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How to get Valorant Pride Cards

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How to get Valorant Pride Cards

Riot Games has released Valorant Pride Cards to celebrate Pride month, and fans are eager to know how they can get their hands on one of these fancy cards.

In case you’re looking to know about the release date of these Pride cards, or simply want to learn how to grab yourself one, we have you covered.

There will be several Pride cards made available in the tactical shooter. While one of them will be a rainbow flag to represent the LGBTQI+ community, there will also be more individual cards to represent different sexualities.

These upcoming Pride cards will contain the following colour combinations:

  • Blue, pink and white
  • Pink, yellow and blue
  • Yellow, white, purple and black
  • Pink, purple and blue
  • Purple, white, grey and black
  • Red, orange, white, pink and purple

Valorant Pride Cards Release Date

While an exact release date for these Pride cards hasn’t been scheduled as of yet, players can expect the Pride cards to arrive within the next couple of weeks.

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How to Get Valorant Pride Cards

How players can obtain these highly anticipated Pride cards hasn’t been made clear by Riot Games. However, the devs have asked fans to keep an eye on the Valorant official website throughout June for updates about the cards’ release and ways to get them.

It’s likely that players may have to buy the Pride cards using Valorant Points, but it isn’t certain.

DOOM Eternal gets Ray Tracing and DLSS Support

Mohammed Sadiq
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DOOM Eternal gets Ray Tracing and DLSS Support

NVIDIA has added support for its RTX technology in over 100+ games so far, including Red Dead Redemption 2 & Rainbow Six: Siege recently, however, these two titles weren’t the only addition to the RTX’s list of games as NVIDIA  showed off a bit of DOOM Eternal during their Computex presentation. The game was running on their newest flagship GPU, the RTX 3080Ti with Ray Tracing enabled on 4K.

The 4-minute gameplay shows off how visually impressive the game looks thanks to its realistic reflections and lighting while it also manages to retain playable fps at a demanding resolution (4K). This isn’t surprising considering that id Tech 7 which powers DOOM Eternal is perhaps one of the most optimized engines out there and can manage running on resolutions upto 8K while staying at a constant 60 fps thanks to its Vulkan API.

DOOM Eternal’s ray-tracing update isn’t exactly a surprise as it was announced back in 2019 during an interview with Giant Bomb.

However, id Tech’s Marty Stratton stated that the visual update isn’t their topmost  “priority” but “people can look forward to DOOM Eternal and id Tech 7 supporting ray tracing.” It’s good to see that the update is finally moving forward now that DOOM Eternal’s expansions, The Ancient Gods Part 1 & 2 are out too.

The game will also support NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) upscaling technology which utilizes AI to improve performance without loss in image quality.

There’s no definitive release date for the update, but we can expect it soon, and given the recent announcement, it might release just alongside the RTX 3080Ti & 3070Ti.

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Valorant Run It Back Skin Bundle: All You Need To Know

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Valorant Run It Back Skin Bundle: All You Need To Know

With Episode 3 right on the edge, Riot has announced the introduction of the “Give Back” bundle, which will let the fans elect a skin from the past to return to the game.

Starting today, Riot’s website will host a poll to determine which skins is worthy to grace the game once again. The entire collection will be decided by fans instead of Riot and part of the profits will go towards charity.

Certain skins for all variety of weapons are available on the website, along with a real time counter that shows which gun is in the lead.

For Pistols we have Ego Ghost, Reaver Sheriff, Sakura Classic, G.U.N. Classic, and Magepunk Ghost.

For Shotguns and SMGs Sakura Stinger, VALORANT GO! Vol. 1 Spectre, Oni Bucky, Sovereign Stinger, and Celestial Judge are ready to be elected.

The rifle options are the Prime Vandal, Reaver Vandal, Prime 2.0 Phantom, Ion Phantom, and Infantry Guardian. And the sniper/LMG choices are Reaver Operator, Ion Operator, Wasteland Marshal, Sovereign Marshal, and Prime 2.0 Odin.

