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Sources: TSM India’s Ghatak, Jonathan & Co. to join Godlike Esports BGMI roster

Pranav Nalawade
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Sources: TSM India’s Ghatak, Jonathan & Co. to join Godlike Esports BGMI roster

Godlike Esports has made a huge move in the competitive Battlegrounds Mobile India community by acquiring the dominating roster of TSM Entity. Sources from the management who are closed to TalkEsport, have confirmed that GodLike Esports is going to sign the entire roster of the TSM Entity including all the players (Ghatak, Neyoo, Jonathan, ZGod, ClutchGod).

TSM was reportedly going to drop their PUBG Mobile roster and GodLike Esports grabbed this opportunity to hire them immediately. The new GodLike roster will have all five members of the TSM Entity playing for a new organization. The players in this roster are some of the best in terms of talent and each of them has a huge potential to wipe entire squads on their own.

TSM Entity was led and coached by Ghatak and in this transition, the entirety of the PUBG Mobile division of TSM India, including the players and coach, has been acquired by GodLike Esports. 

This is a huge change in the PUBG Mobile community as TSM Entity was always among the top five teams in any regional tournament and they almost won every tournament in which they participated and GodLike did not lack behind with excellent performance of their own. These two powerhouses are coming together to form their own power-packed roster to dominate in upcoming BGMI tournaments.

GodLike was in partnership with Chinese organization NOVA Esports and before they could showcase their prowess with a new name, PUBG Mobile was banned in India. We could see yet another partnership once the Battlegrounds Mobile India is publicly available in the country. The game is currently under the open beta phase where early access is available for players with Android devices.

GodLike Esports already has their own active roster of PUBG Mobile and as the launch of Battlegrounds Mobile India is right around the corner, the competition and tournaments may also begin very soon. It will be interesting to see how Kronten decides to shuffle the roster to fit new additions alongside the old members of his team.

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How to get the ‘Nice Smile’ gun buddy in Valorant?

Sonu Banerjee
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How to get the ‘Nice Smile’ gun buddy in Valorant?

The Valorant Episode 3 update has brought with it a plethora of new content to the tactical shooter. These include several changes to the agents, a new Battle Pass, an account leveling system, and much more.

However, a new cosmetic addition to the game that is completely free to obtain might have gone unnoticed by many Valorant players – the ‘Nice Smile’ gun buddy. 

While the newly introduced gun buddy is free, it’s exclusive to Prime Gaming members only. It comes as a part of the collaboration between Amazon and Valorant that took place several months ago. 

Previously, we have seen the “Hot Take” gun buddy, “200 IQ” spray, “Pity Party” spray, and the Episode Two “Formation” player card given as free drops to Prime Gaming members. 

How to get ‘Nice Smile’ gun buddy in Valorant?

Players can obtain the ‘Nice Smile’ gun buddy and other Valorant loot by linking their Twitch to their Prime Gaming accounts through the Prime Gaming website. 

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“If you’re a gamer, Windows 11 is made for you”

Lauren Rasmussen
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“If you’re a gamer, Windows 11 is made for you”

Microsoft showed the world glimpse of Windows 11 on Thursday’s virtual event. The newest operating system has new features appealing to the gamers as the company says, which is already readily available on its gaming console Xbox. Over the course of 45 minutes, Microsoft unveiled a new UI, Windows Store changes, gaming upgrades, and a pitch to gamers.

The new OS will begin shipping this holiday season. Windows 11 will be a free upgrade for Windows 10 users as long as they conform to the minimum system requirements of the existing users.

Sarah Bond explained in a blogpost on Xbox on how the latest Microsoft offering is built for the gamers perfectly.

Windows 11 Gaming Features – Auto HDR, Direct Storage & the Xbox App

Auto HDR

  • Auto HDR automatically adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) enhancements to games built on DirectX 11 or higher that previously only leveraged Standard Dynamic Range (SDR)
  • HDR allows a supported game to render a much wider range of brightness values and colors, giving an extra sense of richness and depth to the image.

