-pool-for-call-of-duty-league-stage-2/ Two of the newest maps in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War are officially joining the map pool for the Call of Duty League’s 2021 season. The CDL announced the map pool for Stage Two today. Apocalypse has taken the place of Crossroads Strike in Hardpoint, while Express will replace Garrison in Search and Destroy. New maps in the rotation for Stage II! 🌴 Added Apocalypse HP; removed Crossroads HP/post/here-are-15-mtg-kaldheim-limited-bombs-to-build-around/Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-15-mtg-kaldheim-limited-bombs-to-build-around/ The release of Kaldheim in Magic: The Gathering has brought about a healthy Limited meta with a number of bombs that can end games.  A bomb in Magic is a card that will have a major impact within a Limited match. It’s a slang term that evolved from the acronym BREAD, applied towards drafting in the Limited format. A bomb is best defined as “something explosive and powerful,” according to Marshall Sutcliffe of the Limited Resources podcast./post/when-does-the-world-of-warcraft-burning-crusade-classic-pre-patch-start/Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-world-of-warcraft-burning-crusade-classic-pre-patch-start/ World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Classic’s release date was announced today—and it’s just around the corner. With a pre-patch introducing new races and classes, there will be a lot to do to prepare for the expansion’s launch on June 1. The WoW TBC Classic pre-patch will officially begin on May 18. That will give players two weeks to take advantage of a new PvP honor system and leveling changes prior to the Dark Portal opening./post/valve-reveals-cs-go-operation-riptide-featuring-private-queue-short-competitive-games-new-deathmatch-modes-and-more/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valve-reveals-cs-go-operation-riptide-featuring-private-queue-short-competitive-games-new-deathmatch-modes-and-more/ A new CS:GO operation, named Operation Riptide, has been officially added by Valve. Riptide features tons of new additions to the game, including the addition of private queue, team and free-for-all deathmatch, shorter competitive matches, and a ton of new cosmetics, gameplay changes, and maps. Operation Riptide is the 11th operation in CS:GO‘s history, and the first since Operation Broken Fang ended on May 3, 2021. Riptide will last until Feb./post/nitr0-on-valorant-it-has-a-lot-of-growth-for-new-and-up-and-coming-players/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nitr0-on-valorant-it-has-a-lot-of-growth-for-new-and-up-and-coming-players/ Nicholas “nitr0” Cannella has had a bumpy professional esports career. After representing Team Liquid’s CS:GO division for more than five years, during which he guided the team to several trophies, the American in-game leader switched to VALORANT. In what was a new esports title at the time, nitr0 joined 100 Thieves’ VALORANT squad, a team that looked to have a bright future ahead of them. But after competing with them for more than a year, the 26-year-old decided to go back to his roots and rejoined Team Liquid’s revamped CS:GO lineup./post/here-are-all-of-the-abilities-for-akshan-league-s-newest-champion/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-the-abilities-for-akshan-league-s-newest-champion/ In the battle against the Ruination, every single League of Legends player will need to gather all their might to protect Runeterra from the Black Mist. Luckily, Riot Games has revealed Akshan, the Rogue Sentinel, as the latest champion to join the fight for the light—and he’s bringing plenty of tools to take on Viego and the forces of the undead. Whether he’s swinging into a teamfight or hunting down a Scoundrel that killed his allies, Akshan brings plenty of mobility, damage, and spiciness to Summoner’s Rift./post/riotx-arcane-project-director-speaks-on-league-crossovers-with-fortnite-among-us/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riotx-arcane-project-director-speaks-on-league-crossovers-with-fortnite-among-us/ Riot Games is going all out promoting its new animated series, Arcane, which premieres episodes weekly on Netflix. Largely, that promotional effort is stemming from the company’s RiotX Arcane initiative, a month-long event dedicated to marketing Arcane through every possible avenue.  This month, Riot has made it a priority to bring the world of Arcane to its five game titles, as well as games outside of the Riot umbrella. Over the last two weeks alone, Riot has partnered with games developers such as Innersloth, Epic Games, and others to bring Arcane’s thematic elements and various characters to titles outside of the Riot universe./post/dr-disrespect-s-twitch-ban-and-lawsuit-explained/Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dr-disrespect-s-twitch-ban-and-lawsuit-explained/ At one point, Dr Disrespect was among the most viewed and most popular streamers on Twitch. But a sudden and unexplained ban in June 2020 saw Doc removed from his longtime streaming platform. The reason for Doc’s permanent ban from Twitch is still unknown, with neither party nor any outside sources giving any indication as to why the former face of Twitch saw an untimely forced departure. In a statement provided to Shannon Liao in 2020, Twitch vaguely claimed that Dr Disrespect violated either the site’s community guidelines or Terms of Service and remarked on the general applicability of its policies./post/pubg-mobile-season-19-has-begun-with-a-new-royale-pass/Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pubg-mobile-season-19-has-begun-with-a-new-royale-pass/ PUBG Mobile’s season 19, called Traverse, has begun. It has also brought a new Royale Pass to the game containing a lot of exciting rewards. The season will last for about two months until July 12. The season’s Traverse theme is based on the new Microcosm mode which will be released in PUBG Mobile on June 9. In this mode, players can transform into an insectoid by using quantum transformation devices available in some locations of Erangel./post/all-vow-of-the-disciple-glyphs-symbols-and-callouts-in-destiny-2/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-vow-of-the-disciple-glyphs-symbols-and-callouts-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2‘s Vow of the Disciple raid barrages players with a series of symbols for them to learn. Like in most raids, communicating is key, and players will need to call out symbols fairly often in the raid. All encounters use them to a degree, so it’s best to get acquainted with them quickly. There are a total of 27 symbols in the raid, each with its own official callouts. Though players will likely develop their own callouts over time, Bungie has an official name for each glyph./post/2-new-colors-revealed-for-ps5-s-duelsense-wireless-controller-cosmic-red-and-midnight-black/Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/2-new-colors-revealed-for-ps5-s-duelsense-wireless-controller-cosmic-red-and-midnight-black/ Sony’s PlayStation 5 Duelsense wireless controller is getting a sexy new look. The next-gen controller, which offers haptic feedback, dynamic adaptive triggers, and a built-in microphone, came in just one color—until now. Two new colors for the controller, Cosmic Red and Midnight Black, are hitting shelves next month, according to Sony. Midnight Black features two “subtly different” shades of black with light gray “detailing” to “reflect the night sky.” Cosmic Red offers a black and red design “inspired by the unique vivid shades of red found throughout the cosmos./post/how-to-fix-login-failed-an-unknown-error-occurred-in-elder-scrolls-online/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-login-failed-an-unknown-error-occurred-in-elder-scrolls-online/ Multiplayer games like Elder Scrolls Online rely on servers to host all of their players. While these servers will work just fine in most cases, they might go down on rare occasions. Servers generally start cracking under pressure when there’s a surge in player numbers which usually happens with large content patches. During such times, players can experience errors like “login failed an unknown error occurred.” Errors of this caliber typically prevent players from logging into ESO and may even kick them out if they are already logged in./post/new-world-rolls-out-new-servers-and-free-world-transfers-to-remedy-long-server-queues/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-world-rolls-out-new-servers-and-free-world-transfers-to-remedy-long-server-queues/ New World launched around the globe over the past 24 hours, but for a lot of players, there has been little opportunity to get in on the action due to massive queues to get into the game. To remedy this, the Amazon Games team has been active in implementing new servers that players can join to free up queues on other servers. Players will also be able to transfer their characters between servers for free in the next two weeks, meaning you can begin playing on a server that you may not stick with going forward./post/niantic-to-perform-server-maintenance-for-pokemon-go-and-pikmin-bloom/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/niantic-to-perform-server-maintenance-for-pokemon-go-and-pikmin-bloom/ Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom players may encounter some unexpected issues this week as Niantic performs three days of server maintenance. Niantic tweeted today that server maintenance will begin on Nov. 3 and last until Nov. 6. During this time, players can still take part in their regular Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom activities, but there could be some disruptions. Trainers, we’ll be performing server maintenance from November 3 to November 6, 2021 PDT./post/here-are-8-of-the-best-fan-created-skins-in-overwatch/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-8-of-the-best-fan-created-skins-in-overwatch/ Overwatch is a game that prides itself on its creativity and outstanding visual prowess. The game offers players a variety of different looks that add extra personality to the game’s character roster. Each hero has a slew of unique skins that draw inspiration from various times in history, pop culture, or events. While the game has many skins to chose from, there are still a lot of different looks that are not available in the game./post/when-does-call-of-duty-warzone-mobile-release/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-call-of-duty-warzone-mobile-release/ Following the massive success of Call of Duty: Mobile, Activision’s newest entry Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is ready to capitalize on the successes of mobile gaming. This is what we currently know about Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile and its expected release date. When will Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile be released? Currently, there is no set release date for Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, though speculation points toward a release sometime in 2022./post/the-best-dragon-ball-z-games/Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-dragon-ball-z-games/ Since its inception in 1984, Dragon Ball has been one of the most popular anime franchises ever with hundreds of spin-off video games. The collaborations have run the gamut from 2D fighting games, card battlers, turn-based strategy games, RPGs, 3D fighters in massive arenas, and more. We’ve provided a list of the best Best Dragon Ball Z games for gamers who are obsessed with Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball FighterZ SpecificationsThe Dragon Ball FighterZ could enhance the gaming experience of the franchise to a new level thanks to its great interactive gameplay and fighting scenes./post/the-biggest-secrets-and-easter-eggs-in-new-pok%C3%A9mon-snap/Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-biggest-secrets-and-easter-eggs-in-new-pok%C3%A9mon-snap/ New Pokémon Snap is out and players are quickly discovering that the developers kept true to the original game by hiding a ton of different secrets and Easter eggs in the new Lental region.  These secrets range from cool throwback references to the original Pokémon Snap all the way to rare encounters you can’t even get until you reach a minimum requirement the game has set.  If you want to play the game without being spoiled, you should try and encounter these moments during your playthrough before looking up guides./post/apex-s-shadow-royale-returns-for-one-week/Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-s-shadow-royale-returns-for-one-week/ Apex Legends players can now enjoy the Shadow Royale game mode during the final week of the Monsters Within Halloween event.  Shadow Royale is a popular limited-time event hosted by Revenant where players return in Shadow Form when they are killed. Shadow Form grants movement bonuses that Titanfall players will recognize, like wall-running and double jumping. Players can assist their team in Shadow Form by attacking enemies, although they only have a melee attack./post/best-mtg-alchemy-innistrad-cards-and-decks/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-mtg-alchemy-innistrad-cards-and-decks/ The launch of MTG Arena Alchemy, which included exclusive digital-only Magic cards from Alchemy: Innistrad (A22), has created a new Standard meta packed with cards that have improved a large number of popular decks.  The Alchemy format within MTG Arena is an alternative Standard format that includes digital-only cards, mechanics, and cards that have been rebalanced, alongside every Standard-legal card in Magic. A22, which was released on Dec. 9 with a total of 63 digital-only cards, opens up design space within Magic while the format itself provides designers with the ability to nerf or buff a card depending on its performance within the meta./post/riot-teases-legends-of-runeterra-world-championship-details-reveals-paths-to-qualify/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-teases-legends-of-runeterra-world-championship-details-reveals-paths-to-qualify/ Riot Games has announced new details for the 2022 Legends of Runeterra World Championship that is slated to take place later this year, while also teasing something potentially big that will get revealed in the near future. New information for the second Legends of Runeterra 2022 World Championship was released today by Riot, providing players with key details regarding the paths they can take to earn an invite to Worlds. No official date for LoR Worlds was announced, but Riot did reveal that the Legends of Runeterra World Championship will “take the place of the Seasonal tournament of the season running from Oct./post/how-to-get-different-colored-pikmin-in-pikmin-bloom/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-different-colored-pikmin-in-pikmin-bloom/ Niantic’s latest AR game in collaboration with Nintendo, Pikmin Bloom, is now available in some regions around the globe, giving some players the chance to head out into their neighborhood and collect all the Pikmin they can find. All Pikmin from the original three games have returned for this mobile title, and players will be able to find them in a variety of different ways. The overall goal of Pikmin Bloom is to plant flowers all over your local area, but the best way to facilitate this is by collecting an army of Pikmin./post/tfue-and-faze-banks-meet-up-despite-lawsuit-controversy/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tfue-and-faze-banks-meet-up-despite-lawsuit-controversy/ FaZe Clan co-owner Ricky “FaZe Banks” Bengston shocked the gaming community last night when he posted a photo to his Instagram with Turner “Tfue” Tenney. One of the biggest lawsuits in esports began in 2019 after Tfue sued FaZe, alleging that the organization’s contracts were unfair and predatory. One clause in the contract would have allowed FaZe to collect up to 80 percent of Tfue’s revenue, for example. FaZe Banks uploaded a YouTube video on May 21 claiming that Tfue was only suing the organization to get out of his contract./post/tribe-gaming-are-the-western-champions-of-the-cod-mobile-world-championship-2021/Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tribe-gaming-are-the-western-champions-of-the-cod-mobile-world-championship-2021/ Tribe Gaming have won the Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship 2021 Western Finals. The team took down ARP Gaming 3-1 in a North American grand final to take home the crown.  After convincing victories in the first two rounds of the finals on the Hardpoint and Search and Destroy modes, ARP made a comeback in an intense third round in Hardpoint on Summit. Both teams traded the capture points in the early game, but Tribe was able to hold on in the first half with a score of 75-49./post/iem-winter-2021-results-schedule-bracket/Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/iem-winter-2021-results-schedule-bracket/ Sixteen of the best CS:GO teams in the world have traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to compete at IEM Winter, a $250,000 LAN tournament. This is one of the last premier Counter-Strike tournaments of the year and comes after two thrilling events, PGL Stockholm Major and BLAST Premier Fall Final, which were held in front of a live audience. IEM Winter, though, is being played in a studio environment, so there’s no crowd./post/est-ce-que-les-serveurs-de-splitgate-sont-down-voici-comment-v%C3%A9rifier-l-%C3%A9tat-des-serveurs/Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/est-ce-que-les-serveurs-de-splitgate-sont-down-voici-comment-v%C3%A9rifier-l-%C3%A9tat-des-serveurs/ Alors que Splitgate est très populaire dans son état actuel, les problèmes de serveurs du jeu ont été problématiques et, parfois, un aspect frustrant du FPS ces dernières semaines. Pour faire rapide, puisque les serveurs actuels ne sont pas destinés à accueillir autant de joueurs, ils sont souvent en surcharge, parfois au point où les développeurs de 1047 Games doivent mettre le jeu hors ligne temporairement. Ceci étant dit, à partir du 28 juillet, le jeu est en ligne – en quelques sortes./post/move-over-lee-sin-god-staff-jax-is-the-next-champion-to-ascend-to-divinity/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/move-over-lee-sin-god-staff-jax-is-the-next-champion-to-ascend-to-divinity/ It’s only been eight months since God Fist Lee Sin graced Summoner’s Rift with his divinity, but God Fist Jax is on the way to contest him, according to a teaser video published on Riot’s social media pages. The skin looks just as cool as God Fist Lee Sin, and features all new animations, golden godlike colors, and all-around badassery. Lee Sin’s god skin is considered a Legendary skin, and it costs 1,820 RP, so we can assume Jax’s will cost the same./post/the-2021-lcs-rebrand-signals-a-new-direction-for-a-youthful-energized-league/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-2021-lcs-rebrand-signals-a-new-direction-for-a-youthful-energized-league/ The LCS completely rebranded its identity earlier today ahead of the 2021 season. Complete with a full logo change, a shift in the league’s general focus, and a new slogan, “Made by Many,” to boot, North America’s premier league for professional League of Legends is set to look a lot different than it has in past seasons.  The design comes just two years after the LEC, the longtime European sister league of the LCS, totally rebranded its look to add more of a modern spin on professional League./post/a-history-of-gaming-mice/Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-history-of-gaming-mice/ When first learning to drive a car, the wheel may not feel familiar, the pedals seem far away, and the stick shift is strange. Over time, these tools become an extension of the driver’s hands and feet. Controlling them becomes second nature. Computer mice are the same for gamers. A mouse is a tool meant to be an extension of the user for more control over the device itself. Its user needs to consciously remember which buttons do which functions, but using the mouse becomes second nature over time./post/can-you-play-fortnite-on-the-steam-deck/Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-fortnite-on-the-steam-deck/ The Steam Deck can play titles from any genre. From narrative-driven action romps to gut-wrenching horror games, Valve’s freshmen handheld outing has proven quite versatile outside of competitive gaming. While some competitive titles like Apex Legends have since found their way to being playable, others haven’t been so lucky. Epic Games’ Fortnite is one of the unlucky games in this case. Despite Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye both being supported by the Steam Deck, Epic Games won’t be bringing Fortnite over to the Steam Deck for the foreseeable future, according to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney./post/elden-ring-player-perfects-mech-suit-build/Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/elden-ring-player-perfects-mech-suit-build/ Elden Ring player and YouTube content creator Adam Barker recently flaunted his nearly unstoppable mech suit build, terrorizing fellow players in PvP. Barker’s YouTube video featured a short tutorial on the items necessary to fully realize this chaotic build. First, he uses the Ironjar Aromatic consumable, which turns the player’s body into steel. Then, Barker uses Cerulean Hidden Tear and the Crimsonwhorl Bubble Tear to massively upgrade his available FP and health./post/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-box-art-leaks-just-12-hours-before-reveal-event/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-box-art-leaks-just-12-hours-before-reveal-event/ The box art for the upcoming installment in the Call of Duty franchise has been leaked, and it may help fans know what to expect at today’s reveal event. Just 12 hours ahead of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal, the box art for the game was leaked in an IGN advertisement appeared on the site prematurely. The ad was screenshotted by Reddit user “patsfan365” and posted to the Black Ops 4 subreddit before IGN took it down./post/fear-to-take-a-break-from-competitive-dota-2/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fear-to-take-a-break-from-competitive-dota-2/ It looks like business associates won’t be making any appearances any time soon, at least not using that moniker or being captained by veteran Dota 2 player Clinton “Fear” Loomis.  Just as matches were firing up for the Beyond The Summit Pro Series Season 3: Americas today, the roster for ba was shown playing under the alias of Team Zero without Fear anchoring the squad. A crazy fast victory by @gocr4zy as they take Game 1 over Team Zero in #BTSProSeries!/post/how-to-evolve-tyrunt-and-amaura-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-evolve-tyrunt-and-amaura-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/ With all of the fossil Pokémon now available thanks to Pokémon Sword and Shield’s The Crown Tundra expansion, players will be spending a lot of time trying to hunt them all down.  And not only are some of them hard to find, but a few of them have unique evolution requirements that you will need to meet if you want to help them reach their full potential.  Tyrunt and Amaura are both examples of these conditions since each can only be evolved during a certain time of day./post/cryocells-settings-keybinds-and-crosshair-for-valorant/Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cryocells-settings-keybinds-and-crosshair-for-valorant/ Matthew “Cryocells” Panganiban is one of the many young rising talents that stepped into the top-tier VALORANT scene in 2022. Cryocells played on several C-Tier organizations during the early days of his career but has since risen to the top after signing with XSET at the start of the 2022 VALORANT Champions Tour Season. The 19-year-old has become most known for his flashy playstyle on Chamber and Jett alongside his fragger duo Zachary “zekken” Patrone./post/how-to-get-free-v-bucks-in-fortnite-item-shop-codes-for-june-2022/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-free-v-bucks-in-fortnite-item-shop-codes-for-june-2022/ Fortnite is filled with awesome cosmetics and Epic Games continues to add more of them with each major content patch. While players can unlock some skins for free during events or special occasions, most cosmetics cost V-Bucks, which can usually be bought with real money. Even if you have a disposable income and can comfortably purchase V-Bucks, it’s hard to say no to them when they’re offered for free. Growing their skin collection is one of the ultimate goals of most Fortnite players and it can only be achieved by accumulating more V-Bucks./post/interactive-new-world-maps-to-help-you-complete-quests-faster/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/interactive-new-world-maps-to-help-you-complete-quests-faster/ When you first load into New World with your character, you’ll start in a small area. The map may seem small to you at first since you’ll be adventuring in a relatively closed part of the world as a beginner. Even without completing all the starting quests, players can venture into the wild parts of the map, but it’s easy to get lost in the process. New World’s map is massive, and you’ll find yourself traveling all around the world throughout your journey./post/free-fire-world-series-ffws-2022-will-take-place-in-sentosa-island-singapore/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/free-fire-world-series-ffws-2022-will-take-place-in-sentosa-island-singapore/ The Free Fire World Series (FFWS) 2022 is returning to Singapore and will be held in Sentosa, an island on the southern coast. The international competition is set to kick off in May, gathering squads from all over the world to compete for the title of world champions. The play-ins will start on May 14 and the grand finals are scheduled for May 21. FFWS 2022 Sentosa will receive 22 teams from the 13 Free Fire regions./post/report-ssong-to-move-to-an-offstage-role-with-tsm-lustboy-to-take-over-as-head-coach/Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/report-ssong-to-move-to-an-offstage-role-with-tsm-lustboy-to-take-over-as-head-coach/ Kim “SSONG” Sang-soo will apparently no longer be TSM’s head coach, according to a report by esports media outlet esportsheaven. Ham “Lustboy” Jang-sik, the team’s former support and current secondary coach, will take over as head coach until further notice. We cross-referenced this report with the league-recognized League of Legends esports contract database, on which Ssong is no longer listed under the TSM roster. This sort of change isn’t terribly shocking./post/valorant-fan-shares-smoke-and-wall-locations-on-split-with-viper/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-fan-shares-smoke-and-wall-locations-on-split-with-viper/ Using smokes and walls to narrow down your enemies’ rotating options is a key part of pushing toward objectives in VALORANT. While throwing or placing them may seem simple since you just aim and let go, there are certain places on maps where players can throw projectiles to other parts of the map without being seen, just like in CS:GO. A VALORANT player recently shared an arsenal of smoke and wall spots on Split that you can take advantage of with Viper./post/danny-devito-and-awkwafina-star-in-a-short-film-about-discord-inspired-by-its-users/Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/danny-devito-and-awkwafina-star-in-a-short-film-about-discord-inspired-by-its-users/ Discord has released a very weird video titled Discord – The Movie (2021) starring celebrities like Danny DeVito, Awkwafina, J.Balvin, Mr. Beast, and more. The unique video also features actual Discord users who the company says helped inspire the movie, which is centered around Awkwafina and others trying to explain to DeVito what the online text, audio, and video chat application is all about. “It all comes back to an Instagram story where we asked our followers, ‘what does Discord mean to you?/post/fastest-cars-in-gran-turismo-7/Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fastest-cars-in-gran-turismo-7/ The wait is finally over. After a long five years since Gran Turismo Sport, and an even more grueling nine years since Gran Turismo 6, drivers can grab their gloves and strap in behind the wheel again with the release of Gran Turismo 7 on PS4 and PS5. With its release comes new tracks, cars, and mountains to climb as drivers strive for greatness. And what better way to reach it than the “fastest” way possible?/post/microsoft-drops-power-on-the-story-of-xbox-releases-red-ring-of-death-poster-to-celebrate/Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/microsoft-drops-power-on-the-story-of-xbox-releases-red-ring-of-death-poster-to-celebrate/ Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division has a spotty history with many ups and downs. To highlight Xbox’s turbulent yet triumphant journey, Microsoft has released all six episodes of its behind-the-scenes series Power On: The Story of Xbox. The six-part docuseries runs through 20 years of the Xbox brand, with some eras marking its success and the others pointing out the pitfalls of the console race. Picking up with the original Xbox, the series spans from the original console’s inception by the DirectX team through the trying times of the Red Ring of Death and puzzling Xbox One to the Xbox Series X and S./post/pok%C3%A9mon-caf%C3%A9-starts-ditto-event-to-celebrate-april-fools-day/Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-caf%C3%A9-starts-ditto-event-to-celebrate-april-fools-day/ Pokémon Café has been out for a couple of years and has repeatedly shown a fondness for seasonal events. Now, Ditto has come to the cafe, and it’s hosting an event to celebrate April Fools’ Day. Starting on March 31, players will be able to log in and take advantage of the Ditto login bonuses. The following day, players will begin the Transforming Ditto event, which will allow players to collect Ditto and new costumes for the character./post/former-skt-jungler-blank-declares-free-agency/Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-skt-jungler-blank-declares-free-agency/ Former SK Telecom T1 jungler Kang “Blank” Sun-gu revealed today that he’s “received FA permission” from his previous League of Legends team. The 22-year-old joined Sengoku Gaming in the LJL in May 2019 after he left T1 and has played for the organization for three splits since then. Hello, I'm Blank. As of today, I received FA permission from the team. If you have any interest, please contact me. こんにちは、ブランクです。/post/mulan-to-be-buffed-in-smite-s-talons-of-tyranny-update/Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mulan-to-be-buffed-in-smite-s-talons-of-tyranny-update/ It looks like the Smite team is ready to get down to business to defeat the Huns. Mulan players, rejoice. The Ascended Warrior will receive a buff through the Talons of Tyranny update, Hi-Rez recently revealed. We’re sorry to disappoint fans of the animated film, but you won’t need to sing a musical number to make Mulan stronger this time. Instead, it looks like Hi-Rez will be making sensible changes to three of her primary abilities./post/cohhcarnage-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-and-more/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cohhcarnage-s-streaming-setup-mouse-keyboard-and-more/ CohhCarnage has more than seven years of experience as a variety streamer on Twitch, so it’s safe to say he knows what he’s doing.  With more than 3,000 hours of airtime in the past year, CohhCarnage takes “variety” to a level that few other streamers achieve. In the past year, he hasn’t played any game on Twitch for more than 150 hours, and he has streamed in 76 different categories for at least 10 hours./post/todos-os-pok%C3%A9mon-m%C3%ADticos-de-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/todos-os-pok%C3%A9mon-m%C3%ADticos-de-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ O maior objetivo de todo treinador é completar sua PokéAgenda e poder finalmente dizer que pegou todos os Pokémon. Você vai encontrar uma boa variedade de Pokémon em Pokémon Go só de andar por aí, mas os mais raros podem tirar seu sono. Os Pokémon Míticos e Lendários funcionam de forma diferente dos outros: eles não andam por aí e costumam aparecer só em eventos especiais, missões de Pesquisa ou Batalhas de Reide EX./post/fastest-way-to-get-the-monte-island-token-in-lost-ark/Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fastest-way-to-get-the-monte-island-token-in-lost-ark/ Lost Ark offers a large variety of content to discover, and exploration is a significant part of it. Players can hop onto their ship and navigate the seas to discover their islands and earn their rewards. The Adventure Isles are the hardest ones to clear because they don’t appear often. For this reason, players should organize and activate notifications for the isle before hopping it and clear their content. In addition to the Monte Island Token, you can get engraving recipes and crew applications by trading the currency of this island./post/lost-ark-getting-review-bombed-due-to-lengthy-queue-times/Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lost-ark-getting-review-bombed-due-to-lengthy-queue-times/ Its par for the course at this point: A wildly anticipated video game is seeing some bumpy roads with regards to its server performance. Most people could have seen this coming for Lost Ark’s release to western audiences from a nautical mile away, but that hasn’t stopped many players from voicing their dismay through Steam’s review system. See Lost Ark on Amazon The game, which released to free to play users in North America and Europe on the 11th of February, has seen queue times so lengthy that the game’s review rating on Steam went from “Overwhelmingly Positive” down to “Mixed” in two days./post/bang-and-lehends-join-the-lck-s-afreeca-freecs/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/bang-and-lehends-join-the-lck-s-afreeca-freecs/ Bang is back in Korea. Afreeca Freecs has found its new bottom lane duo for the 2021 League of Legends season. The LCK team signed former Evil Geniuses ADC Bae “Bang” Jun-sik and Hanwha Life support Son “Lehends” Si-woo today.  pic.twitter.com/icjT95J8UF — Afreeca Freecs LoL (@Freecs_LoL) November 30, 2020 Bang, a consecutive Worlds winner and four-time LCK champion, left Korea in 2018 to join LCS squad 100 Thieves. “I want to improve myself through competition with the best players in LCK,” he said on his return to Korea./post/how-to-complete-the-stone-of-power-quest-in-lost-ark/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-stone-of-power-quest-in-lost-ark/ Most of the quests in Lost Ark are straightforward to progress through and complete, though some are easier and faster than others. That being said, some quests offer players confusing or incomplete instructions. That’s exactly the case for the Stone of Power quest. Unlocked after reaching level 50, it’s a Roster quest, meaning it can be completed by whatever character you want. The XP it offs will go towards the Roster level./post/lcs-2022-summer-split-scores-standings-and-schedule/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lcs-2022-summer-split-scores-standings-and-schedule/ The highest level of League competition in North America, the League Championship Series, is heating up heading into the 2022 Summer Split. The second half of the 10th LCS season picks up on June 18, following Evil Geniuses’ ahead-of-schedule rise to prominence during their Spring title run. But the results from the spring mean nothing to the players and teams competing in this Summer Split. The contenders will look ahead to competing for both a trophy and one of three spots at the 2022 World Championship that will be held in North America./post/the-best-gaming-mouse-for-mmos/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-gaming-mouse-for-mmos/ MMO gaming has only gotten more popular in the last decade as new titles have appeared and other games have continued their tenure. With Riot hard at work on their entry into the genre, there has been no better time to invest in an MMO mouse. There are plenty of different perspectives on what makes a great MMO mouse, but one main point is that it needs to provide gamers with extra buttons that can quickly be used and bound to in-game abilities./post/how-to-get-the-pride-player-cards-in-valorant/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-pride-player-cards-in-valorant/ Pride month is here and Riot is celebrating in VALORANT with the addition of Pride player cards. Riot has already begun the celebrations across its other titles, with items and events available in League of Legends, Wild Rift, and Teamfight Tactics. The Pride celebration was announced in May prior to the beginning of Pride month. The developers said more information on VALORANT’s celebration will be coming closer to June. But the announcement did show some examples of LGBTQ+ player cards that are now available./post/riot-uploads-small-tft-set-5-pbe-patch-with-hyper-roll-changes/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-uploads-small-tft-set-5-pbe-patch-with-hyper-roll-changes/ Minor Teamfight Tactics balance changes and Hyper Roll system changes were included in the Set Five Reckoning PBE patch for April 19. The TFT team was able to collect large amounts of data over the first weekend of Set Five on the PBE, according to game designer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer. But players will have to wait one more day for any significant changes, giving the team time to evaluate the data./post/a-skin-sorting-system-could-be-coming-to-valorant/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-skin-sorting-system-could-be-coming-to-valorant/ A new skin sorting system can be spotted in the latest VALORANT influencer build, possibly giving players a new way to sift through their skins.  VALORANT features dozens of skins for every weapon ranging from cyberpunk guns to fantasy-themed melee weapons. There is a skin to satisfy almost every player, and most players have multiple skins for each gun. While having options is fun, sorting through each skin can be a pain, especially if you’ve accumulated skins since the game launched./post/how-to-factory-reset-an-iphone-13-and-13-pro/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-factory-reset-an-iphone-13-and-13-pro/ The iPhone 13 is the newest mobile phone in Apple’s Library, but circumstances might come around where you might want to trade it in for something else or be forced to sell it to get some cash back for a different purchase altogether. When it comes to that, the photos you have taken, data you have on your phone, and other things could all be at risk if you don’t factory reset your phone./post/how-to-get-shadow-mewtwo-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2020/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-shadow-mewtwo-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2020/ Team Go Rocket has brought Shadow Pokémon to Pokémon Go Fest 2020, including the return of Giovanni using Shadow Mewtwo to take on trainers who challenge him.  Unlike with previous iterations of the pair, Mewtwo will not be the only Pokémon Giovanni has in his possession, and you will only be able to capture it through completing Go Fest Special Research.  The “Rocket Straight to Victory” Special Research is only available on day two of Go Fest (July 26,) and will require you to run through six pages of research tasks./post/riot-adds-hrtf-directional-audio-to-valorant-in-patch-2-06/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-adds-hrtf-directional-audio-to-valorant-in-patch-2-06/ Within VALORANT’s Patch 2.06, players are going to see a new audio option in the game’s settings, in addition to all of the other changes being added to the game.  This new setting will allow players to toggle Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF), which will enable a more dynamic version of directional audio for headphone users. HRTF is simply a description of how the human ear receives sound from a sound source./post/fortnite-and-timberland-collab-coming-tomorrow/Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-and-timberland-collab-coming-tomorrow/ Fortnite is the go-to place for advertisers in video games, creating unique spaces where brands can show off their products. Sometimes, these new spaces can even be a great deal of fun for players, giving battle pass experience and offering new mini-games. Now, it appears that the famous shoe brand Timberland is getting its own space in Fortnite. In a post on its official Twitter account, Timberland shared a simple message about “Timberland® CONSTRUCT:10061” being created in Fortnite and powered by Epic Games’ Unreal Engine./post/minecraft-championship-mcc-22-to-air-on-may-28/Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/minecraft-championship-mcc-22-to-air-on-may-28/ The next monthly installment of the Minecraft Championships (MCC) will take place near the end of May. Noxcrew revealed that the next installment will be MCC 22 and will air on May 28. The official MCC Twitter page shared the announcement alongside a short video showcasing an MCC team completing a room in the teamwork-centric MCC game Grid Runners. The Decision Dome opens again on Saturday 28th May for MCC22👑/post/how-to-fix-the-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-bravo-433-destructive-gator-error-code/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-the-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-bravo-433-destructive-gator-error-code/ Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has entered its third season, and just like with most of its updates, this one has caused several players to encounter some new and returning errors.  This includes the incredibly named “Bravo 433 Destructive Gator” error code, which will pop up when trying to connect to the game’s servers for any online play.  