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Valorant Voice Chat Will Now be Recorded by Riot Games

Sonu Banerjee
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Valorant Voice Chat Will Now be Recorded by Riot Games

Toxicity is not a new thing in the world of video games, and Riot’s tactical shooter Valorant is no stranger to toxic behavior in-game.

Communication abuse is one of the most common forms of toxicity noticed in multiplayer games. However, it seems like Riot is planning to tackle this issue with a major update to their privacy policy.

Riot Games has confirmed that they’re going to record all in-game voice communications from the players for moderation purposes.They won’t be actively monitoring the comms unless a player has been reported for communication abuse, Riot confirmed in a blog post.

The voice comm data won’t be permanently stored in Riot servers, and will be deleted once they’re no longer needed.

“In order for us to take action against players who use voice comms to harass others, use hate speech, or otherwise disrupt your experience, we need to know what those players are saying,” the devs said. “Which is why, moving forward we’ll need the ability to analyze voice data.”

While the details on how the new voice moderation will work are still hazy, it’s certainly a huge step forward in curbing toxicity in Valorant to an extent.

This change is also likely to hit other Riot titles like League of Legends in the near future.

Destiny 2 Guardian Games: How to get Heir Apparent Exotic Machine Gun & Catalyst

Mohammed Sadiq
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Destiny 2 Guardian Games: How to get Heir Apparent Exotic Machine Gun & Catalyst

Bungie introduced this machine gun during last year’s Guardian Games which was awarded to players upon acquiring the tedious triumph. This year, the exotic weapon returns for the 2021 Guardian Games which runs from April 20-May 10. You’ll have the freedom to complete the quest associated with the event until May 11, after which you won’t be able to get the weapon.

Here’s a list of quests and objectives you need to follow to get Heir Apparent:

  • Pick up your guardian’s class item from Zavala and EQUIP it, this will allow you to drop and pick up Laurels, a unique event item required to progress in Guardian Games quests.
  • Talk to Eva Levante and pick up the quest “The Games Begin.” Finish the quest by gathering 100 Laurels either from Strikes, Crucible, or Gambit, and redeem them for a Contender Card from Eva Levante.
  • Upon acquiring the Contender Card, you’ll start the Wreathed In Laurels exotic quest and gather 50 Laurels this time for Step 1 of the quest. The easiest way to do so is by doing the Guardian Games strike from the Tower.
  • For Step 2, you’ll have to defeat 100 enemies with a machine gun in one of the Daily Focus playlist game modes which alternate between Crucible, Strikes, and Gambit on a daily basis. Doing this step in Strikes or Gambit is much easier due to the lack of heavy ammo in Crucible.

After finishing these objectives, the weapon will instantly drop in your inventory.

How to get Heir Apparent Catalyst:

This one’s a bit tricker, the catalyst is called Legion’s Bulwark and the associated quest drops randomly when you deposit medals in the podium located at the Tower.


Once you get the quest titled Competitive Catalyst, you’ll be tasked with 3 Steps to get the Catalyst.

  • Step 1: Earn 50 medal points. Each medal is worth a specific point, Bronze: 1 point Silver: 2 points Gold: 5 points Platinum: 15 points. Gather medals by getting Platinum Contender Cards for Nightfall strikes. Completing the strikes will give you a Silver and a Platinum medal which will add up to 17 points every time you finish the strike.
  • Step 2: You’ll need to complete 3 contender cards that you can purchase from Eva Levante, Strike-focused contender cards are easier to finish in comparison to the other two.
  • Step 3: Collect 90 Competitive spirit, you’ll need to use a machine gun in the daily focus playlist associated game mode. Upon collecting enough spirit, you’ll get the Heir Apparent exotic catalyst.

To finish the Catalyst’s progress to unlock it, defeat 700 enemies.

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Microsoft reduces its Windows Store revenue cut to 12 percent

Mohammed Sadiq
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Microsoft reduces its Windows Store revenue cut to 12 percent

In a bid to win over developers and bring more PC games to their store, starting on August 1, Microsoft will only take a 12% cut on game sales as compared to 30% which is the industry norm.

These changes are only for the PC version of the store and not the Xbox store as their business model is entirely different from each other.

“As part of our commitment to empower every PC game creator to achieve more, starting on August 1 the developer share of Microsoft Store PC games sales net revenue will increase to 88%, from 70%.” said Matt Booty, head of Xbox Games studios, in a recent blog post, “a clear, no-strings-attached revenue share means developers can bring more games to more players and find greater commercial success from doing so.” 

