Since the start of summer, arcane Bilgewater shipped updates have included improved AFK detection and the ability to report or mute disruptive players during champ select. These changes have resulted in more penalties and less repeat offenders with League of Legends players feeling their actions are making a noticeable difference. After these successes, Riot is planning further updates for affected teammates such as early surrendering and reducing LP loss in ranked games. While there are still rare issues like players being flagged for actually doing poorly or returning to ranked after several years and being placed in smurf queue, continued work should fix things in the next few months along with further improveme

The lone DCEU movie coming out in 2021 is James Gunn's The Suicide Squad . Gunn's take on Task Force X has been described as neither a sequel to the 2016 Suicide Squad or a reboot. The R-rated film will be something of both, it appears, as it includes familiar and new characters. Returning characters include Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), and Amanda Waller (Viola Davis). Some of the new faces that appear in The Suicide Squad are Bloodsport (Idris Elba) and Peacemaker (John Cena). The Suicide Squad is coming out in theaters and on HBO Max on August 6, 2

The first movie on Marvel Studios' 2021 schedule is Black Widow . Scarlett Johansson's long-awaited solo MCU film is slated to be released in theaters on May 7, 2021. It was supposed to launch Phase 4 in May 2020, but Marvel delayed the movie multiple times due to the status of the theater industry. Since Natasha Romanoff died in Avengers: Endgame , her movie will be a prequel that continues her story after Captain America: Civil War . Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) , Red Guardian (Kumail Nanjiani), Iron Maiden (Rachel Weisz), and Taskmaster will all be introduced in Black Wid

Chief can neutralize the Ult by tossing a couple of plasma grenades at it, and as far as Maokai is concerned, Chief can take him down with a flamethrower and a few incendiary grenades because his entire body is made up of very flammable roots and branc

I recently had a chance to speak with Max Grossman, senior game designer on Valorant, about helping ease people into the game. From creating Agents like Killjoy who are beginner-friendly to making sure everyone is on equal footing, Riot is committed to making Valorant as fair as it is bone-crushingly diffic

With so much superhero content on the way, Hollywood studios stake out release dates for the highly-anticipated titles years in advance. However, that doesn't mean that everything always goes according to plans. 2021 was at one time going to include many films that no longer are coming out this year. Matt Reeves' The Batman starring Robert Pattinson was pushed to 2022 following extensive production delays from COVID-19. The same is true for Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam was scheduled for a December 2021 release too, but it lost that release date in late 2

Marvel Studios' third movie in 2021 will be Eternals . The new MCU franchise follows a group of superhumans known as Eternals who were created by the powerful cosmic entities known as Celestials. Marvel assembled a talented ensemble to play the relatively obscure comic characters in Phase 4. Richard Madden and Gemma Chan play the lead roles of Ikaris and Sersi. The rest of the cast includes Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, Angelina Jolie, Barry Keoghan, and Kit Harington. Eternals is directed by Chloe Zhao and comes out on November 5, 2

He can also rapidly spin his body like a top and summon a giant blade that can execute his enemy. Unfortunately, Garen is an ordinary human-which means that bullets and grenades will eventually take him down, and if it comes down to a battle of blades, Chief can use an energy sword to slice through Garen's sword and armor with e

** Max Grossman: ** There are two components to this. One being Sentinels aren't solely for newer players. However, two of our three Sentinels do appeal to new players, those being Sage and Killjoy. Cypher, not so much. He's a more cerebral, information-gathering character. Tough to use effectively. But I think there's a reasonable observation around the fact that Sentinels tend to appeal to people that don't feel as confident in their tactical-shooter skills. Because at the very least, they know they can set up their stuff (ice walls, traps), get a gun, and stay the

** Max Grossman: ** I think "frees us" is too strongly stated. But it gives us a healthy release valve because everybody at the very least has the same guns. With everyone having that shared primary mechanic of "hey, you all have guns, you all move the same," there are many shared behaviors. It gives us a lot of leeway with how our abilities can work. We never want that to be the case in Valorant. We believe in much more soft-counters when it comes to balancing different Age