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FormaL explains the reasons behind the demise of OpTic Gaming's CoD dynasty

Call of Duty pro Matthew ‘FormaL’ Piper has revealed the reasons behind his split from OpTic Gaming, and the eventual demise of the team labeled as a “dynasty.” [ad name=”article1″] Following years of dominance, the OpTic roster consisting of FormaL, Seth ‘Scump’ Abner, Ian ‘Crimsix’ Porter and Damon ‘Karma’ Barlow failed to meet the high standards set by themselves and the Greenwall alike in WWII, eventually leading to a massive split. So where did it all go wrong?

How to catch Fortnite Season 4's Midas Flopper fish

Epic Games have added new an ultra rare Midas Flopper fish in Fortnite Season 4, Chapter 2, and it’s probably the most valuable item you can find in-game. Here, we look at where to catch them and what they do.  Much like theMythic Goldfish added at the beginning of Chapter 2, the new Midas Flopper is almost impossible to catch in the battle royale game. It has such a low spawn rate, meaning your chance of actually coming across one are super minimal.

All Warzone Pacific Caldera locations in real life: Capital, Terminal, Peak & more

The new Warzone Pacific Caldera map is heavily inspired by real-life locations from around the world, and that played a part in World War II. Here are the real places that inspired Warzone’s new POIs, including Capital and Terminal. Warzone’s original Verdansk map was heavily inspired by real locations. From regions of Donetsk, Ukraine, to the building that starred as Nakatomi Plaza in the first Die Hard movie, there were plenty of winks to actual places.

PewDiePie responds as MrBeast is set to overtake his YouTube subscriber record

PewDiePie might be the single most-subscribed content creator on YouTube, but MrBeast isn’t far behind — and the gap is closing day by day. In 2019, Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg broke YouTube records by reaching 100 million subscribers — the most that any independent creator on the platform had ever achieved. This event came about due to his famed subscriber war with Indian entertainment label T-Series, who eventually passed him in numbers to garner a current amount of 206 million subs.

Luminosity Fortnite streamer Destroy under fire for sexist comments

Many in the Fortnite Battle Royale community have been calling for Luminosity Gaming streamer Alex ‘Destroy’ Benabe to be punished by Twitch and possibly released by the organization for making sexist remarks live on his channel. Controversy has struck the Fortnite community once again, this time surrounding Twitch partner Destroy, who is on Luminosity’s long roster of content creators and pro players. Late in the evening on December 29, clips surfaced on Twitter of Destroy making sexist comments while playing wager matches against a female Twitch streamer ‘Demisxxual.

Riot nerfing flashes in Valorant Episode 3 starting with Breach & Skye

With five Agents wielding flashes in Valorant, it can be a bit over the top. Riot are looking at bringing a bit more balance to utility in Episode 3, starting with some nerfs to Breach and Skye to rein their power in. Getting flashed is never a good feeling in Valorant, although it’s becoming more part of the parcel of playing Riot’s tactical FPS. With so many flashes and blinds ⁠— whether it be Phoenix’s curveballs or Omen’s paranoia ⁠— there’s quite a lot of vision denial you have to deal with.

Super Mario 64 streamer pops off with new world record despite massive mistake

A Japanese Super Mario 64 speedrunner had an emotional breakdown on Twitch after he clutched out the new 120 Star world record despite making a huge mistake that cost him a bunch of time. Twitch streamer Batora shocked himself and the world on Friday, April 9 when he reclaimed the world record for beating Super Mario 64 with 120 Stars, The record, which is considered one of the most prestigious in all of speedrunning, was previously held by Allan ‘Cheese’ Alvarez who completed the game in 1h 38m 25s.

Asmongold explains why he’s finally been “forced” into joining GTA RP

Twitch star Asmongold is finally going to give GTA RP a whirl on-stream despite not being the biggest fan of the multiplayer mod at first. At the start of 2021, GTA RP made a massive return to the forefront of Twitch following the 3.0 update to the popular NoPixel server. Many big variety streamers jumped in during the initial wave of hype, but moved on to something else fairly quickly.

“Scary” Animal Crossing New Horizons villager glitch is ruining paradise

Animal Crossing players are calling for Nintendo to fix a “scary” villager glitch which is leaving them with empty plots after adopting unwanted villagers, before the bug completely spoils New Horizons’ paradise. The highly-anticipated Animal Crossing sequel released on March 20. Considering it’s been almost seven years since the franchise’s last main entry, players have ⁠— very understandably ⁠— been grinding the game pretty hard. For the most part, everything’s gone swimmingly for the mega-release ⁠— until now.

King Kenny claims FaZe Clan tried to buy Beta Squad in FaZe Temperrr face-off

In their pre-fight face-to-face, Beta Squad’s King Kenny claimed that FaZe Clan tried to buy the massively popular UK YouTube collective — though Temperrr denied any knowledge of it. The Showstar UK vs USA boxing event on March 5 is bringing together some of the top creators and influencers from either side of the Atlantic, with fighters going head-to-head not only for themselves but to represent their country. The co-main event sees King Kenny face off against FaZe Clan founder and owner Thomas ‘Temperrr’ Oliveira and, on March 2, just days before the fight, they faced off for the first time ahead of the bout.