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How to vote for new Twitch PogChamp emote

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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How to vote for new Twitch PogChamp emote

Twitch has requested its users to join in the live stream where they will vote in a new PogChamp Twitch emote after over 30 entries are being taken into consideration.

PogChamp has been one of the most iconic emotes of all time and has been synonyms to “hype” ever since it came into fruition. For the entirety of the past month, Twitch let the fans come up with their version of the emote that gave rise to over 30 legitiamte candidates that will be the future of PogChamp, leaving it upto all their users to vote in the new emote.

“After 35 PogChamps in 35 days, The PogChampening is upon us. You decide what the future of hype looks like. Tune in and vote live, February 12 at 12pm PT on http://twitch.tv/twitch.” reads their announcement. Till the voting starts, everyone with an entry is rooting for their own emote to be the new face of PogChamp.

Twitch had the previous PogChamp removed for its creator was accused of encouraging violence across social media. This sparked a backlash in the community and Twitch were on the receiving end of it for removing everyone’s beloved emote. Now that a new PogChamp is getting voted in today, there is something for everyone to rejoice about.

Ubisoft’s Star Wars game is in the early stages of development

Mohammed Sadiq
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Ubisoft’s Star Wars game is in the early stages of development

Massive Entertainment, a studio under Ubisoft is working on their next title set in the Star Wars universe, and it is the first time in history that a company other than EA will be working on a Star Wars game. The franchise has been relatively successful for EA, as they have raked in $3 billion altogether and their exclusivity deal was signed in 2013 for a period of 10 years.

Ubisoft’s Chief financial officer Fredrick Duguet unveiled Ubisoft’s next project which is in the early stages of its development cycle and stated that it was  “an incredible opportunity” for them,

“The Star Wars galaxy is an amazing source of motivation for our teams to innovate and push the boundaries of our medium,” he said. “Building new worlds, characters, and stories that will become lasting parts of the Star Wars lore is an incredible opportunity for us, and we are excited to have our Ubisoft Massive studio working closely with Lucasfilm Games to create an original Star Wars adventure that is different from anything that has been done before.”

Reportedly, it will be built on the Snowdrop engine, which is also the engine for The Division series, indicating that the game could have RPG looter-shooter elements similar to that of The Division. Massive’s Avatar project is also developing a game based on The Avatar series which will also utilize the Snowdrop engine. But that doesn’t mean EA will be abandoning the franchise as they have announced more plans for future Star Wars games along with the awaited sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

That being said, we’re still years away before it’s launch as EA still holds the exclusivity rights until 2023.

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Valorant Agent Specific Keybinds are Currently in Development

Pranav Nalawade
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Valorant Agent Specific Keybinds are Currently in Development

Since the early days of Valorant, fans have been raising repeated demands for agent-specific keybinds in the tactical shooter.

Last year, Riot Games had confirmed that they’re planning on adding agent-specific keybinds at some point in the future. While no exact date was given, fans still held their hopes up high for this highly anticipated upcoming feature.

In today’s blog post (Ask Valorant), the developers behind Valorant have once again updated fans on the status of this feature.

The devs have confirmed that the feature is currently in the works. However, no specific timing about its release has been given as of yet.

As stated by Riot, the agent-specific keybinds can be expected to arrive in Episode 3, which is still a few months away.

Photo: Riot Games

These sorts of keybinds will enable players to customize their gameplay a lot further with separate keybinds for each agent’s abilities.

An example of this feature can be found in popular MOBA titles like Dota 2 or some shooters like Overwatch, where players are allowed to freely set binds for the abilities of every hero.

Fortnite Season 5 Week 11 XP Coin Locations

Sonu Banerjee
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Fortnite Season 5 Week 11 XP Coin Locations

The week 11 missions of Fortnite Season 5 are already here, and fans are eager to complete all the Valentine’s Day challenges to gain themselves some sweet XP for their Battle Pass.

If you’re looking to gain some extra XP this week on top of that, you should start collecting each week’s XP coins.

Today, we’re gonna take a look at the locations of the newly-released Week 11 XP coins.

The week 11 XP coin locations have been revealed by Fortnite dataminer VastBlast in a recent Tweet which you can take a look at here:

This week, Fortnite players will be able to find:
1 x Gold Coin

2 x Purple Coins

3 x Blue Coins

4 x Green Coins

The gold, purple, blue, and green coins will reward players with 20k, 10k, 6.5k, and 5k XP respectively, which is a collective total of 74,500 XP.