Bravo 433 Destructive Gator is a notification you’ll only receive if your connection to the server couldn’t be completed./post/new-dragon-type-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-v-battle-decks-announced-feature-rayquaza-v-and-noivern-v/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-dragon-type-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-v-battle-decks-announced-feature-rayquaza-v-and-noivern-v/ The Pokémon Company is preparing the community for some high-flying TCG action by introducing two new V Battle Decks that will be released slightly after the upcoming Evolving Skies expansion. Evolving Skies releases on Aug. 27 and will reintroduce Dragon-type Pokémon as their own typing, bringing it back just in time to flood the meta with powerful cards like Rayquaza VMAX. See Pokémon on Amazon To coincide with the draconic return, TPC has shared two new V Battle Decks that will feature a variant of Rayquaza V and Noivern V, which will be released on Oct./post/smite-s-new-transformers-battle-pass-now-live/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/smite-s-new-transformers-battle-pass-now-live/ If you love Smite as well as robots disguised as automobiles, today is your lucky day. You now can head into Smite and start farming the new Transformers-themed battle pass. It's time to roll out, Divine Deities! The TRANSFORMERS Battle Pass is available NOW on all platforms! See you all on the Battleground! pic.twitter.com/gFWaV3Mzxt — SMITE (@SMITEGame) November 16, 2021 A few weeks back, Smite announced the arrival of a new battle pass./post/gruul-receives-some-firepower-in-mtg-zendikar-rising-spoilers/Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gruul-receives-some-firepower-in-mtg-zendikar-rising-spoilers/ Week one of Zendikar Rising spoilers comes to an end with a collection of powerful mythic rares, two of which empower Gruul Aggro strategies. Moraug, Fury of Akoum CMC: 4(RR)Type: Legendary Creature – Minotaur WarriorStats: 6/6 First ability: Each creature you control gets +1/+0 for each time it has attacked this turn.Second ability: Landfall – Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if it’s your main phase, there’s an additional combat phase after this phase./post/roadhog-will-get-a-lacrosse-player-skin-for-overwatch-s-summer-games-event/Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/roadhog-will-get-a-lacrosse-player-skin-for-overwatch-s-summer-games-event/ With Overwatch’s Summer Games just days away, Blizzard is continuing its lead-in with a new skin for Roadhog. The developer has been unveiling new skins since the Overwatch event was announced last week. Blizzard had a lot to live up to considering last year’s Summer Games skins, but fans seem more than pleased at the latest offerings. Lacrosse Roadhog is another good offering to Overwatch’s players. Related: The internet loves D./post/is-brandon-puck-qual-starcraft-s-next-foreign-hope/Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-brandon-puck-qual-starcraft-s-next-foreign-hope/ It’s 2010, and Brandon Qual is bragging to his friends that he’s just as good as they are at StarCraft 2. They’re all high-level Diamond and Grandmaster-level players, but Qual says he can take them out. There’s only one problem: he doesn’t actually own StarCraft 2. He’s never even played it. Today Qual goes by the name “puCK.” He’s a staple of the North American competitive StarCraft 2 scene, and is now one of only two Americans left standing in the StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, a global league for the best of the best players./post/here-are-all-64-references-memes-and-easter-eggs-in-the-2020-lcs-summer-split-promo-trailer/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-64-references-memes-and-easter-eggs-in-the-2020-lcs-summer-split-promo-trailer/ Riot sent fans on a scavenger hunt today with the 2020 LCS Summer Split trailer. But for those who don’t feel like sifting through all the memes, we’ve got you covered. The promo trailer takes place at a diehard League of Legends fan’s home, following them as they go through their morning routine. To make things more interesting, Riot sprinkled in a ton of Easter eggs and references that cover eight years of iconic LCS moments./post/scream-s-settings-keybinds-and-crosshair-for-valorant/Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/scream-s-settings-keybinds-and-crosshair-for-valorant/ Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom is simultaneously one of the most recognized names in CS:GO and VALORANT. Over the course of his 10-year career, the headshot machine has played for several of Counter-Strike’s top squads, including VeryGames, Titan, Epsilon, G2 Esports, and Envy. But after making the switch to VALORANT in 2020, the Belgian signed with Team Liquid, beginning a new path as a pro player. ScreaM has been one of the standout players in VALORANT’s European scene, playing and perfecting agents like Jett and Reyna./post/gambit-top-emea-pro-league-despite-alliance-victory/Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gambit-top-emea-pro-league-despite-alliance-victory/ The final day of the first split’s regular season took place with concurrently running lobbies, so no teams would be handed an unfair advantage with knowledge of how other teams finished. Groups A and C featured Gambit, the pacesetters for EMEA, who were guaranteed a spot in the online playoffs regardless of the day’s outcome. Teams like Gambit, GMT, and Alliance were all searching for placement within the Pro League top 10, since those squads would receive a head start on points in playoffs./post/how-to-fix-legends-locked-after-apex-s-legacy-patch/Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-legends-locked-after-apex-s-legacy-patch/ Apex Legends’ new season, Legacy, launched alongside some controversy. The latest update took out servers for the game altogether at the time of its debut, but things slowly improved until the studio gave the all-clear signal–nearly eight hours after schedule. The issues started with the launch of the new season as players flocked to try their hands at the new additions to the game. The overwhelming demand caused a series of interruptions that still persist, though smaller in intensity./post/how-to-complete-the-forging-iron-quest-in-destiny-2-iron-banner/Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-forging-iron-quest-in-destiny-2-iron-banner/ As much as things tend to change in Destiny 2, they also stay the same, and the Iron Banner is no different. The Iron Banner is much different now, featuring a new reputation system, and even a new location in the Tower. Even Lord Saladin has returned with a new moniker after the events of Season of the Risen. In Season of the Haunted, a new Iron Banner quest called “Forging Iron” tasks you to head into the Iron Banner in Crucible and fight against fellow Guardians./post/here-are-all-of-the-game-modes-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-the-game-modes-in-call-of-duty-vanguard/ Call of Duty: Vanguard is taking the fight back in time to World War II, featuring all of the war’s locations, operators, weaponry, and more. While the setting and more are different from previous CoD titles like Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War, CoD’s classic game modes are there, offering a familiar feel to anyone who jumps into some multiplayer games in Vanguard. Vanguard will offer a variety of new and returning game modes./post/riot-mortdog-reveals-tft-set-4-chosen-odds-at-launch/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-mortdog-reveals-tft-set-4-chosen-odds-at-launch/ Lead Teamfight Tactics game designer Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer unveiled the odds of a Chosen champion appearing at certain levels today.  Based on the level a player is at in TFT Set Four, there’s a percent chance associated with a Chosen champion of a certain cost appearing in that player’s shop. After being hounded by players since the launch of the next set on the PBE, Mortdog revealed those percentages today for when Fates goes live on Sept./post/when-does-overwatch-s-summer-games-2020-event-start/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-overwatch-s-summer-games-2020-event-start/ By the time July rolls around, Overwatch fans are already preparing their best Lúcioball strategies for the next Summer Games event. The annual event often includes exclusive sports-themed skins, interesting arcade mode additions, and a competitive Lúcioball mode for the fanatics out there.    With various start times over the past few years, however, players are struggling to figure out when the Summer Games event will begin in 2020. Here’s everything we know about when the event is likely to drop this year./post/how-to-complete-the-the-only-oracle-for-you-challenge-in-destiny-2/Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-the-only-oracle-for-you-challenge-in-destiny-2/ The Oracles encounter in Vault of Glass is one of the easiest parts of the raid, even with the weekly challenge. If Destiny 2 players are going after the “The Only Oracle for You” Triumph, though, they have to keep an eye out for their callouts—and keep moving. Normally, players are stationed in a fixed position during the Oracles encounter. To complete the challenge, however, players can’t destroy the same Oracle twice, which leads to a bit of shooting and a lot of moving./post/what-we-learned-about-hero-missions-and-talents-in-overwatch-2/Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-we-learned-about-hero-missions-and-talents-in-overwatch-2/ Blizzard Entertainment explained early on that Overwatch 2 would be primarily focused on PvE content, but a new behind-the-scenes BlizzConline panel revealed mountains of new information about missions and talents. At BlizzCon 2019, a playable demo of Overwatch 2’s story mission content was available for fans to test out. The short mission took players through Rio de Janeiro as a team of four heroes fought Null Sector omnics. While it was a fun look at the potential of PvE Overwatch content, especially with the addition of hero talents, it lacked depth./post/all-professor-s-research-professor-willow-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-card-special-research-tasks-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-professor-s-research-professor-willow-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-card-special-research-tasks-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The Pokémon Company and Niantic have launched a multi-part collaboration to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Pokémon Go and the 25th anniversary of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.  To start the collab, a special Pokémon TCG card themed after Pokémon Go’s Professor Willow is being distributed as a gift with purchases of select Pokémon Go products from the Pokémon Center website.  The promo card, which is a variant of the classic Professor’s Research Trainer card, features a special code that players can use in order to redeem Special Research in Pokémon Go./post/apex-s-season-11-quest-is-a-text-based-story-featuring-ash-horizon-and-a-ton-of-conflict/Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-s-season-11-quest-is-a-text-based-story-featuring-ash-horizon-and-a-ton-of-conflict/ Apex Legends’ season 11 is bringing Ash and Horizon to the forefront of the lore with its seasonal quest, Trouble in Paradise. The quest picks up from where last season’s Twitter comic left off: after Horizon woke up Ash thinking she was Lillian Peck. “Ash has regained old memories that drew her to an important piece of her past,” the quest’s description reads. “Horizon finds a clue to her son’s fate but doesn’t know where it leads./post/star-wars-eclipse-has-reportedly-been-delayed-until-at-least-2027/Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/star-wars-eclipse-has-reportedly-been-delayed-until-at-least-2027/ Star Wars Eclipse has reportedly been delayed by more than half a decade as French developers Quantic Dream struggle to add talent to its roster, with a 2027-2028 release window now more likely for the title. The highly-anticipated Star Wars game wowed audiences when it was announced last December but, according to Xfire, has ground to a halt behind the scenes. The delay is reportedly due to hiring issues at Quantic Dream./post/nicewigg-gets-so-excited-after-shroud-hosts-him-with-18-000-viewers-that-he-wakes-up-his-mom/Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nicewigg-gets-so-excited-after-shroud-hosts-him-with-18-000-viewers-that-he-wakes-up-his-mom/ Shroud made a streamer’s dream come true yesterday. Apex Legends pro Jack “NiceWigg” Martin was surprised to find 18,000 Twitch viewers watching him play yesterday after the first-person shooter legend hosted him. “I just got hosted by shroud,” the streamer yelled. “What the fuck? What the actual fuck?” NiceWigg was so elated by the influx of viewers that he ran to wake up his mother. “I gotta wake up my mom,” NiceWigg said./post/tft-changes-rules-on-matchmaking-tracker-add-ons/Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-changes-rules-on-matchmaking-tracker-add-ons/ Riot Games is “changing its stance on matchmaking tracker add-ons” in Teamfight Tactics due to players cracking the algorithm code, according to game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer.  The TFT matchmaking algorithm was meant to provide a sense of randomness regarding who a player would battle next. And for a time, it was effective, prompting a ban on matchmaking tracker add-ons to ensure the integrity of the autobattler. Players eventually “cracked the matchmaking rules and it became trackable,” though, Mortdog said in his Twitter thread today, resulting in a temporary change that will allow TFT matchmaking tracker add-ons./post/how-to-find-cctv-cameras-in-pubg/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-cctv-cameras-in-pubg/ PUBG is a battle royale game that needs no introduction. Whether you play it with a squad or on your own, the goal is the same: be the last one standing. If surviving until the final circle isn’t enough of a challenge, the battle pass adds another layer of difficulty to the game. The missions can go from the simplest of tasks, like playing on a specific map a number of times, to the most difficult, like getting three kills with a pan in the same game./post/here-s-how-to-fix-the-cloud-sync-error-in-apex-legends/Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-how-to-fix-the-cloud-sync-error-in-apex-legends/ If you want to jump into the hottest battle royale out right now, you may encounter an error on PC that’ll keep you from accessing Apex Legends. Don’t worry, you won’t have to go back to Fortnite. With a quick fix, you’ll be gunning your way to the top in no time. PC players have reported a cloud sync error with the new game. While Electronic Arts has implemented a fix for the cloud sync error with the client, some are still experiencing it./post/hextech-augment-patterns-adjusted-major-changes-made-in-tft-set-6-5-s-feb-8-pbe-update/Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hextech-augment-patterns-adjusted-major-changes-made-in-tft-set-6-5-s-feb-8-pbe-update/ Hextech Augment patterns are getting shaken up within Teamfight Tactics Set 6.5 Neon Nights. A large number of Augments received nerfs or buffs in the Feb. 8 PBE update.  Over 80 TFT Hextech Augments are getting added to the existing 100-plus Augments within Set 6.5 Neon Nights, which is scheduled to officially release on Feb. 16. Hextech Augments appear in an Armory at Stages 1-3, 3-5, and 5-1, offering players various options from the Silver, Gold, and Prismatic tiers./post/what-time-does-minecraft-version-1-17-caves-and-cliffs-update-go-live-today/Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-time-does-minecraft-version-1-17-caves-and-cliffs-update-go-live-today/ Minecraft is set to launch its latest update today, and with it will come new content for players on both the Java and Bedrock editions of the game. Originally announced in October 2020 at Minecraft Live, Caves and Cliffs has been showcased plenty of times since then with a pre-release build playable for some players towards the end of May. Due to the size of this expansion and the developer’s goals to provide new content for players now, Caves and Cliffs has been split into two parts with the first launching later today./post/destiny-2-honeydew-error-explanation-and-fixes/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/destiny-2-honeydew-error-explanation-and-fixes/ It wouldn’t be a big new content launch in Destiny 2 without something going wrong on the server-side. Naturally, with the launch of Destiny 2’s 14th season, Season of Splicer, an increase in connection problems for players was bound to happen today. Specifically, Bungie announced on its @BungieHelp Twitter page that it’s seeing an increase in players being unable to participate in certain activities and Destinations, receiving the error code “HONEYDEW./post/doublelift-reveals-tsm-tried-to-sue-him-for-bad-mouthing-reginald/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/doublelift-reveals-tsm-tried-to-sue-him-for-bad-mouthing-reginald/ In a recent stream, former League of Legends pro Doublelift talked about the fresh accusations aimed at TSM by the Washington Post and revealed that the esports team tried to sue him for disparagement. Doublelift went through CEO Andy “Reginald” Dinh’s response to the allegations on TSM’s subreddit. After calling out the org’s CEO for addressing only one paragraph of the Washington Post report, Doublelift said that Reginald is probably “sitting there with his team of lawyers right now, watching my stream, asking his lawyers if it’s viable to sue me for fucking disparagement over this stream I’m doing now./post/new-fortnite-chapter-2-season-one-map-reportedly-revealed/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-fortnite-chapter-2-season-one-map-reportedly-revealed/ Following a day of confusion after the destruction of the old Fortnite map, new information found by data miners shows what the new map could look like when Fortnite Chapter Two finally launches.  The overall structure of the map doesn’t look too different from the one fans said goodbye to on Sunday. But there’s a heavier focus on water connecting points between locations, which will allow the new boats to speed up travel./post/what-are-ivs-and-evs-in-pok%C3%A9mon/Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-ivs-and-evs-in-pok%C3%A9mon/ Pokémon games may look simple at first, but there are a bunch of secret mechanics that competitive players use all the time to get the most powerful creatures possible. Individual Values (IVs) and Effort Values (EVs) are just two of these hidden gameplay mechanics that, when used correctly, can strengthen your Pokémon to ungodly levels and make them competitively viable if done right. To help you understand each mechanic, we’ve created this handy guide to explain how to use them./post/best-olaf-build-in-league-of-legends/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-olaf-build-in-league-of-legends/ Olaf stands as one of the best junglers for new League of Legends players thanks to his simple kit, which includes only one skill-shot and has built-in sustain to help clear camps without losing too much health. While he has fallen from the meta for a couple of months, he’s still a good answer to some popular junglers currently terrorizing solo queue. As with all League champions, specific items are going to be more useful depending on the situation./post/how-to-upgrade-and-max-out-satchel-slots-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-upgrade-and-max-out-satchel-slots-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Instead of the usual storage solutions from other Pokémon games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus uses satchels to store items. These have a limited amount of slots, and players may not be quite used to a cap on the number of items they can hold. If you’re looking to upgrade your satchel, you’ll first need to complete a mission that tasks you with calming down an enraged Kleavor. As you are leaving the Galactic Hall, an NPC named Bagin will stop you and tell you he can help you learn how to fit more things in your satchel./post/emea-vct-stage-2-challengers-valorant-main-event-schedule-scores-and-standings/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/emea-vct-stage-2-challengers-valorant-main-event-schedule-scores-and-standings/ Following the conclusion of VCT Champions 2021, the attention of the competitive VALORANT world was drawn to the EMEA region after their impressive overall showing at the first ever world championship. But everything that could go wrong did at the 2022 EMEA VCT Stage One Challengers main event. Matches were postponed due to the Ukraine crisis, the winners in FPX were unable to attend Masters, and only one EMEA team finished even in the top six in Iceland./post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-brawl-stars-summer-of-monsters-pass/Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-brawl-stars-summer-of-monsters-pass/ Brawl Stars‘ second season launched yesterday with the Summer of Monsters Brawl pass, new skins, and the release of newest Brawler Surge. The Brawl pass is split in 70 tiers. Players who bought the Brawl Pass, which costs 169 gems which converts to around $10, are the only ones who are rewarded cosmetic items and specific Brawlers. After completing the 70 tiers, players will earn a Big Box for every 500 tokens earned, but it will be difficult to complete the pass before the end of the season./post/mrrallez-officially-joins-tsm-as-their-new-substitute-adc/Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mrrallez-officially-joins-tsm-as-their-new-substitute-adc/ TSM’s search for their substitute AD carry is now over. Former Fnatic Academy ADC Rasmus “MrRalleZ” Skinneholm is set to join TSM as the team’s new substitute ADC, after successfully completing his trial that began in June. In TSM’s official announcement video, MrRalleZ stated that he will be heading back to Denmark in order to sort out visa applications in hopes of joining up with TSM as soon as possible./post/optic-sign-cs-go-player-tarik/Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-sign-cs-go-player-tarik/ OpTic Gaming have taken their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lineup to the next level, signing former Counter Logic Gaming frontman Tarik “tarik” Celik. The former CLG man recently stepped down from his position in the starting lineup, telling fans he would be spending the next few months streaming until his contract with the organization was up. It seems OpTic has decided to make the most of the opportunity, splashing the cash on tarik before he becomes a free agent./post/all-furfrou-trim-forms-and-how-to-get-them-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-furfrou-trim-forms-and-how-to-get-them-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pokémon Go is getting a new look at fashion with the introduction of the Poodle Pokémon Furfrou.  The Normal-type will be making its first appearance during the annual Fashion Week event, which will run from Sept. 21 to 28. This will also bring in a majority of Furfrou’s different Trims, or forms that don’t change anything beyond how the Pokémon looks.  In total, Furfrou has 10 different Trims, though only nine will be available right away when the Pokémon makes its debut./post/how-to-get-the-crescent-shroom-pickaxe-in-fortnite/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-crescent-shroom-pickaxe-in-fortnite/ As a part of the Fungus King set, the rare harvesting tool called the Crescent Shroom is one pivotal cosmetic Fortnite players will want in their inventory if they intend to appear as fungal royalty. With a purple shaft that leads up to a crescent-shaped ax blade, the item will perfectly complement the purple and pink mushroom-themed Madcap outfit and Bello Bag back bling. While the item will eventually be available for purchase in the game’s store, you may have already earned it without even realizing it./post/league-of-legends-2019-mid-season-invitational-schedule-is-now-up-for-viewing/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-2019-mid-season-invitational-schedule-is-now-up-for-viewing/ We are quickly approaching the start of League of Legends‘ first big international event of the year. The 2019 Mid-Season Invitational begins on Wednesday, May 1, and the best teams the world has to offer right now will compete to see who is the strongest at the halfway point of the year. The schedule for MSI is now up and ready for viewing on the LoL Esports website. A majority of the play-ins are set for the first four days of competition, and each group will play every other day./post/sodapoppin-demands-credit-for-the-popularity-of-among-us/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sodapoppin-demands-credit-for-the-popularity-of-among-us/ Among Us has seen a massive spike in popularity over the last few weeks. One thing that has not been clear is what began this recent rise in popularity, but popular streamer Sodapoppin claims it is because of him. During a recent stream, Soda shared that one of his viewers had been watching a Pewdiepie video in which the YouTuber asked who had begun this craze over Among Us. “He didn’t know it was me and it just kind of pisses me off./post/riot-unveils-latest-valorant-ranked-leaderboard-for-na-doinkmachine97-and-c9-tenz-on-top/Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-unveils-latest-valorant-ranked-leaderboard-for-na-doinkmachine97-and-c9-tenz-on-top/ After topping the list in the last NA VALORANT leaderboard, Cloud9 Tyson “TenZ” Ngo has been usurped—by DOINKMACHINE97. Riot revealed the current ranked leaderboards today, featuring the top 100 players in the scene. And while fans may expect to see pros like TenZ, Gen.G Shawn O’Riley, or 100 Thieves Peter “Asuna” Mazuryk in the top 10, the No. 1 spot belongs to DOINKMACHINE97. NA Ranked leaderboard is here. How do you stack up?/post/radiant-charizard-venusaur-and-blastoise-revealed-from-pok%C3%A9mon-go-tcg-set/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/radiant-charizard-venusaur-and-blastoise-revealed-from-pok%C3%A9mon-go-tcg-set/ Approaching the launch of one of Pokémon TCG’s most highly anticipated Pokémon Go set, The Pokémon Company has revealed a variety of cards that will be featured. The new batch of cards revealed and shared by PokeBeach includes Kanto favorites Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise along with all of their evolutions. Others include Wimpod, Golisopod, Pikachu, and Mewtwo V. In this new batch of revealed cards, perhaps the most exciting is the Radiant forms of Venusaur, Blastoise, and Charizard./post/sources-rogue-nearing-deal-to-send-jungler-inspired-to-evil-geniuses/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-rogue-nearing-deal-to-send-jungler-inspired-to-evil-geniuses/ Rogue and Evil Geniuses are nearing the completion of a buyout deal for jungler Kacper “Inspired” Słoma to move to EG, sources familiar with those conversations told Dot Esports. If completed on the night of Nov. 15, the day the free agency window opens, the Polish jungler will move to the LCS and compete on the second professional team of his young career. Inspired’s contract with Rogue lasts until the end of the 2023 season./post/first-images-of-potential-new-valorant-agent-kay-0-leaked-online/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/first-images-of-potential-new-valorant-agent-kay-0-leaked-online/ Leaked images of supposedly the next VALORANT agent, a buff robot apparently going by the name of Kay_0, have appeared online. The Reddit user who posted the images to various VALORANT subreddits alleges that they received the images via “private leaks” and “found them on a Discord server.” The leaked images show the new robotic agent’s default wallpaper, as well as an in-game screengrab of the agent on Breeze. The in-game screengrab shows the agent with a purple, circular aura around them./post/how-to-fix-the-vivacious-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-error-code/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-the-vivacious-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-error-code/ The Vivacious error code is preventing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players from connecting to online servers. The issue is impacting players on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles and is preventing them from playing multiplayer and Warzone.  Here is how to fix Vivacious error code on each console.  PlayStation 4 PlayStation players need to power cycle their console to resolve the issue. Here is how to complete the process:/post/how-to-watch-iem-summer-2021/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-iem-summer-2021/ Sixteen CS:GO teams will play at IEM Summer starting on Thursday, June 3 at 5am CT. The tournament will be played entirely online from Europe because of the coronavirus pandemic, but there will be two teams from North America and one squad from South America participating in it. IEM Summer will be the first tier-one event to feature Ancient in its map pool, the new map that replaced Train in early May in Valve’s Active Duty pool./post/wow-tbc-classic-dps-tier-list-pve/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wow-tbc-classic-dps-tier-list-pve/ A series of changes made to World of Warcraft with Burning Crusade Classic has made almost every class viable in one form or another. Many specializations that were previously considered to be a “meme,” and were barely touched at the highest level, have been revamped in ways that make them playable in end-game content. With raids in TBC cut down from 40 to 25-man, every slot makes the difference. Instead of having 15 or more Warriors in one raid—something you’d regularly see in Classic—there’s a good chance you won’t see more than four of any given spec in a balanced composition./post/2-creators-build-flappy-bird-in-minecraft/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/2-creators-build-flappy-bird-in-minecraft/ Have you ever wished that you could play one game within another game? Look no further than this awesome Minecraft–Flappy Bird mash-up. Reddit user Cyclopso and their friend MedicMain2000 made a fully-playable Flappy Bird within Minecraft, complete with the ubiquitous side-scrolling level, a chicken as the bird, and a score tracker. The level’s obstacles are made out of armor stands, which the player must dodge by pressing “sneak” to move the bird./post/animated-adaptations-of-overwatch-and-diablo-in-production/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/animated-adaptations-of-overwatch-and-diablo-in-production/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Blizzard is expanding its repertoire and developing Overwatch and Diablo animated series in 2020. A Diablo anime has been rumored for some time, but it’s only now coming to fruition, according to the president of Activision Blizzard Studios, Nick van Dyk. The series is expected to take Blizzard’s dark fantasy action role-playing game to a new audience with anime-inspired visuals, similar to the gory and gruesome vampire-hunting Castlevania./post/clg-upset-third-place-flyquest-with-luger-s-ap-kai-sa-build-create-greater-gap-between-top-2-teams-and-rest-of-lcs/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/clg-upset-third-place-flyquest-with-luger-s-ap-kai-sa-build-create-greater-gap-between-top-2-teams-and-rest-of-lcs/ Another day, another upset in the 2022 LCS Spring Split. This time, the unlikely victory comes from CLG’s young squad, who took down the league’s third-place team, FlyQuest, in their matchup today. With CLG sitting near the bottom of the regular season standings, the team’s hopes for a playoff berth are quickly dwindling away. This situation, however, does mean that the roster and coaching staff can try out some new strategies and styles while they prepare for the future./post/logan-paul-flaunts-bgs-10-charizard-during-mayweather-fight-walkout/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/logan-paul-flaunts-bgs-10-charizard-during-mayweather-fight-walkout/ On the night of the biggest boxing fight of his life, YouTube star Logan Paul found a way to showcase his prized Charizard Pokémon card to fans. Prior to his walkout, Logan Paul was shown on screen in his locker room wearing a diamond-plated BGS 10 Charizard around his neck on a diamond chain. He wore this necklace for the duration of his walk out and in the ring until the bout began./post/doom-slayer-costume-now-available-in-fall-guys/Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/doom-slayer-costume-now-available-in-fall-guys/ DOOM fans can finally unlock the iconic Doom Slayer costume in Fall Guys for six crowns. Mediatonic teased the DOOM collaboration in December and recently officially revealed the outfit. The Doom Slayer costume features the character’s green armor, helmet, and shoulder-cannon, perfect for fighting waves of demons. The cannon is not functional in Fall Guys, however, which is good for other beans.  🚨 Warning: The Slayer has entered the facility. 🚨/post/guild-wars-2-confirms-another-expansion-is-coming/Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guild-wars-2-confirms-another-expansion-is-coming/ Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons launched less than a month ago and served as a closer for the Elder Dragon cycle, closing a lot of loose ends and giving players a nice tidy ending to a story that started almost 10 years ago. Although there was a closing for the Elder Dragon saga, the Guild Wars 2 developers aren’t done with the game and have confirmed that there will be at least one more expansion pack added before completing the Guild Wars 2 lore book, and maybe even more after that./post/sk-gaming-parts-ways-with-blue/Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sk-gaming-parts-ways-with-blue/ SK Gaming’s mid laner Ersin “Blue” Gören is leaving the squad ahead of the LEC Spring Split 2022, the team announced today. The player has been a pivotal part of the team’s League of Legends roster, and according to a global contract database, his contract with SK was supposed to be ending next year. Blue’s journey in the LEC had its ups and downs. The Belgian player signed with SK Gaming from the TCL in 2020./post/how-to-upgrade-deepsight-in-destiny-2/Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-upgrade-deepsight-in-destiny-2/ If you’ve spent any time patrolling Savathun’s Throne World in Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion, you may have come across Deepsight nodes scattered throughout the destination. Deepsight is an ability Guardians gain early on in The Witch Queen’s campaign, but Deepsight in its initial form can’t access every node in the Throne World. Some require Tier Two or Tier Three upgrades to Deepsight to be used. While it isn’t explicitly stated, upgrading Deepsight to these advanced tiers requires leveling up your reputation with Fynch, the Throne World’s vendor./post/how-to-get-the-king-slime-crown-in-final-fantasy-xiv-s-dragon-quest-x-crossover-event/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-king-slime-crown-in-final-fantasy-xiv-s-dragon-quest-x-crossover-event/ Final Fantasy XIV offers countless cosmetic options in the game, some to go in battle and others that are more suited for social events. The King Slime Crown is perfect for the latter, featuring a crowned blue slime with a funny face. But it’s not always available for purchase. The item will be familiar to Dragon Quest X fans since it was introduced as part of a crossover event with the Japanese game released in 2012 called Breaking Brick Mountains./post/this-project-aphelios-fan-concept-is-so-good-we-need-it-now/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-project-aphelios-fan-concept-is-so-good-we-need-it-now/ PROJECT: Aphelios may not be real, but it should be. He’s got the edginess and Alune is basically a hologram. It seems like the perfect fit for a League of Legends skin line based on a cybernetic universe. Freelance illustrator Zoe Zhu placed Aphelios into the PROJECT world today and the results are a match made in Runeterra.  The artist posted the concept on Twitter and included her creation process on Artstaion./post/new-super-smash-bros-melee-mod-update-adds-rollback-netcode-replays-and-more/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-super-smash-bros-melee-mod-update-adds-rollback-netcode-replays-and-more/ Super Smash Bros. Melee has slowly been growing as an online experience thanks to its dedicated modding community—and another big addition has just been introduced that might change the game again.  Slippi is a Melee mod that’s specifically focused on bringing the game up to modern standards by creating a strong online infrastructure and improving smaller aspects like streaming video quality. In an update that could revolutionize netplay, Slippi has implemented rollback netcode and integrated matchmaking./post/skrelp-clauncher-and-therian-forme-landorous-will-all-appear-during-pok%C3%A9mon-go-rivals-week/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/skrelp-clauncher-and-therian-forme-landorous-will-all-appear-during-pok%C3%A9mon-go-rivals-week/ Pokémon Go’s next event, Rivals’ Week, is completely focused on showcasing the rivalries between different species of Pokémon—and it’s adding in some cool new content too.  Running from April 13 to 18, this event will be the first time players can encounter and capture Skrelp and Clauncher. Therian Forme Landorous is also going to appearing in five-star raids after a long wait since it was first announced at the start of the Season of Legends last month./post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-overwatch-on-pc/Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-overwatch-on-pc/ Written in partnership with ExitLag Overwatch players know the pain of seeing an enemy with just a sliver of health left, only to experience a massive lag spike that either allows the enemy to get away or ends with a respawn timer. ExitLag aims to ensure players will always get that kill without having to worry about lag or connection issues. What is ExitLag? ExitLag is a proprietary technology aimed at creating problem-free gaming experiences through ensuring stable connections for players./post/when-does-the-next-world-of-warcraft-expansion-release/Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-the-next-world-of-warcraft-expansion-release/ The tenure of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is coming to a close on the game’s live servers, and the next expansion is on the horizon. Currently, the next World of Warcraft expansion does not have a release date, nor is it titled, but both of those key details will be revealed by Blizzard Entertainment on April 19.  Following the April 19 announcement of the game’s next expansion and its release date, WoW fans will begin the slow march towards the launch of the franchise’s next chapter./post/when-are-mounts-coming-to-new-world/Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-are-mounts-coming-to-new-world/ Whether you’re an experienced player after extensive beta play or starting new on launch day, you’re going to be doing a lot of running around in Amazon Studios’ new MMO New World. The first thing you’ll notice after the initial few hours, at least compared to other popular MMOs, is the absence of mounts. Currently, there are no mounts available in New World, and it’s not clear when and how they will be added./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021-full-event-schedule/Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-fest-2021-full-event-schedule/ Pokémon Go Fest 2021 is full of new content this year, and keeping up with the game’s biggest event can get pretty complicated if you aren’t prepared for all of the moving parts.  On top of bringing new content and bonuses to the table, Niantic has also revamped older features and worked them into Go Fest 2021, such as habitat rotations, the Global Challenge Arena, and more.  Just like with other Go Fests, Go Fest 2021 will be split into distinct portions./post/zarude-is-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-go-in-new-pok%C3%A9mon-the-movie-secrets-of-the-jungle-crossover-event/Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/zarude-is-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-go-in-new-pok%C3%A9mon-the-movie-secrets-of-the-jungle-crossover-event/ To celebrate the latest Pokémon film, Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, finally releasing globally on Oct. 8 via Netflix, a new tie-in event is coming to Pokémon Go that will introduce the Mythical Pokémon Zarude to the game.  The Rogue Monkey Pokémon will be appearing along with several other Pokémon featured in the movie, a new set of limited-time Special Research, and the return of Team Rocket’s Jessie and James./post/how-to-beat-the-crucible-knight-at-stormhill-evergaol-in-elden-ring/Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-the-crucible-knight-at-stormhill-evergaol-in-elden-ring/ There are a number of seemingly impossible opponents in Elden Ring. From boss encounters to random mob enemies that have numerous attacks, players will be shocked after going up against some of these foes. Perhaps the most infamous boss that has left players stunned, though, is the Crucible Knight at Stormhill Evergaol. This version of the Crucible Knight is likely the first that players will come across. The boss lies inside of Stormhill Evergaol in Limgrave, which is accessible within the first hour of playing Elden Ring./post/how-to-change-the-day-and-night-cycle-manually-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-the-day-and-night-cycle-manually-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Certain Pokémon have a habit of spawning or evolving during times on the day, which makes it a hassle if you want to complete the Pokédex as quickly as possible in Pokémon Sword and Shield. If you’re not amused by the idea of waiting hours to get your target Pokémon, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a way to change the day and night cycle in-game. A word of warning, though—the day and night cycle might be absent in some major routes or areas of the game while you’re going through the main story./post/all-macbook-m1-pro-and-macbook-pro-m1-max-specs-screen-sizes-and-dimensions/Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-macbook-m1-pro-and-macbook-pro-m1-max-specs-screen-sizes-and-dimensions/ Apple users will soon be able to get their hands on the latest MacBook Pro options with a new M1 Pro and M1 Max chip. There are quite a few customization options for each version of the new MacBook Pro that allow users to expand their performance, memory, and storage capabilities. Here are the MacBook M1 Pro and MacBook Pro M1 Max specs, screen size, and dimensions. MacBook M1 Pro Specs The M1 Pro chip on the $1,999 base-model 14-inch MacBook Pro features some key aspects including:/post/full-pok%C3%A9dex-from-new-pok%C3%A9mon-snap-revealed-hints-at-dlc/Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/full-pok%C3%A9dex-from-new-pok%C3%A9mon-snap-revealed-hints-at-dlc/ Less than a day before the official launch of New Pokémon Snap, data miners have discovered a full Pokédex of all the species in the game. Streams and videos began to pop up on the internet earlier today showcasing gameplay of the new title. Thanks to that and data-mining efforts, we now know what we can expect to find when New Pokémon Snap is launched on April 30. Here's your full pokemon snap roster!