Elden Ring’s most famous player immortalized in fan-made mod

Over the last week, the Elden Ring community has been entranced by Let Me Solo Her, a player whose skill at the tough-as-nails game is matched only by their fashion sense. The legend of LMSH was born when a Reddit user recently shared their experience …

‘Battlefield 2042’ will finally get in-game voice chat on Tuesday

DICE and Electronic Arts will roll out a major Battlefield 2042 patch on Tuesday, which will bring an important, long-awaited feature to the beleaguered first-person shooter: in-game voice chat.

The VoIP feature won’t work across an entire team, however. The only channel options are for parties and squads (which can have a maximum of four members). Given that teams can have up to 64 players, voice chat could get messy fast with that many people talking over each other. A proximity-based option might have been helpful for callouts, though.

While Battlefield 2042 players can use party chat features built-into their console or third-party services such as Discord, they haven’t been able to speak with teammates they don’t know until now. For a game like this, that’s a heck of an omission. It’s good to see DICE and EA finally correcting course.

Elsewhere, the 4.0 patch will overhaul weapon attachments to make many of them more distinct. It should be clearer to understand how switching to a different one will affect your weapon. Doing so might mean you’ll have slower aim-down-sights speed or more magnification for a scope. In addition, players will see the updated scoreboard on end-of-round screens.

DICE listed many other changes in the patch notes, including progression tweaks, map alterations, bug fixes and modifications to some specialist abilities. The patch will go live at 3AM ET tomorrow.

Looking ahead, the next patch is scheduled to arrive in May. DICE said it will fix more bugs and introduce other quality of life changes. Battlefield 2042‘s delayed season one, meanwhile, is expected to start this summer.

Major League Baseball will stream 15 games on YouTube this season

Like an ambitious butcher trying to cleave a dollar of meat out of a 10-cent steak, Major League Baseball announced on Thursday that it is carving out a bit more of its television broadcast rights, renewing its four-season-old deal for the “MLB Game of the Week Live on YouTube” with the Alphabet property. But unlike other recently struck deals, these streaming exclusives will be free to watch and without local blackout restrictions.

Beginning with the Rockies-Nats game on May 5th (first pitch 3:10 ET), YouTube will once again be home to more than a dozen MLB games throughout the 2022 season. Broadcasters Scott Braun and Yonder Alonso return to call the play-by-play. The full lineup is as follows:

  • Washington Nationals at Colorado Rockies — Thursday, May 5 at 3:10 ET

  • Milwaukee Brewers at Cincinnati Reds — Wednesday, May 11 at 12:35 ET

  • Arizona Diamondbacks at Chicago Cubs — Friday, May 20 at 2:20 ET

  • Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins — Wednesday, May 25 at 1:10 ET

  • Kansas City Royals at Cleveland Guardians — Wednesday, June 1 at 1:10 ET

  • Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals — Wednesday, June 8 at 2:10 ET

  • Minnesota Twins at Seattle Mariners — Wednesday, June 15 at 4:10 ET

YouTubeTV subscribers will be able to find these games on the service’s dedicated Game of the Week channel while everybody else will see them on the MLB YouTube page. Fans will be able to interact with the broadcasts either via the live chat, “featuring game commentary from MLB superfan YouTube creators,” as well as in-game polls and, for subscribers, access to real-time game stats.  

The 2022 MLB season is riddled with exclusive broadcast deals. Beyond the standard local blackout rules, 18 Sunday games will be only available with a $10-a-month Peacock subscription, AppleTV+ ($6 a month) gets the Friday Doubleheaders, and ESPN has dibs on Sunday Night Baseball. There’s also MLB.TV which has rights to everything but is far more expensive than its alternatives, at least until the All-Star break.   

Alexa devices now support TuneIn Premium radio streaming

TuneIn is bringing its paid service to Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. You’ll be able to access TuneIn Premium content such as live sports from any Alexa smart speaker or display.

You’ll be able to listen to MLB, NHL and college sports games featuring your favorite team simply by saying “Alexa, listen to sports.” TuneIn Premium also offers more than 600 commercial-free radio stations, and you won’t hear pre-roll ads for the tens of thousands of other radio stations on the platform. Additionally, you’ll be able to listen to ad-free news.

TuneIn Premium typically costs $10 per month. However, Amazon and TuneIn are offering new members a three-month trial. Existing TuneIn Premium members can connect their accounts to Alexa to help them get the most out of their subscription. Alexa has supported TuneIn’s regular service for years, so having access to the Premium service is a welcome upgrade.