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Much the same as anyone with a soul, I find ants deeply fascinating and, much the same as anyone who occasionally drops small pieces of sandwich on the floor, I will continue to uphold my respect for them as long as they come nowhere near my feet. Yes. I admit it: I am a bug hypocrite, loudly extolling their virtue and beauty at a distance then getting irritated if they decide to come sit on me. Fortunately, real time strategy Empire Of The Ants understands that the best place for insects to be is inside a screen, where they can be appreciated but cannot under any circumstances touch you. It’s out this week, as it happens, and here’s a new launch trailer to celebrate. Follow your pheromone trail to the video below. Read more View the full article

It's Helldivers 2 patch time, and right off the bat, I'm sad to reveal that this latest one - unlike last week's update - doesn't include a fish being sent to the great beyond. Feel free to vent your disappoinment for a couple of minutes before reading on. Read more View the full article

Starting today - November 5 - in Pokemon TCG Pocket, players have a chance to earn a powerful Lapras EX (as well as other nice card variants) in a limited-time PvE battle event. You've got around 13 days until the event expires, so get to it! Read more View the full article

Classic Sport Driving is designed in the spirit of retro racers like Lotus Turbo Challenge and Outrun, so if you like the old style of racing this one might be for you. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

With Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 now a week old, fans of the Multiplayer portion of the game are having their say on the controversial — and unskippable — Winner’s Circle feature. The Winner’s Circle shows the top three performing players from the winning team after the Play of the Game has run its course. Under normal circumstances it lets each player who does well enough to appear on the podium perform an emote, most of which are either toxic or hilarious depending on your point of view. ****** Ops 6 isn’t the first Call of Duty to feature The Winner’s Circle mechanic, as it’s appeared in the likes of ****** Ops 3, Infinite Warfare, and WWII. But it’s impact feels particularly pronounced this year, and the debate around it was only exacerbated by the recent release of fan-favorite map Nuketown, which in addition to the Play of the Game and the Winner’s Circle, shows a short cutscene of the map getting nuked before players return to the lobby. There are a number of issues players have brought up with ****** Ops 6’s Winner’s Circle. The main one is the time it takes to view: players have to sit through the Winner’s Circle whether they make the cut or not, and the handful of seconds it lasts can feel like an age when all you want to do is get into another match or check your loadout. Because of this, some players have called on Treyarch to add a skip button or even pull the Winner's Circle from the game entirely. Then there’s the issue of toxicity, with some saying the ability to taunt your opponent after a victory discourages them from continuing to play having just lost a game. The slow camera zoom into the top player's face doesn't help matters. They really thought they were cooking with this byu/Difficult-Rest8524 inblackops6 .reddit-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; } Treyarch actually nerfed the Winner’s Circle following feedback from the ****** Ops 6 beta so it had a shorter overall duration and “mitigated emote spam” for launch. During those preview weekends, players were able to spam emotes in the Winner’s Circle, which was certainly more frustrating to watch. Currently, you’re only able to trigger one emote. Or at least, you’re only supposed to be able to trigger one emote. Players have worked out that they can still spam emotes here by quickly pausing and unpausing the game. Doing this, they’re able to fit in a few emotes into the Winner’s Circle before it closes, which, yeah, is pretty annoying to watch. But! If you’re ***** of watching the shenanigans that go on in the Winner’s Circle, players have worked out they can make the player avatars disappear by heading to the in-game social tab. This doesn’t make the Winner’s Circle go away any quicker, but it does get rid of the emotes, if you’re feeling particularly put out by them. It’s a bizarre glitch that Treyarch will probably patch out at some point. Pro tip: you can close the winners circle by going to social byu/Soggy-Pouch inblackops6 .reddit-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; } It’s been interesting to see how players have reacted to the Winner’s Circle since ****** Ops 6’s explosive launch. Some have said they don’t mind it, given it provides them with a bit of time to check their phone before being thrust into the next match (modern gaming!). Others really, really hate it, and want to skip it at all costs. “Goofy” is a word I’ve seen tossed about by many in response to these emotes. Despite the ongoing debate about ****** Ops 6’s Winner’s Circle, it seems unlikely that Treyarch will strip it out of the game or even let players skip it. It provides an opportunity to show off players’ elaborate and often costly cosmetics, including premium emotes, to all players still in the lobby — and we all know how crucial cosmetics sales are to Activision’s bottom line. If you’re jumping into Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 multiplayer, check out our Essential Multiplayer Tips and Tricks to help you get started. We’ve also got a full weapons list, a guide to all multiplayer maps and game modes, and details on how to unlock all ****** Ops 6 operators. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

Early reactions to Call Of Duty: ****** Ops 6 multiplayer range from frothing dislike through omnimovement hype to our own Ed Thorn's *****-eyed appraisal that it's "a good one, I think. Not a bad one. If you like Call Of Duty, you will like this. If you don't like Call Of Duty, you will not like this." I feel like we need to emergency-deploy a supply crate of smelling salts, because the sheer OK-ness of ****** Ops 6 appears to have tumbled Ed in a stupor. Perhaps it would be a different story if he'd encountered some of the spawning issues and glitches people are talking about, with players joining games and materialising right into a hail of *****. The players in question include ****** Ops 6's developers, who comically note in the latest ****** Ops 6 patch notes that "Yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too." The latest patch seeks to address this, naturally. As regards the campaign side of things, it also resets your safehouse currency to 5000, if you've had your single player funds stolen (or multiplied) by technical gremlins. Read more View the full article

