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Google shuts down Stadia’s First Party Game development Studio SG&E

Prateek Jain
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Google shuts down Stadia’s First Party Game development Studio SG&E

In less than 2 years’ time, Google has finally pulled the plug on Stadia’s only game development studio — Stadia Games and Entertainment (SG&E) to help it focus on the cloud-based service and its growing partnerships.

In a blogpost yesterday, announced that it’s “shutting down” Stadia game studios and is ending investment in SG&E’s exclusive titles outside of “near-term planned” projects. The company reiterates that it is determined to keep Stadia going, and some hard choices about the games and studios it supports were needed. The shutdown and change in focus at Stadia will help shape the service into a “long-term, sustainable business”. 

Phil Harrison, General manager and Vice President at Google Stadia said:

CREATING BEST-IN-CLASS GAMES FROM THE GROUND UP TAKES MANY YEARS AND SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT, AND THE COST IS GOING UP EXPONENTIALLY. GIVEN OUR FOCUS ON BUILDING ON THE PROVEN TECHNOLOGY OF STADIA AS WELL AS DEEPENING OUR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS, WE’VE DECIDED THAT WE WILL NOT BE INVESTING FURTHER IN BRINGING EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FROM OUR INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM SG&E, BEYOND ANY NEAR-TERM PLANNED GAMES.

SG&E lead and Assassin’s Creed fame developer Jade Raymond will be leaving Google to pursue other opportunities. While most of the SG&E team members will be moving on to new roles within the company. 

Phil also assured current and future subscribers of Stadia that the game service will carry on as normal, and subscribers will get to see more games added over time. This overhaul will help Google to expand its catalog of third-party titles rather than Google’s own.

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Pokimane shuts down a Valorant hater

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Pokimane shuts down a Valorant hater

Pokimane had her hater deactivate his Twitter after he called her “boosted” over a funny clip of her getting scared, upon which defended her skills as a Valorant player.

Pokimane is the biggest female streamer on Twitch and naturally is subjected to a lot of hate, most of which are towards her unpolished skills in games which leads haters to call her “boosted”. For those who don’t know, a “boosted” player in someone who is sitting at a rank far superior to the one they deserves.

One such hater called her “boosted” in her chat that lead to her getting furious at the person in question upon which she expressed her feeling over at Twitter. “I’ve been playing Valorant sine beta,” she said. “Hit Diamond numerous times, have three ranked accounts, you clearly don’t know this because you don’t watch my stream. Yet you have the audacity to call me boosted off a 5-second clip of me being scared lmao.” she said.

She claims to have hit Diamond rank a number of times, which her previous streams are an evidence of. Other than that, she also has multiple accounts with ranks that speaks to her skill in the game. “Welp my aim’s good enough to be Diamond so and if you’re going talk s**t in my chat don’t be surprised if my mods ban you lmao, it’s elementary,” she added.

Judging anyone is not something to be proud of, not at least when you drop a verdict from a single clip alone. Pokimane fans reached out with overwhelming support and defender her against the boosted level, and anyone following the footsteps of that particular hater will be banned by her mods in future.

Cloud9 Blue sign Poiz

Bharat Kotwani
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Cloud9 Blue sign Poiz

Cloud9 on Twitter have announced the signing of Michael “poiz” Possis to their Valorant Blue roster as a sixth player. 

Known for his trampling game-play in Valorant’s ranked mode, Poiz has been handed a massive breakthrough in his career by signing up with Cloud9 for their Valorant Blue roster. Back then when he played by the IGN, “DOINKMACHINE97”, he placed second on the North American Leaderboard in October 2020 followed by his first-ever #1 finish on the same in the very next month. Poiz mainly plays the role of a duelist with Jett and represented team SOR at the first strike where they breezed past through Team XSET in the qualifier. He was later supposed to stand in for Immortals at the ongoing VCT but was unable as the request for the same was withdrawn.

The 19yo North American Prodigy used to play Overwatch before he made the switch to Riot’s First-person tactical shooter and since then has been on a spree with a KD ratio of 1.49 from his competitive games. According to reports, he might replace Mitch “mitch” Semago which will allow the latter to play his role as a sentinel on the team. As of now, no assumptions can be made with his future at Cloud9 whether he will step in as a permanent player or play a specific set of maps. Before getting Poiz, Cloud9 signed Nathan “leaf” Orf from Chaos Esports, Son “Xeta” Seon-ho from their Korean Squad with whom they earlier parted ways along Yoon “Autumn” Eu-teum as their head coach. 

With this addition, Cloud9 Blue are now:

  • Mitch “mitch” Semago
  • Skyler “Relyks” Weaver
  • Daniel “vice” Kim
  • Nathan “leaf” Orf
  • Son “xeta” Seon-ho
  • Michael “poiz” Possis
  • Yoon “autumn” Eu-teum (Head Coach)
  • James “JamezIRL” Macaulay (Assistant Coach) 

Olofmeister set to retire from CSGO

Bharat Kotwani
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Olofmeister set to retire from CSGO

In an interview with cybersports.ru, FaZe’s Marcelo “Coldzera” David revealed his organization’s future plans with going into the 2021 pro circuit. The 26yo 2x Major winner talked about his teammate Olof “olofmeister” Gustafsson who will be retiring from competitive CSGO.

