Resident Evil Requiem leads Gamescom Awards 2025 nominations

Gaming News The Gamescom Awards 2025 nominees have been revealed, with Resident Evil Requiem, Borderlands 4, and Crimson Desert leading the race. The world’s largest video game event is just around the corner, and the nominees for the Gamescom Awards 2025 are out. Resident Evil Requiem leads the pack, but several other titles are making waves this year. Let’s check them out! Guides How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 Learn when and where to tune into the new Gamescom event....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 490 words · Russell Palmer

Shovel Knight features fun in spades

In SPADES! GET IT?! Yesterday onMash Tactics, Rick “King Foom” Olson sat down with the development team at Yacht Club Games to show off their totally awesome new project,Shovel Knight. With just three days remaining in itsKickstarter funding drive, the game is on the verge of achieving all of the stretch goals the team has laid out, and with good reason. It’s fun as hell. Check out Foom’s full interview with the Yacht Club gang, and enjoy his struggle against the King Knight from the game’s PAX East demo....

August 7, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Lee Hansen

Spectre Divide Closed Beta: Dates and how to join

Spectre Divide Guides Spectre Divide is back, rather quickly, with a Closed Beta test. You can request access now and keep your fingers crossed for entry. The Spectre Divide Stress Test was an apparent success. Chosen players were able to give the game a go for a handful of hours to make sure the servers could handle any sort of load. Well, Mountaintop Studios to ready to move to the next phase, as they have announced the Spectre Divide Closed Beta....

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 335 words · Aaron Spencer

Star Wars Battlefront 2 Modder Adds Pink Darth Vader

When asked whyStar Wars Battlefront 2opted tolink progression to microtransactions instead of cosmetics, EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen brought up the notion of a “Pink Darth Vader” skin, claiming it would violate canon and likely irritate fans. It seems he may have been mistaken, as a modder named Destauch just released a mod for the game that coats the dark lord in rosy hues. In the meantime, Blake Jorgensen attempted to quell some of the backlash by explaining EA’s reasoning for foregoing the oft-used practice of making the microtransactions purely cosmetic inStar Wars Battlefront 2....

August 7, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Howard Roberts

The Ending Of This Weird '90s Sitcom Is So Devastating, It's Hard To Watch A Second Time

The 1990s saw some weird TV shows, many of which ended up becoming classics, and one of them has a shocking and devastating ending that makes it very hard to watch a second time. The 1990s were a great decade for TV shows, with many of them now ranking amongthe best TV shows of all time. Others, however, were too weird to make the cut, but they are still some of the most beloved TV shows....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 584 words · Jessica Martinez

The Silent Hill Retrospective: Silent Hill 2

In our special place… It started with a worried look in mirror dimly lit. ForSilent Hill 2, this was a statement of intent; a progression in not only hardware, but also in narrative. Out went the B-movie horror about gods and the occult, and in its place was something far more intimate. James Sunderland’s tale was shrouded in surrealism – full of reflective metaphors, psychoanalytical nightmares, and warped locations of domestic bliss – but if you peeled back the layers of gothic horror andfilm noir, it was actually quite relatable....

August 7, 2025 · 4 min · 811 words · Andrew Alvarado

Throne of the Tides Hearthstone Mini-Set is here!

Hearthstone News Hearthstone announced the Throne of the Tides Mini-Set. This time, with expert panels reviewing cards. Check what’s new in this article. The day has come, an unusual Friday this time, but Hearthstone’s Throne of the Tides Mini-Set is out. Arriving on June 1, this new set of 35 cards, including New Colossal minions. Moreover, on this occasion, the Community Manager team is trying a new way of delivering the news....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Lisa Bush

VCT Champions: Team Secret’s Filipino line-up locks in playoffs with Vikings victory

Valorant News Team Secret are heading to the playoffs as one of the eight final teams after an emphatic victory against Brazilians Team Vikings. We take a look at what went down. VCT Champions returned this evening with Team Secret and Vikings both looking to secure a spot in the playoffs. In what already has been an entertaining day of Valorant, here is what went down in this best-of-three. Map one: Team Secret struts their stuff on Haven Team Secret selected Haven in the Veto stage, and with it being one of their best maps, it’s easy to see why....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 465 words · Jessica Lin

World Of WarCraft: 10 Things You Never Knew About Night Elves

Considering that the Night Elves are one of the oldest races in Azeroth, it’s strange how they’re still among the most mysterious. Even if you haven’t playedWorld of Warcraftyou’ve seen the image of the iconic Night Elf Hunter or Druid that often stands in as an emblem of the whole franchise. They’ve been playable characters since back in the day when the RTS Blizzard games were shiny and new, and their heroes are some of the most memorable, beautiful, and powerful....

August 7, 2025 · 7 min · 1290 words · William Hartman

Worlds 2022: Most MVP wins

League of Legends News Worlds 2022 is all wrapped up and that leaves only one question – who got the most MVP awards? Today we answer that question. As Worlds 2022 wraps up, today we are adding up all the MVP awards from across the three stages, and finding out who had the highest number of awards from the tournament. The players listed here are the top three for each stage, and their total number of wins....

August 7, 2025 · 3 min · 450 words · Michael Hill

Zeka on his improvement, that ‘EDG moment’ and competing at Worlds

League of Legends News It only takes one tournament to revive a career. Esports.gg spoke to DRX Zeka ahead of the Worlds final. From a player that was struggling in the LPL, to destroying the competition at the World Championship, Zeka has had one of the best career revivals in League of Legends history. Zeka helped his DRX squad shock the world and lift the Summoners Cup in a gruelling five-game series against Faker’s T1 side....

August 7, 2025 · 4 min · 705 words · Amanda Robinson

100 Thieves releases Hype Tracks, three albums worth of DMCA-free playlists for streamers

Streamers News StreamBeats announces new DMCA-free playlist in collaboration with 100 Thieves called Hype Tracks. If you want some new music for your stream these tracks make for a more energetic alternative. Streamers now have a 100 Thieves-approved playlist for live streams and videos Ever since music publishers started cracking down on Twitch, streamers have been looking for new ways to play music. Luckily content creator Harris Heller created StreamBeats for this very reason....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Elizabeth Burton

100T FBI: “I think it [championship run] feels just the same like last year. And I think we’re just going to win it again.”

League of Legends News 100Thieves botlaner, FBI, talks about the team’s 3-0 win over Cloud9 and gives us his predictions for the Team Liquid – Evil Geniuses match. 100Thieves won the first match of the LCS Spring 2022 playoffs, a dominant performance over Cloud9. The 3-0 victory was in front of a live, and a rather loud, audience as fans are back at the LCS Studios. Esports.gg’s Piratechnics caught up with the team’s botlaner, 100T FBI after their match....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 901 words · Erin Farmer