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Overwatch’s newest hero receives first Legendary shop skin

The lack of cosmetic options for freshly added characters is the plight of any new hero in Overwatch 2 . But this week, Blizzard has finally added a new Legendary skin to the wardrobe of the game’s latest support, Lifeweaver. W…

Faker was reportedly ‘really close’ to joining LCS last year on massive deal

Since the beginning of the competitive League of Legends scene, one pro has resonated among every fan and player as the greatest to ever touch the keyboard and mouse: Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok. The 27-year-old has spent his entir…

Popular LoL support is the latest champion to get a Mythic skin

A large influx of crystals has been acquired by a certain League of Legends champion, giving her even more flair in her sun-worshiping endeavors. Riot Games revealed today that Leona is the next champion to receive a Mythic-ti…

Night Market returns to VALORANT to both disappoint and delight players again

Every few months, VALORANT players either get their hearts broken or see their bank accounts suffer when the Night Market returns to the in-game client. And now, that time is quickly approaching once again. The Night Market wi…

4 forgotten LoL champs are getting a new batch of skins

The next batch of League of Legends skins has been showcased by Riot Games and it centers around four champions who haven’t received skins in quite some time. If you play a relatively less popular champion as your main, there’s…

Riot to reportedly meet with LCSPA to discuss league-wide walkout

With the 2023 LCS Summer Split looming, the League of Legends community is anxiously waiting for more news after the LCS Players Association announced that the league’s collective player base agreed to walk out on the opening d…

Collegiate team director claims LCS orgs ‘reached out’ amid reported walkout

Over the last several days, the North American League of Legends community has been buzzing after reports claimed the league’s collective group of pro players has decided to walk out on opening day of the 2023 LCS Summer Split.…

MTG Wraith Noble commands Nazgûl in Lord of the Rings

The Wraith creature type in Magic: The Gathering has a new Mythic Rare Mono-Black commander through the Witch-king of Angmar, a Wraith noble with Flying and Indestructible from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth spoi…

TFT’s first LAN event is being held in the marriage capital of the world to celebrate Set 10

Riot Games dropped huge news on May 30, featuring a shift in Teamfight Tactics tournaments on a global scale from streaming to LAN with the first ever Set 10 Las Vegas LAN event in December. Big changes are coming to TFT with…

Sova’s drone has a secret feature almost no VALORANT player knows

A VALORANT player shared a fact about Sova’s drone that isn’t known by most players, not because it’s hidden, but because no one actually thought of testing it out (other than that person, obviously). Shared in a Reddit thread…

Struggling Brazilian squad reportedly eyeing legend FalleN ahead of CS2 launch 

Reports surfaced on May 29 claiming the Brazilian ‘Godfather of Counter-Strike ‘ Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo is on the list of names potentially taking the reigns of FURIA’s CS:GO roster in the latter part of this year. It seems t…

Never miss out on your VALORANT agent again thanks to this hilarious insta-lock trainer

Published on May 28 on the VALORANT subreddit, there’s now a free insta-lock trainer that helps you train your reflexes to ensure you get the agent you want in VALORANT. In most games, we tend to have a few favorites or even a…

Royalty: Emperor SumaiL restores Chinese Dota to its rightful place ahead of Bali Major

It’s been almost a year since a Chinese  Dota 2  team finished top three in a Valve event. With veterans retiring at the beginning of the 2023 season,  Dota 2  fans from the East were ready to write this year off—until Syed “Sum…

CS:GO fans say FURIA must part ways with one player after latest disappointing loss

FURIA’s CS:GO fans have gone for the head of one player in particular after yet another lackluster performance, this time at their IEM Dallas debut on May 29. FURIA lost their Inferno match against OG in a heartbreaking fashio…

Marvel Snap player wins on two of the hardest locations in the game with this epic play

Locations play a big factor in Marvel Snap , providing challenges, advantages, and disadvantages to change how the games pan out, including some pretty restrictive effects. The latter is what happened to Reddit user /u/Gav_mmmm…

‘History in the making’: LoL community reacts to LCSPA walkout

The League of Legends community around the world woke up to an unprecedented decision on the morning of May 29. The North American LCS Players Association (LCSPA) voted to stage a walkout in reaction to Riot Games’ decision to…

MTG Standard bans remove 3 cards in Banned and Restricted announcement

Wizards of the Coast dropped a Banned and Restricted announcement on May 29, banning three powerful cards from the Standard format while delaying other Magic: The Gathering format bans to Aug.  Banned and Restricted announceme…

Overwatch fans agree ‘serial quitters’ must be punished with CoD-style toxicity queue

