As if there weren’t already enough reasons to be excited for Overwatch’s first birthday, it seems that fans will be treated to three new arena maps as part of the anniversary celebrations. When the event launches next Tuesday, players will have access to new locations when it comes to 1v1 or 3v3 game modes. At the moment, Overwatch fans can only play some modes on Ecopoint: Antarctica, the first-person shooter’s only arena-type map....
Though Overwatch won’t be getting any new heroes until the game’s sequel comes out, Blizzard really went all out with Echo. Though Blizzard’s confirmation that Echo was Overwatch’s last hero initially caused a bit of a stir in the game’s community, the hero herself was a welcome addition to the Overwatch roster. Even after several months of release, players are still discovering new and interesting tricks they can pull off with Echo....
Whether it’s Overwatch, Fortnite, PUBG, or Magic: The Gathering; playing competitive games can always lead to some intense emotions. Some gamers have a harder time than others controlling those feelings, which can lead to some serious raging and unhealthy behaviors. Luckily for one Overwatch player, he has a therapist for a wife who had some strategies to process those bad beats. Lots of things can cause negative feelings during or after a game from teammates who can’t concentrate on an objective to an unfair ranking system, but the trick is learning how to process those feelings in a productive manner....
Path of Exile: Harvest (also known as patch 3.11) went live on June 19th, and almost immediately players were figuring out the best ways to utilize space in the Sacred Grove. A word of caution to PoE players: the Sacred Grove can be accessed from a Seed Cache or the waypoint system, but one should enter the Sacred Grove ONLY from the route they used the first time that play session, or else a new instance of the Sacred Grove is created, and growth progress may be lost....
Many of the developers behind the Payday series, now formed as 10 Chambers Collective, announced its new game currently in development, a “4-player hardcore co-op action horror FPS” called GTFO. The title, clearly chosen to reflect the experience the developer is hoping fans will have: to “get the f— out” of the terrifying location the game places them. The trailer shows the horror elements as well as the heavy shooting action, as it shows the perspective of a team of well-armed players fighting through dark underground hallways against a relentless wave of monstrous creatures....
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Monster Hunter is a legendary series that’s become extremely popular over its 17-year history. After 2018’s Monster Hunter: World, the series gained many new fans, but with the latest entry in the series — the Switch exclusive Monster Hunter: Rise — selling 5 million copies already, even more new players get to dive into its weird and wonderful game mechanics all over again. One of the weirdest and most hidden aspects of the last two Monster Hunter games has been Latent Power....
Now that Monster Hunter took time to go off and explore a new world, it’s back on more familiar grounds. Monster Hunter Rise sees the series return to a portable console, something that helped cement its popularity and endurance. However, the series didn’t forget the new tricks it learned during its last excursion. Rise keeps the quality-of-life adjustments that streamlined resource gathering, and adds some news ones. It also keeps the beginner-friendly tools while adding monster variety that veteran players found lacking in Monster Hunter World....
Monster Hunter World has been pitched as a major step forward for the action RPG franchise. Capcom has promised that the new game will have a huge map, allowing players to move seamlessly through it. It will also feature more impressive monster battles, as well as quests to complete, and armor to collect, which is everything that fans expect. But Monster Hunter World isn’t just a game for longstanding fans; it is also a game that will bring in many newcomers....
Since the release of Monster Hunter World, Capcom has continually brought crossover events to its acclaimed RPG, giving players access to new gear from some of their favorite franchises. Yet another of these crossover events has recently launched, and fans that are hunting on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One can now go into battle as The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia. A new quest, titled “Contract: Trouble in the Ancient Forest,” is currently available in Monster Hunter World, and it allows players to take control of Geralt as they hunt down a Leshen....
Even though he hasn’t been acting as long as many other actors, Oscar Isaac has built an impressive filmography over the years. He mostly appears in movies of various genres. Superhero fans and Isaac’s fans are even more excited about his upcoming big TV show because of it. Oscar Isaac will play the superhero Moon Knight in the Moon Knight TV show. As of January 2021, the show remains in pre-production so it will be quite some time before it comes out....
It’s been a little over a year since the initial release of the wildly successful Mortal Kombat 11 and since that time, a lot of additional content has been added for the game. Much like its predecessor, Mortal Kombat X, the game has had a multitude of new characters added to the main game. However, it seems that Mortal Kombat 11 has once again taken a page from its predecessor’s book....
Mortal Kombat 11’s announcement at The Game Awards 2018 took many viewers by surprise, but what was even more surprising was how soon it’s going to release. As it turns out, the next entry in the long-running Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise is scheduled to release within about four months of its announcement. Mortal Kombat 11 is currently slated for an April 23 launch across all platforms. Considering how close the game’s release date is, fans should be able to expect plenty of reveals in the coming weeks....
The Mortal Kombat franchise has been through ups and downs during its nearly 30 year history. Some MK titles are revered to this day, while others are best forgotten. The franchise has created iconic characters that are staples of pop culture, and endures to this day by leaning into the campy elements that have come to define it. Early on in its life, Mortal Kombat received the Hollywood treatment, and the now cult classic film is making waves again thanks to a few tweets from MK creator Ed Boon....
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is one of the most ambitious games based on an anime ever developed, adapting the full Dragon Ball Z storyline of Akira Toriyama’s original manga into an open-world RPG, developed by CyberConnect2. It’s the kind of treatment very few anime and manga franchises get, yet few are more deserving of it than Dragon Ball, which has proven itself to be worthy of its legacy as one of the biggest media franchises in the world....
Typically, the reveal of a sports games’ cover star is a big deal. NBA 2K21 apparently liked the idea of revealing cover stars so much that it decided to have three of them. On the standard edition of the game, the Portland Trailblazers point guard Damian Lillard is the star. On the next-gen version of NBA 2K21, New Orleans Pelicans power forward Zion Williamson gets the prestige. But 2K has now confirmed a third edition of NBA 2K21, the Mamba Forever Edition, featuring the late Kobe Bryant....
The NBA is ready to return to the 2019-2020 season, but not for the return of crowds. Instead of unleashing the mayhem that would be audiences, NBA is turning to NBA 2K20 to keep its players hyped. Even though fans are excited to see the return of sports, many are questioning how a digital crowd will change the experience. In an unprecedented move, the NBA is looking to open back up with 22 competing teams....
Meyers Leonard, NBA player for the Miami Heat, is mired in the fallout brought on after he dropped an anti-Semitic slur on a stream of Call of Duty: Warzone. The center, who has been out of the active lineup since January with injury, has been suspended indefinitely by the Heat, and sponsors are looking to end their association with him as well. While recovering from shoulder surgery, Leonard has taken to streaming in the past few months, picking up Call of Duty: Warzone and joining some big-name streamers for games in Verdansk....
Despite the recent leak controversies surrounding Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II, there is some good news that fans can appreciate - the game has gone gold and is essentially ready for mass production. The information about the game’s latest developmental stage comes from Naughty Dog’s vice president Neil Druckmann. Druckmann posted a video on Twitter announcing the game’s “gone gold” stage and shared a little bit of information in regards to that....
With gamers and press alike beginning their preparations for the annual pilgrimage to Los Angeles to see the latest and greatest in the world of video games, speculation has begun as to what will end up stealing the show. For many, that show-stealer won’t be any one game but rather the evolution of virtual reality technology. Despite still being in its infancy, if one game were to represent this grand push forward into the realm of VR, EVE: Valkyrie could very well be it....
