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What are the VALORANT Agents’ real names?

Bharat Kotwani
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What are the VALORANT Agents’ real names?

Riot’s VALORANT has been a resounding success ever since its launch in early 2020 with the first-person tactical shooter constantly scaling new heights, be it weapon cosmetic or meta wise including map changes, agent buffs and nerfs followed by a plethora of additional content being promoted by the game developers.

The VALORANT Episode 4 Act 2 did reveal a series of data highlighting new lore around its roster of Agents most importantly, their IRL names. As we all know, Agents in VALORANT are called on the basis of their call signs but somewhere there’s a mysterious person who has been ratting out agents and their real names in a bid to expose their royal protocol inside the game.

A set of documents rumored as the “dossiers” have been added to the main server as a part of the Patch 4.04, which have been updated in the Public Beta Environment, revealing the names of several agents which can be located across locations over the five playable maps.

VALORANT Agents’ real names:

  • Sage – Ling Ying Wei (located on Icebox)
  • Brimstone – Liam Byrne (located on Ascent)
  • Viper – Sabine Callas (located on Bind)
  • Raze – Tayane Alves (located on Breeze)
  • Omen – name unknown; can assume he does not have one (located on Split)
  • Chamber – Vincent Fabron (located on Fracture)
  • Neon – Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez (located on Icebox)
  • Sova – Sasha Novikov (located on Ascent)
  • Cypher – Amir El Amari (located on Bind)
  • Breach – Erik Torsten (located on Fracture)
  • Killjoy – Klara Böhringer (located on Haven)
  • Skye – Kirra Foster (located on Breeze)Jett – Sunwoo Han (to be located)
  • Yoru – Ryo Kiritani (to be located)
  • Jamie Adeyami – Phoenix (to be located)
  • Reyna – Zyanya Mondragon (to be located)
  • Efia Danso – Astra (to be located)
  • KAY/O – An unnamed Artificial Intelligence robot with an interpretation (“Kill all your agents”). (to be located)

All Teams Qualified for PGL Antwerp CSGO Major

Mohd Laraib
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All Teams Qualified for PGL Antwerp CSGO Major

CSGO Majors are back on the menu and the fans couldn’t be more excited. After getting a breathtaking CSGO Major in the form of PGL Stockholm 2021, which broke all viewership records, Valve went back to their policy of 2 CSGO Majors a year. The first of these will be PGL Antwerp Major which will kick off from 9th May 2022 and run until 22nd May 2022.

Much like the last CSGO Major, there will be 24 teams in attendance at PGL Antwerp. 

8 teams will qualify as Legends, 8 as Challengers and 8 as Contenders. Based on the results from the previous CSGO Major – PGL Stockholm, the slot distribution in the different stages is as follows:

  • LEGENDS – 7 Europe & 1 Americas
  • CHALLENGERS – 6 Europe & 2 Americas
  • CONTENDERS – 3 Europe, 3 Americas & 2 Asia-Pacific

As per the format, a limited number of teams will be invited to the RMR tournaments while the rest will have to qualify through open qualifiers.

The prize pool of PGL Antwerp is back to $1 million, after being $2 million for PGL Stockholm 2021. Stockholm had a bigger prize pool as CSGO Majors were returning after more than 2 years. The winner of PGL Antwerp will take home $500,000 in prize money.

PGL is also responsible for hosting the RMR events for PGL Antwerp,on LAN. Regional Major Rankings or RMR events are the only way possible now, for teams to qualify for the next Major. There are no direct invites for any of the teams to the Major and even the defending champions Natus Vincere will need to qualify through the RMR.

The first stage of the RMR kicked off on Monday with PGL Antwerp Major Americas RMR taking place first. There are 6 spots up for grabs for the Americas, for which 16 teams will be locking horns. The top 6 will confirm their spot at the Major while the remaining ones will be knocked out. 

Because of only 1 North American team making it to the Champions Stage of the previous Major (FURIA), Americas will have only 1 Legends spot. There will be 2 challenger and 3 contender spots for the Antwerp CSGO Major.

As things stand, FURIA and MIBR have already booked their spot at PGL Antwerp after going 3-0 on the first 2 days. The two Brazilian teams will compete against each other for one final time to determine which of them will be going to PGL Antwerp as Legends, as only the team placing 1st at the PGL Antwerp Americas RMR has a legends spot.

There are 4 more spots up for grabs which will be determined in the next 2 days.

