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Overwatch 2’s New Healer Could Be Your Worst Nightmare

Support mains are ecstatic that Overwatch 2 is adding a much-needed new healer to the roster, but Ilari may not be the healer you’re looking for. I got in some (albeit limited) playtime with the new character, who’s dropping with Overwatch 2: Invasion, and I’m a bit worried for my healer mains. Not only does

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Overwatch 2’s Story Missions Are Good, But Not $15 Good

Halfway through the Toronto-based story mission that’s part of Overwatch 2: Invasion, things get a little scary. Omnics, Overwatch’s in-universe sentient robots, are under attack from a terrorist organization called Null Sector, and you’re there to help them—but as your squad of carefully curated heroes (you can choose from a smaller roster in each PvE

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Overwatch Fans Worried Reaper Is Getting Deleted After Hoax

Overwatch 2: Invasion may be moments away from dropping, but the dominant dialogue isn’t about the new PvE mode, the new support player, or even the new map—it’s whether or not Blizzard is deleting Reaper. A viral TikTok sent players into a frenzy worrying about whether or not the staple character would be removed in

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FIFA 23 Introduces The First Hijab-Wearing Player

Photo: Maddie Meyer / FIFA (Getty Images) A recent FIFA 23 update adds 25-year-old Moroccan footballer Nouhaila Benzina’s hijab to her in-game character model, signifying the first time EA’s soccer simulator has ever included a head covering on a player. Overwatch 2’s New Story Missions: Worth The Money? History necessitated it: Benzina, whose team is

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Save Files Can Get So Big They Break The Game

Image: Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3 is a Dungeons & Dragons RPG that gives players a ton of freedom and choice to play the game how they want, from having all kinds of wild sex to stacking up crates until they can jump over a castle wall. This also means player save file sizes have

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Diablo 4 Build Lets Barbarian Hit For Nearly A Billion Damage

Diablo IV’s Barbarian class has struggled since the game came out two months ago. Even after some recent patches that buffed a few aspects of the character, its endgame doesn’t perform that well compared to other classes. But a streamer has uncovered a busted combo that makes Barbs deal nearly one billion—yes, that’s billion with

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Destiny 2 Taps Keith David As Zavala To Replace Lance Reddick

Image: Bungie / Jonny Marlow CPi syndication / Kotaku Ever since John Wick and The Wire actor Lance Reddick suddenly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this year, Destiny 2 fans have been wondering what would become of his iconic character, Commander Zavala. Today, Bungie announced that veteran actor Keith David, beloved for his video game

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New Wiglett Pokémon Plush Looks A Lot Like Something Else

Good news: The Pokémon Company released a Wiglett plush on its official Pokémon Center store. Bad news: it looks like a dick. Not a human dick, but, like, the Platonic ideal of an alien dick the U.S. government doesn’t want us to know about. The Week In Games: Pocket Monsters And Simulated Goats There’s not

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9 Things You Should Never Say To A Mass Effect Fan

FluffyNinjaLlama / BioWare The Asari are the Mass Effect equivalent of Star Wars’ Twi’leks, with all the in-universe fetishization that comes along with it. One of the more fascinating aspects about the blue-tiful aliens is that they can mind-meld with any foreign species and use that process to procreate. It’s how they’ve stayed alive for

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Destiny 2’s Most OP Abilities Are Getting Nerfed

Bungie recently revealed the next major overhaul to combat in Destiny 2, and while the update mainly focuses on strengthening a number of underutilized Exotics, some of the biggest changes have to do with the overpowered subclass abilities players have been using to rampage through the game. The first is the Strand effect Suspend, which

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