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It’s time to ramp up once again for a new season of Apex Legends and welcome new legend Ramya Parekh, ‘Rampart’ for short. This defensive player is new to the roster as of August 17th and many gamers are already learning the ins and outs when it comes to the benefits of having a weapons modder on the team. This 21-year-old has some pretty epic tricks up her sleeve when it comes to abilities, and her reputation in Gaea didn’t come from simple gadget tricks....

While Apex Legends is currently one of gaming’s most popular titles, and certainly one of its most popular battle royale titles, there are some unusual gameplay quirks and tentative bugs that occur every now and then. Case-in-point: the ability to destroy an item in-game during a match. Destroying items wouldn’t sound like a very possible thing to do, as they are such a basic gameplay concept. Items for armor, health, and shields are generally spread throughout maps and can be picked up by anyone to get the upper hand....

Apex Legends was a big hit back when it originally released, becoming a battle royale sensation overnight. Unfortunately, Respawn Entertainment has been somewhat slow to add new content to the game since its February launch, and its playerbase has suffered as a result. However, that’s about to change when Apex Legends Season 2 launches on July 2, as the new season will be adding a new character and a new weapon....

Season 2 of Apex Legends is nearly here, and with it comes a slew of new content to check out and new rewards to earn, including new Battle Pass challenges. With so much being added this season, fans are eager to dive in and explore all of the new changes and features. Thankfully, Respawn has revealed that the update for Season 2 should go live at 10:00 a.m. PST, but will feature a pretty sizable download for players to install before being able to jump into the new season....

In the last few years, Ubisoft’s flagship franchise has seen a lot of significant changes in its core design. Assassin’s Creed used to be more akin to an action/adventure game, focusing strictly on the core concept of “social” stealth in crowds. For a while, that was the franchise’s unique gameplay hook, hiding incognito among citizens or contextual hiding spots and pretending to be another face in the crowd. Though, as the series continued on annually, cracks started to show in the Assassin’s Creed gameplay loop that harmed the series’ replayability....

Building on the systems introduced in Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has followed along a new path for the franchise by including more RPG elements into the game. Aside from new gear, like weapons and armor, you are also able to upgrade your character via ability points. Naturally, the more of these you can get, the more skills you can unlock to become a more efficient killer in ancient Greece. One way of getting these ability points is through finding Ancient Stele, which can be found in places like the Tomb of the First Pythia....

Heavy Shields is one of the weapons that are available for you to use in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. These things are massive, and heavy as well, but they are a great addition to slower combat styles. They also have amazing perks to go along with them, not to mention they look amazing when Eivor has them slung over her back. There is a total of seven Heavy Shields in the game that you can use, and some are better than others....

Welcome to the land of “what could have been.” Probably the worst thing about becoming famous or working for a famous company is that you have a lot of expectations to live up to. Imagine spending months or even years on a project and then it’s just cancelled. Despite Disney’s philosophy of how wishing hard enough or trying your best can make dreams come true, those who work at Disney probably know these stories are made from the exact opposite mindset....

Those who don’t know much about the eSports scene will probably be surprised that more than 20,000,000 fans streamed The International Dota 2 tournament two weeks ago The event, which ran from July 18th-21st, had over 2 million concurrent viewers in their run-up to the grand total of 20 million streamers. With the best Dota 2 teams from the entire world assembled, it was a must-see for active fans of the game and evidently garnered interested from elsewhere too....

It’s always fascinating to revisit Nickelodeon shows, as you realize how big a part these fairly simple cartoons played in your childhood. Some of the cartoons mentioned on this list ended many years ago, yet those who watched them still remember them clearly, making them the subject of many memes and fan artworks. As well as being fun to draw, envisioning characters in the opposite gender can add another layer to them and make you consider other sides of the cartoon....

Nintendo and nostalgia go hand in hand like like bread and butter. In fact, I’m willing to say at this point that getting nostalgic for Nintendo games is probably one of my favorite past times and is something almost all gamers can share. Whether it’s craving the iconic music and sounds of your favorite Zelda or Mario game, or just reminiscing about the times when you felt some of the greatest satisfaction after thrashing Bowser and getting rewarded with some (hopefully) delicious cake from Peach....

