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The best Mistweaver Monk talents and build in WoW: Shadowlands

Mistweaver Monk is one of the most quintessential healing classes in all of World of Warcraft. Known for its sustained healing, massive shields, and ability to deal situational damage where needed, Mistweaver is a must-learn spec for anyone looking to pick up healing in WoW.  Additionally, any DPS players who don’t want to stray too far away from their roots when picking up an alt character should look to Mistweaver as a viable option.

New Run It Back VALORANT bundle features hand-picked skins from previous collections

VALORANT players can start 2022 with a fresh bundle that includes five skins from previous skin lines in one convenient package.  The new Run It Back bundle features the Origin Operator, Forsaken Vandal, Prime 2.0 Odin, Tethered Realms Ghost, and Recon Spectre. Each skin was originally available in their respective skin bundles with similarly-themed weapons. But now, players can get a taste of each theme.  Celebrate the new year with a hand-picked selection of some of our favorite skins from 2021.

Here are the best passive abilities in New World

While the hard-hitting, flashy active abilities of New World are going to be a main draw for many players, the game’s weapons are often balanced out through a vast table of passive abilities that can be equally as exciting. When selecting the weapon that you want to progress through the game with, passive abilities are going to be an important factor to consider.  From passively boosting your damage over time to increasing the amount of burst you might be able to do in certain scenarios, passive abilities play a large role in determining your character’s total level of effectiveness.

Ice Poseidon releases open letter to Twitch, apologizes for past behavior

Three years after being indefinitely banned from Twitch, Paul “Ice Poseidon” Denino issued an open letter in which he apologized to Twitch for his past bad behavior and requested that Twitch reverse the ban on his channel. “Three years ago I was banned on Twitch for enabling a toxic community.” Ice Poseidon stated in the video portion of his letter. “That toxic community affected the industry, myself, my friends, and other creators.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Deluxe vs. Standard edition comparison

After a handful of delays and years of waiting, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has finally been released to a consensus positive reaction from both players and critics. The game averages an eight out of 10 rating from critics across the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox versions, with the player score average almost being a nine out of 10, according to Metacritic. Additionally, 94 percent of the over 10,000 reviews on Steam are positive.

Mega Legendary raids and Pokémon Sleep info found in new Pokémon Go datamine

Pokémon Go gets new updates every week that typically add new content or data that will be used at some point in the future. And, as part of a datamine for the game’s 0.235.0 update, several new assets were discovered, including one for a new level of raid—Mega Legendary.  We already knew that Mega Evolution would be getting an overhaul in an upcoming update thanks to an earlier discovery from datamining group PokeMiners, but now it looks like this will coincide with the first appearance of Mega Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go.

MTG Unfinity delayed until late 2022

Magic: The Gathering’s newest addition to the comedic -un series, Unfinity, is delayed until the second half of 2022, Wizards of the Coast announced on Weekly MTG. Unfinity was scheduled to release on April 1 but has been delayed due to pandemic-related supply issues. There isn’t a new release date available at this time, but the new release window is the latter half of the year. This set was going to bridge the release gap between Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty in February and Streets of New Capenna later in the spring and early summer.

Riot Games is retiring end-of-season physical rewards for Challenger players

In 2016, Riot Games added a little more incentive for players to want to reach the upper echelons of the League of Legends ranked ladder. The company introduced physical rewards for people who reached Challenger at the end of the season. Unfortunately, it looks like those days are now coming to a end. Riot posted an update on its website revealing that it will no longer be rewarding Challenger players with physical rewards at the end of the season from 2019 onward.

What is Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel and how do you play it?

There are dozens of different ways to play Yu-Gi-Oh!, whether it be through using closed formats to limit what cards can be played, digitally through Duel Links, or the similarly styled Speed Duels that use the same altered boardstate.  But unless you’re an avid fan of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and keep up with news outside of the TCG, you likely won’t have a clue what a Rush Duel is or how it varies from all of the existing versions of the game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel maintenance scheduled for Jan. 26

Konami has revealed the first maintenance period for Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel will take place from 7pm CT on Jan. 26 to 1am CT on Jan. 27.  This scheduled downtime for the game actually lines up with when the new Yu-Gi-Oh! platform shadow dropped and went live on Jan. 19.  The length of the actual maintenance period will vary depending on how long it takes the developers to fix the issues they are working on, so it could end earlier or later than the allotted time.