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The “Cathedral of Counter-Strike” IEM Cologne 2021 Play-In stage has finally concluded. With it comes the advancement of eight teams to the group stage, and eight teams already concluding their journey at the tournament. The eight teams making it into the IEM Cologne 2021 Group Stage are: Ninjas in Pyjamas Team Vitality BIG FaZe Clan […]

Spike Chunsoft has announced the release date for Danganronpa Decadence. The compilation comes out on December 3 for North America and Europe. Its release will also celebrate the series’ tenth anniversary. The collection was first announced at the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct. Danganronpa is a series of games where you play a high-school student trapped […]

CEO Pim Holfve of Avalanche Studios says that partnering with Xbox and putting Contraband on the Xbox Game Pass made sense due to the “grandness of the project.” Announced at this year’s E3, Contraband is an open-world co-op game by Avalanche Studios. The company is known for games like the critically-acclaimed Just Cause series and […]

Fantasy meets Football when Cyanide Studio’s Blood Bowl 3 finally arrives on PlayStation 5 and PS4 this coming February. Blood Bowl 3′s Publisher Nacon originally wanted the game to be released in August. However, due to the pandemic, Cyanide Studio pushed it back to 2022. Nacon featured the board game adaptation on their showcase earlier this […]

Twitch has just banned AdinRoss, one of their most famous streamers, due to breaking the rules about using phones while driving. This is the fourth time the streamer has been suspended from the platform. During one of his IRL streams, Adin was caught staring down and using his phone while he was on the road. […]

A blockchain-based game called Axie Infinity has taken over the crypto space and is currently dominating the NFT world. But what is it exactly? Axie Infinity, created by Sky Mavis back in 2018, is a turn-based RPG game that allows users to buy, sell, trade, breed, and battle cuddly digital pets called “axies”. These axies […]

Bucharest, Romania, will now be hosting The International Dota 2 Championships in October. Amid the turmoil caused by Sweden’s government not recognizing The International as an elite sporting event last June, Valve has finally secured a new venue for their biggest esports tournament. The city of Bucharest was speculated to be a top candidate to […]

With League of Legends’ Sentinel of the Light event coming tomorrow, both VALORANT and LoL are collaborating with each one for the first time. Riot is obviously hyping up their MOBA’s event by bringing in Ruination of Runeterra inspired skins to their tactical shooter game. The upcoming weapon cosmetics in VALORANT, showcased by HITSCAN have […]

Red Dead Online: Blood Money arrives next week, July 13. Red Dead Online‘s new Blood Money update will bring new content for cowboys around the world. Along with a DLSS update – allowing PC players to have higher FPS on higher-resolution graphics – lots of new content will be arriving. A new trailer previews these new content drops. Chief […]

Playing Red Dead Redemption 2 with lower-end and mid-tier machines will be better once a new update rolls in next week. As announced by Rockstar Games, an update rolling out on July 13 will finally activate DLSS support for Red Dead Redemption 2. Nvidia’s DLSS technology resamples lower resolution images and uses AI technology to make a higher-resolution version […]

Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier recently released his article regarding the Assassin’s Creed franchise going into live online game services. Moments later, Ubisoft unveils internal restructuring details and Assassin’s Creed Infinity. In an official post on the Ubisoft website, Nathalie Bouchard and Christophe Derennes detail the future of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Bouchard is the managing […]

King of Fighters XV is the first game in the series that will be launching on multiple platforms in more than a decade. The game is set to release in the first quarter of 2022. As of now, it does not have a definite launch date. The COVID-19 pandemic caused delays for the game, moving […]

Fans have been asking Riot Games a long time for a Valorant Battle Royale mode and it looks like it’s finally happening. Ever since Valorant was released in June of last year, the shooter has already taken the world by storm. And though players are still in Episode 3 Act 1, they’re already on the lookout […]

The Monster Hunter spin-off releases on July 9, but Capcom has already outlined its post-launch plans for the game. This includes free updates up until October. Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is the second game in the turn-based RPG spin-off series. The first post-release content drop will be the Palamute monstie – the […]

After months of teases and leaks, Armored Batman has finally glided his way into the Fortnite Item Shop. This will be the fourth skin for the Dark Knight to be featured in Fortnite. The skin comes as a bonus item for any players who entered their in-game codes that have accompanied the last six issues […]

The fifth episode for Disney+’s Loki has just been released and it was chock-full of Marvel easter eggs. So if you haven’t seen the last episode, just remember, MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! What happened to Loki? After waking up from a painful pruning, Loki finds himself lying on the ground with four other Loki’s standing above […]

An official post from Sid Shuman, Senior Director for Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) details Playstation’s next State of Play. The rumors stating that it would take place on July 8 turned out to be correct. The official PlayStation Blog post states that the show will run for 30 minutes, with most of the runtime focused […]

Atari is letting go of their free-to-play and mobile games strategy in favor of developing premium console and PC games. GI.biz reported earlier this week that the company’s board of directors has approved the strategy. Last April, Wade J. Rosen took over as CEO of Atari and announced that it would be reorganizing the company […]

We have good news and bad news. The good news is, we got a new Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong cinematic trailer, which introduces us to Galeb, one of the three protagonists of the game. The bad news is, the trailer also revealed Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong‘s release date. Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong Release Date […]

Last Sunday, Titanfall fans who have had enough of Titanfall hackers hacked into Apex Legends. This was an ill-guided attempt to catch the developers Respawn Entertainment’s attention on the matter. See, Titanfall has become infested with a lot of nasty hackers, and fans have felt that there’s no other recourse left. With Respawn Entertainment not being able to address the issue at […]

