NRG vs Giants: NRG pulls off impressive 2 – 1 comeback win to eliminate Giants from VALORANT LOCK//IN

Valorant News Stay up to date with the NRG vs GIANTS game at VCT LOCK//IN Sao Paolo. NRG took on Giants gaming in another fierce NA vs EMEA clash at the VALORANT LOCK//IN tournament in Sao Paulo. Both were looking to continue on from their winning starts in the previous round of matches. With NRG overcoming a close encounter with KOI and Giants easily dispatching DetonantioN FocusMe. Guides VCT LOCK//IN São Paulo: Fnatic win the Kickoff event Thirty of the best VALORANT teams in a single-elimination format at Brazil....

July 29, 2025 · 4 min · 796 words · Stephanie Hawkins

OpTic Gaming are crowned the VCT Masters Reykjavik Champions

Valorant News OpTic Gaming defeated LoudGG 3-0 to be crowned the VCT Masters Reykjavik champions. It’s the organization’s first win in the VCT. OpTic Gaming has been crowned the VCT Masters Reykjavik champions after defeating LoudGG in a comfortable 3-0 victory. The North American roster managed to sweep the Grand Finals 3-0 to claim their first VCT Masters win in the organization’s history. The road to the Masters Reykjavik Grand Final The Greenwall had been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride all throughout the tournament to get to the grand final....

July 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1093 words · Blake Dean

OWCS Dallas Major 2024 Team Falcons vs ENCE

News Falcons take on ENCE. Here’s everything to know about this OWCS Dallas Major match between Team Falcons and ENCE. One of the first matches of the 2024 Overwatch Champion Series (OWCS) Dallas Major takes place on May 31. The first match on stream features Team Falcons duking it out against ENCE. Read on for the full schedule for May 31, where to watch the esports action, list of players, and the Team Falcons vs ENCE results after the match’s conclusion....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Dawn Santos

Red Bull Kumite Canada National Final: Talking Street Fighter 6 with Canada’s top players

News This is their journey to the top. Who’s ready for some Street Fighter 6 action? Kicking off on March 2 is the Red Bull Kumite Canada National Final, which features the very best of the best when it comes to Canadian Street Fighter 6 players. After the Red Bull Kumite Canada Qualifiers took place, only the top competitors advanced to the National Final. We interviewed some of them ahead of the esports action!...

July 29, 2025 · 7 min · 1328 words · Michael Kelly

Resolut1on wants to train with substitutes instead of pub players: “I don’t want to play pubs against guys from different jobs. I want to train with professionals.”

DOTA 2 News Should Dota 2 competitions allow substitutes? Team Secret gives a hard agree. In TI11’s press conference with Team Secret, Roman “Resolut1on” Fomynok and the team talked about the benefits of having a substitute system in Dota 2. According to them, practicing Dota 2 against the substitutes would be great to improve themselves, a system widely seen in traditional sports. But team captain, Clement “Puppey” Ivanov also pointed out monetary issues that come alongside implementing substitutes....

July 29, 2025 · 4 min · 723 words · Rose Casey

Several VCT players answer our questions prior to Masters Madrid

Valorant News Esports.gg chatted with multiple players at VCT Masters Madrid and asked them questions about the first international tournament of the year. Masters Madridis the first Masters event of the 2024 VALORANT Champions Tour. Prior to the event, Riot Games hosted a media day with all eight teams. And of those teams, we spoke with several Masters Madrid players and asked them all the same questions. Here is who we received answers from: They’re all prepared to take on the differing international talent in Madrid, that is for certain, and some were definitely more vocal than others....