Microsoft is not the first to make this move as Epic Games Store offers 88% of the revenue to publishers and developers on its store, while Valve’s Steam charges 30% of the revenue which is then reduced to 25% after sales worth $10 million and 20% after sales worth $15 million. However, Valve also allows publishers and developers to generate unlimited Steam redemption keys from which Valve takes no cuts, essentially allowing the developers to keep 100% of the revenue generated from selling the said keys. All in all, both Windows Store and EGS still lack plenty of social and QoL features catered to help both developers and gamers alike which possibly explains why charging just 12% might be better in comparison. 

Microsoft is reportedly redesigning their Windows Store which would be more open and offer a better user experience and will accept more applications based around WIN32 Format (.exe / .msi) rather than strictly UWP. Microsoft will also allow developers to push updates from apps themselves rather than relying on Windows Store.

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Valkyrae thinking of quitting streaming

The Crew
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Valkyrae thinking of quitting streaming

Rachel Hofstetter, aka “Valkyrae” is perhaps one of the most widely recognized female streamers, and even overtook Pokimane as the most-watched female streamer. Being popular comes with its own caveats, notable toxicity on social media platforms.

Valkyrae found herself on the receiving end of toxicity and criticism after a mix-up that involved TommyInnit and Addison Rae. Valkyrae was flamed by Addison’s fans after she was accused of removing TommyInnit, a prominent figure in the Minecraft community, from the DreamSMP server.

Though it is unclear how the rumors surfaced as there is no factual evidence that shows her involvement, Valkyrae herself was unaware of these bizarre events until she noticed the comments on her recent TikTok post.

This whole TikTok thing,” she said, “I don’t even know how I got involved in that. It all feels so unnecessary, but it just keeps happening and happening.

Valkyrae

The 29-year-old streamer is no stranger to negative attention as Valkyrae was also a victim of Snapchat’s clickbait article that painted her as a racist after she made a harmless joke during her Among Us stream and had a meltdown over it, but this incident clearly seems to be taking a toll on her mental health.

“I think there’s definitely going to be a time in my life where I do pivot out of social media. I don’t know when, I don’t know how… but it has been on my mind a lot.”  she went on to explain “All these trolls and stalkers… it’s so creepy sometimes.”  

You can watch her talk about the situation in the highlights of her April 27 stream below:

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xQc blasts Pokimane critics for “misogynistic” behavior

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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xQc blasts Pokimane critics for “misogynistic” behavior

xQc has come out to blast Pokimane critics for harming the atmosphere of her stream, calling them out for toxic behavior and “misogynistic” intent.

xQc may be the last person many expect to speak up about toxicity but that didn’t stop him from calling out unjust behavior shown by some Twitch users who do not approve of Pokimane’s success as a content creator on the platform. Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys has topped the Twitch charts and made a name for herself as the most popular female streamer on Amazon’s streaming service; though there are many who believe success on Twitch comes easy for a woman, and she is a beneficiary.

Former Overwatch pro Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel has addressed this issue during a live stream stating “There’s a lot of successful women out there. And they show a lot of good incentive, and they have good content,” Legitimate misogynists will say “No, they have bad content!” like when there is big Pokimane hate. “Nah bro, she’s only growing because of x, y, z.” And they will say “Content is bad, trash.”

Lengyel has never backed down from completely expressing his emotions towards a topic and this is no different. Pokimane was very appreciative of his efforts, “Thanks X, you’re a real one. Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine myself on an LSF post with xQc saying something nice about me, and most of the top comments also saying something nice about me. I slept really well last night, let’s just say that,” she said.

People who don’t approve of popular female streamers often choose to point their rage at Pokimane given her success, having nothing else to do, they spread hate and “misogynistic” comments on her chat during live streams.

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PUBG Mobile India Transitory Timeline & What You Need To Know

The Crew
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PUBG Mobile India Transitory Timeline & What You Need To Know

PUBG Mobile and its return in India has been one of the most trending topics in the country.

The game announced its return during the auspicious festival of Diwali and since then, several leads took the story of PUBG Mobile India on a good trajectory with small bumps along the way.

Today, we round up everything that happened related to PUBG Mobile India in the last month since its official announcement.

PUBG MOBILE RETURN ANNOUNCEMENT

The flares of joy were ignited when PUBG Corporation announced their return in India through several social media posts with lanterns and Diyas in the background suggesting that the game might be launched in India around the festival of Diwali.

This announcement hyped up the entire PUBG Mobile community in the country and everyone welcomed the game in a joyous way. The PUBG Mobile pros celebrated the return in their own style.