Olofmeister will be ending his 8-year long illustrious career at Counter-Strike, where during his time at the same, he went on to win two Majors in the same year (2015) with Fnatic. In 2016, he was adjudged as the 6th best player and 19th in 2017 by HLTV.Org. Olof, who was on a hiatus until October 2020, chose to represent FaZe after he was poised to fill in the void left by Nikola “NiKo“ Kovac on the active roster which saw the latter joining the multi-talented french side G2 Esports.

Coldzera added, “In the near future, we planned to make two replacements, the transition of Twistzz has already been announced. The next step will be to replace olofmeister, who will end his career. He doesn’t want to play Counter-Strike anymore. We will announce the name of the fifth player in March or April.”

The European Mixture underwent a plethora of roster changes which saw Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras taking over the sovereignty after Olof’s decision in  May 2020 but was soon replaced by Markus “Kjaerbye” Kjærbye on the starting five. 

What’s next for FaZe Clan?

Lately, Finn “Karrigan” Anderson, the In-game leader at Mousesports had been linked to his former team whom he represented from 2016 till 2018 after he was recognized by Coldzera as the best In-game leader from across the globe along with Lukas “⁠gla1ve⁠” Rossander, and Gabriel “⁠FalleN⁠” Toledo.

According to Coldzera, FaZe will announce their fifth player in either March or April. The European side had recently signed Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken from Team Liquid which saw Kjaerbye moving to the bench.

FaZe Clan will play Team Liquid on Feb 13th at the BLAST Premier Spring series in a bid to qualify for the finals scheduled to be held in June.

How to Heal and Revive Characters in Genshin Impact

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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How to Heal and Revive Characters in Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact offers several ways to heal and revive characters, rather there are several ways around cooking and spending money on items. Here’s how to revive characters:

Statues of the Seven

Statue of the Seven offers healing in the name of Statue’s Blessings, that can be used to swiftly heal all of your party / The locations can be teleported at and are available across the map.

  • The statue will automatically heal your party when you stand near it.
  • It even revives fallen characters, so you don’t need to eat your revive foods.
  • Check how much healing power that the statue has left by interacting with it.
  • The statues regain their power over time.
  • You can even teleport to statues when you’re in combat in the world.
  • All statues share restorative power, so you cannot use different statues for additional healing if they reach 0
  • Unless your party is frequently wiping, the restorative power of the statues is a free and effective way to heal; they should be Your main source of healing while playing Genshin Impact.

Heal by leveling up

If healing is your only concern, then you might consider leveling up swiftly as it will render your HP back to its full strength. However, this won’t be useful if your characters need a revive.

Heal using artifacts and weapons

Artifacts and weapons carry the ability to heal. For example, the Traveling Doctor artifact 4-piece bonus is a 20% heal every time you use your Elemental Burst, and the Adventurer artifact 4-piece bonus is a 30% heal upon opening a chest. Weapons like the Traveler’s Handy Sword can restore 1.75% HP for an Elemental Orb or Particle.

Heal and revive using characters

Characters too have HP-restoring abilities:

  • Barbara* (Hydro)
  • Jean (Anemo)
  • Noelle (Geo)
  • Qiqi* (Cryo)
  • Diona (Cryo)
  • Bennett (Pyro)
  • Xingqiu (Hydro)

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Valorant Purchase History: How to Check Your Valorant Purchase History

Pranav Nalawade
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Valorant Purchase History: How to Check Your Valorant Purchase History

Valorant is one of the hottest PC Titles as of now with nearly 3 million people logging into the game everyday. Like any other popular FPS titles, Valorant offers an array of skins. You can easily check out your Valorant purchase history. Here is how to do it.

However, Valorant’s store follows a rotation system which means players have access to purchase certain skins for a limited period of time.

Valorant does not pack an in-game feature to check your Valorant spendings throughout the lifetime of the game. However, you can access your complete Valorant purchase history easily.

Valorant Purchase History – How to Check All Your Purchases? 

  • Visit the “Checking Your Purchase History” Riot support thread by clicking on this link
  • Login to your Riot Account
  • After logging in to your Riot account click on the ‘Get Your Purchase History’ Button
  • Your Purchase history will then follow and will include all the purchases you have made in the lifetime of the game

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CSGO Servers are Down Today [February 05]

Aritra Patra
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CSGO Servers are Down Today [February 05]


On February 5th, CSGO players across the Globe reported outages of the game servers. It’s still unclear what caused the outage, but it could be due to a number of reasons.

The first and common cause of server outages is a new update. When a new update is shipped to the game, the servers can go down for a short while. However, in case of an update, the servers can be up quite quickly.

