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OpTic Chicago’s FormaL announces intention to retire ahead of 2022 season

OpTic Chicago’s FormaL announced his intention to retire from competing in Call of Duty today, bringing another change to Chicago’s roster after Envoy’s impending free agency.  “To my fans, especially the Greenwall, you now have my full attention,” he said on Twitlonger. “I’d like to see where creating content might take me, it’s definitely grown on me throughout this year through the podcasts and other videos we made at the HQ.” FormaL leaned into content more than ever over the past two seasons with Hecz and the rest of his

slap joins Young Ninjas as head coach

NIP have announced the appointment of Fredrik "⁠slap⁠" Junbrant as head coach of their Young Ninjas roster, with the 28-year-old joining the academy team on a two-year term. slap has been an active member of the Swedish scene since 2011, plying his trade for a number of mix-teams. Notably, he played alongside Björn "⁠THREAT⁠" Pers on Acer in 2015, a team that also included Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg, and also helped coach Secret fe to a first-place finish at Intel Challenge Katowice 2017. slap joins Young Ninjas on a two-year contract

Ghost of Tsushima PS5 Upgrade Price: How Much is it?

Top GamesGhost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Promotional Artwork / Credit: Sucker Punch ProductionsGhost of Tsushima Director's Cut was released for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on Aug. 20, 2021. This version of the game includes all of the original content and adds the new Iki Island expansion alongside some new features. Some of these features, such as the new Japanese lip-sync, will only be available on the PS5 version of the Director's Cut and some will be available on both the PS4 and PS5, such as the director's commentary.

CNed’s settings, keybinds, and crosshair for VALORANT

Mehmet Yağız “cNed” İpek is a rising star in VALORANT. After joining Acend in March 2021, the 19-year-old has emerged as one of the biggest names in Europe. The straight-faced Jett main has a knack for outplaying his opponents, often making clutch plays with the Op. The Turk qualified for VCT Masters Berlin after beating Gambit Esports in the upper bracket of the EMEA Stage Three Challengers Playoffs. In what will be the prime opportunity to prove his worth on the international stage, cNed will join 16 of the best teams

LCK Power Rankings: 2021 Summer Split Week 6

The LCK Summer Split playoff race is entering its final stretch. Each team’s schedule is narrowing down, and the regular season is slated to end in just four weeks. With eyes on the postseason—and eventually, international play—the teams of the LCK are gearing up for their most pivotal chunk of games this season.  Keep in mind the LCK has been given four berths to the World Championship later this year, meaning the top four teams from Korea will all head to the international stage in September. That race to the

Lost Judgment Gameplay Trailer Shows Combat, Minigames, and More

Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s upcoming Lost Judgment is just a few months away from launch, and ahead of its impending release, we’ve been getting plenty of new details to peruse and gameplay footage to look at. We recently got another major new gameplay trailer, showcasing several minutes of the game in action. From investigations to combat to a variety of minigames, to several locations being shown off and some School sections getting the spotlight, the trailer is pretty packed. We also get glimpses of chases, lockpicking, boxing matches, and more,

What Going On With the Switch Pro?

So much was said about the vaunted, fabled Switch Pro – a mid-life update for the Switch that would modernize the tech thoroughly, and allow the platform to remain competitive on a hardware level with everything else for a few more years while Nintendo worked away on the Switch 2. There were reports, leaks, discussions on the pricing and the presumed hardware capabilities, and what that might indicate for how Nintendo approaches hardware going forward, and even discussion on third party support for this thing.  So, where did it all

Fan Builds Up Their Own The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 Video Game

[embedded content] Nintendo has quite a few iconic video game franchises whether it’s Super Mario Bros, Kirby, Donkey Kong, to The Legend of Zelda, there’s something for just about everyone under the Nintendo company. However, if we were to take The Legend of Zelda franchise, in particular, we can look back at quite the lengthy video game release history for the franchise. There is a massive fan base that will pick up each installment released for the IP.  While some games are a bit more favorably reviewed than others, the

Forza Horizon 4 Will Stop Getting Cars and Features as Playground Games Pivots to Forza Horizon 5

The long-rumored and heavily anticipated Forza Horizon 5 was finally revealed at the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase at E3 2021, and we now know that the game will be releasing on November 9th. What we didn’t know, however, was what Forza Horizon 5‘s release would mean for Forza Horizon 4. That changed today. The update came via from the latest episode of video show Forza Monthly, in which Playground discussed what the impending release of Forza Horizon 5 meant for content development for Forza Horizon 4. As you’d expect, development

The best Arms Warrior talents and build in WoW Shadowlands

Warriors are one of the deadliest melee classes in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands in both player-vs-player (PvP) and player-vs-environment (PvE) settings due to damage potential, especially during their short cooldowns. The unique covenants also improve on this, giving the Warrior even better opportunities to dish out a lot of damage in small timeframes and take over the meters in PvE or create kill opportunities in PvP. While Fury sometimes overtakes Arms as the primary DPS spec in either PvP or PvE, historically speaking, Arms always manages to get an edge