DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: ‘Dude went from ‘what’s a horsey?’ to ‘I can see 15 moves ahead’ in 2 minutes’

Popular gaming streamer Benjamin Lupo, better known to his fans as DrLupo, has been kicked out of the PogChamps 6 online chess tournament for a “fair play violation”—in other words, he got caught cheating. Hosted by Chess.com, PogChamps—not to be confused with the PogChamp Twitch emote—is a series of amateur chess tournaments featuring well known…

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Stadium’s roadmap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon

Stadium is more than just an Overwatch 2 mode—it’s different enough that it could almost be classified as its own game, and a separate game needs a separate roadmap. The developers have planned out the next three seasons of Stadium, albeit roughly, that’ll coincide with the regular cadence of seasons. Season 17 will introduce two…

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Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read

The other day, I was frantically crouch walking around Skingrad in Oblivion Remastered, tailing the neighbors of a seriously paranoid guy named Glarthir, and thought: This is new, right? When did Oblivion get all these weird, engrossing sidequests? Didn’t I play this game a lot back in the day? Technically yes, I played Oblivion in…

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French President Emmanuel Macron gives a shout-out to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Instagram: ‘You are a shining example of French audacity and creativity’

14 years after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk presented US President Barack Obama with a copy of The Witcher 2 as an official diplomatic gift, French President Emmanuel Macron is getting in on the “recognizing the cultural value of videogames” action. No, he hasn’t added Donald Trump to his Steam friends list, but he did…

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Gaming website Polygon sheds staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet

Gaming website Polygon, which was launched by Vox Media in 2012, has been sold to Canadian publisher Valnet, owner of Game Rant, FextraLife, and TheGamer, among a number of other online entertainment, sports, and hobbyist publications. A substantial number of Polygon staff members have been laid off or quit, including site co-founder and editor-in-chief Chris…

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Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: ‘I think what they’re doing is very special’

I’ll be honest, before the release of Oblivion Remastered, I thought it and Skyblivion—the fan mod that rebuilds Oblivion in Skyrim Special Edition—were diametrically opposed. This was zero-sum game territory, surely? If one gets mega-popular it can only be to the detriment of the other. Winner takes all. Only one leaves alive. Well don’t I…

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