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CSGO Ban wave: Thousands of Boosted Accounts Reportedly Banned

According to reports from multiple sources, a recent CSGO ban wave has wiped out thousands of accounts that used unfair means to boost their accounts. These include players who have used bots or other unethical ways to boost their accounts to Prime or to reach a specific rank.

This follows the massive update that CSGO received on June 3rd. Through the update, Valve implemented a paywall behind ranked matchmaking in CSGO, rendering non-prime players unable to queue for ranked.

A ban wave like this would seem logical, since accounts that used unfair methods to boost themselves to Prime would violate the point of this new update, and it’s only expected that Valve would take appropriate countermeasures.

It’s still unclear if the accounts caught in the ban wave included cheaters as well. However, the prime focus of today’s bans seem to be account boosters.

Moving forward, account boosting is expected to be curbed severely since players can no longer earn XP or drops from non-prime accounts. Newer players can choose to buy the Prime upgrade within the next two weeks to retain their achievements and levels, as confirmed by Valve earlier.

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Free Fire Rampage 3.0 Event: Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike headlines the theme song

Free Fire is one of the best battle royale games in mobile gaming. Besides giving a world-class gaming environment to mobile gamers, the developers also give extra rewards to the players.

Starting from the daily redeem codes launched by them or giving rewards during the esports tournaments. The players could use these codes to win exciting rewards such as character skins, gun skins, emotes, and much more. Garena also launches various events to keep the game interesting. 

Free Fire is back with another amazing event. For the third year running Free Fire’s Rampage is back in 2021.

According to the Free Fire community, it is one of the most well-received events in the last 2 years.

This year’s campaign is named Rampage: New Dawn. After the successful Rampage campaigns: Rampage: Redemption in 2019, and Rampage: Uprising in 2020. Garena is partnering with world-renowned DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike for a themed song created exclusively for Rampage.

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Free Fire Rampage

DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are leading all over the globe. The duo’s power came together to bring a themed song, aptly titled ‘Rampage’. ‘Rampage’ seeks to inspire players to commit to the battle and not back down – be it in Free Fire or beyond.

ABOUT RAMPAGE

Set in the futuristic world, New Dawn takes place in a city filled with despair, where four individuals – Drake, Rajah, Speedy, and Aurora – commit to becoming vigilantes that the world needs. During this journey, the group is tricked into lab experimentation where they monitored. The group has been experimented by them as they got stronger, faster, and smarter. Now it’s your task to help them fight against the captors and help escape from the lab. 

You can deck their characters out with the Shadow Earthshaker Bundle, Phoenix Skyboard, and Black Tortoise Pan. To celebrate the event, the players will be awarded a male custom costume bundle, the Shadow Earthshaker Bundle for free when they log in and complete certain missions during the period.

From 26 June, Garena Free Fire is introducing a time-exclusive new mode for Rampage: New Dawn where players can experience the full potential of the 4 protagonists. 

Apart from these rewards, the players could also earn various awards by complete the given set of missions in the game.

Free Fire Redeem Code For Today 5 June 2021

Garena revealed a new redeem code for Free Fire players belonging to the Indonesian region. Players can use this code to get a Musical Monkey Backpack, Diamond Royale Voucher and Maro Fragments. You can simply follow the steps given below to redeem the code and get rewards for free. This item is region specific and hence, will not work for other players.

Most of the items in Free Fire could be unlocked through diamonds but the only way to get them is by purchasing them with real money. Those who do not wish to spend their money on skins or other items can simply use such redeem codes to try and get these items for free.

Free Fire reveals such redeem codes on some special occasions and they are distributed via their social media handles. These codes have a short validity and hence, players need to be quick while redeeming such codes.

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HOW TO REDEEM FREE FIRE REWARDS

If you don’t know how to redeem codes in Free Fire, follow these simple steps to recieve the rewards:

  • Visit the Reward Redemption center of Garena Free Fire. Click here to visit.
  • Log in with your Free Fire account. One must have either Facebook or Google ID signed in as a Guest account does not work.
  • Enter the code 468DA6XFCPDW in the box to unlock the rewards.
  • You will receive the items in your in-game mailbox.

This code is only valid for a single day so make sure to get the items before time runs out. Remember that it is only redeemable for players belonging to the ID server and hence, others may get a pop-up error if they try to redeem this code.

