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What is Splitgate’s Player Count?

Top GamesSplitgate's portal in action / Credit to 1047 GamesSplitgate is an innovative take on the arena shooter genre due to its use of portals. Players can fire two different colors of portals onto certain walls and surfaces around the map to create an immediate link between any two places. This opens up endless ways to not only traverse the game's arenas, but also creative ways to outplay opponents. As of July 27 2021, Splitgates free to play open beta has been available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and

Is Quake Coming to Xbox Game Pass?

Top GamesPhoto courtesy of Bethesda SoftworksQuake is getting an enhanced re-release for PC and Xbox. But is it coming to Xbox Game Pass?As part of QuakeCon 2021, three Quake games - Quake, Quake 2, and Quake 3 Arena - have been re-released on PC and Xbox. Quake, a first-person shooter originally released in 1996, is being fully remastered for modern consoles. This new version features enhanced visuals, 4K support, and cross-play. As it stands, Quake 2 and Quake 3 will only be available in their original form and will not

Splitgate Game Modes: Full List

Top GamesSplitgate's got plenty of game modes. Here are the rules for each. / Photo courtesy of 1047 GamesSplitgate's many game modes offer a variety of ways to enjoy the mind-bending first-person arena shooter. Some of them are standards of the first-person shooter genre, but a few pull specifically from one of its greatest inspirations — Halo — and a few are original creations of the Splitgate team. Here are all the game modes in Splitgate.The Splitgate Beta has hit 10 Million Downloads!!?We've come so far since starting the Open

All agents in VALORANT

VALORANT has a wide range of characters to choose from, each with a unique set of abilities. There are multiple characters available to play in the game, from an aging American war veteran to an ominous hooded wraith. Each agent has a special set of abilities that can be used to create advantages in tactical situations. Here are all 16 playable agents in VALORANT. Astra Image via Riot Games Gravity Well – Activate a Star to form a Gravity Well. Players in the area are pulled toward the center before

Quake Champions To Get New Content to Celebrate Quake’s 25th Anniversary

Hard as it it to believe, 25 years ago today, in 1996, id Software release the original Quake. It’s not a stretch to say Quake changed gaming forever. Aside from being a technical marvel at its time of release, Quake popularized online multiplayer and its design would go onto influence every shooter that followed it. The Quake engine and its successors would go on to power everything from X-men games to Star Wars games to behemoths like Call of Duty. Naturally, Quake’s 25th birthday is kind of a big deal,

All abilities in VALORANT

VALORANT combines aspects of various different first-person shooter games, borrowing from the likes of Counter-Strike, Overwatch, and even Call of Duty. It carefully blends tactical gunplay with character-based abilities into something unique. Instead of champions, heroes, or legends, VALORANT’s characters are called agents. They each have their own personality and four (or five) unique abilities, including a signature and an ultimate. Player accuracy, reaction time, and strategy are the main focuses of VALORANT, but abilities, and how they interact with each other, are integral to the flow of the game.

Here are Destiny 2’s Season of the Splicer patch notes

Destiny 2‘s Season of the Splicer kicked off with the Last City plunged into endless night by the hands of the Vex, but the latest update also brought a series of balancing adjustments to the game (and a Honeydew error or two). The new season touched on several weapon archetypes that became extremely popular, with 120rpm hand cannons (such as Igneous Hammer) taking the brunt of the nerfs. Vortex Frame swords like Falling Guillotine also saw a slight increase in ammo consumption, and all swords lost their chip damage. Bungie

Rapha wins third straight title at 2021 Quake Pro League stage two

Team Liquid’s Rapha has once again taken home a Quake championship, winning stage two of the 2020-2021 Quake Pro League. After dominating the event, Rapha wound up in a grand finals matchup against Natus Vincere’s Cypher—a rematch eight years in the making. The pair hadn’t faced off in a finals matchup since Dreamhack 2013, where Cypher took the event 3-2. However, when their paths crossed in QPL, Rapha was able to secure a shutout, closing out the finals with a 4-0 victory. This win at stage two of the QPL