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Aleksib, XTQZZZ Join G2 CSGO Roster

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Aleksib, XTQZZZ Join G2 CSGO Roster

G2 esports announced the signing of Finnish in-game leader Aleksi ‘Aleksib’ Virolainnen and Remy ‘XTQZZZ’ Quoniam. ‘Aleksib’ was signed on a swap deal with OG esports, where Nemanja ‘nexa’ Isakovic will be taking his place, while Aleksi will lead G2. Coach ‘XTQZZZ’ was signed to step in the shoes of Damian ‘maLeK’ Marcel, who was released after PGL Major Stockholm 2021.

The move comes after weeks of rumors and repoCrts from Talkesport, Dexerto, and 1pv.fr regarding the transfers of the Finn and the French coach.

This was the final change for G2 esports’ CSGO team, to complete their rebuild for the 2022 season. Previously AWPer Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov was signed from NaVi Junior to take over the AWP role from Francois ‘AMANEK’ Delaunay. The in-game leading duties will fall on ‘Aleksib’s shoulders, while ‘XTQZZZ’ will be the head coach, his first foray on an International roster.

Aleksib has previously represented ENCE and OG esports in CSGO, leading the former to a Major Grand Final at IEM Katowice and a tier-one trophy in the form of BLAST Pro Series Madrid 2019. He built the OG CSGO project from scratch with Nathan ‘NBK-’ Schmitt in 2019, but the roster saw little success in terms of trophies. They did have 8 podium finishes, including 3 Grand Final appearances – at IEM New York EU  2020, Flashpoint 2, and IEM Summer 2021, but a trophy kept eluding them.

XTQZZZ meanwhile, also built the Team Vitality CSGO project and had been instrumental in their success. It was under him that prodigy Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut’s skill was showcased to the world, and he finished as the best player of 2019 in his rookie year. He also helped in the development of ‘misutaaa’, ‘Nivera’, and ‘Kyojin’ as rookies and turned them into formidable tier-1 professionals. He was released from Team Vitality following the arrival of Emil ‘Magisk’ Reif, Peter ‘dupreeh’ Rasmussen, and Danny ‘zonic’ Sorensen. 

G2 look done playing second fiddle to NaVi every time, as seen in the announcement video and will look to compete for trophies from the get-go, with a team that isn’t lacking in firepower in any way have each role finalized, be it in-game leading or AWPing. They will play their first game with the roster at BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2022, on January 28th.

With the addition of Aleksib and XTQZZZ, G2’s CSGO roster for 2022 is:

  • Audric “⁠JACKZ⁠” Jug
  • Nemanja “⁠huNter-⁠” Kovač
  • Nikola “⁠NiKo⁠” Kovač
  • Ilya “⁠m0NESY⁠” Osipov
  • Aleksi “⁠Aleksib⁠” Virolainen
  • Rémy “⁠XTQZZZ⁠” Quoniam (coach)
  • Kenny “⁠kennyS⁠” Schrub (benched)
  • François “⁠AMANEK⁠” Delaunay (benched)

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PUBG PC Hits 2 Year Player Peak After Going Free to Play

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PUBG PC Hits 2 Year Player Peak After Going Free to Play

Krafton’s Battle Royale – Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, or PUBG: Battlegrounds as it is now called, had 667,399 concurrent players playing the game after the Free to play update. According to steamcharts.com, this is the highest player count the game has seen since December 2019, when the player count was 686,239 concurrent players.

But during the rise of Coronavirus in April 2020, Chinese game services were forced offline due to a Chinese mourning day for Covid-19. Since other services were offline, players turned to PUBG PC and April 2020 saw a peak of 913k players, but that wasn’t to last as the average for April 2020 was still only 242k players on PUBG PC.

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has the record for the highest number of players ever, on Steam. In January 2018, 9 months after its release PUBG PC hit a peak of 3,236,027 players. This number is more than twice the number of players on the next most popular game on the list, that is, CSGO which hit a peak of 1,305,714 players in April 2020. 

But once the most popular PC game ever, PUBG PC hasn’t aged well over time. The game had regularly been losing players over the course of the next three years and the graphs showed a downward trajectory.

Krafton had been working regularly to improve the game, introducing new maps such as Vikendi, Paramo, and very recently, Taego to bring more players into the fold. They brought new weapons into the game, such as the Panzerfaust and the Lynx  AMR, Grenade Launchers and C4s, new vehicles, and a ton of new skins ranging from K-pop group Blackpink themes to footballer Heung-Min Son’s signature helmet.