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Free Fire Rampage 2021 event 3.0 announced, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike headlines the theme song

Free Fire is one of the best battle royale games in mobile gaming. Besides giving a world-class gaming environment to mobile gamers, the developers also give extra rewards to the players.

Starting from the daily redeem codes launched by them or giving rewards during the esports tournaments. The players could use these codes to win exciting rewards such as character skins, gun skins, emotes, and much more. Garena also launches various events to keep the game interesting. 

Free Fire is back with another amazing event. For the third year running Free Fire’s Rampage is back in 2021.

According to the Free Fire community, it is one of the most well-received events in the last 2 years.

This year’s campaign is named Rampage: New Dawn. After the successful Rampage campaigns: Rampage: Redemption in 2019, and Rampage: Uprising in 2020. Garena is partnering with world-renowned DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike for a themed song created exclusively for Rampage.

DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are leading all over the globe. The duo’s power came together to bring a themed song, aptly titled ‘Rampage’. ‘Rampage’ seeks to inspire players to commit to the battle and not back down – be it in Free Fire or beyond.

ABOUT RAMPAGE

Set in the futuristic world, New Dawn takes place in a city filled with despair, where four individuals – Drake, Rajah, Speedy, and Aurora – commit to becoming vigilantes that the world needs. During this journey, the group is tricked into lab experimentation where they monitored. The group has been experimented by them as they got stronger, faster, and smarter. Now it’s your task to help them fight against the captors and help escape from the lab. 

You can deck their characters out with the Shadow Earthshaker Bundle, Phoenix Skyboard, and Black Tortoise Pan. To celebrate the event, the players will be awarded a male custom costume bundle, the Shadow Earthshaker Bundle for free when they log in and complete certain missions during the period.

From 26 June, Garena Free Fire is introducing a time-exclusive new mode for Rampage: New Dawn where players can experience the full potential of the 4 protagonists. 

Apart from these rewards, the players could also earn various awards by complete the given set of missions in the game

Riot Games forbids TSM to promote FTX in Valorant, League of Legends

Earlier this week, Team SoloMid (TSM) unveiled one of the largest publicly disclosed partnerships in esports. The North American organization has signed a deal worth $210 million with FTX Trading Ltd. for naming rights over 10 years. FTX Trading Ltd. is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

Hereafter, the organization will be known as TSM FTX on the internet, on social media and across the esports titles. But, Riot Games will not permit the organization to use its revamped name.

As a result of which, the organization’s rosters for League of Legends and Valorant will remain TSM instead of TSM FTX during the broadcast and their jerseys will also exclude the FTX logo.

“The TSM and FTX sponsorship deal does not break any LCS sponsorship rules, but crypto exchanges fall under a category of sponsorship that carries activation restrictions,” said Chris Greeley, head of esports for Riot Games in North America & Oceania to Dot Esports. “As a result, TSM’s new naming convention and FTX brand placement on TSM jerseys will not apply to the LCS or other Riot Games esports in North America,” he further added.

In a rebuttal to the statement from Riot Games, Andy Dinh, the CEO of TSM, wrote on Reddit, “the deal carves out name on broad cast and jersey logo on both league and Valorant. But FTX will still be sponsoring our league and Valorant players in content, social, live-streaming and in person events. Which has more visibility than riots broadcast.”

This further affirms that the Los Angeles based organization would overall engage with its newest partner in the accustomed manner notwithstanding the drawback. The organization will update its social media handles with the updated name and its talent would actively promote the crypto platform in order to receive $21 million each year.

Source: DotEsports

How To Fix The Chat Room Not Connected Error In VALORANT

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The “Chat Room Not Connected” error often tends to come back to the game with new updates/patches and is essentially something most people ignore but it may be an implication to a greater problem.

As the name suggests, the “Chat Room Not Connected” prevents users from using the chat room to communicate; though most players can get by without paying much attention, errors like this can indicate a connection error between them and the Riot servers.

Most connection errors can be tackled domestically that would naturally reduce the risk of major connectivity failures going forward. Players with any kind of network problems might try their hand at these remedies.

