Several of the most popular evolution lines have been added to Pokémon Sword and Shield as part of The Crown Tundra expansion, meaning there are a lot of trainers trying to fill up their Pokédexes with old friends.  One of the more polarizing Pokémon that made its return is Electabuzz, along with its evolution Electivire, and pre-evo Elekid.  Much like with Rhyperior in the base versions of Sword and Shield, it is possible to get both the middle evolution and final form without going through the original methods.

A new Overwatch skin, Pink Mercy, was released by Blizzard yesterday. It’s immediately gained a lot of attention—as a charity skin, it’s a new type of skin campaign from Blizzard. Beyond that, the skin’s a damn masterpiece. Proceeds from the $15 Pink Mercy skin will be donated to Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The skin isn’t unlocked like regular Overwatch skins. Instead, players who want Pink Mercy must purchase the skin through Blizzard, either in-game or through the Blizzard website.

You can’t travel through Johto without at least encountering one of the Legendary Dogs, which is why Pokémon Go Tour: Johto gives players a chance to catch all three without needing to actually chase them down.  For anyone participating in Go Tour: Johto, Suicune, Entei, and Raikou will be appearing multiple times throughout your journey, including in raids and as part of some event-exclusive research.  By using multiple encounter methods, Niantic is giving players options in how they want to approach the Legendary trio, with the potential to catch multiple of each and even try to hunt for a Shiny variant.

League of Legends’ Nexus Blitz event was the game’s first and only “experimental mode” when it launched in 2018. The temporary game mode is back for a limited time once again, though, from July 23 to Aug. 24. Nexus Blitz is a two-lane map with a jungle that features random in-game events. These events reward the winning team with power-up rewards and other bonuses, resulting in pandemonium. Two years have passed since the launch of Nexus Blitz, so new and reworked champions have changed the game mode’s meta.

Each League of Legends preseason brings about a massive new change to the game. Following last year’s successful Summoner’s Rift updates that introduced Elemental Souls and Rifts, this year’s preseason aimed to tackle one of the game’s clunkiest features since its release: items. The in-game item shop was completely overhauled at the end of 2020, no longer requiring players to scroll through pages and pages of items to look for what they needed (unless they still want to do that, in which case that feature lives on).

Riot Games’ Instant Feedback System is designed to crack down on unacceptable behavior in League of Legends, but it isn’t a flawless process. Players can occasionally receive unfair punishments despite Riot Games’ best intentions. Riot is adamant when it comes to the company’s reasoning behind punishments and will only back down if it believes it made a mistake. You shouldn’t expect your suspension to be lifted if it was well-deserved.

The Apex Legends Iron Crown Collection Event is quickly approaching and with it comes a legendary Pathfinder skin. Respawn Entertainment has been slowly teasing new content with the Iron Crown Collection Event, which begins on Aug. 13. The latest cosmetic that was revealed on the Apex Twitter page is the War Machine Pathfinder skin. Be your own knight in vanadium manganese boron armor ⚔ Ready your weapons, battle approaches. The Iron Crown Collection Event begins 8/13.

Just like how it’s in MOBAs and MMORPGs, keeping up with the meta is important to retain your edge in shooter games. Battlefield 2042’s massive maps allow players to put their creativity to the test and devise new strategies to engage enemies. No matter how you decide to play a certain map, however, there will be times when you’ll need to outplay an opponent when you’re outnumbered to stay in the match.

The newest Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies map, Ancient Evil, became available on PlayStation 4 on March 26—and it’s a lot of fun to play. It’s the final map in the Chaos storyline that takes players to Delphi, Greece. Ancient Evil introduces the Gegenees boss zombie and some sweet new wonder weapons. But how exactly can you make it to the high rounds on this new map? Here’s everything that you’ll need to acquire or unlock in order to survive in Ancient Evil.

Wordle is for many of its players a relaxing way to pass the time, but for others, it’s a fierce competition with their friends to see who gets the secret word of the day with the fewest guesses. Various ways of enjoying the game are certainly part of the success Wordle has achieved. Regardless of the type of player you are, at some point, you may have trouble figuring out which word to try next.