TEAMS QUALIFIED FOR PGL ANTWERP MAJOR

AMERICAS

  • FURIA
  • MIBR
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD

EUROPE

  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD

ASIA PACIFIC

  • TBD
  • TBD

PGL Antwerp Major Asia Pacific RMR will take place on 15-16th April 2022 with 4 teams competing for the 2 contender spots.

Since Europe has 16 spots at the Major, there will be 2 RMS for the European side of things, termed as Europe RMR  A and B.

EUROPE A RMR:  Top 4 – Legend Status, Places 5-6 – Challengers and Places 7-8 – Contenders.

EUROPE B RMR: Top 3 teams will get Legend Status, 4-7 as Challengers and 8th place will get Contender status. Rest will be eliminated.

CSGO Instant Bomb Exploding Cheat Makes a Return to Matchmaking

Mohd Laraib
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CSGO Instant Bomb Exploding Cheat Makes a Return to Matchmaking

CSGO is no stranger to new cheats, hacks and other exploits. The hit and miss nature of the  Valve anti-cheat – VAC is one of the few drawbacks of this game, which is otherwise a joy to play for the most part. CSGO wallhacks, aimbots and triggerbots are now quite common, especially in high rank matchmaking. Other niche hacks may include anti aim or fake lag cheats.

A new type of cheat, which hadn’t been seen for quite some time has resurfaced again. If this is a new cheat or just the return of an old exploit, is still unknown since not a lot of users faced this. One reddit user, u/pinhorox did experience this exploit, which left them baffled as to what this was.

Never experienced this before. Is this new?
by u/pinhorox in GlobalOffensive

The clip was posted to reddit, and users quickly responded saying this was an old exploit that was seen years ago but had gone missing in recent times. So what is the instant bomb exploding cheat?

CSGO INSTANT BOMB EXPLOSION

In a competitive CSGO match, or even casual and demolition modes for that matter – the main objective is to plant the bomb on one of the two sites A or B. The terrorists must plant the bomb and let it detonate, while the CTs will try to defuse the bomb. 

Once the bomb is planted, there are 40 seconds on the bomb timer until it detonates. In this new exploit, once the bomb is planted, it explodes immediately, killing everyone around it and winning the round for the T side. 

This gives the T side a hugely unfair advantage, as the CTs arent given a chance to defuse the bomb and all the Ts have to do is plant the C4. This goes against the very essence of CSGO and must be addressed immediately.

Supposedly, this existed in 2017 too and was patched by Valve, but an official announcement about this instance is still awaited. We may see this issue being addressed in the next CSGO update, but nothing is certain as Valve may take their sweet time in fixing this.

Riot Games bans LGD Jay indefinitely for match fixing

Prateek Jain
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Riot Games bans LGD Jay indefinitely for match fixing

Riot Games has indefinitely banned LGD Gaming’s mid laner Chen “Jay” Bo from all League of Legends competitions including the ongoing LPL, for involvement in match fixing in the Chinese league.

The ban comes after the allegations surfaced online following some leaked screenshots of chat between Jay and an unknown party. The screenshots show texts about Jay being asked to throw a match against Top Esports in order to fix bets. The texts also showed a clear effort to negotiate financial compensation by Jay for intentionally losing a fight around the Rift Herald.

Since the screenshots surfaced online, both ​​LGD and Riot Games stepped in to investigate and suspended Jay until the investigation was over.

After the allegations were found to be true, Jay was handed an indefinite ban from playing on any Riot Games associated events or league.

This essentially means a death sentence to Jay’s professional career in League Of Legends, as almost every big payout event or league is associated with Riot Games.

The ban comes mere days after the leaked text messages surfaced and LGD announced it had launched an internal investigation into Jay’s actions.

The news of the ban was first shared via LPL’s Weibo channel, which also stated that Jay’s ban is applied not only to competing professionally in League of Legends, but also includes being able to stream League Of Legends.

This essentially stops him from generating any form of revenue from the game publicly via streaming or competing.

Riot Games takes allegations of match-fixing very seriously given the massive value of its esports leagues, and Jay was clearly in violation of Riot’s competitive integrity requirements.

FURIA, MIBR First Teams to Qualify for PGL Antwerp CSGO Major

Pranav Nalawade
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FURIA, MIBR First Teams to Qualify for PGL Antwerp CSGO Major

Brazilian CSGO showed up with a bang at the first RMR event for PGL Antwerp – the Americas RMR with MIBR and then FURIA confirming their presence at PGL Antwerp. FURIA defeated Complexity 2-0, after winning their first two games yesterday vs Leviatan and Isurus. MIBR meanwhile defeated Imperial’s Last Dance roster 2-1, after winning their games vs paiN and 9z yesterday.