The voting results are expected to be up by 16th of June, with the Bundle ready for purchase between 22nd June and 8th July. 50% of the profits from weapons and 100% from accessories will be donated to a good cause.

India Today Gaming (ITG) Announces Esports Premier League 2021

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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India Today Gaming (ITG) Announces Esports Premier League 2021

India Today Gaming announces the launch of its flagship esports event the “Esports Premier League 2021”. 

The Esports Premier League 2021 is a multi-city Free Fire tournament that will boast a prize pool of Rs 25,00,000. ESPL will feature various teams across 8 major cities in India. The tournament will run over 3 months and will be played on India Today Gaming’s own Esports platform. 

Below you will find complete information about the event including how to register for the ESPL 2021, Prize pool distribution, Format of ESPL 2021, and much more. 

Important Dates and Format

ESPL 2021 will feature Free Fire with over 700 online matches that will be played out over 3 months. Teams will represent 8 cities across the country, which include Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Bangalore. 

The event is divided into four phases where the teams will be further divided into 4 groups A, B, C, and D. In level 1, 22 teams will qualify from each group for a total of 88 teams from four who will join the 8 invited teams in level 2 out of which the top 8 teams will qualify for the coming phase. Each team will hail from different cities across the country.

How to register for ESPL 2021

The registrations for Level 1 Phase 1 has already begun from 1st May and will be completed by 14th June. Here is the list of the registration dates for the ESPL 2021. Gamers can register for this tournament from the official website.

Group A – start: May 1, 2021, end: Jun 14, 2021 (ongoing)

Group B – start: June 16, 2021, end: Jun 24, 2021

Group C – start: June 26, 2021, end: July 4, 2021

Group D – start: July 6, 2021, end: July 14, 2021

Battlefield 4 is free for Twitch Prime users

Mohammed Sadiq
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Battlefield 4 is free for Twitch Prime users

One of the benefits of having Twitch Prime is the endless number of free goodies that you’re entitled to every month, this time it’s the Standard Edition of EA’s first-person shooter, Battlefield 4, which is available for free from June 1 to June 20.

The giveaway is a pleasant surprise as the Standard Edition usually costs $19.99/£17.99 on EA’s Origin and Steam. It’s clear that EA is creating hype around the upcoming Battlefield game as Battlefield 3 was also given away for free on Amazon’s Prime gaming loot in December 2020, while Battlefield V was free for PlayStation Plus members back in May.

How to get Battlefield 4 free?

To claim your copy of Battlefield 4, click here and sign in to your Amazon account, you must be subscribed to Amazon Prime to claim the code.

The code can then be redeemed to your Origin account after which you can download it directly from EA’s Desktop Manager or EA Origin.

The next installment in the Battlefield franchise will be unveiled on June 9, 7 AM PDT/ 4 PM CEST, and is supposedly a cross-platform title.

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Free Fire Pro League 2021 Summer: Format explained, Everything you need to know

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Free Fire Pro League 2021 Summer: Format explained, Everything you need to know

Recently, Garena announced the Free Fire Pro League India 2021 Summer, for the teams based in India and Nepal. Free Fire Pro League India 2021 Summer will act as a seeding tournament for the next season Free Fire India Championship 2021.

The Pro league India is scheduled to start on 26th June 2021 and the grand finals will take place on 18th July 2021. The 4 days FFC Mode Qualifiers are already taking place which will end on 4th June 2021.

Last year, Garena Free Fire announced the 2021 esports roadmap for the Indian region. Though the players for pretty much excited about the complete plan. Many of them could not understand the complete flow of the esports ecosystem for the region.

The same issue goes for the Pro League India 2021, about where this tournament stands in terms of qualification and does this tournament will seed the teams in the next Free Fire World Series 2021 Mexico. Read our complete article to know the format of the tournament.

Free Fire Pro League India 2021 – Format

The Free Fire Pro league India 2021 will be conducted in three phases – FFC Mode Qualifiers, League Circuit, and Grand Finals.

