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Far Cry 6‘s villain-centric DLC series continues with Pagan: Control, releasing on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on January 11, 2022. The Pagan Min-centric DLC can only be played by owners of the base game of Far Cry 6. Ubisoft knows that the greatest strength of their Far Cry series lies in their larger-than-life villains. […]

Following the release of Genshin Impact 2.4 comes a boss duo that’s more fearsome and challenging than anything players have faced so far. They are agile, fierce, and have the ability to drain large amounts of energy and health, especially if one is not careful when fighting the boss. This article will guide you to […]

Genshin Impact 2.4 has finally arrived for all servers of Genshin Impact which means Yun Jin is now obtainable from both of the two new banners. She is part of the 4-star rate-up of “The Transcendent One Returns”, which also features Shenhe, and “Invitation to Mundane Life”, which features a rerun of Xiao. If you’re […]

VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) 2022 is just a few weeks away, and teams are already stepping up their preparations for the second official season of the pro circuit. But on Wednesday, North American team Evil Geniuses (EG) announced they are parting ways with three players. This means they will be scampering to build a new […]

The VALORANT community is eagerly anticipating the release of agent 18, who we now know as Neon. The lightning-quick new agent is the first Manila-based hero in the game—and she’s designed by a Filipino, too. As Neon’s trailer, Spark, dropped on Wednesday, fans immediately took notice of the Philippine-inspired elements all over the video, praising […]

League of Legends Season 12 is just beginning. And yet, even as early as the preseason, players complaints already arose, urging changes to the Chemtech Rift. Amid the controversy around the Chemtech Rift being much too strong, Riot actually shipped out a secret change to the map just as Patch 12.1 is about to go live. […]

With Axie Infinity‘s utility token SLP dropping in value consistently, Sky Mavis has decided to step in and offer more drastic solutions. In Axie Infinity Season 19, various changes will be implemented by the developers to rebalance the game’s economy and hopefully bring SLP’s value back up. In the most recent Dev Journal post on substack, Sky Mavis […]

MiHoYo is releasing a line of new costumes – previously unannounced – as alternate costumes come in future updates. Four new alternate, optional costumes will be released in Genshin Impact, one each for Jean, Amber, Mona, and Rosaria. The new costumes came seemingly out of nowhere, revealed by miHoYo with almost no fanfare. New costumes […]

Riot Games’ iconic artistry is in full display once again – this time featuring VALORANT‘s newest agent – NEON. Spark – VALORANT‘s NEON Agent Trailer VALORANT’s newest agent, NEON, finally gets her time in the spotlight. In the newest trailer released by VALORANT, we see NEON in Riot Games’ signature crisp animation style in action. We see both […]

Sony’s PlayStation VR will be getting a much-needed overhaul. Meet the PlayStation VR 2 – Sony’s brand-new virtual reality experience matched with a brand-new VR2 Sense controller. Here comes the next generation of gaming for the PS5. The PS5 didn’t launch alongside a new VR headset which left PlayStation 5 owners playing only PS4-compatible VR […]

Apex Legends is back at it again with the game crashes – players are just getting used to this now. This time around, it’s being caused by a Legendary Skin Respawn Entertainment recently released. In fact, Respawn even confirmed on Twitter that the bug does indeed exist and they’re now working on a fix. Talk […]

The long-awaited Uncharted movie, which entered production in 2008 way before Naughty Dog released almost all of the games, will finally be in theaters this year. The film, starring Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg as Drake’s mentor Sully, will come out later this year. Here is when Uncharted movie’s release date is going to […]

As of January 4, 2022, Fortnite Patch 19.01 officially went live and is bringing new updates into the game. First, we have the brand new Shield Keg which gives players a brand new way to regenerate their shields. The most recent patch also marks the conclusion of Fortnite’s Winterfest event. Lastly, Patch 19.01 is also […]

