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Welcome to Kalopsia Island! The allure of a digital life is what inevitably led me to become much less of an internet hermit during my adolescence. There’s something to be said about reinventing yourself from the ground up, whether you’re just altering your appearance or taking on a new personality entirely. My avatars and digital representations of myself are usually grounded in reality, except they’re always cuter, thinner, or a lot cooler than the real me....

DOTA 2 News The EEU Playoffs witnessed familiar names on top of the viewership chart. After the 2nd DPC season concluded, Valve announced a last-minute EEU Playoffs to determine the final Stockholm Major attendees. In a span of 6 days, we witnessed gruesome Dota 2 action in a fight to join the next Valve LAN event. According toEsports Charts, the EEU Playoffs gained quite a number of viewers. Theeventaccumulated 157K Peak Viewers across all platforms with an average of 85K viewers....

A Return to Salem’s Lotis an essentially forgotten sequel that would kick off one of the weirdest subgenres of Stephen King movies.Stephen King’s bookshave proven fertile ground for Hollywood, resulting in classics likeThe ShiningandThe Shawshank Redemption. Of course, there have been some middling to terrible films based on his work too, withthe King-directedMaximum Overdrivebeing (arguably) the worst. One of the most adapted of his works isSalem’s Lot, a novel where a vampire slowly takes over a small American town and quite literally bleeds it dry....

Gaming News What are the most popular video games pairings on AO3? Find out here! A user known as centreoftheselights on Archive of Our Own (AO3) has revealed the top 2024 shipping statistics. Within thisreportare fan-written stories featuring video game characters. Read on for the top AO3 video game ships, which include characters from titles such as Genshin Impact, Call of Duty, Baldur’s Gate, Honkai: Star Rail, and more. AO3 Ship Stats 2024: Top video game ships Astarion/Tav on AO3 Astarion/Tav from Baldur’s Gate ranks among the top 10 AO3 ships in the 2024 report....

Valorant News VALORANT is bringing a new Team Deathmatch map, called Glitch, to the mode at the start of Episode 9 Act 3. A new bomb-objective map is not arriving any time soon, with Abyss recently added. Instead, VALORANT players can expect a brand-new Team Deathmatch map known as Glitch to enter the game when Episode 9 Act 3 launches. VALORANT Premier schedule for Season 2025 // Act III VALORANT Premier is onto its next Act, and we’ve got the schedule so you know when your team needs to be ready to play....

Happy New Year! Tonight we’ll be entering 2022 together, and I’m honored to share that with you! We’ll also be trying some new (to me) games out;Inscryptionhas been suggested since it’s a puzzle-ish cool card game, and we have the monstrousRed Dead Redemption 2to start if we’d like. I knowRDR2is an extremely long game, but sometimes it can be good to have those games to return to and progress in some nights....

DOTA 2 News By losing to OG, Alliance now has no hope in maintaining their place in Division I and will have to compete in the qualifiers to get to TI11. Not a single thing went according to plan for Alliance this DPC season. They have lost every single game in all the six series they played, which meant they have lost 12 games in a row. Defeating OG was Alliance’s last chance to potentially maintain their place in Division I through tiebreakers....

Why don’t Jedi use guns? Obi-Wan Kenobi would tell you it’s because they’re too uncivilized. Some very smart media critics would tell you it has something to do with the symbolic importance of the saber in the Campbellian Hero’s Journey. A business analyst might tell you that $200 lightsabers sell too well at Disneyland. I have a different theory, though. I think the Jedi leave their blasters at home because sword fighting is just a lot cooler....

The competition for thebest PlayStation game of 2024sure was fierce. But, at the end of the day, it had to come down to at least one winner. For Destructoid’s choice of the best PS4/PS5 game of the year, we haveAstro Bot,the beloved platformer that’s become a tremendous ode for PlayStation players. It may come as no surprise to seeAstro Botat the top of the list. I mean, it did take home the winner of the best game of the year at The Game Awards....

Gaming News This year’s musical guest comes along with his own curated soundtrack. Not content with simply buying the most expensive Magic: The Gathering card ever made, recording artist Post Malone wants to wrestle as well.Revealed today by 2K Games, the publisher announced that everyone’s favorite grill-sporting emo Post Malone is joining theWWE 2K24roster as a playable character. Here’s 16 of the Showcase of the Immortals matches in WWE 2K24 We now know 16 of the 21 Showcase of the Immortal matches coming to WWE 2K24?...

One of the best aspects ofFields of Mistriais all of the content provided by Museum donations. There’s always something to find or aim for, so you’re never left hunting for something to do. The Museum is split into the following four wings, all focusing on a different type of items: Table of contents How to complete the Archaeology Wing of the Museum in Fields of Mistria At the time of writing,it’s impossible to get 100% of the Archaeology Wing inFields of Mistria....

At least priced the same as the Android version I mean, it’s cool that they gotFinal Fantasy IIIto PCafter it released on Android early this year. It just feels weird to see it up there at $16, more expensive than, say,Final Fantasy VIIandFinal Fantasy VIII. Yes, it’s a full blown remake, but one that came to the DS ages ago and probably already paid for itself. Still, cool for those who haven’t played it....

News Masy the 4th be with you Fortnite fans can rejoice as there’s yet another Fortnite X Star Wars event rumored to be coming up. The new collaboration will go live on Fortnite Chapter 5, Season 2. Here’s all we know about the rumored Fortnite X Star Wars event. What to expect with the Fortnite x Star Wars event? This is not the first time Fortnite fans have seen Epic Games team up with a Star Wars collaboration....