FPS optimizations, lesser system requirements for PUBG PC, were all part of the plan as well but the Average player count failed to cross the 200k mark for over a year, and the 300k mark hadn’t been seen in 2 years.

This also led to them launching PUBG Lite for players with low-end systems, but it couldn’t hit the peak it was expected to. 

Since PUBG PC is now free on Steam, the players who had been playing the game long before were also given rewards for their loyalty. They got the free Plus+ upgrade for sticking with the game even when it wasn’t free to play. Returning players will also get 1300 G-Coin, the in-game currency that is used to buy Skins and crates and other customizable entities in the game. Players also got a new crate for their loyalty with some new skins and outfits for them to try on.


After going free to play though, the peak player count has almost doubled since last month and the average player count is expected to cross the 300k mark if it continues like this. The queue times in all regions have decreased rapidly and there are almost 0 bots in-game once you get connected. This is what PUBG PC was all about, 100 players battling to the death on an 8×8 map. So get your hands on PUBG, without spending any money and hop in the BattleGrounds. 

Nova Esports wins PMGC 2021 Grand Finals

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The long-awaited PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2021 Grand Finals concluded with Nova Esports becoming the champions. This is Nova Esports second consecutive championship title after winning in the previous season. The PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2021 was the final event of the 2021 PUBG Mobile Esports. A total of 40 teams commenced the PMGC journey out of which 16 teams made it to the grand finals.

A total of 18 matches were played between them where Nova Esports emerged as the PUBG Mobile Global Champion and took home $1.5 Million USD as a reward. Natus Vincere finished at the second spot with 175 points followed by Nigma Galaxy at the third spot with 166 points. Godlike Esports, the only contender from India finished at the 13th spot with 106 points.

PMGC 2021 Overall Standings

PMGC 2021 Prize Distribution

  1. Nova Esports- $1530000
  2. Natus Vincere- $630000
  3. Nigma Galaxy- $330000
  4. S2G Esports- $180000
  5. D’ Xavier- $120000
  6. Kaos Next Ruya- $90000
  7. Stalwart Esports- $70500
  8. Six Two Eight- $67500
  9. Alpha7 Esports- $64500
  10. The Infinity- $61500
  11. DAMWON Gaming- $60000
  12. Team Secret- $60000
  13. GodLike Esports- $57000
  14. 4Rivals- $57000
  15. Fenerbahce Esports- $51000
  16. Furious Gaming- $51000

How to make a custom match in Fortnite?

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How to make a custom match in Fortnite?

Most of the Fortnite players invite one, two, or three players in their lobby and start the matchmaking. That’s indeed the classic way of playing the battle royale game. However, there is another way to enjoy Fortnite by creating a custom match.

Keep reading this article to know how to make a custom match in Fortnite.

Fortnite is a free-to-play battle royale game developed by Epic Games. The game was released in 2017 and it’s now one of the most popular battle royale games in the world.

In a Fortnite custom match, you can invite as many players as you want to the server. However, there is a catch. Only creators can use this feature till now.

Therefore, you need a SAC (Support a creator) account and a SAC code. If you want to know the eligibility criteria for registering a SAC account, here they are:

  • Are at least 13 years old, or at least 14 years old if you are a resident of South Korea.
  • Have 1,000+ followers* on at least one of the following eligible social platforms:
    • YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or VK
  • Are capable of accepting the Creator Agreement (either on behalf of yourself, your minor child, or the legal entity that you represent)
  • Are capable of abiding by our Creator Content Guidelines
  • Are capable of receiving payment using our designated payment platform, currently Hyperwallet

How to make a custom match in Fortnite?

Once you create a SAC account and have a SAC code, you are now ready to create a custom match in Fortnite. Follow the steps mentioned below to make a custom match in Fortnite:

  • Launch Fortnite and then click on the Change button situated above the play button.
  • There you will find out the Custom Options on the right side.
  • Once you click on the Custom Options, you need to enter the matchmaking key.
  • After that click on Accept and share the matchmaking key with your friends.
  • After starting, it will show how many players are queueing with your code.

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PMGC 2021 Grand Finals Day 2: Overall Standings, Results, and more

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PMGC 2021 Grand Finals Day 2: Overall Standings, Results, and more

The second day of the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2021 grand finals completely got dominated by the Chinese squad Nova Esports. The team gained a total of 101 points on the second day making the total points count to 168. Kaos Next Ruya finished at the second spot with 123 points followed by Nigma Galaxy at the third spot with 122 points.

Natus Vincere climbed to the fourth spot with 118 total points. Whereas Godlike Esports had a normal day with 56 total points and stands at fourteenth spot in the overall standing. With one more day left in the grand finals, all teams will be looking to climb up the overall standings and win the global championship.

