Even in its beta stage, Overwatch 2 comes loaded with 33 heroes spanning three roles and varying levels of alterations from the base game. Some heroes, like Doomfist, have had complete revamps and role changes while others exist with extremely minor number tweaks from the base game.   As a new player—or even a former Overwatch enthusiast now tackling the new world of the sequel—the game’s hero roster can be incredibly daunting.

Since its launch in 2018, Apex Legends has released countless skins. Some were time-limited with seasonal events, while others were obtainable through the battle passes. Like all of Apex‘s playable characters, Loba joined the game with 15 basic skins, 15 rare, five epic, and four legendary skins—all of which can be purchased at any time in the game menu for crafting materials. On the other side, she doesn’t have dedicated chromas yet, which usually belong to the category of the rarest skins since they require their Legendary variant and can only be purchased when they rotate in the game’s shop on rare occasions.

VTuber Ironmouse has reached a lofty Twitch channel milestone and broken a major platform record on the same day during her ongoing subathon stream. Eleven days into her subathon, Ironmouse hit one million followers on Twitch. On top of that, just minutes later, the VShojo star’s live subscriber count ticked over more than 75,000. That haul makes her the most subscribed female streamer in the Amazon-owned platform’s history. “Words cannot express what I am feeling right now,” Ironmouse wrote on Twitter soon after bowling down the record.

It looks like the dream of cloud gaming is finally poised to become a reality. After 20 years of technological advancements, major company’s are throwing their hats into the ring to be the go-to spot for game streaming service. Xbox announced it’s new cloud gaming service in July, built on the XCloud technology that powered Mixer. Google launched its cloud gaming service Stadia this summer, even signing some games like Orcs Must Die!

Leading into Pokémon Go Tour: Johto, Niantic held a social media contest where players could submit their Trainer and a team of three Pokémon of the same type to be considered for a spot as an NPC.  Winning Trainers have now been added to Pokémon Go as an NPC themed around one of the eight Johto Gym Leaders, meaning players participating in Go Tour: Johto will need to beat them in order to finish the event’s Battle Challenge Timed Research.

The third and final stage of the VALORANT Champions Tour culminates in Berlin in September.  Leading up to the end-of-year world championship, which is expected to take place in Berlin from Dec. 1 to 12, VCT Masters Berlin will be one of the deciding factors of the tournament circuit, delivering hundreds of points to the winners. Up from just 10 in Masters Reykjavík, Berlin will accommodate 15 teams from EMEA, North America, Brazil, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, and Latina America.

A broad range of balance changes are hitting Summoner’s Rift this week in League of Legends Patch 11.7. The developers are cracking down on the bot lane, targeting support champions, “who have been overpowering their peers,” like Alistar, Rell, and Thresh, as well as marksmen like Ashe, Kai’Sa, and Tristana. The patch is expected to go live on Wednesday, March 30. Along with champion changes, the patch includes adjustments to items like Essence Reaver, Everfrost, and Trinity Force, an update to ranked progression, providing “smoother LP gains” to help ensure players receive LP at a more “predictable rate,” a slew of bug fixes, much-needed quality of life changes, and more.

A return to the plane of Innistrad in Magic: The Gathering will showcase a total of three planeswalkers, each containing unique loyalty abilities that will find a home in a variety of formats.  See Magic The Gathering on Amazon Scheduled to release digitally on Sept. 16 and globally on Sept. 24, the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) set will contain the planeswalkers Arlinn, the Pack’s Hope, Wrenn and Seven, and Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset.

When you first log into New World, players will get a glimpse of all the realms hidden inside the game. These servers will be the home to your character and picking one can prove itself to be a difficult task. Most players will often opt in for the players with higher populations since more players will mean more competition. If you’re looking to play with a large group of friends, choosing a server that has a medium population can be a better choice so you can have better access to resources.

From Counter-Strike 1.6 in 2000 to Global Offensive in 2012, Valve’s seminal tactical shooter has thrived. The game has seen an upward trajectory in terms of player base over the past nine years, recording an all-time high in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Since transitioning to a free-to-play model in December 2018, CS:GO has gained hundreds of thousands of new players, jumping from a peak of 546,031 players to 746,548 in just one month.