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NBK Announces Switch From CS:GO to Valorant

ValorantNBK's move marks a continued wave of CS:GO players moving to Valorant / Cooper Neill/Getty ImagesNathan "NBK" Schmitt announced his intentions to switch from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to Valorant on his Twitter Tuesday. The announcement by the legendary CS:GO pro continues the trend we've seen with former CS:GO players making their way to Valorant, which is still growing both in popularity among its player base and from an esports perspective. While what organization NBK lands with has yet to be revealed, it's stunning to see such an icon for CS:GO

Metro Exodus (Xbox Series X) Review – An Impressive Upgrade

NOTE: This review is focused on the technical improvements in the game’s Xbox Series X/S and PS5 upgrade. For more detailed impressions on Metro Exodus, you can read our review of the original game through here. You can also read our reviews of the expansions, The Two Colonels and Sam’s Story. The folks over at 4A Games love being on the cutting edge of technology. With the Metro series, time and again, they’ve brought a grim post-apocalyptic and heavily irradiated world to stark life in excellent ways with the help of some

Metro Exodus Tech Video: PS5 vs Xbox Series X Frame Rate Test, Comparison With PS4 Pro And Xbox One X

Metro Exodus was already a beautiful looking game when it first launched for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but leveraging the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S’ more powerful hardware, developer 4A Games has applied a significant amount of polish on top of the base experience. Having gone hands-on with Metro Exodus on the newer consoles, we’re impressed with how it stacks up against its base release. On both PS5 and Xbox Series X, Metro Exodus uses temporal reconstruction to achieve a dynamic 4K resolution, and though the Xbox Series X has a slight edge in

PS5 and Xbox Series X/S CPUs Are “a Considerable Improvement” Over Last-Gen – Metro Exodus Developer

Metro Exodus is launching for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S today, with 4K/60 FPS support, ray-tracing, FOV sliders, and more. 4A Games have always been on the cutting edge of technology with their games, and while games made natively for older hardware that are then brought forward to newer consoles aren’t the best way to judge new tech, they’re a decent way to at least test it out. With that in mind, how impressed has 4A Games been with the new consoles? Quite impressed, it would seem. Speaking in a press

Why international competition in League of Legends matters to minor regions

Pentanent.GG made history at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational on May 9 by becoming the first League of Legends team from the Oceania region to make it out of the group stage at an international event. Heading into the day, they had a tough schedule with games against the LPL’s Royal Never Give Up and the LCL’s Unicorns of Love. Although they lost to RNG, a single victory against the Unicorns of Love forced a tiebreaker scenario. And a win in that tiebreaker etched their names firmly in League’s history books.

Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition PC Tech Review – The Definitive Version

Over the past 10 years, 4A Games has been one of the few AAA studios consistently focused on building a top-tier visual experience on PC. By leveraging the full power of high-end PC hardware, 4A Games has created experienced that hold up, years later. Back in 2010, Metro 2033 at its highest settings barely ran on flagship graphics cards like the GeForce GTX 480. Its extensive use of DirectX 11 features like hardware tessellation gave these parts a thorough workout, and made 60 FPS gaming a distant dream for next-gen

Elephant adds Super to roster ahead of TI10 qualifiers

Newly formed Chinese Dota 2 team Elephant is banking fully on experience to take them to The International 10. After a dismal run of results through the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit that saw them fail to qualify for both Majors, Elephant’s Ru “RedPanda” Zhihao has been swapped for veteran Xie “Super” Junhao of Royal Never Give Up, the org announced today on Weibo. Super brings his decade-long experience to a team mired in mediocrity, in which a bright start has quickly fizzled. After winning the China Dota 2 Pro Cup

Metro Exodus Coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on June 18th

Includes 4K/60 FPS, ray tracing, FOV options and more. 4A Games’ Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition is out now with a detailed video discussing its various technical feats. Thankfully, console players won’t have to wait long to experience the enhanced version. The developer has confirmed that it will be coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on June 18th. Along with 4K on Xbox Series X and PS5 (1080p on Xbox Series S), the enhanced version will run at 60 FPS. Ray tracing will be present throughout along with options

Dot Esports’ official MSI 2021 power rankings

The halfway point of the 2021 professional League of Legends season is upon us. This year’s Mid-Season Invitational won’t feature as many teams as usual—largely because of COVID-19 travel restrictions—but the teams that will be in attendance are packed with talent and sure to make some noise.  The season’s first international event features 11 squads from across the globe, with each of them bringing their own unique style and flair to the table. From storied organizations with past MSI titles such as Royal Never Give Up, to defending world champions

Jeff Kaplan Pens Farewell to Reddit Overwatch Communities

Top GamesJeff Kaplan bid a final farewell to the Reddit Overwatch communities Thursday. | Photo by Robert Paul/BlizzardJeff Kaplan wrote a heartfelt farewell to the Overwatch and Competitive Overwatch Reddit communities Thursday after leaving his role as game director for Overwatch and Overwatch 2.The post, titled "thank you r/overwatch and r/cow," saw Kaplan thanking both communities for loving the game he helped to make in their own ways.Help us thank Jeff Kaplan for being the Mercy to our Genji. Thank you for always daring to see the world as it