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Pans are now the ultimate shields in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

By Darryn Bonthuys
April 21, 2017
in :  Gaming
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Death comes quickly in Battlegrounds, but thanks to a recent update players can now avoid the grim reaper with some cast-iron cookware. See, frying pans are commonplace items that most players ignore in favour of hogging other stuff in their ivnentory. It’s not hard to see why, as frying pans don’t boast the same talent for damage that a machete can provide. What these pans can do however, is stop a bullet.

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The EvoPoints Downloads of the Week – 21 April, 2017

By Nick De Bruyne
April 21, 2017
in :  Gaming, Sponsored Content
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Welcome back to our weekly post of featured downloadable content available for different gaming platforms sponsored by www.evopoints.co.za. Here's this week’s list of fresh downloadable games and content.

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First all-woman esports scholarship started in the USA

By Alessandro Barbosa
April 21, 2017
in :  Gaming
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Stephen's College has become the first all-woman educational institution to offer scholarships for esports. And Overwatch is partly to thank.

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Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Tangled Up in Blue Review

By Darryn Bonthuys
April 21, 2017
in :  Gaming
1

Telltale’s first stab at the Guardians of the Galaxy may have colourful visuals, a rock-solid voice cast and an even more rocking soundtrack to frame the game around, but poor pacing and hesitating to boldly go where other games have gone before hold it back from being as lovable as its cult classic cinematic source material.

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Ranked Dota 2 matchmaking will no longer be available in South Africa

By Geoffrey Tim
April 21, 2017
in :  Features, Gaming
19

Some big Dota 2 matchmaking changes mean that South Africans will no longer have local ranked matchmaking.

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Star Wars Battlefront II Deluxe Content can be unlocked through normal play

By Alessandro Barbosa
April 21, 2017
in :  Gaming
5

Star Wars Battlefront II is introducing changes to classes, weapons and DLC. But it's still not adding all of the features some older fans might want.

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Brainiac attacks in the latest trailer for Injustice 2

By Darryn Bonthuys
April 21, 2017
in :  Gaming
0

An alien intellect that makes Stephen Hawking look about as smart as me, Brainiac lives up to his name and then some. He’s also the primary antagonist in Injustice 2, the catalyst that turns the more dickish Man of Steel and Batman away from the path of frenemies and back towards being the world’s finest tag team again. Here’s the 12th level intellect trailer for it.

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Overwatch is changing how wins work in competitive play

By Alessandro Barbosa
April 20, 2017
in :  Gaming
1

Blizzard is shaking up how wins are calculated in competitive play again. And it seems to be heading in the right direction.

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