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LOL Wild Rift SEA Icon Series Preseason Broadcasting Schedule

Divyesh Moghe
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LOL Wild Rift SEA Icon Series Preseason Broadcasting Schedule

League of Legends: Wild Rift is having its first official esports tournament in the SEA and Taiwan region. The local powerhouses alongside some new challengers are invited to battle out in a weekend format tournament named Wild Rift Icon Series. This edition is the preseason where a total of 52 teams are invited across seven regions and the broadcasting schedule for Wild Rift Icon series has been revealed.

The list of teams is already out and while a couple of teams are yet to be revealed, rest of them are officially announced by Riot Games. Alongside the team list, a broadcasting schedule with dates, streaming sites and other details were also revealed by them. Here is the list of regions, their local partnered hosts and other details about the schedule of this tournament.

Wild Rift Icon Series Schedule:

VIETNAM

MALAYSIA

  • Hosted by ESL.
  • Tournament dates: March 6 – 7
  • Broadcasted in Bahasa Malaysia
  • Where to watch:

TAIWAN

THAILAND

THE PHILIPPINES

INDONESIA

  • Hosted by One Up.
  • Tournament dates: March 19 – 21
  • Broadcasted in Bahasa Indonesia
  • Where to watch:

SINGAPORE

This tournament will run simultaneously for many of these regions and after the initial preseason, an official summer split will be held under the Icon series. At this tournament, several new participants will be able to join the fray of veterans and at the end, Wild Rift Esports will get its first regional champion for the SEA and Taiwan region.

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LOL Wild Rift SEA Icon Series – Preseason Teams Announced

Divyesh Moghe
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LOL Wild Rift SEA Icon Series – Preseason Teams Announced

Riot Games has already started making efforts to set a sustainable esports ecosystem for their new game League of Legends: Wild Rift. This portable version of their flagship title has emerged out to be one of the favorites inside the mobile MOBA market and now, the developers have started to encourage the competitive side even before the global launch of this game. Riot Games has announced Wild Rift Icon Series for the SEA and Taiwan region and here is a list of participating teams in this preseason league.

The Wild Rift Icon Series is the very first tournament for League of Legends: Wild Rift and will be focused around the Asian region. The mobile gaming market is very big in this region, especially in SEA, and Riot seems to capitalize on it to set its title as a new competitor.

This weekend tournament will be different for each region and will be hosted in the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. Each region has its own set of tournament hosts, teams, and production and the grand final might be the first global Wild Rift tournament at the end of this season.

Wild Rift Icon Series Teams:

Here is the list of teams that is invited from each region:

Indonesia

  • Aerowolf Pro Team
  • Alter Ego
  • Bigetron Esports
  • BOOM Esports
  • Monochrome Esports
  • MORPH Team
  • Onic
  • Victory Team Esports

Malaysia

  • Berjaya Dragons
  • Geek Fam
  • Lunatix
  • M8HEXA
  • RTZ MADZ
  • Suhaz Esports
  • TODAK
  • Wulf Esports

Philippines

  • Bren Esports
  • Execration
  • Liyab Esports
  • Nexplay Esports
  • RRQ
  • SMART Omega
  • Sunsparks
  • Team Secret

Singapore

  • The Alliance
  • Big Dirty Golems
  • Impunity Esports
  • Team Sequence

Taiwan

  • AHQ E-SPORTS CLUB
  • Flash Wolves
  • K7 Esports
  • Ka4 Gaming
  • MAD Team
  • ONE Team
  • TXO
  • Yet to be announced

Thailand

  • Buriram United
  • Clutch Gamers
  • EVOS Esports
  • INVATE Esports
  • King of Gamers Club
  • MiTH Esports
  • Soul of Soy
  • Yet to be announced

Vietnam

  • Burst The Sky
  • Cerberus Esports
  • Divine Esports
  • RSG
  • Saigon Phantom
  • SBTC Esports
  • Team Flash
  • VGaming

These teams will be competing in their respective regions and have a different schedule for each one. The Philippines region has already released its own format with a humongous $200,000 prize pool over two seasons and other regions will have something similar as well.

