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Epic Games Store lost $181 million & $273 million in 2019 and 2020

Prateek Jain
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Epic Games Store lost $181 million & $273 million in 2019 and 2020

A new court filing in the Epic VS Apple case has revealed some interesting details about the working of EGS. As per the document, Epic Games made $454 million in losses on EGS in 2019 and 2020. 

Since its launch on Dec’18, the Epic Games Store has never earned a single dollar for Epic. In the year 2019 Epic lost $181 million, while in the year 2020 Epic reported $273 million in losses. Within the same period, their “Golden Goose” — Fortnite also dropped from $2.4 Billion in revenue in 2018 to just $1 Billion in revenue in 2020.  

The launch of the EGS was controversial, as many gamers didn’t like Epic’s business tactic of buying exclusive launch rights to some games. EGS offered loads of Free Games like GTA-V, Sid Meier’s Civilization 6, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, and many more every week to lure in more users. All these tactics helped Epic garner over 160 million registered users and 56 million monthly active users. 

Although the past 2 years have been tough on the balance sheet, Epic is optimistic that the store will turn profitable by 2023. The filing also states that the 12% distribution fee charged by Epic is sufficient to cover the operating cost. While the store is barebones and lacks many features, a 12% might only be sustainable if Epic plans to keep EGS as a barebone store only. 

It will be interesting to see how Epic plans to turn the store profitable by 2023 and whether they plan to sign more exclusive deals and add some crucial features like a shopping cart, etc to the Store. 

Also Read | How to tame Raptors in Fortnite Season 6?

How to tame Raptors in Fortnite Season 6?

Prateek Jain
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How to tame Raptors in Fortnite Season 6?

The new Fortnite Primal Season 6 adds a variety of wildlife to the ever-so-popular Battle Royale experience. From Chickens to Wolves, you will encounter many of these wild animals throughout the game. While some creatures are aggressive and will attack players, the others will simply roam around harmlessly minding their own business. 

With the update v16.10, Epic also added the ability to tame Raptors and use them to attack other players. Unlike Wolves that attack in packs, the Raptors are stronger and will attack in pairs. A Raptor is faster and stronger than a Wolf so naturally, players should avoid unnecessary encounters with them.

Taming a raptor isn’t a simple task and will require prior planning. Raptors will spawn across the map in pairs and only near large dinosaur eggs. So far the best locations to find Raptor pairs are around Stealthy Stronghold, outside Craggy Cliffs, on the south side of The Spire, south of Misty Meadows, and around Retail Row. Raptors will always travel around in pairs, so taming them is harder than wolves, as taming one won’t tame its partner automatically. 

How To Tame Raptors?

Taming Raptors works on the same principle as taming wolves. The Raptors travel in pairs, so while taming a single Raptor will be easy, its partner might attack you on sight. Also, before taming craft and equip Hunter’s Cloak to remain undetected by wildlife for a short amount of time.

  • Find and kill Wolf, Chicken, or Boar to get meat.
  • Equip Hunter’s cloak and get near a Raptor.
  • Toss the meat to the Raptor and wait for it to bend down and start eating.
  • As soon as the Raptor eats, walk up behind it and hold the “interact” button to tame it. 
  • Be careful about Raptor’s partner and try not to alert it.
  • Repeat the above steps to tame its partner and later tame more Raptors to create a mini-dinosaur army. 
  • Profit!

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G2 Esports Valorant player Zeek blasted for toxicity

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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G2 Esports Valorant player Zeek blasted for toxicity

Zeek, a professional Valorant player for G2 Esports has been accused of toxic behavior by fellow player Horcus, to which he denied claiming that the latter purposely shared it solely for content.

Zeek has been called out for extremely unprofessional behavior expressed by him during a match. According to his statement, Zeek allegedly grouped up against Horcus stating ” This Spanish person is a  piece of s***’, and ‘worst guy, worst community.”. Horcus called for Riot to look into the matter as he believes it violates the anti-toxicity norms placed by them.

Zeek however has completely denied the allegations and labeled Horcus as insecure. “Why don’t you show how your chat raided and harassed me after I LAUGH because you start arguing with a guy on round 2?”. he said.

“Haven’t said a single insult towards you whole game. Stop being so insecure @HorcusCSGO.” He also labeled the allegations from the ascent game as “literally s***” added Horcus.

Google doc was released by Horcus along with drive links of many video clips. Besides accusing Horcus, he blamed that another teammate started insulting him, and then Zeek laughed and told him to ‘shut up’ when he began to answer back.

Also Read | Heroic defeat Gambit to win ESL Pro League 13

Heroic defeat Gambit to win ESL Pro League 13

Kanishka Thakur
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Heroic defeat Gambit to win ESL Pro League 13

The ESL Pro League final was a rollercoaster ride where we saw two exceptional teams fight it out with each other for the title and the cash price of $200,000. 

The matchup was a best of 5 and it started off with Heroic winning the first map on Vertigo which was a closely contested matchup with a scoreline of 19-17.

