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EsportsEpic Games Is Spending $500,000 Just So Competitive Fortnite Players Can Practice
It’s a light weekend for esports, save for Epic Games’ Fortnite World Cup Warm Up. It’s a two-day mini-tournament which, because it’s Fortnite, will nevertheless include a $500,000 prize divided up among hundreds of winners. Competitive Fortnite’s World Cup event is slated to take place in July. Before that, teams will compete in a series…
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OpinionImpressionsSuper Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission Is A Very Japanese Card Game
Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an incredibly popular Japanese arcade trading card game. Players buy physical cards featuring Dragon Ball heroes and villains, form a team of seven and deploy them in battles via a specialized arcade cabinet. Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission for Nintendo Switch and Steam is the same thing without the…
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UncategorizedDoom Mod Turns The Game Into One Extremely Long Hallway
Tired of getting lost in the original Doom while hunting for ammo packs and teleporters? Well there’s now a mod that takes everything in the game and unravels it along a single, unwavering path, and it’s called Linear Doom. Created by modder DeXiaZ and uploaded to ModDB, Linear Doom takes all of the game’s clever…
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UncategorizedThis Phone Game Is All About Summoning Sexy Anime Versions Of Food
One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In…
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UncategorizedThe Games This ‘Boy Band’ Makes Are Almost As Cute As They Are
The Sokpop collective, made up of game developers Tijmen, Rob, Aran, and Rubna from the Netherlands, started calling themselves a boy band as a joke, but they didn’t start it. “It was something people joked about at events,” Tijmen told Kotaku, “mainly because of our looks.” Even if it’s kind of a joke, their cute…
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UncategorizedHow Battlefield V’s New Microtransactions Work
Battlefield V received microtransactions this week, almost five months after the first-person shooter was originally released. Players can now use Battlefield Currency, which can only be bought with real money, to customize the look of their characters, guns, and vehicles. Prior to the update, players could buy common, uncommon, and rare cosmetics using an in-game…
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UncategorizedWarframe’s first big open world area, the Plains of Eidolon, has been remastered. The graphical overhaul comes to PC today and will hit consoles sometime later on. The update also includes some new terrain for players to grind their scifi skateboards on as well as new badges for animal conservation.
By Ethan Gach
