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Although Riot Game’s VALORANT is only at a beta stage and is likely to go through a lot of changes and polishing in the coming months as the developers take in player feedback, there’s no denying this dynamic shooter is a fantastic title in the making. In part, the agents and their character designs are to thank for that. So far, VALORANT has introduced ten agents for players to try out, each of them with varying roles and unique abilities, including powerful ultimates they can charge up to lay devastation upon their enemies....

New VALORANT cosmetic options like gloves and agent skins are “on the table,” says game researcher Lea “aeneia” Hughes. The topic was brought up in a recent AMA hosted on the VALORANT Subreddit, where the game’s cosmetics designers answered fans’ burning questions about in-game skins. While agent skins aren’t likely to reach the game anytime soon, multiple devs did comment on the possibility of their future addition. Reddit user Vinayak98 asked the art developers whether they’d “ever consider Agent skins or skins for abilities” such as Jett’s Blade Storm knives or Killjoy’s Turret....

Valve, the company that brought you the “Meet the Cast” Team Fortress 2 videos, has released a beautifully animated trailer for the upcoming real-time strategy RPG Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) which asks the question, what type of hero are you? The trailer, which debuted at Gamescom, lets the store owner introduce a few classic Dota heroes as breaking the list down into speed, strength, and energy classes....

There are few people who have a middling opinion of video game cutscenes—people tend to love them or hate them, finding the way they strip the player of control to be frustrating or finding their storytelling capability to be a benefit. As a narrative device, cutscenes play an important role in getting a player through a crucial, scripted event at the expense of turning the player into a ‘watcher.’ Many games don’t need cutscenes, but story-heavy series like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy often use them to bring the story back to center when it’s easy to get lost in sidequests and distractions....

Our quick take Wahoo Kickr Rollr - 4.5 / 5 Setting up Dimensions: 80 x 30.5 x 147.5-170cm Weight: 23kg Flywheel weight: 4.8kg Riding the great indoors Resistance type: Electromagnetic (can produce 450 watts resistance without power) Max power output: 1,500 watts Max simulated grade: 10 per cent Connectivity: ANT+, ANT+ FE-C, Bluetooth To recap Wahoo has created an innovative hybrid product in the Rollr. It offers the best ride comfort we’ve experienced from a trainer and edges far closer to the feel of the open roads than a traditional turbo trainer can, but this does come at the sacrifice of some power accuracy which won’t suit those who want to race on platforms such as Zwift....

The Twitch streamer exodus continues. Just days after pro gamer and streamer DrLupo signed an exclusivity deal with YouTube Gaming, another big name on Twitch has followed suit: Timothy John Betar, better known as TimTheTatman, will stream exclusively on YouTube starting today. “I know it’s going to be a change and there are people that don’t like change,” Betar told Business Insider after the move was announced. “[But] sometimes change ends up being a better thing....

The 93rd ever Academy Awards just took place and it sported an all-time low viewership of 9.85 million, a 58% drop from last year. This is a continuation of the downward spiral that many award shows have been experiencing. A lot went wrong with the show this year in particular, however, with the most noteworthy point being the finale. The last three awards were moved around for the first time ever with Best Actor topping off the night....

Releasing yesterday on Nintendo Switch, owners of the handheld console have been flocking to The Outer Worlds in hopes of finally getting the chance to play Obsidian’s recent intergalactic RPG. The title - which joins the likes of The Witcher 3, DOOM, and Alien: Isolation as the next major modern generation release to make a jump to the Nintendo Switch - is currently sitting with fairly lukewarm responses, with a 71 on Metacritic....

Last year, I briefly entertained the idea of switching from games journalism to music journalism. I think I was listening to In Rainbows by Radiohead at the time, and Videotape - the album’s stunning denouement - had lapsed into its imperfectly circular outro. The drums get me every time. But then I booted up my PS4 and went back to Persona 5 Royal. You see, I had only been listening to In Rainbows while taking a much-needed break from Futaba’s Palace, which I had strained my eyes on for a solid eight consecutive hours....

