Monthly Archives: August 2019

This year’s annual Pokemon World Championships are all wrapped up, with players from around the world competing in Pokemon video games as well as the ever-popular trading card game, along with the mobile hit Pokemon Go.

This year’s event took place in Washington D.C. and saw players squaring off in Pokemon Sun and Moon, Pokken, and Pokemon Go on the digital side of things. The winners for the digital games were as follows

World Video Game Championships
Junior Division: Pi Wu (Taiwan)
Senior Division: Ko Tsukide (Japan)
Masters Division: Naoto Mizobuchi (Japan)

Pokken World Championships
Senior Division: Collin Jones (USA)
Masters Division: Subutan (Japan)

Pokemon Go Invitational:
Champion: Pogokieng

The big winners for the trading card game are as follows:

Pokemon World Trading Card Championships
Junior Division: Haruki Miyamoto (Japan)

During this past weekend Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward held their latest beta test, allowing users to test out the hotly anticipated 2v2 mode.

The new mode is one of the most anticipated features of the upcoming game, which launches on October 25th across PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The mode favors quick play, but does require players to adjust their strategy a bit from the typical multiplayer modes.

One thing that we’re anticipating is a lot of fast action, which I’ve personally experienced during my play sessions. Even though there are still a few things to be ironed out, the game looks sharp and plays smoothly on PS4. Gunfight (the name of the new mode), is something else, and I’d say I felt more pressure and “in the moment” than I even did in Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode.

Of course, we’re anticipating the different mods that we’ll be able to set up for use with our Evil Controllers. We may be a bit biased, but I think that we have the best

Popular World War 2 shooter Battlefield V has had its long-anticipated 5v5 mode canceled, as the game’s developer EA Dice said that they’ve instead decided to work on other bugs that have been hampering the game.

Battlefield V launched last year with a campaign and some limited multiplayer modes but has since expanded to offer a Battle Royale mode as well as other modes that probably should have been included in the first place. At the same time, there have been a lot of bugs that have kept the buzz on the game down, especially when compared to competition like Call of Duty, which has been getting lots of player attention.

Now, it appears that EA Dice is instead working on fixing these issues, rather than working to expand the game. This could be a potential sign that resources are being pulled to work on other software, or it could be a move to just try and stabilize the game for existing players.

In the world of eSports, it’s

This week a major wave was made in the video game industry as Sony purchased Insomniac Games, tying up the major second-party developer for any future releases.

Sony and Insomniac have been tied together strongly in the past, as the company designed and released the Ratchet and Clank and Resistance series for the PlayStation brand. The groups did break away a bit earlier this decade, as Insomniac released the zombie blasting game Sunset Overdrive exclusively for the Xbox One. The two didn’t stay separated though, as Insomniac developed Marvel’s Spider-Man for the PS4 in 2018. That game proved to be a huge hit, having sold more than 13.2 million copies as of press time.

Speaking about the agreement Insomniac’s CEO Ted Price wrote: "Today we announced that Insomniac has a new home. It feels more like a homecoming though. We've collaborated with Sony for more than 20 years--spanning all four PlayStation consoles, 20 total games, and six franchises. We still work closely today

American eSports team eUnited has come out as the big winners at the Call of Duty World League Championship 2019 in Los Angeles this past weekend.

The victory saw the team taking home the top prize of $800,000 after they managed to get the best of the team 100 Thieves, winning 3-2 in the final round. There were 32 teams invited to the tournament, featuring some of the best players in the world.

The big win is the second consecutive eSports victory for eUnited, as they won the Pro League Finals in Miami in July. The team is made up of James Eubanks, Alec Sanderson, Preston Sanderson, and Tyler Pharris. The group was founded in 2016 and is organized as eSports Entertainment, LLC. There are multiple sub-teams under the eUnited umbrella that participate in eSports, with a PUBG, Smash, and Smite team all competing in events.

If you’re looking for an eSports controller that makes you play like a pro, then you should check out our slate

Today online search giant Google held their second Stadia Connect Livestream, showing off a slate of new games that are being launched for the streaming service once it launches.

The big announcement during the stream was that CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Stadia at launch, allowing players to stream the game at 4K 60 FPS without any native hardware on the consumer side. All a user will need to play the game is a Chromecast or Chrome web browser, a game controller, a solid internet connection, and to have purchased the game through the Stadia service.

Other games announced include the puzzle game Kine, Orcs Must Die! 3, Windjammers 2, Destroy All Humans, Mortal Kombat 11, Farming Simulator 19, and more. Although the showing was a bit light compared to the inaugural stream, it is good to see that Google is committing to releasing new games.

Stadia is set to launch in November and will include a Founder’s Edition that

Details on the upcoming Gears 5 controller have been leaked, with a sexy new design showing a blue, white, and gray color scheme.

The custom Xbox Controller will launch alongside the Gears 5 game in September and will offer up a design unlike anything else that Microsoft has put out alongside their popular games in the past. The controller appears to be releasing alongside a matching stand, which sees a Gears logo that seems to flow between both devices.

The Gears 5 controller is an excellent way to draw in players to get new hardware, as the game itself is hotly anticipated. Microsoft has revealed that multiplayer servers for the game will be 60Hz for the first time, allowing for fast gameplay for those on all Xbox consoles and PCs. We’re geeked, as we loved the beta gameplay that we got to experience last month.

Of course, we’re going to continue offering custom Xbox controllers to our customers, which has a variety of enhancements,

Video game developer Bungie has announced that an upcoming update to Destiny 2 will bring cross-save functionality to players, allowing them to move their character data to other platforms.

The new functionality will go live on August 21st, which will allow users to play the game across multiple formats without losing any game functionality. which has been long-awaited. Players have been asking for cross-save functionality almost since the game was launched in September 2017.

Destiny 2 has been popular since its release, and the upcoming Shadowkeep expansion has been hotly anticipated. The new save feature will come before the expansion, which itself launches on October 1st.

Cross-save has been something that’s grown in popularity in recent years, as players have been increasingly hopping between consoles and PCs. The biggest groundbreaker in this area has been Fortnite, which lets players sync accounts between all of their different

Renowned streamer Ninja has announced that he’s decided to stop streaming on Twitch and will be moving to Microsoft owned Mixer on an exclusive basis.

Ninja posted a video where he had a faux press conference, announcing that he’s moving to Mixer, which has lagged behind competition like Twitch and YouTube since it launched four years ago with the name Beam. Microsoft bought into Mixer in 2017 and has been putting in the work to make it a formidable competitor to the above services.

Ninja had the title of largest streamer on Twitch, having 14 million followers and peaking at 130,000 peak visitors. He’s since been usurped by other players, but still was among the top names on the platform.

The first stream from Ninja did on Mixer was on August 2nd and took place live from Lollapalooza and had more than 80,000 viewers concurrently. He also has generated more than  300,000 followers as of press time. While these numbers don’t hold a candle to his Twitch numbers, they’re

A 16 year old pro-gamer has shocked the world by winning the first-ever Fortnite World Cup, raking in a huge $3 million prize in the process.

The big winner is Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf of Pennsylvania, who took home the largest eSports prize in history. He ended up besting 99 other players in the final round and survived against 40 million other players who participated in the prelims.

The big winner is enrolled in high school and certainly appears set for life after the “epic” (pun intended) win. The eSports tournament took place at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in New York, and featured some of the best players in the world.

Bugha plays about six hours a day on school nights, starting usually around 3 and playing until 9. He works around his homework schedule but obviously can use a bit more time on weekends and during the summer.

Of course, we’re thrilled whenever we hear of someone winning a huge prize,