The Overwatch 2 player base has today decided Call of Duty’s long-standing punishment of lumping “serial quitters” together might fix issues plaguing quick play and competitive games. By placing quitters with other like-minde…

Crushing finals sweep solidifies LOUD as dominant VCT Americas force heading into Tokyo

Brazilian squad LOUD has swept aside regional rivals NRG Esports to complete a near-flawless VCT Americas run on May 28, reaffirming the team as a powerhouse in competitive VALORANT ahead of the Tokyo Masters. The VALORANT LO…

Pokémon Go players baffled by one weird location being the best place to play

While Pokémon Go is designed to be played anywhere in the world, some places clearly get more love than others. But one specific hot spot for Pokémon Go is a bit peculiar. Alcatraz, the famous island prison out in San Francisc…

Liquid end Fnatic’s 21-game win streak to claim VCT EMEA title

Team Liquid have been crowned the 2023 VALORANT VCT EMEA League champions after upsetting the LOCK//IN champions, Fnatic, in the grand final on May 28.  After winning the LOCK//IN tournament in March , Fnatic was the dominant …

Crafty Marvel Snap player used Viper in the most creative way possible

There are a lot of strategies players can use in Marvel Snap to win games. With the junk strategy, you fill up the opponent’s side of locations with useless cards. Viper can be considered as the core card of such decks. She is …

Riot release music video with popular K-pop singer to celebrate VCT Pacific grand finals

All three VCT leagues are wrapping up with their championship matches this week before Masters Tokyo will feature the best 12 VALORANT teams in the world in June. To celebrate the end of the inaugural season of the VCT Pacific…

Paper Rex defy the odds with Reyna to win VCT Pacific after historic reverse sweep

Southeast Asia’s Paper Rex were crowned VALORANT ’s VCT Pacific champions on May 28 after pulling back a two-map deficit in the grand final in part thanks to a particularly niche agent pick.  Paper Rex and DRX have already qual…

NRG reveals powerful bottom lane acquisitions for 2023 LCS Summer Split

Before Counter Logic Gaming was acquired by NRG Esports last month, the organization’s League of Legends team had quickly become a fan favorite among the North American competitive community. But now that the roster is under …

It took two years, but VALORANT players might have found the first runboost on Ascent

For the longest time, VALORANT has been a chaotic tactical shooter thanks to its myriad of abilities and variety of weapons, and yet, using teammates to boost people onto higher ground is near impossible. VALORANT ’s dev team h…

Ukrainian Sports Ministry names multiple CS:GO players who broke wartime travel policy

Seven competitors at the recent Counter-Strike BLAST Paris Major were named on May 26 in the Ukrainian Sports Ministry’s list of 236 athletes who broke the country’s travel laws by failing to return to Ukraine after the competi…

NA dominates TFT Worlds, Setsuko and Rereplay in top eight at Monsters’ Attack Championship

North American players Setsuko and Rereplay seek to earn the region its first Teamfight Tactics Worlds title at the Monsters’ Attack World Championship, dominating the leaderboard heading into the final day of competition at t…

‘Should have been easier’: DRX stagger into VCT Pacific grand final after game full of blunders

With all 12 teams participating in VCT Masters Tokyo finally decided, all that’s left is to crown the champions in each of the three regions. Today in VCT Pacific, DRX got one step closer to lifting the league’s trophy, though i…

Shorty, Frenzy dominance might be over with early VALORANT Patch 6.11 nerfs

The meta in VALORANT can fluctuate for several reasons: a new map or agent comes into the pool, professional players discover a new tactic, or, in this case, Riot releases a new balance patch . The recent meta has been dominat…

Here is the Ghosts of the Deep dungeon loot table in Destiny 2

The Ghosts of the Deep dungeon could have come straight out of The Witch Queen thanks to its scenery, Deepsight-related mechanics, and Hive-related armor. With Xivû Arath, Oryx, and several Hive commanders, there is a lot of lo…

These Marvel Snap plays show how Kitty Pryde can easily be disrupted

Kitty Pryde’s initial release in Marvel Snap in March did not go well. A glitch caused after playing her broke games to the point that developer Second Dinner temporarily removed her . But she came back in the patch released …

Overwatch fans are convinced one weapon souvenir is teasing a new seasonal skin

Out of all the cosmetic items coming into Overwatch 2 , the recent Seeds of Order challenge is giving out a miniature souvenir that heavily resembles the hero Torbjorn. Aptly named the ‘Garden Gnome Souvenir,’ the short-in-statu…

If you feel bad about your Overwatch 2 gameplay, this bewildering clip will make you feel better

