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The 10 best Legends of Runeterra Beyond the Bandlewood cards

Legends of Runeterra: Beyond the Bandlewood was released today with the game’s Patch 2.14.0. As the first set of multiple expansions, which usually brings a new region, Bandle City will instead be LoR’s final region. The tenth region’s inclusion is an exciting time for fans of the game. A new kind of card, ones with dual-region, also allows for more flexibility in deck building. With Worlds happening next month, and the sixth Seasonal Tournament taking place the month after, players are hoping to figure out strategies which will find their

What is Mythic+ rating in WoW: Shadowlands?

Mythic+ rating is coming to WoW: Shadowlands with the release of Patch 9.1: Chains of Domination. As WoW‘s first in-game ranking system for PvE content, Mythic+ rating is set to completely overhaul how players approach dungeons in WoW. Now, instead of having to utilize features brought into the game by a third party add-on, WoW players can simply open up the Mythic+ panel of their interface to see a streamlined ranking provided to them by Blizzard Entertainment itself. A player’s Mythic+ rating is calculated as a total score of the

Intel Labs’ Image Enhancement Tech Could Have a Massive Impact on Video Game Graphics

Making video games look better and better is something that developers and publishers have prioritized over most other things for a long time now. In the era of 4K visuals and frame rates that surpass with many people’s eyes can even appreciate, you could argue that we are entering the domain of diminishing returns when it comes to focusing on photorealistic graphics,  but that’s not going to stop some folks from continuing to try to push the envelope further. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that, it is also

The 5 best builds in NBA 2K21

If you want to succeed in NBA 2K21’s My Career mode, which includes The Long Shadow campaign and online games, you have to create a great build for your character. The builds are custom basketball avatars that are made up of pie charts that consist of four major pieces: finishing (blue), shooting (green), playmaking (yellow), and defense/rebounding (red). The builds section comes after you choose your name, position, shooting hand, and jersey number. The attributes you assign to your build will determine the type of player you get. This guideline

The best Retribution Paladin talents and build in WoW: Shadowlands

Retribution Paladin stands out as one the most straightforward DPS classes in all of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. With very few abilities to keep track of, and just a handful of strong cooldowns to maintain, the class serves as a suitable primer for the melee DPS role. As an added bonus, Retribution Paladins are quite strong in Shadowlands, and make for a welcome addition to any raid group or Mythic+ dungeon.  Here are the best talents and builds needed to get the most out of the Retribution Paladin specialization in

Black Ops Cold War Season 3 Reloaded: All Weapon Changes

Call of DutyBlack Ops Cold War Season 3 Reloaded changed bullet velocity for many of the game's guns. | Photo courtesy of ActivisionBlack Ops Cold War Season 3 Reloaded's patch notes dropped ahead of the update itself, giving players a preview of what changes will hit the game's live servers Wednesday night. The patch notes include a rundown of all the changes coming to the game, including how weapons will be adjusted.In the update, Treyarch made changes to all the sniper rifles, assault rifles, light machine guns and pistols in

It Will Take Some Time for Developers to “Fully Embrace” the Xbox Series X’s Full Potential – The Ascent Developer

“I think it will take some time before it becomes apparent how big of a shift this will be,” says creative director Tor Frick. The Xbox Series X and PS5 have brought developers significantly better hardware to work with than what we’ve had with the PS4 and Xbox One for the last few years, but as is usually the case with generation transitions, it’s probably going to be a while before we see studios beginning to get the most out of the hardware, especially with most games probably being cross-gen