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After a statement posted on Cleo “Cle0h” Hernández’s Twitter accusing Sinatraa of sexual abuse right after International Women’s Day, Jay “Sinatraa” Wong has been suspended from Valorant. Riot Games decided to cut ties with Wong after launching an investigation over Hernández’s accusations, which led the company to the decision of suspending the player from Valorant Stage 1 Masters. Furthermore, the Sentinels have also launched a statement confirming Wong’s suspension from the team while the former player is investigated....

Riot Games’ entry into the FPS genre, Valorant, had an extremely popular closed beta phase. In addition to an average of three million players logging on each day during the beta, the game also saw a tremendous number of people tuning in to Twitch to watch the game. However, the game’s popularity on the streaming service seems to have undergone a major shift. During Valorant’s closed beta, the game saw nearly 150 million hours watched on Twitch just in the game’s first seven days on the streaming platform....

Finding a good gaming chair is a highly personal quest. A seat that you find comfortable might be awkward for someone else, or a design you enjoy might be hideous to your friends. But when it comes to the Vertagear Triigger 350 SE, those are issues of the past. Its design is tastefully minimalist – a far cry from most racecar inspired gaming chairs on the market. And it’s by far the most customizable gaming chair I’ve ever used, making it suitable for literally anyone who plops down on its mesh seat....

Walmart will restock Xbox Series X|S and PS5 consoles today at 2.30pm ET/11.30am PT and 3pm ET/12pm PT, respectively. According to Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at market research firm Niko Partners, Microsoft shipped nearly 3.5 million Xbox Series X|S consoles in 2020, while Sony shipped 4.5 million PS5 consoles. In January, during Microsoft’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella said that the Xbox Series X|S had had a record launch....

Marvel Studios’ Phase 4 launches with the premiere of Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany’s WandaVision, the company’s first original series for Disney Plus. Now, Marvel Entertainment’s new featurette on WandaVision provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the cast and crew of the series captured the feeling of classic sitcoms. Set after the events of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision centers on Wanda Maximoff and Vision’s attempt to blend into a suburban neighborhood as a happily married couple....

A few weeks ago, we heard reports that a certain hacker group had done something extremely appropriate and hacked a game about being a hacker group. Using ransomware, a group calling themselves Egregor had managed to infiltrate Ubisoft’s internal network and steal data from the French publisher. Among the data stolen was the entire source code for Watch Dogs: Legion. We know this because Egregor bragged about it on their dark web site and threatened to leak the source code if Ubisoft didn’t meet their demands....

Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment has released an in-depth interview between The Last of Us: Part 2 director Neil Druckmann and Guerrilla Games’ managing director Hermen Hulst that focuses primarily on what it took to develop Horizon: Zero Dawn, revealing several intriguing bits of information behind the creation of the hit PlayStation 4 exclusive. Interestingly enough, not only does the interview between the video game developers touch on the process behind the creation of the open world action-adventure title, but also the two discuss the general business of making games, and how Naughty Dog and Guerrilla Games approach the practice....

What Does Boot Storm Mean? A boot storm is a situation where multiple users attempt to boot their computers at the same time. This action can result in causing a high demand on the entire network, which can result in unwanted delays such as paging. This is something which is encountered when users are trying to log on to the network at the same time and in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment....

Who lives in a coffee pot under the sea? Patrick Star, apparently…. In case you haven’t already heard, everyone’s favorite sea echinoderm is getting his own spinoff show! Longtime neighbor and best friend to SpongeBob SquarePants is ditching his classic under-a-rock abode and is changing scenery to spend time with his sea star family! And while there might be some retconning involved with Patrick’s kin, we don’t need to dive deep into the specifics of SpongeBob canon, do we?...

To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day, Game Rant takes a look back at some of the gaming industry’s best Irish characters of all time. Now that St. Patrick’s Day is upon is, it seems like everyone is ‘Irish For A Day’, as overpriced t-shirts seem to enjoy declaring. With all the focus on the Irish today, we thought we’d spend a little time reflecting on some of the gaming industry’s most prominent Irishmen....