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Female COD Mobile player ‘Sol’ murdered by male player ‘Flashlight’

Divyesh Moghe
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Female COD Mobile player ‘Sol’ murdered by male player ‘Flashlight’

Brazilian Call of Duty: Mobile female pro Ingrid ‘Sol’ Oliveira Bueno da Silva was reportedly murdered by another player named Guilherme ‘Flashlight’ Alves Costa. Ingrid ‘Sol’ Oliveira Bueno da Silva was stabbed to death and found in the home of Flashlight, who was detained immediately.

A report from ESPN Brazil reveals that the crime was committed on 22nd February and the body was found at the house of ‘Flashlight’ in Pirituba, São Paulo. Guilherme Alves Costa confessed to the crime and surrendered within 30 minutes of committing the crime.

Flashlight met Sol online and reportedly planned the murder in a notebook where the reasons for this act were also mentioned by him. He stated that “My sanity is completely fine” and “I wanted to do this” after being detained.

Guilherme ‘Flashlight’ Alves Costa allegedly circulated the images of the body on Whatsapp groups after committing the heinous crime. 

According to a statement from Gamers Elite Clan, Alves Costa “sent a video in the group of the organization, where he supposedly had just killed a woman, filmed and shared.” The case has been registered as a qualified homicide.

Ingrid ‘Sol’ Oliveira Bueno da Silva was a 19-year-old professional Call of Duty: Mobile female player for FBI Esports. The organization expressed their grief on the Instagram stories and mourned for their loss.

Twist joins Lemondogs, alongside MODDII and Znajder

Bharat Kotwani
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Twist joins Lemondogs, alongside MODDII and Znajder

Lemondogs on Twitter have announced the addition of three proficient players to their CSGO division which include Simon “⁠twist⁠” Eliasson, Andreas “⁠MODDII⁠” Fridh, and Andreas “⁠znajder⁠” Lindberg. 

The Swedish side underwent a restructure where they parted ways with their core trio, Ahmed ‘gamersdont’ Natik, Tim ‘Mann3n’ Isak, and Sebastian ‘kaktus’ Leijen while they retained Jerry ‘xelos’ Raberg and Jonas ‘hemzk9’ Rantamaki from the roster’s previous iteration. Before the revamp, they had led Lemondogs to the playoffs of the Svenska Elitserien Fall 2020 series where they were denied to march ahead after losing to Team AURA in the Quarterfinals. Mann3n has been traded off to Young Ninjas, an initiative by NiP. 

Among these three newly signed players, we all know twist who was recently moved to the bench at Ninjas in Pyjamas who was replaced by Erik ‘ztr’ Gustafsson. MODDII represented Danish side Heroic from August 2016 – December 2018 while znajder once played for Fnatic along with whom he won the DreamHack Winter title in 2013. The latter’s most recent activity in the Professional scene headlined a six-month stint at EURONICS, a German team. This roster update marks twist’s return to his former team whom he represented from 2012-2013. 

With the addition of these three, Lemondogs are now:

  • Jerry “⁠xelos⁠” Råberg
  • Jonas “⁠hemzk9⁠” Rantamäki
  • Simon “⁠twist⁠” Eliasson
  • Andreas “⁠MODDII⁠” Fridh
  • Andreas “⁠znajder⁠” Lindberg

Dr Disrespect thinks BF6 may outshine Warzone

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Dr Disrespect thinks BF6 may outshine Warzone

Battlefield 6 is right around the edge and a new Battle Royale is only a matter of time, Dr. Disrespect who has been a fervent Warzone player has publicly backed the possibility of BF6 taking the lion’s share of the BR market over Warzone.

Battlefield V yielded mixed reactions from fans when it dropped back in 2018, most of which was due to the less appreciated Battle Royale in Firestorm. Though fans let the EA off the hook for underdelivering on their first attempt at a proper Battle Royale. With Battlefield 6 on the way, EA has set high expectations for the future of one of their flagship game.

“EA and Activision have always gone back and forth competing directly in the FPS genre.” With a new BR, Doc believes it has the potential to compete directly with Warzone.” “I’m excited because their engine, with all the tools and tech they have in place. They could do something pretty incredible if they put everything into it,” said Dr. Disrespect.

No specifics about the future BR have been shared by EA, but rest assured that eventually there will be leaks leading up to the launch event. EA’s last attempt ended up far from how they expected but on the bright side, they get another chance at fixing it with Battlefield 6.