Pokemon fans were delighted earlier this week when it was confirmed that the Detective Pikachu movie will begin filming early next year. But while the movie has already secured some top talent to direct and to write the script, it’s still a mystery who will play the characters depicted on-screen. According to a new report from That Hashtag Show, Legendary Pictures is currently in the process of securing an actor to play the role of Detective Pikachu....

Sega’s Dreamcast may have undoubtedly lost the sixth console generation, and even pushed the studio out of the market, but it did manage to win the hearts of thousands. Seen as a tragic figure—a brave final stand from Sega, which was anything but lazy—the Dreamcast has retained a cult following in the gaming community, predominantly due to its nostalgic collection of games, including Sonic Adventure, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, and the original Soulcalibur....

Lovecraftian horror games seem to be all the rage nowadays, and the latest one to launch is The Sinking City, which blends horror elements with investigative gameplay in an open world setting. Some people may be interested in the game after reading some Sinking City reviews, and may be wondering how long it takes to beat before they decide to pick it up or not. Unfortunately, there is not enough data available from the review aggregate website How Long to Beat to determine how long it will take most players to beat The Sinking City on average....

Publishers Studio LTA.it and Wired Productions team up to announce the psychological horror game The Town of Light will be available for PS4 and Xbox One this year. In February of last year, Italian developer and publisher Studio LTA.it brought forth their gripping psychological horror adventure title, The Town of Light, to PC gamers around the world. The storytelling, gameplay mechanics, and eerie graphics caught the eye of many players. Soon after, the game gained a bit of traction, and some questioned whether it would reach other platforms in the future....

The Walking Dead released a full trailer for the second part of its 11th and final season today. Watching it should give some perspective as to why this upcoming batch of episodes is based on a comic arc called “The Rotten Core.” Simply put: things at the idyllic Commonwealth settlement might not be as jolly as they seem. Check out the trailer below to see what we mean! Say what you will about The Walking Dead but its official trailers usually deliver the goods....

This Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 10 An episode that should have been owned by Rick Grimes after the untimely death of Carl last week is actually made more interesting by a couple of supporting characters who take the lead of “The Lost and the Plunderers.” One of my issues with the midseason premiere is that Rick’s reaction to Carl’s imminent doom seemed a bit tempered....

After two modestly successful games in the series, CD Projekt Red decided to pull out all the stops for the final chapter in Geralt’s story with The Witcher 3, and the end result is undoubtedly their magnum opus by a country mile. The fact of the matter is that The Witcher 3 has easily proven to be one of the greatest video game experiences of all time, and this is in no small part due to the brilliant characters featured in this game....

It’s no secret that The Witcher franchise borrowed a lot from already established literature and folklore. Some of the most prominent examples of this in the video games are how they twisted the Grimm’s fairy tales, making it a darker version of Shrek. Arthurian legends are not exempt from this creative exercise. The Witcher games have always included elements of Arthurian tales since Andrej Sapkowski, the book’s author, it a huge fan....

CD Projekt Red has a massive hit on their hands in the form of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The excellent open world RPG released a couple of months ago, and it remains one of the most popular games of the year, thanks to the continued support of the game from the hugely talented team at CD Projekt Red. CD Projekt Red has been described as the gamer’s studio, as they strive to meet the expectations of their community more than pretty much any other game development studio there is....

Fans have eagerly been awaiting an update on Dying Light 2, the sequel to the hit, open-world zombie game from Techland. One is finally arriving later this week on May 27 at 3 pm ET / 12 pm PT. Titled ‘Dying 2 Know More?,’ the announcement came alongside a letter. “Hello, survivor!” it opens, “Remember Harran? Of course, you do. But all that - that was just the beginning. Now, the city is our refuge, and it needs your help...

Agents in The Division should be aware of this YouTuber, who trolls other players by kicking them out of the squad party just before they receive their loot. The Division has gone through the ringer when it comes to encountering various problems post-launch: an abundance of hackers, glitches, exploits, and game-breaking bugs have been constantly besieging Ubisoft Massive’s latest title. Now, those hoping to join a squad and play through the Falcon Lost incursion have another worry to add to their list: running into the biggest troll in The Division, who has a YouTube account with multiple videos showing him being a jerk....