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ESL and DreamHack have announced that eight ESL Pro Tour LAN tournaments will be held in 2021. The ESL Pro Tour 2021 calendar kicks off with IEM Katowice in February, one of the ESL Pro Tour’s Master events. The calendar ends with an IEM tournament in Asia in December. The ESL and DreamHack tournaments, which include a combined prize pool of $4.5 million, will take place over the course of two weeks in 2021, however, there will be a break between the group stage and the arena playoffs....

Textbook manufacturers should theoretically fact check their contents for accuracy. Unfortunately for Oxford University Press, a prominent error in its English File Elementary Student’s Book 3rd Edition textbook mixing World of Warcraft with Warhammer slipped through, one that an attentive gamer noticed. Reddit user Zsomo was amused when they turned to page 88 in the textbook they use to teach and discovered the mislabeled image in section 11C. What appears to be a trio of Warhammer space marines from the Dawn of War era charge forward under a World of Warcraft banner....

With the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe leading into massive event films like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the idea of creating the “most ambitious crossover in history” has become a pretty widely-applicable meme online. Now the sports media company ESPN, ironically another subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, is making the claim that its upcoming Valorant Invitational tournament will be just that — the “most ambitious crossover in esports history....

CCP Games, creators of the spaceship MMO game EVE Online, which was released in 2003, have announced that PLEX for GOOD, the charitable EVE Online program, has successfully raised $135,000 for the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) since April 3. PLEX for GOOD, a charitable program managed by CCP Games on behalf of EVE Online players, had already raised more than $107,000 in February for Australian bushfire relief efforts by the Red Cross....

The RAGE Engine, or Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, has powered some of the most critically adored and commercially successful games of the past fifteen years due to it running every Rockstar Games title since the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation. Looking through the following list reveals even the lowest rated games received scores most titles only dream of. Because most of these are multi-platform, each score is taken from the console which received the highest rating....

The Days of Summer Event is finally live in Call of Duty: Mobile, arriving with Season 8 on July 28. Players can dive into the action now in a limited-time event that tasks them with completing a total of 12 different objectives in game to grab a great-looking reward. While the event is now live, Activision has yet to list a firm end date, so players should work at getting all tasks done ASAP....

Fall Guys has been a hit with players and a lot of players are enjoying how its basic controls lead to competitive gameplay. On top of creating an engaging experience, the game also enables players to get cosmetic items through winning games. These factors have helped Fall Guys dominate gaming in recent weeks but its latest campaign may build on this even further. The Twitter account of the game has now opened up a “Battle of the Brands” competition which looks set to have positive outcomes for all involved....

After its reveal earlier this month, rumors began running wild that Fallout 76 would be an online survival experience, in a similar vein to a game like Rust. Naturally, for a series devoted to single player, this didn’t sit well with some fans. After its official reveal during Bethesda’s E3 2018 showcase, it seems rumors weren’t that far off as it being the first game in the franchise to be an always online experience....

Despite how annoying you might find Preston Garvey, the Minutemen questline of Fallout 4 is a pretty rewarding one. Establishing those settlements all around the Commonwealth can yield some serious coin and benefits, and it adds an extra layer of survival into the game. However, not all quests are straightforward in the Minutemen questline. After defeating a giant Mirelurk Queen in the Castle and taking the settlement, a new quest will eventually pop up titled Old Guns....

Fallout 4 features some sort of baseball mini-game players can participate in according to the achievement/trophy list that was revealed yesterday for the game. After a pleasantly surprising early reveal, fans have been looking over the released achievement/trophy list, trying to find any sort of new information. In typical Bethesda fashion, certain mini-games appear to be readily available to wastelanders including baseball, as players try to hit a homerun in order to unlock the specific achievement/trophy....

Bethesda Softworks declares the launch of mods for Fallout 4 on Xbox One to be a huge hit, with the developer announcing plans to include more features in the future. With Fallout 4’s console mods having hit Xbox One on May 31, a plethora of fans have flocked to the feature, which has prompted Bethesda to declare their launch on Microsoft’s current generation system a crowd-pleaser. As a matter of fact, the game developer was so elated by players’ positive responses to the newly-minted Fallout 4 mods on Xbox One that it took to its official Twitter account to discuss the matter....