League of Legends is kickstarting 2022 with a spunky new champion soon to join its roster. Fans first got a glimpse of the new champion back in the Netflix trailer for Riot’s hit animated series Arcane. Hailing from Zaun, Zeri will be making her debut on Summoner’s Rift very soon. Here’s what we know so far […]

The new year means a new League of Legends season is upon us. Riot already gave several previews throughout the preseason about changes to expect in Season 12, including a reworked Teleport spell, Chemtech and Hextech dragons, and tuning down burst damage. Now, the first patch of 2022 will be going live in just a few […]

One of the benefits PC gaming has over consoles is the ability to mod the games to your heart’s content. One modder took modding Final Fantasy 7 Remake too far, and even she herself knows her FF7R Mod is as cursed as it gets. As spotted by Polygon, Twitch gamer louiseyhannah shared her gameplay on Twitter featuring a […]

As Axie Infinity continues to gain in popularity in spite of its drastically devalued cryptocurrency, Sky Mavis finds it in itself to share future plans to players on what they have in store for the game. Among these plans include Axie Infinity Land gameplay, an aspect of the NFT game currently in development. Owners of Land, NFTs of pieces […]

At long last, Xiao finally gets his rerun, but along with the reruns of two other long-sought characters. In the first phase of version 2.4, Xiao will be appearing again in a banner, alongside Shenhe. Xiao is a 5-star Anemo Polearm character, adept at dealing huge amounts of AoE damage from Plunging Attacks. He is […]

From pros to casual players, many in the Apex Legends community have long been calling for changes to the Ranked game mode. Among the requested changes include an in-game leaderboard and unique Ranked rewards. But most of all, there’s one feature that pretty much everyone is itching to have. That’s a demotion system in Ranked. Recently, Apex […]

As League of Legends pro play gears up for another season in 2022, the best of the best in Korea will soon return to the playing stage. And that means fans won’t have to wait too long now until they can witness iconic players like Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok from T1 and Heo “ShowMaker” Su from defending champions […]

The debut year of VALORANT in the competitive esports scene got off to a fantastic start. The inaugural competition, VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) concluded with VCT Champions Berlin in early December 2021, crowning Acend as the first ever World Champions. But now as teams gear up for VCT 2022, rosters are shuffling about, with some changes already […]

G2 Esports CEO Carlos Rodriguez officially confirmed that they’ve signed Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov. Through a tweet, the G2 CEO welcomed the 16-year-old CSGO prodigy to their team, confirming their acquisition of m0NESY from Natus Vincere Junior. https://twitter.com/CarlosR/status/1478036733161787393 m0NESY will now be part of the G2 roster, but given that the French organization hasn’t actually released anyone yet […]

FaZe Clan has finally officially announced the newest addition to their roster: Robin “ropz” Kool, formerly of MOUZ. The announcement came off Twitter made just an hour after G2 Esports announced their signing of Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov. https://twitter.com/FaZeClan/status/1478048711318122499 The Rifler will have a very big pair of shoes to fill – replacing CSGO veteran olofmeister who has […]

Shin Megami Tensei V has just sold 800,000 copies since its launch, Atlus announced. This makes the Nintendo Switch exclusive title the fastest-selling Shin Megami title ever. In a New Year’s Day open letter published through Famitsu, Atlus announced Shin Megami Tensei V‘s sales milestone, all the while thanking their fans for their continued support. The letter reads, as translated […]

Miss college football in your video games? Don’t worry, EA Sports got you covered. Expect an NCAA Football revival title by Summer 2023. NCAA Football reporter Brandon Marcello reports that EA Sports aims to have their NCAA Football revival title out by Summer 2023. In a tweet, he says that Collegiate Licensing Co. CEO Cory […]

Capcom’s Resident Evil Village just won Steam’s Game of the Year award. The award, chosen by voting from Steam users, was revealed by Valve today. Games that Resident Evil Village beat out for the title are Valheim, New World, Cyberpunk 2077, and Forza Horizon 5. That’s an odd party – none of these, aside from RE8, actually got nominated for TGA 2021’s GotY award. […]

