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Everything You Need To Know About Overwatch 2 Before Season 18 Arrives
17.8.2025
If it’s been a while since you’ve teamed up with some friends (or randos), let’s fill you in on where the popular hero shooter is right now
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Someone Finally Asked Marvel Rivals‘ Director About The ‘Gooner Game’ Skins
13.8.2025
The developer weighed in on the hero shooter's Psylocke and Squirrel Girl fan service
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One Of Marvel’s Most Exciting Games Right Now Isn’t A Hero Shooter Or Fighting Game
18.6.2025
Marvel has had some big wins and painful losses in the video game space over the past few years. Marvel Rivals took the hero shooter community by storm, and Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is primed to be a fighting game powerhouse. On the other hand, Cliffhanger Games was shuttered while working on...
Someone Made Marvel Rivals In Overwatch 2, And It Kinda Rules
1.5.2025
If you ever needed proof that all things feed into one another, look no further than somebody making Marvel Rivals kits in Overwatch 2. NetEase’s hero shooter has long been compared to Blizzard’s, with several of its heroes being almost exact copies of characters Overwatch popularized. But despite...
Game Genres Are Completely Meaningless, And It's All Your Fault
25.3.2025
Genres are broken. Broken, I argue, beyond repair. We need to crumple them up and throw them all away.Read more
Marvel Rivals Company Has A Second Hero Shooter Coming Out, Gives Fans Free Stuff After Last-Minute Console Delay
5.3.2025
FragPunk is a first-person hero shooter where you use deckbuilding card mechanics to augment your characters’ strengths and weaknesses. It’s the next free-to-play game from NetEase, which also produced Marvel Rivals, and it’s coming out this week, just not on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S where...
Marvel Rivals Director And Others Laid Off Just Months After The Hero Shooter Took Over The Charts
18.2.2025
Marvel Rivals’ game director and others from the development team behind the hit hero shooter have been laid off. The dismissals have caught many by surprise as NetEase’s comic book blockbuster continues to dominate the charts on Steam and consoles months after its well-received launch.Read more
Overwatch 2 Is Running Out Of Chances, So I’m Glad It’s Finally Taking Some Real Swings
13.2.2025
I never thought I’d become a lapsed Overwatch 2 player, but that’s what I’ve been lately. I barely touched season 14, and that lack of interest was the culmination of years of stagnation and broken promises finally pushing me away. Yeah, Marvel Rivals also showed up and took my time, but even...
There's A Great New RPG On Game Pass And A Fantastic New Dungeon Crawler On Steam
1.2.2025
This week, our roundup of takes includes a recommendation for a very cool new RPG on Game Pass and an even stronger rec for a new dungeon crawler on Steam. Also, we look at what certain reactions to a new Superman TV spot reveal about how some fans relate to movies nowadays, and see why the trading...
Overwatch 2 Promises 'Groundbreaking Changes' And With Marvel Rivals' Success, It Had Better Deliver
30.1.2025
Blizzard has announced it’s holding a big blowout event for Overwatch 2 next month. The Overwatch 2 Spotlight showcase will take place on February 12 at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern and will unveil “groundbreaking changes to the PvP experience that will be unlike anything you’ve seen before,”...
Six Things Marvel Rivals And Overwatch 2 Can Learn From Each Other
29.1.2025
Marvel Rivals has been given a lot of shit for its unapologetic poaching of Overwatch’s ideas. From the overall format down to individual hero’s kits, NetEase copiedBlizzard’s homework and didn’t try to change it much. That being said, it’s nice that Overwatch 2 has a direct competitor to put...
As Marvel Rivals Soars, Lapsed Overwatch Fans Grieve A Game They May Not Go Back To
15.1.2025
Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s stab at a hero shooter starring Marvel’s iconic heroes, is doing exceptionally well a month after launch. It’s accumulated over 20 million players across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, and its second season starring the Fantastic Four is off to a strong start. The studio...
A Major Marvel Rivals Bug Has Some Fans Calling The Game ‘Pay To Win’
30.12.2024
The term “pay to win” is typically attributed to competitive games with microtransactions that give players an edge in battle. An example would be an item you can buy that makes your character more powerful than that of someone who didn’t cough up real money. However, some Marvel Rivals fans...
Marvels Rivals Is The Hero Shooter We Didn’t Know We Needed
22.12.2024
One of 2024’s biggest success stories has been Marvel Rivals, a third-person PVP shooter starring Marvel heroes and baddies. The game has already picked up over 20 million players and shows no signs of stopping. Which is cool but also very surprising!Read more
The Best Marvel Rivals Tips, Steam Winter Sale Deals, And More Of The Week's Most Helpful Gaming Info
22.12.2024
This week, Marvel Rivals continued to pull players in with its enjoyably chaotic take on the hero-shooter genre, and we’ve got heaps of tips to help you come to grips with the game and see what cool strats other players are using. We’ll also fill you in on everything we know about Intergalactic...
Here's One Thing Marvel Rivals Won't Copy From Overwatch 2
17.12.2024
Guangyun “Guangguang” Chen, creative director behind Marvel Rivals, says that while many players have requested a role queue system, a matchmaking option to help create balanced teams, there are currently no plans to implement one in the free-to-play character shooter.Read more
Marvel Rivals Still Doesn't Have Cross-Progression But The Devs Are Working On It
17.12.2024
On seas awash with the wreckage of lesser online multiplayer shooters, Marvel Rivals has managed to not only stay afloat but maintain some momentum following its big free-to-play launch earlier this month. However, the live-service game is still missing one very big feature: cross-progression. Read...
Stand Out From The Crowd With These Free Marvel Rivals Skins
16.12.2024
Marvel Rivals is quite a generous game. Not only are all future heroes confirmed to be free, but every battle pass can be enjoyed permanently as long as you’ve purchased them. You’ll mostly be tempted to put your money toward skins, but there are many you can acquire for free.Read more
Indiana Jones, Marvel Rivals, Secret Level, And More Of The Week's Reviews
14.12.2024
The long-anticipated Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has finally arrived, and it’s different—and better—that what we expected, really putting you in the boots of Harrison Ford’s adventurous archaeologist to become something of an Indiana Jones simulator. Read our full review for lots more...
Every Team-Up Attack In Marvel Rivals, Explained
11.12.2024
It certainly feels appropriate that a cooperative game based on superheroes and villains would let them work together to take out the opposition. Marvel Rivals takes that to heart with its Team-Ups mechanic, which allows certain character combinations to unlock stat boosts or even special...