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ATT and Dubya Bee, sittin’ in a tree In case you hadn’t heard,AT&T announced Saturday that it intends to purchase Time Warner, Inc. for $85.4 billion. The deal is far from final, and if approved, wouldn’t take place until sometime in 2017. It’s an absolutely enormous merger, and it appears AT&T is looking to diversify its business so that it controls both the distribution and the creation of entertainment content. Assuming it’s approved though, what effect would the merger have on gamers?...

Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 6 - “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 fulfilled James T. Kirk’s (Paul Wesley) promise as the youngest starship captain, but Chris Pine’s version of Captain Kirk in J.J. Abrams’Star Trek(2009) still has him beat. Directed by Valerie Weiss and written by Bill Wolkoff and David Reed,Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3, episode 6 is a milestone chapter in Captain Kirk’s Prime timeline canon....

The Communications Workers of Americahas announcedthat over 500 workers of Blizzard’sWorld of Warcraftdevelopment team have voted to unionize. Notably, the union iswall-to-wall, rather than just covering one of the departments. Calling themselves the World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild, the union includes production, artists, engineers, designers, and QA. This was partially enabled by alabor neutrality agreementthat Microsoft signed with the CWA before their acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The agreement also enabled ZeniMax’s QA tounionize last year, while Bethesda followed suit with a wall-to-wall union just a few days ago....

Today isGengar Day inPokemon GO, where players have the opportunity to fight the powerful ghost/poison-type Pokemon in raid battles for a three hour period. Gengar will also be featured in the upcoming gamesPokemon Let’s Go PikachuandLet’s GoEevee,appearing alongside one of thePokemonfranchise’s creepiest areas, the haunted Lavender Town. The Pokemon Company has released a new trailer forPokemon Let’s Go PikachuandLet’s Go Eeveethat shows Lavender Town in action. Lavender Town’s trademark creepy music plays in the background as we get a look at ghost-type Pokemon battling it out, including two Haunters....

DOTA 2 News Both players are from Yellow Submarine as Team Spirit ventures into young talent once more. Team Spirit have announced their Dota 2 roster for the upcoming season. The organization has added two new players, both from Yellow Submarine. Joining the team are Alexander ‘Rue’ Filin and Alan ‘Satanic’ Gallyamov. Team Spirit add two new Dota 2 players Team Spirit have made some changes to their roster following below expectation results at TI13....

World of Warcraft News The Agents and Luminosity Gaming became the WoW AWC Cup 1 champions! Here are results and current standings. The Agents and Luminosity Gaming players are the World of Warcraft Arena World Championship (AWC) Cup 1 winners! Both teams duked it out against others in the Dragonflight Cup, climbing their way to the top as the victors. Read on for the WoW AWC Cup 1 details! “We were able to pull it out the bag against all odds....

I’m the man with the plan (and little else) I’ve probably spent more time creating characters, builds, and dreaming up party compositions in my head than I have actually playing games. It seems odd to think of it in that way, but if I could somehow tally it all up I bet it wouldn’t even be a close race. Planning out my characters and play sessions is something I’ve been doing since grade school and I’m sure I’m not alone....

Valorant News Here’s everything that went down between Vision Strikers and Full Sense in VCT Champs opening best-of-three. The culmination of the inaugural VCT season leads us to VCT Champions. Sixteen teams from across the globe will be battling it out to be crowned the best team in the world. To kick off Champs, Korea’s Vision Strikers took on Thailand’s Full Sense. Here is the first of many full series recaps for VCT Champions:...

DOTA 2 Guides Break the Dota rules, pay the Dota price with the low priority queue. There’s a special place for those who play up and misbehave inDota 2— low priority. It’s here where the worst offenders (and a few unlucky souls who disconnected a few too many times) end up, and every Dota player is bound to land here at some point in their careers. But what exactly is low priority in Dota 2?...

Call of Duty Guides In years past, Call of Duty players have been able to take advantage of an early access trick, but will it work in Black Ops 6? Prior to the launch of any Call of Duty title, thousands of players ask the same question: will the New Zealand trick work? The New Zealand trick, as it’s come to be known, has essentially given players across the globe early access to the yearly Call of Duty releases....

Devolver Digital has confirmedPhantom Abyssfor an October 20 release on Xbox Series X, making it a new day oneXbox Game Passgame for later this month. NewXbox Game Passgames are typically confirmed at the beginning and middle of each month in a roundup post by Microsoft, but release date announcements from other companies whose games are coming to Game Pass sometime let the cat out of the bag early. Phantom Abyss, for the uninitiated, is an asynchronous multiplayer game where players have to avoid traps and loot treasure from dangerous temples....

News electronic and fame led the way for a Virtus.Pro 2-0 BLAST Premier’s Showdown format is often the best chance for tier 2 teams to showcase themselves up against the best teams in the world. Zero Tenacity is no exception. The Balkan squad made its way to BLAST through the RES EU Masters #1. But Virtus.Pro’s superior firepower shone in the series, allowing them to take the win 2-0 and continue their campaign in the Fall Showdown....

League of Legends News 100T FBI speaks about Team Liquid, LCS playoffs and about his journey into the LCS which includes going up against his idol. The 2022 LCS Championship is in full swing with spring finalists 100 Thieves looking to win their second consecutive summer championship. Having secured a bye to the second round in the upper bracket, 100T faces Team Liquid with the winner of this series already qualifying for Worlds....