/post/a-fortnite-fan-created-concept-art-for-the-prisoner-s-stage-5/Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a-fortnite-fan-created-concept-art-for-the-prisoner-s-stage-5/ The newest obsession of Fortnite: Battle Royale players is the season seven special outfit, The Prisoner. It’s being given as a reward in season seven to all players who complete 60 weekly Battle Pass challenges, which means only players who own the premium pass can unlock it. The Prisoner is the first skin with which players have to interact with certain objects spread around the Fortnite island to unlock its additional styles, like finding a key to unlock stage two and lighting a unique campfire to unlock stage three./post/everything-we-know-about-the-apex-stat-tracker-concept/Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-we-know-about-the-apex-stat-tracker-concept/ Cosmetics in Apex Legends haven’t quite hit critical mass as of yet, but there is certainly plenty of bloat there. Every season, players are awarded a large number of gun charms, quips, badges, and trackers—many of which are never used.  The trackers feel like the worst offender here. Every season the free battle pass track gifts player with season-specific trackers for each character. The trackers themselves are ok, but most players tend to wait for the rarer overall trackers that also feature original character art./post/vancouver-titans-reveals-2022-overwatch-league-roster/Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/vancouver-titans-reveals-2022-overwatch-league-roster/ The Vancouver Titans didn’t have the best 2021 Overwatch League season, ending the year with a 1-15 record and very few servings of breadsticks. Before 2022 kicks off, the Titans organization is investing in new talent and some familiar faces.  Vancouver announced its five-player 2022 roster today, giving fans a first look at its revitalized lineup. The organization dropped every 2021 player earlier in the Overwatch League offseason.  Former Vancouver phenom Niclas “sHockWave” Jensen will be returning to the team in 2022 after spending a year with the Philadelphia Fusion./post/how-to-play-the-fortnite-geoguessr-game/Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-the-fortnite-geoguessr-game/ Knowing your way around any battle royale map is crucial to a player’s success. Being able to drop in a place and immediately know what to expect when running into a building, opening a closed door, or rounding a corner can be the difference between surviving and being eliminated. This is also true in Fortnite, which holds small cities packed full of nooks and crannies, wide-open plains, and high-altitude vistas from which players can see almost clearly across the map./post/pgl-antwerp-cs-go-major-scores-standings-and-results/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pgl-antwerp-cs-go-major-scores-standings-and-results/ Twenty-four of some of the best CS:GO teams in the world have flown to Antwerp, Belgium, to attend the PGL Major this month. The tournament ran from May 9 to 22, and FaZe Clan took home $500,000, which is half of the total prize pool, for winning the PGL Antwerp Major. The PGL Antwerp Major kicked off with the Challengers Stage, where 16 teams fought for eight spots at the Legends Stage, which began on May 17./post/grand-theft-auto-v-gta-online-launching-for-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-s-on-march-15/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/grand-theft-auto-v-gta-online-launching-for-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-s-on-march-15/ The upgraded versions of Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online are finally coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on March 15, with some content transfers available starting today. GTA Online will also launch as a standalone download and game.  With this release, players will finally be able to enjoy GTAV with improved visuals and performance like 4K resolution, up to 60fps, improved texture quality, HDR options, and faster load times./post/here-are-fortnite-world-cup-creative-finals-scores-and-standings/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-fortnite-world-cup-creative-finals-scores-and-standings/ The first day of the Fortnite World Cup Finals has started. Before players compete in the main Duos and Solo events, other players have been organized in teams to compete at the Creative Finals this Friday. There are 32 players split into eight teams for this stage of the competition. All of them comprise of at least one big Fortnite streamer or professional player, like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Corentin “Gotaga” Houssein, and another two or three players who have qualified to the Finals through the Creative Trials of each of these creators./post/riot-locks-in-all-the-tft-12-6-b-patch-buffs-and-nerfs-slated-to-go-live-on-april-5/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-locks-in-all-the-tft-12-6-b-patch-buffs-and-nerfs-slated-to-go-live-on-april-5/ Over a dozen Teamfight Tactics balance changes are slated to take place via the 12.6 B-patch, revealed on April 4 by game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer. Changes taking place through the TFT 12.6 B-patch will resolve a Mercenary bug fix within the Double Up mode while also hitting “a couple of overperforming comps, according to Riot. Warwick was teased as a potential nerf earlier in the day and confirmed via Mortdog’s list posted onTwitter tonight./post/sources-lcs-lands-7-year-ftx-sponsorship-deal-as-first-crypto-exchange-partner-of-any-riot-league/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-lcs-lands-7-year-ftx-sponsorship-deal-as-first-crypto-exchange-partner-of-any-riot-league/ The LCS will announce a new seven-year sponsorship deal with FTX, sources familiar with the deal told Dot Esports.  The news comes just months after the LCS barred TSM from using FTX as a part of its name in the league—which was revealed hours after TSM announced a 10-year, $210 million deal with the exchange. While TSM has rebranded its name on social media and in certain titles where cryptocurrencies are a permitted sponsorship category, it has remained solely known as “TSM” in the LCS./post/invictus-gaming-reverse-sweep-evil-geniuses-win-one-esports-singapore-major/Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/invictus-gaming-reverse-sweep-evil-geniuses-win-one-esports-singapore-major/ A full five games and six hours after the ONE Esports Singapore Major grand finals began, Invictus Gaming completed the reverse sweep to eliminate Evil Geniuses and win the Dota 2 event. IG looked shaky at the start of the series and lost four games in a row to EG when including their first meeting in the upper bracket. But all it took was one game to swing the momentum as the top-seeded Dota 2 team in China claimed the Major title 3-2./post/chess-com-banned-in-russia/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/chess-com-banned-in-russia/ The Russian authorities have decided to ban the world’s largest online chess site because of two blog posts related to the war in Ukraine: one detailing chess.com’s policies related to the conflict and one featuring a set of interviews with Ukrainian chess players. HTTPS protocol saves the day The Russian authorities disapproved of two specific blog posts on chess.com’s website: the first is called “On The Invasion of Ukraine,” outlining the site’s policies with regard to the players and nations involved with the conflict, and a set of interviews titled “Ukrainian Chess Players In Times Of War./post/what-platforms-will-battlefield-2042-release-on/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-platforms-will-battlefield-2042-release-on/ Battlefield 2042 is the upcoming title in the iconic franchise that allows players to fight large-scale skirmishes in the not-so-distant future. Players will need to deal with enemy players and environmental hazards like sandstorms and other extreme conditions. The game will be available on several platforms at launch, but there are a few differences fans should know. Battlefield 2042 launches on Oct. 22 on the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC./post/shroud-s-first-stream-back-on-twitch-watched-by-over-500-000-viewers/Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shroud-s-first-stream-back-on-twitch-watched-by-over-500-000-viewers/ One of the biggest streamers in Twitch history has finally come home. After spending a month away from social media and streaming, Shroud kicked off his return to Twitch with massive numbers that even he didn’t expect. In the first hour of his broadcast, Shroud was able to hit a peak viewership of more than 516,000 people, with multiple fans subscribing to his channel while waiting for the stream to officially begin./post/sources-t1-adds-dynamic-to-valorant-lineup/Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-t1-adds-dynamic-to-valorant-lineup/ T1 has signed “dynamic” as the new fifth member of its VALORANT roster, multiple sources told Dot Esports. Dynamic split his 2021 between Brimstone Gaming and The Mafia, although he couldn’t find success. His highest placing was second, in the Nerd Street Gamers Summer Championship 11. Despite not finding success with his teams, he became a well-known name in the tier two scene due to his impeccable abilities on Jett.  Entering 2022, dynamic was seen trialing with T1 in the Knights Monthly Gauntlet: March./post/valorant-player-shows-viper-one-way-using-poison-cloud-on-breeze/Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-shows-viper-one-way-using-poison-cloud-on-breeze/ A VALORANT player showed off a simple to execute one-way smoke that players can use on the game’s latest map, Breeze. This handy trick will assist players in defending A site since it allows for the user to completely control enemy players advancing up the ramp from mid. Easy Viper One-way Breeze from VALORANT You’re going to want to position yourself right in front of the doors to the ramp with your Poison Orb ready to throw./post/gimr-reveals-new-slingshot-mechanic-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gimr-reveals-new-slingshot-mechanic-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ Following technical issues and other factors, VGBootCamp founder, tournament organizer, and game mechanic enthusiast Calvin “GimR” Lofton had to postpone the reveal of a new technique he discovered, which he claimed would change the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate meta. Now, two days later, players finally got to see a full breakdown of the new tech: Slingshot. Similar to wavedashing in Smash Melee, the Slingshot is a movement technique that combines multiple, smaller mechanics to create something more complete and technical, known as a bufferable input shortcut./post/how-to-complete-futties-bundesliga-player-pick-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-futties-bundesliga-player-pick-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a squad-building challenge (SBC) to FIFA 21 Ultimate Team today that will give players the option to choose one out of three Bundesliga players who could be from the Team of the Season (TOTS), Path to Glory, or Summer Stars promos. This is a non-repeatable SBC that will be live until Monday, Aug. 9 at 12pm CT. You can pack a great item from this loot box, such as TOTS Jadon Sancho 96-rated from Borussia Dortmund or TOTS Robert Lewandowski 98-rated from Bayern Munich./post/tekken-producer-katsuhiro-harada-will-head-bandai-namco-s-new-esports-strategy-team/Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tekken-producer-katsuhiro-harada-will-head-bandai-namco-s-new-esports-strategy-team/ At a key time for several fighting games that are still in their early stages, Bandai Namco is making moves to strengthen its support for those titles in the competitive scene. With the massive success Bandai Namco has seen over the past year with new titles like Dragon Ball FighterZ, Soulcalibur VI, and Tekken 7, making a move to expand the community and game support isn’t that surprising. To everyone in the "/post/florida-mayhem-uses-illegal-play-during-overwatch-league-match-forced-to-replay-round/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/florida-mayhem-uses-illegal-play-during-overwatch-league-match-forced-to-replay-round/ Overwatch 2’s newest maps are massive and include what feels like limitless places to spring attacks on unsuspecting enemies. As we learned during the Overwatch League’s opening weekend, though, some of the wilder areas have to stay in quick play. During the second match of the day on May 8, the Florida Mayhem was facing off against the Paris Eternal on one of the game’s new maps, Circuit Royal. The Mayhem rolled out on attack using Mei and Symmetra and quickly used Mei’s Ice Wall to create a solid surface on a rooftop./post/how-to-open-crates-in-call-of-duty-mobile/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-open-crates-in-call-of-duty-mobile/ Call of Duty: Mobile brings the core gameplay mechanics of the franchise to mobile platforms. Considering it’s a new platform for the series, CoD: Mobile also experiments with mechanics that are relatively popular among mobile games. Skins, loot boxes, and other cosmetic items are one of the main ways to monetize titles on mobile platforms. CoD: Mobile players can unlock various cosmetics through crates and other sources that don’t affect the gameplay experience in any way./post/league-of-legends-fan-creates-incredibly-detailed-dragon-master-swain-cosplay/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-fan-creates-incredibly-detailed-dragon-master-swain-cosplay/ There is plenty of League of Legends cosplay on the internet ,but one champion who often doesn’t get enough love may have got one of the most impressive pieces yet. In a post to Reddit, cosplayer Makerfishmeal showed off her incredible cosplay of Dragon Master Swain. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maker Fishmeal (@makerfishmeal) The cosplayer put incredible detail into capturing everything Swain’s skin has to offer and executed this perfectly by crafting both the dragon armor and coat to match./post/lpl-power-rankings-2022-spring-split-preseason/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/lpl-power-rankings-2022-spring-split-preseason/ Make that three Summoner’s Cups in the last four years for the LPL. EDward Gaming finally raised the trophy befitting China’s most historic League of Legends organization at Worlds 2021, and unlike every other team in the LPL, didn’t make a single change to its roster. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. If the 2022 LPL season is half as exciting as the offseason was, fans are in for yet another incredible year of games./post/what-you-can-and-can-t-do-in-the-overwatch-workshop/Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-you-can-and-can-t-do-in-the-overwatch-workshop/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. If you have a lot of time, patience, and (most importantly) creativity, the possibilities are almost endless in the Overwatch Workshop. The new tool is available to tinker with on the Public Test Realm (PTR) and it offers the opportunity to mod the game to your heart’s desire. Here’s what you can and can’t do with the Workshop. What you can do Create custom game modes/post/hasanabi-unbanned-from-twitch/Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hasanabi-unbanned-from-twitch/ Political commentator and popular Twitch streamer Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker is finally back on Twitch after a week-long ban. HasanAbi was originally banned for the usage of the word “cracker,” which Twitch staff deemed a racial slur. For the days leading up to his ban, the usage and history of the word were frequent topics for both HasanAbi and his chat, and even solicited the opinion of guests and friends such as Myth./post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-warzone-s-season-4-update/Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-patch-notes-for-call-of-duty-warzone-s-season-4-update/ A satellite has crashed down in Verdansk and Call of Duty: Warzone’s season four update patch notes have come with it. The satellite has been dropped from orbit, creating an all new point of interest in Verdansk for players to fight in and explore. But that’s not all that season four has to offer, as evidenced by the patch notes revealed by Raven Software today. The #Warzone Season Four update is going live soon!/post/pelipper-weakness-and-counters-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pelipper-weakness-and-counters-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Pelipper is one of the more unique Pokémon to grace Pokémon Go due to its uncommon typing, forcing players to rely on a small pool of powerful creatures in order to take it down. Pelipper is one of the few Pokémon to be Water/Flying, which by nature knocks out a lot of typed moves that would have been super effective against one or the other. For instance, Grass type moves would have been super effective against Pelipper had it been pure Water-type, but the Flying-type nature negates the advantage./post/g2-take-flight-with-anivia-mid-pick-up-second-win-at-msi-2022-against-evil-geniuses/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/g2-take-flight-with-anivia-mid-pick-up-second-win-at-msi-2022-against-evil-geniuses/ Rejoice, LEC fans. G2 Esports have pulled off the perfect start to Europe’s run at the 2022 Mid-Season Invitational, with a win against Evil Geniuses to go undefeated through day one of the tournament. G2 was looking great after a pretty strong win against the LCO’s ORDER, but this victory was even more impressive. This time around, the LEC champions opted for an unorthodox Anivia pick in the mid lane that surprised fans and analysts./post/breaking-the-meta-the-rise-of-top-ad-leblanc/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/breaking-the-meta-the-rise-of-top-ad-leblanc/ If you’ve played Solo Que within the past two weeks, odds are you’ve run into top AD Leblanc and gotten crushed. If you’re looking for someone to blame, look no further than KT Rolster Top Laner, Ssumday, and Former Samsung White Top Laner, Looper, who have been terrorizing Korean Solo Que with the pick for about a month now. The question is, why now? What is it that makes Top AD Leblanc such a good pick in the current meta?/post/guilhoto-joins-team-liquid-as-organization-s-new-lcs-head-coach/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guilhoto-joins-team-liquid-as-organization-s-new-lcs-head-coach/ One of the most experienced coaches in League of Legends has found a new home for 2022. André Pereira Guilhoto is officially joining Team Liquid as the organization’s new head coach for the upcoming 2022 LCS Spring Split after spending his first year in North America with Immortals. He’ll be the behind-the-scenes leader for a reported superteam being built for next year that could include some of the biggest names in the Western League scene./post/sources-fnatic-set-to-bench-magnum/Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sources-fnatic-set-to-bench-magnum/ European organization Fnatic is set to move Martin “MAGNUM” Penkov to the inactive VALORANT roster, one source with knowledge of the decision told Dot Esports. The move comes after Fnatic bowed out of VCT Masters in Reykjavík, Iceland, in joint-last place. Fnatic had two stand-ins during the event, however, with Joona “H1ber” Parviainen and Enzo “Fearoth” Mestari playing for Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev and Andrew “braveaf” Gorchakov.  Prior to the event, Derke contracted COVID-19, which caused the player to attend the event a few days after the rest of the team had arrived./post/battle-of-chaos-booster-pack-revealed-for-yu-gi-oh-ocg/Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/battle-of-chaos-booster-pack-revealed-for-yu-gi-oh-ocg/ Konami has revealed the third main booster set for the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG’s 2021 product lineup, Battle of Chaos.  The new set will be released on Oct. 16 and will include support for old and new archetypes.  Just based on the Chaos name, it’s safe to assume we’ll be seeing some additional Light and Dark support. No specific cards were shared, but those details should start dropping throughout the coming months, mainly through Japanese publications V Jump and Weekly Shonen Jump./post/best-razer-gaming-phones/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-razer-gaming-phones/ Razer has been a highly respected hardware producer for over a decade. In that time, the Singapore and U.S. based company has marked out a space in PC gaming, creating products ranging from laptops to mice and keyboards. In 2017, the company announced its first phone—the Razer Phone. Razer hoped its phone would help create a whole new category of gaming phones optimized for highly competitive mobile gamers. Released in November of 2017, the first rendition of the Razer Phone turned heads due to its sheer power, massive battery, and beautiful 120Hz display./post/brawlhalla-weapons-tier-list/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/brawlhalla-weapons-tier-list/ Weapons are a vital part of combat in Brawlhalla. There are a total of 13 weapons in the game and each one of them has a separate moveset that is unique. Every legend has access to two different weapon types.  Each weapon works similarly for every legend, but no weapon combinations are shared. The difference is that every legend has three Signature Moves for each weapon in their possession. As such, there are a set of distinct heavy attacks exclusive to certain legends./post/new-fortnite-leak-features-unreleased-ninja-and-female-fishstick-skins/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-fortnite-leak-features-unreleased-ninja-and-female-fishstick-skins/ A new leak in the Fortnite community claims to have a list of scrapped and unreleased cosmetics. The dump of strings (pieces of text belonging to in-game items) was posted to Twitter by S1l0x earlier today. The data miner claims that these cosmetics are either in development or were in development and canceled or postponed. We’ve looked through the list and there are some interesting items that could have or might see the light of day./post/jokerd-acknowledged-as-world-s-first-wow-classic-level-60-player/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/jokerd-acknowledged-as-world-s-first-wow-classic-level-60-player/ World of Warcraft streamer Jokerd has become the first player in the West to reach level 60 in Classic. He achieved that milestone with a Mage on the Mograine server in Europe at 1:40pm CT today, Aug. 30. That means he needed three days, 20 hours, and 40 minutes since WoW Classic’s release, which included over 78 hours of streaming. There’s no confirmed information about the progress of players trying to hit level 60 in Eastern countries, which means Jokerd could also be acknowledged as the first WoW Classic player in the world to reach the level cap./post/michigan-tech-university-to-recruit-cs-go-players-and-offer-scholarship-opportunities/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/michigan-tech-university-to-recruit-cs-go-players-and-offer-scholarship-opportunities/ Michigan Tech University (MTU) has initiated a recruitment process for its CS:GO division. MTU has an entire esports department and is building a new training facility for its students. The university is offering scholarship opportunities for those who make it onto the CS:GO team and want to be the first collegiate squad to qualify for ESEA Premier. The team already has one known name from the North American scene in Logan “Voltage” Long, who played under esports organizations like Chaos and Triumph in the past./post/all-fade-abilities-in-apex-legends-mobile/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-fade-abilities-in-apex-legends-mobile/ Fade, Apex Legends Mobile’s new mobile-first legend, is both a landmark and an enigma. Fade is the first legend to not be included in Apex’s PC and console versions. He was designed from the ground up for mobile-specific gameplay. Even though he stands on his own, his abilities were created to fit alongside other legends’ to ensure that he isn’t overpowered. In Apex Legends Mobile, Fade joins the Apex Games alongside familiar faces like Wraith, Bangalore, and Bloodhound./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-o-as-the-only-vowel/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-with-o-as-the-only-vowel/ Solving the Wordle has become a popular way to start (or end) the day among players who enjoy word puzzles and simple challenges. Each day, the game will pick a different five-letter word, which you must guess in up to six tries and 24 hours. The word will always be the same for players on the same calendar day, but there are no clues except the letters themselves, which will change colors after each guess to indicate if they’re part of the answer or not./post/all-april-fools-2-oh-22-special-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-april-fools-2-oh-22-special-research-tasks-and-rewards-for-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ The April Fools’ 2-Oh-22 is rolling out now for Pokémon Go players around the world, with a specific focus on Ditto this year.  The annual event has gone through several iterations, all involving creative pranks incorporating gameplay elements, whether they be to do with actual Pokémon you can catch or just a visual gag for the day. In recent years, Ditto and other Pokémon known for being pranksters or mimicking other objects have been featured./post/how-to-fix-high-packet-loss-for-xbox-one/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-high-packet-loss-for-xbox-one/ Even if your internet connection is fine and you haven’t had issues connecting to a game’s servers before, there are still several obstacles that can prevent you from having a smooth gaming experience.  One of these issues that tends to irk Xbox One players from time to time is something called packet loss, which is essentially just the console telling you that not all of your data is getting to the right destination./post/renekton-s-stun-changes-reverted-kalista-and-varus-e-ratio-buffed-in-league-s-patch-11-22-preview/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/renekton-s-stun-changes-reverted-kalista-and-varus-e-ratio-buffed-in-league-s-patch-11-22-preview/ Renekton once again will have a bigger window to cull the meek with a revert to his previous stun nerf in the upcoming League of Legends Patch 11.22. Alongside the Butcher of the Sands, other champions are getting little damage touch-ups in the game’s next update, according to today’s patch preview.  The Ruthless Predator had his aptly named Ruthless Predator (W) ability nerfed in a previous patch, taking the stun duration down from 1./post/everything-to-know-about-legends-of-runeterra-worlds-2022/Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-legends-of-runeterra-worlds-2022/ The Legends of Runeterra World Championship for A Curious Journey will take place in the fall of 2022, showcasing top players from around the world. Since the Legends of Runeterra World Championship was announced in February, several changes have taken place. Initially, the team had removed Seasonal tournament broadcasts from the schedule but announced the return of broadcasts in May following feedback from the LoR community. Additional paths toward Worlds were also added via a total of four Seasonal tournaments./post/wild-pass-s2-now-live-in-wild-rift-with-hexplorer-teemo-skin/Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wild-pass-s2-now-live-in-wild-rift-with-hexplorer-teemo-skin/ League of Legends: Wild Rift ranked season three has just launched and players are getting the chance to work their way through the game’s second-ever Wild Pass. The Wild Pass is a way for players to score themselves a variety of items, but this season the big prize is a new skin for Teemo, Hexplorer Teemo. To earn this reward, players will need to level their Wild Pass to level 50, but you will need also need the premium Wild Pass which will cost 590 Wild Cores or 990 for the Elite version, which offers a five-level boost and some Elite missions to help you level up faster./post/cwl-community-castoff-a-breakdown-of-milboss-vs-lando/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cwl-community-castoff-a-breakdown-of-milboss-vs-lando/ For the uninitiated, an international competition is currently being held in the competitive Call of Duty community in search of the best commentators or casters the world has to offer. Eight casters from three different regions have already been selected to face off against one another for the opportunity to cast at both the Stage 2 Finals and the 2016 Call of Duty Championship. All of the necessary information about this competition can be found here, but at this point in time, the second week of competition is already underway./post/how-to-fix-obs-black-screen-game-capture-error/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-obs-black-screen-game-capture-error/ OBS is one of the most commonly used recording tools amongst content creators. It’s simple UI assures an easy setup process, and users won’t need to adjust that many settings in most cases. Some users can still run into errors while setting OBS, however, and the Black Screen Game Capture error is one of them. This error doesn’t come with a warning text, but you’ll feel its presence when you realize OBS can’t capture anything but a black screen regardless of the game you’re trying to capture./post/timthetatman-shows-off-fresh-rebrand/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/timthetatman-shows-off-fresh-rebrand/ TimTheTatman streamed for the first time since moving from New York to Florida today. And along with a new stream room, the Twitch content creator debuted some new branding as well. Slimming things down a bit, Tim released a new logo that he teased a few weeks ago featuring three Ts closely aligned. Meanwhile, he changed the color of his branding from varying shades of blue and gray to primarily yellow with some black and gray shading./post/how-to-complete-the-dance-under-different-streetlight-spotlights-fortnite-challenge/Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-dance-under-different-streetlight-spotlights-fortnite-challenge/ Season six is officially underway in Fortnite: Battle Royale, and that means there are new challenges that everyone will be trying to complete.  Most of the week one tasks aren’t too daunting, but one of the Battle Pass challenges seems like it could be more difficult than the rest. This challenge asks players to dance under different streetlight spotlights spread across the map. You can tell the difference between the regular streetlights and streetlight spotlights based on the speakers attached to the latter./post/bugs-on-irelia-kha-zix-and-riven-fixed-in-2-3-hotfix-on-wild-rift/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/bugs-on-irelia-kha-zix-and-riven-fixed-in-2-3-hotfix-on-wild-rift/ A new hotfix for Wild Rift was released earlier today, Similarly to most hotfixes, its goal is to fix some bugs that were caused by the last update as quickly as possible, Riot Games announced on Twitter. Here are all the changes of the 2.3 hotfix: Irelia Flawless Duet: A bug where Irelia could use the ability again faster than intended has been fixed Kha’Zix Taste Their Fear: A bug where Kha’Zix could receive self-damage when he upgraded the ability after evolving it has been fixed Riven Broken Wings: A bug where Riven could use the ability more times than intended when used with Flash and Protobelt has been fixed Miscellaneous A bug where the Surrender option wouldn’t disappear after all votes had been submitted has been fixedA bug where too many bots were introduced into Co-op vs./post/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-launches-pok%C3%A9mon-center-uk-shop/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-launches-pok%C3%A9mon-center-uk-shop/ Pokémon Center UK is officially live in beta, meaning orders can be processed but only for a limited number of products as the company continues to develop the marketplace.  This new expansion follows successful runs from the Pokémon Center online stores in both the United States and Japan, along with the more recent launch of a similar marketplace for Canada. It should ramp up production relatively quickly, but only offers a fraction of the items available on the fully launched platforms./post/blizzard-reveals-initial-plans-for-class-unpruning-in-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-reveals-initial-plans-for-class-unpruning-in-world-of-warcraft-shadowlands/ Since World of Warcraft is nearly two decades old, the natural progression of character abilities and talents over numerous expansions has led to focuses on “specializations” in the game instead of “classes.” To combat this, Blizzard released an initial set of changes today that it’s considering for each class and all of their specializations. These are aimed at “unpruning” classes to make characters more associated with their class than their specialization./post/how-to-sign-up-for-nintendo-switch-sports-online-play-test/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-sign-up-for-nintendo-switch-sports-online-play-test/ The spiritual successor to the massively popular Wii Sports on the Nintendo Wii is finally coming. It’s real, it’s almost here, and it’s called Nintendo Switch Sports. Swapping out a Wii-mote for a Switch JoyCon, Nintendo Switch Sports is also adding online play to the fray, allowing players around the world to face off in motion-controlled sports like soccer, volleyball, bowling, tennis, badminton, swordplay, golf, and more. Meet a new iteration of the Wii Sports series, #NintendoSwitchSports!/post/nintendo-creatures-and-game-freak-register-new-trademark-for-paradigm-trigger/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nintendo-creatures-and-game-freak-register-new-trademark-for-paradigm-trigger/ The Pokémon Company has filed its first trademark of 2022, which will likely be used for an upcoming TCG set.  This the latest addition to be filed is “Paradigm Trigger (パラダイムトリガー)” as reported by Pokebeach, but the details of what this set will feature have been left up to interpretation as, unlike previous trademarks, the term wouldn’t immediately suggest a specific Pokémon. It’s no secret that Pokémon is headed back to the Sinnoh region, and the TCG is no exception./post/riot-plans-nerfs-for-pyke-soraka-jinx-and-xayah-lines-up-adjustments-for-ap-kai-sa-and-swain-for-league-patch-12-8/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-plans-nerfs-for-pyke-soraka-jinx-and-xayah-lines-up-adjustments-for-ap-kai-sa-and-swain-for-league-patch-12-8/ Riot Phlox has detailed a plethora of different changes headed to a handful of popular champions on the Summoner’s Rift in the upcoming League of Legends update. Although the nerf list isn’t nearly as long as the buff list for Patch 12.8, the names featured are highly significant to both professional and solo queue play. For the next patch, Pyke, Soraka, Jinx, and Xayah are all getting hit with nerfs. Pyke has always been a spooky champion to face off against in the bot lane, but the Bloodharbor Ripper has recently taken on a new role in the mid lane too./post/best-starters-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-starters-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ It wouldn’t be a Pokémon game without the agonizing choice of picking who your starting Pokémon will be. Pokémon UNITE is no different, but unlike other Pokémon games, you’re not too locked into your choice. After completing the first tutorial, the game will let you select one Pokémon UNITE license from a selection of five, permanently adding that Pokémon to your roster of playable characters. In addition, you’ll also get a second permanent addition just by increasing your trainer level to two: Slowbro./post/all-stages-in-nickelodeon-all-star-brawl/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-stages-in-nickelodeon-all-star-brawl/ In every platform fighter, the available stages are just as important as the roster of characters present in the game. This is the case for the newly released Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl that features characters and places from the iconic Nickelodeon series. Among these series, there are plenty of unique locations that will be familiar to fans and offer completely different environments that favor certain fighters. There are your standard ground-based maps and the floating maps that will task players with avoiding falling./post/apex-player-compiles-a-list-of-fan-made-challenges-to-keep-your-games-fresh/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-player-compiles-a-list-of-fan-made-challenges-to-keep-your-games-fresh/ Apex Legends’ gameplay can get repetitive after several hundred drops. Players have started to impose their own objectives for their teams, like crouching for an entire match—and an Apex fan shared an ultimate list of challenges to follow if your gameplay is getting stale. The list compiles 30 challenges that interfere with player behavior, legend selection, and loadouts and they all have a significant impact on gameplay. The match may not result in a victory, but it’ll make for an interesting experience./post/twitch-exodus-disguised-toast-says-he-knows-at-least-5-more-streamers-moving-to-youtube/Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-exodus-disguised-toast-says-he-knows-at-least-5-more-streamers-moving-to-youtube/ Following Sykkuno’s surprise move from Twitch to YouTube Gaming yesterday, Disguised Toast discussed the future of Twitch and what he called “Twitch death” while streaming on May 2. “So Sykkuno’s leaving,” Disguised Toast said. “You guys may have heard from either Ludwig or I months and months ago of us saying more content creators are going to YouTube. Well, Sykkuno’s one of them. I mean, or maybe the only one, I don’t know./post/how-to-find-galarian-ponyta-and-evolve-it-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-find-galarian-ponyta-and-evolve-it-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Everyone wants to get their hands on Galarian Ponyta in Pokémon Sword and Shield—and who can blame them? Look how cute it is! Galarian Ponyta is only available in Pokémon Shield. So if you own Sword, you will need to trade with a friend or someone online that has Shield to get the pony. But for those who own Shield, Galarian Ponyta can easily be found in the wild. You’ll need to head to Glimwood Tangle, which is north of Stow-on-Side and just above Route 6./post/noobowl-c9-k3soju-dominate-final-lobby-at-tft-6-5-challenger-series/Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/noobowl-c9-k3soju-dominate-final-lobby-at-tft-6-5-challenger-series/ Seeking two of the last four Teamfight Tactics invites to the North American Gizmos & Gadgets: Neon Nights Regional Finals, Noobowl and C9 k3soju put on veterans’ performances during the final day of the Set 6.5 Challenger Series tournament. A total of 16 TFT players who had not earned invites to the NA Regional Finals competed at the Set 6.5 Challenger Series. It was the last chance for many of the competitors to earn a seat at Neon Nights Regionals, outside of two invites getting rewarded to the top-two Ranked players on the ladder./post/all-symbol-room-locations-for-the-bonus-red-border-chest-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-symbol-room-locations-for-the-bonus-red-border-chest-in-destiny-2-s-vow-of-the-disciple-raid/ Destiny 2’s Vow of the Disciple raid brought a series of new weapons to the game, and their appeal lies beyond their unique elements or archetypes. The raid weapons are craftable, giving players a chance to pick their own rolls if they don’t want to farm or can’t get lucky in finding the perfect rolls for them. Unlocking a weapon’s Pattern takes five Deepsight extractions, meaning players have to find and complete five red-border weapons for each gun they intend to craft./post/arcane-act-2-what-could-happen-based-on-everything-we-know/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/arcane-act-2-what-could-happen-based-on-everything-we-know/ League of Legends’ animated series, Arcane, premiered just yesterday. But League fans already want more.  After months of building anticipation, League fans finally got to watch the first three episodes of Arcane on Nov. 6. It was easy for fans to get into the story from the start after Riot recently released trailers that showed the setting, characters, and bits of the plot. Now, everyone who has access to a Netflix account can watch (or rewatch) the first act of the League series while waiting for the second set of episodes to drop on Nov./post/yuri-sakazaki-is-coming-to-king-of-fighters-xv/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/yuri-sakazaki-is-coming-to-king-of-fighters-xv/ Yuri Sakazaki is the latest fighter confirmed for the King of Fighters XV roster as SNK released a new gameplay trailer for the game.  Originally, fans of the franchise were hoping last week’s reveal of Andy Bogard would lead into his brother Terry Bogard being revealed this week, but it instead focused on a different set of siblings that might share the ring.  