How To Fix The Chat Room Not Connected Error In VALORANT

Restart:

The age-old fix of most software, a simple restart of the game may fix any temporary issue that may just have popped up just as you worked your way to the game. Restarting the game/pc will essentially cut off all ties between the local client and the game servers ensuring the reestablishment of connectivity. A quick restart will fix the issue on rare occasions so it’s worth a try.

Router Restart:

Yet again, another widely accepted domestic remedy of network problems. That little box that sits on the desk may get too stressed at times to deliver your packets thereby causing a wide array of network failures across all your devices. Pulling the plug and keeping it off for 30 secs until the residual charge has left it and plugging it back in may do the trick. Though it is strongly advised that players should use wired internet to ensure the best possible connection.

Run VALORANT as administrator

Running Valorant as an administrator would give complete control of the layers of network in the local client which may help the game bypass any unnecessary security settings. Windows firewall often blocks harmless software that it deems of being potentially harmful, hence running the game with admin access solves most Windows security-related problems.

Change your DNS address

The default DNS may fail to deliver at times which may often slow down your internet speeds or shut it down altogether. Using the Google or Cloudflare DNS can never go wrong, arguably two of the most popular DNSs, Google and Cloudflare are very potent with it like any of their other services and they are more reliable than whatever your ISP has suggested at any given day. Changing the DNS to either one of the two can help with the connectivity issues.

Check for sever issues

Riot is punctual with their server maintenance to prevent any avoidable problems which may well be the reason you are not able to connect. Look for any news on maintenance on their socials and if everything checks out, head over to the Down Detector to check for a faulty server which Riot will indefinitely fix.

How to Get all YR1 Player Cards in Valorant?

To the delight of Valorant fans worldwide, Riot Games is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Valorant and rewarding the player base with a bunch of free stuff. 

The Valorant YR1 event enables Valorant players to earn a bunch of items from the community Battle pass and the free YR1 event pass. Players can also use the Night Market for a limited time.

Alongside all these, players will be able to earn themselves the YR1 player cards. There will be a total of three player cards that celebrate Episodes One, Two, and Three of Valorant.

How to Get the First YR1 Player Card?

To get the first Valorant YR1 Player Card, players will have to redeem a code through Valorant’s website.

To do so, simply log in to Valorant’s code redemption page on June 9th and enter the code ‘YR1’.

How to Get the Second YR1 Player Card?

The second YR1 player card will be available to get from a special YR1 Twitch Prime Gaming Drop on June 14th. Prime Gaming members will be able to obtain the second YR1 card from the Prime Drops section on the specified date.

How to Get the Third YR1 Player Card

Riot Games hasn’t specified the date of the third YR1 player card, that will celebrate Episode 3, as of yet. However, it’s set to be a part of the YR1 event pass that’s set to go live on June 22nd till July 6th.

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How to get Heat Protection Suit in Biomutant?

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Developed by Experiment 101, Biomutant is an open-world RPG video game available on PS4, Xbox One, and Windows. The game is very popular among action-game lovers. In this game, the player takes the role of Biomutant, a martial artist, and defends all the trees against pollution.

As the game is based on a post-apocalyptic surface, the whole map is filled up with dangers. Heat zones are probably the most dangerous places among all of them. To enter such Heat Zones safely, you need to get a Heat Protection suit.

How to get the Heat Protection Suit?

  • At first, enter a heat zone and proceed to the given quest to get the suit.
  • Once the first quest guides you to the Pingdish 6K, you will see Klup Lurf and Tincan Tougho fighting with each other.
  • Let them fight for a bit and get in and finish off the fight to clear your way to the Pingdish. (Note: At first, you must complete Biomutant’s rotation puzzles)
  • Rotate the dish to pick up pings and download trans-messages.
  • Your quest will be updated once you receive the trans-messages.
  • Use Biomutant’s mount to go to the new target as it is quite far away.
  • There you will find out an Old World Bunker in Bangshelter 6L.
  • You will get the Heat Protection Suit there.

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PMPL Arabia 2021 Super Weekend Week 3 Day 2: Match Recap, Overall Standings, Results

The second day of the PMPL Arabia week 1 supper weekend concluded today. GUNZ Esport is leading the table with 213 kills and 471 total points at the end of the second day, followed by the Rico Infinity Team with 187 kills and 352 total points.

Flare Royal Team and Fanatic Zombies are already eliminated from the PMPL Regular Season. The teams could not qualify for the Super Weekend 3 and currently sits at 17th and 19th position respectively.

