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G Fuel join forcers with Logic to drop a new flavor

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Ever since retiring from the rapping industry,  Robert Bryson Hall II aka Logic has been actively involved in the gaming and music industry and his fame has reached the point where G Fuel drops a new flavor dedicated to him.

G Fuel has announced the launch of “Bobby Boysenberry,” on Feb. 17, a flavor dedicated entirely to the former rapper. A limited-edition of the same is will also be released parallelly which will include a Bobby Boy shaker. The flavor will supposedly be sweet which appeals to Logic’s liking. The pre-orders for it have already begun but fans across the world will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on it.

“We’re humbled and honored to expand our five-year partnership and collaborate with Logic on producing G Fuel Bobby Boysenberry,” “This flavor is dedicated to all the Bobby Boy fans around the world who want increased energy and focus as they overcome obstacles and conquer challenges in both life and gaming,” said G Fuel founder and CEO, Cliff Morgan.

G Fuel dropping a flavor dedicated to Logic should not come as surprise as upon leaving the gaming industry, he has been streaming non-stop, and to top it off, he has funded an esports organization in Chaos Esports Club that dropped its CSGO roster only a few days ago. His venture into gaming has been nothing but successful which is evident from his viewership statistics.

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Free Fire announces a collaboration with Attack on Titan

Free Fire has announced yet another big collaboration with a popular anime series. In this global partnership, Garena is going to partner up with ‘Attack on Titan’ and bring several elements from this anime to the game. Attack on Titan is one of the most popular anime series right now and such collaboration is bound to engage the fan base even more in Free Fire.

Garena always surprises its users when it comes to unique collaborations. Recently, they collaborated with One Punch Man which is another anime series and as a result, a complete lineup of skins, items, and in-game events based around this series was launched. Previously the leaks hinted about this collaboration but this next collaboration was packed and delivered the hype.

Attack on Titan is currently a trending series with its final season almost coming to an end. It is based on fiction around the fabled Titans and has amazing storytelling with several plots and twists. Free Fire grabbed a perfect opportunity to announce this collaboration and will be releasing the related in-game content very soon.

This collaboration was announced through the social media handles and the announcement was as follows:

“Garena today announced a global partnership with Kodansha to bring Attack on Titan content into Free Fire. The partnership unites one of the most recognizable modern Japanese anime series and one of the world’s most popular mobile games. It also builds on Garena’s strategy to elevate the Free Fire experience for players by partnering with some of the world’s most prominent names. The crossover event will go live in March. Free Fire’s partnership with Attack on Titan will offer players the opportunity to get their hands on content inspired by the series once the collaboration goes live in March. Fans of Attack on Titan can look forward to charging into battle wearing the colors of the Survey Corps division, as well as costumes inspired by the fearsome man-eating Titans. There will also be plenty of other exclusive collaboration content, including gun skins and other in-game items and collectibles.”

As mentioned above, a long-range of themed content will be coming to Free Fire in March 2021. Similar to previous collaborations, we might dedicate in-game events with special prizes, some themed bundles based on protagonists, and weapon skins inspired by Attack on Titans.

This collaboration has certainly hyped up the Free Fire players to look forward to an interesting season with the next update. It will be interesting to see how some elements from Attack on Titan will be implemented in Free Fire.

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New CSGO Update Revamps Shorthanded Income and Timeouts

A new update has been shipped to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and it aims to fix the disparity between teams that are a man down and their opponents after Valve’s decision to remove bots from competitive matchmaking. 

While fans weren’t exactly pleased at the decision at first, Valve has introduced a number of changes to compensate for the added disadvantage of not receiving a bot in the team when a player disconnects from a ranked game. 

One of these changes included the shorthanded loser income that teams received after three rounds of being a man down. The $1,000 bonus income may not seem to be a lot of money, but it helped teams balance their economy properly to enable them to handle a 4v5.

