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AFK Players are Losing More LP from LoL Patch 11.3, Riot Confirms

Sonu Banerjee
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AFK Players are Losing More LP from LoL Patch 11.3, Riot Confirms

The AFK problem in League of Legends is not a new thing. The issue is even more prominent in the lower ranks, where an alarming number of games see a player going AFK or outright abandoning the game.

Luckily, Riot Games seems to have their sights set on fixing this, as evident by their announcement today.

Riot dev Mark Yetter explains in a Tweet that the team has added additional LP penalties for AFKing or leaving games starting from patch 11.3, which is great news for the player base.

“With a little more skin in the game, hopefully a potential leaver will think twice about ruining a game for their team,” Yetter said.

Needless to say, League fans are delighted at this much-needed change to the MOBA title, since it will potentially imply a reduction in the number of AFKers or leavers, which consequently will result in higher quality matchmaking and a better gameplay experience overall.

COD Mobile: Hardcore Mode added back to Hardpoint and Headquarters

Divyesh Moghe
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COD Mobile: Hardcore Mode added back to Hardpoint and Headquarters

Call of Duty: Mobile is the first mobile game by Activision that represents the popular Call of Duty franchise in the mobile gaming market. This game has been immensely popular since its launch and hosts a variety of multiplayer and battle-royale modes which are usually seen in the popular COD titles. This time, developers have reintroduced a hardcore mode for two in-game MP modes in COD Mobile.

Hardcore mode in COD: Mobile is pretty different than normal modes. Players need to try their very best just to be able to survive in extreme conditions and fulfill their tasks according to each mode. If you want a higher immersive experience of a fast-paced and deadly battlefield, playing hardcore mode is highly recommended.

Call of Duty: Mobile has a unique approach in the hardcore mode where health regeneration is minimal, players start at low HP bars, and even completing the tasks as a team is very important as a solo user could be busted down very easily due to several disadvantages.

The players start with very low HP bars and a different kind of friendly fire is enabled in this game. You need to be precise with your aiming skills because if you hit your teammates by mistake, the same amount of damage will be dealt with you as a penalty. This makes tactical plays a higher priority than just bashful engages.

The developers have introduced hardcore mode in the already existing MP modes of Hardpoint and Headquarters. Both of these modes are quite similar to old-school CTF where teams need to secure a location for some time to gain valuable points. In this mode, kills do not matter as much as the points do.

In Hardpoint mode, a team needs to secure a specific location called ‘Hardpoint’ for some time and it changes to several spots in due course of time. The first team to collect 150 points wins the game. A similar concept is applied to Headquarters with minor changes in the hardcore mode.

These modes are only available for a week, from 12th February to 18th February so make sure to enjoy this challenging game mode to the fullest before it is removed from the game.

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Ubisoft launches new ‘Siege Champions’ program

Bharat Kotwani
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Ubisoft launches new ‘Siege Champions’ program

Ubisoft on their website have announced a brand new prospect named “Siege Champions program”. The latter aims to bring the community all together comprising content creators, cosplayers, and those who leave no stone unturned when it comes to building the same. 

The Game Developer’s famous FPS title Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege was released globally on various platforms like Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on the 1st of December 2015. Announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014, it received four nominations at the Game Critics Awards. The title did receive an overall positive rating from across the player-base, with all of the appraisal mostly centered on the game’s tactical play and approach.

The highly anticipated Siege Champions Program will help Ubisoft support and celebrate their community, backed by the leaders of the latter. This program will be inculcated across the globe, to be managed by Ubisoft’s regional headquarters. 

ASPECTS included in the Siege Champions Program:

The Siege Champions Program is made up of three different clusters of Community Leaders:

  • Content Creators: Streamers and videographers, we’ll give you information on what’s coming up in the game to help you produce your community content.
  • Fan Artists & Cosplayers: Fan artists and cosplayers, we’ll share guides and art assets with you so you can focus on channeling your passion and sharing your creations with the community.
  • Community Builders: Community-centered platform admins, we’ll share information and assets with you to help you animate your community channels.

Eligibility

  • Membership to the Siege Champions Program is invite-only. Community Leaders are selected based on their contributions, meaningful discussions, content creation, and more.
  • All Siege Champions Program members must be over the age of 18 and may not have broken Ubisoft’s Code of Conduct. 

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New Valorant Agent Will be a Controller, Confirms Riot

Sonu Banerjee
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New Valorant Agent Will be a Controller, Confirms Riot

It hasn’t been long since the release of the new Valorant Duelist Yoru, and fans have already started wondering about what the next Valorant agent is gonna be like. Luckily, in yesterday’s blog post on the ‘State of the Agents’, Riot Games has informed fans about their plans regarding the next agent.