Soon, there were speculations that the game is releasing before Diwali and a tentative release date of 13th November was guessed by the audience and influencers as well however, the game was not released on that day.

PUBG MOBILE INDIA DETAILS:

The official announcement about the return of PUBG Mobile in India had a lot in store for the gaming and esports ecosystem in India. The release not only confirmed the comeback, but also revealed a bunch of big updates.

PUBG Mobile India is confirmed to have a green bloodstain effect and this feature is already available in the Korean version. Furthermore, the underage player base will face a time-limit to ensure health welfare. The user interface will also be slightly tweaked and the usual background will be changed to a virtual simulation training ground.

Apart from PUBG Mobile return, Krafton as a whole is entering India to set-up for a sustainable future in the country. The company revealed its plans to invest $100M in the country to contribute to the development of the Indian video game, esports, IT, and entertainment industries.

Krafton will establish a branch office in India and employ at least 100 people specializing in game development, business, and esports. This can be the company’s first step to set-up in India for a long haul.

These investments will also largely contribute to the upcoming PUBG Mobile esports league in the country. This will be the first and biggest PUBG Mobile tournament with league structure exclusively formatted for India.

PUBG Mobile India Release Date Speculations:

The large part of the community was constantly speculating one or the other launch date for PUBG Mobile return in India. PUBG India revealed some teasers to hype up the news of its return in the country.

Some prominent faces from PUBG Mobile community were seen in this series of teasers and one of them, Kronten Gaming speculated that the game may return in India by 20th November but the official release is pending till date.

Data Migration Between PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile India

Several clips went viral on social media where claims were made that the user data from PUBG Mobile is being transferred to the PUBG Mobile India servers. This was one of the biggest revelations as the user data comprised of many valuable things.

Some players had a skin inventory worth of thousands of dollars and the normal stats and ranking information was also of utmost importance for every PUBG Mobile player.

This transfer could have solved these problems as players could just access their old accounts instead of creating a new one for the newly developed PUBG Mobile India. No further developments regarding this lead were disclosed.

PUBG Mobile India Download Button:

Soon after returning in India, PUBG Mobile India website was back and working and some users witnessed something on this official site.

Some users sighted the ‘Download’ button while scrolling through the website and hence it was speculated that the game would be available on the official site very soon.

This, however, did not lead to any solid proofs about the launch itself and no further sightings were observed till date.

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Another report suggested that PUBG Mobile India has already received an advanced clearance by Google Play Store and hence, the game would not be stuck in the review phase and will be directly published on its official release.

PUBG INDIA PVT. LTD. APPROVED BY GOVT. OF INDIA

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, has approved the registration of PUBG India Pvt. Ltd., a privately held company under the registrar of companies. PUBG Corp. promised to set up a local office in India to overlook the regional operations and this registration was the first step towards achieving that goal.

Krafton also pledged to invest $100M in India to aid the regional office in establishing itself in the entertainment, IT, and video games sectors in India and to hire over 100 employees in the process.

“SELECTIVE INFLUENCERS HAVE ACCESS TO THE GAME” – MAXTERN

A famous PUBG Mobile content creator and influencer named Maxtern posted a tweet in which he stated that few people already have the access to this game and his audience can expect the first look of PUBG Mobile India on his channel. This tweet was deleted soon after it was posted and hence, the credibility of this information is questionable.

PUBG MOBILE INDIA COMEBACK ROADBLOCKS

PUBG Mobile was banned alongside 117 other apps by MeitY under the pretext of these apps being “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, Defense of India and security of the state and public order.” The ban was imposed due to user security and privacy concerns and PUBG Corp. announced the return with these concerns as the top priority. 

All of these measures seemed to be futile when reports suggested that the government won’t budge from their decision of lifting up the ban.

According to TOI, their sources stated that the government is not planning to favor the PUBG Mobile return in India. The statement reads, “Unless they address the concerns, it will be difficult to grant any relaxation.”

Another piece of information was revealed after some days where a new reports suggested that PUBG Mobile may not return as soon as the community was expecting. Their sources from MeitY stated that “the [PUBG] Corporation or any new entity in India has not been granted any permission to re-start operations in India.”

Their source also added that game can not return back in India unless and until they have the permission of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology India to begin the operations.

Until now, these are the developments that took place in the story of PUBG Mobile return in India. While some have larger significance than others, most of these parts hint that the game is ready for launch and will be publicly available once the prevailing issues are resolved.

CSGO inventory is down right now

Bhavya Shah
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CSGO inventory is down right now

CSGO inventories are facing an outage restricting users from checking their own as well as other player’s inventories.

