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September Team Ranking: Copenhagen Flames break into top 20, Vitality rise to third

A few important events have taken place since we last brought you a monthly ranking update, most notably the playoffs of ESL Pro League Season 14 and IEM Fall. With the latter yet to finish there is still ground to be gained and lost, but more than enough has happened this month to see some major shifts in the top 30. Vitality crack the top three for the first time since February Here's a summary of our ranking for new readers: Our team ranking is based on teams' achievements over

Why is it so hard to find a PS5 or Xbox Series X?

Originally released near the end of 2020, the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are coming up on their one-year anniversaries. However, even after a year on the market, many gamers are still having trouble getting their hands on one of these machines. At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic picked up and is still affecting the world well into 2021. Because of the pandemic, life changed on a global scale involving trade and business. While many organizations and businesses struggled, people had to transition their work

Reflecting on a Year of Stories Told by Black Creators

Black Creator SpotlightA year of interviews with Black game developers. / Photo by DBLTAP2020 was a summer of rage. Three high-profile killings of Black people — Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd — led to a flood of protests demanding justice. I marched at some of those protests, but it was hard to escape the feeling of helplessness. We could chant for hours, some of us could get maced and arrested, and we could come back to do it all again. But the power to create real change lay

New World servers with the lowest population/wait time

The hype levels for New World were already through the roof before release. Considering the multiple betas, most players were counting days to return to Aeternum. The turnout was even larger than expected, however, and servers even had a hard time when it came to keeping up with the demand. Some of the popular servers were so full that players who wanted to log in needed to wait for hours. Getting stuck in a queue for extended periods won’t be ideal for most players since spending your time playing New World will always sound

Wisdom Gaming Appoints Wade Penfold As First Vice President of Esports

MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB) September 30, 2021 Wisdom Gaming, an emerging leader in esports production and content creation, today announced it has promoted Wade “Dreadnaught” Penfold as its first Vice President of Esports. Penfold joined Wisdom Gaming in 2020 as its Director of Esports and prior to, spent the last decade as a professional player, streamer and commentator for Apex Legends, Rocket League and Heroes of the Storm for the past decade. In his new role, Penfold will lead Wisdom’s competitive esports initiatives that include driving brand value through strategic partnerships, develop

How to equip weapon, armor skins in New World

Players jumping into New World will be looking to add some uniqueness to their outfit, whether that be using a specific weapon, taking specific armor, or perhaps exploring some of the skin options in the game. Those who preordered the Deluxe Edition of the game will have a few skin options at their disposal. Likewise, eager fans may have earned themselves some similar goodies via Twitch drops during the past beta testing phases. Whether you earned or bought your bonus skins, you’re going to want to know how to use

How to change your Ultimate Team club name in FIFA 22

Following the official launch of FIFA 22 for those who pre-ordered the game, a lot of players have jumped straight into Ultimate Team, the game’s most famous mode where you can build your own team with your favorite players. If you played FIFA 21 Ultimate Team or a previous edition of FIFA Ultimate Team, you’ll notice that your Ultimate Team club name in those versions has been carried over to FIFA 22. If you grow tired of that name or simply have come up with a better one, there’s a

Tales of Luminaria Gets New Gameplay Trailer Introducing Michelle Bouquet

Bandai Namco released new trailers of the upcoming mobile JRPG Tales of Luminaria. The trailers showcase another of the Federation-aligned characters available in the game, Michelle Bouquet. This follows more trailers that introduced Leo Fourcade and Celia Arvier. You can check it out below, with both English and Japanese voice acting depending on your voice-over language of preference. [embedded content] [embedded content] Tales of Luminaria is coming for iOS and Android, but a release date has not been announced. Yet, lots of details have been recently shared. Here’s an official

Tales of Luminaria Gets New Gameplay Trailers Introducing Celia & Leo

Bandai Namco released new trailers of the upcoming mobile JRPG Tales of Luminaria. The trailers showcase two of the Federation-aligned characters available in the game, Leo Fourcade and Celia Arvier. They include both cutscenes and gameplay in the game’s peculiar portrait mode. You can check them out below, with both English and Japanese voice acting depending on your voice-over language of preference. [embedded content] [embedded content] [embedded content] [embedded content] Tales of Luminaria is coming for iOS and Android, but a release date has not been announced. Yet, lots of