Having a strong tank player is perhaps the most important thing any raid or mythic dungeon team needs to perform well.  While it’s important to have damage dealers and healers, tanks that know how to use every tool in their kit can help make up for other players’ mistakes.  With the release of Shadowlands this week, there are a number of changes that all classes have experienced going into the new content that will change the dynamics of tanking any PvE content.

A familiar weapon from many first-person shooters has joined the roster of submachine guns in Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War—the TEC-9. The TEC-9 is a semi-auto submachine gun with “improved accuracy from longer ranges with low recoil and slower fire rate” and “good damage output with moderate range.” It should enter the meta as a decent option for submachine gun players and those who are looking to run and gun.

Immediately after Invictus Gaming were crowned world champions in 2018, Riot Games designers kicked into high gear figuring out how to capture the team in a set of Worlds skins. Riot reached out to the players right after the final game, and the players were ready: They wanted their skins to follow the theme of fallen angels. Over the past four months, Riot has been hard at work trying to make skins that go above and beyond what’s been done before.

The 2021 professional League of Legends season has come to a close, and the slow crawl towards the start of the regular season has begun. This season, though, had plenty of top-notch matches to look back fondly on. From high-stakes playoff contests to do-or-die meetings on the international stage, the 2021 season played host to some truly exceptional League games.  Whether they were played in domestic leagues or during the pinnacle of the World Championship, some of this year’s top League games were marked as instant classics as soon as they wrapped up.

Things are about to heat up in Apex Legends’ Arenas mode. Lead level designer David Osei explained today that Artillery’s two weeks are up, paving the way for Thermal Station to enter Arenas. The World’s Edge POI joins custom maps Party Crasher and Phase Runner in the map rotation. It’s been two weeks of Arenas and Artillery will be swapped out for Thermal Station today. Thermal Station will be available for two weeks.

My Time at Sandrock, the anticipated sequel to the highly successful My Time at Portia, is releasing on May 26, but it may be available to play earlier than people expect depending on where they live. The game launches at 2am UTC for everyone, meaning those who live in a different time zone may get the game earlier or later depending on where they live. The good news for people living in the United States is they will be getting the game a day early due to time zone differences.

The Halo franchise moved in a new direction with the release of its cross-platform multiplayer in Halo Infinite, which includes the introduction of a battle pass system. Popularized by games in the battle royale genre, like Fortnite and Apex Legends, the battle pass gives players challenges to complete as they attempt to progress through ranks that unlock a plethora of cosmetics and in-game goodies. While there are some things to be earned from leveling in the unpaid version of the battle pass season, players have significantly more to gain by purchasing the premium version of the battle pass.

One of the first champions introduced to League of Legends, Nasus is one of the most dominant top lane champions in the game. His scaling makes him become an absolute powerhouse later in the game, the perfect tank champion to carry the team to victory in ranked games. If Nasus gets too strong its usually game over for the other team. As with any champion, different items are going to work for Nasus’s kit more than others and these items vary again given the situation he finds himself in.

As the year draws to a close, many people are preparing to buy stocking stuffer gifts. Buying gifts for friends or family members can be challenging if you do not know what they like. But what if you want to buy a gift for a gamer? Well, buying a giant 4K monitor or PlayStation 5 can certainly be fun, but if you are looking for gifts that are reasonably priced and useful for gamers, you’ve come to the right place.

Barbecue and Chili, Dead Hard, and Decisive Strike will look different in Dead By Daylight in the future. Behaviour Interactive will change meta picks for survivors and killers alike in an upcoming update, which doesn’t have a set date but could come as soon as this summer. As part of today’s sixth-anniversary broadcast, the developers teased “the biggest collection of perks being changed at once.” This encompasses the most popular choices in the Fog, whether you’re fighting for the Entity or trying to escape it.