FURIA will mark their presence at their 4th consecutive Major after IEM Katowice 2019, StarLadder Berlin 2019, PGL Stockholm 2021. MIBR will make it to a CSGO Major after a gap of two years and one Major as they missed the Stockholm Major last year, after Sharks qualified from the South American region over them.

With 2 spots confirmed already for the Major, the bottom two teams were eliminated from the event. The first of them being  Bad News Bears, who were making their debut with this roster on LAN, with Pakistani CSGO Pros Momo and Pluto. They lost all 3 of their games and were eliminated, alongside Argentinian side Leviatan who went  0-3 too.

There are 12 teams remaining that are still in contention, half of them with 2-1 records and the other with 1-2 records. The next set of matches will all be Bo3s as they will either be qualifying matches or elimination matches, and in the Swiss format, all other games except qualifying and elimination games are Best of 1s.

4 of the 6 teams with a 2-1 record are from North America and will battle it out over the next 2 days. The full list:

  • Team Liquid
  • Evil Geniuses
  • Complexity Gaming
  • Party Astronauts
  • Imperial (Last Dance)
  • Sao Caetano

Teams with 1-2 record will play their elimination matches tomorrow:

  • 9z
  • Isurus
  • 00Nation
  • Case
  • paiN
  • TeamOne

BGMI YouTuber Paras Official provides proof; asks for justice

Divyesh Moghe
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BGMI YouTuber Paras Official provides proof; asks for justice

Paras Official, an influential BGMI content creator, was recently assaulted in his own house as seven to eight men barged in and thrashed him. He had named a fellow YouTuber called “Daku” as the perpetrator but the alleged culprit had shrugged off these claims. Paras has uploaded yet another video in the support of his claims highlighting some proofs to make his case.

Paras has received severe injuries on his face and hands as his nose and one arm is broken. This incident took place a few days ago when some men beat Paras in his own residence. After the incident, Paras claimed that a YouTuber named Daku was harassing him and was behind such horrific incident.

After his video went viral on the internet, Daku stated that he is not related to these attacks in any way and he stands behind Paras to help him seek justice. The entire banter started when Paras opened up about people using carding to gain popularity rating in BGMI and Daku was one of them.

In the new video, Paras explained his story once again and then went ahead to mention the exact timeline in which attacks take place. The call history of his phone was shared and one can see multiple calls from abroad numbers.

Paras said that he only picked one call and talked with Daku for six minutes. He goes ahead to share some WhatsApp chats in which he has mentioned that Daku was threatening him on 8th April, prior to these attacks.

According to Paras, the police force is investigating this issue and after the press coverage, he has received some help. He has asked for justice in this video and stands firm on his allegations that Daku is behind the entire incident.

Where to find Jetpack in Fortnite?

Aritra Patra
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Where to find Jetpack in Fortnite?

The Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2 is back with jetpacks and you are probably wondering where to find and fly with them. We’ve got your back! Keep reading this article till the end and you will get to know everything about Jetpacks in Fortnite.

There are already a ton of transport methods available in Fortnite, however, the jetpack looks the coolest in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2.

Now let’s check out where you can find Jetpcaks in Fortnite:

Where to find Jetpack in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2?

The primary way to get a jetpack is to find it inside an IO Blimp and search near the walls. You may find out a jetpack hanging on the wall.

Visit the locations mentioned below to find IO Blimps along with Jetpacks:

  • Command Cavern
  • Tilted Towers
  • Coney Crossroads
  • Rocky Reels
  • Condo Canyon

Apart from that, you can also buy jetpacks from NPCs around the map.

How to fly with a Jetpack in Fortnite?

Once you’ve obtained a Jetpack, all you have to do is hit the jump button, then press it again and hold it. The Jetpack will keep you floating in the air as long as you hold the button — but only for as long as it has juice!

Jetpack does not require you to be currently equipped to utilize it, which means you may swap between weapons and continue assaulting opponents even floating in the air.

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Hiko announces retirement from competitive Valorant

Sonu Banerjee
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Hiko announces retirement from competitive Valorant

100 Thieves have announced that Spencer “Hiko” Martin has retired from competitive Valorant.

Hiko will now be transitioning to a  full-time content creation role within 100 Thieves, the organization announced.