Yuri is the younger sister of Ryo Sakazaki and the first female practitioner of Kyokugenryu Karate after originally being a damsel in distress, though her discipline is actually the lowest-grade version of the style./post/counter-strike-turns-21-years-old-today/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/counter-strike-turns-21-years-old-today/ Counter-Strike holds a special place in the hearts of a lot of gamers. And today, it’s celebrating its 21st birthday. What started out as a Half-Life mod has turned into one of the most popular first-person shooters in the world with a thriving professional scene that attracts millions of viewers.  Counter-Strike originated as a Half-Life mod developed by Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999 that gained enough popularity for Valve to take notice./post/popular-cs-go-dog-streamer-accidentally-reveals-face-and-goes-mia/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/popular-cs-go-dog-streamer-accidentally-reveals-face-and-goes-mia/ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s most well-known “dog” streamer had a career-changing mishap on his Twitch stream last night. Theonemanny was playing a casual match on an Operation Hydra hostage map, Agency, when his “Facerig” software glitched out on him. Facerig is a facial recognition program that allows its users to “embody” a character for fun. It took about fifteen seconds for him to realize his identity had been revealed to the internet because of the stream delay./post/all-mtg-commander-legends-baldur-s-gate-mechanics/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mtg-commander-legends-baldur-s-gate-mechanics/ A total of four Magic: The Gathering mechanics will get showcased in the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate set, of which two are new.  The Commander Legends sets are designed to get played in Limited Draft and Sealed. This is the second set of its kind, specifically for Commander. A total of 361 regular cards are contained within the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate (CLB) set. There are two new Magic mechanics getting introduced, Background and Initiative, along with two returning mechanics, Adventure and Dice Roll./post/three-of-the-most-fun-bot-lane-combos-to-try-in-the-new-meta/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/three-of-the-most-fun-bot-lane-combos-to-try-in-the-new-meta/ Welcome to the second half of the 2018 League of Legends season, where all the roles are backwards and we pretend crit isn’t in the game anymore. In this unpredictable meta, traditional marksmen have been almost entirely kicked out of the bot lane, with exceptions in Lucian, Kai’Sa, and Ezreal, thanks to huge nerfs to base stats and crit items. Most marksmen have bowed out of the bot lane, and every other type of champion has risen to replace them./post/best-ps5-accessories-bundle/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-ps5-accessories-bundle/ Getting a PlayStation 5 is not enough. You need a bunch of peripheral items to elevate your gaming experience. Of course, a good pair of headphones is a must and so are the controllers. A charging station, headphone stand, a cooling system, and maybe a media remote will make your life so much easier and more organized. Now, once you get all the accessories you need, you need to keep them safe and organized./post/every-big-and-small-change-slated-to-take-place-after-the-tft-12-8-patch-rundown/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-big-and-small-change-slated-to-take-place-after-the-tft-12-8-patch-rundown/ Several minor and big Teamfight Tactics balance changes will take place in the April 27 update, game designer Kent “Riot Kent” Wu and live balance designer Riot Blizz revealed during the Patch 12.8 Rundown. Patch 12.8 is not the Gizmos & Gadgets World Championship update, but it will hit live servers on April 27. The TFT Worlds patch is 12.7, and players who are eagerly awaiting Set Seven can expect it to drop via PBE on May 25./post/new-league-short-story-follows-lucian-on-his-path-to-save-senna/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-league-short-story-follows-lucian-on-his-path-to-save-senna/ League of Legends’ weekly lore update has arrived for the Patch 9.20 cycle and fans may have gotten a glimpse of the game’s next champion with today’s new short story.   Titled “Homebound,” the story follows Lucian as he tracks the Harrowing, or the Black Mist, in search of Thresh. He comes across the storm on an island and chucks a grenade into the mist, creating a break in its coverage./post/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-details-updated-schedule-and-rulings-for-the-play-pok%C3%A9mon-2022-championship-series/Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-details-updated-schedule-and-rulings-for-the-play-pok%C3%A9mon-2022-championship-series/ The Pokémon Company has started planning out the Play! Pokémon 2022 Championship Series season, with initial plans set to bring in-person competitions back where it’s safe to do so. The Pokémon Organized Play team is working under the assumption that, over the next 12 months, the 2022 Championship Series will be able to resume as normal, culminating in the Pokémon World Championships finally being hosted in London in August 2022. /post/timthetatman-declares-halo-infinite-battle-royale-would-be-best-br-ever-made/Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/timthetatman-declares-halo-infinite-battle-royale-would-be-best-br-ever-made/ TimTheTatman has made a bold call, claiming if Halo Infinite had a battle royale mode, it would easily overshadow genre arch-rivals like Apex Legends, Fortnite, and even his gaming darling Warzone as the “best battle royale ever made.” While talking about the franchise on his latest YouTube stream, TimTheTatman declared, “if 343 Industries made a Halo battle royale, it would be the best ever made.” The reason, he says, is its “framework./post/ana-s-biotic-grenade-nerfed-in-overwatch-public-test-realm/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ana-s-biotic-grenade-nerfed-in-overwatch-public-test-realm/ Down with Overwatch‘s tank meta! Developer Blizzard Entertainment is nerfing what many professionals consider the quad tank meta’s biggest enabler: Ana’s biotic grenade. Previously, Ana’s biotic grenade gave allies hit 100 health plus 100 percent healing from other sources. In the patch deployed today on Overwatch’s public test realm on PC, Blizzard turned the grenade’s boosted healing down to 50 percent. Professional Overwatch players have complained in the past that Ana’s grenade just made tanks too hard to kill—so it didn’t make sense for players not to pick them with Ana./post/how-to-watch-e3-2021/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-e3-2021/ E3 is one of the biggest video game expos in the world, showing off many upcoming new games and hardware. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the event has been moved completely online in 2021. However, it looks to still be a massive event with presentations by companies such as Nintendo, Xbox, Ubisoft, Square Enix, and more already confirmed for the event. The expo will kick off on June 12, and continue on through to June 15, and will be available to watch from the comfort of your home./post/nickmercs-fortnite-settings-keybinds-and-sensitivity/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nickmercs-fortnite-settings-keybinds-and-sensitivity/ Nick “Nickmercs” Kolchef gained popularity in the Fortnite community due to his veteran status behind the sticks. The Michigan native was previously known for playing competitive Gears of War and Call of Duty, two of the biggest console esports in the world. Nick even has his own custom controller from SCUF Gaming that’s covered in his logo and brand colors of gold and red. He uses a SCUF Infinity Pro with the Nickmercs skin./post/post-umg-philly-roster-change-recap-part-2/Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/post-umg-philly-roster-change-recap-part-2/ Roster changes continued to appear after an initial hectic day filled with announcements, with teams preparing for the Call of Duty Championships later this year. Issues such as age have forced teams to readjust, while other players have made personal switches to shake up the competition. EGIRL SLAYERS BREAK UP After a surprising performance at UMG Philly, the roster of Revan, Burnsoff, Mochila and Nexxx are no longer together. All four players announced they are free agents and will be looking for a team to represent for the Call of Duty: Ghosts season./post/dmg04-warns-destiny-2-players-not-to-buy-codes-for-upcoming-spicy-ramen-coupon-emblem/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dmg04-warns-destiny-2-players-not-to-buy-codes-for-upcoming-spicy-ramen-coupon-emblem/ Destiny 2 players shouldn’t buy codes for the upcoming Spicy Ramen Coupon emblem, according to Bungie senior community manager Dylan “dmg04” Gafner. The item will be a free gift from Bungie next month, dmg04 revealed after scalpers started selling the emblem before it was officially released. It’s unclear how sellers obtained the emblem, but the paid-for codes will become obsolete early next month. Bungie will award the emblem to its player base as part of the Bungie Day celebrations, which take place on July 7./post/first-round-of-tft-set-7-pbe-updates-target-champions-bug-fixes/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/first-round-of-tft-set-7-pbe-updates-target-champions-bug-fixes/ The first round of Teamfight Tactics PBE balance changes will take place today for Set Seven Dragonlands, focusing mostly on nerfs and buffs to champions, along with several bug fixes that were impacting gameplay. Yesterday was the first day of PBE testing for TFT Set Seven, resulting in lengthy queue time waits for players to test out the new set. The team was still able to get sufficient feedback and testing, though, putting together the first round of Drangonlands updates that will go live around shortly after 3pm CT today, according to game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer./post/this-elden-ring-boss-is-not-immune-to-physics/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-elden-ring-boss-is-not-immune-to-physics/ It turns out learning to master gravity sorcery didn’t pan out so well for this Elden Ring boss. While many Tarnished fall victim to the woes of physics in the Lands Between by falling off cliffs, heights, or even into water, some enemies are no different and are just as helpless. Elden Ring was released close to two months ago, but that’s not stopping the community from discovering new bugs, glitches, or fun ways to take on some of the game’s scariest and most challenging bosses./post/2-planeswalker-cards-revealed-ahead-of-mtg-zendikar-rising-preview-event/Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/2-planeswalker-cards-revealed-ahead-of-mtg-zendikar-rising-preview-event/ New Jace and Nahiri planeswalker cards were introduced today ahead of the Zendikar Rising preview event on Sept. 1 on Magic’s Twitch channel. Zendikar Rising is the upcoming fall set that marks the Standard rotation and a return to the plane for the first time in five years. The first of the two planeswalkers announced is Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients, revealed by Magic content creator Becca Scott. This four-mana Boros planeswalker enters the battlefield with four loyalty counters./post/k-da-premieres-stunning-concept-video-for-villain-featuring-evelynn-her-nails-and-a-bunch-of-snakes/Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/k-da-premieres-stunning-concept-video-for-villain-featuring-evelynn-her-nails-and-a-bunch-of-snakes/ Any League of Legends fans who haven’t had their fill of K/DA yet, you’re in luck. Riot premiered a concept video for “VILLAIN” today, one of the songs on the virtual K-pop group’s debut EP, ALL OUT. And Evelynn, the Agony’s Embrace, is the star of the show. The video makes use of shadows, snakes, and Eve’s metallic nails, constantly cutting to different angles. While Evelynn is one of four K/DA members, League champs Ahri, Kai’Sa, and Akali don’t appear in the video./post/biggest-highlights-of-march-18-overwatch-2-developer-livestream/Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/biggest-highlights-of-march-18-overwatch-2-developer-livestream/ Last week, the Overwatch development team announced a closed beta for Overwatch 2, giving concrete information to fans after numerous delays and lapses in communication. Taking things one step further, developers held a livestream today that confirmed the beta’s start date and also gave insight as to how internal testing in the Overwatch 2 alpha is proceeding.    Overwatch 2 lead game director Aaron Keller joined commercial lead Jon Spector and lead hero designer Geoff Goodman in a conversation with Overwatch League host Soe Gschwind to give fans more information about upcoming communications, alpha hijinks, and how the beta will proceed./post/buff-school-is-launching-its-first-cs-go-masterclass-in-sydney/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/buff-school-is-launching-its-first-cs-go-masterclass-in-sydney/ New education provider Buff School has just introduce its first esports masterclasses. The first series of esports performance courses will be coached by Azad “Topgun” Orami and will be held in Sydney on Aug. 31, 2019.  [Less than 20 spots left!] Don't miss your chance to join our master class and learn advanced CS:GO from Azad @topguNtv Orami. Take the first step towards your esports dream: https://t.co/jlsfOlIW9S pic.twitter.com/nSAV0ZTgns — Buff School (@buffschoolAU) August 12, 2019 The first half-day masterclass is designed for intermediate CS:GO players who want to get better at the game, learn key game mechanics and find their way to the competitive level./post/nintendo-reportedly-swapping-to-new-multiplayer-server-system/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nintendo-reportedly-swapping-to-new-multiplayer-server-system/ Nintendo will be moving on from its “NEX” multiplayer service system, which has been in use since the 3DS and Wii U, to a new server system called “NPLN.”  According todataminer and programmer OatmealDome, the NEX system is a variant of Quazal Technologies Inc.’s Rendez-Vous online middleware, which was being developed as far back as 2003. Quazal was purchased by Ubisoft in 2010, who then either licensed or sold the Rendez-Vous system to Nintendo./post/porsche-design-and-aoc-just-launched-a-32-inch-4k-monitor/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/porsche-design-and-aoc-just-launched-a-32-inch-4k-monitor/ Porsche Design and AOC have just released the new Agon Pro PD32M monitor. It’s the second collaboration between the two companies and follows the smaller AGON 27 released in 2021. The new Agon Pro PD32M features a 32-inch mini-LED display with 4K resolution. Mini-LED technology swaps the hundreds of larger LEDs for thousands of smaller LEDS for improved brightness and contrast. On the Agon Pro PD32M, it contributes to the 1,600 nits peak brightness and highest possible DisplayHDR 1400 certification./post/senna-beginner-s-guide-how-to-play-the-redeemer/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/senna-beginner-s-guide-how-to-play-the-redeemer/ Senna arrived in League of Legends two weeks ago as a unique support marksman whose abilities are both offensive and defensive. Senna can be a traditional support in every aspect, from her runes to the items that get the best out of her. If you think it’s better to use her as a marksman, though, that’s an option, too. But because her abilities can go both ways, it’s crucial to know where to start with her./post/can-you-play-elden-ring-offline/Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/can-you-play-elden-ring-offline/ FromSoftware’s new ARPG Elden Ring is one of the most highly-anticipated games of 2022, and with previous creations by FromSoftware have including some rather peculiar online play, it’s important to understand what sort of modes Elden Ring has. Many Dark Souls games are known for having a built-in online multiplayer element that can be equal parts entertaining and confusing. Sometimes, you can end up in a cooperative situation with another player, and on occasion, a player could be brought into your world to find you and assassinate you while you’re trying to complete the game./post/best-gaming-chairs-for-back-pain/Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-gaming-chairs-for-back-pain/ If you spend hours working at your desk or playing games, you need a supportive chair to prevent back and neck pain.  Incorrect posture can lead to poor circulation and unnecessary fatigue. It can even affect your mood and contribute to stress. The right gaming chair can help alleviate these issues.  There are a few things to look out for when selecting a gaming chair for back pain. Everyone’s needs are different, so it’s important to choose a chair with features that best suit you./post/magic-the-gathering-to-release-products-collaborating-with-fortnite-street-fighter-and-warhammer-40-000-in-2022/Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/magic-the-gathering-to-release-products-collaborating-with-fortnite-street-fighter-and-warhammer-40-000-in-2022/ Magic: The Gathering is entering a new era marked by collaborations with other properties as Universes Beyond looks to expand through 2022 and 2023, Wizards of the Coast announced today during the Showcase 2021 stream. The stream outlined the full slate of products and sets that are scheduled to release in 2022 and beyond. A major part of this announcement was several Universes Beyond products, including a collaboration with Fortnite./post/world-of-warcraft-overtakes-fortnite-as-most-popular-game-on-twitch/Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/world-of-warcraft-overtakes-fortnite-as-most-popular-game-on-twitch/   In light of the game’s latest expansion Battle for Azeroth, World of Warcraft has overtaken Fortnite in viewers on Twitch. Blizzard’s long running MMORPG took over the streaming service with more than 250,000 viewers. For months, Epic Games’ Fortnite: Battle Royale has reigned supreme among Twitch’s top games, with Fortnite averaging around 180,000 viewers per day according to TwitchMetrics. The game has seen even higher numbers during particularly memorable moments on Twitch, too; At its peak, Fortnite earned over 600,000 viewers from one stream between popular Fortnite player Ninja and rapper Drake./post/arcane-hits-jackpot-with-9-wins-at-annie-awards-2022/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/arcane-hits-jackpot-with-9-wins-at-annie-awards-2022/ The highly acclaimed animated series Arcane has won the most awards at the 49th Annie Awards, which celebrates excellence in animation. The League of Legends-inspired series was nominated nine times, and by the end of the night, it brought home nine awards. The ceremony was held on March 12 and comprised over 30 different categories, with almost 80 unique participants. See League of Legends on Amazon Arcane raced against beloved animated series of 2021, including Love, Death & Robots, Star Wars: Visions, and Castlevania, but still came out on top in every category it was nominated./post/how-to-catch-darkrai-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-darkrai-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Darkrai, the Pitch-Black Pokémon, has the power to place anyone in an endless nightmare, tormenting them until they eventually succumb to their fate. This Mythical Pokémon and its fearsome power can now be encountered in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, though successfully adding it to your team may be a difficult task. Starting April 1, players can obtain the Members Card key item via the in-game Mystery Gift feature, which is required to eventually battle Darkrai./post/jojopyun-becomes-just-the-fourth-native-na-mid-laner-to-qualify-for-an-international-league-event-since-2014/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/jojopyun-becomes-just-the-fourth-native-na-mid-laner-to-qualify-for-an-international-league-event-since-2014/ Last weekend, Evil Geniuses defeated defending champions 100 Thieves in the 2022 LCS Spring Split finals and qualified for the upcoming Mid-Season Invitational, where mid laner jojopyun will make his international debut in Busan, South Korea. The EG player is just the fourth native North American mid laner to participate in an international event since 2014. The other three native NA mid laners who have competed at international events over the past eight years are Pobelter, Damonte, and Hai./post/noahj456-produces-one-of-the-best-call-of-duty-warzone-clutch-plays-yet/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/noahj456-produces-one-of-the-best-call-of-duty-warzone-clutch-plays-yet/ Call of Duty: Warzone has been a breeding ground for some insane clips, but we think NoahJ456 just pulled off the best one yet. The 100 Thieves streamer was queued up with fellow organization figures Nadeshot and CouRage in the final circle of an epic match today when he popped off for arguably the best clutch the game has seen. This might be one of my greatest clutches of all time./post/almost-half-of-elden-ring-s-pc-players-have-failed-to-beat-the-first-legacy-dungeon/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/almost-half-of-elden-ring-s-pc-players-have-failed-to-beat-the-first-legacy-dungeon/ Elden Ring is the most popular Soulsborne title to date but, despite the game’s increased interest, it seems many players in the Lands Between aren’t progressing very far. According to Steam’s community page, which details what percentage of players have unlocked specific achievements, only 56 percent of Elden Ring players on PC have been able to best the game’s first legacy dungeon, Stormveil Castle. To beat Stormveil Castle players need to beat two bosses–the first entry-level foe Margrit the Fell Omen and the final boss at the heart of the castle, difficult-to-best Godrick the Grafted./post/how-to-catch-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-shiny-hunting-guide/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus-shiny-hunting-guide/ Shiny Pokémon have always been a fascinating mechanic in the franchise, giving players extremely rare encounters with Pokémon that feature alternate color schemes and unique animation, but otherwise don’t impact gameplay.  Pokémon Legends: Arceus has not only retained Shiny Pokémon but, thanks to Game Freak revamping how Pokémon appear in the overworld along with catching mechanics in this new installment, Shiny Pokémon are easier to locate and catch than ever. /post/how-to-unlock-the-pack-a-punch-machine-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-zombies-map-firebase-z/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-the-pack-a-punch-machine-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-zombies-map-firebase-z/ The second Zombies map in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Firebase Z, was released earlier today. It’s a free-to-play map for anyone who owns the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise. Following the release of a new Zombies map, most players will immediately try to figure out how to unlock the Pack-a-Punch machine so they can quickly upgrading their weapons and take down hordes of the living dead faster while they’re exploring./post/niantic-removes-reworks-in-person-raid-rewards-and-select-pok%C3%A9mon-go-event-boxes/Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/niantic-removes-reworks-in-person-raid-rewards-and-select-pok%C3%A9mon-go-event-boxes/ Niantic is introducing several new social features for Pokémon Go, along with new bonuses for players competing in local raid battles to incentivize more in-person play and some changes for the item shop.  The biggest changes are updating the rewards for players who actually participate in raids locally with other players on-location. This includes adding Mega Energy and Rare Candy XL to the rewards for winning raids when they are done in person./post/rainbow-six-siege-operation-vector-glare-introduces-new-tdm-map-close-quarter/Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rainbow-six-siege-operation-vector-glare-introduces-new-tdm-map-close-quarter/ Rainbow Six Siege players will have a new Team Deathmatch map to enjoy soon because Operation Vector Glare is introducing Close Quarter, a colorful map explicitly designed for the mode.  Siege is best known for its objective game modes, where players must rescue hostages or plant or defuse bombs. But it also features a Team Deathmatch mode that’s perfect for players looking for a casual experience in a low-stress environment to warm up./post/snowboarder-baptiste-legendary-skin-revealed-for-overwatch-s-2021-winter-wonderland-event/Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/snowboarder-baptiste-legendary-skin-revealed-for-overwatch-s-2021-winter-wonderland-event/ While he may not have the horizontal mobility to shred slopes like Lúcio, Baptiste is joining the lineup of Overwatch heroes ready to partake in winter sports with a new skin. Overwatch revealed a new Legendary skin today: Snowboarder Baptiste. This skin will be available alongside the previously revealed Sleighing D.Va, Reindeer Orisa, and Ice Wraith Genji Legendary skins, as well as other unannounced cosmetics as part of the Winter Wonderland 2021 event that’s set to begin later today./post/are-splitgate-s-servers-down-here-s-how-to-check-server-status/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/are-splitgate-s-servers-down-here-s-how-to-check-server-status/ While Splitgate is extremely popular in its current state, the game’s server issues have been one of the more prevalent and, at times, frustrating aspects of the FPS over the past couple of weeks.  In short, because the current servers aren’t built for a large number of players, they often get overloaded, sometimes to the point where developer 1047 Games has to take the game temporarily offline. That being said, as of Aug./post/overwatch-player-makes-a-horror-game-in-the-workshop/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/overwatch-player-makes-a-horror-game-in-the-workshop/ Halloween is quickly approaching and Overwatch players can get a taste of horror in-game with the GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM Workshop mode created by a player named Therister. Blizzard has hosted several seasonal events within the game, and for Halloween, the company introduced the Junkenstein’s Revenge mode, a cooperative game mode against drone zombies called Zomnics. The event isn’t scary at all, but Therister created a terrifying mode for those who want a real scare./post/blizzard-finally-gave-l%C3%BAcio-a-boostio-voice-line/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/blizzard-finally-gave-l%C3%BAcio-a-boostio-voice-line/ It’s a very special moment. It doesn’t happen often—at least in high-level Overwatch matches. The conditions of a match have to be just right. It’s Boostio. And it’s no longer just head canon. Blizzard has embraced Boostio, adding a new voice line to Overwatch. When an Ana player points her sniper rifle at an allied Lúcio player and decides they’re worthy of a Nano Boost, the “Boostio” voice line can be triggered./post/optic-slam-the-door-on-zeta-s-magical-masters-reykjav%C3%ADk-run-in-3-0-sweep-advance-to-grand-final-for-rematch-vs-loud/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/optic-slam-the-door-on-zeta-s-magical-masters-reykjav%C3%ADk-run-in-3-0-sweep-advance-to-grand-final-for-rematch-vs-loud/ OpTic Gaming recovered from their upper bracket stumble with a dominant 3-0 showing against ZETA DIVISION in the lower bracket final of VCT Masters Reykjavík today, ending the Japanese team’s magical run and setting themselves up for a grand finals rematch against LOUD. ZETA came out firing on OpTic’s opening pick of Haven, jumping out to a 5-0 start and taking a 7-5 lead into halftime after their attacking side. But despite holding an 11-5 lead on defense, an absolutely mesmerizing second half from Marved drove the OpTic comeback train into overtime./post/nuturn-gaming-parts-ways-with-allow-and-suggest/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nuturn-gaming-parts-ways-with-allow-and-suggest/ Two more members of the NUTURN Gaming VALORANT roster that attended VCT Masters Reykjavík are leaving the organization. NUTURN is moving on from both Park “allow” Sang-wook and Seo “Suggest” Jae-young, the team announced today. The organization said farewell in a Twitter post directed toward both players, wishing them well in their future endeavors. FAREWELL AND THANKS 'allow' and 'Suggest' It's time to say Goodby to our "allow" and "Suggest"/post/what-is-the-end-date-of-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-the-end-date-of-fortnite-chapter-3-season-3/ Fortnite’s Chapter Three, season two, wrapped up in spectacular fashion, and players will soon start sailing onto a new journey in the form of Chapter Three, season three. In addition to introducing new skins to the game, each new season is an opportunity for Epic Games to roll out content that can shake up the game’s meta. From new weapons to mechanics, players wake up to a fresh Fortnite on the day of the patch, and start learning the game with each match./post/104-1-f4q-end-vision-strikers-undefeated-streak-in-valorant/Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/104-1-f4q-end-vision-strikers-undefeated-streak-in-valorant/ And just like that, Vision Strikers are back to square one again. F4Q, a team of ragtag streamers and VALORANT pubstompers, ended Vision Strikers’ 104-series streak today, putting a stop to the unstoppable team in stage two of VCT Challengers Korea. The underdogs, who had historically played poorly against Vision Strikers, had a standout performance. The best-of-three series came down to the wire, ending with a dramatic 15-13 scoreline in overtime in the third and final map./post/vote-to-kick-option-will-be-removed-from-rainbow-six-siege-later-this-season/Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/vote-to-kick-option-will-be-removed-from-rainbow-six-siege-later-this-season/ The Quick Match playlist is a fun and casual mode for Rainbow Six Siege players who don’t want to experience the intense Ranked playlist. But the playlist attracts a lot of toxic players who sometimes queue with other toxic individuals. These players will often vote-to-kick their teammates for no reason and send them back to the lobby.  This will no longer be an issue later this season, however. The vote-to-kick option is being removed from the game, Ubisoft announced today./post/what-happens-when-you-get-duplicate-rewards-pok%C3%A9mon-licenses-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-happens-when-you-get-duplicate-rewards-pok%C3%A9mon-licenses-in-pok%C3%A9mon-unite/ Pokémon UNITE gives players more than a handful of ways to get the items they want or need to grab in order to improve at the game or look the way they want to. And TiMi Studio made sure that there was a system in place so that, even if a player gets an item one way, they won’t lose out on additional rewards.  For example, say you really want to play as Alolan Ninetails, but you didn’t want to wait for its Unite License to become a free reward in the “14-Day Welcome Gifts” event./post/how-to-complete-totssf-nani-sbc-in-fifa-20-ultimate-team/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-totssf-nani-sbc-in-fifa-20-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a Team of the Season So Far (TOTSSF) 92-rated version of Nani from Orlando City today to the squad-building challenges (SBC) menu in FIFA 20 Ultimate Team. TOTSSF Nani was introduced alongside the official MLS TOTSSF squad. This SBC will be available until Thursday, June 4. It comes at an impressive price range, around 80,000 FUT coins on any platform, for how good TOTSSF Nani seems to be. EA has massively boosted TOTSSF Nani when you compare it to his base gold 80-rated version./post/how-to-fast-travel-in-horizon-forbidden-west/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fast-travel-in-horizon-forbidden-west/ Games that feature giant map like Horizon Forbidden West can be painful if it doesn’t have a fast travel system. Luckily, for Horizon players, this action role-playing video title has an efficient fast travel that will save you a lot of time. There are just a few requirements that you need to know first. First of all, players need to have visited a location on the map before they can fast travel to it./post/where-to-find-air-vents-in-fortnite-battle-royale-s-season-9/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-air-vents-in-fortnite-battle-royale-s-season-9/ Epic Games added a few environmental items to Fortnite: Battle Royale when season nine started, and one of them is Air Vents. They behave like the vaulted Bouncer trap, letting players jump on them to be tossed in a certain direction without taking fall damage. The only difference between the two is that Air Vents aren’t items, which means they’re located in specific areas of the island and can’t be moved./post/here-are-the-full-notes-for-valorant-patch-4-01/Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-full-notes-for-valorant-patch-4-01/ Riot Games will introduce Patch 4.01 to VALORANT today. It’s not a major update, but the devs have done a second round of changes to Ares, a weapon that was buffed in Patch 4.0. The buff to the machine gun made the weapon “noticeably stronger,” according to the devs, and saw the Ares become a more popular choice in games. The changes in Patch 4.01 will increase the price of the Ares from 1,550 to 1,600 and increase its pitch recoil./post/qtcinderella-s-girls-trip-canceled-after-streamer-tests-positive-for-covid-19/Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/qtcinderella-s-girls-trip-canceled-after-streamer-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ Popular Twitch streamer QTCinderella announced today that her in-person streamer event, Girls Trip, was forced to be canceled after one of the participants tested positive for COVID-19. On April 18, QTCinderella unveiled her latest collaboration following The Streamer Awards, Girls Trip. The trip was meant to bring 15 fellow Twitch streamers to Florida under one roof for a weekend-long trip, streaming a wide variety of events from May 4 to 7./post/the-best-dunkers-in-nba-2k22/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-dunkers-in-nba-2k22/ Dunking is a necessary part of playing NBA 2K22 at an optimal level, and many of the most overpowered players in NBA 2K history had strong dunk ratings. A good dunker can drive to the basket and lock into a scoring animation that the defense can’t stop. This is why players like LeBron James or Gerald Green in NBA 2K13. See NBA on Amazon The league is filled with athletic players with impressive dunk ratings./post/the-pokemon-company-officially-reveals-time-gazer-and-space-juggler/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-pokemon-company-officially-reveals-time-gazer-and-space-juggler/ The Pokémon Company has today announced its next Pokémon OCG sets Time Gazer and Space Juggler. The two sets will star Origin forms of Dialga and Palkia first introduced to the franchise via the latest Pokémon videogame, Legends: Arceus. https://twitter.com/Pokemon_cojp/status/1499610615685517315 These two Pokémon will receive the new VSTAR treatment alongside standard V variants. Also coming in the set are trainer cards for the Peal Clan leader Irida and Diamond leader Adaman./post/rek-sai-s-new-abilities-are-almost-here-and-they-re-just-as-scary-as-they-sound/Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rek-sai-s-new-abilities-are-almost-here-and-they-re-just-as-scary-as-they-sound/ Rek’Sai will be the recipient of a major gameplay rework in the next patch, and her changes turn her into a weird underground hybrid of Kha’Zix and Garen, according to Riot’s official reveal of the project yesterday. The League of Legends community has known about part of the changes for a little while, as they’ve been on the PBE for a couple of weeks—but this is the first time players have been able to look at the entirety of the changes./post/how-to-solve-wordle-puzzles-5-letter-words-starting-with-s-and-ending-with-n/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-solve-wordle-puzzles-5-letter-words-starting-with-s-and-ending-with-n/ Wordle became even bigger after being bought by the New York Times as one of their daily games. Every day more people join the wave of this fun and casual game, but it’s not easy. Plus, it’s great to practice your vocabulary and stay on top of the day’s topic with friends who also play. Sometimes you are lucky to quickly find letters. And that makes your Wordle journey much easier./post/weixiao-an-early-legend/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/weixiao-an-early-legend/ Around the time I started following professional League began the rise of one team we would later count into the best of all time, that team was World Elite. With their superb team fighting they managed to go on an undefeated streak that would later only be toppled by SK Telecom T1 K. The star and central focus of World Elite was their AD Carry Gao “WeiXiao” Xuecheng. Of course the Chinese region has produced many great AD Carries like NaMei and Uzi but in this article I would like to write about what made WeiXiao the greatest player China has ever produced and arguably the best AD Carry ever to play League of Legends./post/who-is-newcastle-s-voice-actor-in-apex-legends/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-is-newcastle-s-voice-actor-in-apex-legends/ Respawn confirmed this week the latest season of Apex Legends, Saviors, with a cinematic trailer that, among other things, debuted the latest character to make it to the game: Newcastle. The latest edition to the game’s roster of legends is a tanky shield user named Jackson Williams, and he is the brother of Bangalore who was thought to be deceased. Presenting…your new competition, though you may have met before—@GabeKunda as Newcastle!/post/riot-shows-off-new-snow-moon-skins-for-illaoi-caitlyn-and-kayn-adds-pantheon-to-ashen-knight-skin-line-in-league/Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-shows-off-new-snow-moon-skins-for-illaoi-caitlyn-and-kayn-adds-pantheon-to-ashen-knight-skin-line-in-league/ The night has risen once again, League of Legends fans. Riot Games unveiled a beautiful new skin collection today called Snow Moon, featuring Illaoi, Caitlyn, and Kayn. Additionally, fans have also been clamoring over a new Ashen Knight Pantheon skin that will be making its way to the game’s PBE server soon. Presented as an opposite to one of the game’s existing skin lines, Blood Moon, players get to experience a new side of the alternate universe with three new cosmetics./post/where-to-go-after-beating-godrick-the-grafted-in-elden-ring/Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-go-after-beating-godrick-the-grafted-in-elden-ring/ In Elden Ring, players are given a near-infinite amount of choices when it comes to character progression. The world of the Lands Between is full of options that can influence the player’s entire experience. Whether they’re deciding which dungeons to traverse, bosses to slay, NPCs to associate with, or simply what weapon to use, players are forced to make decisions with little to no context on what lies ahead. Luckily, not all is lost when it comes to progressing one’s character in Elden Ring./post/mad-maggie-s-drill-can-be-attached-to-crypto-s-drone-in-apex/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mad-maggie-s-drill-can-be-attached-to-crypto-s-drone-in-apex/ With so many abilities that can interact, it’s no surprise that Apex Legends has its fair share of shenanigans as players try to figure out new ways to wreak havoc in the Outlands. One particularly fruitful ability for these players is Crypto’s tactical, the Surveillance Drone he lovingly refers to as “Hack.” Any Apex player can tell you that the drone is able to fly around and reveal the positions of other players./post/valorant-version-mismatch-error-how-to-fix-version-mismatch/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-version-mismatch-error-how-to-fix-version-mismatch/ VALORANT hasn’t been without its fair share of issues since it launched in 2020, especially when it comes to error codes. One of the most common known errors is “Version Mismatch,” which tends to pops up when trying to connect and play the game with friends.  This error originally popped up in the closed beta, with the culprit of the issue being different regions operating on different versions of the game—mostly due to staggered patch releases./post/reworked-doomfist-orisa-bring-a-new-spin-to-existing-characters-in-overwatch-2/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/reworked-doomfist-orisa-bring-a-new-spin-to-existing-characters-in-overwatch-2/ Blizzard Entertainment has briefly discussed the Orisa and Doomfist reworks players will be able to see once they get their hands on the Overwatch 2 beta on April 26. Now, players have more detail than ever about what the two hero kits will look like once the beta hits. Along with the change to a five-vs-five team composition, updates to Orisa and Doomfist’s kits are some of the biggest changes that will come with the beta, along with new maps, a new hero, and tweaks to other heroes./post/when-does-marvel-midnight-suns-release/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-marvel-midnight-suns-release/ Marvel’s latest RPG Midnight Suns, which was announced at Gamescom last fall, is just a few short months away from its release, the developer announced during the Summer Game Fest today. With development from Firaxis Games, 2K Games is taking a turn-based, tactical approach to the Marvel IP for Midnight Suns in a game that will be available across all major consoles.  Hell’s army just got even stronger. Yep, we’re gonna need some backup!