NA CS: GO Shuffle underway: Team Liquid bench Stewie2k, Grim, FalleN

News What’s next for NA’s best hope? The NA shuffle is underway with Liquid making the first move. The much-rumored moves seem to finally be happening as Stewie2k, Grim and FalleN have been placed on Team Liquid’s bench. Let’s take a look at the players' legacy and their rumored future moves. Team Liquid Stewie2k: The Key to the Summer Run Back in 2019, when Stewie2k came back from MiBR to the top of NA....

June 4, 2025 · 5 min · 904 words · Erika Cruz

Next-Gen calls Level 5 the next Square Enix

Japanese developer Level 5 (Dark Cloudseries,Rogue Galaxy, Dragon Quest VIII) is quickly moving up in the public eye with the recent launches of successful titles. They’re making the games that people are enjoying, always shoveling them full of TLC. What’s more is that their upcoming titles are ones that gamers want to get thier hands on. Does that sound familiar? It reminds me of Square in their heyday, and apparently I’m not alone, as Next-Gen’s Tim Rogers (a fellow game music freak) is coming out and saying it in his article called“Japan: Level 5 the Next Squre Enix....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Heather Knight

Optic FNS after the LOUD win: “It’s very difficult to have to re-adapt, re-adapt and re-adapt”

Valorant News OpTic survived a LOUD scare and barely made it to the VCT Masters Copenhagen playoffs. In a historic rematch of the Reyjavik finals, LOUD failed to clutch out the final few rounds in the high-pressure situations and let Optic steal a 2-1 victory. As LOUD was the first team to reach double-digit rounds on the Decider map Split, Optic channeled their composure and hit hard in the must-win moments and overcame the threat....

June 4, 2025 · 4 min · 781 words · Andrew Eaton

Pokémon GO finally gets a battle pass with the GO Tour Pass

Pokémon News The Battle Pass concept is coming to Pokémon GO with the new Tour Pass. Pokémon GO’s Unova Tour: Global is bringing the Tour Pass to the game. This ticket is the Pokémon GO answer to a Battle Pass, and will provide Trainers a huge range of bonuses. We’ve never seen anything like this in Pokémon GO before, and there is a lot of information to get through. Crucially, there are some major potential bonuses to get your hands on if you choose to get the Tour Pass....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 582 words · Crystal Valenzuela

Proton Drive Is Upgrading Its Photo Management

Proton Technologies has upgraded its Proton Drive service by adding a new feature called Albums. This feature makes organizing, sharing, and keeping their important photos and videos safe by giving you folders called ‘Albums’ to use. This is a basic feature for any cloud storage service with media uploads, but Proton Drive has been prioritizing more typical file storage features. It took a while, but now you can organize your photos and videos into shareable albums that are independent of your actual file structure....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 354 words · James Brown

Puppeteer Director Leaves Sony's Japan Studio

It was already suspected for a while that Sony was moving to downsizeJapan Studio, but the company didn’t officially confirm it until February. Numerous high-profile staff members have slowly and steadily departed the studio over the last few months and today marks the last day for one Gavin Moore, who confirmed his exit from the studio over Twitter. With that, it looks likeJapan Studio is sadly no more, something that no doubt many wish was an April Fools' prank....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 409 words · Lawrence Caldwell

Review in Progress: Injustice 2

Already a better experience than Batman v Superman Injustice: Gods Among Uswas an ambitious undertaking, creating an original story based on an alternate DC Universe where Superman gives into a murderous fallacy and pits heroes against one another in a way not seen since Mark Waid and Alex Ross’Kingdom Come.Unfortunately, all the ambition in the world couldn’t save the final product from feeling a little lackluster. But now that NetherRealm no longer had to create a fighting game from scratch (similarities to theMortal Kombatseries notwithstanding) and was able to build on an already existing framework,Injustice 2excels at finesse....

June 4, 2025 · 6 min · 1116 words · Calvin Stewart

Rocket League adds esports decals to the game

News Fans can support their favorite team in the game. In the first update of the year for Rocket League fans, Epic Games introduced esports decals. In total, there will be 31 teams with brand images in the game. According to Epic Games, each team will receive a new Octane 2024 sticker, Fennec 2024 sticker, Dominus 2024 sticker, and 2024 player banner in the store starting Feb. 6 at 4 p....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 302 words · Timothy Thomas

Solo Leveling Season 3 release date and details: “It may continue or it may not. Personally, I really hope that it does.”

Entertainment News Here’s what A-1 Pictures’ animation producer Atsushi Kaneko had to say about the future of the Solo Leveling anime. Solo Leveling Season 2 has officially wrapped up, leaving fans wondering what’s next for Sung Jinwoo. Here’s everything we know so far about the Solo Leveling Season 3 release date and details, including what A-1 Pictures' animation producer Atsushi Kaneko said about the future. Will Solo Leveling have a Season 3?...

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 328 words · Joe Solis

The glorious campaign of Princess Peach

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Dtoid community blogger Voltech blows your mind.Again. Want to see your own blog appear on our front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] I think we can all pretty much agree by this point that there’s something about Nintendo games. I won’t say that everything the Big N touches turns to gold, but I’d like to think that there’s a reason why they can just shout “NEW MARIO!...

June 4, 2025 · 13 min · 2699 words · Jeffrey Saunders

The Sims 4 releases fall 2014

Recreate your friends and family and do terrible things to them Electronic Arts has given the heads up thatThe Sims 4will be out in fall 2014. Good to know. I always like it when a full numberedSimsis about to release because then I can concentrate on it and not feel like I’m missing out once the flood of expansions begins to rush out. Most notably after theSimCitylaunch debacle,The Sims 4will not require a persistent online connection, thank goodness....

June 4, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Sarah Reynolds

V Rising Should Try to Beat Valheim to the Punch With a Console Port

BothV RisingandValheimhave become popular survival games on PC, both of which are still in early access. Each game brings a unique experience to the genre and both are definitely worth checking out for fans of crafting and building, butVRising’srapid success and interesting take on the genrewould give it the upper hand in jumping to consoles. V Risinghas all the basics of a traditional survival game. It features crafting, base building, resource management, and an online squad element; however, the combat and progression systems give it an edge over competitors likeValheim....

June 4, 2025 · 4 min · 651 words · William Fletcher

VALORANT uncovers new Beta Remastered Bundle

Valorant News VALORANT just revealed the Beta Remastered Bundle, which is perfect for those who miss the early Closed Beta days. VALORANT time-traveled back to its early beta days with the announcement of a new Beta Remastered Bundle. The offering features a new gun buddy, old music, a spray, a title, and an animated player card. Let’s see what Riot Games has shared so far. Every free cosmetic coming to VALORANT’s fifth anniversary event Celebrate VALORANT’s fifth anniversary event with free cosmetics, including player cards, sprays, gun buddies, and a cake-themed surprise....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Joanna Powell