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Tencent announces multiple anime-based mobile games

Mobile gamers who also love to watch anime are in for a treat as Tencent Games has announced three new mobile games at a conference today. These games will come under different genres and will represent the actual characters and storyline of famous anime like One Piece and One Punch Man.

Daniel Ahmed, Senior Analyst at Nico Partners has revealed this information. He tweeted about three new games that are under development by multiple studios under Tencent Games. Starting with the One Piece title, it is temporarily called as Project: Fighter. As the name suggests, it is going to be a fighting game.

One Piece is a popular anime title with a vast storyline. It currently has more than 980 episodes and is still airing weekly. Tencent has got the approval of Bandai Namko and hence, this game will have as many original characters as possible. A short trailer was also released and it highlights initial arcs of the anime as storyline.

Players can enjoy their the main characters from Straw Hat Pirates and face against enemy Marines and other enemies from the first few seasons. This game is currently promised for China but a global release could be announced on the later stages.

Two more titles were announced in this conference. One of them will be based on One Punch Man and its original plot will be possibly incorporated in-game as well. This game will be ‘turn-based’ and further information has not been revealed yet.

The last title will be based on classic cartoon of Digimon. It will a RPG game and is named as “Digimon: New Century” and it is being developed by Qixia Interactive with Bandai Namko as partners. All of these games are only releasing in China for now.

It is very interesting to see Tencent working on multiple mobile titles at once and all of them are based on anime in one way or another. No release date have been announced yet but more information will be revealed on a later date.

Global Esports CEO’s Porsche Destroyed By Mumbai’s Cyclone

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Dr. Rushindra Sinha, the CEO of Global Esports had an unprecedented loss due to the cyclonic weather that is haunting Mumbai for the last few hours. Dr Sinha posted an image of his battered Porsche on Instagram, which has been destroyed because of the rainstorm.

The western coast of India is bracing for a heavy storm as Cyclone Tauktae is making its way to Gujarat coast. This storm has caused an absurd amount of downpour in Mumbai and the gusty winds are causing destruction to life and property in the city. This “extremely severe cyclonic storm” will hit Gujarat on the evening of 17th May.

The wind speed has caused heavy rainfall in Mumbai city and this is the reason of substantial amount of losses for many. CEO of Global Esports was one of those unlucky few who had to face losses due to this cyclone. His beloved red Porsche is crushed from the front side.

Dr. Sinha uploaded a photo of the incident and captioned it with “Cyclone Tauktae claims another victim” while referring to his car. He also added that no one was destroyed in this accident and a full video regarding this incident will be uploaded on his YouTube channel.

This Porsche has been an integral part for Dr. Sinha and boasts the logo and information of Global Esports. The images show that the front side of car has been dismantled. The hood and bumper have sustained maximum damage from the front and sides as well.

Cyclone Tauktae is certainly very destructive and we urge our readers to stay indoors until the weather becomes better.

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Top 5 Valorant Skins of 2021

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From the Elderflame collection to the recent BlastX series, Valorant players have seen their fair share of gorgeous weapon skins in 2021. Unlike most other competitive shooter titles, Valorant weapon skins are equipped with a bunch of audio-visual effects alongside some special kill animations that make them unique.

While pointing out the best Valorant skins from the plethora of cosmetics available for purchase in-game can certainly be tough, we have managed to list what we think, are the top 5 Valorant skins of 2021.

Here are the top 5 Valorant Skins of 2021:

5) Prime Vandal

Prime Vandal

Released alongside the official launch of Valorant on June 2nd, the Prime collection is undoubtedly one of the best skin collections currently available for purchase in-game. Equipped with futuristic bullet sounds, a unique reload animation, and an iconic kill animation, Prime Vandal is certainly the best Vandal skin in-game.

4) Singularity Phantom

Singularity Phantom

The looks and overall designs of the Singularity Phantom were enough to land it on this list of top 5 Valorant skins. Add with that one of the best kill animations in the game, and Singularity Phantom should be a no-brainer for anyone looking to purchase a Phantom skin.

