After more than two decades of being absent from the ring, Brazilian superstar Marco Rodrigues finally returns as a playable fighter in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.  Revealed after the King of Fighters XV finals at Evo Japan 2024, Marco Rodrigues will return in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves when it launches in early 2025. This will be his first playable appearance since the original Mark of the Wolves in 1999, known as Khushnood Butt in the English version’s launch at the time—and the KoF community is already celebrating the return of the Brazilian Beast to the lineup.  ..read more

Manor Lords, Steam’s most wish-listed game until its launch on April 26, has already crossed a major player milestone after just one day in the store, but publisher Hooded Horse has advised players there’s no rush to purchase the game if money is tight and has promised frequent discounts. Hooded Horse chief executive Tim Bender thanked everyone who supported the game through its long period of alpha testing in a Steam post celebrating the game’s Early Access launch. He claimed that Manor Lords began as a single-dev project and slowly grew to 3.2 million Steam wishlists, saying that players sh ..read more

Fortnite players have mixed opinions about the newly added Avatar-themed Mythic items, but one crafty player showcased just how powerful these items can be after combining them with Dirt Bikes to gain an advantage in the matches.  The Fortnite player shared the combo in a clip posted to the game’s subreddit on April 27 where they united the powers of the Earthbending Mythic item, the Dirt Bike, and their immaculate aim to decimate Fortnite lobbies. The player drives the vehicle toward the general direction of an enemy and then uses the Rock Wall ability to get an “instant ..read more

Valve is apparently upping its crackdown on cheating in CS2, as the company has issued 12 times more VAC bans today than the average. The community, starved for any information on an updated anti-cheat, is now hopeful that Valve’s latest and greatest ban wave is slowly coming to fruition. Several big Reddit threads have cropped up today, April 27, regarding the uptick in issued VAC bans, which are sitting at 12 times the average at the time of writing. Though not many in raw numbers (around 130 people were VAC banned today), that’s a lot, considering only around 10 or fewer get the hammer eac ..read more

Following their loss to Falcons in ESL One Birmingham’s lower bracket quarterfinals, Team Liquid captain Neta “33” Shapira reflected on their tournament exit and overall performance, acknowledging that on the day, Falcons “were the better team,” but confessing he’s “pretty disappointed in ESL.”   Team Liquid’s first match of the day against Heroic saw them progress to the quarterfinal with a 2:1 win. In his exclusive interview with Dot Esports, Neta explained that the team felt prepared for their game, with a plan for their draft and accurate expectations of their opponents. In anal ..read more

VALORANT superstar Jaccob “Yay” Whiteaker has been embroiled in plenty of controversies since his swap over to Bleed Esports in the Pacific League, but now, his past might be catching up to him as well. Retired pro Amgalan “Genghsta” Nemekhbayar has levied some major accusations against yay in a recent slew of social media posts, stating that the 25-year-old had allegedly bribed their coach to bench him during their time with Disguised’s Challenger roster in 2023 ..read more

Several Counter-Strike 2 pros praised the return of the iconic Dust 2 to the active map pool in the April 25 update. The map hasn’t received any rework, however, and they now want to see one crucial change that can impact the outcome in many rounds. Valve removed Dust 2 from the Active Duty map pool in November 2022, and after the sequel’s launch, it was available only as a casual map until the April 25 update. Many CS legends like s1mple, ZywOo, and NiKo praised the map’s return in place of Overpass, thanking devs on X (formerly Twitter). While dev1ce loved the change, he also expressed conc ..read more

Counter-Strike 2 recently had its first significant update since the Copenhagen Major, adding cl_righthand 0 and bringing Dust 2 back to the map pool. However, it seems Valve is also quietly preparing for the return of Retakes: Dataminers have shown numerous files regarding the missing mode, indicating it’s nearly ready for launch. Well-known CS2 leaker ThourCS2 shared his findings on Saturday, April 27, claiming that there have been lots of Retake-related files added to the game with its last update. Retake versions of all the maps can be clearly found, as well as numerous lines of code. “Th ..read more

Stellar Blade is out and receiving (wait for it) stellar reviews from players and critics alike. Though many are focused on Eve’s (the protagonist’s) physical looks, there is one feature that particularly caught players’ eyes—the hair animation. Several Reddit threads have cropped up since Stellar Blade came out, focusing on Eve’s hair and the way it is animated. An April 24 thread praised Eve’s hair as being the real X-rated part of Stellar Blade and included a video of her moving and jumping around and the hair flowing accordingly. It floats around and falls on Eve’s model fantastically, th ..read more

The free-to-play platform fighter MultiVersus has added two crucial abilities on April 25 as the game inches ever closer to launch. Parrying and Dash Attack are now available to every existing character, with the goal of enhancing the game’s combat quality and adding “fun dimensions” to the game. Black Adam takes care of Superman in MultiVersus. Image via Image via Player First Games The new mobility-based ability in MultiVersus is Dash Attack, which helps close the distance between you and your opponent. After starting your running animation, you can strike your opponent with ..read more