Konami announces Book of Memories demo from Tuesday

Talking about memories … Konami has today officially announced that aSilent Hill: Book of Memoriesdemo is available to download from the PlayStation Store for your PS Vita handheld entertainment device. If you were confused at all about what you downloaded two days ago, this should clear things up. “Today, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. announced a playable demo forSilent Hill: Book of Memoriesthat is now available via download on PlayStation®Network,” revealed Konami in a press release today....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Timothy Griffin

LCS Week 8 day 3 Live results: Which teams will secure playoffs?

League of Legends News Which teams will make the six-team playoffs and which teams will fall just short? Business is picking up in week 8 of the LCS. As it stands, seven teams have the ability to move up or down in the standings. Only Cloud9 and FlyQuest have locked their ticket to the playoffs, but even they have not locked their seeding in the race towards the Mid-Season Invitational....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 257 words · Theresa Robinson

Luminosity players win CoD Mobile World Championship Stage 4!

Call of Duty Mobile News The team will head to DreamHack Atlanta for the CoD Mobile World Championship. Luminosity players became the regional winners of the Call of Duty: Mobile Snapdragon Pro Series Season 3: North America (CoD Mobile SPS Season 3 NA) event. Read on for the CoD Mobile World Championship Stage 4 victory details and information on what’s next for the team! Luminosity at CoD Mobile SPS Season 3 NA Luminosity players took home the crown at PAX West....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Jessica Stout

Next week’s Rock Band DLC features ‘Jungle Boogie’

That’s really all you need to know Three more songs are being added to the Rock Band Music Store next week and they’re all special in their own way. “Jungle Boogie” by Kool & the Gang is the most important contribution to music of the bunch, but “Shout” by Tears for Fears isn’t bad. Last (and almost certainly least), we have “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)” by Shinedown. All three of these songs were released previously viaRock Band Blitz, which is the only way I was likely to have ever heard Shinedown and now it won’tleave my mind....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Molly Collins

NRG vs DRX Tokyo Masters: NRG eliminate DRX

Valorant News The VCT Tokyo Masters will see NRG and DRX face each other in an elimination match. Which team will survive? NRG and DRX fell through in their respective upper-bracket matches. While both teams are two of the best in their respective regions, they are now facing elimination. And it is a risky elimination against a worthy opponent. Here’s all you need to know about the NRG vs DRX match at VCT Tokyo Masters....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 436 words · Linda Johnson

Overwatch 2 teases Zombie Baptiste skin

Overwatch 2 News This new Baptiste skin would go nicely with the Zombie Walk emote. Blizzard has teased a new Baptiste skin in the latest Overwatch 2 short. Read on for a glimpse of what appears to be a Mummy or Zombie Baptiste skin plus what other skins are in store for the upcoming season. Overwatch 2 Zombie Baptiste skin In a video highlighting the Throne of Anubis Clash map in Overwatch 2, Blizzard teased a new skin for support hero Baptiste....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 378 words · Rebecca Johnson

Overwatch kicks off Winter Wonderland with an amazing Krampus skin

Junkrat is the MVP The Winter Wonderland 2018 skins forOverwatchare mostly themed around winter sports. They’re okay if you’re into grounded designs, but I prefer the more out-there stuff. I wasn’t really feeling them. There’s one big exception, though, and that’s Krampus Junkrat. I must have it before the event ends. The bestOverwatchskins heighten character traits, and I think that’s absolutely true of this Krampus makeover. If Junkrat is annoying to die to, then Krampus Junkrat will be downright infuriating....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Alec Robbins

PAX: First look at MMO/RTS hybrid Novus Aeterno

What do you do when you’re a 17-year-old RTS player who is tired of all the games out there? You make your own, of course. You just jump on the Internet and gather together a network of fans to help you make a videogame, and then you also use that community for quality assurance and testing. Well, at least that’s what Nick Nieuwoudt did. He’s more ambitious than most his age, but he pulled it off andNovus Aeternolooks like a really well-made MMO/RTS hybrid....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 547 words · Jordan Scott

Pro teams scramble as Storm Point map added to ALGS Pro League just 19 days before new Split

Apex Legends News Storm Point is coming to ALGS. The latest map to arrive into Apex Legends is now being added to the Competitive scene. However, there is a lot of frustration at how late the announcement has been made. The 2nd split begins in just over 2 weeks. Apex Esports announced the entry of a second map into the ALGS rotation ahead of the 2nd Split of the Pro League and Challenger Circuit....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 605 words · Mary Morales

Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Sword Girls

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Well, it seemsSword Girlsis the newest online anime-styled card battle game from Zeonix. Based in a fictional world not unlike our own, the game features four warring factions – the first of which, The Crux, is spotlighted today – with Sita Vilosa, a student who moonlights as a monster hunter, taking the lead and facing some tough decisions. As I’m fairly new to the modern card battle world, this seems pretty interesting....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 288 words · Anne Valdez

Super Smash Bros. won’t return to EVO Game lineup in 2022

Super Smash Bros News Nintendo has chosen not to continue with Super Smash Bros. at Evo this year says the announcement. Evolution Championship Series, better known as EVO, presented big news for this year’s event in a Tweet sent on Saturday. First off, there will be announcement show March 8 on Twitch detailing more about this year’s tournament. EVO also indicated that they plan on hosting the event offline in Las Vegas after a two-year absence due to COVID-19....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 606 words · Jessica Ware

This Flappy Bird clone was written in under 20 lines of code

How games work WhenFlappy Birdleft its mark on the world last year, it was glaringly obvious that it was a simple game. However, to the layman, there’s rarely an apparent connection between the presentation and the amount of developer coding required. That “simple game” could require tens of thousands of lines of code as far as most people know. Well,Flappy Birdwas likely less convoluted than that, given that someone’s essentially recreated it in exactly18 lines of code....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Robert Taylor

VALORANT reveals new Summer 2025 skin line SplashX

Valorant News Riot Games has just unveiled the upcoming summer skin line. The bundle includes a knife, vandal, operator, a gun buddy, and a flex. “Pump It Up” isn’t just a hit by the Black Eyed Peas. It’s also the name of VALORANT’s new Summer 2025 skin line’s trailer. In this cool preview with anime-style animation, we can see all the new weapon skins. Let’s see everything about the new SplashX skin line in VALORANT....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 368 words · Michelle Murphy