News Meanwhile, Hangzhou Spark players achieved their second reverse sweep. Overwatch League 2023 Playoffs Day 2 just concluded with three sweeps in total! These were achieved by London Spitfire, Houston Outlaws, and Florida Mayhem. Meanwhile, the Hangzhou Spark versus Boston Uprising matchup ended with another 3-2 reverse sweep! Overwatch League 2023 Playoffs Day 2 recap The opening match of Day 2 featured Atlanta Reign and London Spitfire, and the latter team earned a 3-0 sweep....

CS:GO News The CSGO Major is already the third highest in terms of hours watched. The PGL Stockholm Major has crossed a million concurrent viewers during the first day of the playoffs. The match between Heroic and Virtus.Pro saw 1,010,611 viewers watching the stream at the same time according toEScharts. The next most-watched game was the other quarter-final between G2 and Ninjas in Pyjamas with 913,096 viewers. Heroic and G2 advance to the semifinals at the Avicii Arena....

Valorant News Esports.gg spoke with Potter, the head coach of Evil Geniuses in VCT Americas, just days before the start of Stage 2. Evil Geniuses isa divisive organization among the fans, but their VALORANT coach Christine “Potter” Chi is easily a favorite. A multiple coach of the year award winner, she led the 2023 roster to a Champions trophy and looks to do the same in 2024. VALORANT removes Ascension auto-relegation in favor of performance-based promotion Big changes are coming to the VALORANT Ascension program, with teams having the chance to keep or even defend their spot....

Sega announced this week thatPhantasy Star Online 2isheaded to the United States and Europecome 2013. This is great news for fans of the series, especially for those who thought that the spinoff sequels deviated too much from the formula that people fell in love with originally. Recently, I donned my pointy ears, grabbed my future laser lance, and snuck my way into the Japanese open beta to experience just how awesome a pure sequel toPhantasy Star Onlineis....

Coming in October Let me pitch you something: Cars playing soccer, butunder the sea. Sounds pretty okay, right? That’s whatRocket Leaguehas in store for its next update. Psyonix leans hard into theBioShockaesthetic for its AquaDome map. That steampunk-ian dull gold trim is everywhere, as an underwater dystopia looms large on the outside. Whether sanctioned or not, thisRocket Leaguemap is in Rapture for all intents and purposes. AquaDome is a free addition, but a couple of new cars will cost you money....

Valorant News Adam “kaplan” Kaplan will replace him as the teams’ coach ahead of the VCT NA Superweek. North American VALORANT franchised org, Sentinels has announced a change to its roster that has taken the community by surprise. Parting ways with the org is the team’s coach, SykkoNT. Replacing him as the team’s coach is kaplan. After three weeks of League play, Sentinels finds itself closer to the bottom of the League standings....

New songs by the hour Life is better withAnimal Crossing‘s hourly music playing in the background. I knew this,thanks to a websitewe covered years ago that does the heavy lifting, but had forgotten. While that site is still up (and remains one of humanity’s greatest treasures), there’s another option for Chrome users. NeoGAF user Andrexwhipped upa browser extension that plays the appropriateAnimal Crossingtune depending on the current time of day, and it’s making the rounds right now....

Fortnite News Popular pop duo, “Silk Sonic”, officially makes their Fornite item shop debut Thursday, February 10. Fortnite is notorious for adding popular media figures into their item shop. They have an entire series for it titled the “Icon Series”. In the past, we have seen celebrities such as Travis Scott, Ariana Grande, Marshmellow, and more. This time, they are adding pop stars, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, aka “Silk Sonic” into their online item shop....

Seattle-based independent games studio Refract’s experimental survival racerDistancewill be coming to Steam Early Access this fall as an open beta. Until now, access to the futuristic arcade racer has been limited to a private beta, available only to the game’sKickstarterbackers. The private beta currently features a brief single-player campaign, as well as additional split-screen and online multiplayer modes such as Sprint, Reverse Tag, Stunt, and Soccer. Also included is a powerful level editor that’s connected to the Steam Workshop....

News Might be time to practice while you wait. Tekken 8’s Version 1.02.01 Patch notes are here and the update is set on changing gameplay, just over a month after release. Not only that, but gamers will be going dark for an extended period of time. As we sit in the midst of Tekken 8’s Season One, we’re inevitably going to face an update or two. So, prepare to be out of action while we get the newest Tekken 8 features....

CS:GO News Events immediately following the Major kill the momentum. Will CSPPA fix the CS: GO calendar? FaZe Clan won the 17th Valve Major at PGL Antwerp, lifting the trophy after beating the defending champions NaVi. 2 weeks after their conquest, they have been eliminated by Cloud9 at IEM Dallas. NaVi, Entropiq, and Heroic withdrew, and ENCE, MIBR, and NIP brought stand-ins to Dallas. And now with Faze’s elimination, the storylines of the Major have already lost some of their momenta....

Hearthstone News Once again, Hearthstone’s meta is getting a shake-up in a new balance patch. What’s different about this time? It seems that the 25 buffs that the 26.0.4 Hearthstone patch weren’t enough to bring balance to the game. While the all-mighty Frost Death Knight is no longer the reigning tyrant, is not that players are free now. The meta is just “under new management.” Aleco, Hearthstone’s Final Design Lead, teased that game should get a balance patch in approximately a week....

CS:GO News We discuss the CS:GO roles to improve your game. If you don’t know your entry fragger from your AWPer then prepare to be enlightened. CS:GO is the modern incarnation of a game that pioneered the 5v5 tactical shooter genre. With over 20 years of history in the Counter-Strike franchise, the tactical strategies in the game are now well established. One of the most important elements of strategy in CS:GO are in-game roles....