Across Many Servers, the FFXIV Community Honors the Legacy of Kentaro Miura

On May 19, it was announced that Kentaro Miura — the beloved mangaka of Berserk — passed away on May 6, 2021. He died at the age of 54 due to acute aortic dissection. Fans around the world immediately mourned upon seeing the announcement from publisher Young Animal Comics. Not…

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SMITE Community Mourns the Passing of Hi-Rez Esports Caster John Finch

The SMITE community is mourning the death of caster and community figure John ‘Finch’ Finch. Earlier today, it was confirmed that he passed away on Thursday, May 20. He was only 28 years old. The announcement was made by Stewart Chisam, CEO of Hi-Rez Studios. Rest in peace with all…

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Resident Evil Village Development Video Highlights How Quality Assurance Saved the Game

In a new development video, the Resident Evil Village team highlights how its QA testers essentially saved the game. The clip uploaded on May 21, titled “The Internal Struggle,” links the game’s original concept of “a struggle to survive” with the struggles the team faced while creating the next mainline…

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Square Enix Labels Outriders Its Next Big Franchise, Citing 3.5 Million Unique Players

Square Enix has announced Outriders — People Can Fly’s co-op RPG shooter — is poised to be the company’s “next big franchise.” With over 3.5 million unique players in the first month, the future for the game seems bright despite its troubled launch. In Square Enix’s own words, “with acclaim…

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WWE Recap: Roses are Red, Pyrokinesis is Orange

As usual, this was a mixed week for WWE.  They released several NXT talents on Wednesday and Thursday, some more understandable than others. Among the more surprising releases are Alexander Wolfe, who has been a part of Imperium for some time now, Jessamyn Duke, of the Four Horsewomen, and Brandi…

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This Week in News is Preparing for the Summer

Welcome to This Week in News, where we run down the biggest news stories from the week with an option to dive deeper beyond the summary. BioWare’s Not Opposed to Adding Mass Effect 3’s Multiplayer to Legendary Edition – While Mass Effect Legendary Edition chose not to include the third…

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Genshin Impact Battlefront Misty Dungeon Event Guide

If you ever wanted to test some Genshin Impact characters you haven’t collected yet, now is your chance! The new Genshin Impact 1.5 event, called Battlefront: Misty Dungeon, allows you to use any character on the event list. You can play as Keqing, Albedo, Mona, and many more. On top of that,…

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GUIDES

Dave Bautista Is Wrestling’s First Character Actor

There have been countless examples of professional wrestlers attempting to make the jump to Hollywood, but none are quite like Dave Bautista. Usually the professional wrestler as actor sticks to what they know, playing characters who are not dissimilar from the persona they crafted as professional wrestlers. There isn’t much…

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TV/FILM

Twitch Wants You to Know You Won’t Be Punished for Being Hot

A few days ago, Twitch suddenly removed the advertising revenue for streamer Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, who quickly went to Twitter to report that her analytics went flat all of a sudden. Siragusa had long tested Twitch’s off-and-on wholesome image with her hot tub streams, wherein she wore a swimsuit and…

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NEWS

Announcing Fundbyte 2: A Charity Stream For The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund

Video games. They’re everywhere these days. Did you know that you can stream them now? We’re gonna test it out with a charity stream tomorrow (May 22, 2021) as we raise money for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) on our second ever charity stream, now known as Fundbyte. Fundbyte…

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Five Reasons the NCAA Softball Tournament Is The Best Sporting Event You’re Not Watching (Yet)

Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. It’s so often misunderstood as to bear perpetual repetition: the softball played by…

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SPORTS

Time, What a Wild Concept (MMA edition)

Here’s the thing about professional fighters: They are not like regular people, in the sense that their brains and bodies are conditioned to do things that regular people can’t. But they are like regular people, in the sense that they host entirely human brains in their entirely human bodies, in…

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