Wielded by a good player, sniper rifles in Call of Duty: WWII are some of the strongest weapons in the game. For years, players that primarily played with sniper rifles were some of the most exciting and awe-inspiring in Call of Duty. Thanks to their reflexes and the ability to find the center of their sniper crosshair at any given time, numerous individuals and teams became extremely popular on YouTube.

As the name might suggest, the fool’s mate is an extremely elementary way to lose a chess game, one that takes genuine effort from both players to pull off. With it, the game is over in just two moves— but white has to make two pretty terrible ones to get there. The fool’s mate is the shortest possible checkmate in chess. White opens up a deadly attack on their own king and black happily obliges by bringing the queen along to swiftly end the game.

One of the biggest and most impactful economies around any game, the CS:GO skin market is an industry worth billions of dollars. As the skin market has grown, the value of some skins has ballooned from less than a dollar all the way up to hundreds of dollars over the years, with some skins sold on Steam or third-party sites for over two thousand dollars. If you’re looking to earn skins the traditional way, by opening crates with a key, you should know which cases give you the best chance of a big ticket item.

Most horror games rely on jump scares to move players from their seats. Though a decent jump scare can get a player’s blood flowing, developers also need to focus on other elements to make their games as scary as possible. Players who resist the urge of turning off their headphones while they’re playing horror games will know it’s the sound that actually gets you. Character’s voices and the ambient sound will draw players into the land of fear that a game tries to build, and Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 does a perfect job when it comes to that.

While it might be easy to believe that Stardew Valley arose out of the void to become one of the world’s most popular indie games, that simply isn’t the case. The smash-hit farming sim from 2016 is descended from a long line of spiritual inspirations, most specifically the Harvest Moon franchise. One of Stardew’s creators Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s goals with the game was to craft a love letter to the giants of the farming sim genre and make a game that would be considered a worthy successor.

Apex Legends’ season 13 is kicking off on May 10, but one of the most anticipated features in Saviors won’t start until weeks after launch. The Control limited-time mode will return in the second half of season 13, according to game director Evan Nikolich. Control will “get a bit of work” and “stay out of the limelight for the first half of the season,” Nikolich said. But it will return with a few tricks up its sleeve.

Variety streamer and political figure Destiny has been banned from Twitch for an indefinite time, he revealed today on Reddit. The 33-year-old was banned on March 23 and this time, unlike previous bans, it’s for good. Twitch said Destiny failed to abide by its community guidelines, specifically the hateful conduct section. “Promoting, encouraging, or facilitating the discrimination or denigration of a group of people based on their protected characteristics,” it reads.

Humankind is the newest game to hit the 4X strategy genre. But at first glance, you may wonder what makes it special. While Humankind has many similarities to other popular games like Civilization VI, Amplitude Studios has used the game as a way to introduce a handful of concepts that give it more replayability and options than what you might have experienced in Civ. Here are some of the differences between Humankind and Civilization VI.

While you get the chance to choose a starter Pokémon at the beginning of the story in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the other two are quite difficult to come across. Whether you chose Cyndaquil or Rowlet, you’ll want to head out into the wild and catch yourself the Water-type starter, Oshawott. This Pokémon, like many other starters over the years, has become popular and a species that most players will be on the lookout for.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a unique (and pretty nifty) profile system known as “names.” Names allow players to create pseudo-accounts, which let their friends (or anyone for that matter) use their preferred controls in the game. This prevents players from fiddling around endlessly with the settings, saving precious time. Related:Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s basic controls and how to change them But of course, eventually, players might want to start deleting accounts from their copy of Super Smash Bros.