League of Legends’ Nexus Blitz event was the game’s first and only “experimental mode” when it launched in 2018. The temporary game mode is back for a limited time once again, though, from July 23 to Aug. 24. Nexus Blitz is a two-lane map with a jungle that features random in-game events. These events reward the winning team with power-up rewards and other bonuses, resulting in pandemonium. Two years have passed since the launch of Nexus Blitz, so new and reworked champions have changed the game mode’s meta.

Each League of Legends preseason brings about a massive new change to the game. Following last year’s successful Summoner’s Rift updates that introduced Elemental Souls and Rifts, this year’s preseason aimed to tackle one of the game’s clunkiest features since its release: items. The in-game item shop was completely overhauled at the end of 2020, no longer requiring players to scroll through pages and pages of items to look for what they needed (unless they still want to do that, in which case that feature lives on).

Riot Games’ Instant Feedback System is designed to crack down on unacceptable behavior in League of Legends, but it isn’t a flawless process. Players can occasionally receive unfair punishments despite Riot Games’ best intentions. Riot is adamant when it comes to the company’s reasoning behind punishments and will only back down if it believes it made a mistake. You shouldn’t expect your suspension to be lifted if it was well-deserved.

Bungie loves its alternate reality games. The developer has employed ARG’s several different times throughout Destiny’s lifespan—and the latest one could have big implications in Season of the Splicer and beyond. To sum it up shortly, a number of Destiny Twitch streamers and YouTubers received some video clips on social media. When putting the video clips together, it created a three-by-three grid of numbers and running the binary code through an ASCII converter helped create a code.

Alongside a robust multiplayer game mode, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War welcomes players with a nail-biting campaign. With twists and real-life inspired events, the story mode of Black Ops Cold War is a must-to-complete experience for even the most dedicated multiplayer players. The story kicks off with a handful of mysteries, which start resolving with the Break on Through mission. During this mission, players get to witness Bell and Adler’s true natures, alongside getting their chance at a trophy named Mind Trip.

The Apex Legends Iron Crown Collection Event is quickly approaching and with it comes a legendary Pathfinder skin. Respawn Entertainment has been slowly teasing new content with the Iron Crown Collection Event, which begins on Aug. 13. The latest cosmetic that was revealed on the Apex Twitter page is the War Machine Pathfinder skin. Be your own knight in vanadium manganese boron armor ⚔ Ready your weapons, battle approaches. The Iron Crown Collection Event begins 8/13.

Imane “Pokimane” Anys has shot down calls for her to reveal her relationship status for Twitch fans, declaring she will “never” deliberately talk about who she’s dating at any given time with her streaming fans. Twitch’s reigning queen Pokimane put her foot down on her stream on Feb. 14 over calls for her to reveal her private relationships and who she’s dating (or not dating). Pokimane’s relationship status has been a hot topic in Twitch’s massive streaming community for as long as the Moroccan-Canadian star has been popular.

Just like how it’s in MOBAs and MMORPGs, keeping up with the meta is important to retain your edge in shooter games. Battlefield 2042’s massive maps allow players to put their creativity to the test and devise new strategies to engage enemies. No matter how you decide to play a certain map, however, there will be times when you’ll need to outplay an opponent when you’re outnumbered to stay in the match.

A World of Warcraft player by the name of Hacez became the first player to reach level 70 in WoW: The Burning Crusade Classic.  After approximately 14 hours of gameplay, Hacez successfully reached level 70 solely through farming dungeons. Hacez’s dungeon group belonged to the guild Progress of the server Firemaw on the European servers. Progress was known as one of the most efficient guilds in WoW: Classic, often clearing content faster than any other guild in the world.

The newest Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies map, Ancient Evil, became available on PlayStation 4 on March 26—and it’s a lot of fun to play. It’s the final map in the Chaos storyline that takes players to Delphi, Greece. Ancient Evil introduces the Gegenees boss zombie and some sweet new wonder weapons. But how exactly can you make it to the high rounds on this new map? Here’s everything that you’ll need to acquire or unlock in order to survive in Ancient Evil.