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Riot to implement buffs to Akali, Sylas, other assassins in League Patch 11.19

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League of Legends lead gameplay designer Jeevun Sidhu has shared the expanded preview for the game’s next update, Patch 11.19. With it come plenty of changes just in time for the year’s most prestigious professional League tournament, the World Championship.  “This is the second of two Worlds-focused patches,” Sidhu said on Twitter. “Given that we won’t have any more opportunities to change the game, we aimed quite conservatively here.”  11.19 Full Patch Preview is here!This is the second of two Worlds-focused patches. Given that we won't have any more opportunities

Hearthstone Patch 21.2 nerfs Warlock and brings massive Battlegrounds change

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Time Stamp: August 31, 2021 4:13 PM - Modified On: August 31, 2021 - Published By:
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Hearthstone: United in Stormwind has received its second round of balance changes in Patch 21.2. The update is already live and will nerf two cards that have appeared in previous patch notes: Stealer of Souls and Flesh Giant. Stealer of Souls has already been banned in Wild and Flesh Giant received a nerf in the game’s last update. Aside from further alterations to Warlock, the largest scale of changes have come to the popular Battlegrounds mode. The major takeaways from this update are that Battlegrounds is receiving an exclusive keyword

MAD Lions sign b0RUP

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MAD Lions have signed Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup from Heroic, where the Dane had been sitting on the bench since he was removed from the active lineup in February alongside Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen to make way for Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck and Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali. b0RUP had spent over a year in Heroic's starting lineup before his removal, and was a member in the team that surprised Europe by winning some of the biggest online events of 2020, DreamHack Open Fall and ESL One Cologne Europe. Earlier this year the Dane was

Thorin’s CS:GO World Rankings, August 2021

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CSGOPhoto courtesy of ESLWhile other rankings are based on strict points formulas, tweaked by those who design and maintain them, the philosophy of this ranking from the outset, when it was the first significant world ranking in the game, has always been to incorporate an expert's eye and explain each position qualitatively as well as quantitively. (Editor's note: Take a look back at rankings for May and June)The basics:Time span: 17th April 2020 - 17th August 2021Tournaments (or tournament portions) impacting the ranking (due to teams ranked attending)Apr 17 -

Zuckerberg is turning trillion-dollar Facebook into a ‘metaverse’ company, he tells investors

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“I wanted to discuss this now so that you can see the future that we’re working towards and how our major initiative across the company are going to map to that,” Zuckerberg said on the call. “What is the metaverse? It’s a virtual environment where you can be present with people in digital spaces. You can kind of think of this as an embodied internet that you’re inside of rather than just looking at.” These comments echoed an interview he gave to The Verge last week, detailing some of the

World’s Edge season 10 map update to change Sorting Factory, Train Yard, and Refinery, bring back blue skybox

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Hammond Robotics has pushed World’s Edge to its limits. The map is going to sport a new look when Apex Legends’ season 10 drops on Aug. 3. The map update will bring deep changes to Sorting Factory, Train Yard, and Refinery, according to an official post from today. The developers will also open up a few minor rotation options and bring back the blue skybox, a long-standing demand from fans. The upcoming map update aims to “retain the design philosophy of World’s Edge as much as possible while improving things

Xbox Series X and PS5’s GPU Differences Are “Not That Significant,” Says Dev

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Time Stamp: July 26, 2021 11:56 AM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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In an interview with Gamingbolt, The Parasight CEO Bartosz Kapron gave some interesting insights about the difference between the PS5 and Xbox Series X on the GPU front. Bartosz also talked about other things, of course, such as how the Xbox Series S is an ambivalent piece of hardware. Bartosz believes that the difference between both consoles – at least on the GPU side of things – is not that significant. He also talked about the disparities between the PS4 and Xbox One‘s hardware, which “took its toll” on the

August 2021 Xbox Games with Gold Free Games Predictions

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Each and every month, Microsoft provides Xbox Live Gold subscribers with a bunch of free games, called Games with Gold. Normally, we get our hands on four titles, two for Xbox One and two for Xbox 360. Here, we’re going to be predicting the August 2021 Xbox Games with Gold free games for Xbox One. The Bigger Game: LEGO DC Super-Villains Our picks for the August 2021 Games with Gold free games predictions might seem a little strange, but let us explain. Having done a bit of digging into the

What is Axie Infinity?

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Time Stamp: July 6, 2021 7:31 AM - Modified On: July 6, 2021 - Published By:
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Axie Infinity is an Ethereum-based blockchain game inspired by Pokemon and powered by NFTs that allows players to breed and battle digital pets called Axies. The non-fungible token (NFT) space has made the interest in blockchain technology even higher, allowing developers to create games that store information on the distributed ledger, showing that the technology’s capacity is not merely limited to allowing the existence of cryptocurrencies. Axie Infinity’s goal is aligned with that. It is to make people understand the technology through an abstract but simple experience. Axie Infinity follows

Sentinels of Light Event, New Game Mode and Skins Announced

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League of LegendsRiot Games members revealed a new game mode, more skins, and information on the upcoming Sentinels of Light event for League of Legends via a presentation through YouTube on July 2.[embedded content]The presentation led by Riot Games employees was largely based on the Summer season events, especially for the Sentinels of Light of event that is slated for a July 8 release. The game's executive producer, Jessica "Safelocked" Nam, detailed some of the lore of the story before it releases, though not everything about it was listed.Aside from