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Contests, Giveaways, South African Servers, and the return of Rush and Frontlines. Battlefield V will be entering week 12 of Chapter 6, marking the end of the chapter. With the April update deferred until May, this week’s community update provides good guidance on what to expect this final week of the chapter and until update 6.6 releases sometime in May. First, EA DICE lays out what to expect for this final week, including re-starting of South African servers, pop-in stream drops including free giveaway codes of the game, screenshot and trailer contests, the return of Frontlines and Rush game modes, and Best Community in the World and EA Play 2019 Emblem giveaways....

Our quick take Beats X headphones: The alternatives to consider Beats X headphones - 4.0 / 5 Best in-ear headphones: 10 great wired, wireless and wire-free earphones The best Bluetooth headphones 2018: top on/over-ear wireless headphones Beats X headphones review: A new design Wireless Bluetooth connectivity Flexible cable that sits around your neck Various sized tips to fit various ears come in the box Beats X headphones review: That W1 chip Apple’s W1 quick-connection chip Bluetooth connectivity Beats X headphones review: Battery and range 8-hour battery life per charge Long range Bluetooth connection Beats X headphones review: Performance Bass-heavy performance To recap The Beats X headphones offer all the cool connectivity functionality of the Apple AirPods in a more conventional form factor....

Fantasy has always had an interest in kingdoms, royals and governments, but contemporary books like the Baru Cormorant series tie that to a cynicism about government effectiveness in a way that tends to make for dark, convoluted political stories. This month we have a selection of precarious kingdoms, plus a microcosm of the same in academia. Here are our picks for best new fantasy books in August 2022. Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector Type: NovelPublisher: ErewhonRelease date: August 30...

This year marks a unique Thanksgiving, to be sure. With the pandemic carrying on, families and loved ones across the United States are testing out new ways to celebrate a national holiday that might be best described as food, football, and then, of course, more food. For some that means outdoor gatherings are the order of the day; for others it will mean the first time you might be cutting turkey while wearing a mask....

Call of Duty: Mobile players will be getting something special for Halloween. It has Jack-o-Lanterns, cobwebs, atmospheric lighting, and a fog-covered full moon: that’s right, Call of Duty: Mobile will be bringing back Black Ops 2’s Standoff map in time for the next season! The game’s official Twitter account recently posted an image teasing the map. Although the Twitter account did not confirm that the promised map is Standoff, it’s clear to see from the prominent Jack-o-Lanterns scattered around the area as well as the looming pumpkin-headed figure in the center of the image that Standoff will be returning in time for Halloween....

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has received good reviews from most community members, until now. While the game is still only in Alpha, fans have noticed a prominent problem on one of the three available maps. Black Ops Cold War’s map, Miami, may be too large for its Alpha test game mode. The issue was raised by multiple players who have spent hours in the new Alpha version of the game....

Treyarch has just teased weapon tuning for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War that will hit half the weapons in the game. Sniper rifles, assault rifles, light machine guns, and pistols are all getting tweaked next week, although Treyarch didn’t say which direction those adjustments will go. “We’ve got a new round of weapon tuning coming in next week’s update with adjustments for all sniper rifles, assault rifles, LMGs, and pistols,” wrote Treyarch....

There have been rumors circulating that Blizzard is working on a brand new first-person shooter, but with a new job posting from the company’s website, this seems basically confirmed. The new job posting states that Blizzard is looking for a senior/principal game designer. When looking a little deeper into the qualifications, the application details that Blizzard is “looking for a talented and experienced Senior or Principal Game Designer” to develop weapons and abilities “in action or first-person shooter games....

Bloodborne, which came out in 2015, is a video game from Japanese studio FromSoft. This game is one of their most successful and most critically acclaimed video games. Spawned from the brain of Hidetaka Miyazaki, Bloodborne is a dark-fantasy Souls-like game famous for its unforgiving difficulty, engaging combat mechanic, pre-Victorian era design, and of course, its subtle yet intricate story. The Fishing Hamlet is the last level to the Old Hunters DLC....

