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RELATED: Lost Ark is Getting Its Own Battle Pass Lost Ark’s developers have been closely monitoring player feedback and player progression in order to decide the best time to release increasingly difficult content, and they’ve concluded that enough players are powerful enough to warrant some new additions. Valtan, the first Legion Raid, will be a difficult eight-player raid featuring complex and difficult mechanics. Two checkpoints throughout the raid will save player progression, a sign that players likely won’t be breezing through straight away....

Back in 2018, the Netherlands Gaming Authority (NGA) came down hard on games that featured loot boxes. The NGA made the practice illegal, which meant that any publisher that did not comply would either be fined or have the sale of its games banned in the region entirely. The Belgian government followed suit, ultimately stopping loot boxes dead in their tracks in the region. The investigation came about after the Star Wars Battlefront 2 controversy, which included some pay-to-win mechanics with Star Cards via loot boxes....

RELATED: Lost Ark is Getting New Machinist Class The latest update for Lost Ark is entitled Under The Arkesian Sun, a title that emphasizes the summer fun theme of the seasonal Maharaka Festival where players partake in leisurely activities at the Maharaka Paradise water park. The main attraction of this update is the new Pet Ranch located within player strongholds. The Pet Ranch allows players’ pets to train and grow in strength while generating resources and gaining Pet Expertise to level up, along with producing Jam Cookies exchangeable for unique rewards....

Lost Judgment is a sequel to Judgment, which itself was a spin-off of the Yakuza series, that has developed a fan base and identity of its own while keeping the things fans love about the main series games. Rumors about a sequel to Judgment were confirmed in May 2021 when Lost Judgment’s existence was leaked on the PlayStation store. RELATED: Yakuza Spin-Off Game Judgment Rumored for Xbox Game Pass...

LOUD has made a statement in the competition by defeating two EMEA giants, Team Liquid and G2 Esports, in their last two games. Meanwhile, OpTic Gaming won against The Guard and DRX and made it to the Upper Final. Fans can expect a thrilling encounter when the two sides meet tonight. LOUD and OpTic Gaming: Who will reach the VCT Stage 1 Masters Reykjavik Grand Finals tonight? LOUD and OpTic Gaming will face each other in a best-of-three series tonight to become the first team to reach Sunday’s Grand Final....

That day of reckoning has finally come in Detroit: this year alone, 1 million leased cars will pour back into the marketplace, and automakers expect an additional 1.5 million in 1995. But put those predictions of Armageddon on hold-there’s plenty of gold left in leasing. Analysts and even automakers still worry about the long run. “If leasing goes on at this rate, eventually someone has to pay the piper,” says analyst Joseph Phillippi of Lehman Brothers....

TYRE: How bad is the situation at ABC? LYNE: Panic is overstating it, but there is genuine concern at ABC and at all the networks about the shrinking audience for network television. That said, I believe it is possible to get large numbers of people to watch a show. If it is compelling, it pulls you back week after week. ABC’s audience is off 21 percent from last season, and it has fallen from first to fourth place among young-adult viewers....

That Ico and Shadow of the Colossus were both strikingly beautiful in their original PlayStation 2 incarnations has never been debated. Still, there is no denying the obvious upgrade each game has received in its transition to PlayStation 3 – especially Shadow of the Colossus’s much improved frame rate. If you have somehow not been looking forward to this re-release, prepare to get on-board. Take a look at the trailer for the game that started it all, Ico....

But after the toss, the day was a bit of an anti-climax. There had been so much talk about the contest between hosts’ bowling v/s. the visitors’ batting (as is the norm before almost every Indian tour outside the sub-continent) that watching the contest other way round felt a bit drab. The recovered-ankle duo opened India’s attack, and might I say, gingerly! At Lords earlier this year, Zaheer Khan had used two bouncers in his short and interrupted bowling spell....

A Plague Tale: Innocence was praised for the amount of detail that went into building its world, taking inspiration from historical European settings, more specifically 14th century France and the effects of the Black Death. This atmospheric narrative is being maintained for A Plague Tale: Requiem, with some recent screenshots focusing on the impressive visuals and graphics of the locales that players will explore. To further intensify the hype for fans, Asobo Studio and Focus Entertainment showed off more details of the game at the Tribeca Games Festival....

