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The location: a sold out Daiwa Premist Dome, Sapporo, Japan. The event: The ALGS Championship, the biggest Apex Legends ALGS tournament to date. The winner: GoNext. Coming from England, theALGS Championshipin Sapporo is a very different beast to esports tournaments I’m used to. The crowd is polite, offering gentle applause when a team gets a kill. There are few chants, and none of them lewd. But this is a community that clearly, passionately lovesApex Legends– it just does so in its own way....

Quick Links There’s only one day left of our wintry carnival theme this week inMonopoly Go, and if you’re trying to bring home the big prizes from the partner event running in tandem this past weekend, then try to land on as many Railroads as you can between1PM EST on January 28and3PM EST on January 29. If you haven’t finished building plushies with your four teammates yet, you’ll have access to more than 2,000 free Plushie Partners tokens today in Horn Huck....

Quick Links InInZoi, there are over a dozenskillsfor your Zois to learn and experiement with. While not all of them will prove useful to every Zoi, many will naturally accumulate. Each provides enrichment and a world of opportunity at your doorstep, if you have the drive to max out each skill. From learning to communicate to perfecting the culinary arts, we’ll break down each of the available skills so you can organize your time and spend it wisely....

Sixteen-year-old Swann Holloway inLost Records: Bloom & Rageloves using her camcorder to capture what’s happening around her, especially since she knows she’ll be moving soon and wants to have these videos to look back on. Using Swann’s camcorder, you can capture videos of anything from birds and critters to friends and landscapes, and they are put into separate memoirs that serve as your collectibles in the game. One such collection is the Strangers Memoir....

Avoweddoesn’t have a standard class system, though it does have standard classes. In your skill tree, you will see three ways to deposit points:Fighter,Ranger, andWizard. These are pretty straightforward. Fighters use big, heavy weapons, Rangers use small, quick weapons or attack from range, and Wizards use magic. You can build yourself into a combination of all three, which is what I did. But Avowed is unusual in this regard. Whether games let you assign points freely as Avowed does, lets you bounce around different classes asDragon’s Dogmadoes, or makes you choose a specific class then lets you experiment with variants asDragon Agedoes, balanced combat is a key part of RPGs....

Whether as side quests, boss fights, tattoos on the backs of Yakuza members, or just hanging around, animals are an important and recurring element in theYakuza/Like A Dragonseries, as they are present in all the games. While they started as mostly side content, the animals in Like A Dragon have evolved in how they are used in the games today. In Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, you can even haveyour own animal kingdom....

Summary Nothing is more validating than seeing your community represented in your favorite form of entertainment. Luckily, LGBTQ-inclusive video games have become much more common over the years,especially by indie developers. Even better, you don’t have to buy a $500 home console to experience it yourself, since there’s plenty of good queer representation available onmobile devices. Whether you own an iPhone or Android, you can download dozens of excellent LGBTQ+ titles, including thought-provoking puzzlers, cozy farming sims, and even blood-curdling horror games....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2offers an expansive list of skills and perks that offer unique playstyle options depending on the order you build your perks and what skills you level. While some perks add useful buffs, others can add a new mechanic that changes the game for you or how you interact with the world. Perks also build on each other, either offering upgraded versions of itself later on or pairing with other perks from separate skills that have little to do with each other....

Summary Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2is an undeniably massive game. With two giant maps that you’re free to explore, a plethora of optional content, and a lengthy campaign too, you can make your first playthrough as long or as short as you’d like to. By the time you actually hit the credits, you could’ve spent 25 hours in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, or you could’ve been 125 hours. But with either playstyle, there are still some activities you might have missed....

Summary Dragon Quest 3came out in 1988 to critical and commercial acclaim in Japan. In 1992, the NES version was localized and failed to make a splash in the West. However, over the years, the game has come to be seen as one of thegreatest JRPGs of all timeworldwide due to its polished gameplay that set standards for the entire genre. Dragon Quest 3 is not particularly known for its story; its exploration and grinding take centre stage....

Summary Call of Dutyfans looking forward toSeason 03ofBlack Ops 6andWarzonewill need to wait a bit longer, as the first-person shooter franchise announced on Monday that its next season will be delayed until April 3, exactly one month from today. Calling Season 03 a “big moment” for the franchise, the account noted that it will be “taking the time to deliver a great experience” as reasoning for the delay. Originally, the season was set to launch on March 20....

Summary The nextMass Effectgame is hot in the speculative minds of countless BioWare fans, and agonizingly little information has been revealed about it. But just enough has been teased to allow those fans to wildly theorize which of their favorite characters they might see in the fifth entry. With four games so far and plenty of incredible squadmates and friends in each one, that potential list is substantial. But there are a number of them that it would make a lot of sense to see again, particularly given rumors about Mass Effect 5 bridging the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies....

Quick Links Pebberley Heights is one of the best maps for expert players inTwo Point Museum. Built on hydraulic platforms raised above the jungle canopy, and with no starting construction already in place, it’s the only map in the game that lets you truly buid your dream museum from scratch. Of course, Pebberley Heights doesn’t hold your hand as much compared to the other maps, either. Whether you’re building it as a dedicated Space Museum for Story Mode or letting your imagination run wild in Sandbox, the map’s unique jungle climate and emphasis on multiple buildings present challenges all its own....