PMGC 2021 Overall Standings

  1. Nova Esports – 168 points
  2. Kaos Next Ruya -123 points
  3. Nigma Galaxy – 122 points
  4. Natus Vincere – 118 points
  5. D’Xavier – 105 points
  6. Alpha 7 Esports – 102 points
  7. Damwon Gaming – 91 points
  8. Six Two Eight – 90 points
  9. The Infinity – 82 points
  10. Stalwart Esports – 77 points
  11. S2G Esports – 71 points
  12. Team Secret – 68 points
  13. 4Rivals – 59 points
  14. Godlike Esports – 56 points
  15. Furious Gaming – 55 points
  16. 1907 Fererbahce Esports – 46 points

A total of 18 matches will be played in three days where the top finishing team will emerge as the PUBG Mobile Global Champion and will take home $1,530,000 USD as the reward.

PMGC 2021 Grand Finals Day 1: Overall Standings, Results, and more

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PMGC 2021 Grand Finals Day 1: Overall Standings, Results, and more

The first day of the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2021 Grand finals round ended with Kaos Next Ruya finishing at the top of the overall leaderboard. The team scored a total of 76 points. The Chinese team Nova Esports finished at the second spot with 67 points followed by Nigma Galaxy with 64 points. Out of the 6 matches played Kaos Next Ruya, Nigma Galaxy, Stalwart Esports, Alpha 7 Esports, Natus Vincere and Furious Gaming took a single chicken dinner.

PMGC 2021 Overall Standings

  1. Kaos Next Ruya – 76 points
  2. Nova Esports – 67 points
  3. Nigma Galaxy – 64 points
  4. Stalwart Esports – 59 points
  5. D’Xavier – 53 points
  6. The Infinity – 46 points
  7. Alpha 7 Esports – 44 points
  8. Natus Vincere – 42 points
  9. Damwon Gaming – 40 points
  10. Furious Gaming – 37 points
  11. Six Two Eight – 37 points
  12. Team Secret – 37 points
  13. 4Rivals – 30 points
  14. S2G Esports – 29 points
  15. 1907 Fererbahce Esports – 27 points
  16. Godlike Esports -22 points

A total of 18 matches will be played in three days where the top finishing team will emerge as the PUBG Mobile Global Champion and will take home $1,530,000 USD as the reward.

PUBG Mobile Esports 2022 roadmap revealed

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PUBG Mobile Esports 2022 roadmap revealed

James Young, the director of PUBG Mobile Global Esports revealed the plan for PUBG Mobile Esports 2022. The game has entered into its sixth year of the PUBG Mobile Esports which started back in 2018.

James Young said, “We have continued to build the pubg mobile global esports ecosystem in 2021 we studied seven new pro leagues to cover all regions globally and also started pmgc 2021 the overall ecosystem building is completed so I can say optimal esports 1.0 is done now it’s a time to move on to the next phase.”

The second phase of PUBG Mobile esports has been named “PUBG Mobile Esports 2.0” where the major focus will be to enhance the local regional layer for amateur and semi-pro to give them a solid foundation.

The major changes from the previous year format from pmco to pmpl twice per year to pmnc and regional cups to pmpl once per year and various tournaments including pmco pmcc and even major solid third-party events will have a qualifying slot for the relevant pmnc in 11 countries and regional cups in eight regions.

PUBG Mobile Esports 2022 Schedule

As PUBG Mobile Esports is selected as the official sport in both the South East Asia gate and Asian games the pro players will represent their own country. Although, the prize pool for 2022 has not been revealed by the officials but will be bigger than 2021.

Fortnite 3.43 Update Patch Notes: What’s new?

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Fortnite 3.43 Update Patch Notes: What’s new?

Recently, Epic Games launched the first major Fortnite update 19.10 of Chapter 3 Season 1. The update introduced Tilted Towers along with the big dinosaurs named Klombo. Even though Epic is good with updating Fortnite regularly, new updates come up with a few new bugs as well. The same happened with the 19.10 update.

To fix all the bugs that came up with the previous 19.10 update, Epic has launched the 3.43 update. You should definitely update to the latest version as it is carrying major bug fixes.

The latest Fortnite 3.43 update is now available on PS4, PS5, Android, and Xbox consoles. Let’s check out what’s new in the update.

What’s new in Fortnite 3.43 update?

First of all, there is nothing new in terms of content in the Fortnite 3.43 update. According to Fortnite, this update is just a maintenance patch.

Players were facing stability issues after updating to the previous 19.10 update. This update fixes all those issues and removes all the lag.