YouTube blacksmiths and Bloodborne fans Man at Arms decide to recreate one of the most iconic weapons from the From Software RPG, crafting the title’s saw cleaver. When From Software’s Bloodborne was released in March of last year, players were wowed not only by the sheer challenge of the gameplay on show, but also by the level of detail that the game provided. From foreboding settings to grotesque enemies, the title felt like a rich, if sometimes terrifying, experience, making the Sony console exclusive one of the reasons to buy a PS4....

Vampires always been a popular draw for video games, whether fighting against them or, rarely, playing as one. There are many possibilities when it comes to playing a vampire. While expansive games like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 cover a lot of those possibilities, they don’t cover all aspects. Games like Vampire: The Masquerade focus on the dark and secretive nature of vampires, but that’s not the only thing that draws players in....

Bugsnax come in all shapes and sizes, but none are more exciting than the Legendary Bugsnax of Snaktooth Island. As you play the game and complete the residents of Snakburg’s quests, you’ll fight them one by one, whittling them down your tools and skills. The mighty Megamaki is a monstrous construction of sushi and is encountered at the end of Wiggle’s questline. How do you go about tackling such a beast?...

Bugsnax turned a lot of heads when it was revealed earlier this year. After a Summer full of memes and people still humming the Bugsnax theme, the developer behind the odd title, Young Horses, has announced the game’s official release date and the cast of voice actors that will be interacting with players in this bizarre world. Today, Young Horses announced that Bugsnax will release on November 12, officially making it a launch game for the PlayStation 5....

Destiny 2 is well into the Season of the Hunt as players progress through the seasonal activities. After Beyond Light’s launch, fans got reacquainted with an old enemy and started their Wrathborn Hunts as part of the seasonal content. Then, the game saw the return of The Dawning, Bungie’s annual winter event, which brought new gear and rewards, as well as refurbishing older ones. A weapon that was brought forward was the Cold Front submachine gun, which will be tweaked soon due to a problematic perk....

Don’t ask, don’t get is the rule here. For three seasons, hit French series Call My Agent (original title Dix Pour Cent) has welcomed huge names in French and European cinema. Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci, Beatrice Dalle, Isabelle Huppert and Jean Dujardin have all appeared in the comedy as exaggerated versions of themselves, sending up their public personas and satirising their industry. Set in a Parisian talent agency, Call My Agent goes behind the scenes on the French film world, piercing its serious reputation with sharp humour and characters ranging from the adorable to the monstrous to the adorably monstrous....

Later this week, both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale will be entering Season 5. And as usual, this means that there will be a rather sizable update for fans to download. Now it’s been confirmed the exact file size for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Season 5, so fans can prepare their hard drives accordingly. It’s been revealed that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Season 5 update will be about 36 GB....

With Treyarch working on 2018’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, many have assumed that 2019’s Call of Duty will be developed by Infinity Ward, which would keep with the franchise’s three year development cycle for each game. However, a new job listing may indicate that Infinity Ward’s next project is actually aimed at next-generation consoles instead. A job listing on the recruiting website SelectMinds shows that Infinity Ward is hiring a temporary narrative scripter to work on a “new, exciting, unannounced” game that is in development for “multiple next gen platforms....

With the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War last November, new content updates for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare seemingly came to an end, with Season 6 being the last major season for that game. However, there have been rumblings that a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 7 is on the way, set to add new maps, weapons, and more to the popular first-person shooter game. And now frequent Call of Duty leaker TheGamingRevolution has shed more light on what fans can expect from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 7....

In this week of crazy Call of Duty: Warzone plays, Redditor u/MongolianChaCha threw one of the most perfectly timed C4 explosives we’ve seen yet. At the beginning of the clip, the situation for this particular Warzone team looked bleak. Their trio had a man down already (who was quickly revived) and ChaCha/JaguarShark was left on defense – the group was being stalked. Not just by another team… but by another team with an SUV and a Cargo Truck....

The Heartbeat Sensor in Call of Duty: Warzone is a fan-favorite tool for detecting enemies prior to an assault. It gives a reading and general location of nearby opponents but can easily be countered by Ghost or similar perks. While the Call of Duty: Warzone tools may be versatile in its performance, it does seem to have one new side effect. The Heartbeat Sensor has been a topic of debate among the Call of Duty: Warzone community since it was added....