DirectStorage

High-performance NVMe SSD and the drivers, Windows 11 can soon load new games faster by forcing the game assets to directly load into GPU instead of CPU.

The New Xbox App on Windows 11

  • Xbox Game Pass subscribers will be able to download from the catalog of games the service offers,
  • they will also be able to stream titles via Xbox cloud gaming
  • Cross-play between consoles and PCs will also be available.

The features are quite immersive in nature as Microsoft has also announced free upgrades to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users. Although there are no release dates for Windows 11, it is expected to come by the end of this year.

IEM Cologne confirmed as the first CSGO event on LAN post-pandemic

Gustav Andersson
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IEM Cologne confirmed as the first CSGO event on LAN post-pandemic

ESL has confirmed that IEM Cologne 2021 will be a LAN event. The German esports organizer has made an update to its esports calendar, made an announcement on Twitter. IEM Cologne will be the first CS:GO LAN event of scale after COVID-19 stuck the world in the March of 2020.

IEM Cologne‘s prize pool of $1mn in offerings for the teams is considered to be the biggest event of this year for the ESL. It is scheduled to run from July 6 to July 18 2021.

The update to the schedule for the remainder of the year comes at a time when people are adapting to behavioral changes and stricter norms against the pandemic. The calendar features DreamHack Winters & IEM Summer which are scheduled for online execution. ESL One Cologne, IEM Fall & EPL: Season 14 Malta is set for a Studio environment, which will have no audiences.

IEM Cologne

However for IEM Winter, which is set to be in Asia in December this year is under preparation for a live environment, with live audiences for the first time after the pandemic.

IEM Cologne 2020 had been transferred to being conducted in an online format last year. This time though, it is the event that returns to players competing for the trophies on LAN!

How to fix low download speed during Steam Summer Sale?

Aritra Patra
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How to fix low download speed during Steam Summer Sale?

This year’s Steam Summer Sale has already started from 24th June and will end on 8th July. Thousands of games get a heavy discount during this summer sale. The Summer sale is definitely one of the biggest Steam sales during a whole year.

However, a lot of people are facing an issue after the Steam Summer sale started yesterday. Whenever they are going to download any game from their Steam library, the download speed starts falling down even below 1 MB/second. In addition, it’s not an ISP issue. During the summer sale, a lot of people buy new games and start downloading them. Most probably, a high number of people from your region are downloading games from Steam and it’s the actual reason for Steam’s low download speed. Are you also facing the same problem? Let’s check out how to solve the issue.

How to fix low Steam download speed?

There is only one way to fix this issue. Try downloading the game during the nighttime or change your region to a part of the world where it’s a night at that time. To do it follow these steps:

  • Launch Steam.
  • Go to “Steam” on the top-left corner.
  • Click on Settings.
  • Then go to the Download section.
  • There you will get the option to change your download region.
  • Restart Steam.

Once you are done, you will be able to download the game from your selected region’s server and you will start getting good speed as the server is not overloaded.

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Esports Awards 2021: Valorant, CS:GO, PUBG, Free Fire among other games nominated

Deepak Ojha
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Esports Awards 2021: Valorant, CS:GO, PUBG, Free Fire among other games nominated

Esports Awards has announced the list of finalists in the Industry categories last night. The categories feature media, companies, publishers, and other esports personalities who made contributions to the industry in their capacity.

The industry award is set every year to honor the personalities and brands who continue to be a part of the broader spectrum of competitive gaming, which is esports. The section of the Esports Awards in Industry includes production companies, commercial brands, coverage platforms, the title of the year, hardware, journalists, publishers.

One more category called “Supporting Services” is on the platform to feature the companies who belong from communications, public relations, and creative companies where Discord, TheStoryMob, and others have been nominated.