Today’s update revamped the shorthanded income to be given every round regardless of a win or loss. 

On top of that, Broken Fang Premier team tactical timeouts have been changed from 4x 30 second timeouts to 2x one minute timeouts. While the total duration of the timeouts are still the same, the fewer number of pauses might help players maintain their focus in the game.

Here are the CSGO changelogs for the February 3rd patch:

  • Short-handed income is now given after every round regardless of a win or loss.
  • Broken Fang Premier team timeouts have changed from 4x half-minute timeouts to 2x one minute timeouts.

Former C9 psychologist David Dennis joins T1 as head coach

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T1 on Twitter have announced the signing of David Denis as their new head coach. 

Nearly a month after they parted ways with their former head coach Daniel “fRod” Montaner, Korean-North American Organization T1 have signed David Denis who will be stepping in the shoes of the former CS professional. 

Denis previously worked at Cloud9 as a psychology trainer where he assisted the League of Legends and CSGO divisions throughout his tenure at the same. At the end of his contract, he transitioned to a performance coach at Team SoloMid where he helped them to scale great heights at the First Strike tournament. He too had a short stint at Gen.G’s along with Evil Geniuses’ professional CSGO teams.

This is the first time ever, David takes up the head coach role as until now, he was a Psychology trainer as mentioned above. More recently, T1 had failed to Qualify for Valorant Challengers Tour 2021: North American Challengers #1 after going down to Andbox in the round of 16. It is definitely a new beginning for T1 as DaZed has reportedly taken up the In-game leading role along with David as their new coach. 

With this new addition, T1 Valorant now looks like:

  • Sam “DaZeD” Marine (Captain)
  • Braxton “Brax” Pierce
  • Keven “AZK” Larivière
  • Tyler “Skadoodle” Latham
  • Ha “Spyder” Jung-woo
  • David Denis (Head Coach)

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Valkyrae says Among Us is not dead

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Valkyrae became the most-watched female streamer of 2020, off the back of the Among Us hype train, which according to statics starting to show signs of cooling down, but she begs to differ.

The pandemic met a sudden rise in the number of Among Us players which helped several YouTuber’s including Valkyrae to grow immensely in a short period of time, but that the hype is starting to cool off, the community doubts that she won’t be able to post similar numbers that she did in the past year.

As interesting as the game is, Among Us has been slow in introducing new content that will keep the players engaged, but fans complained that the game was starting to burn them off and they would rather play something else than play Among Us.

“Surprisingly people are still enjoying it,” “There’s still views for it on YouTube. I definitely have the most viewers when I play Among Us on YouTube and the videos do really well,” he said in the last episode of The CouRage & Nadeshot Show. “I personally am not burnt out,” “I just wish they would add more content faster,” she added.

Now that Valkyrae has pointed out the flaws with Among Us’s content, they might as well look into it and work on providing content on a frequent basis to keep their fans engaged.

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How to Cure Poisoning in Stranded Deep?

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Stranded Deep is an open-world survival video game that gained a lot of popularity recently. While playing this game and exploring the whole island, you can get poisoned by numerous creatures. Therefore, you need to find out a way to cure the poisoning.

How to Cure Poisoning in Stranded Deep?

It is easy to make an antidote to cure the poisoning in the game. A coconut flask and a pipi plant are all you need. There are a lot of pipi plants all around the islands. You just need to gather them together.

You can make the coconut flask with one lashing and one coconut. Climb up or cut down the coconut trees to get the coconut and gather fibrous leaves to craft the lashing.

Once you are done, go to the crafting menu and find the consumables. Now you are ready to craft the antidote that will cure the poisoning of the following creatures:

  • Snake
  • Sea Snake
  • Lion Fish
  • Sea Urchin
  • Crown of Thorns Starfish

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Activision bans over 60,000 Warzone accounts for cheating amid Community uproar

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Earlier this week, several prominent professional Call Of Duty Warzone players called Activision out for their inability to upkeep the game’s authenticity with hackers running rampant across the game. 

