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Nerd Street Gamers announce Winter Championships circuit

Nerd Street Gamers have made public the details of their North American Winter Championships circuit, the existence of which was first teased in September during Fragadelphia 15. Online weekly tournaments, six regional LANs, and three "Major" LANs will each offer a prize pool alongside leaderboard points towards qualifying for Fragadelphia 16, which will run from March 4 to 6. The top four teams on the leaderboard ahead of the tournament will all earn travel support and lodging to attend the event. In a departure from Fragadelphia's regular formula, the main

Vampire Hunter Brigitte skin revealed for Overwatch Halloween Terror 2021

The Overwatch Halloween Terror 2021 event is more frightening than the Overwatch League’s offseason. But the frightful event is also delivering some delightful Halloween-themed skins. The Draugr Reinhardt and Vampire Bat Echo cosmetics will be joined by a new Halloween-themed Brigitte skin that looks like a crossover between a vampire hunter and a Death Knight from World of Warcraft. Brigitte’s shining bright colors have been replaced with a much darker overall outfit that the likes of Van Helsing would sport, featuring an aged wooden shield. The new Brigitte skin crushes

Pokémon UNITE players are speaking out after being forced to purchase Garchomp for weekly mission

Pokémon UNITE’s weekly missions are usually a great way for players to continue progressing through the game’s Battle Pass system—until it wasn’t. This week’s set of missions has caused quite a stir with the game’s player base as it requires players to compete in six matches as the Pokémon Garchomp. For many players doing this will require purchasing Garchomp from the in-game store as the Pokémon isn’t currently in the free rotation and many disgruntled players have voiced their grievances. Many of the responses claim that this mission would be

T1 and EDG fight for Group B supremacy at Worlds 2021

 This article is written in partnership with DJ Esports. All odds presented are at the time of publication and are subject to change. The second day of the group stage at Worlds 2021 will start off with one of the most anticipated matchups of the tournament. The LCK’s T1 will face off against the LPL’s EDward Gaming in an important Group B match. While neither of these squads is the top-rated League of Legends team from their region at Worlds, both could end up making a run deep into the

Draugr Reinhardt revealed for Overwatch Halloween Terror 2021

Reinhardt knows how to get spooky, and for this year’s Overwatch Halloween Terror event, he’s taking it to a whole new level. Draugr Reinhardt gives the steadfast tank the look of a ghostly Nordic warrior rising from the dead. This is the first skin revealed for the 2021 event.  This year’s Halloween Terror, which kicks off on Oct. 12, will include a host of new skins for Overwatch characters as well as the return of classic PvE experiences like Junkenstein’s Revenge. These skins tend towards the scary side and Reinhardt

Putting together the puzzle: Team Liquid’s rocky return to the Worlds stage

The last string that held Team Liquid together broke. The multi-time LCS champion team committed millions of dollars this past November, signing two high-profile free agents and renewing its mid laner to one of the biggest extensions in the league—and now, it looked all for naught.  It had already been a rough June for Liquid. One of those stars, top laner Alphari, got benched amid behavioral issues early in the month, and the other, Santorin, played through debilitating migraines and needed time to recover. Yet there was one more unforeseen

Overwatch’s Halloween Terror 2021 begins Oct. 12

It is spooky season, and players in Overwatch are more than ready for some new spooky-themed items with Overwatch‘s Halloween Terror event, which begins on Oct. 12 this year. The event will run from Oct. 12 until Nov. 2 and feature the returning game mode Junkenstein’s Revenge, which pits four players against an oncoming slew of zombie robots. The objective is to protect the doors to the castle and stop the zomnics—zombie omnics—from entering the castle. Players love the Halloween event because the skins are usually some of the best

How to complete Oct. 7’s Marquee Matchups SBC in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team

EA Sports added a set of Marquee Matchups to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today that you can complete by accessing the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu. The Marquee Matchups are weekly challenges themed around real soccer’s key matchups. EA selects some matches and creates SBCs that reward players with tradeable FUT packs. This SBC is themed around this week’s key matchups. You’ll have until next Thursday, Oct. 14 to complete four squads: Sweden vs. Greece, Germany vs. Romania, Colombia vs. Brazil, and Belgium vs. France. Each squad requires a different set of conditions

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to host Metroid Dread-themed spirit board event

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate usually announces their upcoming weekly spirit event on a Tuesday, but due to the massive final character reveal that took place yesterday, it was seemingly pushed the announcement back. Nonetheless, this week’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate spirit event will be themed after the newly released Metroid Dread game for Nintendo Switch. Along with the event, we’ll also see the introduction of three new spirits taken from the game that can be earned by taking part in this week’s event. While Nintendo hasn’t explicitly said what spirits