With the release of Amazon’s MMO New World proving to be immensely popular, there are numerous players who have struggled to get into the game because of long queue times on popular servers. While there isn’t a way for players to bypass those queues, there are a few things you can do to get into the game faster by playing on less populated servers or logging into the game at lower traffic times of the day in your region.

While some of the characters in Apex Legends have minor tiffs with each other, the hatred between Loba and Revenant is palpable—and it shows through their in-game interactions. Respawn added conditional chatter in the season five patch, prompting legends to speak to each other differently when prompted by dialogue cues. This, of course, led to some savage interactions between the two newest legends. Putting Loba and Revenant on the same team seems odd, but Respawn made sure to include voice lines that showcase the tension.

Chamber is the latest agent to join VALORANT—a sentinel that “focuses on mechanical outplays” with an “additional focus on gunplay” for “an extra flourish.” The agent’s codename, “Deadeye,” was first discovered in VALORANT’s Year One Anthem video in June, with the word scrawled on the side of a gun. The name was later found littered throughout the game’s files and continued to crop up in trailers, teasers, and other forms of media.

Fighting game tier lists change and evolve as the meta in a game grows along with the players competing in their title.  Guilty Gear Strive is the latest entry into a more than two-decade old franchise, and it is likely going to be the most widely accessible and played version to date after fully launching worldwide on June 11.  Typically, you wouldn’t be able to have a strong feeling of a fighting game’s roster strength ahead of launch, but GGST is in a unique spot because it had multiple beta tests.

Season two of Halo Infinite’s multiplayer, titled Lone Wolves, is launching on May 3, and alongside the plethora of new content comes a new collection of esports skins. Revealed at HCS Kansas City this weekend, the skin bundles will be based around the same set of partnered organizations but offer cosmetics for new parts of your arsenal. One of the major selling points of these new esports bundles is the Warthog skins that come with them, allowing you to spruce up your ride in Big Team Battle with the colors and insignias of your favorite HCS teams.

League of Legends content site LolKing has long been one of the preeminent destinations for champion guides and solo queue analysis. But on October 15, it will be shut down for good, the site announced last night. For the next week, the site will remain updated via Riot’s API for solo queue statistics. After the site was founded in 2012, it became one of the go-to destinations for solo queue statistics.

MrBeast reached $30 million donated to his recent project TeamSeas, a global campaign that looks to raise funds to remove trash from oceans, beaches, and rivers. The famous Youtuber-turned-philanthropist is known for some videos that show people donating money and supplies to people in need. Over the years, his videos have struck a significant chord with the viewers. We did it! Austin Russell noticed we came up a few million pounds short so he got us over 30 million 😂

Just weeks after being publicly condemned and having to apologize for making a joke about George Floyd’s final words live on stream, Skullgirls’ lead gameplay designer Mike “Mike Z” Zaimonthas been accused of inappropriate behavior by multiple members of the community and a former co-worker. BunnyAyu, a cosplayer and popular Twitch streamer, posted an entire gallery of messages exchanged between herself and Mike, saying she would no longer be playing Skullgirls after sharing the images.

Strixhaven is home to some of the best young mages in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse, which now includes Will and Rowan Kenrith, the prodigal mages from Eldraine. Strixhaven: School of Mages is scheduled to be released digitally on April 15 with a tabletop launch on April 23. The new set includes the return of the Kenrith siblings, who first appeared in Battlebond and had their character’s fleshed out in Throne of Eldraine.

The process of earning Overwatch League tokens has been streamlined and upgraded ahead of the 2021 season’s April 16 kickoff.    During the 2020 season, fans had to take a few extra steps to earn tokens, like watching only on the Overwatch League website or mobile app. YouTube had not yet perfected the drop system. But luckily, 2021 is a different story.  Overwatch League tokens, which can be used to purchase team skins and exclusive cosmetics in the game, can now be earned while watching games on YouTube.