3) Reaver Sheriff

Reaver Sheriff

Alongside the popular rifles, many players also prefer to own a weapon skin for the Sheriff due to its ability to finish off armored opponents with a single headshot. The Reaver collection was initially introduced during the closed beta and was taken off the store shortly afterward.

It was revamped and re-introduced to the in-game store last month. The color schemes, sharp edges, sound effects, and the kill animation were enough for the Reaver Sheriff to make it to this list.

2) Elderflame Operator

Elderflame Operator

To this date, the Elderflame collection remains the priciest skin collection to be released in Valorant. Coming at a pocket pinch of a whopping $100, Riot made sure to compensate for the heavy price tag with some amazing effects for each skin. The reload animation of the Elderflame collection is also considered to be the best in the game by many Valorant players. From the equip animation to a gorgeous finisher, there’s nothing about the Elderflame Operator that’ll fail to dazzle you.

1) Winter Wunderland Melee

Winter Wunderland Melee

While the customizable Winter Wunderland Melee Candy Cane is a neat skin in itself. It has attained the #1 spot in the list for a different reason. Shortly after the Winter Wunderland collection was released, it was found by the Valorant player base that the melee Candy Cane could be ‘broken’ into a knife in-game. This unique feature could be triggered by repeatedly hitting the walls in-game till the cane transformed into a knife.

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COD Warzone bans 500K cheaters

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Raven Software, developer of COD Warzone shared on Twitter that in the latest ban wave over 30,000 “malicious accounts” were banned bringing the total number of the banned accounts to over 500,000 since its launch last year. 

On Twitter, Raven Software wrote:

Banned over 30,000 malicious accounts across Call of Duty yesterday… bringing us to over half a million accounts banned in #Warzone

It’s not a secret from COD players and fans that Warzone has a big cheater problem plaguing the game. Since its launch last year, Raven Software has banned a multitude of cheaters across various ban waves and continues to do so even now. While the developers are constantly updating the anti-cheat software and measures, the cheat providers and cheaters are getting increasingly harder to detect. Just last year in October, Activision had announced that over 200,000 cheaters were banned following an anti-cheat update that detected the infamous “EngineOwning” cheats and in February 2021, the number of banned cheaters reached 300,000. 

Now, in less than 3 months’ time over 200,000 accounts have received banhammer. This puts the total number of banned accounts (across all platforms) to over 500,000. Earlier this year, Raven had announced that they are committed to keeping Warzone “clean” and cheater-free.

Raven plans to tackle the cheating problem include issuing bans seven days a week, tackling the commercial market of cheat providers and resellers, and stopping cheaters from moving to alternate accounts. Aside from anti-cheat measures, Raven is also working to fix exploits in Warzone, including a map exploit in Verdansk ’84, one that had a Mini Gun spawning from Supply Boxes, and one that allowed players to use the Gas Mask indefinitely.

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VAC detects a popular CSGO cheat, various users banned in the aftermath

Update: On May 17, TalkEsport reported about a popular CS:GO cheat (RatPoison) that was detected by the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) after it was allegedly countered by two new modules, shipped in the form of updates into the game.

Hours after the article was made live, a user of this popular cheat reached out to the author on Twitter and provided him with proof that cited the whole above situation to be a result from a false alarm. TalkEsport then chose to further investigate the matter and hence deduced, the reddit post which was earlier posted by u/AlphaSlashDash was ruled to be “fake” by the cheat developers and the redditor himself.

Our author established a contact with the team of developers of this popular hack from whom he learned that this entire situation was just a gimmick within their community and the Redditor who posted the entire extract in the first place was earlier banned from their Discord. 


Over the years, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has witnessed an exponential rise in the number of cheaters and their impending wrath. The game since then has been through a rough patch when it comes to fair play. Ultimately it’s the VACnet that comes into play when it comes to eliminating these kinds by either convicting them while in-game or from the Overwatch cases.

More recently, Valve shipped a couple of updates, which were proven to be highly effective for the existing Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC).

Among these updates was a patch, sized 240 MB and it was packed with 2 new Modules, eventually busting an “unnamed popular free CSGO Cheat ” out there on the internet.

