After being absent for the better part of six seasons, it appears that Fortnite’s Dusty Depot will return next season. The last time Dusty looked like that was the end of season 3, before the giant asteroid smashed into the map and turned Dusty Depot into Dusty Divot. Fortnite is currently in its ninth season, with season 10 set to begin on Aug. 1. While it’s not clear what exactly this might mean, we can probably expect more changes than old locations like Dusty Depot coming back when this seas

After the Friday invasion of New York City by members of Team Rocket, fans of Pokémon Go may have thought that the event was over. A day-long countdown, ending at midnight ET on Sunday, July 28, revealed the next stage in their plans: Taking over all Pokéstops across the globe. #TeamGORocket pic.twitter.com/7KZ6HFS3jD — Team GO Rocket (@PokemonGoApp) July 28, 2019Last week Niantic added Rocket Stops, wherein members of Team Rocket will infect a stop, requiring a Pokémon battle to clear it. What

Fallout 76’s Nuclear Winter battle royale is getting an urban map — specifically one set in Morgantown — and a new Vault raid, according to announcements from the game’s panel at QuakeCon 2019 yesterday. Morgantown’s Nuclear Winter map will arrive in September; before that, on Aug. 20, comes the Vault 94 raid. That involves players in groups of four taking on one of three missions on a weekly rotation. The new map means that battle royale players will have to deal with capital threats like the G

After being absent for the better part of six seasons, it appears that Fortnite’s Dusty Depot will return next season. The last time Dusty looked like that was the end of season 3, before the giant asteroid smashed into the map and turned Dusty Depot into Dusty Divot. If the Depot is rebuilt, it’s possible that it could mean the end of the Divot that currently occupies the center of the map. Perhaps it will go back to being flat ground, like it was in season 3 and before, or maybe Epic will put

Kyle “Bugha” Geirsdorf, a 16-year-old on the Sentinels Fortnite team, took first place in the Solos competition of the inaugural Fortnite World Cup this afternoon. The 2019 Fortnite World Cup awarded a $30 million prize pool spread over three tournaments, the Pro-Am, yesterday’s Duos, and today’s Solos. The World Cup is culminates a $100 million inaugural 2018-2019 competitive season that Epic Games organized and announced more than a year ago. It was joined by a 50-team Duos final that yesterda

A glitch in Team Fortress 2’s loot crate distribution at the end of this week guarantees the rarest type of virtual item — ones that can be legally resold for real money — in several types of loot crates, where ordinarily players have a one percent chance or less of unboxing them. Though Valve is moving to limit the damage, this has wrecked the 12-year-old game’s virtual economy meantime. — Team Fortress 2 (@TeamFortress) July 26, 2019They can still be used in-game by their owners. The damage th

Beating these grunts will allow players a chance to capture “Shadow Pokémon,” spooky-looking variants of the iconic critters. I’m taking looks over stats here.”Some fans I spoke to said that they plan on collecting shadow Pokémon. Well, the official Pokémon Go account had one of the team leaders discussing the shadow monsters, stating, “Not only does Purification heal the Shadow Pokémon from its painful state, it also makes it stronger. Back when Mega Pokémon were released, Game Freak quietly ma

Following the Tumblr post, Niosi was discovered in the credits for the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes. Nintendo World Report learned that Niosi was removed from Heroes credits earlier this week, and his role was given to another actor (Zach Aguilar). Then, on Friday, NWR confirmed with Nintendo of America that Niosi will be replaced in an update planned for Three Houses. “After assessing the situation, we decided to re-record the character’s voiceovers in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emble

An Apex Legends streamer has been reinstated after a one-in-a-million killshot got him a temporary ban on suspicion of cheating. Viewers thought they’d caught ottr using an aimbot when he vaulted a railing and his crosshairs appeared to snap to target. 🙂 — Chin Xiang Chong (@tangentiallogic) July 26, 2019Ottr, notes Dot Esports, is an Apex Legends semipro affiliated with an Italian team. So suspicion of cheating for him has ramifications beyond a simple temp ban, which is probably why he pleade

Earlier this year, professional Fortnite player Damion “XXiF” Cook was found guilty of cheating by Epic Games during the qualifiers for the Fortnite World Cup, and was consequently banned from competing for 14 days. Despite this setback, Cook ended up qualifying for the big tournament a month later, much to fans’ displeasure. Today, Cook participated in the duos portion of the $30M competition, but the reception in the arena was cold. When XXiF was punished, Epic Games found him guilty of teamin

The duos portion of the Fortnite World Cup is over, and a pair has been named victorious — teens nyhrox and aquaa have won $3M for coming in first place. And to be sure, most participants at the World Cup were using Epic-issued Logitech mice. Just been watching the Fortnite world cup. Watching @aydan, A controller player, participating in the world cup. The Fortnite World Cup solo finals begin on July 28.

Some Bully fans have fixated on a virtual decoration available in Grand Theft Auto Online’s new Casino update, thinking it may represent some coded message that a sequel is on the way. Acting on the artist’s listed name, “Matthew Morse,” this Redditor looked for hidden Morse code in the painting. It means that Bully was and remains a very good game that a lot of people like and wish to see again, preferably with an all new sequel. But developers pay tribute to these things because they love them

To commemorate the new addition of Team Rocket in Pokémon Go, some grunts have made their way to New York City to vandalize advertisements and cause mischief. : New York City, USA pic.twitter.com/ozuP4yGu4g — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 26, 2019In case you were wondering what the red paint was about. Also, how cruel is Team Rocket to draw angry eyebrows on those cute Pokémon? Some players suspect that there could be something bigger happening later today, as Professor Willow announced that t

In 1991, X-Men #1 sold an estimated 8,186,500 copies, making it a likely contender for the best-selling single-issue comic book in history. We also owe a grudging debt to Diamond Comics distributors, for the company’s monopolistic takeover of the American comic book shipping market, and its regular reporting of comic book pre-order sales ever since. With that in mind, here are the 10 best-selling American single-issue comic books, according to the most concrete numbers in the industry’s spotty h

But I didn’t get stuck in my ancestral homeland for a handful of years without scraping some of that rust off. League of Legends is (or was) huge in Taiwan for almost half a decade at that point. Regions where most teams can afford coaching and analysts tend to perform significantly better than those without. All these tend to be factors for esports with open circuits too — European Counter-Strike has historically been dominant for similar reasons. The stories they’ve made here could have only b

Science has proven that nothing causes humans to act faster than the sound of a cat horking up a steamy cartridge of Fancy Feast. Joe, who streams as JadedBlue, was in the middle of Escape from Tarkov on Wednesday when his cat waltzed in and announced he had something important to share. “A friend’s cat pissed in an open case PC and on a brand new graphic card,” claimed Claven (who, I mean really, is likely the “friend” here). For the record, Joe said the cat wasn’t standing on the computer; he

Some new types of Pokémon have been added to Pokémon Go, with new Special Research accompanying them. Shadow Pokémon are just like your regular ‘mons, but they have a spooky dark aura around them and they seem to be in pain. Team Rocket grunts have settled at Pokéstops (Rocket Stops?) and need to be taken out in order to grab their Shadow Pokémon. The set of Special Research tasks helps walk you through this process, with some juicy items and XP as rewards for completing them.

The Fire Emblem series is built on getting you to care about everyone, even down to the smallest peon. But with Fire Emblem: Three Houses, it goes even further. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is many things. Combat is where Fire Emblem: Three Houses feels like a classic Fire Emblem game. These are the sorts of brutal scenarios that Fire Emblem: Three Houses forces upon me, personifying death that was previously without personality or emotional impact.