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xQc unbanned from NoPixel

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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xQc unbanned from NoPixel

Months after being banned from popular GTA roleplay server NoPixel, xQc is finally allowed to return to the server. The ban forced him to move away from GTA and set up a shop in Minecraft, the unban will likely see him return to RP.

xQc was overjoyed to figure out that he was unbanned. From his reaction, it was clear that he was eagerly waiting for this news. His last ban from NoPixel was counted as the 3rd, making the threat of a permanent ban loom over his head and rightfully so he gave up hope to ever return on the server, but to suddenly get unbanned in such a fashion exposed his animated personality that we love.

xQc’s return on the server will bring a great influx of audience to the stream. His fans are nothing short of excited to see their favorite streamer get back to the server with some of Twitch’s top streamers.

NoPixel server mods were kind enough to give xQc another shot at it, making an exception for him against their permanent ban rule. Given his track record, he must remain extra cautious here on out to make sure he does not cause another incident that gets him away from the server for good.

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FPL Expands Rainbow Six Siege in Latin America

Kanishka Thakur
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FPL Expands Rainbow Six Siege in Latin America

FACEIT as an esports platform has always helped in the rise of many professional players in various games including – CSGO. Ubisoft and FACEIT recently revealed in a press release that Latin America will soon have their own Rainbow Six Siege FACEIT Pro League (FPL) ladder in Brazil.

The platform will operate just like its counterparts in America and Europe, At first, the players from multiple organizations will fill out the slots. This will include players from the Brazilian national league Brasileirão, female players from Circuito Feminino, as well as some other famous players and brand ambassadors.

The first season will have around $2000 in the prize pool and regular players must go to the Official Ubisoft Esports Hub and sign up for Division 2. At the end of every month, the five best players get a chance at Division 1. 

The Rainbow six siege esports scene has been growing throughout the year and now with the introduction of FPL in various regions, players will now have an opportunity to represent internationally and play up to their potential. 

FPL’s ladder has always been interesting as we have seen semi-professional players climbing up and then later on becoming professional players in their esports scene. It has always been the most important part of attracting talented performers from all around the world.

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Valorant: Meet the top 4 EU teams qualified for VCT EMEA Stage 2 Challengers Final

Sonu Banerjee
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Valorant: Meet the top 4 EU teams qualified for VCT EMEA Stage 2 Challengers Final

The highly anticipated VALORANT Champions Tour 2021: EMEA Stage 2 Challengers Finals will feature some of the best teams across the regions of Europe, CIS and TR. 

The tournament will see a total of eight teams competing for a prize money of a whopping $100,000+ USD, with the top two teams being able to participate in the Global LAN event in Iceland.

Valorant Champions Tour EMEA Challengers Playoffs EU teams:

The four EU teams that have made it to the EMEA Challengers Playoffs are:

  • FPX
  • Fnatic
  • Liquid
  • Guild Esports

Guild Esports were the runners-up of VCT EU Stage 2 Challengers 1 while FPX were the champions. Fnatic and Liquid, who’ll face off against each other later today in the VCT EU Stage 2 Challengers 2, have already secured their slots for the VCT EMEA Stage 2 Challengers Final.

The VCT EMEA Stage 2 Challengers finals are scheduled to start from 23rd April. The top 2 teams will secure tickets for the LAN event in Iceland.

How to Calculate Steam Market Tax on CSGO Items

Sonu Banerjee
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How to Calculate Steam Market Tax on CSGO Items

If you’re actively using the Steam community market to buy or sell CSGO skins, you might already be aware that the displayed tax on each in-game item is roughly 15%. However, it doesn’t work as you’d normally expect it to.

For instance, if you put a CSGO item for sale on the Steam Community Market at $100, you should be receiving precisely $85 by subtracting the 15% tax from the initial $100, right? Turns out, you’d actually receive a bit more than that.

How is the Steam Tax calculated?

Steam takes a 5% tax per community market transaction and CSGO items have an additional tax of 10%. Steam also takes another $0.01 per market transaction. Summing these up, let’s take a look at how the taxes exactly work.

The Steam taxes work by dividing the selling price by the tax instead. So, if you put an item on sale for $100, you’d need to divide it by 1.15 to find how much you’d receive after making the transaction.

Which means $100/1.15 = $86.97, deduct the $0.01 Steam tax from that, and you get a total of $86.96, which you receive once the transaction is done.