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Multi-brand TV Manufacturer Vestel Brings Twitch to Smart TVs across Europe

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Multi-brand TV Manufacturer Vestel Brings Twitch to Smart TVs across Europe

Manisa, Turkey, 23rd, February 2021 – Multi-brand TV manufacturer, Vestel, has announced the launch of a new app collaboration that is set to bring the leading interactive live streaming service, Twitch to more Smart TVs across Europe. Now available, the app has been rolled out to all Vestel-manufactured Smart TV ranges, including those designed for many top brands, such as Hitachi, JVC, Telefunken, and Techwood.

With the app, everyone will be able to browse Twitch channels and watch live streams on any Vestel-manufactured Smart TVs that have been produced from June 2018 onwards. Viewers can look forward to a user-friendly experience, which includes one-click access to the service, thanks to the dedicated Twitch button on the TVs’ remote controls.

The Twitch community will find it easy to navigate the app on their TVs, only having to click on the remote controls’ arrow buttons to find content. Those with Twitch accounts will be able to sign in on the TVs so that they can keep up with the latest live broadcasts from the streamers they follow.

The Smart TVs themselves support and build on the Twitch viewing experience. With screen sizes of up to 58”, 65”, and 75”, they are ideal for bringing all the latest on-screen entertainment to life, including live streams of games, such as League of Legends and Fortnite.

Promising a more deeply immersive audio-visual performance, many of the TVs also offer 4K HDR, and additional built-in TV speakers, as well as image processing technologies to refine the picture quality and ensure judder-free action scenes.

“We are extremely proud to be able to launch Twitch on our Smart TVs,” said Barış Altınkaya, Deputy General Manager of Marketing and Product Management, Vestel.

“With this addition to our app line-up, we can connect everyone at home to an endless library of live entertainment that covers everything from games, sports, and travel to cooking and talk shows. Whatever their interests, thanks to this app collaboration, we can offer viewers more of the content they love, whilst also maximizing their Twitch viewing experience with cutting-edge, big-screen TVs.” 

Sajjad Rehman, Director of Business Development at Twitch said, “Twitch is first and foremost a community which comes together to experience live entertainment, based on their passions and fuelled by interactivity. And there is no more important community than a family. Bringing Twitch into the living room through the Vestel TV’s will make it even easier for even more communities to come together for those never to be repeated moments which take on Twitch every second.”

How to Review your Fortnite Purchase History?

Aritra Patra
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How to Review your Fortnite Purchase History?

If you are a die-hard Fortnite fan, you have definitely purchased some skins or other in-game items. Did you ever review how much money you have spent on Fortnite since you start playing the game? If not then keep reading this article to know how to review your Fortnite purchase history.

Although Fortnite doesn’t show your purchase history directly, you can see all the transactions in a circuitous way. Well, let’s explain.

How to check your Fortnite Purchase History?

  • Open Epic Games Store and log into your account.
  • Select the “Transaction” tab from the list on the left side.
  • There you will see all your Epic Games Store purchases.
  • From the list, you have to find out the Fortnite purchases manually.

Note: You can use this method only on PC. If you are a console player, you need to visit the respective purchase page of the store you purchased from because there isn’t any straightforward way to review your purchase history.

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Apple tries to drag Valve into its ongoing legal battle with Epic

Prateek Jain
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Apple tries to drag Valve into its ongoing legal battle with Epic

Apple’s ongoing legal fight with Epic has been dragging on for months now. The whole Epic VS Apple legal battle comes down to Epic’s claim of Apple exploiting its dominant market position to bully developers into paying a hefty cut for every $$ earned via App Store publishing.

Epic insists Apple is a monopoly and engages in unfair business practices on the iOS platform. Epic and Apple have been up in arms since August last year after Epic sneakily allowed iOS users to purchase V-bucks directly from Epic’s site, bypassing Apple’s App Store. In retaliation, Apple took down Fortnite from its App Store, and since iOS doesn’t have a side-loading option for apps, Fortnite has been missing from iOS for over 6 months now. 

The fight between these two giants is dragging other video game companies into its net. According to a joint court letter filed on 18th Feb, Apple has been trying to subpoena (or drag) Valve for information related to Steam and years of its sales information.