What is the MTG Tarkir Dragonstorm release date? In the second major set of 2025 we're going back to Tarkir, a dragon-filled world with multiple diverse factions, each inspired by different ****** cultures. This is our one and only revisit to an existing beloved plane next year, so it's going to be a high point for more established Magic fans. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Marvel MTG card creates 250% price spike for Gruul legend MTG sneaks Baby Groot into every Marvel Secret Lair MTG: Legendary One Ring card's price slumps as players ***** upcoming ban View the full article

If you love the idea of having a friendly ****** on your VALORANT *******—but don’t like the Elderflame collection’s annoyingly distracting design—Riot finally has something for you in the new Arcane 2.0 skin collection. Celebrating the premiere of the highly anticipated second season of the League of Legends-based TV series, the Arcane Season Two Collector’s set will be available for fans to purchase from the store only for a limited time. An exciting trailer on Nov. 4 revealed the collection’s contents, showcasing their exciting animations, leaving fans with goosebumps and hopes to bag what potentially are the best VALORANT skins of the year. View the full article

The free and open source kart racing game SuperTuxKart is gearing up for another release, with SuperTuxKart 1.5 getting a first Beta that needs some testing. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Hey, Mass Effecters, that day every year when you put on your best Commander Shepard socks, show off that Garrus tattoo you got on your inner thigh for some reason, and look out for Mass Effecty things is almost here. However, if you're expecting a huge reveal about the series' next entry from this year's N7 Day, it seems you'll need to keep your expectations in check, due to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Read more View the full article

Pokémon TCG Pocket has given players even more cards to collect with a new event centered around Lapras ex, focusing on defeating the AI in Solo Battles. We’ve got all the details you need. Fresh on from Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Wonder Pick Event, which lasts until Nov. 22, a fresh batch of Promo cards has been added to the game. But like the Wonder Pick event, it’s not as simple as opening packs and claiming a prize—you must earn them. View the full article

The Manjaro Linux team are asking for testers for their new data collection tool called "Manjaro Data Donor", which they plan to have as opt-out and not opt-in. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

One Dragon Age: The Veilguard player made an incredibly interesting discovery over the weekend, a *********** theory board connecting every protagonist and their companions. View the full article

Treyarch has released a sizeable new update for ****** Ops 6. The update, which arrived last night on all platforms, contains a wide range of fixes that touch campaign, Zombies, but chiefly address a number of multiplayer issues. Read more View the full article

Beloved roguelike traumatic-childhood-em-up The Binding Of Issac: Rebirth turned 10 yesterday, and it’s half off on Steam to celebrate. What’s more, maker Edmund McMillen has announced that the foretold online co-op update is due on the 18th of this month, alongside a “considerable” balance update. Consider me considering the considerability of said considerable update! Read more View the full article

If you can believe it, Lionsgate wants to try and convince us an ****** woman looks like a child for a second time with the newly announced Orphan 3. Read more View the full article

I struggled with today’s LoLdle quote because it doesn’t really give away any clues. It’s so short and sweet that I had to guess several times before finally landing on the answer. Read on if you need some help. Who says, “Tonight, we hunt” in LoL? Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! Screenshot by Dot Esports The LoLdle quote on Nov. 5 is, “Tonight, we hunt,” and the League champion who says this line is Rengar. You know, that scary kitty who jumps onto his unsuspecting victims and rips them into shreds with his claws. View the full article

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users will be able to start playing Metal Slug Tactics as part of their subscription starting today, November 5. In the meantime, a pair of beloved classics just became available on two Xbox Game Pass tiers. View the full article

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Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 has got off to an exceptional start. It launched to an 84 on OpenCritic, scoring a 4/5 from TheGamer, quickly beat Modern Warfare 3's Steam player numbers, and was declared the "Biggest Call of Duty release ever" by Activision's new owner Microsoft. View the full article

Are you familiar with prayers done by Christians before eating a meal? Today’s NYT Mini Crossword clue is “Divine favor, in Christianity,” testing your knowledge of Christianity and asking you to name a word to showcase ****’s favor to everyone. If today’s NYT Mini Crossword clues stump you, you can use our hints and answers to breeze through the puzzle. View the full article

Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the biggest and boldest the series has ever been, with some novel battle mechanics, but an overstuffed runtime severely dilutes the experience in both narrative and gameplay. View the full article

3D printers are sometimes compared to hot glue guns, in part because of similarities between hot glue and printer filament. However, analyzing the mechanical obstacles that complicate printing with glue could open doors for other materials. Engineer Jón Schone recently demonstrated these issues in an experiment that, following much trial... Read Entire Article View the full article

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 does a brilliant job at introducing the deadly world of 40K to those new to the universe while giving pre-existing fans plenty to enjoy as they slay hordes of Tyranids. Even though it shows off a lot, especially when it comes to the many Space Marine Chapters, not just the mascot Ultramarines, Space Marine 2 just scratches the surface of the 40K world. There's so much more to explore from the universe, and one faction is perfect for Space Marine 3, if Saber Interactive wants to dip back into the series. View the full article

Monster Hunter Wilds players noted that weapons seemed to look and feel different during their beta experience with the game. With Monster Hunter Wilds slated to release in early 2025, fans are a little worried that such a huge change could affect gameplay. While hunting monsters and crafting weapons and armor are the two main goals in the Monster Hunter franchise, part of what makes the task highly enjoyable is the selection of weapons and how unique each one plays. View the full article