Splitgate, the new, independently-developed shooter from 1047 Games, launched its “season zero” event today, a pre-launch competitive season for players of the open beta. The event was announced during today’s Opening Night Live presentation at Gamescom 2021 and could even be looked at as a soft launch of sorts ahead of the game’s official launch, whenever that may be. Earlier this month, Splitgate crossed the threshold of 10 million downloads. As a result, the game’s developers made the choice to keep the game in beta for a little longer than originally anticipated.

Dota 2’s newest hero Hoodwink was an unexpected Christmas gift from developer IceFrog and Valve. While her numbers were initially overtuned, which is common for newly introduced heroes, her win rate and pick rate have gone down considerably following a few well-deserved nerfs.  Now that she’s hovering slightly below the 50-percent win rate, it’s a good time to take stock of the hero’s performances at the highest level to improve your own gameplay of the hero or get used to her before she makes her way to Captain’s Mode.

Get ready, Summoners. We’ve got new champions entering the fight between darkness and light in League of Legends’ upcoming Sentinels of Light event, with Rengar, Pyke, and Graves joining the Sentinels and Miss Fortune and Thresh siding with the forces of evil. Graves was originally teased to join the Sentinels after Riot released a new poster for the event through an online puzzle, which showed the Outlaw posing among a group with Senna, Lucian, Gwen, Sentinel Vayne, and the game’s next champion, Akshan.

The class of thievery and trickery, Rogues in Hearthstone offer a brittle but powerful playstyle. Whether it’s all-out aggression, massive combos or cards generated from other classes, there’s a little bit of something for everyone. Here are the best decks you can play with Rogue in Hearthstone across the main formats of the game. The best Standard Rogue decks Thief Rogue It’s back! After a number of nerfs and buffs, Thief Rogue is once again a top contender in Standard.

It’s time to face the person in the mirror. See Valorant on Amazon Riot Games has finally confirmed VALORANT’s seventh map, Fracture, which will debut with Episode Three, Act Two. And even though various teasers have hinted at its varying landscape, players can also expect more mirrorverse lore. The map’s unique layout will force players to rethink how they approach the tac shooter’s typical attack-and-defend strategy. When does Fracture release?

Finding the answer to Wordle and its several alternative versions—and sharing progress on social media—has become a part of many players’ daily routines. The game will pick a new five-letter word each day, and you have a maximum of 24 hours and six tries to guess what it is. While words will always be the same for players on the same calendar day, the only clues are the letters themselves, changing colors after each guess to indicate their presence and position in the word.

Yuta Takahashi became the new Magic: The Gathering world champion after he defeated Jean-Emmanuel Depraz in the finals of the Magic World Championship XXVII. The victory earned Takahashi $70,000, the world championship, and his likeness on a future Magic card. Depraz came in second, taking home $40,000. These prizes are on top of the $50,000 appearance fee each player earned by playing in the World Championship XXVII. The tournament didn’t start out too well for the champion.

Horizon Forbidden West took some of the best mechanics from 2017’s Horizon: Zero Dawn and upgraded them. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t any new activities in Guerrilla Games’ new title, however. There are plenty of things to do while exploring the vast, open world. One of them is diving underwater and exploring what lies beneath sunken post-apocalyptic America. When Aloy (the protagonist) dives beneath the ruins, she’ll encounter underwater sunken barriers made of rocks, which seem indestructible.

Sorin is making an appearance in the upcoming Innistrad: Midnight Hunt set via Fateful Absence, a two-drop Instant removal spell in the Magic: The Gathering color White.  The last day of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt spoilers included Fateful Absence, revealed by Channel Fireball, saving one of the best cards for last. The color White in Magic isn’t known for removal spells, making Fateful Absence a surprise and delight to have in the Standard format.

Many veteran Overwatch players have probably noticed a general lack of teasers ahead of the game’s regular holiday seasonal event that typically starts during the second week of December. In years past, the Winter Wonderland event, which includes a plethora of Christmas-themed cosmetics and winter game modes, has started on the second Tuesday of the month. But this year, that won’t be the case, according to a post by a Blizzard community manager on the game’s forums yesterday.