New CSGO Update Makes Items Purchased From Store Non Tradable for a Week

Sonu Banerjee
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New CSGO Update Makes Items Purchased From Store Non Tradable for a Week

A new update has been shipped by Valve to their competitive shooter CSGO today, and it brings with it a change that might have a significant impact on the trading scene of the title.

The change that we’re talking about, and perhaps the most noticeable change in the small update is the update to the marketability of items purchased from the in-game store.

Moving forward, players won’t be able to sell items bought from the in-game store for 7 days from the date of purchase.

Neither will the operation cases redeemed as operation rewards be tradable or marketable for one week.

However, items received from market-restricted containers will continue to be sellable immediately on the Steam Community Market, the developers have confirmed in their blog post.

Alongside this CSGO update, the update also included a visual bug fix and some stability improvements.

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Valve is working on Source 2 for CSGO: Report

Aritra Patra
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Valve is working on Source 2 for CSGO: Report

CSGO fans are very excited about the Source 2 engine. The new Source 2 engine is expected to come with a lot of graphical changes along with more accurate sound effects.

However, Valve cut out the Source 2 project during an internal meeting last year because porting CSGO and its community contents to a new engine was too tough for Valve.

Valve working on Source 2 for CSGO?

According to Gabe Follower, the latest DOTA 2 update contains strings that refer to CSGO’s new Source 2 engine. In the new update, there are lines codes including “version 2”, “component source2” and “version 3”, “component unassigned”.

Do these codes hint towards the new Source 2 engine for CSGO? It’s still unknown. However, the community wants Source 2 badly and if Valve launches the new engine in the future, the CSGO community will welcome it contentedly.

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Wild Rift: All Upcoming Champions Calendar

Pranav Nalawade
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Wild Rift: All Upcoming Champions Calendar

During Riot’s latest Dev Diary about the major update 2.2, the devs revealed details about 5 new Champions coming in April and May. While the Champions are already a part of update 2.2, the release of each champion is scheduled for a specific date and will release after a minor update. 

As mentioned in the Dev Diary, in the month of April Champions — Galio and Rammus will be released. And in May Champions — Kha’Zix, Rengar, and Renekton will be released. 

Of the above-mentioned champions, the tank — Galio is already available in the game and the next champion on the list, Rammus will be coming on 22nd April. 

Details about the Upcoming Champions

1. Galio, The Colossus (Released)– Tank

Galio is the latest Wardan Champion Tank in the game. Galio is an ability power mid-lane champion. Galio can dish out tons of Melee damage and initiate team fights but struggles a bit in the early game due to its speed.

2. Rammus, The Armordillo  (Release 22nd April)– Tank

Rammus is a Vanguard Champion and another Tank coming to the game. Rammus is a Jungle Lane specialist and has incredible mobility. Rammus will mostly do mixed damage and has a unique ability to reflect damage back to the enemy team making him very good at catching squishy targets. 

3. Kha’Zix, The Voidreaver (Release 6th May)– Assassin 

Khazix is an Assasin that is specialized in Jungle. Khazix is extremely fast and can dish out high burst DPS. Using his invisibility Khazix can get behind enemy lines and gank lanes. While he is very weak in early games, he can become extremely strong once you have all three evolutions. 

4. Rengar, The Pridestalker (Release 6th May)– Assassin 

Rengar is another Jungle Assassin. He is decently strong in early and as you hunt more Renger will gain trophies and new skills. He has really high mobility in the jungle and can become a threat in bushes. Rengar can one-shot any target on the map and is best used for invading and killing squishy targets in the early game. 

5. Reketon, The Butcher of the Sands (Release 12th May)– Diver

Reketon is a Diver Champion that specializes in Baron Lane. He will mostly deal Physical Damage and has the ability to shred enemy armor with his attacks. He also has a special ability to gain fury for each attack. Obtaining enough fury strengthens his skills, making him even more lethal.

Summit1g shows off new mouse worth $100,000

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Summit1g shows off new mouse worth $100,000

Jaryd ‘Summit1g’ Lazar has revealed his new diamond-encrusted mouse from Finalmouse on stream, which is estimated be worth of around $100,000.

Sponsorships have played an important role in the growth of the gaming and esports industry in the past decade. Brands have shown unprecedented ways to get their name out there and Finalmouse seems to have taken endorsement to a whole new level. Summit’s latest gift package from them comes with a diamond-encrusted limited edition mouse inside, if that’s not crazy I don’t know what is.

