The New York Subliners are returning once more to fill the void of the Call of Duty League’s extended midseason break to throw another big Warzone tournament. NYSL’s WarzoneMania III is kicking off later today, featuring a who’s-who of the biggest and best in Warzone competition. The prize pool of $50,000 is sure to create some intense action across the battle royale. The skillful may survive, but the lucky will win.

Swedish CS:GO AWPer Jesper “JW” Wecksell has left Fnatic after spending the past three months on the organization’s bench, he announced today. This finishes JW’s second stint with Fnatic, one that started in February 2017 after a brief spell with GODSENT. During this time, he helped the team win big tournaments such as IEM Katowice in March 2018 and DreamHack Masters Malmö in 2019. He also played for the British organization between August 2013 and August 2016 and was an integral part of Fnatic’s three CS:GO Major titles.

On a one-lane League of Legends map like the Howling Abyss, the very idea of pulling off a backdoor play feels futile. But with the help of a Bard player’s portal, one League team secured a dramatic game-ending backdoor right under the enemy team’s noses. In a clip posted to Reddit earlier today, one Bard player allowed their team to end an ARAM game of League on the Howling Abyss through the use of their Magical Journey (E).

Sega has been in the news a lot over the last several weeks, and it looks like that will continue since a new batch of Sega Genesis titles might be coming to the Nintendo Switch later this week.  This speculation comes from scheduled maintenance for the Genesis portion of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription platform, which is scheduled to take place later today from around 7:55pm to 9pm CT.  Maintenance like this is typically only applied when new titles are being added to NSO.

New World‘s crafting system lets players create items at their own pace, using resources acquired with gathering skills as they explore and complete quests in the world around them. From weapons and armor to furniture and tools, a New World player can craft a little bit of everything with their expansive set of trade skills. One of the trade skills that’s most essential to New World players is cooking. Cooking various foods from rations to meals will provide players with their most important items when it comes to healing, taking advantage of lengthy buffs, and even improve your town standing.

Popular Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ Twitter account washacked today. The first hacked tweet came at 11:45am CT today and several other tweets have since gone live. The tweets tell fans to follow a since suspended account and call out Tfue, another popular Fortnite streamer. Other tweets mention popular drama channel KEEMSTAR and contain inappropriate language. The last legitimate tweet from Ninja came at 9:57pm CT last night. He described a fun stream with streamer NickMercs and how he loves the latest season of the battle royale.

It appears as though the Overwatch team has taken the first steps toward adjusting the hero formerly known as McCree’s voice lines as the scandal and lawsuit at Blizzard continues to unfold. The real-life namesake for Jesse McCree, who worked at Blizzard on the Diablo team at the time, was outed earlier this year as a member of the “Cosby Suite” BlizzCon group chat, a notorious group chat between male Blizzard staff members.

Druids are one of the most flexible classes in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands in both player-vs-player (PvP) and player-vs-environment (PvE) encounters. They are capable of fulfilling multiple roles such as healing, tanking, dealing damage from range or melee. Balance Druids made a name for themselves in both the PvP and PvE environments due to the high damage and utility they bring, making them a great pick if you want to play a ranged DPS.

League of Legends saw its professional meta change countless times throughout 2020. Different champions popped up and rose to prominence at various moments during the course of the year, promoting factors of variation and innovation at every turn. But some champions still simply remained stalwart throughout the entire season. The game’s most-prominent characters all held influence over its competitive meta from opening day all the way to the World Championship. And when the curtain fell on this unprecedented year of pro play, the meta appeared to be more flexible and versatile than ever before.

VALORANT’s latest skin line looks like it’s straight out of BioShock Infinite. Magepunk, “crafted during the Neo Victorian Magical Industrial Revolution,” combines old weapons with technology in the modern world, melding retro elements with themes from the not-so-distant future.  The skins, which are expected to go live in the store on Thursday, April 1, cost a combined 6,734 VP (over $70) for the entire bundle, which includes cosmetics for the Ghost, Spectre, Bucky, Marshal, Electroblade melee, and a card, spray, and buddy.