Riot will let you pay to turn your Valorant guns into Counter-Strike guns

Valorant’s next cosmetic bundle is looking eerily familiar. The Black Market pack, arriving on April 12, is an unsubtle homage to Counter-Strike conveniently timed with Valve’s recent announcement of Counter-Strike 2. Interestingly, the Black Market bundle is the exact opposite of Valorant’s typical style of loud, impossible-looking magical skins. The five included skins transform default

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QuakeCon will return in-person for 2023, but with some big changes

After three years of being online-only because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bethesda Softworks has announced that QuakeCon will return to in-person action in 2023. “QuakeCon is our favorite event of the year, and we can’t wait to finally see our incredible QuakeCon community in-person again, celebrate games, and frag all weekend with thousands of friends,”

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Dead by Daylight kills its new healing system after blowback from players

Multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight has been experimenting with a new healing system lately, whereby health regeneration was slowed from 16 to 24 seconds. That experiment has proved about as popular as having a meathook shoved through your chest, however, and after receiving substantial negative feedback, developed Behaviour Interactive has reverted to the

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Recap: Girls Make Games PlayStation Studios workshop

Each year, the workshops and activities from Girls Make Games (GMG) leave me feeling more proud, surprised and excited about the gaming industry than the last. Last year, women accounted for 48% of gamers in the United States, and at every level of the industry, women are accounting for more and more of the gaming

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