A soon-to-be-blind gamer turned to Reddit for advice, and Redditors delivered enormous support. Reddit user u/darkcitrusmarmelade went to Reddit to ask Redditors to ask what games they should play before they turn legally blind. The Redditor writes: “I have an eye-condition that will probably make me legally blind within in next 6-12 months.” The Redditor […]

Steam, in spite of its competition, remains to be the most popular storefront on PC. Granted, years of headstart is hard to upend, but the perks of getting your games on Epic or over at GOG.com don’t appear to make a dent on Steam’s numbers. As reported by GameRant, Steam’s numbers continue to grow, breaking their […]

Hideo Kojima teased a new project on his Twitter account at the turn of the year. What is this new project? We don’t know yet. The brilliant mind behind Death Stranding, Metal Gear, and PT has a new project up its sleeve this 2022. At the turn of the year, Kojima tweeted: “Happy New Year and all the best […]

Pokémon fans are looking forward to the arrival of another new game, Pokémon Legends Arceus, this January. With the much-awaited release right around the corner, many will probably be wondering what the new Hisui region has in store. Besides the mystical landscapes and new battle system, trainers will be excited to encounter wild Pokémon of […]

Fans are highly anticipating the return of League of Legends pro play. For LCS viewers, they will get a first look at NA teams’ new rosters with the pre-season Lock-In tournament starting very soon. All 10 teams will get a chance to show off what they’ve been preparing in the off-season, or even experiment with fun […]

Is playing more video games part of your New Year’s Resolutions? If it is, then here are January 2022’s top new games. Top 10 New Games of January 2022 1. Demon Gaze Extra Release Date: January 6 Developed By: Cattle Call Published By: Clouded Leopard Entertainment Platforms: Switch, PS4 An enhanced version of a PS Vita […]

Square Enix President and NieR: Automata optional boss Yosuke Matsuda revealed the company’s big plans for NFTs and the metaverse. In a New Year’s open letter, Matsuda bared Square Enix’s medium-term business strategies involving NFTs. He admits that most gamers, what he calls “play-to-have-fun” players, aren’t exactly thrilled by NFTs and metaverses. However, he also concluded that […]

After teasing fans for weeks, Riot finally revealed the newest agent for Valorant: Neon. Not that Riot wanted to reveal her already, two weeks ahead of her planned release in Episode 4 Act 1. Rather, Amazon Prime Gaming accidentally released an artwork featuring the Filipino agent, something they immediately took down when they realized their mistake. […]

A Singaporean dead finds himself in deep debt – $20,000 deep – after his daughter spent fortunes on Genshin Impact. Popular open-world action-adventure Gacha game Genshin Impact won TGA 2021‘s Mobile Game of the Year Award thanks to its overwhelming popularity. The game, which is available on mobile devices, PC, and PlayStation, has been wildly successful since […]

Genshin Impact 2.4 is already shaping up to be an exciting version update, but miHoYo isn’t done yet in exciting its fans. On New Year’s Eve, miHoYo posted on Twitter the official character art for Yae Miko, the shrine maiden of Grand Narukami Shrine. This officially confirms something that dataminers have known for some time: Yae Miko […]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was one of the most spectacular games of the previous console generation. While many of us have already had our fill, The Witcher is still a game that keeps on giving. This holiday season, CD Projekt Red offered owners of The Witcher 3 some freebies, goodies, and digital gifts. Are you one of the […]

The investor lawsuit over Cyberpunk 2077‘s release against CD Projekt Red has finally been settled. The settlement amounts to $1.85 million. It has been more than a year since the release of Cyberpunk 2077. Over the past year, fans have demanded refunds, fanatics have defended the game to their grave, and company investors have sued the developers […]

The sporting world lost a legend on Tuesday when Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden passed away at the age of 85. Tributes came pouring in for the NFL icon and for his part, Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards made sure that he too would honor the fallen legend. Edwards, however, took a bit […]