“Hiko has been a monumental piece to our VALORANT program,” 100 Thieves CEO Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag said in the announcement.

It goes without saying that Hiko is one of the most popular Valorant streamers and content creators out there, with over 1.7 million followers on Twitch and almost 400k followers on YouTube. He was a part of the 100 Thieves roster that landed a third-place finish at VCT Masters Berlin in September 2021.

100 Thieves Currently Have:

  • Ethan “Ethan” Arnold
  • Sean “bang” Bezerra
  • Peter “Asuna” Mazuryk
  • Daniel “ddk” Kapadia (Manager)
  • Sean “seangares” Gares (Head coach)
  • Michael “Mikes” Hockom (Assistant coach)

Legends of Runeterra 3.5.0 Patch Notes: Bug Fixes and more

Divyesh Moghe
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Legends of Runeterra 3.5.0 Patch Notes: Bug Fixes and more

Legends of Runeterra is a popular card game developed by Riot Games that is based on the characters from League of Legends. The next update called patch 3.5.0 will be releasing tomorrow and here are the patch notes.

This patch is used to tackle bug fixes & various quality of life improvements. The developers have mentioned that the next patch 3.6 will be Champion Adjustments patch, where quality of life improvements would be made to a variety of champions. The most significant changes would be made to Udyr, LeBlanc, and Garen cards.

Here are the changes that will be seen in the Legends of Runeterra patch 3.5.0:

Miscellaneous

  • Updated the visuals for earning & selecting various rewards in The Path of Champions.

Bug Fixes

  • Added missing Prismatic versions of Desert Duel, Celestial Wonder, and Rocket Barrage.
  • Fixed an issue where The Final Stage board wasn’t playing BGM.
  • Fixed an issue where some voice lines weren’t playing when using certain Champion Skins.
  • Fixed an issue where some Boards weren’t properly reacting to Nexus damage.
  • Fixed an issue with foil effects missing from several cards in the Beyond the Bandlewood set.
  • Fixed a crash when canceling the Attach for Yuumi level 2.
  • Fixed an occasional crash when attempting to reconnect to the server.
  • Fixed an issue where Pantheon level 2 would sometimes get double keywords after being silenced in a previous round.
  • Fixed a bug where units with the Predict ability wouldn’t be discounted when recalled with Transposition.
  • Fixed a bug where Prank’s SFX and VFX would play simultaneously when hovering over Oracle’s Eye.
  • Fixed several UI, UX, templating, and general visual bugs to improve overall game clarity and player experience.

As mentioned above, the biggest change with this patch will be a ton of bug fixes and players can enjoy a smoother and much stable game with the patch 3.5.0 of Legends of Runeterra.

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How to Add Cody Rhodes in WWE 2K22

Bharat Kotwani
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How to Add Cody Rhodes in WWE 2K22

Cody Rhodes is back with the professional World Wrestling Entertainment company after a long 6-years hiatus from the same.

Upon his return he faced off Seth Rollin at WrestleMania 38 earlier on Saturday where he emerged victorious in the official as he was dubbed as the “mystery opponent” who would take on Rollin. The former AEW executive vice president was selected by WWE chairman Vince McMahon as Rollin was unable to secure a match on the show’s card.

Now that the “American Nightmare” has returned to haunt the current WrestleMania iteration, the game “WWE 2K22” would now feature Cody Rhodes as the playable character, now made available from the Creation suite to the players. Cody last featured in WWE 2K17 after which he decided to hang up his career in the WWE citing unsatisfactory business within his role then.

Here’s how to add Cody Rhodes in your WWE 2K22 game :

You can now add Cody Rhodes to your WWE 2K22 database using the Online Community Creation Suite.

With the help of the creation suite in the WWE 2K22 title, players are now able to create and customize their own WWE Superstars, arenas, titles and a whole lot of other stuff.

You can easily download any superstars right from the creation center to feature them in your exhibition matches and other game modes.

Not just Cody Rhodes is back in WWE 2K22, a variety of attire have also been added alongside the playable character which was later confirmed by Twitter user BHANGRA22MAN whose tweet makes everything look on point including Cody’s current attire + his old Stardust version.

Before you head on to the Creations suite, make sure you have set the Community Creations to ON which is available on the Online Menu from the Online options. Online options should already be ON by default, but, if it isn’t, you can enable it by highlighting the same. You may also require a 2K account if not set up.

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