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TournifyPK Summer Championship Announced: PKR 500,000 Prize Pool!
Prepare your squads for the biggest esports tournament of the summer. TournifyPK is proud to announce the Summer Championship with tournament tracks for PUBG Mobile, Valorant, and Tekken 8.
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Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died
Richard Gray, better known to gamers of a certain age as Levelord, has died. Gray's death was reported on social media by Apogee Entertainment, who paid tribute to his "legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D" and the lasting legacy he left behind.We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray.From his legend...
Steam Week in Review: The curious case of Wonder Boy in Monster Land's dubious PC debut
Wonder Boy in Monster Land released in Japanese arcades in 1987 and for the Sega Master System the following year. Its success led to numerous ports, including to ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari ST. Oddly, it never received an official PC port, though that long absence appeared to have come to an end on September 2...
Counter-Strike 2 player dedicates Master's thesis to rooting out cheaters, creates grade A player tracking system
Cheating: it's why we can't have nice things. Whether your online shooter of choice is beset by players targeting you through walls, or you're a Linux user who would definitely be playing more games were it not for kernel-level anti-cheat systems, the actions of a few spoil the fun for many. Banning cheating players is...
Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking
What's going on?EA released Skate (stylized "skate.") in early access in 2025: an online, free-to-play reboot of the popular skateboarding seriesA new fan-made "modding platform" called ReSkate makes Skate playable offlineReSkate also adds support for private servers, custom maps, and other modsReSkate had been downloa...
Valve's patch note supremacy
To most, the highlight of this week's big Deadlock patch is the snazzy map makeover, new heroes, and tons of quality-of-life additions. To me, it's all about the patch notes.I spend a lot of waking hours reading white-text-on-black-background changelogs in this line of work, so when a page comes along that was specific...
Thanks Logitech, your new AI-fueled game clipping software makes me look trash at Counter-Strike, but I'mma keep it installed
Last week in Warsaw I got to see a first glimpse of Logitech's new Replay software, which is currently in beta. It records your game, and then lets you use its deep learning (technically not AI, I know) to figure out the best clips and splice them together for you. It looked pretty neat, from what they showed me, but I...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is getting a Counter-Strike-inspired game mode that I can't believe it never had before
On top of featuring all the game modes you expect from a Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 4 is courting the competitive scene with something entirely new for the series: a game mode called Collateral. Read more
An ode to the loveable, horrible, wonderful Counter-Strike community and my first tournament experience
"It sounds like you need to find some sense of belonging, a group you can call your own and feel at home with."Those words, or words to that effect, are ones my therapist recently spoke to me. I think she probably had in mind something a little more traditional—church, or one of those manly men groups, something like t...
No USB connectivity? Like, at all? It's a good job SteelSeries' new gaming mice are two of the best I've felt under my fingertips
SteelSeries Rival ProErgo palm grip shapeUWB wireless only (no USB!)53 g42K DPI TrueMove 42K Pro sensorSteelSeries Optical switchesHot-swappable battery$179.99 / £169.99 / €199.99SteelSeries Sensei ProSymmetrical claw grip shapeUWB wireless only (no USB!)53 g42K DPI TrueMove 42K Pro sensorSteelSeries Optical switchesHo...
SteelSeries Rival Pro gaming mouse review
This has been quite the year for competitive/esports gaming mice. First we had the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike (and now the improved X3), then the Razer Viper V4 Pro. Now, with this Rival Pro, we have SteelSeries finally rejoining the former brands in the sphere of top-tier competitive gaming mice. A true return to f...
A pro CS2 player told me he ditched his Superstrike gaming mouse for the older Superlight 2 because it was 'inconsistent'
I found yxngstxr's candidness fantastic, here, considering we were at a Logitech G Play event when he said these words to me—an event surrounding the launch of the X3 Superstrike, no less. I trusted what he was saying: he liked the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike and tried it for a while, but found it inconsistent, and h...
Speaking to pro Counter-Strike players convinced me to finally increase my mouse's polling rate, but not all the way to 8K
Azuwu - CS2 player for Luminosity"I'd say there's a difference from 1 to 2K and then, after that, 8K you don't even reach anyway. So it's only 2K or 4K, but they're both fine. I play at 4K."yxngstxr - CS2 player for Luminosity"1K is the minimum. If you play 4K, it's going to be way smoother—not 'way' [smoother], but yo...