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FromSoftware’s Elden Ring will have a Closed Network Test soon, and Bandai Namco is promoting it through a brand-new trailer. Rise, Tarnished! Bandai Namco’s newsletter reads, encouraging us to sign up for the upcoming Closed Network Test. The test – a sort of beta testing that’s focused on the game’s online capabilities. The Closed Network Test will […]

Dota: Dragon’s Blood will be back for a second season, and it’s going to bring a classic Dota character along with it. The Dota: Dragon‘s Blood Season 2 trailer showcases this hero, along with returning characters from the first season of the show. Dota: Dragon’s Blood Season 2 Trailer Dota: Dragon’s Blood introduced a lot of new characters previously not included […]

With NBA 2K22‘s Season 1 Call to Ball ending soon, the best that the season has to offer comes back in the form of the Season 1 Call to Ball Super Pack. These Super Packs contain the best of the best that any of the premium booster packs contained throughout the season. These are the cards […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Team Spirit for winning The International 10 in a public letter published on the Kremlin’s website today. The letter was shared by Dota 2 community pillar Wykrhm Reddy on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of the plain-looking letter. Twitter user Will Beers shared a screenshot of the translated tweet. It reads: “Dear friends! […]

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy game recently appeared in Steam’s store available for pre-purchase. Within this page are the system requirements for players to run the game. Shockingly, Guardians of the Galaxy requires at least 150 GB of free space on your drives to download the game. Looks like it’s about time that players started […]

The Pokemon Company is undoubtedly going all out for the 25th Anniversary of Pokemon. This holiday season, Pokemon fans are getting three games, two of which are remakes and one brand new game. In fact, in the Pokemon TCG scene, we’ve also seen the release of three celebrity Pokemon cards. However, it looks like The […]

Brother buff is real. Team Liquid (TL) smashed through the EMEA VCT Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) off the backs of siblings Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom and Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom, booking a trip to VALORANT‘s year-end World Championship. The squad claims the EMEA region’s final spot at the global tournament after a resounding 3-1 victory over Guild […]

Two more teams picked up qualification berths for the BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021, slated for the final week of November. Heroic and Team Liquid’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) squads both advanced after smooth sailing through the brackets of the BLAST Fall Showdown. As esports circuits around the globe race towards the conclusion of the […]

After a dramatic day of League of Legends, Royal Never Give Up (RNG) and Hanwha Life Esports (HLE) comfortably sit at the top of Group C at Worlds 2021. Just like in Group B, the LPL and LCK representatives got the better of their opponents in resounding fashion and now head to the tournament’s quarterfinals […]

Back 4 Blood‘s class of special zombies, or as they are called, special ridden, are a different kind of headache to take care of. You can’t just empty magazines at them aimlessly and hope for the best – you actually have to strategize around them to beat them. Hence, to make sure that you can […]

Back 4 Blood is here, and you get to choose which character you play as. And unlike Left 4 Dead, the character you play actually means something! So, which character should you play as in Back 4 Blood? Check out our review of each character to help you decide who you will main in your next run […]

Team Spirit of the Eastern Europe region has done it: they have claimed The Aegis. The CIS team beat PSG.LGD, one of the most favored teams in the tournament, in a grueling Best-of-5 that almost saw a reverse sweep. Team Spirit, composed of Yatoro, TORONTOTOKYO, Collapse, Mira, Miposhka, and led by captain Silent, reclaims The Aegis for the CIS region, ten […]

Back 4 Blood has been relentlessly marketed by Turtle Rock Studios as a spiritual successor to the highly popular Left 4 Dead. While the game itself was a really good game with its own merits, one thing is for sure: Back 4 Blood is no Left 4 Dead. While the skeletal forms are largely similar, there is a lot of […]

Minecraft‘s Overworld is getting a vibrant new look, with the next big update called The Wild. Even though the second part of the Caves and Cliffs release has yet to drop in the game, Mojang Studios already made the announcement about The Wild at this year’s Minecraft Live. While The Wild update will be smaller […]

Among the many videos that premiered at DC FanDome 2021, a new trailer for Gotham Knights made its exciting debut at the event. Developed by WB Games Montreal, Gotham Knights is the upcoming Batman co-op title. Although the game itself won’t feature Batman, Gotham Knights is still set in the Batman universe. The story takes off after Bruce Wayne’s […]

Apex Legends fans can look forward to the latest installment for Stories from the Outlands, which is expected to reveal more clues on either the next legend or plot developments for season 11. The new episode will premiere this coming Monday, October 18, 2021. Respawn Entertainment dropped the announcement via Twitter, showing a gif of […]

No surprises here—T1 and Edward Gaming (EDG) trampled over Group B on their way to the 2021 League of Legends World Championship knockout stage. And a testament to their dominance, China and Korea’s representatives didn’t even need all the games to do it. NA’s 100 Thieves and Japan’s DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM) both knew their tragic fates […]

Steam will no longer host games that have NFTs and cryptocurrencies, as Valve unceremoniously removed them from Steam. Without any announcement or warning, Valve suddenly removed all games on Steam that have NFTs and cryptocurrencies on them. On a new guideline on Steamworks, it reads: “applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange […]

In another crossover between Fortnite and DC, a new Batman Outfit is set to drop in the game. The Batman Who Laughs will become the fifth Batman skin in the series alongside the arrival of the Batman/Fortnite: Foundation comic. The Batman Who Laughs is a Joker-fied Batman from a dark dimension. Writer Scott Snyder introduced […]

Dota 2‘s newest hero was announced by Valve during The International 10. Who is it, you ask? Why, it’s no other than Marci, Mirana’s servant and muscle, originally introduced in the Netflix animated series DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. It’s already a tradition at this point, that Valve announces a brand new hero towards the tail end of […]