The complete list of nominees for Esports Awards 2021 – Industry

Commercials Partner of the year

  • StateFarm
  • Intel
  • Redbull
  • Logitech
  • CashApp
  • FTX
  • BMW
  • Mountain Dew
  • Kitkat
  • Alienware
  • HyperX
  • Verizon

Esports News Coverage Website

  • The Esports Observer
  • Inven Global
  • Esports Insider
  • Dexerto
  • Upcomer
  • ESPM
  • HLTV.org
  • Dot Esports
  • Liquipedia
  • SiegeGG

Game of the Year

  • League of Legends
  • DotA 2
  • CS:GO
  • Valorant
  • Call of Duty
  • Overwatch
  • RocketLeague
  • Free Fire
  • RS6
  • PUBG Mobile

Hardware of the year

  • Corsair
  • Alienware
  • Razer
  • Secret Lab
  • Logitech
  • ASUS
  • AMD
  • SteelSeries
  • Nvidia
  • Intel
  • HyperX
  • Elgato

Journalists of the Year

  • Richard Lewis
  • Wasif Ahmed
  • Kevin Hitt
  • H. B. Duran
  • Ashley Kang
  • Jacob Wolf
  • FionOnFire
  • Liz Richardson
  • Pablo ‘Bloop’ Suarez
  • Adam Fitch

Publisher of the Year

  • Tencent
  • Blizzard
  • Riot Games
  • Epic Games
  • Valve
  • Ubisoft
  • Garena
  • Electronic Arts
  • Psyonix

Supporting Service of the year

  • Discord
  • Mobalytics
  • The Story Mob
  • AfterShock Media Group
  • Prodigy
  • CAA
  • ESEA
  • Hitmaker
  • Paper Crowns
  • Character Select Agency

Broadcast & Production team of the year

  • BeyondTheSummit
  • Nerd Street Gamers
  • FACEIT
  • Esports Engine
  • BLAST Premier
  • ESL
  • Psyonix
  • Blizzard
  • Riot Games
  • Garena

The Esports Awards 2021 Ceremony is scheduled for 20th November and it is supported by The Koyo Store, Sizzle Creative, Verizon, Secret Lab and other brands. The voting for the Industry Awards are now open over at The Esports Awards.

ESPL introduced IPL style format to engage gamers at grassroot level

Divyesh Moghe
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ESPL introduced IPL style format to engage gamers at grassroot level

ESPL India is a leading Free Fire tournament which is about to be concluded very soon. This tournament has employed a special format to engage with the community. The organizers have employed an IPL-styled multicity format in ESPL and recently, the tournament director shared some information for selecting this particular format.

Free Fire is rising as one of the best mobile games in India. Part of the success is due to the developers’ active efforts to engage the community with interesting tournaments and events. ESPL took to another level by adding a completely new format in their tournament.

The organizers assigned eight teams to eight different cities and each of them is currently fighting for its valor. This format was named as “IPL” format, referring to the format of famous cricket tournament in India.

Mr. Vishwalok Nath, Director at Esports Premier League, did an interview with Sportskeeda and talked about various aspects of their tournament. Talking about the format, he said that IPL styled format was employed to engage gamers at a grassroot level.

The complete statement by Mr. Nath is as follows:

“We introduced a city-based franchise system to engage gamers from the grassroots level. The ESPL will allow the public to connect with the gaming community and get a deeper understanding of the industry. With time and exposure, the general public can understand that besides being a leisure activity, gaming is also a serious profession and a business.”

Free Fire has a large Indian audience but some part of this fanbase might not be aware about the competitive ecosystem of this title. ESPL employed an interesting strategy to increase their exposure and involvement by introducing a format which is quite popular in public.

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How a photo with Amouranth took away Ludwig’s business opportunity

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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How a photo with Amouranth took away Ludwig’s business opportunity

In a recent stream, Ludwig “Ludwig” Ahgren shared an instance where posting a photo with Amouranth on Instagram cost him a business opportunity.

Ludwig is one of the biggest names on Twitch and it is normal for several business opportunities to come his way. His influence carries enough weight to make or break a company, yet there was one that denied working with him over a photo he posted on Instagram with controversial streamer Amouranth.