/post/it-just-makes-sh-t-content-dream-scrutinizes-the-state-of-minecraft-speedrunning/Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/it-just-makes-sh-t-content-dream-scrutinizes-the-state-of-minecraft-speedrunning/ YouTube content creator and streaming star Dream, who is primarily known for his Minecraft content, recently shared his views on the present-day rules for Minecraft speedrunners. “I’ll be honest, I don’t want to start beef with the speedrunning community again and have, like, people mad at me,” Dream said. “But I think that the decisions and, like, the direction it’s gone is bad, and I’ll just talk from a purely content creator standpoint and not from, like, a speedrunner’s standpoint, ’cause I don’t know what people who actually speedrun actively now do./post/how-to-remove-a-graphics-card/Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-remove-a-graphics-card/ While removing a GPU is a simple process, it is important to be careful whenever working with your computer to avoid any damage. Here is a step-by-step guide to show you how to remove a graphics card properly. It is recommended to wear an anti-static band around your wrist or ankle when working on computers. The other end of the anti-static band will usually be an alligator clip. Be sure to connect the alligator clip to something like an unpainted part of your PC case./post/strange-apex-legends-glitch-turns-the-game-into-a-world-of-static/Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/strange-apex-legends-glitch-turns-the-game-into-a-world-of-static/ Apex Legends players have discovered a strange new glitch that distorts many of the game’s models and environments. User StaticPanick was one of the first to showcase the glitch, sharing photos of how it changed the skins, character models, and backgrounds in his game. In a video from user FNDS., the glitch can be seen popping into place as the they enter the firing range, gradually changing almost all of the game’s textures into a strange collection of rainbow static./post/where-to-place-a-camera-near-the-beachside-mansion-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-5/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-place-a-camera-near-the-beachside-mansion-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-5/ It’s a long and hard road to reach the end of Fortnite‘s Chapter Two, season five battle pass. If you can’t find where to place a camera near the beachside mansion, here’s how to complete the challenge. Head to the westernmost edge of the Fortnite island, southwest of Sweaty Sands and northwest of Holly Hedges. The beachside mansion is near the top of the raised cliff that overlooks the heart-shaped island off the coast./post/how-to-destroy-the-chariots-in-auriza-hero-s-grave-in-elden-ring/Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-destroy-the-chariots-in-auriza-hero-s-grave-in-elden-ring/ The chariots in Elden Ring have become notorious for how annoying they can be when trying to enter and complete a certain Hero’s Grave. A large part of the fanbase detest the chariots littered in Auriza Hero’s Grave, and rightfully so.  Chariots are a pain to deal with, but not certainly not impossible. Here is exactly how you can destroy the chariots in Auriza Hero’s Grave in Elden Ring. How to Locate Auriza Hero’s Grave in Elden Ring To destroy the chariots in Auriza Hero’s Grave, you’ll need to make your way to the place first./post/shiny-regigigas-new-field-research-headline-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-solstice-event/Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/shiny-regigigas-new-field-research-headline-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-solstice-event/ Niantic has released details for the return of Pokémon Go’s solstice-themed event, which will run from June 17 to 20 and feature different Pokémon depending on which hemisphere you’re playing in. Starting with this event and until July 1, Regigigas will also be appearing in five-star raids. This will include the ability to encounter shiny Regigigas and new raid-related Field Research.  Players around the globe will be able to encounter Lunatone, Solrock, Spheal, and more, with Snorlax being a rare encounter./post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-battle-of-the-bans/Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-battle-of-the-bans/ You probably haven’t been to a concert in a long time, but at least you can check out Hearthstone’s Battle of the Bans. This week’s Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is the Battle of the Bans. This is a preconstructed Brawl with a twist. Instead of building an entire deck, you’ll get the chance to select four cards. At the beginning of the match, your opponent gets to see three of your four cards./post/your-shop-is-now-live-in-league-of-legends/Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/your-shop-is-now-live-in-league-of-legends/ Your Shop, the personalized skin sale promotion for League of Legends, is live in the game’s client once again.  Your Shop gives players discounts on skins that are personally chosen for them based on their champion pool. Six skins will be available in Your Shop, with the champions they’re for revolving around your most-played picks.  Epic and Standard skins, which cost 1,350 and 975 RP, respectively, are most likely to appear in Your Shop./post/all-ascendant-anchor-and-trivial-mystery-locations-in-destiny-2-s-shattered-realm-ruins-of-wrath/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-ascendant-anchor-and-trivial-mystery-locations-in-destiny-2-s-shattered-realm-ruins-of-wrath/ Turn up your brightness and get your Champion Mods on because it’s time to hunt for Ascendant Anchors and Trivial Mysteries in Destiny 2’s Shattered Realm: Ruins of Wrath. The activity has a series of conspicuous Anchors and chests lying around—and a series of well-hidden secrets and treasures to hunt down. See Destiny 2 on Amazon Here are all the Ascendant Anchors and Trivial or Enigmatic Mysteries we’ve found in Shattered Realm: Ruins of Wrath so far./post/ea-reveals-rttk-s-second-team-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-reveals-rttk-s-second-team-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added the second team of the Road to the Knockouts (RTTK) promotion to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today. There are 11 new RTTK players on the second team. This promo will follow the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League. We go again 🤩🏆 Road to the Knockouts: Team 2️⃣ -More Special Player Items that get upgrades if their clubs reach the Knockout Stage of their European competition ↗️ -Get a potential 2nd boost w/ 3️⃣ wins in 4️⃣ Group Stage matches 📈/post/how-to-get-rgx-11z-pro-skins-in-valorant/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-rgx-11z-pro-skins-in-valorant/ The RGX 11Z Pro weapon skins have quickly become one of the most popular skin lines in VALORANT. While the original bundle has already left the shop, there is a new set of skins coming on April 27. Here is how to obtain all of the RGX weapon skins in VALORANT.  RGX 2.0 With Episode Four, Act Three comes a new version of the RGX weapon skins. This skin line will feature a Classic, Phantom, Operator, Spectre, and Butterfly knife./post/how-to-get-the-special-free-guy-emote-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-7/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-special-free-guy-emote-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-7/ Considering the sheer amount of franchises and properties that Fortnite crosses over with on a regular basis, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the title now includes items based on the new video game-centric film Free Guy ahead of its theatrical release. While fans can purchase a skin based on the character Dude from the film in the game’s Item Shop, players can also earn a free emote from the film simply by completing a few challenges./post/nitr0-reportedly-close-to-returning-to-team-liquid-s-cs-go-roster/Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/nitr0-reportedly-close-to-returning-to-team-liquid-s-cs-go-roster/ Nicholas “nitr0” Cannella is close to coming back to CS:GO and his old home, Team Liquid, one year and three months after he was acquired by 100 Thieves to compete in VALORANT, according to a report by 1pv.fr. The former Liquid captain was already linked to his old team on Nov. 12 when Upcomer reported he was considering a return to CS:GO. If the move comes to fruition, nitr0 would be reunited with Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski, who he’s won nine international LAN tournaments with under the Liquid banner./post/mage-secrets-unveiled-understanding-mages-secrets/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mage-secrets-unveiled-understanding-mages-secrets/ Hello fellow Hearthstone Players! This week I wanted to continue sharing my mage obsession and talk secrets. My gold and bling mage is working hard to get to legendary with my Big Chill deck, but with Naxxramas around the corner, I am already thinking about how I can stomp warriors, once and for all. It has been argued that mage class cards lack synergy. It seems the game designers offer us secrets as a secondary tactic when playing mages./post/when-and-where-to-buy-the-rtx-3050/Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-and-where-to-buy-the-rtx-3050/ Nvidia unveiled the new budget GPU, the desktop variant of the RTX 3050, at CES 2022 today. This budget-friendly GPU will be built on the Ampere architecture and will feature ray tracing and DLSS upscaling for gamers to enjoy, all on 8GB of GDDR6 memory. The card will be released on Jan. 27 for the price of $249, which puts it at $80 cheaper than the RTX 3060 at its retail price./post/did-this-mouse-just-make-me-better-xtrfy-mz1-zy-s-rail-review/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/did-this-mouse-just-make-me-better-xtrfy-mz1-zy-s-rail-review/ Xtrfy is a brand that takes risks. From retro-inspired colorways to customizable shapes, the Sweden-based brand is always pushing the envelope regarding design.  Its newest mouse, the MZ1-Zy’s Rail, was designed in collaboration with Zy “Rocket Jump Ninja” Rykoa. Rocket Jump Ninja made his name reviewing hundreds of gaming mice and backs those reviews with over 21 years of first-person shooter experience. He began designing the MZ1-Zy’s Rail in 2019, and Xtrfy was “nice enough to make it into an actual mouse,” as he puts it in a letter to reviewers./post/the-10-best-legends-of-runeterra-guardians-of-the-ancient-cards-that-can-change-the-meta/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-10-best-legends-of-runeterra-guardians-of-the-ancient-cards-that-can-change-the-meta/ Legends of Runeterra’s latest expansion, Guardians of the Ancient, released last week. As the second out of three sets within the Empires of the Ascended, the expansion features less cards—42 in total—compared to the initial set of three. With a new ranked season and seasonal tournament occurring two months from now, competitors will try to be quick to understand the next strongest card that will take over the meta. Here are the 10 best cards to make an impact on the upcoming ranked meta./post/what-is-league-of-legends-clash/Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-league-of-legends-clash/ League of Legends’ Clash is back in action after a hiatus. The competitive team game mode has been on a standstill after facing numerous problems, but now, after some tweaking from Riot, it’s available to play. But what is Clash? If you’ve only heard about it in passing and you haven’t experienced it first hand, look no further. Clash is a biweekly competitive game mode that allows you and four friends to team up and compete against other teams of your skill level./post/the-best-mount-equipment-in-world-of-warcraft/Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-mount-equipment-in-world-of-warcraft/ Mount Equipment is a relatively niche but necessary feature in World of Warcraft. Although it’s only accessible through a tiny window in your mount interface, the impact that Mount Equipment has on your character is still relatively large. Each piece of individual mount equipment in World of Warcraft applies a special bonus effect to your mounts, many of which can be valuable—especially in solo content.   Right now, there are only five pieces of mount equipment available to players in World of Warcraft, but each of them has its own unique perks and is deserving of a place in your inventory./post/twitch-receives-mass-dmca-claims-against-clips-due-to-copyrighted-background-music/Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-receives-mass-dmca-claims-against-clips-due-to-copyrighted-background-music/ Watching or broadcasting a stream that features Spotify or other music streaming services may become a thing of the past due to Twitch’s newly updated music Terms of Service.  Based on an updated version of the music TOS guidelines that are already being put into effect, Twitch will start heavily enforcing copyright-related Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns and other actions against streamers who use music that they do not own the rights to./post/the-best-fara-83-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-fara-83-loadouts-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ A new season means new guns in Call of Duty—and season two of Black Ops Cold War added two of them that have stood the test of time ever since. The first weapon was the FARA 83. It’s basically the Galil from Black Ops 1, so fans of that gun will be happy to try it out and experience the nostalgia as soon as they fire it with its iron sights./post/apex-content-creator-maps-hitboxes-for-each-character-shows-flaws-with-octane-and-revenant/Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-content-creator-maps-hitboxes-for-each-character-shows-flaws-with-octane-and-revenant/ Hitboxes have long been a controversy in Apex Legends, but a content creator may have solved the matter once and for all. Community figure The Gaming Merchant compiled the hitbox size for each character in Apex, down to the last pixel. The Gaming Merchant found that Gibraltar’s hitbox is the largest when standing still with 203,396 pixels. Wraith’s, on the other hand, is the smallest with just 95,997 pixels. Octane’s hitbox is also problematic, he mentioned, with an area that expands significantly past the character model./post/beginner-s-tips-for-new-world/Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/beginner-s-tips-for-new-world/ When you first enter New World, there is plenty to explore and discover. While a lot is obvious and driven towards thanks to the game’s narrative, other handy tips and tricks aren’t so clear, but can help out in both early and later stages of the game. See Dot Esports Gaming Deals If you’re only now beginning your journey into New World, then you’re going to want to check out our starter’s guide here./post/sobble-and-grookey-s-final-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-have-allegedly-been-leaked/Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sobble-and-grookey-s-final-evolutions-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-have-allegedly-been-leaked/ Editor’s Note: The leaked images that were previously featured in this article have been removed due to a Digital Millenium Copyright Act claim from The Pokémon Company International, Inc. (“TPCi”). It’s officially leak season in Pokémon Sword and Shield. Over the course of the past few hours, a series of “leaks” have been showcasing potential new Pokémon and story spoilers. And now, leaks of the final evolutions for two of Sword and Shield’s starter Pokémon have been revealed./post/rainbow-six-siege-y6s4-introduces-finka-self-revive-echo-and-mozzie-drone-changes-and-several-camera-tweaks/Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rainbow-six-siege-y6s4-introduces-finka-self-revive-echo-and-mozzie-drone-changes-and-several-camera-tweaks/ Rainbow Six Siege year six, season four is adding a lot more than Thorn. Finka, Echo, and Mozzie will receive minor updates, while multiple cameras will have new functions or limitations.  Finka is an excellent operator that can give teammates a boost of health in a dangerous situation or she can revive them while they’re down from a distance. But she previously couldn’t revive herself with her Adrenal Surge, preventing her from returning to the fight./post/the-best-shotguns-in-destiny-2/Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-shotguns-in-destiny-2/ There’s nothing quite like walking up to a Hive or Taken enemy and blasting them in the face with a shotgun. Likewise, the feeling is similar when dumpstering a fellow Guardian in the Crucible. In Destiny 2, shotguns are just plain fun. Whether they’re a kinetic weapon, a special weapon, a heavy, or an Exotic, shotguns can be used to turn the tide in any kind of skirmish. There’s a wide variety of shotguns in the game and a lot of their successes depend on the perk rolls that you receive when the weapon drops./post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-overwatch/Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-reduce-lag-in-overwatch/ While Overwatch is easy to pick up and fun to play, a simple lag issue may turn your gaming experience into a nightmare. A lackluster network performance can cause you to rubberband or have spikes, which can make it impossible for you to contribute to that final push or the last line of defense. Games like Overwatch don’t need that much bandwidth to function smoothly and you should be fine most of the time unless you’re still using a dial-up modem./post/valkyrae-still-has-almost-200-streaming-hours-remaining-in-her-youtube-gaming-contract/Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valkyrae-still-has-almost-200-streaming-hours-remaining-in-her-youtube-gaming-contract/ As part of contracts offered by YouTube Gaming, streamers are required to complete a certain amount of hours broadcast before the end of their contracts—often hundreds of hours over the course of years. For Valkyrae, one of the platform’s most renowned creators, she has quite a few hours left before her contract ends next month. Valkyrae said she had over 198 hours left to stream before her two-year YouTube Gaming contract comes to an end on Jan./post/mc-championship-22-live-scores-and-game-standings/Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mc-championship-22-live-scores-and-game-standings/ The 22nd installment of the MC Championship (MCC) takes place over the course of approximately two hours on May 28. The Minecraft tournament features 10 teams composed of four creators each facing off in a series of eight mini-games. Squads will try and score enough coins to be one of the top two teams, who then face off in the grand finale, Dodgebolt duel, to claim the crown for that installment of the event./post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-ho/Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wordle-game-help-5-letter-words-starting-with-ho/ Wordle is the right game if you want to exercise your vocabulary little by little each day. The game presents a daily challenge for all players trying to find out which secret word was chosen. Its success is so great that it was bought by the New York Times and, with each passing day, new alternative versions emerge. Undoubtedly, much of its success is a result of its simple yet challenging mechanics./post/best-rgb-headset-stands/Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-rgb-headset-stands/ Headset stands are an often overlooked part of a gaming setup, and many users avoid them altogether. Modern headset stands protect expensive headsets from damage and have additional features to increase their functionality and practicality. Many of the best headset stands have built-in USB hubs for users to plug in their keyboards, mice, and other devices. Some headset stands even have built-in audio ports and digital to analog converters (DACs) so users can plug in their headset directly and enjoy virtual surround sound./post/pacman-i-was-blindsided-by-optic-gaming-los-angeles-release/Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pacman-i-was-blindsided-by-optic-gaming-los-angeles-release/ Former OpTic Gaming Los Angeles coach Pacman was not pleased with how his release on May 11 was handled. Pacman said on the latest episode of the The Codcast that OGLA general manager Muddawg gave him no warning he would be fired, and Pacman even fulfilled coaching duties before Muddawg informed him of his release. “In this situation, Muddawg—who’s supposed to be my friend—didn’t tell me shit,” Pacman said. “He texted me earlier in the day [of his firing] and was like ‘I got to talk to you later./post/all-dawning-recipes-and-ingredients-in-destiny-2/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-dawning-recipes-and-ingredients-in-destiny-2/ It’s time to spread the holiday cheer in Destiny 2. The Dawning is here and there’s no Infinite Forest, Haunted Lost Sectors, or class competition this time around: It’s all about baking cookies. Handing them in to specific vendors will award players with rewards for the event and there’s a series of triumphs tied to baking and delivering cookies. Of course, you can’t bake if you don’t have any ingredients. Each kill has a chance of giving players ingredients based on what type of enemy they took down and how they dealt the final blow./post/every-magic-the-gathering-set-listed-in-order/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-magic-the-gathering-set-listed-in-order/ Magic: The Gathering is the longest standing and most established trading card game with sets of cards being released as early as 1993. The 28-year-old card game has 21 “core” sets. There are also 87 “expansion” sets to the game, including the most recently released Strixhaven: School of Mages set that dropped in April. Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms will be the 88th expansion set for MTG, coming in July./post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-wild-rift-patch-2-4b/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-wild-rift-patch-2-4b/ Fire meets ice in Wild Rift Patch 2.4b. Brand, the Burning Vengeance and Nunu & Willump, the Boy and his Yeti are the latest additions to Wild Rift. A frost and flame event that embodies the rivalry of the two elements is here. Players will be able to complete daily missions, unlock tokens, and spend them on in the event shop for special rewards. A host of champion changes are also going live in this week’s patch, including adjustments to Akshan, Kennen, and Rakan./post/the-best-tactical-equipment-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-warzone/Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-tactical-equipment-in-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-and-warzone/ Every Call of Duty loadout is incomplete without a tactical item. Since the beginning of CoD, tactical equipment has been a key component of any loadout or class, giving players one extra tool to help clear out objectives and pubstomp noobs. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, there are eight tacticals to choose from, most of which are throwable. Stretch out your throwing arm and get ready to use these to win your games./post/dataminers-unearth-air-strike-in-fortnite-s-recent-v9-30-update-files/Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/dataminers-unearth-air-strike-in-fortnite-s-recent-v9-30-update-files/ A Fortnite dataminer has recently discovered what could be the battle royale’s newest method of attack: a grenade, named Air Strike, that seemingly has the power to summon missiles to a specific target location. According to the image posted by dataminer Lucas7yoshi, the Air Strike is grenade with a missile painted on it—but not much else has been revealed about the projectile. Many fans have already begun speculating that the Air Strike will take the form of a kill-streak that calls down a series of missiles to a targeted area./post/how-to-level-up-quickly-in-new-world/Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-level-up-quickly-in-new-world/ After an extended closed beta and a short open beta period, New World is finally here with a Sept. 28 release date. The big and ambitious MMO project from Amazon Studios sees its player base explore the mysterious world of Aeternum, form parties and companies, level up professions and weapon masteries, and even raise or lower property taxes. One of the primary differences between the first and second beta periods for New World was the increased leveling up rate./post/arcane-tops-netflix-charts-in-over-50-countries-after-act-2-reaches-top-2-in-the-u-s/Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/arcane-tops-netflix-charts-in-over-50-countries-after-act-2-reaches-top-2-in-the-u-s/ Riot Games’ animated series Arcane has been adding new accomplishments to its collar. the TV show has been rising in popularity and peaked at the top position in 52 countries following the release of act two, according to Flixpatrol. The series also carved itself the top two spot in the U.S., based on data from Flixpatrol and Collider. Arcane‘s impressive metrics follow a meteoric debut, which let the series dominate Netflix charts in 38 countries./post/petition-for-battlefield-2042-refunds-exceeds-100-000-signatures/Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/petition-for-battlefield-2042-refunds-exceeds-100-000-signatures/ Battlefield 2042 has traveled a rocky road since its launch was plagued with a ton of in-game issues. The ill-fated launch left fans dissatisfied by the game’s final product. In the wake of this, some fans have banded together to petition EA to offer refunds to those who purchased the latest installment in the Battlefield franchise on all platforms. On change.org, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition pledging their support for this initiative to give players a chance to get their money back for the game regardless of the platform from which they purchased the game./post/wow-mythic-dungeon-international-last-stand-tournament-scores-and-results/Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wow-mythic-dungeon-international-last-stand-tournament-scores-and-results/ This weekend, five MDI teams are getting one final opportunity to solidify a spot in the Mythic Dungeon International Shadowlands Season Three Global Finals through 15 hours of time trial-style competition.  With six other World of Warcraft teams already locked into the Global Finals set for July through group stages, W Omegalul, Evolved, Ethical, Depleter Squad, and Yeppers are spending the weekend running six specific keystones repeatedly to see how quickly they can run each./post/how-to-get-the-assassin-s-crimson-dagger-talisman-in-elden-ring/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-assassin-s-crimson-dagger-talisman-in-elden-ring/ There are dozens of powerful weapons and equipment scattered around the Lands Between in Elden Ring that can significantly help you on your journey. Players can find specific Talismans to improve their builds that can make up for a weak point or drawback in their stats. Some are simple to find while others require you to defeat a few enemies along the way.  The Assassin’s Crimson Dagger Talisman is a useful item that restores HP when players deal critical damage to enemies./post/fortnite-is-adding-the-ability-to-mute-licensed-emote-music/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fortnite-is-adding-the-ability-to-mute-licensed-emote-music/ Fortnite and funky dance emotes go hand in hand. It’s hard to think about a game of Fortnite without a dancing emote and the cool music that goes along with it. Some of the music that goes with the game’s emotes is licensed, however, and could lead to problems for content creators who stream or record their gameplay. But not for long. PC Players: In the 12.00 update, we've added the ability to mute Licensed Emote Audio./post/here-are-all-the-challenges-and-rewards-for-the-air-royale-fortnite-event/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-challenges-and-rewards-for-the-air-royale-fortnite-event/ Another Fortnite: Battle Royale event has arrived following the v8.40 update, bringing with it a host of new challenges and rewards around the Air Royale LTM, which ushers in the return of planes. These challenges, nine in total, offer a bunch of experience and Wrap rewards. Completing certain challenges will unlock an abundance of XP, while others will give you a new Wrap. Complete all nine challenges over the course of the next few days, however, and you’ll unlock the Callsign Hornet Wrap./post/hearthstone-s-patch-18-2-brings-nerfs-to-secret-passage-and-darkglare/Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hearthstone-s-patch-18-2-brings-nerfs-to-secret-passage-and-darkglare/ In conjunction with a newly announced event, The Forbidden Library, Hearthstone Patch 18.2 is bringing three nerfs and two buffs to constructed cards, as well as big changes to the Battlegrounds game mode. The initial draw that Patch 18.2 brings to Hearthstone is multiple card adjustments to both overperforming and underperforming cards in the meta. These changes affect the Standard and Wild formats. Related: Hearthstone adds lobbies to Battlegrounds and new story mode in month-long Scholomance Forbidden Library celebration/post/how-to-complete-fof-nation-player-gim%C3%A9nez-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-fof-nation-player-gim%C3%A9nez-sbc-in-fifa-21-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added a 90-rated Festival of FUTball (FOF) Nation Player version of José María Giménez from Atlético de Madrid to FIFA 21 Sunday, on June 13. This item is available through the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. This is Giménez’s second special card in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. He’s the first Uruguayan player in the FOF Nation Player promo and will receive an upgrade depending on how many wins the Uruguayan national team gets during the Copa America./post/wizards-of-the-coast-will-produce-a-day9tv-mtg-arena-deck-series/Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/wizards-of-the-coast-will-produce-a-day9tv-mtg-arena-deck-series/ Wizards of the Coast continues to break ground in digital gaming with its new Twitch series on Day9tv titled What the Deck. Sean “Day9” Plott (MTG Mythic Championship, streamer, and “Spellslinger” host) will battle special streaming and Magic: The Gathering pros with fan-made decks on MTG Arena. The new series focuses on fans submitting janky and odd-win condition pre-constructed decks through MTG Arena to see who’s a Magic: The Gathering craft genius./post/call-of-duty-warzone-s-season-2-patch-notes-are-here-and-they-re-too-long-to-read-on-your-lunch-break/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/call-of-duty-warzone-s-season-2-patch-notes-are-here-and-they-re-too-long-to-read-on-your-lunch-break/ Season two is upon us in Call of Duty: Warzone and the patch notes for its accompanying massive update have come with it. The patch notes are extensive, to say the least. The update was delayed by 12 days to fix bugs and adjust the quality of life, and Raven has definitely delivered on a tremendous amount of those if the patch notes are any indication. 📢 #Warzone Season Two launches at 11 AM PST!/post/the-4-best-offlane-heroes-in-dota-2/Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-4-best-offlane-heroes-in-dota-2/ The offlane used to be the loneliest lane in Dota 2. Offlaning meant going solo vs. two to three heroes, but the narrative changed over the last few years. More often than not, offlaners are now accompanied by support heroes, which adds more versatility to the role. The old meta forced players to pick heroes that were exceptionally self-sufficient but with the help of a support, they can get away with more greedy picks that can contribute more at later stages of the game./post/the-best-ashe-build-in-league-of-legends/Thu, 05 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-ashe-build-in-league-of-legends/ Ashe was one of the first champions to make it onto Summoner’s Rift, being released as early as 2009 with the first version of League of Legends. Since then, the game has seen a lot of changes, and so has the Frost Archer. Ashe’s kit today is quite different from the one she had during the first years of the game. Yet her core aspects, like her global, stunning ultimate, remain unchanged./post/how-to-play-scream-deathmatch-game-mode-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-play-scream-deathmatch-game-mode-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ The Haunting seasonal event has returned to Call of Duty, and fans can enjoy a significant amount of spooky content just in time for Halloween. Two iconic horror icons, Ghostface and Frank The Rabbit, are joining the battle, and fans can enjoy several limited-time game modes. One of these modes, Scream Deathmatch, puts two players behind the mask as they hunt the rest of the lobby.  Scream Deathmatch is simple and is similar to the Infected game mode./post/riot-reveals-twisted-fate-as-newest-legends-of-runeterra-champion-card/Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-reveals-twisted-fate-as-newest-legends-of-runeterra-champion-card/ Legends of Runeterra’s card reveal continues to surprise fans of the card game, showing off a new champion from Bilgewater. Twisted Fate is the next champion that Riot revealed in today’s teasers. He’s a four-cost champion unit with two power and two health with Quick Attack. He also has a play effect, which lets you pick one of three Destiny Cards to act as his skill, in similar fashion to Discover from Hearthstone./post/is-project-q-another-hyper-scape/Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-project-q-another-hyper-scape/ Ubisoft announced its upcoming team-based game, Project Q, shortly after footage of it leaked online. Fans’ first assumption was that the game could be a battle royale since the developer’s take on the genre, Hyper Scape, wasn’t close to being successful. With Hyper Scape’s servers scheduled for a shutdown, Ubisoft could try to fill its void with all the lessons it harnessed throughout the battle royale’s lifetime. Project Q may seem like a replacement for a battle royale game, but it doesn’t mean it also has to be in the same genre./post/how-to-beat-the-lower-citadel-bosses-in-knights-of-the-frozen-throne/Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-beat-the-lower-citadel-bosses-in-knights-of-the-frozen-throne/ Knights of the Frozen Throne not only adds 135 new cards to Hearthstone. It is also the first expansion to include free single-player missions to play through. Players will traverse through the Icecrown Citadel en route to battle the dreaded Lich King. The Citadel is filled with challenges, featuring some of the most feared opponents from Warcraft lore. On release day, the first wing to Icecrown Citadel opened—the Lower Citadel. The Lower Citadel features three boss fights between Lord Marrowgar, Deathbringer Saurfang, and Lady Deathwhisper./post/how-to-complete-the-pumpkaboo-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-halloween-mischief-part-2-ghoulish-pals-event/Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-the-pumpkaboo-collection-challenge-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-halloween-mischief-part-2-ghoulish-pals-event/ The Halloween Mischief event already added a lot of new content to Pokémon Go, and its second part continues that trend with the introduction of Pumpkaboo and Phantump—and Mega Absol if you want to participate in Mega Raids.  Phantump and its evolution Trevanent are making their debut, but the real star of the Halloween Mischief Part Two: Ghoulish Pals festivities is Pumpkaboo and its evolved form Gourgeist. Not only is the Ghost/Grass-type species appearing just in time for spooky season, but Niantic has also added a new size mechanic that will see Pumpkaboo, and Gourgeist, appearing in various sizes in the game./post/apex-legends-mobile-s-limited-regional-launch-is-ending-tomorrow/Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-legends-mobile-s-limited-regional-launch-is-ending-tomorrow/ Apex Legends Mobile’s limited regional launch is set to end on May 6 at 7pm CT ahead of the global launch later this month. EA’s mobile version of its premium battle royale title was released in 10 countries in March, although players from other regions could easily play it by using a VPN. With the ending of the limited regional launch, all purchases and account progression will be reset. If you were making purchases during the limited regional launch, don’t worry: all purchases will be converted into currency with a 25 percent bonus./post/code-released-for-a-free-gold-bottle-cap-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/code-released-for-a-free-gold-bottle-cap-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ Players of Pokémon Sword and Shield can get their hands on a rare item for free as a celebration of the start of the Players Cup IV tournament that spans the Pokémon VGC, TCG, and Pokkén Tournament. For a limited time all trainers continuing their exploration of the Galar region can use the code PLAYERSCH01CEPC to receive a free Gold Bottle Cap. This code is only redeemable until July 18 and marks the continued free giveaways associated with the Players Cup tournaments./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-adds-perrserker-and-obstagoon-alongside-throwback-challenge-2020-champion-event/Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-adds-perrserker-and-obstagoon-alongside-throwback-challenge-2020-champion-event/ Niantic normally adds new Pokémon to Pokémon Go around September. But the developer has changed its plans since two Pokémon from Sword and Shield were added to the popular mobile game today. Perrserker and Obstagoon are now available in Pokémon Go. Niantic continues to add on to the Galar Pokédex section in Pokémon Go before the Kalos and Alola regions, which are featured in earlier mainline games. The data and models for Ponyta and Rapidash’s Galarian forms have also been added to Pokémon Go’s files, but they’re unavailable right now./post/gardens-replaces-thermal-station-in-apex-legends-arenas-map-rotation/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/gardens-replaces-thermal-station-in-apex-legends-arenas-map-rotation/ Arenas matches in Apex Legends have a new home for the time being: Olympus’ Golden Gardens. The POI entered the map rotation for the new mode today. Thermal Station, one of the areas in World’s Edge, is out of the cycle for the time being. The map rotation in Arenas functions differently than in the battle royale mode. Each cycle has three maps available within 15-minute intervals, out of a total of five maps./post/mano-leaves-professional-overwatch-to-complete-military-service/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mano-leaves-professional-overwatch-to-complete-military-service/ Professional Overwatch lost one of its most veteran players today when Philadelphia Fusion main tank Kim “Mano” Dong-gyu announced his intention to leave the team and complete his military service for South Korea.  “Unfortunately, I’m sad to announce that I’ll be taking a break from my professional career,” he said in a post on Twitter. “I still wanted to play next year but it’s up to a point where I cannot postpone my mandatory military service./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-brings-in-the-lunar-new-year-with-hisuian-voltorb-shiny-litleo/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-brings-in-the-lunar-new-year-with-hisuian-voltorb-shiny-litleo/ Pokémon Go is bringing back the Lunar New Year event from Feb. 1 to 7, celebrating the Year of the Tiger with some extra bonuses that will give players increased luck.  During the event, Litleo is going to be available as a Shiny for the first time and players will continue to see Hisuian Voltorb appearing as the mini-event that introduced the new Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Arceus to the game has ended./post/here-s-every-mtg-mythic-rare-mdfc-god-in-kaldheim/Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-every-mtg-mythic-rare-mdfc-god-in-kaldheim/ A variety of Mythic Rare Norse-themed Gods will return to Magic: The Gathering in the upcoming Kaldheim Standard-legal set as Modal Double-Faced cards. A total of 12 Gods are featured within the Kaldheim (KHM) set, with five as Mythic Rare Modal Double-Faced cards (MFDC) and five as Rares. The Mythic Rare Gods are Valki, Halvar, Alrund, Toralf, and Esika. Each of these Gods has a backside that features legendary Artifacts, enchantments, a creature, and even a planeswalker./post/league-of-legends-origins-documentary-now-available-on-netflix/Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-origins-documentary-now-available-on-netflix/ League of Legends fans now have a feature-length documentary to watch on Netflix. League of Legends Origins was one of many upcoming projects revealed by Riot Games as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. The one hour and 17-minute film explores the turbulent beginnings of League and its later success through the eyes of the company that created it. Known for her similarly voyeuristic look into the inner workings of Pixar, Academy Award-nominated director Leslie Iwerks took the reins of this project as its director./post/all-illusory-wall-locations-in-elden-ring/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-illusory-wall-locations-in-elden-ring/ Illusory walls have been an obstacle FromSoftware loves throwing at players since the original Dark Souls, and nothing’s changed in Elden Ring either. These walls are not really solid sheets of rock, they are in fact, as the name implies, illusions created by sorcery. These illusory walls tend to block players’ passage by deceiving them into thinking a wall exists where there should be a free path ahead. These illusions can be easily dispelled by hitting them with a weapon or spell./post/arcane-s-silco-will-join-tft-champions-in-set-6-5/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/arcane-s-silco-will-join-tft-champions-in-set-6-5/ Riot Games revealed today that Silco from the Netflix hit series Arcane will become the first non-League of Legends champion to join the Teamfight Tactics roster for Set 6.5.  