Activision is shining some light on how it approaches skill-based matchmaking in Call of Duty multiplayer, and in a detailed blog post, the developers of the popular FPS series reveal that the sometimes-controversial practice is still used for a fairly simple reason–fewer players quit under a skill-based system than they do without it. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

The topic of skill-based matchmaking (or SBMM, as it’s often abbreviated) in Call of Duty has been a long and ongoing one, with some arguing that behind-the-scenes skill ratings that help determine who matches up with whom should be a thing of the past. Those against SBMM argue that since there are ranked playlists, those who want to be matched with…

Destiny 2 is a lot more Destiny. The structure is largely the same, as is the mechanically excellent shooting and satisfying loot grind. But there are a variety of changes both under the hood and throughout your activities that make it a significant improvement over the original and a better experience for more than just the most hardcore players.

From the onset, there’s an overwhelming amount of stuff to do. The Red War story funnels you through the four areas you can explore, introducing you to each one as you go. At each destination, there’s a bunch of optional activities to choose from, including story-like Adventure missions, simple loot dungeons called Lost Sectors that lead to hidden areas of the map, and public events and patrols, which return from Dest…

For a horror franchise with such a simple concept, the ongoing popularity of the Halloween series over so many years is quite remarkable. While slasher rivals such as Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street have been absent from screens for more than a decade, the Halloween series remains a huge commercial draw, with new generations of horror fans lapping up the gory antics of Michael Myers.

The 2018 Halloween reboot was a huge box office smash, making $255 million worldwide, and while this year’s Halloween Kills had its potential earnings reduced by COVID and a simultaneous streaming release on Peacock, it has still made $131.6 million worldwide to date, on a reported $20 million production budget.

The next movie in the series, Halloween Ends, is set for release in 2022…

Bungie has won another lawsuit, this time against cheat-seller Mihai Claudiu-Florentin, known as VeteranCheats, for selling Destiny cheats.

As reported by TheGamePost (via PCGamer), the lawsuit–which Bungie filed back in 2021–has been ruled in the developer’s favor, resulting in Claudiu-Florentin now being ordered to pay $12 million to Bungie. The Destiny developer had been seeking such a figure since February this year, which the court has granted, noting that it deemed Bungie to have provided enough evidence for its allegations of copyright infringement and breach of contract.

In terms of specifics, Bungie was looking for $11,696,000 in damages based on the DMCA breaches–asking for $2000 for each of the 5848 downloads that Claudiu-Florentin…

Somewhere within Homefront: The Revolution–beneath the choppy framerate, the hackneyed narrative, and the half-explored mechanics that are hastily introduced then forgotten just as quickly–exists a solid, cinematic shooter. All the ingredients are there. It casts players as American resistance fighters–outmanned and outgunned, but resourceful and resilient–which naturally paves the way for both novel gameplay and daring political themes. Unfortunately, Homefront doesn’t quite deliver on either one.

Its attempts to explore those political themes feel clumsy and superficial. Its mechanics embrace the scrappy nature of guerilla combat, but technical shortcomings generally force you into rudimentary run-and-gunning. The lengthy story campaign packs plenty of im…