Good news for fans of the Controller role in Valorant, since Riot has confirmed that the next agent is gonna be a Controller. However, unlike other Controllers already present in the shooter, the next agent is set to be a “cosmic shift from the play patterns you’ve grown accustomed to.”

According to the blog post, the agent is dedicated to all the “galaxy brain” players of the community who “like to study everything that happens on a map.”

No further hints have been left by the developers on what the abilities of this new agent might be.

Riot has also mentioned that Viper isn’t receiving any changes in the next patch, while Yoru is expected to receive some buffs since the team isn’t happy about the level of success the Duelist has achieved since its release.

Rainbow Six Siege reaches 70 million players

Prateek Jain
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Rainbow Six Siege reaches 70 million players

Released in 2015, Rainbow Six Siege is in its 6th year of development, and since then the game has registered more than 70 million players across Xbox, Playstation, and PC platforms. 

Last year in February, Ubisoft had reported more than 50 million users in their Q3 earnings for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. This year due to Covid-19 restrictions worldwide the game saw a huge boost in its player numbers and was able to register more than 20 million players in 2020. In their Q3 earnings for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, Ubisoft reported this impressive record for its popular tactical shooter game. 

In July last year, the company had reported more than 60 million registered Rainbow Six Siege players. Ubisoft celebrated the 60 million mark with a “Thank You” video directed towards the entire Siege community. And with the Year 6 reveal coming soon, players and fans can expect another “Thank You” video or a special event by the developers. 

Other key highlights of the report were, 

  • Ubisoft became the #1 publisher by unit sales on all platforms combined in 2020.
  • Ubisoft had a record number of unique players in the quarter.
  • Record revenue for AC franchise due to AC: Valhalla. 
  • Just Dance 2021 was the #8 best seller on Switch. 

Speaking about the company’s achievements, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said:

Our strategy continues to bear fruits

We achieved the strongest quarter in Ubisoft’s history, by far, thanks to the quality of our releases and the depth of our catalog. We are immensely proud of our teams who, in exceptionally challenging times, launched four great titles across multiple platforms and simultaneously continued to enrich our Live services. This is an unparalleled achievement and they showed remarkable adaptability and resilience. Our ability to execute at such a high level of quality demonstrates the power of our production model and the sustainability of our organization.

Ubisoft might rename Rainbow Six Quarantine due to Coronavirus

Prateek Jain
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Ubisoft might rename Rainbow Six Quarantine due to Coronavirus

Ubisoft’s popular tactical shooter game Rainbow Six Siege based upcoming game, Rainbow Six Quarantine might be getting renamed due to COVID-19 stigma around the name “Quarantine”.

As per a recent interview during Ubisoft’s most recent Q3 earnings call, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was asked about releasing a game with “Quarantine” in its title during a global pandemic which forced everyone around the world to quarantine themselves. Guillemot responded to the concern hinting towards a possible name change and said:

“On Rainbow Six: Quarantine, we are creating a product that is actually – as it’s named today – it is something we are evaluating and we’ll see what comes in the future on that product.” 

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Quarantine is a three-player tactical co-op game set several years in the future of the Rainbow Six universe. The game was first revealed during the E3 2019, where the company showed off the game’s intense and dark environment. 

Rainbow Six Quarantine was supposed to be released early last year, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, Ubisoft announced that the Rainbow Six Quarantine along with Far Cry 6 would be delayed for a release in 2021. During their recent fiscal call, Ubisoft confirmed that the game will launch before September 30, 2021.

A new Research claims that Pigs can Play Video Games

Prateek Jain
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A new Research claims that Pigs can Play Video Games

As per a research paper authored by Dr. Candace C. Croney and Dr. Sarah T. Boysen, Pigs can be trained to operate Joystick controllers to perform tasks like moving cursors on a screen or more advanced tasks of moving characters in video games. 

According to the research paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, the main goal of this research was to find out the limits of a pig’s capacity for complex learning and if pigs can be trained to operate joystick style controller to play computerized video-game tasks.

Two Panepinto micro pigs named Ebony and Ivory and two Yorkshire pigs named Hamlet, Omelette were chosen as test subjects for the research. During the research, the pigs were first trained on non-functioning controllers to get them used to operate the joysticks in test runs later. In the actual test runs, pigs were tasked to operate controllers and navigate in a joystick-operated video-game that required the subjects to the joystick to move a cursor until it makes contact with an on-screen target. All four pigs were able to complete the above task in their first attempt, much to the surprise of the Scientists.

When testing with two targets on the screen, the Yorkshire pigs had an accuracy of 78% and 70% respectively.  Both the Yorkshire pigs were more accurate while targeting vertical(up, down) targets compared to horizontal(left, right) ones.

As for the other two Panepinto Micro Pigs, Ivory had an accuracy of 76% and Ebony had only 34% accuracy. Both Ebony and Ivory were able to increase their accuracy further by the end of the 15 week testing period.