He held back the name of the company but gave enough insight for us to know that they had concerns with two of his photos, both of which were with Amouranth. The company found her content to be inappropriate for their user group and the deal fell apart.

“They were like, ‘It wasn’t Twitter, it might have been on your Instagram,’” he said. “‘You had a picture with a **** star, and on your Twitter, you had a…’ and they trailed off.”

“Apparently, because I had a picture with Amouranth, I was not brand-safe enough to work with this company, so they couldn’t do it. They couldn’t do it.”

A funny way to run into a problem for Ludwig. For someone like him, passing on a few business opportunities won’t bother him as such, but his relationship with Amouranth might need some work if something like this is to be avoided in the future.

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TSM India signs a new Free Fire roster

Divyesh Moghe
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TSM India signs a new Free Fire roster

Team Solomid has hired a new roster under their Indian division for competing in yet another mobile battle royale title called Free Fire. TSM India revealed the roster lineup via a post on their social media handle and the organization has acquired an entire team called Sixth Sense.

TSM entered India by collaborating with Entity Gaming and formed TSM Entity, one of the best PUBG Mobile rosters in the region which claimed most of the trophies in the competitive tournaments and the organization is planning to do the same with Free Fire. In a post captioned “MEET THE ROSTER THAT’S GOING TO TAKE HOME EVERY TROPHY”, TSM announced their entry into Free Fire esports.

 
 
 
 
 
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The North American roster has hired a veteran team in Free Fire which was known as Sixth Sense prior to this acquisition. This roster has been a part of almost every major Free Fire tournament held this year on a regional level and has produced good results. Their most recent achievement is winning Free Fire Tri Series 2021, a multinational tournament with teams from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh competing for a prize pool of $50,000.

The new Free Fire roster for TSM India will feature following players:

  • Sagar ‘Illuminati’ Patel
  • Titas ‘Stoner’ Roy
  • Jayesh ‘Mr.Jay’ Yadav
  • Indranil ‘Indro’ Saha
  • Naitik ‘OLDMONK’ Khoshto

TSM India is also reportedly planning to drop their Battlegrounds Mobile India roster in the near future and the motive behind this unexpected step is not known yet. Free Fire roster will be boasting the new “TSM FTX” name because of the recent $210 million naming rights deal between TSM and FTX Trading limited. It will be interesting to see how this roster performs with the name of TSM on their back.

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“Most Games Today Promote Violence Or Causes Mental Stress” Indian PM Modi

The Crew
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“Most Games Today Promote Violence Or Causes Mental Stress” Indian PM Modi

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the participants of Toycathon-2021 through video conferencing. Toycathon 2021 is an inter-ministerial initiative organized by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell with support from the All India Council.

Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Sanjay Dhotre were also present at the event. The event mainly focused on the games developed by the participants, while PM Modi advised more ideas to the developers that could be included in their games. 

At the conference, PM Modi said, ” In the last 5-6 years, Hackathons have been made a big platform to solve the problems of the country. The thinking behind this is – to organize the country’s potential, to give it a medium. The effort is that our youth should be directly connected with the challenges and solutions of the country. If the child’s first school is the family, then the first book and the first friends, these are the toys. Children’s first communication with society is through these toys.”

He further added, ” There is another huge aspect associated with toys, which everyone needs to know. This is the economy of the world of Toys and Gaming – Toyconomy. The global toy market is worth about $100 billion. India’s share in this is only around one and a half-billion dollars. Today we import around 80 percent of our toys as well. That is, crores of rupees of the country are going out on these. It is very important to change this situation.”

Global games promote violence and lead to mental stress – PM Modi

The Prime Minister expressed his concerns on the global online and digital games that are not based on Indian concepts. According to him, these games either promote Violence or Mental Stress.

He said, ” Today the world wants to understand the present potential of India, the art-culture of India, the society of India in a better way. Our Toys and Gaming industry can play a big role in this.”

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