Elder Scrolls fans are petitioning Bethesda to have an 82-year-old grandmother immortalized as a follower in The Elder Scrolls 6. Some of you might already be familiar with Shirley Curry, the 82-year-old grandmother that rose to internet fame as the oldest person in history to record herself playing Skyrim and then posting it to YouTube. Those videos, by the way, are some of the most wholesome things you’ll ever see online....

With an increasing amount of enhanced and ever-lifelike horror games on the near-horizon, from the Man of Medan sequel to Resident Evil: Village, one small indie adventure with mere PS1-era graphics swoops in to steal the limelight. In fact, Fatum Betula doesn’t simply steal said limelight, it instills a whole new level of darkness and dread into the horror genre and gloriously basks in it. The game’s evocative approach to exploration, gamifying adventure through an LSD: Dream Emulator-like experience, gives it a certain retro edge while still maintaining a level of underlying and intense fear at all times....

Bungie announces the next substantial update to Destiny - the Spring Update fans have been waiting for that will bring new content - will come to the game April 12. Destiny fans have been waiting for news about the game’s Spring Update, which Bungie has promised will raise the level cap while bringing new gear and PvE activities. After weeks of waiting for a launch date for said update, Bungie has finally set a date: April 12....

Earlier this week, a listing popped up on Steam for Destiny Silver. The in-game currency, which is used to purchase emotes and ornaments, was only available briefly before being removed but it prompted speculation that the upcoming sequel could be released on Steam. Bungie community manager David “Deej” Dague has now taken to Twitter to clarify the situation, explaining that the Destiny Silver Steam listing was an “error.” Apologizing for the confusion, Deej also told followers that “all purchases will be refunded manually by Valve....

The hanged man is at the center of everything in Disco Elysium. Whether you’re negotiating with the trade workers union, searching for curses in the Doomed Commercial Area, or attempting to work the physically impossible space in the church, the hanged man will always be there. He serves as a reminder that as a detective, you should probably deal with this whole murder thing. However, confirming the cause of death can be a little tricky, given that the body starts the game out of reach, and is hard to approach thanks to the active decay....

Disney+ launched in November last year and was immediately successful. Its library of both classic and modern Disney films, Marvel superhero films, and TV shows like The Simpsons make it a tantalizing alternative to Netflix. For those wanting to try out the service, Disney has previously offered a free trial. It seems that now Disney has changed its mind, as the free trial is no longer available. From launch, Disney+ has had a 7-day free trial to let families see if the streaming service was for them, the idea being that kids or parents would fall in love with rewatching their favorite Disney cartoons, only to discover 7 days just isn’t enough....

This article contains spoilers for Don’t Worry Darling. In Olivia Wilde’s second feature film as a director, Don’t Worry Darling, Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star as Alice and Jack Chambers, a young couple who live in a 1950s planned community called Victory. Jack goes to work in the morning, like every other man in town, and participates in the mysterious Victory Project. All of which is overseen by the equally mysterious Frank (Chris Pine), a charismatic cult leader type who built the whole place....

Puzzles and first-person shooters sound leagues apart from each other, but Doom Eternal has shown the industry that puzzle shooters can exist. Managing various demon types, exploiting their weaknesses, and navigating the map all contribute to this violent game of demon Chess. Key players in this sandbox are bosses and minibosses, high-priority targets that The Slayer must focus his attention on. Unlike most enemies, these units have obscene amounts of health, deal tremendous damage, and have a few mechanics tied to them....

Dragon Age 2 is a game that fans may love or hate. Complaints ranged from oversimplification of gameplay, backward steps in customization, and use of recycled areas compared to its predecessor. The positives can be said regarding the combat, which did devolve from a more tactically minded mechanic into a semi hack-n-slash approach. BioWare hopes to remedy some of these complaints with their newest Dragon Age 2 DLC, ‘Legacy.’ Our own review for Dragon Age 2 reflected on the complaints that fans have been in agreement with, but there were still some strengths in the game that did shine through....