Moreover, the color-blind settings issue has also been fixed with the 3.43 update. While the issue was already resolved on PC, the new update patches the bug with this update.

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Maden Signs for ENCE’s CSGO Roster

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Maden Signs for ENCE’s CSGO Roster

Finnish organsiation, ENCE, announced the signing of Professional CSGO Player Pavle “⁠Maden⁠” Bošković via twitter today. The Montegengrian had been on the bench ever since Chinese organisation Funplus Phoenix decided to end their CSGO operations back in November. He was part of the original GODSENT roster that FPX acquired.

Despite the team not qualifying for the Major or having any podium finishes, ‘Maden’ had performed well throughout and this has been taken note of by ENCE as they added him to finalize their CSGO roster. 

ENCE sported a fully Finnish roster until 2020, which also consisted of the IEM Katowice Major runner ups – allu, xSeven, Sergei and Aerial. xSeven was acquired by HAVU Gaming and left the team as Elias “Jamppi” Olkkonen became part of the main roster. Middling results and motivation problems for the members saw them leave one by one, starting with Aerial, sergej and then sunNy. They signed ‘doto’ to be part of the main squad. 

In 2021, ENCE went international, after ‘Jamppi’ decided to move to Valorant and was acquired by Team Liquid.  ENCE completed the signing of Danish IGL ‘Snappi’ and Israel rifler ‘Sphinx’ from c0ntact Gaming. ‘Dycha’ was also signed from Sprout to round out the roster, which meant ‘allu’ was the only remaining member from the Major run. 

After ‘allu’ benched himself in the middle of 2021, ENCE signed polish AWPer ‘hades’ as ‘doto’ was the only Finn on the roster.

2021 was somewhat successful for ENCE as they were #7 in the world at one point. Despite having no RMR points from the previous year, they went into the final RMR event, IEM Fall, and made it all the way to the final to take home enough points to go to the Major. At the PGL Stockholm Major, ENCE qualified for the Legends stage with ease but couldn’t do anything once qualified. They went out with a 0-3 whimper and that was the end of the road. The trend continued at the end of the year for them as well and they sit at #17 for now.

Come 2022, ‘doto’ was benched and ‘Maden’ was signed. Maden had been on FPX’s bench and many teams had their eyes on him, for his explosive entry fragging. He had already stood in for the team once at IEM Winter 2021, in place of Snappi. 

ENCE coach Eetu “⁠sAw⁠” Saha said “We are very excited to bring Maden into the team! We already had a brief encounter with him at IEM Winter and he left a good first impression, Maden is a social and easy-going guy who gets along well with the team. Also, he brings in a lot of firepower and aggression, which can help elevate our play for the upcoming season,” 

“Rolewise, there will be some changes to make Maden comfortable and make the team function better.”

ENCE’s CSGO roster after Maden’s addition stands as:

  • Marco “⁠Snappi⁠” Pfeiffer
  • Olek “⁠hades⁠” Miskiewicz
  • Paweł “⁠dycha⁠” Dycha
  • Lotan “⁠Spinx⁠” Giladi
  • Pavle “⁠Maden⁠” Bošković
  • Eetu “⁠sAw⁠” Saha (coach)

New CSGO Updates Brings Dreams and Nightmares Case

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New CSGO Updates Brings Dreams and Nightmares Case

Valve shipped a new update for CSGO this morning, announcing the release of the Dreams and Nightmares case. The Dreams and Nightmares case consists of skins made by users from around the world, which were entered into a contest and then chosen by Valve. There are a total of 17 new skins in the case, two of Covert rarity, 3 classified, 5 Restricted, and 7 Military Spec rarity. 

The contest was announced back in July 2021, with a prize pool of $1 Million USD and was originally supposed to have 10 skins. Each winning creator would get $100,000 USD if their skins were selected and put into the case.

The winners of Dreams and Nightmares contest were announced in November 2021, and Valve revealed that a total of 17 Skins had been selected from over 15,000 entries. That increased the prize pool of Dreams and Nightmares Case to $1.7 Million USD, with each winner getting $100,000 for their skin, regardless of the rarity. This was done as a way to increase community engagement and bring new users and creators to the game.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES CASE SKINS

Dreams and Nightmares case has 17 skins in total, 2 of Covert rarity, 3 classified, 5 Restricted, and 7 Military Spec rarity. The case also contains Knives with Gamma finishes as special items, same as the Operation Riptide Case knives.

More about the new update can be found here in the release notes. Dreams and Nightmares Case is now available in CSGO from in-game drops and from Steam Community Market.

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