PMPL Arabia 2021: Super Weekend Week 3 Day 2 Match Wise Summary

MATCH 1

The first match of the day was played in Erangel, first zone of the game was formed on the northeast side of the map with Yasnaya Polyana at the center of the circle. RealTiger9 was the first team to be eliminated from the game. The Snipers took the first chicken dinner of the game with 11 kills followed by Super Weekend standings leading team GUNZ Esport with 18 points. GXR Ultron single-handedly took his team to the fourth position in the standings and took 12 points from the game.

MATCH 2

The Snipers could not keep their form in the second match of the day, the team got eliminated at 15th position with 1 kill. Fate Esports won the match with 12 kill points. They completely dominated the battlefield as they were 4 men strong throughout the match and didn’t took any loss even in the final circle of the game. Galaxy Racer did better than their last match and finished at third spot with 16 points. Whereas, Rico Infinity Team took the second position in the standings with 22 points.

MATCH 3

iKURD Esports displayed their one the best performance in the PMPL Arabia Regular Season. They took an impressive chicken dinner with 18 kills and no player loss at the end of the game. SCYTES finished at second position with 7 kills followed by Fate Esports with 4 kills. iKurd was the only team that took kills in two digits, no team could cross more than 7 kills. Yalla Esports were the first team to be eliminated from the third game.

MATCH 4

Real Tiger9 was at its peak performance in the fourth match of the day. The squad took a total of 29 points including 14 kills. The match was played on the biggest map of the game, Miramar. Same as the last match, no team could reach the double digits kills except Real TIger9. RAAD Esports was the team to get eliminated from the map with 3 kills. On the other hand, Fate Esports finished at number 2 position in the standings followed by NASR Esports with 14 points each.

MATCH 5

The last match of the day was played on Erangel map. GUNZ Esport displayed that why they are considered one of the best teams in the Arabia region. The team took the chicken dinner with a massive 16 kills thus increasing their lead in the overall standings. Alpha Legends ended in the second spot with 23 points followed by Arab GSG with 13 points. Yalla Esports were the first team to get back in the lobby but finished at 13th position due to 2 kills.

PMPL ARABIA 2021: SUPER WEEKEND WEEK 3 DAY 2 OVERALL STANDING

  • GUNZ Esport – 471 points
  • Rico Infinity Team – 352 points
  • Alpha Legends – 334 points
  • RTG Esports – 325 points
  • NASR Esports – 314 points
  • SUDOR Esports – 269 points
  • Falcons Esport – 265 points
  • iKURD Esports – 256 points
  • SCYTES – 245 points
  • Real Tiger9 – 236 points
  • Yalla Esports – 221 points
  • Hotline Esports – 206 points
  • Galaxy Racer – 203 points
  • Fate Esports – 174 points
  • RA’AD – 166 points
  • Arab GSG – 115 points
  • The Snipers – 114 points
  • Flare Royal Team – 89 points
  • Fanatic Zombies – 53 points

With only 5 more matches left in the Super Weekend week 3. Each will be looking on to take the lead and be in the top 16 standings. Day 3 will commence tomorrow with the same set of teams.

TSM FTX Naming Rights Scored At $210 Million For 10 Years

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In what is possibly one of the largest publicly disclosed esports sponsorships in history, Team SoloMid has signed a $210 million naming rights deal with crypto exchange FTX Trading Limited and West Realm Shires Services Inc., according to a recent report by The New York Times. 

Moving forward, TSM will go by “TSM FTX” across all titles that the US-based organization participates in. These competitive esport titles include  League of Legends, Apex Legends, Valorant, Hearthstone, Super Smash Bros., Fortnite, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Magic: The Gathering Arena, and chess.

TSM will reportedly be using the partnership money from the 10-year deal to expand to Asia, Europe, and South America. The org is also looking to invest in mobile gaming alongside other platforms.

“Taking a huge industry and then reimagining it in a digital age: that’s sort of what esports are to sports, and it’s sort of what crypto is to investing and to finance,” FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told the Times.

Originally  founded in September 2009 by Andy “Reginald” Dinh, TSM has risen to be one of the biggest and most successful esports organizations across the world. Last year, the org was valued at a whopping $410 million by Forbes.