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Cyberpunk 2077 must be the most hyped up game of the year. With the game now officially released, talk about the game is as loud as ever. For a lot of people, Cyberpunk 2077 is their most-awaited game since forever. As such, discussions about the game have been at a fever pitch, with a lot […]

The Holidays are just right around the corner, and we understand that you, dear reader, might be having a hard time finding the right gifts. Whether the gifts are for you or for a loved one, this 2020 Holiday Gift Guide will help you make the right purchase. Gamers are blessed to have such a […]

This holiday season is the perfect time to take a deep dive into gaming. The season to be merry is also the season for gaming, and Microsoft’s Xbox One is still a great gaming console to sink your teeth into. Whether it’s you, dear reader, or someone dear to you you’re shopping for this holiday […]

In true Dr Disrespect fashion, gamers from other platforms were slighted once again by the provocative streamer. Mobile gaming is a serious thing? The issue starts off with a tweet by Dr Disrespect, where he flexed his PC gaming set-up, followed by a comment questioning the seriousness of mobile gaming. This ruffled many feathers. This […]

Team SoloMid (TSM) is in a state of rebuilding right now. After going 0-6 in the group stage of Worlds 2020, TSM is making moves to make sure they’ll do better next year. Being one of the top teams in the LCS, expectations are high for the North American team. Most recently, they’ve signed one […]

Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar is a stalwart of Twitch, a veteran streamer that a lot of youngbloods look up to. Starting out as a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player, he successfully transitioned to streaming. Now, at the age of 33 and eight years into streaming, summit1g remains popular. We look into his career and his […]

Professional players who compete in the tournaments are usually at the forefront of gaming’s richest list. But there are live-streaming celebrities who could actually match the earnings and net worth of the most successful pros. One of these is Michael “Imaqtpie” Santana. A prolific streamer, The Rolling Stones regarded him as the “World’s Biggest League […]

The Nintendo DS cult classic The World Ends With You finally returns with NEO: The World Ends With You (NTWEWY). After thirteen long years of wait, a brand-new game will arrive both for old fans and new players. New faces, same places NEO: The World Ends With You is once again set in Shibuya, the […]

Team Secret’s Dota 2 squad bags Esports Awards 2020’s Esports Team of the Year award. Esports Awards 2020 gave Team Secret this prestigious award in recognition of their dominance in the European scene. Beginning March this year, Team Secret won eight major titles in a row and posted an unprecedented 150-game record at 122-28. This […]

World champion, boxing legend, and Filipino senator Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao is going to star in his very own video game. The game, titled Fighting Pride: The Manny Pacquiao Saga, features the boxing icon’s rise to stardom. The game will feature three modes: historical mode, player-versus-player mode, and a story mode which follows his rise from […]

We’re a couple of years into the Nintendo Switch’s life cycle, and we still have a lot of great games coming for the system. One of these is Bravely Default II, Gamespot‘s Most Anticipated Game of the Year for 2020. Still, it turns out that the game isn’t exactly coming this year, with its release […]

Swiss commentator Salome Soe “Soembie” Gschwind Penski wins the 2020 Top Esports Host of the Year of the gameHERS Awards. Soembie started her esports career way back in 2007 when she was nineteen. She rose to prominence as she started casting on German television for NRW TV along with his Freaks 4U Gaming co-talents. Since […]

Martin “Rekkles” Larsson is one of the most talked-about free agents during the 2020 League of Legends (LOL) Preseason. Now that he’s moved on in his career, leaving behind Fnatic to join their bitter rivals, it’s a good time to check on what he has achieved in his career so far. And yes, that includes […]

PlayStation 5 is out now, but some of the best games for the console are yet to come. One of such games is Final Fantasy XVI (FFXVI). The long-storied franchise will be bringing its next game as a timed exclusive for the PS5, but details about this upcoming game are sparse. We gathered everything we […]

Leaving Fnatic was already a big deal for the fans of Martin “Rekkles” Larsson. But to add salt to the wounds, he’ll be calling Fnatic’s biggest rivals, G2 Esports, his new home. G2 Esports and Fnatic are the two halves of what may be considered the LEC’s most iconic rivalries. The star ADC enjoyed a […]

Recent changes in T1’s coaching staff was received with mixed emotions by T1 fans. Now, T1 seems to be earning the good graces of their fans again. By acquiring Keria, T1 may have just solidified the strongest bottom lane in the LCK. The new support replaces T1’s Choi “Kuri” Won-yeong, who played with the team […]

The Game Awards 2020 (TGA 2020) is one of the most anticipated events in the video game industry. It’s an annual awards night with hype rivaling even that of E3’s. This year’s version of TGA is going to be special, being the first-ever virtual event for the show. Small soundstages in three different locations around […]

Blizzard is again in hot water because of their newly-implemented Tavern Pass in Hearthstone. Blizzard’s latest update on November 12 introduced a new progression rewards system. It introduces a battle pass called the Tavern Pass, which would have reinvented the game’s rewards system. It was supposed to give all kinds of players rewards proportional to […]

The PlayStation 5 (PS5) ushered in the next-generation of gaming, but not everyone can get one. The PS5 is one of the most-anticipated consoles in gaming history. It’s understandable that many people would want to have one. But regardless of whether or not you have money to buy one, it’s not a guarantee that you’ll […]

Microsoft clarifies that their future $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda’s parent company will not lead to exclusivity. When Microsoft revealed that they plan to acquire Bethesda, many fans became concerned about the implications. Fans were scared that future Fallout and The Elder Scrolls will become Windows and Xbox Series X/S exclusives. In a Jefferies Interactive […]