This was first reported by a Redditor u/AlphaSlashDash. As mentioned, the cheat’s name wasn’t disclosed by him but provided the community with quite an elaboration on the recent incident.

According to AlphaSlashDash, the cheat was one among the best free ones out there and was used by a plethora of players for legit cheating (where one would just pretend to play fair).

The recent updates to the game were indeed a nightmare for this unnamed cheat’s developers as VAC hammered it down to free its community from getting doomed.

His post on Reddit further assisted us to know more about these two new modules which were inculcated through the updates into the game  :

Module 1: Consists of a Process Memory handle listener which would flag all calls to ReadProcessMemory/WriteProcessMemory

Module 2: This was referred to as an integrity check which will utilize a variety of assorted hashing algorithms implemented in C++. It would further run a full S&I check on the currently running game platform, be it Half life 2, CSGO or Source.

Below is the image attached, a screenshot from a subreddit where the latter’s and cheat’s name have been blurred out. 

Most surprisingly, the hackers who lost their accounts in this ban wave saw their alternate accounts get banned as well. This was too brought under light by AlphaSlashDash where he mentioned that Steam might track down your other accounts from the directory structure on your PC. 

According to some anonymous sources from the community, this unnamed cheat allegedly goes by the name “RatPoison” and its developers haven’t yet surfaced with an official statement as of now.

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NiP accused of forcing Anonymo into a CSGO rematch

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Flashpoint Season 3 RMR event has incurred tons of hate for their decision to hold a rematch between Anonymo and Ninjas in Pyjamas, after the latter reported connectivity issues.

According to the official statement from Anonymo, the organizer of Flashpoint i.e. FACEIT under pressure from NiP has forced them into the decision of a rematch.

Following the conclusion of the match, the Polish squad was pressurized at a business level.

Anonymo was willing to postpone the game after NiP reported packet loss issues through the entirety of the first two maps and remained through the course of the third one though few reports were made.

Faceit tried altering servers from various locations but none of them seemed to fix the issue. According to the rulebook handed out to both teams before the commencement of the tournament, the server was moved to the default since either teams couldn’t agree on a location.

“We are under the impression that FACEIT is being pressured by NiP on a business level,” read their official statement “We are very emotional about the situation — we know that something like that would not happen in any other sport and esports tournament. We wanted to do everything in the competitive spirit of fair play. NiP does not seem to care about that at all.”

Statements From Flashpoint and NiP

Following Anonymo’s statement, Flashpoint and NiP have put out one of their own. Flashpoint claimed that the connectivity issues were real and NiP provided sufficient evidence to back their claims before acknowledging the issue that persisted from their end. According to the statement, “some security settings on the server” had “partially blocked” NiP’s traffic leading to lag and packet loss.

In the same statement, Flashpoint announced the rematch with NiP willing to offer Anonymo to play a complete BO3 or just the final map.

Swedish organization Ninjas in Pyjamas has strictly denied any claims of pressurizing FACEIT at a business level and has called their statement “Shockingly misleading.” before accusing them of “Fueling a massive frenzy of speculation among esports professionals and the wider CSGO community.”.

“Our players didn’t push for a rematch here – we did. All they want is acknowledgement that the playing conditions were unacceptable,” said NiP COO Jonas Gundersen.

Besides the pointing of fingers from both teams, FACEIT has been subject to a lot of hate on their controversial decision to host a rematch. Anonymo has garnered the backing of several pro players and the decision has been questioned by the CSPPA. It will be strange to see the rematch actually take place despite the community’s strong feelings against it.

How to watch PMPL Arabia 2021: Streams, Schedule, Groups

The most awaited PMPL Arabia Regular Season is set to start from today, where we will see the top 20 teams from the Arabia region compete against each other to make their way into the finals. We got everything you need to follow in PMPL Season 1 2021: Arabia League.

PMPL Arabia Format

PMPL Arabia will feature two phases, Regular Season and finals. The top 20 teams will be competing in the regular season which comprises of two stages: weekdays and super weekends. In the weekday stage, each team will play a total of matches 8 a week, every Tuesday & Wednesday (each day 4 matches). Out of which, the top 16 teams will qualify for the Super Weekend.

