After the massive 3.0 patch that laid a huge impact on the existent Valorant meta was introduced two weeks ago, it seems like Riot Games has decided to take things slow in the following patch 3.01 that has hit the live servers on July 7th. The newly introduced Valorant patch 3.01 aims to fix several annoying bugs that have been haunting the player base since the launch of Episode 3.
We're catching our breath with Patch 3.01. Mostly bug fixes here, including a few for Account Leveling and Agent abilities. Read them here: https://t.co/d8jHiNWnCk
For starters, the Account Leveling issue that caused many players to get lower Account levels than intended has been fixed. Affected players’ levels should now be corrected and the Account Points (AP) they gained while playing on the incorrect levels will be carried over.
Some of the Agent fixes implemented through this update include the bug that allowed Skye to activate the flash of Guiding Light while suppressed and KAY/O’s ability to heal while downed in NULL/CMD. Also, Sage can no longer place Barrier Orb on some projectiles while they’re mid-air.
Other than that, a nasty bug that allowed players to abuse text chat colors to impersonate system messages has also been fixed.
Players can take a look at the detailed patch notes on the official website here.
Krafton recently announced its first-ever Battlegrounds Mobile India tournament which will kickstart the esports ecosystem once again in India. This event is called as BGMI Launch Party and a total of 18 teams will be participating in this event. Here is a complete list of all the teams and players playing in this tournament.
The players participating in this tournament include several famous content creators and professional players who have made a name for themselves in the PUBG Mobile India community. They are coming together once again to restart the competition in a new game, Battlegrounds Mobile India.
This event will be held over the weekend and players will be fighting for a prize pool of ₹6,00,000. This will be the first event and many others are expected to follow very soon. The list of teams and their players is as follows:
Team Mortal
Mortal
Scout
Regaltos
Mavi
Viper
Team Jonathan
Jonathan
Neyo
Clutchgod
Zgod
TopDawg
Team Ghatak
Ghatak
Sensei
Immortal
Punky
Clowny
Team Sangwan
Sangwan
Iconic
Dark
Blaezi
Fierce
Team Dynamo
Dynamo
Hrishav
Paradox
Danger
Team Antaryami
Antaryami
Pro
Munna
Capio
Notibe
Team Shreeman Legend
Shreeman
Tiger
DivineOP
Devil
Team Godnixon
Godnixon
Prince
Spraygod
Aladin
Sarang
Team Maxtern
Maxtern
Don
Ghxtly
Paavkild
Pain
Team Clash Universe
Clash Universe
Vexe
Gill
Destro
Aditya
Team Ronak
Ronak
Saumraj
Gamlaboy
Pukar
Shifter
Team Guru
Guru
Roach
Ferocity
DoomeOP
Goblin
Team Bandookbaaz
Bandookbaaz
Gorgeous 2.0
Soldrush
Toxicsingh
Epual
Team Classified YT
ClassifiedYT
MrCyberSquad
BadshahYT
ChabraYT
VickyYT
Team Kronten
Kronten
Smxkie
KikiOP
Rayed
Spower
Team IND
Snax
Daljitsk
Kratos
Attanki
Team K18
K18
Akshu
Akshat
Omega
DeltaPG
Team Alpha
Alpha
Wrath
Cyrus
Nucleya
These are the teams and players participating in BGMI Launch Party event. The list was not officially released but the teams were added on Liquipedia. There are many professional players participating in this event and one of the most anticipated roster of Mortal or Team Soul will also be officially taking part in this tournament.
Sony has announced a 30-minute showcase featuring indie and third-party titles. Arkane Studios’ Deathloop will be the main focus of this broadcast where we’ll get to see “a nine-minute look at Deathloop’s time-twisted world as part of a new State of Play” and that “we’ll see Colt use his abilities to stealthily skulk across rooftops… or go in guns blazing to create a whole lot of mayhem.”