The LoL preseason, the time when the League of Legends (LoL) community prepares for the next competitive season, is always a tumultuous time. From massive balancing updates to the game to surprising roster changes, there’s a lot of goings-on during this time. As a LoL fan, it might be hard to keep track of everything […]

It seems like Riot’s decision to disqualify Guild Esports from First Strike EU didn’t sit well with fans. Last Friday, the David Beckham-backed esports team used a bug in the game in their favor to defeat G2 Esports. However, upon learning about this bug abuse, Riot decided to disqualify Guild Esports. Unsurprsingly, Guild Esports protested […]

Sony’s PlayStation 5 has been out for almost a week now. You may be one of those who already own one. After playing through the PS5’s launch titles, you’re probably already itching for something new. So we rounded up the must-have PS5 accessories to match your brand-new next-gen console. Oh, and if you haven’t gotten […]

Mario Kart tops the list of most stressful games to play, a study by Bonusfinder claims. Bonusfinder, a website that focuses on online gambling, used a sample of fourteen gamers in the study that involved sixteen games. They asked the participants to play different video games while the researchers measured their beats per minute (BPM). […]

A woman claims that the League of Legends character Seraphine was made in her likeness, a claim that Riot has since denied. The allegation comes from a Medium post by “Stephanie Dorris,” titled The Problem With Seraphine, and through a Twitter thread. In the article, the writer alleges that a former Riot employee based the […]

T1 unveils new coaches, introducing Lee “Zefa” Jae-min and Yang “Daeny” Dae-in as their new regular and head coach, respectively. The organization also introduced Choi “Polt” Seong-hun as the team’s new general manager. Both Zefa and Daeny were formerly the coaches of the most recent Worlds champions, DAMWON Gaming. The two switched roles in their […]

The Xbox Series X/S just launched, and many people are already saying it’s having serious problems. It’s normal for a new console’s launch for people to claim all sorts of hardware problems. But Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S was the subject of a very serious rumor. Based on some videos posted on social media such as […]

After more than four years of covering esports news, ESPN will be closing down its esports news division. ESPN Esports goes dark as part of massive layoffs ESPN will no longer have a dedicated esports division as part of a massive lay-off that saw more than 300 jobless. The company also leaves over 200 positions […]

Great plays lead to victories. Overwhelming victories lead to championships. These are the top plays in the Grand Finals of the DOTA Summit 13 made by the winning teams leading to their eventual championship. DOTA Summit 13 Online SEA Grand Finals, Game 2: Fearless’ Dark Rift outflanks Abed Motivate.Trust Gaming Among Us JaCkky inYourdreaM Fearless […]

CD Projekt Red first revealed Cyberpunk 2077 in 2012. They first announced its release date to be April 2020. However, it’s been delayed over and over again. So what is the actual release date? Cyberpunk 2077 development history CD Projekt Red started working on Cyberpunk 2077 when they finished Witcher 3‘s final expansion. While Witcher […]

The retirement age of professional sports athletes usually fall on the late thirties or early forties. Professional wrestlers enjoy decades-long careers, with some even competing at their sixties. Why then do professional esports athletes, whose peak physical activity only involves jumping up and down in victory, retire so early? What do they do after retiring? […]

We’re all excited to get our hands on the PS5 and Xbox Series version of NBA 2K21, especially us who have the Mamba Forever Edition (which pays great homage to Kobe, by the way). We’ve already played the current-gen version, and it’s been swell so far. But there are just some features that will make […]

Halo Infinite is having serious development issues, especially now that lead director Chris Lee has left the project. Bloomberg was the first to report on Lee’s departure. Lee said upon leaving: “I have stepped back from Infinite and I am looking at future opportunities. I believe in the team and am confident they will deliver […]

Amer “Miracle-” Al-Barkawi is everything his name suggests – a complete miracle in his ability to play the way he does. Becoming the first to reach a prestigious goal easily makes you one of the best in the game. For Miracle-, his claim to fame is becoming the first player to reach 9,000 Matchmaking Rating […]

If there’s one esports athlete who is well known by everyone regardless of the game they play, it has to be Johan “N0tail” Sundstein. From a relatively unknown player, N0tail became an esports celebrity. As the captain and leader of OG, he led his team to win two years in a row in The International […]

It seems like the end of the line for Virtus.pro’s (VP) veterans Vladimir “No[o]ne” Minenko and Alexei “Solo” Berezin, as VP sets them aside in favor of VP.Prodigy. Virtus.pro placed their main roster to inactive last September. Since then, the organization has been fielding VP.Prodigy, their developmental team, on Dota 2 tournaments. Thanks to VP.Prodigy’s […]

Crucial news for PlayStation fans: Sony announced that the PS5 will only be available for online purchase on launch day. The PlayStation 5 (PS5), Sony’s next-generation console, is coming out on November 12 (or 19 overseas). In a blog post, Sony Senior Director Sid Shuman announced that there will be no in-store for the console […]

Being a Yakuza isn’t all just about being part of a gang. The Yakuza is more than just a Japanese mafia. You can take Sega’s word for it, as their depiction of crime families is dashed will all sorts of wacky and quirky stuff, hyperbolic Japanese characteristics. Their latest game, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is […]

No one is as charismatic, as entertaining, and as braggadocious as Dr Disrespect. A unique character, Dr Disrespect is the gamer alter-ego of Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV. He rose to prominence on Twitch.tv playing shooter games such as Call of Duty (CoD), PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and H1Z1. However, for undisclosed reasons, Twitch banned his channel, which […]