Valorant Night Market Returns

Bharat Kotwani
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Valorant Night Market Returns

Valorant developer is back with yet another Night Market v 2.0, now available. 

After the 1.14 patch, Valorant provided the community with its first-ever Night Market which aims to provide the player base with weapons at discounted rates. Sometimes getting the skin bundles from the store can be a way more hefty job. Night market allows you to get either Prime, Deluxe, or other grade weapons at a slightly lower price than their original.

The Night Market will never offer you a discount on an entire bundle, but only single skins from a bundle. You’re blessed with a total of six weapon skin cards which are revealed once flipped. 

The previous iteration of this new feature was heavily criticized for its algorithm, but with this revamped 2.0 edition, you stand a chance to get at the most two Prime Editions from the set of collections you don’t own. 

Also, once you flip your cards, you won’t get more than two skins of the same weapon.

The only way you can refresh your weapon skin cards is if you purchase the currently available choices. You have 12 more days left to redeem all of the six offers and as mentioned above, after every purchase, there’s always a new offer exclusively waiting for you. 

Apex Legends Mobile to be developed by Tencent

Divyesh Moghe
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Apex Legends Mobile to be developed by Tencent

A new contender is coming to the mobile battle-royale market as reports of Electronic Arts launching Apex Legends Mobile are emerging. In a recent development about the Apex Legends Mobile story, it was revealed that the game will be ‘soft launched’ in China in the next quarter with Japan following closely and now, another report states that the game is being developed by Chinese conglomerate Tencent.

Those who are familiar with mobile gaming know very well that Tencent is a household name when it comes to mobile games. The battle-royale genre games were dominated by PUBG Mobile which was completely developed by Tencent and soon afterwards, COD: Mobile was launched in to the market where Activision partnered up with Tencent for the development of this title.

A new report by IGN India has stated that Tencent would be developing Apex Legends Mobile with EA’s Respawn studio supervising the project. This information aligns with the fact that Apex Legends Mobile is said to be launched in China first and Tencent could be testing a stable build in their home country.

Apex Legends has been a hit in battle-royale games and as the trend has followed, any popular title coming to mobile market has been very popular since the very beginning. Games like PUBG Mobile, COD Mobile and now League of Legends: Wild Rift are considered the very best in their genre.

Tencent is also known for developing top notch games and if Apex Legends Mobile is being developed by them, it is safe to assume that the game will be launched with ample amount of features and a stable build. The beta testing of this game could start very soon and we might get to see the first look in the next few months.

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Valorant is back with Night Market 2.0

Bharat Kotwani
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Valorant is back with Night Market 2.0

Valorant developer is back with yet another Night Market v 2.0, now available. 

After the 1.14 patch, Valorant provided the community with its first-ever Night Market which aims to provide the player base with weapons at discounted rates. Sometimes getting the skin bundles from the store can be a way more hefty job. Night market allows you to get either Prime, Deluxe, or other grade weapons at a slightly lower price than their original.

The Night Market will never offer you a discount on an entire bundle, but only single skins from a bundle. You’re blessed with a total of six weapon skin cards which are revealed once flipped. 

The previous iteration of this new feature was heavily criticized for its algorithm, but with this revamped 2.0 edition, you stand a chance to get at the most two Prime Editions from the set of collections you don’t own. 

Also, once you flip your cards, you won’t get more than two skins of the same weapon.

The only way you can refresh your weapon skin cards is if you purchase the currently available choices. You have 12 more days left to redeem all of the six offers and as mentioned above, after every purchase, there’s always a new offer exclusively waiting for you. 

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Yamaha forays into esports with EVOS

Ngugen Tshoma
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Yamaha forays into esports with EVOS

EVOS Esports, the leading esports organization in Southeast Asia, has garnered the support of Yamaha’s ‘Generation 125’ as an official sponsor. This new collaboration by Generation 125 supports the younger generation to continue developing the esports industry further in Indonesia. 

Generation 125 is the nickname for Yamaha 125cc’s Matic motorbike users consisting of FreeGo, Fino, X-Ride, Mio series, and the latest product named GEAR 125 adapts the character of the current generation with the design, technology, and features that are ‘Definitely Cool’, ‘Definitely Uphill’, ‘Definitely Strong’, ‘Definitely Economical’ and ‘Definitely Reliable’ which will make users ‘Win More’ because they gain more value in the same price range as a 110cc Matic motorbike.