A new State of Play arrives this Thursday. Tune in for a Deathloop gameplay deep dive, plus lots of updates on indies and exciting third-party games. https://t.co/oCn4suuAuupic.twitter.com/KCP0WfHGYX
Deathloop is set to release on September 14, 2021, on PC and exclusively on PlayStation 5 although the developers behind Deathloop, Arkane Studios, are now a part of the Xbox family.
Sony has explicitly stated that this State of Play “will not include updates on the next God of War, Horizon Forbidden West or the next generation of PlayStation VR.” and players should expect more updates in the foreseeable future.
State of Play will stream at 2PM Pacific / 5PM Eastern / 11PM CEST, on PlayStation’s official YouTube and Twitch channels.
A group of gamers has recreated an exact replica model of the Taj Mahal in Minecraft in a 1:1 ratio. The team has achieved this feat without actually visiting the monument and they worked on this project with references taken from the internet. This impressive model was built in three months.
Taj Mahal is one of the Seven Wonders of the world and a well-known piece of history and Indian culture. This Taj Mahal model belongs to a bigger project undertaken by some Minecraft players from around the world. This project is called “Build the Earth” and its goal is to replicate the entire world in Minecraft. Several teams from around the world actively work on this project to build remarkable objects in the game.
One of the important aspects of this project is that they have a mission of building the replica to a 1:1 scale. This means that actual measurements of any object are used to build a model. This project was pioneered by PippenFTS and his mods who created a YouTube video that kickstarted this project. The team uses Dymaxion projection to keep distortion low and preserve the scale of the objects.
The Taj Mahal model was built in a period of three months and its references were taken from Maps and Google Earth. Data that is available on the internet was used to acquire the dimensions and build this project. None of the members from this team have actually visited the site, according to the Fossbyte report.
Minecraft players can participate in this project and help the team build different structures by visiting their website. The enrollment is open-for-all and players can simply pick an area and start building. This is certainly a grand project and an important monument from India has been covered by the team in its early stages.
A new update has been shipped to the competitive shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and it seems to contain a bunch of quality of life changes for the players to enjoy.
For starters, Valve has added an option to set presets for competitive matchmaking. Moving forward, players will be able to save and load their favorite map selections based on what they want to play. Furthermore, players will also be able to queue for Premier matchmaking alongside other competitive maps.
As a new measure to curb the number of cheaters in the title, a link to the CSGO Fair Play Guidelines has been added on official servers. This may potentially imply that the devs are planning to take more drastic measures to counter cheaters, but nothing has been confirmed yet.
Other than that, the new update also introduced some stability improvements and fixed a nasty wall bang bug that some players were experiencing on Inferno.
You can read the detailed patch notes on the official CSGO blog here.
MATCHMAKING
Premier matchmaking can now be selected together with other competitive maps.
Added competitive matchmaking presets and the ability to save/load favorite map selections.
Added a link to CSGO Fair Play Guidelines when playing on official game servers.
MISC
Bullet penetration check will ignore the firing player model entirely.
Fixed bot difficulty selector to correctly apply for offline with bots War Games matches.
Krafton has announced its first tournament to inaugurate the launch of their latest title Battlegrounds Mobile India in the country. This event is called Battlegrounds Mobile India Launch Party and will feature star content creators which glorified PUBG Mobile with their unique gameplay before it was banned. This will be the first ever event for BGMI in India.
Battlegrounds Mobile India is a new game launched by Krafton in an effort to fill the void left by the ban of PUBG Mobile in India. The player base soon shifted to this new game and everybody adapted to Battlegrounds Mobile India. Famous content creators have already started to stream this new game and their fans will get to see their favourite players back in competitive matchmaking in this Launch Party Event.
Battlegrounds Mobile India Launch Party will feature famous content creators from the PUBG Mobile community who will battle out for two days in order to entertain their fans and win a huge chunk of ₹6,00,000 prize pool. This event is an invite-only tournament where a total of eighteen teams will fight over the weekend.