Scheduled to take place in February, the ruthless leader from Zaun will become the first TFT champion that wasn’t originally from League. The design team for Silco started from scratch, ensuring he was “the object of love and hatred that we all know,” according to Riot’s Korean website via machine translation./post/scump-discusses-his-cdl-future-once-more-saying-practice-every-day-feels-like-a-chore-if-it-s-a-bad-game/Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/scump-discusses-his-cdl-future-once-more-saying-practice-every-day-feels-like-a-chore-if-it-s-a-bad-game/ One of competitive Call of Duty’s all-time greats and biggest stars is uncertain about his future and thinks that the quality of the next game could decide if he continues to play in the Call of Duty League. The future of Scump’s competitive career has been in question for the better part of a year now and he addressed it again as part of a podcast with Hecz, Envoy, and Maniac./post/the-most-memorable-gamesdonequick-speedruns/Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-most-memorable-gamesdonequick-speedruns/ The fastest gamers in the world only gather twice a year. Games Done Quick (GDQ) is a speedrunning event that only runs twice a year, hitting peaks of around 100,000 concurrent viewers—who in turn donate millions of dollars to charity. The runners come from all corners of the globe, and it’s easily the world’s biggest speedrunning event. Few outside of this community know much about speedrunners and speedrunning in general but GDQs have attempted to bridge this gap and appeal to a wider audience by being informative and entertaining./post/all-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one-battle-pass-content-battle-pass-overview/Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-fortnite-chapter-3-season-one-battle-pass-content-battle-pass-overview/ Fortnite’s second chapter recently came to an end, and some fans were expecting the new one to start on Monday. Epic Games, on the other hand, seized the opportunity and released the new season today, making Fortnite fans’ day off filled with action. While some players will jump back into matchmaking to experience the new map and guns, others may be more interested in all the new cosmetics and content that comes bundled with each season and chapter./post/how-to-earn-beans-and-xp-in-among-us/Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-earn-beans-and-xp-in-among-us/ Cosmicubes, a major update introduced in Among Us today, will change how the survival online game is played and has added a plethora of new customizable options. The new patch has added adjustable roles, a new in-game store, and Cosmicubes. The Cosmicubes are themed items that players can unlock through a progression path. These items, in Innersloth words, “tend to be more special or detailed” and are bought using Beans or Stars./post/how-to-get-taken-butter-in-destiny-2-s-the-dawning-event/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-taken-butter-in-destiny-2-s-the-dawning-event/ The Dawning in Destiny 2 is a chance for players to escape from the usual looting and shooting—or use that looting and shooting to bake cookies for their favorite NPCs. Taking down foes grants ingredients depending on what enemies you faced and how you defeated them. Players can use those ingredients, sprinkle in some Dawning Essence, and take them to Eva’s oven to bake goodies. Delivering them to specific NPCs will award players with gifts, which can be focused into specific rewards or opened to get more seasonal items./post/rise-nation-parts-ways-with-c4lypso/Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rise-nation-parts-ways-with-c4lypso/ Abdo “c4Lypso” Agha is no longer a part of Rise Nation’s VALORANT lineup, he announced today. The news comes just hours ahead of Rise’s debut in the NA VCT Stage Three: Challengers One open qualifier, where they’re slated to face Xplicit at 4pm CT. C4lypso had been a part of the team since March and most notably helped the North American squad win the Nerd Street Games Summer Championship Open four and the Pittsburgh Knights Monthly Gauntlet in May./post/xqc-admits-he-s-addicted-to-gambling-and-lost-a-lot-in-one-month/Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-admits-he-s-addicted-to-gambling-and-lost-a-lot-in-one-month/ XQc, one of the most popular streamers in the world, discussed his gambling addiction yesterday on a podcast with Pokimane. This came just days after telling his viewers that he has a problem with gambling. Not only does xQc gamble in online casinos, but he also gambles in about every game he plays. Pokimane asked if the Canadian would be gambling if he wasn’t streaming, and he responded by telling her how much money he had lost in April./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-is-getting-generation-7-pok%C3%A9mon/Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-is-getting-generation-7-pok%C3%A9mon/ Pokémon Go is getting some new Pokémon from the Alolan region, as shown in today’s Pokémon Presents video. The creatures are coming to the game on March 1. Until the day the new Pokémon come in, Alolan Exeggutor will be popping up on players’ screens. Although it was officially announced during the Pokémon Presents, the news had been data-mined and leaked before the video released. Pokémon Go has been fairly slow in adding new Pokémon to the game./post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-11-24/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-notes-and-updates-for-league-of-legends-patch-11-24/ The year is winding down—and so is the 2022 League of Legends preseason. But before we count down the days and get ready to celebrate the new year, Riot Games has a few more updates to share. The devs are shipping a series of champion, item, rune, and dragon changes to keep the preseason up and running this week. Ultimate Spellbook and ARAM are also receiving some much-needed updates. Here’s the full rundown on League’s Patch 11./post/here-is-the-full-2022-lck-summer-split-schedule/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-is-the-full-2022-lck-summer-split-schedule/ One of the best regions in League of Legends is back and ready to heat up for the new season. The 2022 LCK Summer Split is set to begin on June 15, and the rest of the league has been ready to jump back into the battle for the throne in Korea. Last season, the greatest of all-time, Faker, led T1 to their latest championship after a record-setting winning streak through the first half of the year./post/new-pubg-twitch-prime-loot-now-available/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-pubg-twitch-prime-loot-now-available/ A new PUBG cosmetic crate is available for free for Twitch Prime users, offering a new outfit set for both male and female characters. The Gunslinger crate can be claimed right now, featuring a cowboy hat, jacket, vest, pants, and shoes. Each individual piece of the outfit can be equipped in the game. This is just the most recent cosmetic set offered to PUBG players through Twitch Prime, which has had a partnership with the game for a few years./post/the-best-rock-type-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-rock-type-pok%C3%A9mon-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ To climb the ranks of Pokémon Go’s competitive mode, the GO Battle League, players will need to design their teams wisely. Each Pokémon has at least one type, and each type has its own strengths and weaknesses. To choose the best Pokémon for battle, players should consider their opponent’s teams and the type matchups they’ll be facing. For this list, we’re going to focus on Rock Pokémon, which are strong against Fire, Ice, Flying, and Bug-type Pokémon./post/new-world-to-re-enable-wealth-transfers-later-today-after-3-hour-maintenance/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-world-to-re-enable-wealth-transfers-later-today-after-3-hour-maintenance/ New World will re-enable all forms of wealth transfer later today, according to an official post. The game will undergo a three-hour maintenance period starting at 4pm CT to reinstate the feature. Players can’t log into Aeternum while the downtime lasts. After maintenance ends, all forms of wealth transfer will be enabled, but housing decoration items will be “temporarily” listed as untradeable. Amazon Game Studios will also compensate companies “whose settlements were downgraded due to wealth transfers being disabled” in the game’s monthly update later in November, according to the post./post/the-5-best-fighters-in-league-of-legends-wild-rift/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-best-fighters-in-league-of-legends-wild-rift/ League of Legends: Wild Rift has finally been released to more regions. With the influx of new players, it’s important for you to know which fighters to pick in the top lane if you want to win your games. While there are some differences between champions who were adapted for mobile play, the core gameplay is the same. You will be able to easily adapt to your desired champions if you’ve played them in League./post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-in-saland-hills-in-lost-ark/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-mokoko-seed-locations-in-saland-hills-in-lost-ark/ South Korean MMO Lost Ark has finally come to the West, offering tons of areas to explore, a story to discover, and a host of items to collect. The free-to-play game was initially released in Asia in 2018, and it has been adapted for the Western audience recently. As it’s often the case for South Korean MMO games, Lost Ark features hundreds of items to farm, and collectibles are one of them./post/rocket-league-s-tournaments-to-feature-new-competitive-mode-and-rewards-ahead-of-free-to-play-release/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rocket-league-s-tournaments-to-feature-new-competitive-mode-and-rewards-ahead-of-free-to-play-release/ Ahead of Rocket League‘s free-to-play summer release, Psyonix has announced plans to shake up its tournaments, detailing added competitive modes, rewards, and unlimited free entry. All Tournaments within Rocket League will now be free to join for all players. Solo players will be able to queue up as well. To prevent abuse, quitting a bracket early will suspend the leaver for 15 minutes from matchmaking and three hours from Tournaments. Should the player continue their behavior, harsher punishments will be doled out, up to a one-day matchmaking ban, and one week ban from Tournaments./post/g2-damwon-set-to-bring-storied-histories-to-worlds-2020-semifinals/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/g2-damwon-set-to-bring-storied-histories-to-worlds-2020-semifinals/ The semifinals of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship are set to begin this weekend with a do-or-die matchup between G2 Esports and DAMWON Gaming. The two teams met at last year’s World Championship, where G2 throttled DWG in convincing 3-1 fashion during the quarterfinals. Now, almost precisely 365 days later, the two teams will meet again with nearly identical rosters to the ones they fielded for last year’s contest./post/bud-light-seltzer-to-host-multi-game-streamer-showdown/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/bud-light-seltzer-to-host-multi-game-streamer-showdown/ Bud Light’s Seltzer brand is hosting a three-day tournament to kick off September on Twitch, pitting top content creators against one another in an array of games called the “Battle of the Best.” With a star-studded lineup of streamers like TimTheTatman, Shroud, and DrLupo, the 16 players will face off in Warzone, Halo 3, Golf with Friends, and Fall Guys. The tournament will start on Tuesday, Sept. 1 and a winner will be crowned on Friday, Sept./post/all-fortnite-error-codes-and-how-to-fix-them/Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-fortnite-error-codes-and-how-to-fix-them/ A ton of bugs have come and gone in Fortnite since the release of the popular battle royale in 2017. Some of them have been fixed by the developer, but others often reappear after updates. That means knowing the proper corrections is still useful. Before trying any of the solutions below, you should restart the game, launcher, and PC or console. This is a basic practice that even the best players can sometimes forget./post/here-are-the-highest-earning-valorant-players/Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-the-highest-earning-valorant-players/ VALORANT has just hit its one-year anniversary and there’s already been a lot of money moving around the competitive scene. Prize pools are getting big, buyouts are getting even bigger, and there’s nowhere to go but up from here. In just the first year, several players have made some good money by winning at the highest level, especially after the big prize pool of VCT Masters Two Reykjavík was just handed out./post/how-to-turn-on-bluetooth-on-a-laptop/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-turn-on-bluetooth-on-a-laptop/ Most laptops and many modern desktops have built-in Bluetooth. Having Bluetooth capability comes in handy to connect devices like headsets or mice and keyboards without requiring cables. Some printers and scanners also use Bluetooth to connect wirelessly.  While Bluetooth is a standard feature, it’s switched off by default, so users must switch it on to pair it with other devices. However, turning Bluetooth on a laptop is a straightforward process that can be done in a matter of moments./post/skeram-a-brief-history-of-the-98-percent-horde-dominated-server-in-wow-classic/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/skeram-a-brief-history-of-the-98-percent-horde-dominated-server-in-wow-classic/ If you ever wondered how would a combination of the Fallout games look inside the World of Warcraft, look no further than US’s Skeram Classic server, which is heavily dominated by the Horde. You will be fighting for your life from the moment you step onto their world as you will be outnumbered 49 to 1. It’s more than just a curious sideshow though. What happened to Skeram is avoidable, and its mismanagement needs to provide a lesson for Blizzard going forward if they want to balance out the servers./post/virtus-pro-s-cs-go-players-to-use-outsiders-tag-in-esl-pro-league-season-15/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/virtus-pro-s-cs-go-players-to-use-outsiders-tag-in-esl-pro-league-season-15/ Dzhami “Jame” Ali, Alexey “qikert” Golubev, Mareks “YEKINDAR” Gaļinskis, Timur “buster” Tulepov, and Evgeny “FL1T” Lebedev will play at ESL Pro League season 15 under the ‘Outsiders’ tag, according to a report from Dexerto. Under normal circumstances, the players would represent Virtus Pro. ESL, however, has prohibited VP and Gambit, two organizations with “apparent ties” to the Russian government, from being represented at the tournament as a result of sanctions imposed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb./post/what-level-does-cherrim-learn-petal-dance-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-level-does-cherrim-learn-petal-dance-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Cherrim, the Blossom Pokémon, is one of the many creatures that calls the Hisui region home in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. This Grass-type Pokémon has many powerful moves at its disposal, but oftentimes eludes players due to its exclusivity to shaking trees in certain areas of Hisui. The strongest Grass-type move Cherrim can learn in this game is Petal Dance, though this move requires grinding to successfully attain. By getting a Cherrim all the way to level 47, it will gain access to Petal Dance in its movepool which can be equipped by accessing its summary screen in the menu./post/bikinibodhi-s-social-media-campaign-brings-acog-to-bosg-in-r6-test-server-update/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/bikinibodhi-s-social-media-campaign-brings-acog-to-bosg-in-r6-test-server-update/ After months of clever campaigning, it looks like content creator BikiniBodhi has succeeded in getting the BOSG.12.2 shotgun an ACOG weapon sight.  Longtime fans of Rainbow Six Siege will recognize the ACOG as the most contentious weapon attachment in the game. The ACOG has seen many changes in its lifetime. Perhaps the most important change the ACOG has seen is its removal from Bandit and Jӓger’s kits—that is, until today. /post/how-to-change-the-weather-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor-expansion/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-change-the-weather-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-isle-of-armor-expansion/ In Pokémon Sword and Shield, and more specifically the Wild Area, the weather is an important factor that directly plays a part in which Pokémon can show up in specific areas.  There are certain Pokémon that will only show up during one specific type of weather condition and nowhere else outside of that. In that case, you’d normally be stuck waiting or have to go into your Nintendo Switch settings and change the date to alter the weather./post/alex-leaves-vitality-will-reveal-his-new-team-tomorrow/Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/alex-leaves-vitality-will-reveal-his-new-team-tomorrow/ British CS:GO player Alex McMeekin is no longer a part of Vitality’s roster, the 24-year-old announced today. ALEX joined Vitality at the end of 2018 to replace Vincent “Happy” Schopenhauer. His addition helped the French squad become a consistent tier-one team throughout 2019. They won four championships, including the ECS season seven finals in June 2019. The British player initially shared in-game leadership duties with NBK-, but ALEX became Vitality’s sole captain after NBK- was removed from the team in September 2019./post/apex-pros-call-for-more-ranked-changes-as-kills-continue-to-outweigh-placement-points/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/apex-pros-call-for-more-ranked-changes-as-kills-continue-to-outweigh-placement-points/ Pro Apex Legends players are an opinionated bunch and they frequently butt heads with each other on issues within the battle royale. Most seem to agree on one thing at the moment, however: the Respawn title’s ranked system needs changes, especially at the top of the ladder. As part of the wider discussion sparked by Phillip “ImperialHal” Dosen’s tweets about how boring ranked had become, Apex pros and high-level content creators have discussed what exactly is wrong with ranked and how to fix it./post/league-of-legends-fan-recreates-cho-gath-and-other-champions-with-lego-blocks/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-of-legends-fan-recreates-cho-gath-and-other-champions-with-lego-blocks/ A League of Legends fan built several champions from the game using only LEGO pieces. Reddit user God Turtle shared his Digital LEGO Designer creation that sees the Cho’Gath, the Terror of the Void, as a LEGO creature.  See League of Legends on Amazon Razor-sharp teeth, menacing pincers, and terrifying claws are just a few of the lethal weapons that Cho’Gath brings to the Rift, and each detail of the 3D model of the champion was meticulously replicated in this LEGO model, including the Void-like color palette with purple and pink./post/how-to-enable-drops-for-valorant/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-enable-drops-for-valorant/ VALORANT drops were reserved for only the most accomplished streamers on Twitch when the closed beta for Riot’s five-vs-five tactical shooter launched on April 7. But just a week later, the devs have had a change of heart, and are now giving everyone— big, or small—their moment in the spotlight.  Beginning April 14, all VALORANT Twitch streamers can drop closed beta access.  For the time being, this is applicable for streamers from the U./post/saints-joins-new-york-subliners-academy-team/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/saints-joins-new-york-subliners-academy-team/ The New York Subliners has added Call of Duty veteran Saints to its academy team for the 2021 Challengers season. Saints joins Prolute and Spart on the lineup that still needs to officially fill one more spot for the upcoming season.  Saints has 10 years of competitive experience in CoD. He’s spent time with notable teams like Luminosity, Echo Fox, Team Envy, and Denial Esports. Saints spent the inaugural season of the Call of Duty League with the Los Angeles Guerrillas but was dropped at the end of the season./post/valorant-player-misses-kill-with-jett-s-ultimate-but-finishes-2-enemies-with-a-normal-knife/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-player-misses-kill-with-jett-s-ultimate-but-finishes-2-enemies-with-a-normal-knife/ A casual VALORANT player seemingly had the opportunity to kill at least four defenders with Jett’s ultimate ability, Blade Storm, which equips a set of accurate knives that recharge upon killing an opponent. But he messed up with the two last frags and had to improvise. His team was leading 5-4 on Split and every player was alive in the 10th round when he activated Jett’s ultimate and killed a Raze who got out of a smoke in the A site./post/artist-seung-eun-shares-early-storyboards-for-arcane/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/artist-seung-eun-shares-early-storyboards-for-arcane/ Pre-visual storyboard artist, Seung Eun Kim, shared multiple storyboards made for Arcane, the League Of Legends-inspired Netflix animated series. Seung Eun shared 10 total storyboards, which he said came “in the very early stages of Arcane.” Though many of the storyboards display scenes Arcane viewers would likely be familiar with, there are several scenes and character concepts displayed that did not make the final cut. In this first hyper-realistic concept art featuring Vander’s confrontation with Silco, we can see several changes had been made to the story’s lead antagonist./post/idyllic-tutor-and-banishing-light-return-to-standard-via-reprints-in-theros-beyond-death/Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/idyllic-tutor-and-banishing-light-return-to-standard-via-reprints-in-theros-beyond-death/ Welcome and timely reprints of Idyllic Tutor and Banishing Light are the latest Theros: Beyond Death spoilers revealed today. Previously printed in Magic: The Gathering within the Morningtide set, Idyllic Tutor was a $30 card that’s getting a reprint in Theros: Beyond Death (THB). It’s an ideal sorcery spell in a variety of formats that allows a player to search their library for an Enchantment card.  A bunch of enchantments are part of the THB set and finding the one needed just became easier with Idyllic Tutor./post/is-overwatch-s-new-hero-orisa-an-omnic-or-a-robot/Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-overwatch-s-new-hero-orisa-an-omnic-or-a-robot/ Some folks say Overwatch’s new hero Orisa is an omnic. Others consider her a robot. Blizzard’s called her both. So who’s right? Both omnic and robot are correct terms for Orisa, actually. Overwatch lead writer Michael Chu chimed in on the Blizzard forum to set the record straight. “In Overwatch, omnic and robot are just about as interchangeable as colloquial terms,” Chu wrote. “It’s the equivalent of Kleenex versus tissue paper./post/how-do-you-check-the-apex-predator-leaderboard-in-apex-legends/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-do-you-check-the-apex-predator-leaderboard-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends‘ season 13 has just begun, which means it’s time to dive into Storm Point’s new POI, give Newcastle a spin, and most importantly, grind back to the top of the ranked leaderboard. All players’ ranks have been reset as part of the new season, which means everyone’s starting in either rookie or bronze and attempting to climb their way up to Predator. Whether you’re looking for your next rival or just want to know who the highest-ranked Apex players in the world are, you’ll want to take a look at the Apex Predator leaderboards, which provide a live look at the top 750 players on each server region at any given time./post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-the-duelist-burndown/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/this-week-s-hearthstone-tavern-brawl-is-the-duelist-burndown/ Hearthstone’s Fire Festival is now in full swing. This week, you can play another Fire Festival-themed Tavern Brawl: The Duelist Burndown. This Brawl is perfect if you enjoy pressing play and heading straight into the action. If you played the original Burndown Brawl in the past, you’ll be familiar with the rules of this version. The Duelist Burndown Brawl takes ideas from the original and adds a Duels mode twist. Just like the original Burndown Brawl, you’ll get a random class and deck./post/halo-infinite-s-next-free-event-tactical-ops-is-now-live/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/halo-infinite-s-next-free-event-tactical-ops-is-now-live/ Halo Infinite players looking for new ways to spice up their Mark VII Spartan’s wardrobe need to look no further than the game’s newest free event titled Tactical Ops. Tactical Ops is the fourth event of its kind in season one and offers 10 unique cosmetics in a limited-time event pass for completing challenges in a new Tactical Slayer playlist. Similar to Cyber Showdown, Tactical Ops will run for two weeks, giving Infinite players ample time to take on its challenges and reap the rewards before it all goes away./post/rng-parts-ways-with-betty-705-and-new/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rng-parts-ways-with-betty-705-and-new/ Royal Never Give Up is moving on from top laners He “705” Yu-Long and Tian “New” Zhi-Peng, as well as bottom laner Lu “Betty” Yu-Hung, the organization announced today. Changes were expected after RNG’s lackluster performance in the 2020 League of Legends season. The organization finished seventh during the Spring Split and ninth in the Summer Split. Betty’s performance dropped during the Summer Split and, as a result, RNG acquired the promising rookie ADC from Dominus Esports, Chen “GALA” Wei./post/cloud9-fall-to-dwg-kia-will-play-decisive-tiebreaker-vs-rogue-or-fpx-at-worlds-2021/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-fall-to-dwg-kia-will-play-decisive-tiebreaker-vs-rogue-or-fpx-at-worlds-2021/ The first two games of the final day of Group A play at the 2021 League of Legends World Championship were promising for a previously winless Cloud9, who found improbable wins against Rogue and FunPlus Phoenix earlier today. Heading into the final scheduled game of Group A, C9 were in full control of their destiny since a win against DWG KIA would have slotted them directly into the quarterfinals.  But the LCS team fell short of the mark, losing a heartbreaker of a game to the defending world champions in a 38-minute instant classic./post/how-to-clean-xbox-series-x/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-clean-xbox-series-x/ With the latest Xbox consoles sold out worldwide, gamers will soon get their hands on their new devices. Often consoles can be placed on the ground or in a variety of locations that may cause them to collect dust or dirt from their surrounding locations. A build-up of dust can cause the system to slow down and weaken its performance as well as being dangerous due to its ability to cause overheating./post/how-to-get-the-other-half-in-destiny-2/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-the-other-half-in-destiny-2/ Destiny 2‘s The Other Half is one of the most elusive drops in the 30th Anniversary Pack. This mysterious sword comes with far better perks than Half-Truths, though it also seems to be far harder to obtain. Unlike its counterpart, Half-Truths, The Other Half deals Void damage (as opposed to Arc) and can roll Vorpal Weapon, Frenzy, Whirlwind Blade, or Surrounded as a second perk, with Eager Edge or Duelist’s Trance as a first-column choice./post/ludwig-on-addison-rae-s-skincare-line-screen-break-it-s-pathetic/Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ludwig-on-addison-rae-s-skincare-line-screen-break-it-s-pathetic/ On Feb. 1, TikTok star and worldwide influencer Addison Rae announced the release of her skincare line Screen Break. The product claims to protect users from allegedly harmful blue light emitted from screens. 100 Thieves co-owner Valkyrae released an eerily similar skincare line, RFLCT, only months earlier. The YouTube streamer faced immense backlash after the parent company refused to disclose any of its studies in the face of conflicting information. After a heavily-scrutinized launch, RFLCT was pulled only weeks after its announcement./post/sold-out-official-halo-boots-let-you-walk-like-master-chief/Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sold-out-official-halo-boots-let-you-walk-like-master-chief/ Halo developer and game studio 343 Industries partnered with Wolverine Hellcat Boots to bring fans a unique brand of Master Chief-inspired apparel. The official Halo boots were available for sale earlier this week in limited numbers, but have since sold out. While they were available, however, they had a price tag of $225. The boots bear the signature olive-ish green synonymous with the game’s protagonist. Master Chief’s Spartan number, 117, is also emblemed on the shoe as a heel patch./post/ea-unveils-totw-3-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ea-unveils-totw-3-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ EA Sports added the third Team of the Week (TOTW) to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today. 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. Team of the Week 3️⃣ is live ❗️. Some of the best performances from around the world of football are recognized in #TOTW 3./post/drx-acquires-edreamwork-korea-parent-company-of-vision-strikers/Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/drx-acquires-edreamwork-korea-parent-company-of-vision-strikers/ The owners of Vision Strikers, eDreamWork Korea, has been acquired by Korean-based organization DRX. DRX is possibly most known for its successful League of Legends team that has competed in Korea since 2012, originally under Incredible Miracle.  Vision Strikers cemented themselves as the best VALORANT team in Korea earlier this year following their top 12 finish at VALORANT Champions, the most anticipated and largest event of the circuit. Vision Strikers were one of the favorites to win the event but fell to eventual top-eight finishers Cloud9 and Fnatic in the group stage./post/how-to-catch-lileep-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-lileep-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield-s-the-crown-tundra-expansion/ For players trying to complete The Crown Tundra Pokédex in Pokémon Sword and Shield’s newest expansion, there are several encounters you’re going to need to work for.  One of the oddest Pokémon that will be hard to find is Lileep, one of the Fossil Pokémon from generation three that was just added back into the game. But you won’t be finding a fossil to revive or the creature wandering around in a cave./post/cu%C3%A1ndo-termina-la-temporada-4-de-fortnite-cap%C3%ADtulo-2/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cu%C3%A1ndo-termina-la-temporada-4-de-fortnite-cap%C3%ADtulo-2/ La nueva temporada de Fortnite tiene que ver con héroes y villanos. Epic Games y Marvel sumaron fuerzas para llevar el universo de Marvel a la isla de Fortnite en la temporada cuatro del Capítulo Dos: Nexus War. Algunos de los héroes y villanos más emblemáticos de los cómics (Iron Man, Thor, She-Hulk, Groot, Wolverine, Mystique, Storm y Doctor Doom) llegaron a la isla del juego de battle royale para enfrentarse a Galactus, el Devorador de Mundos./post/deaf-apex-legends-player-showcases-potential-accessibility-options/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/deaf-apex-legends-player-showcases-potential-accessibility-options/ One Apex Legends player has suggested how Respawn could make the game more inclusive for deaf and hard-of-hearing players. Apex player Tobiwuerfel11, who is deaf as well as a Predator-level player, designed a series of user interface icons that could be enabled for hard-of-hearing players. The icons would use a variety of symbols and colors to show the type of sound occurring, the direction it’s coming from, and how far away it is./post/elden-ring-players-selling-runes-on-ebay-are-facing-possible-bans/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/elden-ring-players-selling-runes-on-ebay-are-facing-possible-bans/ Elden Ring players have been spotted selling the title’s in-game currency, called runes, on eBay and could face potential bans for violating FromSoftware’s terms of service. On the virtual marketplace of eBay, players have been seen listing runes for a wide variety of prices. The offers range from 1 million runes for $5 to $20 for 20 million runes, with each seller similarly varying in levels of credibility. A report by Eurogamer claims that while many of these offerings are simple cut-and-runs, a few held up their end of the bargain and successfully transferred the runes to buyers./post/former-ti-champion-chuan-returns-to-playing-competitive-dota-2/Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/former-ti-champion-chuan-returns-to-playing-competitive-dota-2/ With the International approaching, many teams around the globe are getting ready to give it their all to secure their ticket to the most prestigious event on Dota 2 Pro Circuit’s calendar, including Neon Esports, who completed its roster with a former winner ChuaN. ChuaN has been absent from the competitive Dota 2 scene as a player since 2018 and joined Neon Esports as a coach in late 2021. Under ChuaN’s guidance, the team finished fifth in the SEA DPC division one, only a single tiebreaker away from qualifying for the Stockholm Major./post/how-to-get-bonsly-budew-mantyke-munchlax-mime-jr-and-wynaut-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-bonsly-budew-mantyke-munchlax-mime-jr-and-wynaut-in-pok%C3%A9mon-sword-and-shield/ There is a specific group of Pokémon in Pokémon Sword and Shield that are extremely rare and cannot be attained reliably unless you breed other Pokémon that are holding Incense. These Pokémon are Bonsly, Budew, Mantyke, Munchlax, Mime Jr., and Wynaut. All of these are baby forms for much more powerful things you can capture individually at various points in the game.  Each of these mons can still be found in the wild and Max Raid Battles, but only a few of them, like Mantyke and Budew, are actually commonly seen in the Wild Area./post/respawn-pushes-fix-for-code-truck-issues-in-apex-legends/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/respawn-pushes-fix-for-code-truck-issues-in-apex-legends/ Respawn pushed a fix to the Code:Truck connectivity error that plagued Apex Legends players over the past hours. The bug forced players to disconnect from their matches and started occuring after the Holo-Day Bash kicked off earlier today. The EA Help official account confirmed that the issues were fixed, and user reports seem about the issue seem to have dwindled since the announcement. Good news, the issue causing Code:Truck connectivity errors in #ApexLegends has been resolved./post/teddy-leaves-t1/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/teddy-leaves-t1/ T1 and Park “Teddy” Jin-seong have mutually agreed to part ways, ending the player’s three-year tenure with the League of Legends team. The 23-year-old, according to recent reports, already has interest from teams overseas in the LCS and closer to home in the LCK. At least two LCS teams are reportedly keen on signing the player ahead of the 2022 competitive season. Teddy was left to sit on the bench in the closing stages of 2021 after T1 promoted young and upcoming ADC Lee “Gumayusi” Min-hyeong to the team’s starting lineup./post/meet-scarlett-the-20-year-old-woman-who-s-blazing-trails-in-starcraft/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/meet-scarlett-the-20-year-old-woman-who-s-blazing-trails-in-starcraft/ This was the biggest year ever for eSports. Competitive gaming has more players, a bigger audience, and a brighter future than ever before. Over the next 10 days, the Daily Dot will profile people who’ve fueled this unprecedented growth, from top players to industry visionaries. In our first in the series, we look at Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn, the 20-year-old StarCraft 2 phenom from Canada. … StarCraft is a South Korean game. Sure, the Blizzard real-time strategy hit was made by Americans./post/psg-talon-introduces-roster-heading-into-2022-pcs-season/Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/psg-talon-introduces-roster-heading-into-2022-pcs-season/ As the premier powerhouse organization of the Pacific region since its debut in League of Legends esports in 2020, Talon, backed by French football club Paris Saint-Germain, will go into the 2022 season with a new-look roster featuring some surprising new faces. The team has added the talents of top laner Huang “Azhi” Shang-Chih, jungler Lee “Juhan” Ju-han, as well as mid laners Park “Bay” Jun-byeong and Jason “Kanna” Ng. This means PSG will field yet another unique mid-jungle pair in its two short years as an organization./post/the-best-settings-for-rocket-league-s-boomer-mode/Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-settings-for-rocket-league-s-boomer-mode/ Rocket League’s base game mode can be engaging and fun, but players may feel the need to spice the gameplay up from time to time. If you’re just getting started with Rocket League, the game’s pace might be too fast. It’ll start feeling normal and maybe even slower as you get used to Rocket League, though. If you’re looking for more action and speed, the Boomer Mode can be the perfect game mode to try out./post/here-is-the-schedule-for-the-pubg-mobile-club-open-pmco-spring-split-2022/Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-is-the-schedule-for-the-pubg-mobile-club-open-pmco-spring-split-2022/ The PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) Spring Split 2022 is drawing near, bringing a prize pool of $600,000. This amateur-level open-for-all tournament gives players a chance to make it to the PUBG Mobile National Championships (PMNC), where they will have the opportunity to advance to the Pro Leagues (PMPL) of 2023.  Registrations for the tournament are live for all regions on the official website until April 13. Participating teams must play the in-game qualifiers to advance to the group stage./post/how-long-does-it-take-to-beat-elden-ring/Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-long-does-it-take-to-beat-elden-ring/ Whenever an anticipated game finally releases, the most passionate fans may decide to take a few days off from work or school to enjoy the game and become a part of the launch hype. Considering Elden Ring is going to be released on a Friday, however, players will need to know how long it takes to beat Elden Ring in order to decide whether they’ll need to call in sick on Monday as well./post/the-best-league-of-legends-cosplays-ever-made/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-league-of-legends-cosplays-ever-made/ At eight years old, League of Legends is no longer a young game. And over the years, it’s built up a huge selection of champions: more than 130 characters, all with their own distinctive personality and lore. Combining that with a rabid fanbase and you get some truly epic cosplay opportunities. You’ll see them at any major League event, but at also at gaming conventions around the world. Riot even pays cosplayers to attend certain events to help generate hype around the game./post/afghanistan-bans-pubg-calls-for-regulation-of-video-games/Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/afghanistan-bans-pubg-calls-for-regulation-of-video-games/ The Afghanistan Telecom Regulatory Authority (ATRA) announced today it has decided to ban “PUBG online game” temporarily after a “comprehensive assessment.” The ATRA said that it held meetings with different ministries such as religious affairs, education, public health, and communications and science. It added that it also talked with psychologists, parents, headmasters, telecom companies, civil activists, and PUBG gamers before submitting a report to the authority board. “The decision was taken to block this game on a temporary basis considering social and security perspectives,” said the acting chairman of the ATRA, Omar Mansoor Ansari./post/otk-s-latest-expansion-into-esports-will-be-a-100-000-smite-invitational/Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/otk-s-latest-expansion-into-esports-will-be-a-100-000-smite-invitational/ Streamer-led esports organization OTK revealed its plan to host a $100,000 tournament for the mythology-based MOBA Smite. Popular Twitch streamer and OTK co-owner Mizkif has had a long-running relationship with the Smite franchise. Often using the game for content, Mizkif has collaborated with various creators under the seldom-watched Twitch category. The streamer recently began “Smite month” as he has played the game nearly every day since the beginning of June. During the 2022 OTK Games Expo, Mizkif announced a partnership with Smite publishers./post/prism-operator-skin-gives-valorant-players-unfair-advantage-riot-says-fix-is-coming/Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/prism-operator-skin-gives-valorant-players-unfair-advantage-riot-says-fix-is-coming/ VALORANT’s Prism Collection is sleek and classy. But a bug might also make it overpowered. A VALORANT player discovered that scoping with the Prism Operator skin gives you a wider field of vision than other Operator skins, posting a comparison yesterday. Riot explained that the unintended bug will be fixed soon, avoiding a pay-to-win mechanic. “This is a bug which will be fixed in an upcoming patch, sorry about that,” Riot developer Fancypmcgee commented on the post./post/the-last-super-smash-bros-ultimate-dlc-fighter-will-be-revealed-during-the-final-mr-sakurai-presents-on-oct-5/Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-last-super-smash-bros-ultimate-dlc-fighter-will-be-revealed-during-the-final-mr-sakurai-presents-on-oct-5/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has received consistent content updates and DLC since it first launched for Nintendo Switch on Dec. 7, 2018. However, with the upcoming reveal of the sixth and final fighter of Fighters Pass Vol. 2, that DLC stream is coming to an end.  During the most recent Nintendo Direct, Nintendo confirmed that a new “Mr. Sakurai Presents” broadcast will be streamed on Oct. 5, where the new fighter will be revealed./post/how-to-download-deltarune-chapter-2/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-download-deltarune-chapter-2/ Deltarune Chapter 2 launched today, and getting into the game takes just a quick trip to the game’s website.  