Another reason behind server outages may be a technical fault in Valve’s servers. This is very unlikely to happen but has happened on more than one occasion in the past.

In case you’re finding yourself unable to launch CSGO or join a game, you can check for yourself if CSGO servers are down.

There are a number of websites to check server statuses of popular games like CSGO or DOTA 2, and even the server status of Steam itself. One of the most reliable websites to check server issues is steamstat.us; it shows detailed stats on the statuses of game coordinators of Dota 2, Artifact, CSGO, TF 2 along with reports of server outages.

So next time you find yourself in a similar situation, don’t panic and take your time to check if the servers are down. Another renowned website to check server outages is down detector. Besides those, you can always follow TalkEsport to see the latest updates on server outages throughout the world.

Nico opens up about her stalker

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Nico opens up about her stalker

Stalkers are nothing new for female streamers and latest streamer to open up about her experience with stalkers is nico.

Nico has been a part of the community for a long time and her long stay at Twitch has been slightly unpleasant due to a stalker who has gone to extent of publishing an intimate blog about her. She claimed this view “has always been kind in chat, showed up when they could, and always seemed like a chill dude,” all while maintaining a blog romanticizing the streamer in a “deeply delusional” manner.

For obvious reasons she didn’t link the blog herself in her statement, but she claimed to be aware of its existence for about 5 years and did not come forward as it contained far too inappropriate writings for her to “stomach”.

“I am informed that there is a blog about me that’s been going on for about 5 years of him being deeply delusional about me,” she said. “This person watched many of my streams and took anything I said in any general context and made it about him. ‘Connecting dots’ in ways where if I wore a shirt that he had a general interest in, he thought I wore it for him,” added nico.

“He talks about calling me his girlfriend. There are posts stating that I am his girlfriend, that he wants to know what it’s like to call me his girlfriend, how to ask a Twitch streamer out, and even has a post where he says he has a dream about someone putting a ring on him, and that it was me.”

Her confession has been showered with posts from fans showing her their support and given how she was harassed, contacting authorities was the prime option available to her but rather she looked for support in her fans.

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Esports Org North Shuts Down Due to Financial Difficulties Amid Pandemic

Sonu Banerjee
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Esports Org North Shuts Down Due to Financial Difficulties Amid Pandemic

Popular Esports organization North has shut down all operations due to financial struggles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Denmark-based organization shared the news in a Tweet earlier today. 

Owing to financial difficulties as a result of the unfortunate pandemic, Parken Sport & Entertainment and Nordisk Film chose to stop investing in North and focus on their core businesses instead. 

“We have searched the market to get one or more co-investors on board the project, but have unfortunately not found the right match,” Lars Bo Jeppesen, chairman of North and director of Parken Sport & Entertainment, said in a press release. “It will require significant continued investment to create a sustainable business in the future and therefore we believe that the sole responsibility for our overall business is to focus all our focus on our core business in FC Copenhagen, Parken, and Lalandia, just as Nordisk Film will focus on its large core and growth businesses.”

The press release states that FC Copenhagen will take over the FIFA roster from North in order to continue being a part of the eSuperliga. However, the (now former) CSGO and Apex Legends rosters of North will likely be discontinued.

ROG Masters APAC 2021 announced

Bharat Kotwani
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ROG Masters APAC 2021 announced

With over $32,000 up for grabs, ROG Masters is back in the Asia-Pacific region with a series of events ultimately leading to the finals where 16 teams will lock horns against each other to clinch the title.

After a three year hiatus, the Asus sponsored event has revealed its plans for 2021 with a tournament exclusively for Asian teams. This event will feature teams from across 15 countries who will fight their way up through the national qualifiers in a bid to grab a spot at the sixteen team finale event. Registrations for the same will run from Feb 8 till 28.

As mentioned above, the national qualifiers consisting of teams from the below list of countries will engage for a spot at the ROG Masters APAC 2021 Finals. 

Countries eligible for the National Qualifiers :

  • India
  • Australia
  • South Korea
  • Japan
  • Hong Kong
  • Sri Lanka
  • Bangladesh
  • Philippines
  • Cambodia
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Indonesia
  • Singapore
  • Malaysia

Top teams from their respective provinces will be directly placed in the finals of the Qualifier event while others will have to go through a series of match-ups as per the format. To register for the National Qualifier event, you can visit here to know more about the same.

A stand-alone prize pool has been declared by the event organizer for each of these above-listed countries.  The final 3 qualified teams from India will stand to win US$800 for first place, US$400 for second place, US$200 for a third-place The top 16 teams from this event will advance to the finals where they would be battling for a mammoth prize pool of $15,000.

The latter will be split in the following way :

  • Champions:  $10,000 
  • Runner-ups: $3,500
  • Third place: $1,500

Registration for the first ROG Masters Asia Pacific tournament opens on February 8, 2021, at the tournament’s official website at https://rogmasters.gg/

Registration closes on February 28, 2021 Further details, match schedules, pro team information as well as rules and regulations can also be found on the tournament website; https://rogmasters.gg/

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