Several high-profile players have already called it quits over rampant cheating and those that still remain are upset. Just last week YouTuber Vikkstar, whose real name is Vikram Singh Barn decided to quit and released a video saying Warzone was in “the worst state it has ever been”.

Vikkstar has over seven million subscribers on YouTube and his video about his decision to quit quickly went viral and has been viewed over 1.2 Millon times already. 

Following his video, the community started pressuring Activision to take strict steps and quell the rampant cheating. Joining in with the demands of the community several other professional players like Summit1G, NICKMERCS, and Drift0r also questioned Activision’s inability to add anti-cheat measures and maintain authentic Warzone tournaments. 

Yesterday in a blog post, Activision finally responded to the community’s demand and banned more than 60,000 accounts for cheating in Call of Duty Warzone. “There’s no place for cheating,” Raven Software said. “We’re committed to this cause. We are listening and will not stop in our efforts.”

Since Warzone launched in March 2020, Activision had issued more than 300,000 permabans worldwide and ensured the community of increased efforts “to identify and address cheat providers at the source”.

As per a report by Vice, yesterday’s ban wave hit EngineOwning customers the most forcing EngineOwning to update its official site with a developer’s message indicating that they are “updating” the cheat. Sources with knowledge of the bans said that “Anyone that used EngineOwning since the last banwave was wiped out.” 

This is the second-largest wave of bans that Activision issued against Warzone cheaters since the game was released in 2020. In April last year, the company banned more than 70,000 accounts followed by another 20,000 accounts in September.

Activision is now working on adding more detection measures, adding new resources dedicated to monitoring and enforcement, and regular communication updates on progress, with more of a two-way dialogue between Warzone developer Raven Software and players.

Apex Legends Mobile to have a soft launch in China

Electronic Arts is planning to launch Apex Legends Mobile in several regions in the next three to four months and China will be the first country to receive it. According to the reported information, EA will be releasing the game very soon and Japan could be the next country on this list to get Apex Legends Mobile.

Apex Legends is a popular battle-royale game and has made a name for itself in the market due to a unique gameplay. EA tried to implement the same mechanisms in a mobile game and announced the launch of Apex Legends Mobile during a financial results briefing by the EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson.

EA planned to begin the beta testing of this game in China in the latter half of 2020 but due to some unknown reasons, it was never launched. In a recent EA conference call, the topic of Apex Legends was addressed and hence it was revealed that the game is ready for soft launch in various regions in the next quarter of 2021.

Daniel Ahmed, Senior Analyst at Niko Partners, broke down the points discussed at the conference and revealed that Apex Legends Mobile will come to China in the next four months and EA plans to expand Apex Legends franchise to reach newer audience.

It was also stated that Japan is the second largest market for Apex Legends and hence, the developers made a Switch version, which is very popular in the country. As Apex Legends has grown in Japan, it is quite possible that it will also receive a soft launch in the next part of the testing.

Apex Legends is one of the most awaited games in the mobile gaming market and as big names like PUBG and League of Legends have already ventured into the mobile market and emerged out quite successful, it can be said that Apex Legends could be the next big hit in mobile gaming industry.

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Valorant Battle of Agents: House of Esports to host 100,000 INR event in Association with Immortals India

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House Of Esports is the latest domestic Tournament organizer to delve into the Valorant realm, announcing the ‘Battle of Agents’ event, boasting a prize pool of 100,000 INR.

The Mumbai-based esports organization has not revealed much detail about the event apart from the prize pool and the fact that the registrations are now open. Hence, it will be intriguing to see if the event includes a new format variant and whether it will involve invites or will entirely be an open registration event.

Valorant has become a household name in the Indian esports scene, with the Riot Games title quickly becoming the most popular PC esports title in India as the majority of the CSGO scene chose to transition into Valorant, owing to the regularity of events for the game along with the increasing eyeballs on it.