Everyone has bad days, and it can sometimes impact your performance on demanding titles such as Overwatch 2 . If you feel concerned, this clip will show you there’s always worse out there. An Overwatch 2 player shared a video …

One game-breaking VALORANT bug is slapping players with permanent suspensions

If you think time can’t be negative, a quirky new VALORANT bug, possibly a product of an anomaly in the latest Patch 6.10, will prove you wrong. The bug is seemingly extending ban timers infinitely, causing dismay among those a…

Rainbow Six faces ’embarrassing’ 7-team NA League as Parabellum’s fate looks secured

Four weeks after laying off almost all of its staff, Parabellum Esports’ story appears to be over as its co-founder and ex-CEO, Chris “Lama” Lamarucciola, announced he had left the esports industry on May 25. Following several …

Marvel Snap’s OTA patches will now be happening less frequently than before

Marvel Snap’s trial period of weekly over-the-air patches to tweak numbers on cards is coming to an end. And the good news is that it will continue into the foreseeable future. The bad news, though, is that they will be happen…

Marvel Snap’s latest OTA patch takes aim at one of the meta’s most prevalent decks

It was fun while it lasted for Black Bolt and Stature in Marvel Snap. The odd couple that’s been terrorizing the ladder over the past few weeks with a very high play rate got brought down a peg in today’s over-the-air patch fo…

Some LoL players are getting scammed by the shopkeeper with new Wardstone bug

The Watchful Wardstone has recently been an issue item in League of Legends since the developers have had to scramble to fix multiple exploits with it over the last few months. But now, a new glitch is hitting summoners that is…

Playoff rematches kick off LEC’s final split of 2023

The LEC is officially returning for its 2023 Summer Split on June 17, Riot Games confirmed today.  The regular season of the EMEA League of Legends competition will kick off with a match between Team Vitality and MAD Lions, th…

CS:GO legend opens 2 identical knives in the same livestream

Former Fnatic and FaZe Clan CS:GO legend olofmeister has done what most players thought was impossible. The Swede was opening skin cases during a live stream on May 25 when he somehow got the same knife twice in mere minutes. …

Dev1ce has been dominating one CS:GO map since returning to Astralis

Though Astralis aren’t particularly doing well in CS:GO nowadays—having missed the BLAST Paris Major in May, for example—they have seen a massive improvement on Overpass ever since dev1ce rejoined the team in October 2022 than…

Mercy skin gains controversial price hike during Overwatch 2 bundle sale

When it comes to buying items in the Overwatch 2 shop, old skins from the original game are available in both credits from the hero gallery and in the shop from time to time. But a recent old skin drop in a bundle has led fans …

Marvel Snap’s most meme-worthy card takes over all locations in this hilarious play

The High Evolutionary’s delayed release earlier this week in Marvel Snap made Howard the Duck a superstar when it comes to memes. With the most anticipated card in a long time not arriving in the game on time , Howard the Duck…

Overwatch 2’s Battle for Olympus is back again—this time with a twist

Blizzard has continually attempted to push the creative envelope with Overwatch 2 ’s game modes, but one arcade game seems to keep coming back. Coming back for yet another round of weekly fun, Battle for Olympus is back in the …

S1mple, NAVI to miss one of the final CS:GO tournaments

S1mple and the rest of NAVI are going to sit out of the BLAST Premier Spring Final in June, one of the final CS:GO events before the switch to Counter-Strike 2 , due to visa issues, the tournament organizer announced on May 24.…

Cold-blooded Warzone 2 devs ban several controversial attachments from ranked play

A slew of scopes that had recently seen a surge in popularity in Warzone 2’s ranked play have all been banned from the game’s competitive mode, Treyarch announced today. Six different thermal optics are now completely restrict…

Blizzard embraces the meme with subtle feature in Reinhardt’s cardboard Overwatch skin

The new Legendary Cardboard Reinhardt skin entered the Overwatch 2 shop on May 23, and Blizzard put a lot of effort into making it the goofiest available in the game. A subtle feature pushes the immersion further, proving the …

Only 5 VALORANT agents have positive win rates in Gold right now

One of VALORANT’s most densely populated competitive ranks, the Gold tier, surprisingly hosts only five agents with positive win rates at this time. Gold has always been a critical tier in the tactical shooter, infamous for ho…

Former LEC champion leaves Excel—and clears path for homecoming with Karmine Corp

After a terribly disappointing start to the year, one of Europe’s rising sophomore talents might be making a return to the League of Legends organization that helped put him on the map. Raphaël “Targamas” Crabbé has parted way…