Deltarune.com has had a timer counting down to the release of the game this evening. After the time finally hit zero, imagery for the new chapter of the game took over the page, and instructions for downloading the game on Steam and Itch.io were displayed. To download Chapter 2, just click the button on the Deltarune./post/valorant-players-lament-smurfing-issue-urge-new-account-restrictions/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-players-lament-smurfing-issue-urge-new-account-restrictions/ Smurfing becomes a pressing issue every time new content is added to VALORANT. And now, fans are demanding action from Riot Games. Since the launch of Chamber on Nov. 16, the VALORANT subreddit has seen an influx of posts and suggestions on how to remedy the game’s smurfing problem. One of the more popular suggestions is to increase the level requirement for ranked play or to institute a waiting period before new accounts can access the new agents./post/where-to-collect-artifacts-for-tarana-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-6/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-collect-artifacts-for-tarana-in-fortnite-chapter-2-season-6/ The third week of Fortnite’s latest season is live and many new quests were added to the game. These challenges are essential for players who are looking to max out their battle pass as soon as possible. They’ll also play an important role when it comes to determining the narrative of the season. With Patch 16.10, the second Spire challenge became available. Players will need to collect Artifacts for Tarana this time around./post/funplus-phoenix-worlds-skins-hit-the-rift-in-league-s-patch-10-9/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/funplus-phoenix-worlds-skins-hit-the-rift-in-league-s-patch-10-9/ Nearly six months after FunPlus Phoenix swept G2 Esports to win the 2019 League of Legends World Championship, fans of the Chinese roster will finally be able to celebrate their favorite team’s victory on Summoner’s Rift with a new set of Worlds skins. FunPlus Phoenix Gangplank, Lee Sin, Malphite, Vayne, and Thresh are set to arrive on League‘s live servers during the 10.9 patch cycle on April 30.   In the months following their victory at Worlds 2019, FPX’s players worked with Riot Games to create this year’s batch of esports-themed skins./post/guangzhou-charge-signs-former-shanghai-dragons-youngjin-as-assistant-coach/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/guangzhou-charge-signs-former-shanghai-dragons-youngjin-as-assistant-coach/ The Guangzhou Charge signed Jin “YOUNGJIN” Young-Jin as the team’s new assistant coach ahead of the 2022 Overwatch League season, the organization revealed today. “He flexed on DPS for the Dragons. Now he’s here to flex on our team as an assistant coach,” the announcement reads, calling his experience during the Overwatch League’s second season “a valuable asset” to the team. He flexed on DPS for the Dragons. Now he's here to flex on our team as an assistant coach./post/here-are-all-the-servers-in-the-new-world-closed-beta/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-the-servers-in-the-new-world-closed-beta/ The closed beta testing period for Amazon Games Studios’ new MMO, New World, has launched. Over the course of the next two weeks, players will have the opportunity to jump into Aeternum. And since anyone who pre-orders New World automatically receives an invite to the closed beta, Amazon is expecting a large influx of players to be playing this early version of the game over the next two weeks. As a result, Amazon Games has dedicated a metric ton of servers for players to experience the game on, ensuring low queue times and optimized ping./post/world-of-warcraft-s-conquest-cap-increased-with-weekly-reset/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/world-of-warcraft-s-conquest-cap-increased-with-weekly-reset/ The weekly cap on Conquest points in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has been increased with today’s weekly server reset, according to an announcement made by Blizzard Entertainment.  Conquest, a currency used to purchase PvP gear in WoW, has been relatively hard to come by throughout the course of the Shadowlands expansion since only 550 Conquest had been able to be acquired by players each week. With today’s server reset, the weekly cap on Conquest has been increased to 1,100 per week./post/how-to-unlock-void-elves-in-wow-shadowlands/Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-void-elves-in-wow-shadowlands/ The Void Elves are a playable race in World of Warcraft that was introduced during the end of the Legion expansion. When they were initially released, players had to go through multiple challenges to play this race. But nowadays, the achievement is much easier to complete, especially with a level 60 character. To unlock this race, you need to complete two prerequisites: the “You Are Now Prepared” achievement, which can take up to a couple of hours, and a special recruitment quest once you have this achievement completed./post/riot-says-project-a-is-a-tactical-first-person-shooter-focused-on-gun-play-not-abilities/Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-says-project-a-is-a-tactical-first-person-shooter-focused-on-gun-play-not-abilities/ Following Riot Games’ reveal of its new first-person shooter project, many people were quick to compare the game to several other popular FPS titles, like Overwatch and CS:GO. But Riot’s CEO, Nicolo Laurent, has reassured fans that shooting ability is still the main focus of the game and not just the abilities. Like Overwatch and CS:GO, Riot’s FPS game—currently named Project A—will feature a slew of characters that will bring their own unique abilities to the battlefield./post/what-are-funding-stations-in-fortnite/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-are-funding-stations-in-fortnite/ Fortnite has been the champion of live-service games for the last four years, introducing new mechanics and campaigns to engage players. Now, in the new Fortnite season Resistance, players are joining up with The Seven and funding their different initiatives through the ongoing conflict. Players can spend gold bars at different funding stations around the map to help The Seven create better equipment. For example, the first funding station at the start of Chapter Three, season two was the Armored Battle Bus, which they can now find outside of one of the buildings at Sanctuary./post/here-s-every-mtg-knight-in-throne-of-eldraine/Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-s-every-mtg-knight-in-throne-of-eldraine/ The new Throne of Eldraine set for Magic: The Gathering was designed around Camelot and fairy tale folklore themes, with Knights appearing in every color.  With the release of the Throne of Eldraine (ELD) set less than 10 days away, the prospect of constructing a Knight deck in Standard has excited the MTG community. Magic’s head designer Mark Rosewater and his team included Knights in each of the five colors (including multicolored), which are referred to as courts in the ELD set./post/how-do-wards-work-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-do-wards-work-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ Today Final Fantasy XIV players got to set their eyes on a new housing district in Ishgard called Empyreum, which opens up a bunch of new housing Wards for people to buy their own player houses. In order to buy a house, players must first choose the Ward they’d like to live in. Wards are instances of the housing district, of which there are now five. Limsa Lominsa – The MistGridania – Lavender BedsUl-dah – The GobletKugane – ShiroganeIshgard – Empyreum Each housing district has 24 Wards./post/what-is-raid-hour-in-pokemon-go/Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-is-raid-hour-in-pokemon-go/ When you initially get into Pokémon Go, you’ll find yourself roaming around the wild to collect your first set of Pokémon. Alongside increasing your trainer level, you’ll also learn the basics of the game. As you progress further in the game, more features will unlock, including Gyms and Raids. These two are the two prime game modes where you’ll be battling out with your Pokémon by your side. Before a Raid officially kicks off, you should notice an egg in front of a Gym near you./post/all-wisp-locations-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-wisp-locations-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus has plenty of secrets and unique ways that players will need to unlock Pokémon—and one of the trickiest is with the help of Wisps. When players earn the mission “Eerie Apparitions in the Night,” they will be tasked with collecting all 107 Wisps from across the zones in Hisui. Once this is complete players can encounter the Pokémon Spiritomb. This is quite a tricky task despite the fact you’ll come across plenty of Wisps on your journey./post/how-to-get-and-use-azoth-in-new-world/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-and-use-azoth-in-new-world/ Like most MMOs, New World shines with its storyline and combat mechanics. Aside from those two main aspects that define each title, there can be significant differences when it comes to how the grinding system works.  Over the course of their journeys, players accumulate different items and currencies that they can use to unlock other in-game elements. Azoth is one of the primary resources in New World that players can use for resetting their skills, fast traveling, and various other activities./post/valve-adds-a-seven-day-cooldown-to-traded-cs-go-items-on-steam/Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valve-adds-a-seven-day-cooldown-to-traded-cs-go-items-on-steam/ CS:GO items traded in the Steam client now have a seven-day cooldown thanks to Valve. Similar to items bought on the Steam community market, CS:GO items now require users to wait seven days before their items can be re-traded to another user. Valve added the change to CS:GO cosmetics specifically because they noticed “negative unintended uses of trading … such as fraud and scams.” “Over time, third-parties have developed services that use automated Steam accounts to mimic players and make use of Steam’s trading functionality,” Valve said in last night’s minor game update./post/new-hearthstone-balance-changes-announced-kazakusan-and-pirate-warrior-get-hit-by-the-nerf-bat/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-hearthstone-balance-changes-announced-kazakusan-and-pirate-warrior-get-hit-by-the-nerf-bat/ The new patch is going live on April 26, featuring changes to the two most popular Standard decks and two adjustments to Wild. Not every strong strategy got immediately nerfed, though. Demon Hunter remains untouched, but the devs are looking to keep an eye on it. Ramp Druid takes a hit It seemed like it was only just a matter of time until Kazakusan was going to get some sort of an adjustment: the card served as a solo win condition in a wide variety of strategies, where decks that ran no other minions (or just a few of them) got to consistently trigger its Battlecry early on, generating an overwhelming set of Treasures to take down an opponent./post/rekkles-i-would-rather-see-riot-rework-ad-carries-than-release-more-newer-ones/Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/rekkles-i-would-rather-see-riot-rework-ad-carries-than-release-more-newer-ones/ In a Twitch livestream today, League of Legends Worlds finalist and former EU LCS champion Rekkles voiced his opinion regarding the latest AD carry releases. “I would rather see [Riot] rework AD carries than release more newer ones,” the Fnatic ADC said. “It’s just gonna happen [like] what happened with Aphelios and Senna, where older ones are so outdated that they’re not playable anymore, and the newer ones are so [fresh] that they will always be played…If I could play Vayne every game I would love it./post/how-to-get-and-use-a-queue-priority-pass-in-the-overwatch-2-pvp-beta/Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-get-and-use-a-queue-priority-pass-in-the-overwatch-2-pvp-beta/ One of the recurring features in the Overwatch 2 PvP beta from the original game is the ability to acquire and use Priority Passes when queueing for certain roles. Role queue was introduced to Overwatch officially in July 2019, giving players a specific choice of which role they wanted to play in matches between Tank, Support, and DPS. This system was deemed a necessity after the switch to a locked 2-2-2 format for the three roles./post/team-liquid-benches-alphari-after-opening-game-of-the-2021-lcs-summer-split/Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-liquid-benches-alphari-after-opening-game-of-the-2021-lcs-summer-split/ Team Liquid has wasted no time in reshuffling its roster after a loss to TSM on the opening day of the 2021 LCS Summer Split.  In a video posted to Twitter, head coach Jatt announced the League of Legends team would be playing with academy top laner Thomas “Jenkins” Tran “for at least the rest of the weekend,” and that current starting top laner Alphari would be moving to the bench./post/does-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-have-bots/Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/does-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-have-bots/ Pokémon UNITE is the latest offering in the Pokémon franchise with its unique MOBA-style gameplay. While it may have been quite a success in its initial weeks since launch, players have now become noticing something off happening during recent games. Everyone who has played the game will have been in the position where a member of their team is playing horribly. Often it can be written off as just poor skill–but it’s possible that it wasn’t a person at all./post/esl-pro-league-season-15-scores-bracket-schedule/Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/esl-pro-league-season-15-scores-bracket-schedule/ ESL Pro League is back on LAN in its 15th edition after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 teams in attendance have been split into four groups of six each and only half will make it into the playoffs. The group stage kicks off with Group A on March 9 and will finish with Group D on April 3. The group stage will use a round-robin best-of-three format, meaning that every team will face each other./post/destroyer-phoenix-enforcer-swordsoul-and-more-discovered-in-new-yu-gi-oh-master-duel-datamine/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/destroyer-phoenix-enforcer-swordsoul-and-more-discovered-in-new-yu-gi-oh-master-duel-datamine/ Even with a few new card packs and Duel Festival events finally rolling into Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel over the last month or so, fans still weren’t thrilled with Konami’s seeming lack of attentiveness to its newest platform post-launch, especially after the most recent Forbidden and Limited list.  However, it seems like the next big wave of content is coming soon, as the most recent update allowed users like ItsBradazHD to datamine a ton of future cards, assets, and other goodies—including the upcoming addition of cards like Destiny HERO – Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer./post/how-to-remake-in-valorant/Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-remake-in-valorant/ When a teammate disconnects and the match begins with a four vs. five, VALORANT players have the option to end the game and queue for a new one in a similar fashion to games like League of Legends.  Introduced in Patch 1.07 in 2020, this option prevents lopsided matches, wasted time, and unfair Ranked Rating loss.  If a player disconnects at the start of a match—from the beginning of the buy phase to the end of the first round—a “remake call” may be triggered at the start of the second round by typing /remake into the chat./post/best-valorant-merchandise/Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-valorant-merchandise/ Riot Games surprised many gamers when it announced VALORANT in 2020. The free-to-play game is a five-vs-five, hero-based tactical shooter, and it has already established itself as a popular esport. VALORANT boasts exciting gameplay, beautiful artwork, and a loyal, competitive player base. Whether you are on the hunt for special gaming gear that will provide more in-game comfort or for VALORANT themed decor and gifts, there are plenty of deals to sift through./post/league-player-reaches-record-10-million-mastery-points-on-ashe/Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-player-reaches-record-10-million-mastery-points-on-ashe/ Brought to you by IKON, challenging you to share your greatest game moments and win amazing prizes. If you think you know what it means to “main” a champion in League of Legends, we have an update for you. A player in the Turkish servers has surpassed 10 million Mastery Points on Ashe, according to tracking website Champion Mastery Lookup. They’re the first player to reach that milestone with any unique champion in League, followed by a player in Western Europe who has 9./post/parsec-remote-desktop-support-for-macos-finally-launches/Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/parsec-remote-desktop-support-for-macos-finally-launches/ Popular game streaming service Parsec has announced that support for remote desktop is coming to MacOS for both commercial and personal use.  Remote desktop on MacOS now grants users the “granular controls, automation, and integration capabilities of Parsec for Teams to companies and individuals using high-powered Mac workstations.” The same high performance, low latency, and responsive streaming that’s been adjusted for gaming are now being brought to modern iMacs, Macbooks, and Mac Pros that are running Catalina 10./post/tenz-explains-why-he-quit-cs-go-to-pursue-becoming-a-valorant-pro/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tenz-explains-why-he-quit-cs-go-to-pursue-becoming-a-valorant-pro/ Tyson “TenZ” Ngo stepped away from the competitive CS:GO scene this past month to become Cloud9’s first pro VALORANT player. In an interview with Red Bull, the 18-year-old phenom explained his career choices while also giving advice to other aspiring players. “I’ve decided to go pro [in VALORANT] because when I was playing the beta, I realized I haven’t had as much fun as I was having in a long time,” TenZ said./post/the-5-best-companions-cards-in-magic-the-gathering/Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-5-best-companions-cards-in-magic-the-gathering/ Companions are special creatures in Magic: The Gathering that require you to build your decks around them to summon them. While they were released without a cost and appeared in your hand with no issues, they were deemed too strong and were eventually nerfed to have a three-mana cost to appear in your hand. While their dominant reign came to an end, Companions are still a good pick to build your deck around if you want to have a great win rate./post/is-tbc-classic-down-how-to-check-problems-outages-and-server-status/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/is-tbc-classic-down-how-to-check-problems-outages-and-server-status/ World of Warcraft players can step through the Dark Portal again and reexplore the Outlands in The Burning Crusade Classic. Floating through space in the Twisting Nether, the shattered remnants of Draenor—the home-world of the Orcs and refuge of the Draenei—awaits. But like any new expansion, players should expect some technical difficulties. The abundance of new players will almost certainly lead to server issues in the opening few hours, days, and weeks of the expansion./post/ranked-play-beta-officially-coming-to-call-of-duty-vanguard-on-feb-17/Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/ranked-play-beta-officially-coming-to-call-of-duty-vanguard-on-feb-17/ A competitive, ranked playlist is finally going to be available in Call of Duty: Vanguard over three months after the game’s release. Season two of Vanguard and Warzone is set to go live next week on Feb. 14. And today, Activision revealed a detailed roadmap for the upcoming season, which confirmed that a Ranked Play beta is on the way. The best defense is a heavily-armored offense. See what’s rolling into #Vanguard and #Warzone in Season Two—coming February 14th./post/tarzaned-claims-he-boosted-iwd-to-challenger-for-10-000/Sun, 27 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tarzaned-claims-he-boosted-iwd-to-challenger-for-10-000/ Tarzaned has spilled the beans about IWDominate. The streamer, known for his prowess in North American solo queue, claimed he boosted IWD to Challenger in League of Legends. “You call yourself a Challenger player and you never actually got Challenger on your own,” Tarzaned said on his stream last night. “I actually had to play on your account for two years straight to get Challenger.” Tarzaned said he boosted two of IWD’s accounts to the top rank over the course of season seven and eight./post/how-to-start-a-hype-train-on-twitch/Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-start-a-hype-train-on-twitch/ A Hype Train on Twitch is a visual illustration of an influx in monetary support for a given channel. The support can come in the form of subscriptions, dollar donations, or donations of at least 100 bits, but it can’t be started by just one viewer. It has to be a community effort. Subscriptions that contribute to a Hype Train can be normal subscriptions, Prime subs, or even gifted subs. The exact number of contributions required to start a Hype Train can fluctuate from channel to channel depending on thresholds set by each individual streamer./post/siege-s-attrition-limited-time-mode-bans-operators-after-each-win/Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/siege-s-attrition-limited-time-mode-bans-operators-after-each-win/ Although most fans have their favorite operators in Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft’s latest mode is going to force players to use characters they may have never even touched. The company revealed the new Attrition arcade limited-time mode today, which bans a new set of characters every round. Players have less than a week to experiment with the game mode, which will be live until July 13. Loading… 🕹 RAINBOW SIX SIEGE ARCADE…/post/a22-enchantment-sanguine-brushstroke-enhances-mtg-drain-and-gain-strategies/Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/a22-enchantment-sanguine-brushstroke-enhances-mtg-drain-and-gain-strategies/ Spoilers for the upcoming Alchemy: Innistrad A22 set today included Sanguine Brushstroke, a Magic: The Gathering digital-only Enchantment.  Scheduled to release on Dec. 9, the new Alchemy format will launch in conjunction with 63 digital-only MTG Arena cards from the Alchemy: Innistrad A22 supplemental set. Sanguine Brushstroke, a three-cost Mono-Black Enchantment that thrives within drain and gain strategies, was revealed today by TSM Numot the Nummy on Twitter. Sanguine Brushstroke CMC: 1BBType: EnchantmentRarity: RareETB ability: When Sanguine Brushstroke enters the battlefield, create a Blood token and Conjure a card named Blood Artist onto the battlefield./post/where-does-fromsoftware-go-after-elden-ring/Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-does-fromsoftware-go-after-elden-ring/ Few games were as eagerly-anticipated as Elden Ring, and fewer still rose to meet the challenge and exceed those same expectations. But, with FromSoftware’s refinement of the Soulsborne genre at its absolute peak alongside its 2022 release, a new question emerges—what does it do next? The developer hasn’t said much about future games, or even the post-release roadmap for Elden Ring. But, as the studio basks in the glory of its most successful launch ever, it’s a perfect opportunity to assess Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team’s next steps./post/tft-set-5-system-changes-to-watch-for/Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tft-set-5-system-changes-to-watch-for/ A number of Teamfight Tactics system changes are expected to take place within Set Five Reckoning, from component nerfs and item reworks to an Armory pop-up shop.  Scheduled to release via PBE servers on April 14, TFT Set Five showcases a battle of good versus evil. The Black Mist has invaded the auto-battler, twisting champions, traits, and items. All items and components will appear different, using the new League icon style./post/the-death-of-mtg-burn-comes-via-eld-s-deafening-silence/Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-death-of-mtg-burn-comes-via-eld-s-deafening-silence/ In an effort to curb the dominance of non-creature spell decks in best-of-one matches, the MTG design team created Throne of Eldraine’s Deafening Silence.  The Throne of Eldraine set (ELD) contains a powerful Enchantment to silence non-creature spell archetypes. Andrew Brown said in yesterday’s MTG Weekly stream that the best-of-one (MTGA) metagame needed balance. And Deafening Silence is the answer to that balance.  As an Enchantment that can drop on turn one, Deafening Silence prevents archetypes like Izzet Phoenix and Feather from casting multiple non-creature spells per turn./post/fastest-way-to-get-the-skyslipper-mount-in-final-fantasy-xiv/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/fastest-way-to-get-the-skyslipper-mount-in-final-fantasy-xiv/ It can be fun to complete the main scenario quest with your friends in Final Fantasy XIV, but it’s unfortunate that your chocobo can’t carry your friends to travel all of those long distances while entering a new area. Luckily, there are some mounts that are free and can carry several players. The Skyslipper is one of them, and it’s always available in the game, contrary to others such as the Regalia Type-G, which is only available once per year on average./post/league-s-new-ruined-shan-hai-scrolls-skins-hit-the-rift-in-patch-11-2/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/league-s-new-ruined-shan-hai-scrolls-skins-hit-the-rift-in-patch-11-2/ Get your wallets ready, League of Legends fans. A total of eight new skins are arriving on the live servers this week with the release of Patch 11.2. To mark his arrival on Summoner’s Rift, League’s newest champion Viego is recruiting a few familiar faces for his army. Draven, Karma, and Shyvana are joining the Ruined King’s ranks with shadowy, green-accented skins in this patch cycle. Fans can pick up the three Ruined skins from the game’s client shop for 1,350 RP each./post/mtg-arena-state-of-the-game-april-notes-and-updates/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-arena-state-of-the-game-april-notes-and-updates/ The back half of April is kicking off with the release of Streets of New Capenna via Magic: The Gathering Arena, along with a new Explorer format and improvements to purchasing booster packs.  With the digital launch of Streets of New Capenna (SNC) via MTG Arena on April 28, several visual and quality-of-life updates are slated to take place. WotC is also adding a new Explorer format on April 28, along with an improvement to the ways players can purchase and open booster packs./post/how-to-unlock-mii-fighters-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-unlock-mii-fighters-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate/ At the start of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you have a roster of just eight lonely fighters—or so you think. There are actually three more fighters available right away that not many people know about: The Mii Fighters. Mii Fighters are broken into three different characters, each with their own weapons and customizable movesets. These fighters are the Mii Brawler, Mii Swordfighter, and Mii Gunner. To unlock them as an option in your starting roster, all you need to do is create them./post/tales-of-runeterra-the-vaulted-road-teases-future-lor-champions/Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/tales-of-runeterra-the-vaulted-road-teases-future-lor-champions/ Riot Games released its first Tales of Runeterra video since Bilgewater today, featuring potential champions of the Targon region in the upcoming Call of the Mountain set.  The new Legends of Runeterra set, Call of the Mountain, is scheduled to release on Aug. 26. And with its release will come three expansions that include Targon as a new region and a number of its champions. To hype up the start of spoiler season for Call of the Mountain, Riot dropped a new Tales of Runeterra cinematic today titled “The Vaulted Road./post/what-s-new-in-cod-mobile-season-10-release-date-map-modes-and-more/Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/what-s-new-in-cod-mobile-season-10-release-date-map-modes-and-more/ Call of Duty: Mobile’s season 10 is called Shadows Return, Activision announced today. The new season will bring a map, weapons, mode, battle pass, and more to the game. The update will be a big one and also introduce ranked series five to the game. This means that the players’ ranks from the last season will be refreshed with new ranked rewards arriving. Here is everything you need to know about CoD: Mobile’s season 10./post/where-to-find-the-nagakiba-katana-in-elden-ring/Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-the-nagakiba-katana-in-elden-ring/ Elden Ring is filled with incredible weapons for every Tarnished to get their hands on and use throughout their playthroughs. These various options range from close-quarters combat weapons all the way to ranged-based weapons to attack from a distance. Additionally, many weapons come standard with different status effects that build up over time as the player strikes the target. These statuses are incredibly powerful and can be the keystone of many builds within the community./post/streamer-teams-are-set-up-for-twitch-rivals-league-of-legends-draft-showdown-ii/Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/streamer-teams-are-set-up-for-twitch-rivals-league-of-legends-draft-showdown-ii/ The North American installment of the League of Legends Team Draft Showdown is Twitch Rivals’ first tournament of the year, and it’s an exciting one.  It features eight teams, selected and drafted by captains for a $75,000 prize pool, and it will take place on Jan. 21 to 23. Included in the competition are big streamers Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp, Ashkan “TF Blade” Homayouni, and Hammoudi “Yassuo” Abdalrhman, amongst other familiar faces in the community./post/xqc-gets-caught-stream-sniping-during-twitch-rivals/Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/xqc-gets-caught-stream-sniping-during-twitch-rivals/ Twitch’s virtual convention GlitchCon has provided fans a range of different content over the weekend all available in the comfort of their home. Included in the fun was a variety of Twitch Rivals tournaments for different games, but none caused as much controversy as the Fall Guys tournament. During this tournament popular streamer, xQc, and his team were looking to jeopardize a tie-breaking game including team DrLupo. What he later claimed was a joke, xQc and his team proceeded to stream snipe their opponents, eliminating them from the game./post/los-mejores-pok%C3%A9mon-de-tipo-volador-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/los-mejores-pok%C3%A9mon-de-tipo-volador-en-pok%C3%A9mon-go/ Los Pokémon de tipo volador son algunas de las especies más populares de Pokémon Go. Aparte de los Pokémon legendarios, también hay varios Pokémon conocidos que cuentan con este tipo. En Pokémon Go hay 18 tipos de Pokémon que varían en eficacia cuando se enfrentan a otros. Si bien algunos tienen los mismos movimientos, cada uno tiene estadísticas básicas propias que influyen en su fuerza general. Con todos los factores que influyen en el poder de un Pokémon, puede resultar confuso saber cuál es el mejor para las incursiones o los combates de entrenadores./post/how-the-rank-system-works-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-4-league-play/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-the-rank-system-works-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-4-league-play/ Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s highly-anticipated competitive playlist became available today on PlayStation 4—but many players might not fully understand how the rank system works in League Play. Luckily, Treyarch published an extensive guide that explains exactly how the rank system operates in Black Ops 4 League Play. Related: Basic tips and tricks for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4League Play When you enter the World League Hub, players will battle it out in the Pro Series playlist, which uses the Call of Duty World League ruleset./post/how-to-sign-up-for-the-wow-dragonflight-beta/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-sign-up-for-the-wow-dragonflight-beta/ Blizzard Entertainment revealed the first details about World of Warcraft’s next expansion in April. The expansion, called Dragonflight, still doesn’t have a release date, but players can already sign up for a chance to play a beta version of it before it’s released. Dragonflight is WoW’s first expansion since Shadowlands, which came out in November 2020. In addition to letting players ride dragons, it is set to include a new race and class, exclusive to each other for the first time in the history of the game./post/raze-cinematic-shows-mirrored-boom-bot-and-highlights-impressive-in-game-clips/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/raze-cinematic-shows-mirrored-boom-bot-and-highlights-impressive-in-game-clips/ A new VALORANT cinematic shows Raze in action while she repairs her Boom Bot and makes her way through the streets of Brazil with her Blast Packs. The cinematic also features impressive plays from Raze players from around the world and ends with a nod to the mirrored agents introduced in the “Duality” cinematic.  The “Raze: The Color of the Town” cinematic opens with Raze entering her workshop to repair her damaged Boom Bot./post/sky-striker-wins-big-dragon-link-and-dinosaur-drop-with-june-s-yu-gi-oh-tcg-forbidden-and-limited-card-list/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sky-striker-wins-big-dragon-link-and-dinosaur-drop-with-june-s-yu-gi-oh-tcg-forbidden-and-limited-card-list/ Every few months, Konami releases an updated Forbidden and Limited card list that works to make sure Yu-Gi-Oh! maintains a balanced competitive meta as more sets are released into the game.  Konami typically spaces out its ban list updates by about three months, giving players time to implement new product releases into their strategies and create new decks, while also allowing the company to gather more data and make informed decisions about which cards to hit next./post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-new-year-s-event-to-add-2020-glasses-slowpoke-shiny-wynaut-and-more/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-go-new-year-s-event-to-add-2020-glasses-slowpoke-shiny-wynaut-and-more/ Niantic is ready to ring in the new year with a new Pokémon Go event, one that will include a Slowpoke wearing 2020 glasses and new avatar items.  From Dec. 31 to Jan. 4, players can encounter multiple Pokémon wearing festive costumes, increased encounters for certain species, and the chance to capture a shiny Wynaut.  Slowpoke wearing 2020 glasses will be spawning in the wild, appearing in raids, hatching from two-kilometer eggs, and given out as a Field Research reward./post/the-best-weapons-in-hyper-scape/Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-weapons-in-hyper-scape/ Ubisoft’s Hyper Scape is a unique addition to the battle royale genre. The game has a very distinct arena shooter feel while retaining the aspects that make it a battle royale title. Even the aesthetic of how weapons and abilities are dropped around the map is reminiscent of Quake. With this being the case, the game offers a variety of different weapons to be used by the player in different situations they may be faced with./post/3-promising-decks-from-week-one-of-hearthstone-s-fractured-in-alterac-valley-expansion/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/3-promising-decks-from-week-one-of-hearthstone-s-fractured-in-alterac-valley-expansion/ The holidays are upon us and with them comes a new expansion. Hearthstone’s Fractured in Alterac Valley is live and already shaking up the meta. The Standard ladder is in a state of wonderful chaos at the moment, but it does seem like a few decks are starting to pull ahead and show promise. The expansion has still been out less than a week, though. Do not, under any circumstances, craft any of these decks with the expectation that they’ll be viable throughout the expansion./post/cadian-s-cs-go-streaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cadian-s-cs-go-streaming-setup-headset-mouse-keyboard-and-more/ Currently playing for Heroic, Casper “cadiaN” Møller is a Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player recognized for his rising prominence and ability to clutch on the mainstage. His role with Heroic is the in-game leader and AWPer, and he’s been flourishing on the team since he started with them in 2019. Naturally, fans of the Dane are eager to know his gaming and streaming setup, hoping to emulate his CS:GO abilities. CadiaN’s in-game settings are also readily available./post/how-and-when-to-reserve-a-name-for-wow-classic-season-of-mastery/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-and-when-to-reserve-a-name-for-wow-classic-season-of-mastery/ World of Warcraft’s newest legacy content, the Season of Mastery, is on its way sooner than many people expected with a launch date of Nov. 16. And if you’re concerned about making sure you get the character name you want, you’ll have a chance to save one name and one name only. On Nov. 11, players with an active WoW subscription will have an opportunity to log onto Season of Mastery servers for the first time./post/how-to-gift-a-fortnite-battle-pass/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-gift-a-fortnite-battle-pass/ Each Fortnite season is an opportunity to prove yourself on the battlefield in a new setting. Fortnite’s theme changes every season. While the locations you’ve grown familiar with over the last season may look different during the new season, you’ll be able to keep up by updating up your cosmetics collection. See Fortnite Action Figures on Amazon The style of cosmetics also changes from season to season, and the best way to keep your wardrobe up to date will be by purchasing the Battle Pass./post/how-to-level-up-quickly-in-fortnite-chapter-3/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-level-up-quickly-in-fortnite-chapter-3/ Fortnite recently bid farewell to its second chapter and fans sailed toward a new storyline that features The Foundation, portrayed by The Rock. The first Battle Pass of the chapter also features Spider-Man, making it a must-complete for Fortnite fans. Though it’s possible to max out your Battle Pass by purchasing levels instantly, most players prefer going for the free-to-play route. If you’re short on time, you’ll want to level up your Battle Pass as quickly as possible so you can start enjoying all the skins for the seasons to come./post/cloud9-is-the-only-na-team-without-an-lcs-champion-on-its-roster/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/cloud9-is-the-only-na-team-without-an-lcs-champion-on-its-roster/ Cloud9 has been the best League of Legends team in North America over the past five weeks and it hasn’t been close. The roster that this team assembled has come together in a way that not many people expected, especially since none of their players have won an LCS championship before. In fact, only one player on the roster has won a regional championship. AD carry Zven last won the 2017 EU LCS Summer Split championship with G2 Esports./post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-collections-set-to-bring-back-delta-species-base-set-charizard-and-more/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-collections-set-to-bring-back-delta-species-base-set-charizard-and-more/ The 25th anniversary Pokémon TCG set has been officially unveiled, and like many fans expected, it will be a collection of throwback reprints mixed in with some newer takes on older themes when it launches on Oct. 8.   Celebrations will showcase many aspects of the Pokémon TCG that have been left in the past, including new cards being added to the Delta Species, Prime, Trainer Pokémon, Light Pokémon, and LV. X./post/twitch-bans-blessrng-removes-his-emote-after-admitting-to-abuse/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-bans-blessrng-removes-his-emote-after-admitting-to-abuse/ Twitch banned streamer Brad “BlessRNG” Jolly today and removed his popular BlessRNG emote after admitting to abusing an ex-girlfriend. The streamer’s misconduct came to light when an anonymous person reported the abuse to Kanga, Jolly’s employer. Kanga fired Jolly and said in a statement, “The company did not have prior knowledge of the situation and, upon learning, we are deeply sorry to anyone in our community who was affected by this hire./post/20-magic-the-gathering-common-terminology-and-slang-for-beginners/Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/20-magic-the-gathering-common-terminology-and-slang-for-beginners/ The card game Magic: The Gathering has over a hundred active terms used through a number of formats, with more getting added each year.  Created in 1993 by Richard Garfield, MTG has continually evolved over the years. There are hundreds of terms still active within the card game today, with more getting added each year via digital-only terminology in MTG Arena, along with new keywords and mechanics with each new set./post/every-new-tft-set-4-5-champions-stats-and-abilities-in-festival-of-beasts/Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/every-new-tft-set-4-5-champions-stats-and-abilities-in-festival-of-beasts/ A total of 20 new and returning champions are joining the Fates: Festival of Beasts within Teamfight Tactics, showcasing old and new abilities.  