Skydance Interactive’s exciting VR title The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is about to get a pretty big update. Titled “The Meatgrinder,” players will have access to a brand new game mode called “The Trial.” Essentially a horde mode, you’ll fend off against waves of undead in an attempt to rack up a high score. You’ll have access to the entire arsenal of weapons available from the main campaign, so you’ll be able to experiment with everything....

One of the most beautiful, dangerous, and sprawled out places in all of The Witcher 3 is the notoriously brutal Skellige Isles. The ruling clans of Skellige have their territory, and the rest of the archipelago is inhabited by monsters and other wilderness horrors. There are a few important locations to keep in mind as you travel through Skellige, because of either their usefulness or importance in the story. Here are some of the most important locales to keep in mind....

Witcher fans shouldn’t abandon all hope of new games, as Game Director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz claims that he would love to do more content in the future. Fans who are hoping for further installments in The Witcher franchise might be in luck, as Game Director for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, claims that he would love to continue working on the franchise. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, the director confirmed that the latest expansion, Blood and Wine, will be the last content developed for The Witcher 3....

A new character is going to be joining the list of esteemed crossover fighters in the Souls series this year, as it has been announced that Geralt of Riveria will be joining the cast of Soulcalibur VI. Namco Bandai made the announcement today through a YouTube video that the protagonist of The Witcher series will be crossing into the Soulcalibur universe. There will also be a stage based on Kaer Morhen, which is the ancient fortress and school of the Witchers....

The Witcher franchise has been a success in its many iterations and the television series has managed to replicate the popularity of the original books and following games. With The Witcher being one of Netflix’s most popular shows of 2019, there has been a lot of excitement for season 2 and how it will build on the first season. The showrunner from the series has now revealed which aspects they are keen to delve into with the new series, and it seems to have a focus on the villains....

Batman, the superhero alter ego of multi-billionaire Bruce Wayne, may need to ask Marvel’s God of Thunder for a loan, at least when it comes to Hollywood. A new report from Variety reveals that Chris Hemsworth, the returning superstar of several Thor and Avengers films, will get paid almost seven times more money for Love and Thunder than incoming Dark Knight Robert Pattinson will earn for the gritty The Batman reboot at Warner Bros....

First released in 2011, Skyrim is the iconic RPG from Bethesda that has since gone through a myriad of improvements both by the official development team and player base alike. It’s various intricate mechanics made it a highly anticipated title, and it most certainly did not disappoint. However, it’s nearly impossible for such a vast and complex game with so many moving parts to be perfect (it still can be, with the right mods)....

Respawn Entertainment is propping up the franchise that made it a renowned video game studio as more Titanfall content makes its way into Apex Legends’ Legacy Update. On the back of that move, Titanfall 2 is experiencing a revival of sorts as more people give the game’s fantastic multiplayer mode a chance. Ever since it became known that Apex Legends’ season nine would be packed with lots of Titanfall, it was obvious that the mech FPS would ride the Apex wave and grab a little bit of the battle royale’s still impressive streaming numbers....

The 1990’s was the best decade the world has ever seen, and anyone who argues otherwise has already been proven by science to be wrong. What science would that be? Well, look no further than the fantastic toys we got to play with. Super Soakers, Tamagotchis, Polly Pocket, Moon Shoes, Gak, Tickle Me Elmo, and a ton more were all there to wreak havoc on our parents’ wallets. Who needs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when you could instead have the Street Sharks?...

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launched with a solid Zombies experience, with many longtime fans of the mode approving of the changes made in its latest iteration. As such, a recent teaser from Treyarch confirming that more Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies content is on the way should prove exciting. With Call of Duty Zombies fans recently being given the tragic news that Takeo voice actor Tom Kane has suffered a stroke, the community could use something positive to rally around....