When Twitch launched in 2011, it focused on a burgeoning video game live streaming hobby. It was first a spin-off of the live-streaming platform JustinTV until it became too big to not have a platform of its own. Its popularity as a gaming-centric live streaming service led to its growth, eventually becoming synonymous with the […]

BANDAI NAMCO trademarked a new title, “My Hero Ultra Rumble,” which hopeful fans think might be a warriors / musou game set in the My Hero Academia universe. BANDAI NAMCO and Koei Tecmo had great success with the One Piece musou game One Piece Pirate Warriors. Aside from their collaborations with BANDAI NAMCO, Koei Tecmo has brought some anime titles […]

MiHoYo is planning to release announcements and details about an upcoming Genshin Impact expansion this Friday, July 9, 2021. This will be the first expansion for the game, which will bring more new content compared to other content drops in the past. However, what exactly we’re getting from the purported Genshin Impact v2.0 isn’t clear yet. We’re […]

MiHoYo has just launched the HoYoLab for Honkai Impact 3rd on Tuesday. Fans can access the HoYoLab through this link. The more Captains joining in, the more rewards there will be for everyone. Speaking of rewards, there will also be events for Captains to take part of that will get them even more benefits. Check all […]

Microsoft surprised fans earlier this week after announcing that the Xbox Series X is the “official console” for Battlefield 2042. This seemed to be the next stage in Microsoft’s partnership with EA and Dice. This isn’t the case however as they have just announced that Battlefield 2042 won’t be exclusive to Xbox Series consoles. This […]

A YouTube video from known video game leaker Tom Henderson gave speculative details on Grand Theft Auto 6. He also stated that GTA6 will be set in a modern-day version of Vice City. Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto: Vice City back in 2006 through a collaboration between Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North. Miami, Florida, was […]

Housemarque, the studio behind Returnal, states that they turned down offers from “Big players” in the gaming industry to join PlayStation Studios. Last month, PlayStation Studios announced that they had acquired Housemarque. And after their recent success, the company promises that they will continue to build upon the experience they got in making the game. Yle interviewed […]

Respawn has just confirmed that they’ve restored matchmaking in Apex Legends and that they’re putting a fix in place to stop the hacked playlists. They also confirmed that players’ personal information or accounts were not at risk during the “Titanfall” disruption.  The Respawn Game has always had a thing for bugs and fixes. But the […]

NetherRealm has officially announced that they are finally done working on Mortal Kombat 11 and will start working on newer projects.  NetherRealm announced this on a tweet stating that there will no longer be any additional DLC’s to the game. The statement irked some fans as they were hoping to get more fan-favorite characters in Mortal […]

Asmongold, one of World of Warcraft‘s largest streamers, started his Final Fantasy XIV journey last weekend. His first stream netted him over 200k viewers and 7,000 new subscribers. He also earned well over $30,000 in donations. However, the stream wasn’t completely smooth sailing. He was swarmed by a horde of onlookers that followed him around […]

Explore the Legacy of The Sith in the latest Chapter of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s been quite some time since the MMORPG’s latest expansion. Now that the Legacy of The Sith has been revealed, we now know more about what’s coming next to Star Wars: The Old Republic. The 10th-anniversary expansion adds a […]

EA Motive is soon revealing a critically-acclaimed game series that’ll make a comeback at this year’s EA Play Live and it’s none other than Dead Space. In a report from GamesBeat, the game is not only a Dead Space remake but a remake that’ll be taking notes and inspiration from Capcom’s Resident Evil remakes. Jeff Grubb from GamesBeat first teased […]

It was a sad day for the GTA RP community when everyone found out about Kenny “Blue622” Tancredi’s passing on July 4, 2020. Exactly one year later, the NoPixel community banded together again to commemorate Blue622 in a 30-minute memorial race.  Blue622 was a streamer who was amongst the members who helped popularize the NoPixel […]

Back in May, Fortnite released a set of NBA skins with the inclusion of all 30 NBA Teams. This time around, data miners Hypex and ShiinaBR found NBA Superstar LeBron James’ data within the game files and would most likely release it on the next update as part of the Icon Series.   We are not […]

A new PUBG map will be coming this week. Just like the other PUBG maps, the new Taego map is roughly based on real-life locations. Just as how Sanhok is Southeast Asia, Erangel is Russian, and so on, Taego is based on Korean landscapes. But when is the new PUBG Taego map coming out? PUBG Taego Map Release Date: July 7, […]

PS Now continues to get great games added to its subscription service. PS Now July 2021 adds Red Dead Redemption 2, Judgment, and Nioh 2 to the list, Sony announces. “A Western saga, hard-boiled detective adventure, paranormal samurai quest, and more join the PlayStation Now library in July,” reads a tweet from the PlayStation account. Nioh 2 (Team Ninja, […]

New corporate culture will prevent Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) from releasing before 2024, 2025, says rumors. Known video games leaker Tom Henderson spoke about everything he knows about GTA 6 on a Youtube video. There’s a lot to unpack in his claims – including Fortnite-like events that will push the game’s narrative as well as returning […]

Bandai Namco just released the Tales of Arise opening trailer, featuring visuals by animation studio ufotable – they are also in charge of all the in-game anime cutscenes. It also shows off the new theme song, “Hibana” by Kankaku Piero. The new trailer gives us another glimpse of the game’s playable characters ahead of the […]

While the deluge of announcements from E3 2021 has concluded, EA still has some surprises in store this summer. EA Play Live will air on July 22. It will also be accompanied by a pre-show at 10 AM PST. As for what to expect, BioWare has already announced that they’ll be missing out on EA […]