The second map was Vertigo and Gambit made sure that they earned their spot into the finals and replied back by winning 16-3.

The third map went a long way as both the teams wanted to win it and the map went into overtime but with the help of  Casper ‘cadiaN’ Møller they secured the map 28-16.

The series was still not over as Gambit came back on Overpass and fought back to win the map 16-10 to take the finals to the last and final map Mirage.

The final map saw Heroic winning in a heroic manner with Cadian pulling out one of his best career plays and clutching out 1v4 with a knife kill and that too on the match point to put the cherry on top. 

Heroic finally won the series 3-2 and took away $200,00 home and a guaranteed spot at the BLAST Premier Global Final in December. Although Gambit lost the finals Sergey “⁠Ax1Le⁠” Rykhtorov was still named the ESL Pro League Season 13 MVP for his “amazing consistency and impact throughout the event.”

Also Read | RpK to step down after Blast Premier Showdown, Vitality sign Kyojin

Shroud Explains Why Your KDA in Valorant May Not Matter

Sonu Banerjee
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Shroud Explains Why Your KDA in Valorant May Not Matter

It’s a well-known fact that Valorant is a highly competitive game. More often than not, players are seen getting stressed over their in-game performance or their kill-death ratio when they’re at the bottom of the scoreboard. However, legendary Twitch streamer Michael “shroud” Grzesiek doesn’t seem to be bothered about players bottom-fragging in certain games.

In one of his recent streams, shroud has explained why your kill-death ratio might not matter at all in a game, and how players can have an impact while having poor K/D.

During his stream, a viewer asked the former CSGO pro, ‘How do you feel when you’re a bottom-fragger?’

To this, shroud replied that it doesn’t matter what a player’s score is, as long as they’re having a positive impact for their team in a game.

“You could do good without having a good score,” the 26-year-old said. “That’s just how these games work. It’s a team game.”

Shroud then proceeded to explain how you can create space for your team without having a good KDA. 

“Let’s say you entried every round,” shroud explained. “You got so much space and your team always traded, but you never got a kill… That’s amazing, you did good.”

Needless to say, this shouldn’t be an excuse for players to underperform in games. Proper game sense and consistent practice should still go a long way in improving your overall impact in any competitive game.

Free Fire Redeem Code: Get Winterlands Loot crate and more for free

Divyesh Moghe
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Free Fire Redeem Code: Get Winterlands Loot crate and more for free

Garena revealed a new redeem code for Free Fire players belonging to the European region. Players can use this code to get a Winterlands Weapon Loot Crate, a diamond royale voucher, and a weapon royale voucher. You can use the steps given below to redeem the code and get rewards for free.

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 have other ways to get them. One of the ways is by using redeem codes.

Free Fire releases redeem codes on special occasions and recently, the official handle of Free Fire Europe released a code containing the loot crate and a couple of vouchers.

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 3SAG9JQBJWYS 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 EU server and hence, others may get a pop-up error if they try to redeem this code.

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Report: Evil Geniuses to sign MICHU

Bharat Kotwani
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Report: Evil Geniuses to sign MICHU

According to @PolishLeaks on Twitter, Evil Geniuses might sign Michał “⁠MICHU⁠” Müller to their CSGO division.

EG CSGO are on the verge of making yet another roster change after signing MICHU to their active lineup. This roster change would see Tarik “Tarik” Celik move to the bench after the North American side seem to have hit the wall and are due for a shuffle within the team. 

The North American side might soon close in on MICHU, a free agent who most recently played CSGO for Team Envy from Feb – December 2020, with the most notable tournaments being the FLASHPOINT Season 1 & 2. Prior to signing up for Envy, he played under the banner of Virtus Pro for nearly 2 years alongside Janusz ‘Snax’ Pogorzelski and co. Earlier In February, Envy decided to drop their CSGO division amidst the tough economic climate to handle a Counter Strike team in NA.

The 24-year-old Pole was previously linked to OG but the European Mixture instead decided to sign Shahar “flameZ” Shushan as their fifth player. The above report might be one of those possibilities why MICHU didn’t end up joining the former team.

As mentioned above, this would be the second change EG would make as they earlier signed Owen “⁠oBo⁠” Schlatter, in an aftermath of Ethan “Ethan” Arnold leaving the team to pursue his career further in Valorant.

RpK to step down after Blast Premier Showdown, Vitality sign Kyojin

Bharat Kotwani
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RpK to step down after Blast Premier Showdown, Vitality sign Kyojin

Team Vitality have announced that Cédric “⁠RpK⁠” Guipouy would be stepping down from the active roster post Blast Premier Showdown.

The French side will undergo a change after the completion of Blast Premier Showdown which will place RpK on the bench while Jayson “⁠Kyojin⁠” Nguyen Van would be replacing the 31-year-old veteran on the active roster.

