Oxygen Esports win the Code Red: Freedom $50k finals

News Oxygen Esports are your Boom TV Code Red: Freedom Champions. Oxygen Esports won the Boom TV Code Red Freedom $50k match point finals in an impressive six games. Netting a sizable $18k Oxygen Esports have made the best possible start to their ALGS Year 4 preparation. They were pushed by Luminosity and Alliance, but were the only team to reach the match point threshold, winning the tournament at their first attempt....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 685 words · Frank Cummings

Peacock Is Officially Raising Subscription Prices – And It Starts Sooner Than You'd Think

Peacockis raising its subscription prices, effective within the next month. The streaming service from NBCUniversal currently offers a two-tier subscription option, with the lower tier costing $7.99 per month and the higher tier costing $13.99 per month. This is lower thanPeacock’s competitors, prompting an adjustment from NBCUniversal executives that will take effect sooner than you may think. What Peacock’s Price Change Means For Subscribers & New Customers Peacock Is No Longer A Lower-Cost Option This $3 increase across all of Peacock’s tiers marksthe third price shift in the last three years....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Terry Allen

Smite is hitting PS4 tomorrow, still doesn’t have Cross-Play

Unfortunately Ever since Microsoftopened its Cross-Play gates, I’ve been waiting for Sony to oblige. That would certainly help out fans ofSMITE, a game that’s getting a PS4 version on May 31, but cannot interact with either the PC or Xbox One editions. A lack of PC cross support I get, because likeOverwatchthey have two different control schemes and different balance teams, but it’s sad that we can’t live in a world with PS4 and Xbox One compatibility for at least a few games....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Timothy Le

Steam is throwing a Halloween sale right now

Today through November 1 While it’s traditionally during the winter sale when I spend all of my money to catch up on anything I’ve missed over the year, it wouldn’t be Steam without temptations along the way. The Steam Halloween saleis now in full effectuntil July 02, 2025. The big wall of discounted games can be overwhelming, so here’s some deals that jumped out at me: There are plenty of far steeper discounts on older games that we’ve mentioned time and time again....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Matthew Edwards

Survival sim The Long Dark sounds too good to be true

I guess there were more of Us Is “the long dark” a euphemism for the color grey? Becausethis new indie gamedeveloped by industry vets reads a lot like the surprisingly excellent Liam Neeson filmThe Grey. Post plane crash, the protagonist must survive the coolly indifferent Pacific Northwest and not be eaten by wolves. That’s just the appetizer. The plane went down in a mystical event that rendered all of our technology useless, soThe Long Darkbecomes not about survival until rescue, but plain survival....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 311 words · Robert Copeland

Tim Langdell’s EDGE trademark claim finally quashed

Langdell was in dispute with EA, Future Publishing, and more It’s taken a few years butTim Langdell’sspurious copyright claims on the word “Edge” have finally ended.Eurogamer reportsthat a judge in California has passed a Consolidated Cancellation put forward by EA that will cancel a number of Landgell’s copyrights. Langdell had been in dispute with EA over its 2008 titleMirror’s Edge, Future Publishing for itsEDGEpublication, and Mobigame’s iOS and PC titleEdge. Langdell hasresponded to the cancelation, claiming the decision is “defective” in numerous ways and has asked the cancellation be “made void....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Carl Petersen

Travis-Rilea error in Black Ops 6, explanation and how to fix

Call of Duty Guides The Travis-Rilea error is back, and it is plaguing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players that are just trying to game. It wouldn’t be a Call of Duty game without far too familiar error codes and messages. With Black Ops 6, we see the return of the dreaded Travis-Rilea error. This has been an issue across multiple COD titles, including the previous MW3. Now, it rears its ugly head in the sixth Black Ops game....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Shelly Curtis

Vampire Survivor’s next free update drops tomorrow

GOLD-FINGER (he sang in his most Shirley Bassy voice) Vampire Survivorscontinues to be the indie gift that keeps on giving. After a stellar debut last year, in which it won Best Game at theBritish Academy Games Awardsand the Destructoid award forBest PC Game,the developer is showing no signs of slowing down support for the game. So far, it’s seen two paid DLC expansions and several free updates. Its next free arrives tomorrow, and it’s packing in some great reason to return to the monster-infested fields of Italy....

July 23, 2025 · 1 min · 207 words · Todd Spears

Where to find Lightcrystal in Monster Hunter Wilds

Lightcrystal is one of the oldest existing materials in theMonster Hunterfranchise, and returns yet again inMonster Hunter Wilds.If you need to get some for a few crafts, here’s how. How to get Lightcrystal in Monster Hunter Wilds So, obtaining Lightcrystal is difficult only because of the RNG (random number generation) aspect of it. Like most ore-like materials, you can obtain Lightcrystal by interacting withmining nodeson any of the game’s maps. However, Lightcrystal is one of the rather rare results of mining, which means you’ll likely need to mine a whole bunch to get a few....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 291 words · Jon Ortega

Adult star Eva Elfie to contribute OnlyFans earnings to Dota 2’s TI12 prize pool

DOTA 2 News Eva Elfie promises to use her OnlyFans earnings to help the struggling TI12 prize pool. A well-known adult star and influencer, Eva Elfie, has been making appearances with teams and players at The International 2023 (TI12). Her presence isn’t a surprise as she also collaborated with Tundra Esports at TI11 last year. A day before the final weekend of TI12, Eva Eflie pledges to contribute to TI12’s struggling prize pool using her OnlyFans platform....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 624 words · Kayla Crawford

Arteezy Steps down from the Shopify Rebellion Roster to take a well deserved break

DOTA 2 News You can rest now Mr. Babaev. You’ve earned it. The iconic Arteezy is stepping down and taking a well deserved break. After over a decade since his professional Dota 2 career started, Artour “Arteezy” Babaev is stepping down from competitive Dota. Although not all hope is gone, as Arteezy still plans to stream and be involved in the Dota 2 community. Regardless, this is truly an end of a massive, decade long era for the Dota 2 community....

July 22, 2025 · 3 min · 450 words · Mr. Justin Lawrence DDS

Avo+ shares insight into his journey as a DPC talent

DOTA 2 News During the 2023 SEA DPC Winter tour, Avo+ sat down with esports.gg to share an insight into his journey as a DPC talent. Today, Alvaro “Avo+” Sanchez Velasco is one of the most recognizable faces in Dota 2. A host, caster, and personality in the scene, if you’ve watched top-tier Dota in the past 18 months, you’ll have seen Avo on your screen. But what are the origins of Avo+?...

July 22, 2025 · 8 min · 1528 words · Shannon Small

Best cards to pull from Space-Time Smackdown in Pokémon TCG Pocket

Pokémon TCG Pocket Guides Look here for what we think are the best cards you can obtain from the new Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion, Space-Time Smackdown! Space-Time Smackdown is here in Pokémon TCG Pocket, with over 200 more cards added to the game. The new expansion has a focus on the Sinnoh region, with some powerful cards to make decks from and beautiful cards to collect. So, what are the bestSpace-Time Smackdowncards you can pull?...

July 22, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Elizabeth Edwards