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Some Players Are Really Excited About Rocket League’s New Icon On Switch
Two years out from its release, the Nintendo Switch’s user interface design remains incredibly minimalist and barebones in comparison to other modern consumer electronics. Maybe that’s why its biggest fans get so excited about especially striking art for game icons, or in this case, icon redesigns like the one Rocket League just got. The icon…
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is getting a bunch of Apex Legends-inspired stuff added to its battle royale mode. This includes a new ping system, respawns, and a set of futuristic boots that let you run faster and jump higher. The mode also has a new map based in northern Africa called Sirocco.
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The Echo Fox esports organization shareholder who was accused of using racial epithets in emails to business partners has issued a statement to Dexerto confirming one of the instances but denying that the language was ever directed at former NBA player Rick Fox or that his family had ever been threatened.
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CROSSNIQ+ is a tile-matching puzzle game set to come to Switch later this year. It’s got an early 2000s bubblegum aesthetic that really pops and a great soundtrack. As for the puzzle elements and competitive play potential, there’s an earlier build of the game on itch.io you can check out.
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Chinese EVE‘s Largest Corporation Is Moving To International Servers
Lately, the EVE community is buzzing about a potentially galaxy-shattering invasion. It’s not one designed by the game’s creators or by one of the current power blocs looking to start a new great war. Rather, players from EVE’s dedicated Chinese server, called Serenity, are planning to join the rest of EVE’s single shard environment. While…
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Dragon Age: Inquisition Let Me Be A Hot Mess
I think I’m bad at role-playing games. I’m far too impatient, too lusty, too easily distracted. I usually leave a trail of dead party members behind me because I keep missing those five-second side-conversations earlier in the game that somehow butterfly-effect themselves into someone dying. NSFW WARNING: A butt. I lost Lydia somewhere in a…
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Valve’s Index VR Headset Ships In June, Full Set Costs $1,000
Following last month’s tease, today Valve officially announced the Valve Index,a “high-fidelity” virtual reality headset with impressive specs, cool new controllers anda $1,000 price tag. The Valve Index headset features a pair of 1440×1600 RGB LCD displays running at 120Hz (with an experimental 144Hz mode.) It also has built-in stereo headphones that are off-the-ear, to…
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Joyfully, willfully, and with patriotic anger I sally forth to get my bucket head rattled in the hot new getting-medieval battle royale shriekathon Mordhau, live on our Twitch channel. I’m going to be too busy fearing cold death to utter my most energetic battle cries, so I’m going to need you to amplify my spirit…
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The Power Rangers Fighting Game Adds Three New Rangers And A Story Mode
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a solid little fighting game in desperate need of strong single-player content and more mighty morphin’ combatants. Developer nWay attends to those needs today in a batch of free downloadable content featuring three new fighters, a full-fledged story mode, voice-overs from series cast members, and more. Battle for…
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Korean Pop Idols’ Fashions Are Exploding In The Sims 4
When I was a teen, I expressed my fandom for the bands I loved by cutting pictures out of magazines and pinning them to my walls. Today, fans of Korean boy bands and girl groups express that love by recreating their outfits for The Sims I got into Korean pop hard during the final few…
By Gita Jackson