The Super weekend stage will be played in a single lobby format. The teams will play a total of 15 matches in a week, every Friday, Saturday & Sunday (each day 5 matches). Only the points of each Super Weekend are cumulated towards league standings. Which will be used to qualify for the PMPL finals.

PMPL Arabia Live Stream

PMPL Arabia Regular Season will be streamed live on YouTube and Twitch. Here is the link to the streams, where you can watch your favourite teams compete to emerge as the champions.

PMPL Arabia Schedule

Here is the schedule of the matches, along with the team groups and their matchday.  

PMPL Arabia WEEK 1

  • 17th – 18th May (Weekdays)
  • 20th – 22nd May (Super Weekends)

PMPL Arabia WEEK 2

  • 24th – 25th May (Weekdays)
  • 27th – 29th May (Super Weekends)

PMPL Arabia WEEK 3

  • 31st May – 1st June (Weekdays)
  • 3rd – 5th June (Super Weekends)

PMPL Arabia Groups:

Group AGroup BGroup CGroup DGroup E
 Road To Glory YaLLa Esports Gunz Esports FATE Esports ARAB GSG
 Galaxy Racer RAAD ESPORTS NASR Esports Zombies Esports Rico Infinity Team
 Flare ROX machines HOTLINE EGYPT iKURD E-SPORTS Real Tiger9 ALPHA Legends
 The Snipers SCYTES Esports Fz Zombies Falcons Esports Sudor Esports

Galaxy Racers, whose players are based from India is one of the major team to look out for in this event.

The team will be back in esports action after a break of more than 8 months. Besides them, there are some strong teams such as GUNZ Esport, Yalla Esports, RTG Esports that will bring intense action into the game.

Battlegrounds Mobile India Pre Registrations to start from Tomorrow

Krafton has officially announced the start of pre-registration process for their new title Battlegrounds Mobile India. This new game is the rebranded version of PUBG Mobile India and players can pre-register for it from 18th May 2021. The process will only start for android users for now and support for iOS devices might be added on the later stages.

Battlegrounds Mobile India was announced just a few days ago and the pre-registration process was mentioned in that post. It was expected to start in upcoming weeks but Krafton is speeding up the launch process. Indian fans are awaiting the launch of PUBG Mobile from the past 8 to 9 months and the developers are delivering it as soon as they can.

The pre-registration process will begin on 18th May 2021 as mentioned above and it will start on Google Play Store only. The android users can register for this game and gain specific rewards for doing so. It will be similar to any other pre-registration process and players just need to click on the ‘Pre-register’ button on the app store to enroll themselves.

This version of PUBG Mobile will be available exclusively in India and hence, the rewards are specific to Indian players only. There are also some new claims which come as good news for Indian players. Those who have invested money in their old accounts will get their inventory back in Battlegrounds Mobile India.

This means that all your skins and other purchases will be restored as it is but these are just claims for now. Officials are yet to clarify anything regarding this situation but players can check it for themselves once the game is launched.

Battlegrounds Mobile India is finally coming in India after clearing lots of roadblocks in the last few months. The journey has been rocky but at the end, Indian players will get to enjoy their favourite game once again.

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PUBG Mobile 1.4 APK Download Without VPN, Godzilla vs Kong Update

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Tencent has released the most anticipated update of PUBG Mobile global version. This new update is termed as PUBG Mobile 1.4 update and features the new ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ Mode and users can use the link given below to directly download this new update. Alongside this new mode, several other changes have been made to the game. .

PUBG Mobile releases seasonal updates with several tweaks and new content to entertain their player base with unique gameplay each season. The developers announced a unique collaboration in March where Tencent partnered with the action film Godzilla vs Kong on the occasion of the game’s third anniversary.

This collaboration promised a new in-game mode especially dedicated around the theme of the movie. This mode is termed as ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ mode and the two mighty creatures will make an appearance in the matches.

These monsters are being referred to as Titans in the new update patch notes. Players can read about the entire patch notes by clicking here. This update will have certain new features like titan crystals, apex camps and much more. Other balance changes have been mentioned in it as well.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD PUBG MOBILE 1.4 UPDATE:

Players can simply click on the link given below to download this new update. This application will work on Android devices and those who have any difficulty while accessing the game from Google Play store can use this link to download the game directly. This new update is around 1GB in size and features all the new content.

