The Overwatch 2 Season 2 battle pass is live, invites players to Olympus

Overwatch 2 News The Overwatch 2 Season 2 battle pass is here and with it comes gods, newsies, and an old man who wishes to be a teen with attitude! Welcome to the Overwatch 2 Season 2 battle pass launch day! We’vealready taken a look at the new tempo tank Ramattraand his ability to dominate the map, so now let’s look at the goodies available. This time around there are multiple themes and characters getting the battle pass treatment....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Christopher Gray

Tower of Guns? More like Tower of Funs!

New rogue-like FPS brings the shooty I really like rogue-likes. There’s something about their uncaring difficulty that appeals to the “HxC” gamer in me. With this in mind I got super-excited to check out Tower of Guns. The game’s creator Joe Mirabello described the game to me as The Binding of Isaac-meets-Quake. If that last sentence doesn’t excite you, you probably don’t have much business playing games….. Well, that or you’re my mother....

July 31, 2025 · 1 min · 73 words · Cody Higgins

Twitch confirms layoffs of more than 500 people

Gaming News Organization leaders will reach out via email with information about severance packages. Twitch is going to lay off more than 500 people. On Jan. 10, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy made a blog post about this and shared details about the next steps. Read on for details. “Unfortunately, we still have work to do to rightsize our company and I regret having to share that we are taking the painful step to reduce our headcount by just over 500 people across Twitch....

July 31, 2025 · 4 min · 696 words · Jeffery Marsh

VCT 2025 locations announced — VALORANT headed to Bangkok, Toronto, and Paris

Valorant News The locations for VCT 2025 have been announced, with Masters and Champions headed to cities VALORANT has not yet visited. Nothing in VALORANT is ever kept a secret for long. Leaks are always delivering what fans of the FPS are waiting for. And this time, the leak indicates the locations of VCT Masters and Champions in 2025. Riot Games reveal VCT Champions locations for 2026 and beyond VALORANT looks far ahead as they reveal the locations for VCT Champions 2026 and 2027....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Wendy Barrett

When did Overwatch 2 launch?

News A new era of heroes is here. Overwatch 2 is a first-person shooter (FPS) game by Blizzard Entertainment. It’s the second iteration of the original Overwatch game that launched back in 2016. When did Overwatch 2 launch? Overwatch 2 launched on August 13, 2025 as a free-to-play (F2P) game. It introduced players to heroes Sojourn, Junker Queen, and Kiriko. Later, the game released more heroes to join the Overwatch 2 roster....

July 31, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Christine Thomas MD

Alien: Earth RT Audience Score Reveals Sharp Divide Between Fans & Critics

Alien: Earth’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score has revealed a sharp divide between fans and critics following the premiere of the franchise’s latest entry.Alien: Earthpremieredon Tuesday, August 12 with its first two episodes, showcasing the crash-landing of theMaginotspace vessel and the aliens, including Xenomorphs, that are aboard. The show will run for 8 episodes in total. However, according to Rotten Tomatoes, there’s a divide between critics and audiences regardingAlien: Earth’s quality. The critics' score for the series sits at 93% as of writing, whilethe audience score for the Hulu series is at 79%....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Miss Catherine Blevins

Battleborn’s winter update addresses a lot of concerns, neglects one crucial issue

Better new user experience, except for matchmaking “Why didBattlebornfail?” is a question that gets asked every few days onits subreddit. “How do we bring new players in and retain them?” is probably the more constructive way to phrase it. Gearbox has been paying attention to the community chatter, and it has taken a lot of the ideas to heart. 2K recently announcedBattleborn‘s “biggest update yet,” coming soon. In order to retain veterans and entice old players who have left back into it, the update promises an increased maximum rank to work toward, daily quests to reward consistent play, a draft mode to facilitate a truly competitive MOBA experience, and an updated user interface to more easily find the most important information....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 326 words · Connor Garcia

Best Ifa build guide in Genshin Impact – Artifacts, weapons, and best teams

Ifa is a 4-star Anemo unit inGenshin Impactthat excels as an on-field Anemo driver in Electro-Charged teams. Furthermore, he is a decent healer and is good for exploration because of his Nightsoul’s Blessing ability. Luckily, Ifa is very F2P-friendly, and building him is pretty easy since he mostly needs Elemental Mastery. You can find the best artifacts, weapons, and teams for the Saurian doctor in this article. Best artifacts for Ifa Viridescent Venerer A full 4-pc set of Viridescent Venerer is the best artifact option for Ifa inGenshin Impact....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 504 words · Alexander Johnson

Bjergsen on TL’s improvements: “I think we did make changes in the short term [after 100T loss], they just weren’t good enough.”

League of Legends News Team Liquid spoke to the press in a post-series press conference following their 3-0 defeat to Evil Geniuses. Team Liquid was forced to watch the LCS finals from home after losing to eventual winners Evil Geniuses. The heavily favored super team crashed out of the LCS spring playoffs lower bracket following a 3-0 sweep. Although the scoreline looks one-sided, the series was far from it. Team Liquid had every opportunity to take games off of EG, they just failed to do so....

July 30, 2025 · 7 min · 1373 words · Michael Simpson

BloodThirstyKings shift from MLBB to Honor of Kings

Honor of Kings News MLBB legends of North America, BloodThirstyKings, shifts to Honor of Kings esports. North America’s powerhouse Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) team, BloodThirstyKings (BTK), has officially switched to Honor of Kings (HoK). This was announced following their high-profile disqualification from the MLBB Mid Season Cup (MSC) 2025 at the Esports World Cup (EWC). With that said, the team is looking to build a legacy that could surpass what they had when they were legends in the Land of Dawn....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Stephanie May

Chocobo Racing Comes Back to Life as Chocobo GP

Gaming News The classic kart racer from 1999 gets a sequel on Nintendo Switch. Final FantasyandDragon Questdeveloper and publisher Square Enix just announcedChocobo GP, a sequel to 1999 kart racerChocobo Racing. Square Enix revealed the game today via theNintendo Direct, dropping a 60-second gameplay trailer in the process. Chocobo GPis a kart racer in the same vein as as its predecessor. Similar to titles likeMario KartandCrash Team Racing, it takes on traditional arcade racing gameplay....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 358 words · Neil Thompson

Cloud9 parts ways with Wippie as they miss Masters Madrid

News Wippie parts ways with Cloud9 after about six months together. North American esports organization, Cloud9 has announced a VALORANT roster change very early into the new season. After just three matches together, they have announced the parting of ways with Maxim “wippie” Shepelev. The player is now a free agent and meanwhile, Cloud9 will soon announce a new addition. Free agent starting today. My time with C9 did not go as planned but I am thankful to them, my teammates and the fans for the opportunity and support....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Sonya Martinez

College Football 25 System Requirements

College Football 25 News Take a look at the College Football 25 system requirements, so you’re prepared for its upcoming release. EA Sports College Football 25 is set to hit the shelves on July 17, 2025. The game will be available exclusively on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S at launch, with a PC version possibly coming later. If you’re gearing up to play on console, here are the College Football 25 System requirements that you should know about....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Marcus Winters