The Biggest Gaming News For April 9, 2022
Welcome to the weekend. You’ve probably been playing Elden Ring all day, so I can’t blame you for having gotten behind on everything going on in the world of gaming, but what I can do is bring you back up to speed. That’s what these roundups are for after all. Today, we found out that you can finally play the Boss Rush mode in Metroid Dread, xQc and Pokimane are going to be collaborating on a podcast, and gaming companies have now raised almost $200 million in support of Ukraine. These are just our top stories and so read on for the rest.
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Players in Elden Ring have been finding creative solutions to deal with rune farmers. In case you haven’t heard, rune farming is basically when a player sits in some hard-to-reach part of the map and then lets other players invade them, sitting back and relaxing until the invader dies trying to reach them. The result is a pile of runes. The farmer is usually AFK. Whether it's blowing them up with cannons or frying them with area of effect attacks, players have been posting their favorite ways of punishing rune farmers on Reddit.
Companies in the games industry have been coming forward in support of Ukraine for several weeks. Whether it’s Japanese studios like The Pokemon Company and Bandai Namco or American developers like EA and Epic, there has been a huge turnout in terms of fundraising. This was hard to quantify in the past, but we can finally put a figure on how much money has been donated. Gaming companies have apparently raised almost $200 million for humanitarian causes related to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The popular streamer and content creator xQc is apparently going to be
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