July 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1101 words · Mark Gillespie

Shadow of the Erdtree broke Elden Ring’s seamless co-op mod, but creator is working on a fix

Elden Ring’sShadow of the ErdtreeDLC has finally arrived, and players are jumping back into the game en masse to play it. Unfortunately,Shadow of the Erdtreehas also broken the game’s popular Seamless Co-Op mod. Developed by LukeYui, theSeamless Co-Op modallowsElden Ringplayers to play through FromSoft’s epic fantasy action RPG with their friends online without the base game’s multiplayer restrictions. The Seamless Co-Op mod is one of the more popularElden Ringmods, to the point whereElden Ring’s creator, Hidetaka Miyazaki, admitted that the mod hadinspired him to re-think how co-op will work in FromSoft’s next project....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 295 words · Victoria Martin

Shinji Mikami is leaving Tango Gameworks

Resident Evil co-creator off to pastures new [Update:Bethesda Softworks has confirmed that Shinji Mikami is leaving Tango Gameworks.] pic.twitter.com/yP6WaSxOun — Bethesda (@bethesda)June 24, 2025 Original Article: Reports are circulating this morning that legendary game director Shinji Mikami is set to take his leave of studio Tango Gameworks, which Mikami himself found just shy of 13 years ago. Website TrueAchievements reports that it has seen and verified an email, penned by Bethesda senior president Todd Vaughn, that was sent to all employees of Tango Gameworks holding company ZeniMax Media....

July 29, 2025 · 2 min · 318 words · Ashley Patterson

Should you upgrade to RTX 50 series? 5070 vs 4090 explained

Tech Guides Is the RTX 50 series worth it over your current GPU? Nvidia has created quite a bit of buzz with the announcement of the RTX 50 series of graphics cards. The Blackwell generation of GPUs looks to be a major improvement in terms of both performance and price over the RTX 40 series. However, if you’re the proud owner of an RTX 4090, is it really worth it to upgrade to something like the RTX 5070?...

July 29, 2025 · 4 min · 852 words · Heather Espinoza

Squid Game Season 3's Final Game Can Only Be One Thing, And It's Good News For Gi-hun

AfterSquid Gameseason 2’s explosive finale, it seems like the competition could once again reach its conclusion in season 3, and while Gi-hun is desperate to put a stop to the games, he may still have one big advantage in the final round. Although Gi-hun returned to compete in the games once again, his intentions were much different this time around as he attempted to end these sadistic challenges. Having been constantly foiled, he managed to stage a rebellion duringSquid Gameseason 2’s ending, but despite his best efforts, the Front Man stayed one step ahead....

July 29, 2025 · 5 min · 981 words · Mark Chandler

The great Wave 4 amiibo hunt is on today, and it’s about what we expected

Good luck Today, Wave 4 of the amiibo shopping “experience” begins. We already assumed it was going to behell on earth based on the pre-order process, and it turned out to be fairly uninspiring all around as shops opened across the US. This week, Robin, Lucina, Pac-Man, the Splatoon 3-pack, Splatoon Girl, Splatoon Boy, Charizard, Wario, Silver Mario, Ness, Jigglypuff, and Greninja launch. The former two are basically on unicorn (ultra-rare) status....

July 29, 2025 · 3 min · 463 words · Brian Warner

The new Call of Duty AI voice moderation is welcome and sorely needed

News Opinion A new Call of Duty AI voice chat moderation initiative began this week, which begs the question: When will other companies do the same? It’s hard to get through the weekly news cycle without hearing about artificial intelligence utilization. From newsrooms to medical journals and everything in between, AI is the new hot-button topic. In the case of games we’ve mostly heard hushed rumors about how AI will usher in the end of human-generated content....

July 29, 2025 · 4 min · 842 words · Jenny Johnson

The new Who Wants to be a Millionaire? game has a 100-player mode

We miss you, Regis Does anyone else have an irrational fear of appearing on a show likeWho Wants to be a Millionaire?and blowing it on a basic freebie trivia question that was specifically designed to be a no-brainer? I will never, under any circumstances, be in that situation – but the what-if unsettles me on a far-too-regular basis. I like game shows, I like video games based on game shows, but I would never be on one....

July 29, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Eugene Gutierrez