After a wildly dominant 2021 season in the Overwatch League, it’s likely not surprising the Shanghai Dragons won’t be making many roster moves before 2022 begins.  The Dragons revealed the contract statuses of its remaining players on Oct. 4 and confirmed that eight players from the 2021 championship team would be returning next season.  We know you have a lot of questions about our players and what's happening to them so we made a quick list of everyone's contract status!

The latest generation of GPUs has brought tons of innovation: genuine 4K/60 FPS gaming at the highest settings, AI-powered advancements like deep learning supersampling and upscaled resolutions, and even cool bells and whistles for streamers and content creators. But which graphics card in 2022 is the best for you? As always, it depends on your gaming needs, budget and what else you do with your PC. You’re always welcome to grab a top of the line GPU to future-proof yourself, although the ongoing chip shortage means even mid-range cards are selling for a fortune these days.

Twitch personality Hasan Piker received a DMCA notice from Twitch last week after livestreaming countless hours of Gordon Ramsay’s reality cooking show MasterChef. But following some rumors that the DMCA claim may not have been issued by a valid authority, Twitch has suddenly retracted Piker’s DMCA strike, explaining that it was “processed by mistake.” Last night, Piker tweeted out a screengrab of the retraction he received from Twitch, writing, “get fucked everyone.

A new VALORANT leak reveals a new Doodle Buds skin bundle featuring cartoonish versions of VALORANT agents, League of Legends characters, and Tactifriends.  See Valorant on Amazon Patch 4.07 was revealed earlier today, adding minor changes to a few weapon-based abilities and the Stinger and Bulldog. Latin American players can also expect new servers to help approve latency in the region, and a newmysterious room is being added to the Shooting Range.

You’ve set up your streaming equipment, crafted creative branding, and have every element of your broadcast dialed in. Now all you need to do is execute.  But when should you stream? There are numerous strategies for maximizing your viewership on Twitch by scheduling your broadcasts in a particular way. Some articles and websites will use statistics to try to tell you that you should broadcast at specific times of the evening when there’s a particularly strong ratio of viewers to active streams.

In simple terms, VTuber is just a combined term for a digital YouTuber or a creator who uses a digital avatar of some kind to take the place of a normal webcam when they go live in front of their viewers.  VTubers aren’t new, but especially in the Western media market, more and more content creators are slowly starting to create their own digital characters and personas to try to hop onto the rapidly expanding type of entertainment.

Every expansion in World of Warcraft eventually adds the possibility to fly in the new zones—and Shadowlands is no exception to that rule. In Patch 9.1, which was released a couple of weeks ago, Blizzard added the ability to acquire flying mounts to make it easier to travel around the world, do your dailies, and reach a dungeon or raid. There are 16 flying mounts available in the current expansion, four for each Covenant—and every one of them has different requirements to acquire it.

Quality resolution, an enhanced microphone, and a user-friendly experience are a few features to look for in a webcam. Using a smartphone, laptop, or tablet won’t provide the quality a webcam can offer. And as technology goes, webcams are not expensive. Among our recommended gaming webcams and gaming cameras, the highest price is $169, and the lowest is $27. The webcam/camera options we’ve chosen produce superior sound and image quality for a variety of purposes.

While many of the best Street Fighter players in North America were battling it out during the North America East bracket of the Capcom Pro Tour, Capcom also announced that Street Fighter: Duel would soon be getting a global release.  The mobile game, which was released in China last November, is a joint project from TOPJOY, Tencent Games, and Capcom that has players forming teams of three fighters to battle against other squads.

Team Liquid support CoreJJ has reportedly been unable to obtain a green card and may alter Liquid’s initial plans regarding its starting roster for the 2022 season, according to Upcomer. Heading into the 2022 season, Liquid had planned for its new star-studded lineup built around CoreJJ to make a statement at the LCS Lock In Tournament. That plan could fall apart if CoreJJ, Liquid’s captain, is unable to acquire a green card.