Players eager to get in on the Halo Infinite action will have two chances this weekend and the following weekend thanks to the second stage of technical previews for the game’s multiplayer mode. Halo Infinite held its first technical preview back in late July, which was restricted to only bot-controlled enemies. But starting with this weekend’s preview beginning on Sept. 23, players will be taking on other players. Again, this test will be limited to eligible Halo Insiders.

The newest CS:GO case, Dreams and Nightmares, features 17 weapon skins made by community designers. As the name suggests, the skins feature dreamy and psychedelic aesthetics. Most of the popular weapons in the game, including the AK-47, M4A1-S, and USP-S, received a new look, with a few exceptions. The Dreams and Nightmares case is the first case to join the game in over half a year. Snakebite, the previous case, was added in May 2021.

Call of Duty: Vanguard invites players on a journey in a World War II setting with a thrilling story. The high-quality cutscenes take up over an hour of the complete campaign experience, making the game feel like a Hollywood production at times. Considering the cinematics alone can last over an hour, players may wonder how long it’d take to complete the campaign. Depending on the difficulty of your choice and your pace, it should take around five or six hours to complete Vanguard’s campaign mode, keeping it in line with recent iterations of the franchise.

Discord is an excellent way to communicate with your friends or a wider community on almost any subject. You can create separate text and voice channels to organize the chaos and use Discord bots to help improve your experience and monitor or moderate your server to your liking.  Sometimes, certain individuals will violate the server rules or be disruptive, ruining the experience for other members of the server. But admins can ban these users to avoid further issues, maintaining the desired experience for the rest of the server.

Asmongold, the most popular MMO influencer, is getting an opportunity tomorrow to grill the head man in charge of World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, following last week’s expansion reveal. Hazzikostas, who regularly makes the rounds following big announcements like this, was on stream with the WoW content creation duo of Taliesin and Evitel, who make the popular video series “The Weekly Reset.” Asmongold watched the interview on his stream today, and at the end, he mentioned that there were a few questions that fans weren’t able to ask.

Rocket League has seen explosive growth over the past year, especially in the last few months. Ever since the game went free-to-play on the Epic store, the rocket-powered car soccer game has welcomed new and old players on to the virtual pitch. Upon first downloading and launching Rocket League, new players should consider immediately setting up their controls for the long haul because the default control settings for Rocket League are widely considered to be suboptimal.

Many workers are turning to standing desks and standing desk converters to improve their health and posture while their work. Sitting at a desk for hours can lead to poor posture and decreased blood flow, but standing can increase your metabolism and allows you to stretch your legs and burn more calories. Standing desks come in many sizes and types, with some having electric height adjustment and others using a manual system.

Riot Games is making a series of adjustments to champions like Graves, Jinx, and Teemo, and runes, including Conqueror, Guardian, and Ravenous Hunter, in League of Legends Patch 11.21. The devs are also targeting Goredrinker in this week’s patch to “keep fighters on track” ahead of the 2022 preseason. The Mythic item has become a dominant pick for fighters and is, according to Riot, steadily creeping up in relevance for other classes on Summoner’s Rift.

Occasionally, games will have problems with the client launching on PC, meaning that certain aspects of the game will not function or the client won’t start at all.  For VALORANT, and other Riot Games’ titles, client errors typically result in specific error codes that disrupt your ability to play them. This includes the simple pop-up that asks you to “restart the VALORANT game client,” which typically appears around updates dropping for the game.

While the PlayStation 5 heralded the next generation of gaming in November 2020, many fans’ expectations have been tempered—a lack of stock, minimal storage, and more annoyingly, issues with the console’s Rest Mode. PlayStation 5’s Rest Mode is intended to keep the console running in a low-power state while games, firmware, and other software downloads. It’s a convenient feature when it’s working properly, but owners have been hit with massive consequences for using the power-saving mode.