PUBG Mobile 1.4 Update APK – Click Here

After downloading the game, simply go through the normal installation process and PUBG Mobile will be updated to the latest 1.4 version. Remember to enable the “Install from other sources” toggles from your phone settings to install the game smoothly.

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Genshin Impact Eula Banner: Release Date, Skills and Hobbies

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The highly anticipated Genshin Impact patch 1.6 is nearly here, and it’s set to bring a plethora of new content to the open-world RPG by miHoYo. While the update is expected to hit the live servers early June, a lot of fans seem to be more excited about the upcoming Eula banner that’s set to arrive much earlier than that.

Let’s take a look at the expected release date of the Eula Banner in Genshin Impact alongside her skills.

Genshin Impact Eula Banner Release Date

The release date of the Eula Banner hasn’t been confirmed by miHoYo as of yet. However, we can still get a pretty good idea about the time of its arrival.

Fans can hopefully expect to see the Eula Banner in action in the next few days. There’s also a high possibility of it arriving around Tuesday, May 18th, since the title has a history of releasing new characters on Tuesdays.

Genshin Impact Eula Skins

The skills of Eula in Genshin Impact have already been confirmed by miHoYo.

Eula is set to be a Cryo character, but lighter than any other Cryo character in the game

Her basic attack performs up to five consecutive strikes, with her charged attack draining stamina over time to perform continuous slashes.

She also has a plunging attack that deals AoE damage upon impact and can be executed while falling from mid-air.

Eula’s elemental skill is named ‘Icetide Vortex’ and it includes the following:

Press:

Slashes swiftly and deals Cryo DMG.

Eula gains a stack of Grimheart that stacks up to two times after hitting opponents. These stacks can only be gained once every 0.3 seconds.

Grimheart:

Increase’s Eula’s resistance to Interruption and DEF.

Hold:

Eula slashes forward dealing AoE Cryo DMG to opponents in front of her, consuming all the stacks of Grimheart that Eula possesses.

Each stack of Grimheart gets converted into an Icewhirl Brand that deals Cryo DMG to nearby opponents, decreasing their Physical RES and Cryo RES.

Her elemental burst has been named ‘Glacial Illumination’.

Using the skill, she can deal Cryo DMG with her sword and creates a Lightfall Sword that follows her for a set duration.

All of Eula’s basic attacks, elemental skills and bursts charge the Lightfall Sword.

Passive Talents

Aristocratic Introspection:

When Eula crafts Character Talent Materials, she has a 10% chance to receive double the product.

Roiling Rime:

If two stacks of Grimheart are consumed upon using Icetide VOrtex hold mode, a Lightfall Sword Remnant will be created and explode immediately, dealing 50% of the basic Physical DMG dealt by a Lightfall Sword created by Glacial illumination.

Wellspring of War-Lust:

When Eula’s Normal Attacks score CRIT hits, Icetide Vortex’s CD will be decreased by 0.3s. This effect can occur once every 0.1s.

Constellations:

Illusion of Light Tide:

After consuming Grimheart from the Ice Tide Vortex’s effect, Eula’s physical DMG is increased by 30% for 6s.

Each Grimheart consumed will extend the duration of this buff by 6s. With a limit of 18s.

The Girl of Sea Foam:

The CD time for the hold version of Eula’s E (10s) is reduced to the same CD amount as the tap version (4s).

Lawrence Pedigree:

Increases the level of Glacial illumination by 3

Max level is 15

The Obstinacy of One’s Inferiors:

Lightfall Swords deal 25% more DMG against enemies with less than 50% HP.

Chivalric Quality:

Increases the level of Icetide Vortex by 3.

Max level is 15.

Noble Obligation:  

Lightfall Swords created by Glacial Illumination start with 5 stacks of energy.

Normal Attacks, Elemental Skills, and Elemental Bursts have a 50% chance to grant the Lightfall Sword an additional stack of energy.