Sometimes people grow older and grow out of the things, films, and toys that shaped their childhood. And sometimes they don’t. And the people who don’t, grow older, get rich, and spend their adult lives spending every spare dollar they accrue on the better, rarer, and sleeker versions of the toys that filled their youth. And those people are my kind of people. I am in my early twenties but am enjoying that sweet spot where I have enough money to spend it all on the geek merchandise of my dreams but not enough adult expenses to make such spending habits seem unwise or irresponsible....

With a series spanning all the way from the ’80s that is still going strong to this very day, there’s bound to be hundreds upon hundreds of characters. Dragon Ball is an absolute monster of a franchise within anime and manga and games like Dragon Ball FighterZ are tributes to this beloved franchise. We’re now in the third season of Dragon Ball FighterZ with Kefla and Ultra Instinct Goku being the new DLC additions to fight alongside previously added fighters like Gogeta and Videl....

It goes without saying that Dark Souls is easily one of the greatest and most important video games to have released in recent history. During a time when major AAA companies were becoming more and more averse to actually challenge players in their titles, Dark Souls served as a breath of some much-needed fresh air. Here was a game that acknowledged that gamers weren’t brain-dead consumers who needed their hand to be held at every step of the way....

The smoke has cleared from the League of Legends Mid-Season Cup, which saw China’s top talent square off against Korea’s finest in place of the canceled MSI. After a tournament full of mechanical outplays and some head-scratching throws, the LPL’s Top Esports were the final team standing, besting the reigning World champions FunPlus Phoenix 3-1 in the Mid-Season Cup finals. There’s a lot to unpack from 2020’s first international tournament, from Korean champs T1 being eliminated in the group stage, to Kang “TheShy” Seung-lok’s concerning performances....

For the return of Trials of Osiris in Year 2 we’re reposting a popular feature that helped players go flawless in Year 1. In our review of Destiny’s Trials of Osiris multiplayer event, we called the new Crucible experience one of the best things Bungie’s game has to offer. Granted, we acknowledged that the experience certainly wouldn’t be for everyone, but those who do give it a try may find Trials of Osiris offers some of the genuine tension that makes real competition successful....

It seems that no movie escapes some sort of controversy these days and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos is no exception. The writer-director’s semi-biographical take on one turbulent week in the lives of legendary entertainers Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz as they produce an episode of I Love Lucy was in the barrel almost from the start due to Sorkin’s casting choices. Originally set to star Cate Blanchett as the iconic Ball, Being the Ricardos went through a lengthy development process that resulted in Blanchett having to step away....

Our quick take Acer Swift X initial Design & Display 14-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS LCD panel 300 nits brightness, 100% sRGB gamut Aluminium chassis: Blue, Gold, Pink colours Integrated fingerprint scanner Weight: 1.4kgs (3lbs) Thickness: 17.9mm 300 nits brightness, 100% sRGB gamut Performance Nvidia RTX 3050 / 3050Ti discrete graphics // AMD Ryzen 5000 / 7000 processors Ports: 1x USB-C, 2x USB-A, 1x HDMI, 1x 3.5mm headphons jack Thermal system: Fans (0....

Cheating has always been a problem in Call of Duty, but lately, it’s become a hot-button issue. That’s partially because there are more cheaters in Warzone–Call of Duty’s free-to-play battle royale mode–than ever before. And partially because that cheating problem has gotten to the point where streamers and influencers are starting to quit. Activision apparently doesn’t want to lose its best money maker, so it’s responding to criticism about a lack of anti-cheat in Warzone by proving that they’ve banned thousands of accounts and promising to do better in the future....

This All American review contains spoilers. All American Season 3, Episode 1 It’s senior year for our Beverly Hills and Crenshaw friends and that means the summer before senior year, something always has to happen to spice up the new school year. Right? After that All American Season 2 cliffhanger, my mind is going to the most obvious guess of what could have happened over the summer between Spencer (Daniel Ezra) and Olivia (Samantha Logan)....