The scientist concluded that all pigs could associate the joystick movement to the cursor movement and can play a simple joystick operated computerized video-game. While dexterity limitations and visual constraints clearly hindered the pigs, their visual and motor capabilities were able to adjust adequately, and the pigs were able to show amazing dexterity and cognitive abilities.

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Popular DJ Zedd Might be Collaborating With Dr. Disrespect for Duo Valorant Stream

Sonu Banerjee
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Popular DJ Zedd Might be Collaborating With Dr. Disrespect for Duo Valorant Stream

Most of you may know Anton ‘Zedd’ Zaslavski as a DJ, but the 31-year-old is also quite skilled in Riot’s competitive shooter Valorant. The renowned dance artist managed to hit the prestigious rank of Immortal in Valorant while live streaming his journey on his Twitch channel. Zedd shared the good news on Twitter shortly afterward.

For the unaware, the Immortal rank lies just under the rank of Radiant, which is the highest rank achievable in the title.

To the delight of Zedd fans worldwide, it seems like we’ll be able to see a collaboration between the DJ and popular video game streamer Dr. Disrespect in the near future.

In a recent Tweet by the Doc where he claims that Valorant has got him hooked, Zedd replied, “Doc, it’s time for us to duo!”

While Dr. Disrespect hasn’t responded to Zedd’s proposal as of yet, fans are getting excited at the possibility of a collab stream between the two.

Unfortunately, Zedd won’t be able to stream the potential collab game live on his Twitch channel due to the platform’s ToS prohibiting streamers from playing with other banned streamers during live streams. However, the Doc is still free to stream the game on his YouTube channel without getting into any trouble whatsoever.

Kingdom Hearts series is coming to PC on Epic Games Store

Mohammed Sadiq
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Kingdom Hearts series is coming to PC on Epic Games Store

Kingdom Hearts is a long-running critically acclaimed RPG series where characters from Disney and Square Enix’s titles crossover. The games also feature locations from Disney’s movies and shows as well as levels from the Final Fantasy series. The upcoming Kingdom Hearts collection will include 4 titles; Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Remix Editions, Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind out of the 13 currently released titles for the first time on PC.

The series was previously only available on PlayStation with spin-off titles for Nintendo’s handheld platforms, however, it soon branched out to the Xbox platform with the release of Kingdom Hearts 3 and Melody of Memory.

The series primarily features Sora, a 14-year-old who is accompanied by Disney and Square Enix characters such as Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Tidus, and Squall Leonheart on a journey across various worlds to fight the “Heartless”. 

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and 2.5 Remix are available for $49.99 and the rest of the games are $59.99 on the Epic Games Store. It’s still unknown whether or not the games will release on Steam in the future, however, we’ll keep you updated.

Free Fire Valentine Star Event: Everything you need to know

Divyesh Moghe
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Free Fire Valentine Star Event: Everything you need to know

Free Fire is celebrating Valentine’s Day in its own way as it has added a special in-game event that offers some exclusive items for a small-time period. Free Fire is known for its innovative ideas in creating new events and this time, the new Valentine Star event is a tweaked spin system with some interesting rewards.

Garena is known for bringing some creative content in their flagship mobile game, Free Fire. Even though it is a battle-royale title, one can expect to see everything from a rugged army outfit to a furry costume on the in-game characters. These alluring skins tempt the player base and developers make sure that some of them are available for free via their in-game events.

Free Fire Valentine Star Event Details

Free Fire and its in-game events vary from normal daily tasks to big collaborations with prominent figures in various industries. One of the most common events in the game is a Spin cycle in which one can spend diamonds and unlock certain rewards. In the recent Valentine Star event, Free Fire has changed its format and added common items at the start. As one spends more diamonds on spins, special rewards are added in the vacant slot and you can claim everything after 10 spins.

Garena has provided a simplified set of steps through which you can unlock the rewards. The event description is as follows:

  • Spin Valentine’s star to win prizes
  • Each time players win a prize, it will be removed from the star
  • One grand prize will be added to the star after each spin
  • All grand prizes guaranteed within ten spins
  • The first spin is free

The special rewards included in this event are as follows:

  • Gloo Wall – Power of Love
  • Golden Rose – Backpack
  • Pet Skin: Valentine’s Fox
  • Season of Love
  • Rose Bandana

How to get Rewards in Free Fire Valentine Star Spin

Follow these simple steps to unlock several rewards in this event:

  1. Go to the Calendar section and click on ‘Valentine Star’
  2. Click on ‘Spin’ and it will unlock a random reward.
  3. Repeat the process until you unlock all the rewards.

Remember that a total of 10 spins are needed to unlock all the items and first one is free. The next spin costs 20 diamonds and prices will rise accordingly. This event is live from 10th February and will run till 18th February so make sure to unlock all the items before time runs out.

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