Team Mahi has, thus far, gained bragging rights as far as India is concerned, winning every major tournament that has taken place within the Indian scene while also representing the region at the PVP Esports Finals 2020, achieving a credible 3rd place at the event.

With registrations now open for everyone, House Of Esports is giving you the opportunity to test your mettle against Team Mahi and other Indian Valorant giants like XTZ Esports, GodLike Esports, Global Esports, Reckoning Esports, Enigma Gaming, and more.

Fellow Valorant warriors, it is ‘Time to Unleash the Agent in You’ and enter the ‘Battle of Agents’. You can register for the event here.

OG win decider, enter playoffs

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OG wins group decider game at CS Summit 7 against Dignitas. The Swedes failed to carry forward their momentum on Dust2 as they went down 1-2 in the best-of-three affair, despite extravagant performance by Friberg & Forest.

The result of the game was already favored on betting sites such as Unibet, which offers a large variety of esports bets and odds, heavily favoring OG. The Swedish side brought up a pretty tough fight considering they were notably the underdogs of the game.

Map Veto:

  • OG removed Vertigo
  • Dignitas removed Mirage
  • OG picked Inferno
  • Dignitas picked Train
  • OG removed Nuke
  • Dignitas removed Overpass
  • Dust2 was leftover

Map 1: Inferno (Picked by OG, Won by Dignitas, OG 11:4 ; 0:12 Dignitas, Score : 16-11)

OG came out all guns blazing, storming to a 10-2 lead on the T side of Inferno, their own map pick. Dignitas looked helpless during those initial stages with the European mixture led by Aleksi

“Aleksib” Virolainen tightened up and gradually took the upper hand as they ended the half 11-4.

In the second half, still hungry for momentum, Dignitas culminated their pistol round win on their offense into a complete second-half triumph after Håkon “hallzerk” Fjærli and Ludvig “HEAP” Alonso combining for 30 frags to spearhead the team’s comeback.

OG started to look destitute and listless after Adam “friberg” Friberg’s 4k with his AWP locked out the former from the A-site resulting from a famished setup. The Swedish side showcased a ruthless effort as they denied a single round in the favor of OG on their defense by going up 1-0 in the BO3 series.

Map 2: Train (Picked by Dignitas, Won by OG, Dignitas 7-8; 8-5 Dignitas, Score: 16-12)

An early lead went the way of Dignitas there on the back of two triples from Patrik ‘f0rest’ Lindberg and HEAP before Mateusz “mantuu” Wilczewski responded with a plethora of quick scopes to put OG on the board.

The two sides went on to trade rounds back and forth, with the European mixture coming out on top to claim an 8-7 advantage as they headed over to the offense. In the second half, OG then imposed their will on the Swedes’s pick as the latter tried to claw back on their defense, posting five rounds but Aleksib’s troops remained well in control as they wasted little time taking the map over the line.

Hallzerk added another big round to his name in the second half, sniping three offensive players on the A-site, but his heroic efforts were rendered meaningless once OG took control with guns in hand, running away with the map 16-12.

Map 3: Dust2 (Decider map, Won by OG, Dignitas: 9-6; 6-9 OG, OT 1: 4:1 in favor of OG)

Reinvigorated after their victory on Train, OG set the pace on the attacking side of Dust2, setting up a lead of 6-4 early on, but the tables turned as Dignitas were able to keep the offensive side on the bay thanks to f0rest’s 3K B-site defense in the 14r, eventually winning the last five rounds in a row to lead 9-6 at the switch.

The Swedes hit double digits after winning the anti-eco round post their pistol loss. We saw yet both the sides win rounds back and forth resulting in the map entering Overtime thanks to Mantuu who sniped the marching T’s on the A site. In the overtime, despite going up 16-15, the Swedish side couldn’t keep the momentum going as OG clinched the map 19-16 and won the series 2-1.