Head coach Rémy “⁠XTQZZZ⁠” Quoniam said in statement,

It’s one of these tough decisions that we have to make. Cédric is an example of an achiever, consistent and inspiring player. The team is facing some difficulties and we need to find a new pace. It’s never easy to let a legendary, inspiring, and consistent player such as Rpk step back from competition, and we’ll do everything we can to support him in what’s yet to come.

This roster change comes after a series of inconsistent showings by the Team Vitality after an unsuccessful campaign at the recently concluded ESL Pro League Season 13 where the team was able to bag just 2 wins out of five in their group. Prior to the former, Vitality were unable to convert their winning momentum from ‘20 as they crashed out of the group stage at IEM Katowice 2021, eventually adding up to their misery.

During his time at Vitality, RpK steered his side to their first-ever win at the ECS Season 7 finals, followed by the championship at EPICENTER 2019 where they toppled Mousesports in the Grand Finals.

The French organization has decided to replace RpK with Kyojin, an unproven and unknown player who seems to have finally shifted gears ultimately leading him to join Vitality. According to ⁠XTQZZZ⁠, the team will make sure to help him fit in the place, now vacated by Rpk.

Also Read | Valve’s Aware Of Exploit Which Exposes Your CSGO Skins To Hackers, But Does Nothing

Valve’s Aware Of Exploit Which Exposes Your CSGO Skins To Hackers, But Does Nothing

Gustav Andersson
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Valve’s Aware Of Exploit Which Exposes Your CSGO Skins To Hackers, But Does Nothing

It is a quite strange observational fact how Valve treats CS: GO. They just do not care much as it appears once again. From problems in the game to cheaters and now hackers who could cause you financial damage, there’s no end to the misery.

The biggest problem of all is Valve’s awareness. Valve literally knows about all of it and does nothing to fix or even acknowledge or caution the gamers who spend millions every year to trade CSGO skins. The non-profit group The Secret Club, has made shocking claims on Twitter by releasing multiple instances to show the exploit in work.

The group claims to have reported the exploit to Valve over 2 years ago but hasn’t heard back from Valve let alone fixing it. The glitch allows hackers to maliciously inject players in the game with a code execution flaw which can end up the victim exposing all their skins, account details, password, and even sensitive data on their local hard drives.

The good thing about this exploit is that it has been discovered long ago. The bad thing about this exploit is that it still exists, even after pointing out to Valve a couple of times as alleged by The Secret Group.

The exploits do exist but are bereaved of acknowledgement by the creators of CS:GO. The exploit which can be triggered by simply sending a game invite deserve more attention that it is currently getting.

If you’re concerned about your hard-earned money and the investments of skins in-game, you better should stay away from the game till the time the exploit is addressed (if at all).

Free Fire Partner Program: How to become an official Free Fire partner

The Crew
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Free Fire Partner Program: How to become an official Free Fire partner

Free Fire is continuously striving to become better than its competitors and to encourage the players who have influence in the community, they have introduced a partnership program. Under this program, a player gets officially recognized and receives huge perks than any normal player.

Free Fire is launching the partnership program to very limited regions for now, and once full scale, other regions can also expect the same with almost similar perks and rewards. Not only those who get signed, but their influence in the community will get recognized as well. Starting with a few in-game rewards, the game has also promised to provide other facilities to help boost their career.

Free Fire Partner program is currently running only for the Indonesian region and it can be expected to go to other regions soon. influencers like streamers, content creators, casters, analysts, or any person with good Free Fire content on any media platform can opt for this program.

Free Fire Partner program perks:

There are certain perks that are guaranteed by Free Fire Partner program in Indonesia. They are as follows:

Sign-up rewards:

How to become an official Free Fire partner
Credits: Free Fire

Those who opt to become recognized as an official partner receive gifts as their sign-up bonus. This ranges from diamonds, official jackets, and game set-ups, depending upon numbers that the player brings on the table.

Giveaway

Free Fire partner
Credits: Free Fire

Not only the partner, but its viewers and supporters also gain from this collaboration. The player can set various giveaways in form of redeem codes for their subscribers.

Official Promotion

Credits: Free Fire

Partners get promoted on the official social media handles and various channels of Free Fire to further boost their careers.

Content Partnership

Credits: Free Fire

Players will receive information about various events before they even take place. This also provides early access to some big events and some special reservations in live events as well.

Streaming equipment

Credits: Free Fire

Free Fire promises to aid its partners with various equipment to boost their streaming career. This will help them create more quality content. More perks are set to come along the way.

How to become an official Free Fire partner?

  • Participant needs to be either influencer or content creator on streaming and media platforms.
  • 80% of the content on YouTube channel should be based on Free Fire.
  • Must have at least 10,000 subscribers.
  • Players eligible can opt and then a finals assessment will be done by the Free Fire team before the confirmation.

This program offers the influencers to create a stabilized career out of Free Fire. If you are from Indonesia, opt for this program if you fit the eligibility criterion. For others, wait for some time before the officials launch this program for your region.

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