FFC Mode Qualifiers

All teams from India and Nepal region could participate in the event. The teams could register for the online qualifiers (FFC mode) through the in-game feature called the Free Fire Cup. After successful registration, each team will receive eight tickets for matchmaking.

After exhausting all of your eight rounds, the top five best performing matches will be counted to determine the final rankings. After the completion of FFC Mode qualifiers, all teams will be ranked on the basis of their top 5 best-performed matches. The top 6 teams from the overall standings will qualify for the league circuit.

League Circuit

This is the stage where all pro and semi-pro teams will compete with each other. The top 6 teams from the Free Fire Cup (FFC Mode Qualifiers) will be joined by the top 12 teams of the Free Fire India Championship 2021 Spring tournament. Here is the list of invited teams –

  • Survivor 4AM
  • Sixth Sense
  • Team Elite
  • Total Gaming eSports
  • Last Breath
  • Team D Esports
  • Red Owl Gaming ( former TEAM CHAOS)
  • CAPTAINS
  • Galaxy Racer
  • Team S8UL
  • LVL-ICONIC
  • AFF Esports

All 18 teams will be split into three groups of 6 teams and would compete in a round-robin league. Each team will play a total of 6 rounds out of which the top 12 teams will proceed to the Pro League India grand finals.

Grand Finals

The Grand Finals is scheduled to take place on July 18th, 2021. The teams would compete with each other for a massive prize pool of INR 35 Lakh. We will witness the top 12 teams from India and Nepal playing a total of 6 matches in a single day. From which, the top 6 teams will qualify for the Free Fire India Championship 2021 Fall League Circuit. On the other hand, the bottom 6 teams will be seeded into closed qualifiers of FFIC 2021 Fall.

So, the Free Fire Pro League tournaments will act as the first opportunity to qualify for the next pro seasons India Championship. Which will further seed into the Free Fire world series event.

Pokimane Explains Why She Chose to Live By Herself Instead of Moving Back to the OfflineTV House

Sonu Banerjee
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Pokimane Explains Why She Chose to Live By Herself Instead of Moving Back to the OfflineTV House

Twitch star Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys has recently revealed her plans of not moving back to the OfflineTV house and choosing to live alone instead, and the community is certainly surprised by her decision.

“I found an apartment and I signed the lease,” Pokimane said to fellow streamer Mizkif during a livestream.

When Mizkif asked who was Poki gonna live with, she replied that she was gonna live alone.

“You’re insane,” Mizkif said to her. “You’re gonna get so bored so fast.”

“I thought so too… but there’s just too many people in LA,” said Pokimane.

“I have been leaving my room too much. I’m tired of it. I’m tired of going out. I want to stay inside. I want to play Valorant for 12 hours, and I want nobody to bother me.”

Pokimane also confirmed that she signed a six-month lease for the apartment. She further claimed that she’s doing a “six-month test” and if she hated living alone, she’d never do it again.

“The lease is six months. So, I’m doing a six-month test [to see] how I like living alone. And If I hate it, then I’ll never do it again.”

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While the chances of her moving back to the OfflineTV house in the near future are slim, the 26-year-old might re-evaluate her decision after six months if Mizkif’s prediction of her getting bored turns out to be true.

Sinatraa Breaks Down Into Tears After Fans Flame Him During Livestream

Sonu Banerjee
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Sinatraa Breaks Down Into Tears After Fans Flame Him During Livestream

Following a long hiatus from streaming which was likely due to the ongoing investigation into his alleged sexual abuse towards ex-girlfriend Cleo ‘cle0h’ Hernandez, Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won has recently returned to streaming Valorant on Twitch.

During his livestream on June 1st, Sinatraa invited former teammate and renowned Valorant pro Shahzeb ‘ShahZaM’ Khan to a ranked game. However, it seems like ShahZaM’s fan base wasn’t too happy with his decision to join Sinatraa.