This is what keeps Generation 125 ahead because they are the younger generation who are passionate, dare to bring positive changes, never give up, geared to win in everything including esports tournaments. 

Takeyama Hiroshi, Deputy Director of Marketing of PT. Yamaha Indonesia Motor Manufacturing (PT YIMM) said, “The high enthusiasm of the younger generation in the esports industry is the motivating factor for Generation 125 in collaborating with EVOS Esports; in supporting the achievements of Indonesia’s younger generation. Yamaha’s ‘Generation 125’ product has now become the choice of the younger generation as a companion in their daily routine, thus this collaboration is expected to further increase the enthusiasm and optimism of Indonesia’s younger generation to continue to advance and move forward. With EVOS Esports, let’s: Let’s GEAR UP, GAME UP, and Win More! “

Generation 125 as the official sponsor for EVOS Esports, marks a breath of fresh air for the esports industry, which is getting a lot of support from various industries in developing the esports ecosystem in Indonesia

Wild Rift is coming to Latin America in March 2021

Divyesh Moghe
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Wild Rift is coming to Latin America in March 2021

Riot Games has finally included a new major region in the final phase of releasing League of Legends: Wild Rift globally. After a long wait, the American fans can officially access Wild Rift in their own region from the next month as a Latin America . Riot Games is yet to include NA and Indian region in the global release.

League of Legends: Wild Rift was one of the biggest announcements alongside Valorant in 2019. These two games were promised to be fully released in 2020 and Valorant was on schedule but Wild Rift was delayed due to global pandemic. The massive shutdown caused several operational delays to the Wild Rift team and hence, the launch was postponed.

After a long wait, Riot Games began their open beta testing in SEA region for a while and soon included almost every other region except Americas by the year end. Wild Rift team stated their plans to release Wild Rift in American region in Spring 2021 and they are living up to their words as the game will be fully available in Latin America by March.

The official Twitter handle of League of Legends: Wild Rift Latin America has stated this release and one can expect the full-fledged launch by next month. The announcement does not cover the North American region but it could be added to the list very soon.

The reason of this delay in launch was difficulties in setting up servers but as LATAM is already added, one can expect an NA server in Wild Rift in the next couple of months. Same could be considered for Indian region as well.

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Mineski and Wild Rift to host a $200,000 tournament in Philippines under PPGL

Divyesh Moghe
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Mineski and Wild Rift to host a $200,000 tournament in Philippines under PPGL

Riot Games has kickstarted their official Wild Rift Esports tournaments for the Southeast Asian regions by partnering with several regional partners to host local tournaments. One of those regional partners is Mineski for the Philippines and it has announced a detailed plan to host a Wild Rift tournament under the Philippines Pro Gaming League(PPGL). This announcement introduced a unique points system with a total prize pool of 10M Philippines Peso[~$208,000] and a two seasonal event format.

LOL Esports initially announced their plans to build a sustainable esports ecosystem for their new mobile title LOL: Wild Rift and this move is their first step in fulfilling that promise. In an article, Riot Games Southeast Asia Esports announced Wild Rift SEA Icon Series Preseason for seven countries with regional hosts for each country. Currently, each tournament will be held individually and other details will be announced in the upcoming days.

Wild Rift PPGL Tournament Details:

Mineski soon revealed a detailed structure that includes a two seasonal format with open qualifiers and a unique point system that offers one peso for each point earned. In this system, a total of 5 million points could be earned per season, making the total prize pool of 10M Philippines peso or 200K USD.

This tournament is broken into four groups and each one has its own group stage. In these four regions, different numbers of matches will be played between qualified teams as given above and points will be distributed accordingly. Once the teams gain enough points, they will head to Playoffs. The entire calendar overview for each region is given below:

A total of four regions are present namely North Luzon, South Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Each group will have two seasons of Summer and Fall Split. The first season will begin in March 2021 and Fall Split will start in July. Each season will have a group, playoffs, and a finals stage.

At the end of this tournament, the winner will be crowned with Summer Super Cup and Fall Super Cup. The prize pool distribution is not mentioned for now and whether these winning teams will be qualifying for any global event or not is yet to be revealed.

This tournament is a big boost for Wild Rift Esports and especially for a region like SEA where mobile esports is thriving very well, such local events will shape a pathway for Riot Games to implement even bigger and better tournaments in the future.

Also Read | LOL Esports commits to bring Wild Rift Esports in 2021

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