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Apple’s subpoena requests Valve to produce information in response to Requests 2 and 32, that Valve is refusing to provide. 

Request 2, asks Valve to supply documents sufficient to show: (a) total yearly sales of apps and in-app products; (b) annual advertising revenues from Steam; (c) annual sales of external products attributable to Steam; (d) annual revenues from Steam; and (e) annual earnings (whether gross or net) from Steam.

Meanwhile, Requests 32 asks for documents sufficient to show: (a) the name of each App on Steam; (b) the date range when the App was available on Steam; and (c) the price of the App and any in-app product available on Steam.

Apple hopes to use data from Valve to prove its point that Epic has a suite of other places to sell Fortnite, and its action of terminating Fortnite for violating TOS is perfectly legal. 

Valve has understandably denied providing the requested information and claims Apple is asking for too much information, given Valve is not a concerned party in its fight with Epic Games and it is not a mobile platform.  

“Apple’s demands would impose an extraordinary burden on Valve to query, process and combine a massive amount of to create the documents Apple seeks — materials that Valve does not create or keep in the ordinary course of business — and with little or no value, as Valve does not compete in the mobile app market at issue,” Valve responded via a statement. 

While Apple argues that other companies such as Samsung complied with similar requests, Valve counters by saying that Samsung is a public company and is used to keeping records of the requested information. Whereas, Valve is a private company that isn’t required by law to maintain such records for public eyes.

Here is the case document.

PUBG Mobile 2 may be released by next week

Divyesh Moghe
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PUBG Mobile 2 may be released by next week

PUBG Mobile has already made a big name for itself in the mobile gaming industry and to capitalize on this success, Krafton and PUBG Corp. were rumored to develop a new title based on PUBG Mobile and a new leak suggests that the game is almost ready and will be launched next week.

Krafton became a famous name in the gaming industry when the company merged itself with PUBG Corporation, the studio responsible for the development and publication of the famous battle-royale title PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Krafton also developed a dedicated version of PUBG Mobile for the Korean and Japanese regions and recently, some sources revealed that a new successor in the PUBG franchise was in development.

The report revealed that a cross multi-platform title for PC and console is under development alongside a mobile version of it. The games were referred to as ‘Battlegrounds 2′ and Battlegrounds Mobile 2.0’ and the story was said to be set in the future of PUBG Mobile with different elements of PUBG IP being implemented in the new game as well.

A new leak comes from PlayerIGN where they stated that PUBG Mobile 2.0 may be released next week and the official announcement will be done at the same time. This information was revealed via a tweet and is a translated version of a Weibo post.

https://twitter.com/PlayerIGN/status/1364064366316822529

As mentioned in the post itself, this information is just a vague possibility right now but could be a potential leak of an upcoming PUBG Mobile title. The story aligns with the fact that a new title is under development and its release was expected in 2022.

Another interesting fact is that, in one article, the Executive Producer of Krafton Inc stated that the new titles were set in “PUBG universe three centuries into the future” and the post given above says that the game is “Set in 2051”.

This new PUBG title sounds promising and could be a bigger hit than its predecessor in the global mobile game market.

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Apex Legends Pro Sets World Record by Dealing Over 9000 Damage in a Game

Sonu Banerjee
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Apex Legends Pro Sets World Record by Dealing Over 9000 Damage in a Game

Professional Apex Legends player Timmy “iiTzTimmy” An has set a new world record after dealing over 9,000 Damage in a single match if the battle royale.

For most average Apex Legends players, getting that badge for dealing over 4,000 damage seems like a pretty big deal. However, it seems like iiTzTimmy has taken the game to a whole new level, as he has recently dealt a whopping 9,069 damage over the course of a single match, a number that may initially seem impossible to achieve for most.

IiTzTimmy set the record live during his February 17th stream on his Twitch channel, where his fans witnessed the former Golden Guardians star rack up a total of 24 kills in a single game, which is a huge achievement in itself.

He later shared the news through a Tweet today.

It’s likely that Timmy will aim for the 10K mark in the near future, since he was visibly upset over not achieving it in that game itself. During the stream, he said, “I could have gotten the 10k this game I’m f**king trolling… I mean 9k I guess.”

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