Apex Legends fans can rejoice as the game’s ranked system, based on kill points (KP), is getting an overhaul in Season 11. The update will change the way KP is calculated, as revealed in an impromptu Reddit Q&A from Ryan Rigney, Respawn Entertainment’s Director of Community and Communications. For the Apex Legends community, changes to the ranked mode […]

NBA 2K22 MyTEAM adds 13 new player cards from the new Limited Edition Pack. This includes four new Pink Diamond Cards. You can also get a guaranteed Pink Diamond card if you purchase a 20-pack of the LR Pack as a box topper. Here are the new NBA 2K22 LR Pack Player Cards: NBA 2K22 Limited Edition Pack Player […]

Two-time TI hopeful SumaiL has been eliminated from the TI10 run last night, as Team Spirit defeated OG to eliminate them from the tournament. Team Spirit would then move forward and eliminate Virtus.pro as well. With Team Spirit facing the winner between IG and VG today, Team Spirit arrived at their position at the expense […]

Cloud9 (C9) took charge of their own destiny—with a little help from EU—winning thrice on the day to book a ticket to the 2021 League of Legends (LoL) World Championship knockout stage. Ending with a 3-4 groups record, the team had to completely reverse the cards from their disastrous start to the Worlds main event. […]

Genshin Impact version 2.2 will be bringing back a popular mini-game. Way back in Mondstadt, a rhythm mini-game made it to the game. It used to star the Idol Barbara, but this time around, someone else will be taking to the spotlight. Kaedehara Kazuha will be taking the lead role in this new event, which is […]

Continuing to drop players from its active roster, Boston Uprising announced it is bidding goodbye to Yun “GaeBullSsi” Young-sun. The off-tank is now a free agent on the Overwatch League (OWL) market. Hailing from South Korea, GaeBullSsi was an up-and-coming off-tank in the Overwatch Contenders scene. He stepped up from Uprising Academy, signing for the main team […]

New friends, returning characters, and cooking fun—here’s some of the most exciting things in store for Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans. Announced today in Nintendo’s latest Animal Crossing Direct, a huge update is arriving to shake up the hit game on November 5, 2021. The game last had major changes in March this year, featuring more […]

Former Movistar Riders player Owen “smooya” Butterfield has joined Fnatic’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) on a three-month trial. The new signing comes in ahead of the team competing at the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Winter European Closed Qualifiers next Monday, October 18. This isn’t the first time that the British AWPer has played with the […]

The three-peat dream is no more. Fans will see a new team take the Dota 2 crown at The International (TI) 2021, with back-to-back defending champions OG crashing out of TI10 today. OG supporters, meanwhile, will have to come to terms with their team’s dissatisfying finish this year. As the biggest and most prestigious event […]

The Super Smash Bros. scene is welcoming a new contender, as Brazil’s top esports organization FURIA has signed its first player. The name is a very familiar one—none other than Griffin “Fatality” Miller. The community highly regards Fatality as one of the best Smash Ultimate talents across the globe, and even the world’s top Captain […]

Free-to-play platform fighting game Brawlhalla has just released its 54th Legend: Munin. The Brawlhalla new fighter arrives and is now available for players to purchase in-game. Munin is the sister of Hugin, and are both members of the band Ravenqueen. Munin is ready to make some noise and execute huge riffs to kick ass. She becomes available for […]

Bella Poarch joins the HyperX brand as its latest ambassador and will serve as HyperX‘s microphone campaign spokesperson. TikTok sensation and artist Bella Poarch will star in a HyperX microphone video campaign that will debut this Fall. As part of the HyperX family, Poarch will receive the full hero treatment. HyperX will provide the artist […]

Demon Slayer The Hinokami Chronicles has a total of eighteen different characters at launch, with six additional DLC characters to arrive for free in the future. However, players only have access to four characters at the start: Tanjiro, Sabito, Makomo, and Urokodaki. How do you unlock all of the other fourteen characters? How to unlock all […]

Back 4 Blood features eight different characters with their own unique perks. Players get access to four characters right from the start, but they will have to unlock the rest. However, the game doesn’t exactly tell you how to unlock new Back 4 Blood characters. This Back 4 Blood guide will help you unlock all eight different characters in the […]

Around the release of Genshin Impact 2.2, miHoYo dropped the teaser for one of the most interesting characters to date, Arataki Itto. A fierce-looking Geo Claymore character, Itto’s design and leaked gameplay have generated a ton of hype for himself, and it’s understandable that a lot of players are excited for his eventual release. Not […]

Gorou has somewhat been anticipated for quite some time, thanks to his early appearance in the Inazuma Archon story quest. Early leaks have shown Gorou to be a Geo Bow user, and it was confirmed to be true after Genshin Impact tweeted the official teaser art. As the general of the Watatsumi Army, Gorou’s supportive […]

During the early releases of gameplay reveals for Pokemon Legends Arceus, everyone thought it would be an open-world game. In fact, Pokemon Arceus was heavily compared to the like of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This was due to the vast open areas that players could explore as seen in the trailers. […]

Call of Duty: Warzone is getting a new anti-cheat system called Ricochet. The new anti-cheat system provides kernel-level security which grants the program permission to halt other cheating and hacking PC programs. The question now is, will Ricochet be an effective solution to Warzone’s hacker and cheater problems?  Warzone’s popularity constantly grows each passing day […]

FIFA fans might soon have to get used to a new name for the popular video game series. Ever since Electronic Arts (EA) announced a potential rebrand, fans have been speculating on what exactly this means for the games moving forward. Here’s what we know so far on why EA Sports might ditch the FIFA […]