The sequel has been impressing gamers since its announcement during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase last June. In recent weeks, Focus Entertainment has revealed a story trailer, gameplay previews, and demonstrated how much the technology has improved since 2019, claiming that up to 300,000 rats will be present on screen at once. A Plague Tale: Innocence featured Hugo, a young boy trying to survive a fictional Hundred Years’ War, who had the power to control these rats that are overwhelming cities and villages....

Given the heaps of trouble piling up on the genre, it might seem like an odd time to launch a new music game, but don’t tell Ubisoft. The French mega-publisher, who has enjoyed massive sales of its Just Dance series, is ready to go all-in on music games, though in a way we’ve not really seen before. Get ready for your first look at Rocksmith. The first thing to know about Rocksmith is that there are no plastic guitars to buy....

The finale of A Quiet Place saw the head of the family—Lee Abbott—sacrifice himself to save his family from the monsters that hunt by sound. After giving birth to her baby, Evelyn Abbott uses a shotgun to kill one of the monsters with the help of her daughter Regan who discovers that her hearing aid can produce a frequency that causes the monsters (who are sensitive to sound) to expose their vulnerable side....

The answer was the Second Opium War, a British invasion of China, the sacking Peking and finally the forced legalization of opium exports to China. The economic and territorial concessions wrung from the humiliated emperor were not forgotten. Now, taking a page from Britain’s playbook, China has turned the tables and is fostering an opioid epidemic in the United States. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid which is both cheaper to manufacture and easier to transport than heroin....

LAFC are currently top of the Western Conference, six points ahead of Austin in second. Steven Cherundolo’s side have been in strong form of late and have won their last five league games on the trot. They will look to continue their form with a win against Charlotte this weekend. Charlotte, on the other hand, are currently 11th in the Eastern Conference, one point off the top seven. Christian Lattanzio’s side have been in poor form of late, having lost three of their last five games....

LeBron James and Anthony Davis will be flanked by a new group as Kyle Kuzma, Dennis Schroder, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Alex Caruso, Andre Drummond and Montrezl Harrell all either left as free agents or were traded by Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka as part of his efforts to re-tool the roster. Former NBA MVP and nine-time All-Star Russell Westbrook headlines a new group that also includes Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Trevor Ariza and Malik Monk, among others....

Another performance like Thursday’s 3-2 loss to the Bruins will raise the situation to DefCon 2, if it’s not there already. MORE: Datsyuk, Howard close to return | Latest on playoff races | Blues, Blackhawks lock up berths | Ovechkin is on a tear The Wings are third in the Atlantic Division (don’t bother debating the geography; it’s the NHL) after their loss. They hold a tiebreaker edge over the Bruins for that position; both teams have 93 points....

RELATED: Lost Ark: Best Shadowhunter Build Once players reach the endgame in Lost Ark, it’s essential that they choose the right engravings and skills while focusing on the right stats to ensure they get the most out of their Gunslinger. Choosing the wrong options will leave them missing out on some of this class’s best features. They’ll need to construct their build around the Gunslinger’s identity skill. Here’s everything to know about the best build for the Gunslinger....

RELATED: Most Impractical Weapons In Lost Ark The Deskaluda Guardian Raid is the first Guardian Raid featured in level 6 of Lost Ark, and it will test players with the power of dark and fire. Players must be at an Item Level of 1415 to complete this challenge. They will need to beef up their teams, ensure they have the right gear and items, and possibly join forces with other players to complete this raid....

Well, it was easier than it should have been, anyway. Duke freshman Cam Reddish’s game-winning 3-pointer with .8 seconds left delivered an 80-78 victory over Florida State on Saturday, keeping the Blue Devils atop the polls and undefeated in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He hit the shot after teammate R.J. Barrett had converted the first of two free throws with 5 seconds left to make it a one-point deficit, then missed the second but watched as FSU tried unsuccessfully to control the rebound and keep it in play....