In only a few rounds, ShahZaM’s chat exploded with hate comments against Sinatraa. The criticism continued to increase and ultimately resulted in Sinatraa bursting into tears.

Sinatra Cries During Live Stream:

Throughout the course of the game, Sinatraa was visibly upset while reading his chat and turned off his webcam several times. At the start of the 18th round of the game, we could see 21-year-old breaking down into tears before saying, “it’s so dumb,” and switching off his webcam once again.

“I just wish people knew man,” Sinatraa said, a couple of minutes after turning his webcam on. “It’s so sad. It’s just so sad. F**k my life.”

ShahZaM, on the other hand, kept being questioned by his viewers for playing alongside Sinatraa.

“I just got invited to play and I played,” he said to his viewers. “It was honestly a mistake, I put myself in a really sh***y situation. I’m sorry. I didn’t think it would turn into this.”

“Don’t think that I’m taking a stance or a statement or some bulls**t. I do not support rape.”

Valorant Mobile announced by Riot Games

Divyesh Moghe
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Valorant Mobile announced by Riot Games

Riot Games has reportedly confirmed its plans to expand VALORANT to other platforms. A report by DOT Esports state that the developers have assured its entry into mobile gaming with yet another new title. Valorant Mobile was rumored to be under development and apparently, Riot Games have concreted these speculations.

Valorant was the first tactical shooter game announced by Riot Games on the occasion of their 10th Anniversary. Riot announced multiple titles in this announcement and Valorant was one of them. The closed beta was released very soon and its popularity skyrocketed on streaming platforms like Twitch.

Streamers were allowed to provide limited access to the testing phase and this led to a huge rise in their viewership at an early stage. After the global release, its competitive scene began to grow, and within a year Riot Games managed to host their first-ever international LAN tournament for Valorant in Iceland.

Riot Games seems to be capitalizing on this success and plans to tap into the potential of the mobile gaming industry. As per the reports, the developers have confirmed their plans to expand Valorant in the mobile gaming market.

Anna Donlon, Executive producer for Valorant reportedly stated the following:

One of our top goals this first year was to earn the trust and respect of the global FPS community and to prove to them that VALORANT will always uphold the fundamentals of a truly worthwhile competitive tac-shooter. To see our growing player community recognize and appreciate what we’re trying to do with VALORANT is beyond what we could’ve expected and we’re thrilled to soon offer the same competitive VALORANT experience to even more global players.

This confirmation is an exciting announcement for Valorant fans as well as mobile gamers. The release date or timeline for Valorant Mobile has not been revealed but the official announcement is expected to come in near future.

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HP finalizes $425 million HyperX acquisition deal with Kingston

Prateek Jain
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HP finalizes $425 million HyperX acquisition deal with Kingston

Hewlett-Packard or HP has officially acquired Kingston Technology’s gaming brand HyperX for a sweet $425 million deal. The deal includes only the gaming peripherals portfolio of HyperX, Kingston will still keep control over the DRAM, flash, and SSD products for consumers.

The deal was first announced in February this year, and since then both Kingston and HP have been working in the background to complete the process of purchasing the award-winning gaming peripheral arm from Kingston. 

In February HP had announced its plans to enter the growing markets for gaming PC hardware and peripherals. The company predicts the PC hardware industry to be worth $70 billion by 2024 and the peripherals market to grow to $12.2 billion. The acquisition of HyperX is the first step for HP to gain direct entry to gaming markets in which HyperX has already established itself. 

Alex Cho, president of Personal Systems at HP said,

We are delighted to officially welcome the incredible people of HyperX to HP. HyperX has built a loyal following among gamers and we look forward to further strengthening the HyperX brand. This acquisition further advances our ability to create the computing experiences of the future, expand into valuable adjacencies, and unlock new sources of growth.

HyperX is a well-known name among gamers and the brand already has a variety of gaming peripherals that are preferred by many professionals in Esports. The brand also sponsors various tournaments, teams, players, content creators, etc which will provide HP an enormous boost in visibility for its OMEN line of gaming hardware.

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