Dying Light 2 Stay Human features a smooth movement system, allowing players to traverse the beautiful environment with a variety of parkour abilities. Stringing together multiple abilities as you outrun enemies is exhilarating, especially at night. But there’s one setting that can either improve your gameplay or be a significant distraction: motion blur.  Motion blur can help immerse you into a story, adding another realistic element to the experience. But it’s also incredibly distracting and even makes some players nauseous.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a new fighting game that will feature iconic cartoon characters battling it out in a Super Smash Bros. style platform fighter.  The game is launching this fall on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch, and will include key features like rollback netcode on supported platforms, along with a PC port that the developers say will be the “lead version.” In our first look at actual gameplay, All-Star Brawl showed a nice mix of mechanics that looked like a combination of  Super Smash Bros.

A new act means a whole new battle pass is on its way to VALORANT along with a slew of cosmetic items to earn and collect. For just 1,000 VALORANT Points, players can unlock the battle pass and earn the entire catalog of rewards. The Act Three battle pass goes live on April 27 and will last all the way until June 21. Players will be able to earn gun skins, Radianite Points, gun buddies, cards, sprays, and titles.

Every new event in Overwatch includes a multitude of new cosmetics available for the growing cast of heroes. Among these cosmetics are new skins, often themed after the specific holiday the event is based on, giving heroes some new looks that draw players’ eyes far more than the base skins. There are a few ways to buy skins in Overwatch if players want a new look for their favorite heroes during one of these events.

The death of long-time Overwatch streamer and high-ranked player Joomla25 was confirmed by his friends on social media on Tuesday, May 24. Joomla had been an active member of the Overwatch community since the Blizzard game’s release in 2016. He was known for his incredible skills on Widowmaker, and the many videos he posted displaying his mechanical prowess over the years. He was dreaded by some of the best players in the world in 2017, including xQc and Surefour, when he reached the top of the game’s ranked ladder.

The new Learn mechanic in Strixhaven: School of Mages makes use of the player’s sideboard to make lower-powered cards provide additional value. When a MTG player casts a spell with Learn, they can either get a Lesson card from outside the game, which is their sideboard in official games, or discard a card to draw a card. Lesson spells are generally high-cost sorceries that normally wouldn’t be playable. Lessons live in your sideboard and are basically “free” spells that don’t take up spots in a 40-card Limited main deck.

Laptops have tons of power these days, but none of their upgrades have overcome a universal truth: touchpads are terrible for gaming. So to truly enjoy what your laptop’s capable of, you’ll want a separate gaming mouse—and fortunately there’s plenty available on the market that will fill the bill nicely. For laptop mice we considered a few factors: portability, ease of use for storage, battery life and form factor. The best overall gaming mouse for laptops Razer Viper Wireless The combination of accessibility, performance and design is what gives the Razer Viper Wireless the crown here.

Paladins are one of the most versatile classes in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands in both player-vs-player (PvP) and player-vs-environment (PvE) settings, capable of healing, dealing damage or tanking. While Protection Paladins might not be as effective in PvP as other specializations such as Holy or Retribution, they can still find their niche and help you climb to your desired rating. In PvE, Protection Paladins are great tanks due to their defensive cooldowns and the ability to sustain themselves with minimal heal intervention in low-difficulty environments.

It may occasionally be tempting to slam your new gaming mouse onto a desk or use it without a care in the world. But most desk surfaces are known to cause your mouse feet to age faster and are just not as slick as mouse pads. Though there are countless mousepads that will get the job done in the market, many lack the style and look outdated since they fail to match your setup’s color scheme.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is here and it has quite a few options for submachine gun players to sink their teeth into when hopping online. Submachine guns are a key part of any first-person shooter, even World War II games like Vanguard. In CoD especially, where competitive teams are usually made up of two assault rifle players and two SMG players, SMG play is vital when it comes to moving around the map and gunning down enemies swiftly.