Steam server outages are usual, but an issue harassing players for quite a while is the inventory outage, especially for CSGO. Players are unable to access or look into their inventories at times as they are greeted with a message stating, “This inventory is not available at this time. Please try again later.”

This is a peculiar issue given the fact that this is inconsistent and gets fixed in a moment then makes a return in the next. On top of that, not everyone is facing it, thus, it can’t be said for sure if it’s a server-side issue.

There is no concrete reason singled out behind this, as some are suggesting it’s a server-side issue while others say it’s an issue caused by the local client. The error message disappeared with a couple of refreshes or it fixes itself in due time.

Steam is yet to acknowledge this issue and deliver a definite solution, till then the lack-luster method of refreshing the page until fixed is the only way around the error.

Valkyrae talks about quitting streaming due to online hate

Mohammed Sadiq
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Valkyrae talks about quitting streaming due to online hate

Rachel Hofstetter, aka “Valkyrae” is perhaps one of the most widely recognized female streamers, and even overtook Pokimane as the most-watched female streamer. Being popular comes with its own caveats, notably toxicity on social media platforms.

Valkyrae found herself on the receiving end of toxicity and criticism after a mix-up that involved TommyInnit and Addison Rae. Valkyrae was flamed by Addison’s fans after she was accused of removing TommyInnit, a prominent figure in the Minecraft community, from the DreamSMP server.

Though it is unclear how the rumours surfaced as there is no factual evidence that shows her involvement, Valkyrae herself was unaware of these bizarre events until she noticed the comments on her recent TikTok post.

This whole TikTok thing,” she said, “I don’t even know how I got involved in that. It all feels so unnecessary, but it just keeps happening and happening.

Valkyrae

The 29 year old streamer is no stranger to negative attention as Valkyrae was also a victim of Snapchat’s clickbait article that painted her as a racist after she made a harmless joke during her Among Us stream and had a meltdown over it, but this incident clearly seems to be taking a toll on her mental health.

“I think there’s definitely going to be a time in my life where I do pivot out of social media. I don’t know when, I don’t know how… but it has been on my mind a lot.”  she went on to explain “All these trolls and stalkers… it’s so creepy sometimes.”  

You can watch her talk about the situation in the highlights of her April 27 stream below:

Destiny Banned From Twitch Again

Sonu Banerjee
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Destiny Banned From Twitch Again

Popular Twitch streamer Steven ‘Destiny’ Bonnel has once again received a ban from the platform after a guest flashed an inappropriate image during his stream.

The political streamer has been involved in some controversies in the past. His Twitch partnership was terminated in September 2020 for promoting violence against protesters.

During his April 28th stream, Destiny was debating with a conservative commentator when the guest claimed to possess the contents of Hunter Biden’s hacked laptop. He then proceeded to flash his phone at the screen, revealing a sexual image of Hunter Biden with two women.

Needless to say, this goes in violation of the Twitch terms of service, and the 32-year-old’s account was banned from the platform.

The duration of this temporary ban is still unclear, and Twitch hasn’t revealed anything as of yet.

Fans can expect to see Destiny back on Twitch within the next 30 days.

Destiny is undoubtedly one of the biggest political streamers on Twitch. With a follower count of over 650,000, Destiny is usually seen streaming in the ‘Just Chatting’ section.

CSGO Servers are Down Today – 29th April

Sonu Banerjee
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CSGO Servers are Down Today – 29th April

On April 29th, CSGO players across the Globe reported outages of the game servers. It’s still unclear what caused the outage, but it could be due to a number of reasons.

The first and common cause of server outages is a new update. When a new update is shipped to the game, the servers can go down for a short while. However, in case of an update, the servers can be up quite quickly.

Another reason behind server outages may be a technical fault in Valve’s servers. This is very unlikely to happen but has happened on more than one occasion in the past.

In case you’re finding yourself unable to launch CSGO or join a game, you can check for yourself if CSGO servers are down.

csgo network down
Is CSGO Down?

There are a number of websites to check server statuses of popular games like CSGO or DOTA 2, and even the server status of Steam itself. One of the most reliable websites to check server issues is steamstat.us; it shows detailed stats on the statuses of game coordinators of Dota 2, Artifact, CSGO, TF 2 along with reports of server outages.

So next time you find yourself in a similar situation, don’t panic and take your time to check if the servers are down. Another renowned website to check server outages is down detector. Besides those, you can always follow TalkEsport to see the latest updates on server outages throughout the world.

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