The mouse comes in a honeycomb shell which is a common design used by manufacturers to reduce the weight of the mouse. Instead of using the shell what it is meant for, Finalmouse chose to engrave it with diamonds.

“Damn,” exclaimed Summit in surprise. “This thing is going to be taken and put into a safe every night.”. At first, he thought the diamonds were fake, but a note from Finalmouse asking him to get it cleaned by a jeweler made him think otherwise.

Having so many diamonds will make a cosmetic piece rather than a proper gaming mouse, hence would rather keep it in a safe rather than using it as his daily driver.

How to get Kelly and Ford for free using Free Fire redeem code

Bharat Kotwani
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How to get Kelly and Ford for free using Free Fire redeem code

Be it any game of some random genre like first-person shooters or Battle Royale, players would go on to customize their weapons or the character with the aesthetic textures available in-game from the market. Sometimes you tend to spend to acquire in-game items while sometimes you don’t. In Free Fire, the cosmetics can make you cut your pockets, real-time. Redeem codes are classic life-saviors for those who won’t even think to invest and would play with their vanilla stuff until an opportunity comes up to grab some free stuff.
Often during live stream events and on their social media branches, the game developer provided the community with free 12 codes which can be further redeemed to get character outfits.

The most latest and trending rewards acquired from the latest batch of codes are the Kelly & Ford characters each with cosmetic attires.

HOW TO USE THE FREE FIRE CODES?

  • First, get to Garena’s official website which you can do by clicking here.
  • Upon opening Garena’s website, you would be prompted to login into your Free Fire account via Facebook / Google / Huawei / VK.
  • Once you have logged in, you would be asked to enter the code and do the same by entering your alphanumeric code earlier provided by Free Fire.
  • Hit the Confirm Button. You would be again prompted to press ‘OK’ for further information about the rewards acquired.
  • Do check your linked email to get the details about the code you just redeemed and expect the items to be credited into your game account within 24 hours.

Note: Guest accounts would be ineffective if you’re trying to redeem a Free Fire code. If you are getting the codes from a third-party company, do make sure the code belongs to your region of residence as some codes won’t work because they belong to some other province.

Code details and trending item list:

free fire kelly and ford

Redeem code: G3MKNDD24G9D

Rewards:

  • Ford (Character)
  • Kelly (Character)
  • 3x Gold box
  • T-shirt
  • Leather Pants (Male)

Validity of the code: April 16 – 22

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Dota 2 Patch 7.29b Nerfs Phantom Lancer, Lifestealer & Huskar

Mohammed Sadiq
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Dota 2 Patch 7.29b Nerfs Phantom Lancer, Lifestealer & Huskar

Dota 2’s big update, 7.29 which came out just a week ago brought a new playable hero, Dawnbreaker as well as many visual changes to the map along with other changes to the current hero pool and items. The update was a bit polarizing due to some heroes straight up being ‘broken’, notably Phantom Lancer whose win rate rose up to 53.58% with an average pick rate of 13% due to his shard being considerably buffed. While the removal of Necronomicon affected Lycan which caused a drop in Lycan’s overall pick and win rates.

However, patch 7.29b addresses these issues and aims to balance out the hero pool as the update has nerfed more than 15 heroes including Phantom Lancer, Huskar, Techies, etc.

But not all heroes were nerfed as Lycan’s Base armor, Agility, and Intelligence gains are increased while his Summon Wolves’s Cripple ability will now slow movement speed by 15%. Both his Level 15 and 20 Talents were reworked in his favor and Shapeshifter’s health bonus increased from 150/250/350 to 200/300/400.

On the other end, Phantom Lancer’s Base damage and Base armor are now reduced while his shard’s benefits have been toned down by a decent margin. His Phantom Rush was also affected as the bonus Agility has been lowered to 10/20/30/40 while his Level 10 and 15 Talents are also affected.

Lina was also affected by this update but rather in a positive way with her Light Strike Array getting a mana cost reduction and a bigger radius and increased Agility. Hopefully, with these changes, Lina’s role as a mid-laner could be possible again since she was mostly picked for support roles. Hoodwink, too, received multiple buffs with his Acorn Shot now having a 75% damage, an increase of 10% while his Strength gain increased to 2.0.

You can read the complete patch notes on Dota 2’s official blog.

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