The developers have released a list of content creators who will be participating in this inaugural event. Their names are as follows:
Dynamo
Kronten
Mortal
Gaming Guru
Classified YT
Antaryami
K18
Alpha Clasher
Snax
Sangwan
GodNixon
Ghatak
Ronak
Shreeman Legend
Jonathan
Maxtern
Bandookbaaz
Clash Universe
Each and every name on this list is an accomplished content creator who has diversified their content by delving into various aspects of PUBG Mobile. They have shifted to Battlegrounds Mobile India now and we will see them in action on 8th and 9th July. This tournament will kickstart the competitive BGMI ecosystem in India and more such events can be expected in the future.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s first offline event is finally upon us, and along it brings tons of emotions, esports spirit, and a prize pool of whopping $1 million.
Professional players return to their home turf: LAN after 491 days, which marks IEM Cologne 2021 as one of the historical tournaments for CSGO. The event will go live without a live audience, but players will enjoy all the perks of an offline game, including stable ping.
While IEM Cologne is generally a reputed event, it’s easily one of the most exciting tournaments in history this year, specifically. LAN was put on pause after the global outbreak of COVID-19, and now that the world has started to heal, the games have started to go back to normal as well. CSGO fans are pumped about watching their favourite players battle it out for the lion’s share of $1 million that will be distributed among the winners.
Welcome to the proving grounds. #IEM Cologne 📆 July 6-18
If you’ve been out of touch with CSGO events like a lot of people in 2021, this guide will help you catch up with everything you need to know about IEM Cologne 2021.
IEM Cologne 2021 format explained
IEM Cologne features 24 CS:GO teams taking part in three phases of play-in, group stage, and play-offs. Fans can watch the battle live from the Cathedral of Counter-Strike for the first time since COVID-19. The fight for the trophy begins on July 6 and will run till July 18.
All matches will occur in a best of three (BO3) fashion, except BO1 of opening matches and BO5 in Grand Final. Teams will lock horns at the play-ins in a double-elimination bracket with best-of-one matches at the opening round. Eight teams that make it unscathed out of the opening matches will enter group stage. Here they’ll will join six teams from Europe and two from North America.
This set of 16 will be divided into two groups, hence leading to group stage. A double elimination bracket, and best of three matches will see the winners book a direct slot in the semi-finals. Losers will get a second chance at the quarterfinals. The series will near its end with Playoffs, and ultimately the Grand finals on July 18th.
Eight teams have qualified directly for the Group Stage through ESL Pro Tour standings, which award eight spots in the IEM Cologne group stage, while 16 teams will compete in the Play-in Stage.
Many of the players who lifted this trophy in years past will be competing once again in #IEM Cologne – and one team will add their name to this incredible lineup on July 18th. 🏆 pic.twitter.com/ZyNXGAHlqO
Here are the eight teams qualified for group stage:
Gambit Esports
Natus Vincere
Heroic
Virtus Pro
Astralis
G2 Esports
FURIA Esports
Team Liquid
IEM Cologne 2021 Prize pool
The teams will battle it out in the ballroom of Hyatt Regency hotel in Cologne for 1$ million with $400,000, 1,800 ESL Points, and 3,200 BLAST Points going to the first winner. The runner up will grab $180,000, 1,400 ESL Points, and 1,600 BLAST Points. Rest of the participants will also be recieving a huge chunk of prize pool and ESL points.
How to watch ESL One Cologne 2021?
ESL One Cologne 2021 won’t have a live audience, but fans can enjoy the matches live from their homes on ESL’s Twitch and YouTube Channel. The VODs and clips will be uploaded on the channel if you fail to catch them live.
FIFA is one of the biggest AAA titles of EA. Moreover, the FIFA franchise is getting more popular year by year. Even though the ongoing COVID Pandemic is the biggest challenge of EA Sports, apparently, the release date of FIFA 22 isn’t that far.
