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Although Call of Duty: Warzone may seem like just another game in the oversaturated battle royale genre, Modern Warfare’s new mode makes plenty of changes to keep things feeling fresh. One of the biggest changes is the Gulag, a feature which gives players an opportunity to compete for a chance to respawn back into the game. Here’s how it works. Once you die in Warzone, you don’t get to sulk while watching spectator cam or wait for a teammate to revive you....

This week is a big one for Call of Duty fans, as Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will finally launch this coming Friday, November 13. While Call of Duty fans wait to try Black Ops Cold War, they can keep playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone, which just received a beefy update that fixes some lingering issues, changes up the available playlists, and adds a big new feature to the battle royale....

The teaser and release experience of Call of Duty 2020 has been unlike anything attempted by Activision in recent years. Fundamentally, the traditional announce and release schedule has been shattered by this mixture of puzzles, teasers, and leaks. Without a formal Call of Duty announcement, all the fans of the franchise are left guessing the game’s future and deciphering details from obscure clues scattered across Warzone. The craziest part of the entire process is that chaos is the point of the entire campaign....

Turtle Rock Studios surprised the gaming populace with the reveal of its upcoming game Back 4 Blood releasing this year. Back 4 Blood was announced during the Game Awards 2020 this past December, and shares plenty in common with the creators’ previous experience developing Left 4 Dead games. Being a spiritual successor, Back 4 Blood will be incorporating several features from Valve’s popular co-op zombie shooter series. Some features carrying over include a cast of four survivors as playable characters facing undead hordes....

Players of Divinity: Original Sin 2 will admire the title for its immersive narrative and creative combat. Additionally, some TTRPG fans might say Larian Studios’ Original Sin series serves as the devs’ unique take on a modern Dungeons & Dragons CRPG. Moreover, some fans see this comparison in play thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3, the recent release from Larian Studios. However, unlike Original Sin, BG3 now actively uses D&D’s D20 system given its place in the hit Baldur’s Gate series....

A new graphics comparison video releases for Batman: Return to Arkham showing a side-by-side look at the original versions of Rocksteady’s games with the remasters. Following loads of speculation for the release of an HD collection for Rocksteady Studios’ first two Batman games with a box art leak and multiple online listings from retailers, the anthology known as Batman: Return to Arkham was officially confirmed by publisher Warner Bros. Interactive last week....

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Having one of the best rice cookers at your disposal allows you to easily add the fluffy side to your main - all without having to go through the rigamarole of watching over the pan. While a dedicated electric rice cooker won’t necessarily cook your rice any quicker than the hob, but it does take the manual labour out of the process. There’s no burning or boiling over, you don’t have to test the rice every time to check it’s cooked and you can set the mode to match the style of rice you’re using....

Without a doubt, Bethesda fans were practically elated once it was finally confirmed during the firm’s press conference at E3 2018 that the science fiction project known as Starfield is an actuality that’s in the works. Considering how the company’s Executive Producer and Game Director, Todd Howard, has talked up the game so far, it sounds as if Starfield will be a massive undertaking. With this being the case, the publisher and developer has announced during QuakeCon 2018 that it will be forming a new studio to work on Starfield....

Bethesda has revealed an overview of Fallout 76: Season 4 which includes a deeper look into some upcoming events as well as a look at some of the rewards up for grabs. This news comes in the form of an “Inside The Vault” blog post on the official Fallout website which reveals that Season 4 of Fallout 76 will kick off on April 27th, bringing with it a new scoreboard full of rewards for players to earn....

The upcoming Biomutant has garnered a lot of attention lately, after undergoing a long period of silence as Experiment 101 refrained from releasing any updates. Now that the silence has been broken by a release date announcement for May, the ball has been set in motion for more and more of the game to come to light. Although the gameplay has shown a significant chunk of the gameplay systems that would be featured in Biomutant, some are getting arguably more attention than others....

Black Desert Online has a reputation in the MMORPG community as an unforgiving and hardcore game. Sometimes it even supports player griefing behavior but also penalizes it accordingly. That is to be expected in a sandbox game where you can take on anyone who annoys you. In such matters, having the best viable 1v1 character for PvP can make a huge difference. Because as it stands, Black Desert Online’s characters each have their own place in the different game modes namely PvE, Node War, and PvP....

If you made it past the headline, congratulations! We applaud your inquisitive nature. Given what Treyarch and Activision have done for marketing Black Ops that will serve you well. Earlier this week, gamers reached the end of the alternate reality game, pawn takes pawn, and discovered a teaser trailer for Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. The trailer promises a worldwide reveal for the game on August 26th, however, the end of the alternate reality game was just the beginning of speculation....

The Blair Witch Project was a groundbreaking horror film when it released back in 1999, and it left fans with uncertainty as to the fates of its three main characters. Now, the franchise has had a movie sequel, as well as Bloober Team’s 2019 horror game Blair Witch, soon to be re-released for VR as Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition. In the years since its release, many fans of The Blair Witch Project have speculated about what became of Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams in the story, how they got lost in the Black Hills, and how their footage came to be found underneath the foundations of the abandoned house that the filmmakers enter at the end of the film....

BLAST will be hosting its first ever Dota 2 event in June, the tournament organizer revealed today. The event will feature six of Dota’s biggest names, each battling for a dynamic $150,000 prize pool with multiple bounties up for grabs. BLAST Bounty Hunt will take place online, with six teams facing off in best-of-three double elimination brackets until the final best-of-five. Back-to-back International champions OG Esports will compete alongside Team Secret, Team Nigma, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Alliance, and Team Liquid....

The multiplayer community for StarCraft 2 has stayed active since the game’s release in 2010, and it seems like Blizzard has been listening to their opinions on how to improve the Battle.net service. The upcoming Heart of the Swarm expansion pack will be releasing alongside a series of much-requested multiplayer updates, like unranked matchmaking and non-region locked accounts. StarCraft 2 Production Director Chris Sigaty updated fans about the new multiplayer additions yesterday, and while the gameplay itself isn’t being affected, the features of Battle....

Hero-shooter Overwatch has been a persistently popular global phenomenon since its initial launch in 2016, but that success means it’s a frequent target for cheaters. Thousands of Overwatch players utilize cheat software and other things to get an unfair advantage in the game, but now Blizzard has taken action against a significant chunk of them. Blizzard and NetEase have banned 34,433 Overwatch accounts in China during the first half of 2020 alone....

The concept of boss fights has been around since the very inception of video gaming itself. The idea of using this mechanic to simulate a bombastic finale of sorts for a video game level has never failed, and it’s easy to see why this is the case. So it was a given that the mechanic of bosses would only evolve over time. Fast forward to the modern era of gaming and no other company has managed to reach the heights of FromSoftware when it comes to crafting bosses that actually feel like surmountable challenges, as opposed to done-to-death gimmicks....

In the past, From Software has always looked to push its games further towards both difficulty and polish with each new installment of a series or with each new IP. So when the developer finally gets to making Bloodborne 2, a lot of focus will have to be put into the few ways available to improve Bloodborne’s mechanics in the highly anticipated sequel. Looking at the original game, one game mechanic that can be improved upon in Bloodborne 2 is the one that separates it from other games in From Software’s catalogue....

Science hasn’t yet told us how many Nurse Joys there are exactly, but it’s got to be a lot. Every single Poké Center in every single town seems to have one, whether they’re soaking up the sun in Alola or sipping tea in Galar. Of course, no two Joys were created exactly alike, and in the anime, some have even branched outside of nursing to become investigators and archeologists. But regardless of profession, each Nurse Joy comes from the same family, and each one sports numerous physical similarities....