Hitting the PBE server on Jan. 6 and launching via the live servers on Jan. 21, Set 4.5 is packed full of champions itching to disrupt the meta. There are a total of 20 champions being added in the Fates: Festival of Beasts mid-set update and seven new traits./post/morgausse-claims-225-000-grand-prize-in-final-fortnite-summer-skirmish-event-at-pax-west/Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/morgausse-claims-225-000-grand-prize-in-final-fortnite-summer-skirmish-event-at-pax-west/ With 11 points in the grand finals, Morgausse has won the final Fortnite Summer Skirmish event at PAX West, securing the $225,000 grand prize. Some of the top players in the world competed in this weekend’s tournament, pushing through several qualifiers over the past few days to get to the grand finals, which featured a seven-game series to determine the final placings. The top spot went to Morgausse, who understandably experienced major shock after it was officially revealed that he won./post/new-world-open-beta-release-notes-reveal-massive-changes-to-weapons-progression-pvp-and-more/Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/new-world-open-beta-release-notes-reveal-massive-changes-to-weapons-progression-pvp-and-more/ New World is set to enter its open beta testing phase later today, and players have finally been given a look at what changes have been made between the last testing phase and now, thanks to newly released patch notes. There are plenty of massive changes that will both increase the overall experience of the game, but also to address many of the issues players faced during the previously closed beta phase./post/yuumi-and-soraka-s-healing-katarina-and-shaco-s-build-paths-to-be-adjusted-in-league-patch-12-12/Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/yuumi-and-soraka-s-healing-katarina-and-shaco-s-build-paths-to-be-adjusted-in-league-patch-12-12/ Riot Games is looking to mitigate the continued strain of healing in League of Legends after the nerfs to Grievous Wounds, as well as give a few champions more streamlined build paths in the upcoming patch. Riot Truexy, associate game designer on the Summoner’s Rift team for League, detailed a few champion and system adjustments that are expected to release with Patch 12.12. Being adjustments, they include both buffs and nerfs for their specific targets, hoping to help them in some areas and hinder them in others./post/adidas-launches-team-vitality-sneakers-inspired-by-90s-cereal-campaigns/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/adidas-launches-team-vitality-sneakers-inspired-by-90s-cereal-campaigns/ Team Vitality and its sponsor Adidas have launched a campaign today to promote their new VIT.03 sneakers, the third version of their sneaker saga with the streetwear brand. This limited-edition sneaker was inspired by ’90s culture and classic cereal advertisements, according to Vitality. And to bring the concept to life, the French team has created 100 limited-edition cereal boxes called VIT POPS that will be available to purchase for 9.99 euros at the company’s headquarters, V./post/anivia-is-getting-a-major-change-to-her-ultimate-in-league-s-patch-10-6/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/anivia-is-getting-a-major-change-to-her-ultimate-in-league-s-patch-10-6/ League of Legends fans might not have noticed, but Riot Games recently added a major change to Anivia’s kit on the Public Beta Environment servers that can only bring good things for fans of the Cryophoenix. Riot’s Rob “King Cobra” Rosa pointed out that the developer changed how Anivia’s ultimate works. First, her Glacial Storm is no longer cancelled by crowd control of any kind. This is a huge buff to her kit, since she can continue to lay down large amounts of sustained damage, even if she’s bound or stunned./post/how-to-catch-and-evolve-misdreavus-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-catch-and-evolve-misdreavus-in-pok%C3%A9mon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl/ Misdreavus, a ghost-type Pokémon that floats around the overworld, is one of the few Shining Pearl exclusives, so those with Brilliant Diamond will need to trade it from the other game to obtain it. For those with Shining Pearl, here is how you find, catch, and evolve Misdreavus. How to find and catch Misdreavus in Shining Pearl Misdreavus can be found pretty early in the game in the Eterna Forest, which is an area of the map where you will go through it with a partner, and all of your battles with Pokémon will be doubled./post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-astral-radiance-prerelease-promos-products-officially-revealed/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-astral-radiance-prerelease-promos-products-officially-revealed/ The Pokémon Company has today revealed the next TCG set that is slated to arrive in May, ‘Astral Radiance,’ and now we have a look at the products and promotional cards that will launch as part of the release. Astral Radiance will boast all your usual products including booster boxes, elite trainer boxes, blister packs, and Build & Battle boxes, but also include a Pokémon Center exclusive elite trainer box and a Build & Battle Stadium./post/team-envy-adds-adam-rymer-as-ceo-owner-mike-rufail-moves-to-new-chief-gaming-officer-role/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/team-envy-adds-adam-rymer-as-ceo-owner-mike-rufail-moves-to-new-chief-gaming-officer-role/ Team Envy announced an executive shakeup today. Mike “Hastro” Rufail is stepping down as the organization’s CEO and being replaced by Legion Entertainment advisor Adam Rymer.  It was Rufail’s decision to step down, according to a video he posted on Twitter today. While Rufail is no longer Envy’s CEO, he’s still one of the largest shareholders in the organization and will remain on the board. Some big news today.This was my decision./post/the-best-cards-to-pull-from-darkness-ablaze-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-expansion/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-cards-to-pull-from-darkness-ablaze-pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-expansion/ The next Sword and Shield expansion for the Pokémon TCG, Darkness Ablaze is set to release on Aug. 14 with more than 185 cards being added to the format.  Players will have a chance to get powerful VMAX forms for Charizard, Grimmsnarl, Eternatus, and more in this new set.  With the addition of 14 Pokemon V cards, seven new VMAX cards, 17 Trainer cards, and other new cards that might be able to shake up the meta, you will want to know exactly what you are getting into with this set./post/best-tft-6-5-neon-nights-12-5-meta-comps/Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-tft-6-5-neon-nights-12-5-meta-comps/ Patch 12.5 opened up the Teamfight Tactics Set 6.5 meta without nerfing the best Neon Nights comps at launch into the ground.  There are four weeks between TFT Patch 12.5 and 12.6. A large B-patch dropped shortly after the update with the goal of toning down re-roll comps and creating a healthy meta heading into the final tournaments within Neon Nights. Ranked gameplay on the ladder saw an increase in re-roll builds, along with the return of multiple ways to play the Debonair comp following the release of Patch 12./post/valorant-patch-4-04-introduces-icebox-rework/Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/valorant-patch-4-04-introduces-icebox-rework/ VALORANT Patch 4.04 introduces massive changes to Icebox, significantly changing the way teams will attack and defend both sites. B Green has been changed to “improve attacker options and make the space more comfortable to play in,” according to Riot. The door connecting to the attacker’s spawn building has been moved to the first cubby, giving attackers another way to enter the area. Teams no longer have to push from two side-by-side entry points./post/beginner-s-guide-to-rocket-league/Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/beginner-s-guide-to-rocket-league/ Psyonix released Rocket League in 2015. The game saw immediate popularity and has managed to maintain an active player base since its launch. But in 2019, Epic bought Psyonix and recently made Rocket League free-to-play for anyone with an Epic account. As a result, there’s an exciting influx of new players looking to learn the basics of one of the greatest sports games to ever be released. For those who are new Rocket League, here are some tips and tricks to help get you started on scoring goals and landing epic saves./post/best-dead-by-daylight-killers-tier-list-the-best-killers-ranked/Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-dead-by-daylight-killers-tier-list-the-best-killers-ranked/ There’s currently 27 total Killers to play in Dead by Daylight, each with completely different skillsets, powers, and mechanics. Despite there being some Killers undoubtedly stronger and more dominant than others, each brings something unique to the table. Finding a Killer that matches individual gameplay preferences means testing out each one of them, despite where they rank. Among the entire variety of playable Killers, the following list represents the top nine in Dead by Daylight, representing the top two tiers: S and A Tier./post/the-stadium-access-code-in-call-of-duty-warzone/Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-stadium-access-code-in-call-of-duty-warzone/ The Stadium in Verdansk kept its doors locked for some time. Among all the changes it introduced, Call of Duty: Warzone’s fifth season opened the Stadium to players. Though the Stadium became a viable point of interest (POI) to land on during the early game, players also started to notice mystery doors around the landmark. These locked doors require players to collect access cards placed around the landmark. There are a total of three access cards you’ll need to pick up./post/boogie2988-mcjuggernuggets-anger-viewers-with-joke-about-missing-youtuber-etika/Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/boogie2988-mcjuggernuggets-anger-viewers-with-joke-about-missing-youtuber-etika/ Longtime YouTubers Steven “Boogie2988” Williams and Jesse “McJuggerNuggets” Ridgway ignited controversy on Monday after making a joke about missing YouTuber Desmond “Etika” Amofah. During an IRL stream in Virginia, Boogie and McJugger were driving through a rough-looking town at night and making jokes about what kinds of things could happen there. “Bro, we’re gonna fucking die out here,” McJugger said. “We have 500 witnesses that’ll see whatever goes down.” “This is when IRL streams get good, dude,” Boogie responded./post/after-first-esports-tournament-hearthstone-needs-to-go-public/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/after-first-esports-tournament-hearthstone-needs-to-go-public/ From the release of playable demos for new titles like Heroes of the Storm, to giant eSports tournaments, there were many big stories out of this year's BlizzCon, the once-a-year party for all things Blizzard Paul Tassi - Nov 12, 2013 12:46 pm2018-08-13T04:55:40-05:00 ncG1vNJzZmicn6mytLzOq6usZpOkunCt1K2fqKpfpa62uIytmKyrmQ%3D%3D/post/how-to-fix-voip-channel-join-failed-error-message-in-new-world/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-fix-voip-channel-join-failed-error-message-in-new-world/ The closed beta for Amazon Games’ new MMO, New World, launched yesterday and is set to last for two weeks. But since the game is still in a closed testing period, many bugs and errors are being found within the title. One error message that’s frequently affecting players has to do with the game’s in-game voice channel settings.  Many New World players are encountering an in-game error message that will occasionally flash on the bottom of their UI while playing the game./post/sean-miller-named-new-head-of-overwatch-league-jon-spector-steps-back-from-vp-role/Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sean-miller-named-new-head-of-overwatch-league-jon-spector-steps-back-from-vp-role/ The Overwatch League is set to enter a monumental fifth season and the leadership roles are getting a shake-up. Senior business operations manager Sean Miller will take on the head role in the OWL for 2022. VP Jon Spector is stepping back from the OWL specifically, taking on the commercial leader position for Overwatch. pic.twitter.com/jpzQcK0IDi — Overwatch League (@overwatchleague) November 10, 2021 In his announcement tweet, Miller expressed his hopes to make “the 2022 season on [Overwatch 2] the most epic one yet./post/mrbeast-gains-9-2-million-youtube-subscribers-in-a-month-breaks-record/Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mrbeast-gains-9-2-million-youtube-subscribers-in-a-month-breaks-record/ Popular content creator and philanthropist MrBeast has broken the YouTube record for the most subscribers gained in a month, bringing in more than 9.2 million in November 2021. This just beat out the previous record-holder, Indian YouTuber and comedian CarryMinati, who gained 9.1 million in May 2020. MrBeast now hosts 82.2 million total subscribers on YouTube, making him the seventh-most subscribed channel on the video content platform. In the month of November, MrBeast averaged more than 300,000 subscribers gained per day, with a weekly average of 2./post/qtcinderella-reveals-new-streaming-award-show/Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/qtcinderella-reveals-new-streaming-award-show/ Popular streamer and TSM content creator QTCinderella has announced a new streaming awards show. In the announcement post, QTCinderella said she will host the inaugural Streamer Awards alongside fellow Twitch streamer Maya Higa. The announcement video promised various different awards, an in-person red carpet event, and audience voting. The Streamer Awards will be held live from Hollywood on March 12. Voting has already started on the event’s official webpage, which hosts 28 unique streaming categories with write-in nominations./post/sylveon-is-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-on-oct-5/Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/sylveon-is-coming-to-pok%C3%A9mon-unite-on-oct-5/ TiMi Studio and The Pokémon Company aren’t wasting any time with the next update for Pokémon UNITE. Sylveon will make its way to the game on Oct. 5, the two announced today. Get ready for a brand new ranged attacker! Join Sylveon as they scorch, smooch, and stare down opponents in #PokemonUNITE starting on 10/5 at 5:00pm PT! pic.twitter.com/eFLrppvoOd — Pokémon UNITE (@PokemonUnite) October 2, 2021 This new playable Pokémon will be available less than a week after Mamoswine’s addition, making it one of the fastest times between major content drops since UNITE launched in July./post/the-best-tactical-rifles-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-best-tactical-rifles-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/ Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has a new class of weapon: tactical rifles. Tactical rifles are something of a hybrid between assault rifles and sniper rifles, offering longer range and burst or semi-auto fire. They excel at mid-to-long ranges and are great for holding down objectives. In past games, weapons like the M16 or AUG would be classified as assault rifles, but this new title makes them worth looking into when you get tired of assault rifles or running and gunning with SMGs./post/liquid-wins-five-map-thriller-over-fnatic-to-secure-final-eu-spot-at-vct-emea-challengers-playoffs/Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/liquid-wins-five-map-thriller-over-fnatic-to-secure-final-eu-spot-at-vct-emea-challengers-playoffs/ Team Liquid came out on top over Fnatic in a thrilling five-map between two of the top European VALORANT teams today. With the win, Liquid advance to the EU VCT Stage Three Challengers Two grand finals. They also get some revenge from Masters Two Reykjavík, and most importantly, secure the final EU spot at the upcoming EMEA Challengers Playoffs. Team Liquid struck first in the series, but Haven was no easy feat for them./post/mtg-theros-beyond-death-spoilers-leaked-early-from-a-walgreens/Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-theros-beyond-death-spoilers-leaked-early-from-a-walgreens/ Cards from the first Magic: The Gathering set of 2020 were leaked after several booster packs of Theros: Beyond Death were allegedly discovered at a Walgreens.  Over 30 cards from five alleged Theros: Beyond Death booster packs were spoiled after a Reddit user claims a friend found the packs at a Walgreens in Morrisville, North Carolina. Theros: Beyond Death is set to release on Jan. 17 and official MTG spoilers typically begin around a month before an expansion is launched./post/all-working-dead-by-daylight-codes-for-june-2022-get-free-bloodpoints-and-charms/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-working-dead-by-daylight-codes-for-june-2022-get-free-bloodpoints-and-charms/ Progressing in Dead by Daylight requires time and effort. There are ways to speed up the process, using Dead by Daylight redeem codes to unlock Bloodpoints and charms is one of them. Behavior Interactive regularly adds redeemable codes to Dead by Dayight which award players to score free Bloodpoints and charms. They can be used to unlock nodes and perk slots. Redeem codes can also feature cosmetic rewards. Though the rewards will often be small, they can add up in the long run since there will always be new codes./post/best-tft-patch-11-12-comps-draven-yasuo-and-karma-step-up/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/best-tft-patch-11-12-comps-draven-yasuo-and-karma-step-up/ Reroll Teamfight Tactics strategies take a back seat in Patch 11.12, making room for strong trait synergies and carries at levels eight and nine.  Patch 11.12 nerfed two-star reroll carriers like Hecarim and LeBlanc while also reducing crit damage, shifting the TFT meta toward late-game builds like Invokers and comps using chase traits. Yasuo, Draven, and Karma have stood out in the Patch 11.12 meta thanks to the power of their traits./post/group-stage-schedule-and-casters-revealed-for-2020-kespa-cup/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/group-stage-schedule-and-casters-revealed-for-2020-kespa-cup/ The Korean e-Sports Association (KeSPA) unveiled the full group stage schedule and English-speaking casters today for the upcoming KeSPA Cup. For its sixth edition, the League of Legends tournament will feature all 10 teams from the 2021 LCK season competing from Dec. 21 to Jan. 2 for their share of the $131,650 prize pool (₩ 144,000,000). This will also be an opportunity for fans to watch competitive League ahead of the 2021 Spring Split, as well as a preview of the new rosters and organizations joining the LCK for its first franchised season./post/igoturpistola-s-controller-layout-and-settings-for-halo-infinite/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/igoturpistola-s-controller-layout-and-settings-for-halo-infinite/ Justin “iGotUrPistola” Deese is one of the most prolific and accomplished Halo pro players of all time with a decade-long résumé of collecting trophies and making magic. Over the years, his ability to create something out of nothing in-game has earned him the nickname “The WIZARD.” And now, he’s magically returned to OpTic ahead of the 2022 HCS season and the start of the Halo Infinite era. Listed as the No./post/where-to-find-all-evolution-stones-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/where-to-find-all-evolution-stones-in-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-arceus/ Pokémon Legends: Arceus includes multiple new Pokémon, locations, and even core gameplay mechanics—but one thing that has stood the test of time is the inclusion of Evolution Stones.  Even as some evolution methods change and new ones are added, Evolution Stones are still something that players will need to seek out if they want to evolve certain species of Pokémon and complete their Pokédex.  In Legends: Arceus, players can find most items dealing with evolution in the overworld as they travel the Hisui region, including the following stones: /post/how-to-complete-potm-de-gea-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-complete-potm-de-gea-sbc-in-fifa-22-ultimate-team/ An 87-rated Player of the Month (POTM) version of David de Gea from Manchester United is now available in FIFA 22. You can access it in the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu. This is de Gea’s first special card in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. EA added this Premier League POTM card to celebrate his general performance in January. If you compare his 84-rated gold card to this new version, EA gave de Gea’s goalkeeper skills a small increase, such as his Positioning (+6), Handling (+5), Kicking (+3), Diving (+3), and Reflexes (+3)./post/mario-day-deals-what-s-on-sale-during-nintendo-s-mar10-sale/Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mario-day-deals-what-s-on-sale-during-nintendo-s-mar10-sale/ Nintendo celebrates several of its games on specific days throughout the year, and March 10 is always used to pay homage to the Super Mario series.  MAR10 Day can be used to announce new games, merch, collaborations, and more depending on what Nintendo and its partners have planned. The one thing fans can always expect, however, are discounts on select games from Mario’s storied history, whether that be via the Nintendo Switch eShop or retailers./post/how-much-money-has-mixer-paid-shroud-to-stream-on-its-platform/Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-money-has-mixer-paid-shroud-to-stream-on-its-platform/ Shroud had one of the most-watched channels on Twitch, pulling in an average of 25,000 viewers per stream over the last two months regardless of what game he was playing.  But just like Fortnite streamer Ninja, Microsoft came knocking, offering Shroud an undisclosed amount of money to move his stream over to Mixer with an exclusivity deal. He’s leaving his Twitch channel with over seven million followers and 364 million channel views to seek greener pastures on the rival platform./post/when-does-star-wars-hunters-release/Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-star-wars-hunters-release/ The Star Wars franchise is getting another multiplayer title in the form of a third-person arena shooter named Star Wars: Hunters. Fans already have a list of characters available at launch. While the game is looking to feature all the elements that define the Star Wars franchise, the gameplay also resembles Overwatch a little, which can be a huge plus for any gamer who has played Overwatch before.  Star Wars: Hunters will be landing on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. While console players will need to revert back to their phones to try out the game, PC players may have the option to try out the game by installing an Android emulator./post/here-are-all-of-the-2021-overwatch-archives-skins/Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/here-are-all-of-the-2021-overwatch-archives-skins/ The 2021 Overwatch Archives event is hitting the rewind button in more ways than one. This annual event, which begins today and runs through April 27, normally takes players on a trip through important missions from Overwatch’s past.  All of the classic Archives missions will be live for this year’s event and players will get the chance to rack up weekly challenge rewards in a new way. Overwatch designers have doubled down on the historical theme of the event by giving heroes skins that are inspired by their individual cultural histories./post/everything-to-know-about-zenless-zone-zero-beta-sign-up-release-date-more/Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/everything-to-know-about-zenless-zone-zero-beta-sign-up-release-date-more/ Revealed on May 13, Zenless Zone Zero captured a decent level of hype. Considering the game’s being developed by miHoYo, the creator of Genshin Impact, the expectations are already high. Unlike Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero features more roguelike elements. The ARPG also came out swinging with its reveal since it already has a beta test lined up, allowing fans to get an early taste of what miHoYo has been cooking./post/psg-talon-signs-former-fpx-nongshim-mid-laner-gori-ahead-of-2022-pcs-summer-split/Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/psg-talon-signs-former-fpx-nongshim-mid-laner-gori-ahead-of-2022-pcs-summer-split/ PSG Talon has signed former FunPlus Phoenix mid laner Gori in preparation for the 2022 PCS Summer Split. After releasing several players earlier this week, PSG Talon is beginning to plug the holes in its roster as the team’s midseason rebuild continues.  PSG Talon failed to advance past the rumble stage of the Mid-Season Invitational last month and moved on from mid laner Bay and jungler Juhan following the tournament. The duo played just one split for the organization before being replaced heading into the second half of the 2022 season./post/disguised-toast-returns-the-hearthstone-saviors-of-uldum-card-that-he-was-scheduled-to-reveal/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/disguised-toast-returns-the-hearthstone-saviors-of-uldum-card-that-he-was-scheduled-to-reveal/ Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang has been one of Hearthstone’s most popular streamers for most of the game’s lifespan. But unfortunately for fans of the streamer, Toast has opted out of revealing a card from Hearthstone’s next expansion, Saviors of Uldum. Although Blizzard intended for Toast to reveal a card, the streamer has declined the opportunity for a variety of reasons that he shared on Twitter. Toast said his decision was impacted by his personal feelings about Hearthstone and due to how the community reacted to the news of his reveal./post/genesis-8-returns-in-january-2022-features-super-smash-bros-64-melee-and-ultimate/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/genesis-8-returns-in-january-2022-features-super-smash-bros-64-melee-and-ultimate/ One of the biggest and most important tournament series in the history of the Super Smash Bros. has been officially announced for a 2022 return. Genesis typically marks the first Major and official start to a year full of competition for all active titles. Because of ongoing health concerns surrounding COVID-19, the Genesis team opted to not hold an event in January this year. Instead, the tournament series will return for the eight time from Jan./post/how-to-watch-esl-pro-league-season-15/Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-esl-pro-league-season-15/ The 15th season of ESL Pro League, one of the most prestigious CS:GO tournaments in the world, is set to run from March 9 to April 10 with a total of 24 teams in attendance. This edition of the Pro League will be the first since season 10 to be played on LAN. The past four editions had to be played online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will feature an $823,000 prize pool and will be played in a studio environment from Düsseldorf, Germany./post/we-need-to-admit-that-the-eu-vs-na-debate-isn-t-even-a-debate-anymore/Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/we-need-to-admit-that-the-eu-vs-na-debate-isn-t-even-a-debate-anymore/ Fans of the EU and NA LCS love to debate which region is the better of the two. It’s been a friendly rivalry for years, stemming from the fact that both LCS regions have been so much worse than the LCK and LPL for the majority of competitive League of Legends history. Aside from an odd CLG squad being runners-up at MSI and an Origen making semifinals at Worlds, these regions have been more or less within spitting distance of one another./post/how-much-does-playstation-plus-cost-full-pricing-details/Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-much-does-playstation-plus-cost-full-pricing-details/ PlayStation’s game roster is filled with epic single-player games, but the real fun starts when you begin playing with your friends in online lobbies. Unlike PC gaming, accessing a PlayStation game’s online features is locked behind a paid subscription system to PlayStation Plus (PS Plus). PS Plus isn’t just a paywall that’s for playing multiplayer game modes with your friends, though. It offers more services that make subscribing more than worth it for most gamers./post/t1-mid-laner-faker-reaches-1-000-games-played/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/t1-mid-laner-faker-reaches-1-000-games-played/ Legendary T1 mid laner Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok has become just the second player in history to reach 1,000 games in their professional career. Faker’s match against KT today had many implications and stakes on the line. As the three-time World Champion took his seat in the LCK Arena, he got himself ready to play the match that would decide if T1 would end the first half of the round-robin undefeated. /post/all-players-qualified-for-the-fortnite-world-cup-finals/Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-players-qualified-for-the-fortnite-world-cup-finals/ The winners of the Fortnite World Cup Open Qualifiers are being announced. They’re the players who got the top spots of the weekly competition in their respective regions and can now sit back and enjoy the taste of victory and their share of the $1 million prize pool. These are the players who fans will see playing live in the Fortnite World Cup Finals in New York City from July 26 to 28, competing for the lion’s share of a $30 million prize pool./post/worlds-2021-group-stage-scores-standings-and-results/Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/worlds-2021-group-stage-scores-standings-and-results/ A total of 16 teams have made it to the group stage of the 2021 League of Legends Worlds Championship, marking the main event of the tournament.  The top four teams from the play-in stage will join 12 teams who directly qualified for the event. As always, the top two teams from each of the four groups will advance to the knockout stage. Group A includes DWG KIA, FunPlus Phoenix, Rogue, and Cloud9./post/the-elder-scrolls-online-s-high-isle-prologue-quests-are-now-live/Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/the-elder-scrolls-online-s-high-isle-prologue-quests-are-now-live/ The prologue quest for The Elder Scrolls Online‘s High Isle expansion went live on the game’s servers today. The two quests kick off the narrative that will be at the center of the Legacy of the Bretons cycle in ESO. The first quest, Ascending Doubt, has players teaming up with Jakarn from the Ascending Tide DLC in a secret mission. The Ascendant Order has kidnapped Guild Scholar Valessea and stolen the medallions she crafted for Lady Arabelle Davaux./post/when-does-company-of-heroes-3-release/Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-company-of-heroes-3-release/ Company of Heroes 3, the third World War II RTS game made by Relic, has been officially unveiled. Although the release date hasn’t been revealed by Relic yet, COH 3 is confirmed to launch sometime in 2022. But you can take part in the development of the game right now in what Relic calls pre-alpha. It will allow you to play the demo, see what builds are available, and have discussions with the devs./post/spheal-to-be-featured-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-january-2022-community-day/Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/spheal-to-be-featured-in-pok%C3%A9mon-go-january-2022-community-day/ Pokémon Go’s January 2022 Community Day starts the year with a return to the Hoenn region, this time featuring a round friend that enjoys the chilly winter weather. Spheal, the Clap Pokémon, is set to star as the featured Pokémon in the first Community Day of the year. This Water-and-Ice type Pokémon first debuted in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, where it has since grown in popularity due to its spherical design and laid-back nature./post/all-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-available-during-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-hoopa-s-arrival-event/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-shiny-pok%C3%A9mon-available-during-pok%C3%A9mon-go-s-hoopa-s-arrival-event/ Hoopa is continuing to bring tons of Pokémon into the world of Pokémon Go through its rings, but the Mischief Pokémon’s schemes have grown now that Hoopa is sneaking ever closer into players’ grasps. Alongside the Hoopa’s Arrival event, which gives players access to the next step of the Season of Mischief’s Special Research, the Mischief Pokémon has summoned numerous Ghost, Dark, and Psychic-type Pokémon in large amounts. The types of Pokémon appearing will rotate every hour starting at 11am local time./post/among-us-is-free-to-own-on-the-epic-games-store-for-a-limited-time/Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/among-us-is-free-to-own-on-the-epic-games-store-for-a-limited-time/ Innersloth has partnered with Epic Games to push its popular Among Us title to even more players, offering the game for free on the Epic Games Store.  The EGS version of the game is the same PC variant that’s available on Steam and would typically cost $4.99 as a standalone purchase.  Wait, what? No, we’re not the Imposters – we were on the other side of the ship, unlocking the #EpicMEGASale Vault… 👀/post/who-is-mila-in-apex-legends/Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/who-is-mila-in-apex-legends/ Apex Legends‘ Lost Treasures event could shed some light on Crypto’s mysterious background. After a series of teasers, Respawn revealed Crypto’s Map Room, an upcoming addition to Kings Canyon. But that’s not the end of it. The final seconds of the trailer contain a message to Crypto. A woman’s voice speaks to the hacker through his signature drone with a warning. “T, it’s me,” she said. “Be careful. He’s watching you./post/legendary-starcraft-2-pro-and-caster-geoff-robinson-dies/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/legendary-starcraft-2-pro-and-caster-geoff-robinson-dies/ Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson, a popular Starcraft 2 pro player and caster, has died. Robinson was 33 when he passed due to a sudden illness, according to his Twitter account. Robinson started as one of the original Starcraft 2 players, having received a beta license for the game. He went on to join the storied Evil Genuises organization in 2009 and led its SC2 roster. Evil Genuises cemented itself as a major player in SC2 by signing a litany of Korean pros and even establishing a gaming house in Korea, the home of Starcraft esports./post/you-can-summon-a-giant-loch-ness-monster-in-apex-legends/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/you-can-summon-a-giant-loch-ness-monster-in-apex-legends/ In a matter of hours, the Apex Legends community has been able to solve the Loch Ness Monster mystery that has been plaguing the community since the start of the day. Originally, members of the community seemed to believe that a special in-game event around the Lock Ness monster was set to come out in the future. With the Easter Egg being solved now, however, that does not seem to be the case./post/hangzhou-spark-indefinitely-suspend-krystal/Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/hangzhou-spark-indefinitely-suspend-krystal/ This article is brought to you by StatBanana, the best Overwatch strategy tool. Hangzhou Spark’s Cai “Krystal” Shilong has been indefinitely suspended by the Overwatch League team after a week-long public feud over his attitude toward practice. Krystal was fined earlier this week after failing to keep Spark management informed about his 10-day absence and his lack of preparation for scrims. Hangzhou outlined Krystal’s misdemeanors over the last few months in a statement on the team’s Weibo./post/pokimane-re-signs-with-twitch/Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/pokimane-re-signs-with-twitch/ After weeks of speculation, streamer and content creator Imane “Pokimane” Anys has finally announced what streaming platform she’ll be signing with following her contract expiring with Twitch—and fans won’t have to go too far to watch her streams. Pokimane revealed on Twitter today that she’s re-signing with Twitch, where she’ll continue to stream exclusively. She began her streaming journey on Twitch in 2013 and has since become one of the most influential streamers on the platform./post/atlanta-reign-reveals-2022-overwatch-league-roster/Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/atlanta-reign-reveals-2022-overwatch-league-roster/ Most teams in the Overwatch League are revealing their 2022 rosters piece by piece, waiting for deals to be completed or trades to go through. Befitting the Atlanta Reign’s aggressive style, the team has simply given its roster to the fans in one fell swoop.  Atlanta announced its 2022 roster today, introducing some new faces to the Overwatch League and showing off its most recent acquisitions. Former San Francisco Shock DPS Charlie “nero” Zwarg will be joining the Reign alongside Lee “Venom” Dong-keun./post/how-to-watch-mtg-commander-2019-reveal-at-gen-con/Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/how-to-watch-mtg-commander-2019-reveal-at-gen-con/ August is almost upon us and with it comes the Magic: The Gathering Commander 2019 set and reveals, beginning with Gen Con. Set to release on Aug. 23 is Commander 2019, with the first reveal for the set beginning on Aug. 1 at Gen Con. Livestreaming from the infamous tabletop gaming convention, MTG previews begin at 5pm CT via theMagic Twitch channel.  Following the previews released by MTG designer Gavin Verhey, spoilers will start dropping the first week up until the release of Commander 2019./post/twitch-hackers-plaster-platform-with-images-of-jeff-bezos-face/Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/twitch-hackers-plaster-platform-with-images-of-jeff-bezos-face/ Hackers have struck Twitch again. Just a couple of days after the massive data leak that included Twitch’s source code and information on streamer earnings, hackers plastered the platform with pictures of Jeff Bezos’ face today. The image of the Amazon founder in the form of the classic PogChamp emote was found across the Dota 2, GTA V, and League of Legends sections on Twitch. The hackers managed to keep their alterations to the website up for over two hours before Twitch restored its platform to normalcy./post/flyquest-reveals-2022-lcs-roster/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/flyquest-reveals-2022-lcs-roster/ It’s been a busy offseason for most LCS organizations, with every team preparing for the new year with revamped League of Legends lineups. The latest team to introduce its squad is FlyQuest and the roster looks poised to make some noise in 2022. The team consists of top laner Kumo, Argentinian jungler Josedeodo, French mid laner Toucouille, Canadian AD carry Johnsun, and LCS veteran support aphromoo. The diverse roster will look to bring better fortunes to FlyQuest after finishing as a bottom-three team during both the 2021 LCS Spring and Summer Splits./post/playstation-error-code-np-34957-8-explained/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/playstation-error-code-np-34957-8-explained/ PlayStation users might be experiencing an increase in issues with connecting to the PlayStation Network at the moment, mostly due to ongoing issues impacting the service.  Right now, players on both PlayStation 4 and 5 are reporting multiple encounters with error code NP-34957-8 following a server communication error.  This is one of several error codes that Sony has officially labeled with a definitive cause, that being the PSN likely being down for some form of maintenance./post/riot-there-probably-won-t-be-any-more-duo-champions-like-xayah-and-rakan/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/riot-there-probably-won-t-be-any-more-duo-champions-like-xayah-and-rakan/ Xayah and Rakan really do have a one-in-a-million sort of love after all. The lovebirds were the first champions in League of Legends’ history to be launched with a unique duo synergy, and it turns out they’re probably also going to be the last. Riot will not be designing any more champions with like-minded synergies in the foreseeable future, according to the company’s announcement late last week. Xayah and Rakan’s design identity was a very fun, unique way to introduce League’s first official couple./post/when-does-fortnite-come-back-what-the-end-of-chapter-2-means-for-players/Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/when-does-fortnite-come-back-what-the-end-of-chapter-2-means-for-players/ The End has come to Fortnite to cap off Chapter Two, and the game will never be the same. Players tuned into The End event on Dec. 4 and held off a brief zombie alien invasion before their guns were taken away prior to the destruction of the Cube. Following that, a cinematic featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson took place, which eventually led to the island being flipped over and causing a massive tidal wave to cover the entire map with water./post/all-of-pyra-and-mythra-s-alternate-colors-and-costumes-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate-explained/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/all-of-pyra-and-mythra-s-alternate-colors-and-costumes-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate-explained/ Every character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gets eight different color variants that give players a chance to customize their selection based completely on aesthetic preference.   Nintendo adds these little details mainly to give players options to slightly change how their favorite character looks. But in the case of fighters like Byleth and Hero, it’s a fun way to give a series more representation in a lone fighter. Series creator Masahiro Sakurai and his team love sneaking in hints and references to the original games with each new character added to the Ultimate roster./post/mtg-s-meathook-massacre-spikes-in-price-following-wizard-s-premier-play-announcement/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000/post/mtg-s-meathook-massacre-spikes-in-price-following-wizard-s-premier-play-announcement/ Tabletop Magic: The Gathering organized play returns for the upcoming 2022-2023 season, resulting in The Meathook Massacre Enchantment increasing in price by 23 percent this past week as a likely result of the return to tabletop pro play. Wizards of the Coast announced earlier this week that theorganized play 2022-2023 Magic season will feature tabletop tournaments at the highest levels of competitive gameplay via the Pro Tour and the MTG World Championship.