FIFA 22 UK Pre-Order Guide
All the editions of FIFA 22 will be released globally in September 2021. However, you can pre-order FIFA 22 from 11th July in the UK. Let’s check out the pre-order pricing and features of all the FIFA 22 editions.
Standard Edition
FIFA 22 Standard Edition possible pricing: £54.99 | €54.99 | $59.99
Pre-order features:
Up to 3 Rare Gold Packs (75,000 coins value, 1 per week for 3 weeks)
FUT Cover Star Loan Item (For 5 FUT matches)
FUT Ambassador Player Pick (Pick from 1 of 3 items for 3 FUT matches)
Special Edition FUT Kits and Stadium Items
Champions Edition
FIFA 22 Champions Edition possible pricing: £74.99 | €74.99 | $79.99
Pre-order features:
3 Days Early Access
Up to 12 Rare Gold Packs (300,000 coins value, 1 per week for 12 weeks)
FUT Cover Star Loan Item (For 5 FUT matches)
Career Mode Homegrown Talent (Local Youth Prospect with World Class Potential)
FUT Ambassador Player Pick (Pick from 1 of 3 items for 3 FUT matches)
Special Edition FUT Kits and Stadium Items
Ultimate Edition
FIFA 22 Ultimate Edition possible pricing: £84.99 | €84.99 | $99.99
Pre-order features:
3 Days Early Access
Up to 24 Rare Gold Packs (600,000 coins value, 2 per week for 12 weeks)
FUT Cover Star Loan Item (For 5 FUT matches)
Career Mode Homegrown Talent (Local Youth Prospect with World Class Potential)
FUT Ambassador Player Pick (Pick from 1 of 3 items for 3 FUT matches)
In a rather most controversial thing coming from China, Tencent, its global internet giant has revealed a new installation. The new feature is apparently to curb overplaying kids and teenagers by the use of a facial recognition system.
The program, called Midnight Patrol, will be in place from 10 PM to 8 AM to deduct kids, posing as adults.
“We will conduct a face screening for accounts registered with real names and that have played for a certain period of time at night, “Anyone who refuses or fails the face verification will be treated as a minor, and as outlined in the anti-addiction supervision of Tencent’s game health system, and kicked offline, said Tencent (via SixthTone).
The program will go live this Tuesday, where the data, linked to the public security system will scrape the people playing games online. Anyone found not in allegiance to this regulation will be immediately kicked out of the game.
Tencent will initially deploy the screening layer for over 60 popular games, including Honors of Kings & Game for Peace.
“Facial recognition is a welcome sign because real-name verifications cannot keep kids out of the games,” said Chen Lina, an accounting executive.
WeChat though is full of criticism from the Chinese gaming community, who are raising concerns on the growing limitations on internet users.
Fortnite will be introducing the 17 time NBA all-star, LeBron James, in the next Icon series skin in the upcoming updates, according to the leaks. ShiinaBR and HYPEX, two of the most trusted Fortnite data miners, recently said that James will be joining Fortnite.
LeBron James skin is coming next update!
– Earn rewards by completing King's Bling quests – Items become more gold as you complete quests! Unlock a custom goldness slider when all quests are complete! https://t.co/HV3M0byBXD
This will also enable the players to earn rewards by completing quests which will also include items that ‘become more gold’ as the players complete their quests. Lebron James will be starring in Space Jam: A New Legacy, which will be coming to the theatres and HBO Max on 16 July. This means that the skin is likely joining the game to help promote the film.
This is not the first time that the fans are seeing a Crossover in Fortnite, the game has already included superstars like:- Travis Scott, Marshmello, Major Lazer, Ninja, TheGrefg, LazarBeam, and Lachlan. Fortnite has already covered all 30 teams in the NBA and has released their outfits in the in-game store earlier this year.
Lebron James’ son, Bronny James is an upcoming NCAA basketball prospect and also has a strong connection to the Gaming industry. He has already signed a contract with FaZe Clan last summer under the moniker FaZe Bronny.
