Author: Racquel Keyes

Racquel Keyes is an artist, cosplayer and an animal lover, with a passion for everything nerdy. Racquel was born and raised in the sunny land of Southern California. You can usually find Racquel at home gaming, or creating a new fun makeup look. Racquel is a bubbly metalhead nerd with constantly changing hair colors.

Are you tired of Overwatch news yet? I am certainly not! Overwatch has announced it’s second new hero for 2018 and it’s a… hamster?! It was speculated we would be getting a new monkey, but it wasn’t quite as expected. Wrecking Ball is his name and he has a fancy mech. This spherical mech is suited with a pair of huge machine guns. And guess what?! If you are a PC gamer, this furry guy is available to play on Overwatch PTR, June 28, 2018. This heroes role is a TANK and his real name is Hammond. This news will…

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The time has finally come and I am not ready for it(cries internally). Patch 1.25.0.1 is live and there is some big changes, 800+ mbs of change(Xbox One). The biggest is the total Symmetra rework, which completely reworks this hero. I am pretty brokenhearted with this(Symmetra is one of my mains), and it will take awhile to adjust and feel okay with this. It was a needed thing and I feel its a good change for the character, even if it hurts. Along with the Symmetra rework, there is some new social features added to the game and some other…

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Exciting news has been reported for the new Lord of the Rings TV adaption! The first season will be about a young Aragorn (unlike what The War of the Ring previously rumored). Amazon Studios has also announced, they have committed to five seasons and each season will focus around a different character from there series. This series will develop from Tolkien’s appendices and notes versus the novel. This series production has a undetermined time to start within the next two years. Cue sad music. Peter Jackson, director of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”, has killed the rumors…

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We got some nerfs, buffs and reworks being introduced to those who use PTR on the PC. To those of us who play don’t play on PTR, we will see them in the near future. So get ready! Hanzo will finally be getting his dreaded Scatter Arrow ability reworked, and it will be now called Storm Arrow. This ability will allow Hanzo to rapidly shoot 6 arrows at a reduced damage from the Scatter Arrow(from 100 down to 85). He will also be getting a new Lunge, which allows him to jump in the air horizontally, thus increasing mobility. On top of…

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After the long awaited anticipation the dates are finally here for Blizzcon! If you’re like me, you have been waiting for the news, eagerly, for tickets are to be sold to this wondrous event and if you are lucky you might actually score a ticket. This con sells out so fast you better have a couple computers on stand-by! The first batch of tickets will be sold Wednesday, May 9, at 7 p.m. PDT. The second batch will released Saturday, May 12, at 10 a.m. PDT. The dates of this years Blizzcon will be Nov 2nd-3rd and will be returning…

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Xbox Austrailia has a fun new promotion for the release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which involves a real “supply drop”! If you live in Austrailia make sure you go to Facebook and go to ANZ Xbox, so you can like and bookmark it. Saturday, December 9th, Xbox will announce on this Facebook page where these crates will be dropped, along with the password to access them. Make sure you remember that password and say it to Xbox staffer so you can get that crate! Microsoft will be doing three drops in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with one crate being dropped in…

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Disney has been searching for about a year now for their Mulan, but the search is finally over! Liu Yifei, a popular Chinese actress, model and singer in China, was announced Wednesday by Disney to be playing the Disney princess Mulan. Liu is also known as Crystal Yifei and starred in Forbidden Kingdom along side of Jackie Chan. The upcoming Mulan film is set to be a live action film to be released in 2019. The story is about a young woman who takes her fathers place in the army by impersonating a man. This film is to be based off…

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(Epic intro music begins to play in the background) It’s the moment that we have all be waiting for since the last Hobbit movie, well at least I have been waiting for! Amazon has officially announced it’s purchased the television rights of Lord of the Rings (I have been dancing around all day because of this). Amazon is said to have spent $250 million to to this. This will be a Amazon Prime original series, only streaming on their own service. “Sharon and the team at Amazon Studios have exceptional ideas to bring to the screen previously unexplored stories bases…

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Once a year, Blizzard brings together all the gamers and enthusiasts among their community with Blizzcon. Once again, this year Blizzcon was held at Anaheim Convention Center. Even with its newest expansions to the convention center it was still packed, with over 30,000 people attending this convention. For me, this was my first year attending and definitely not my last.  The community is much different then from the other conventions I have been to, everyone was so warm and welcoming. People coming from all over the world to hear about the big announcements to the games they love and…

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