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Wall Street Stays Puzzled As GameStop stock surges 1600%

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Twenty twenty was truly an year of weird winds. The repercussions hasn’t yet ended. GameStop, the American retailer’s stock has been throwing tantrums at fund managing firms. So much so that the stock has surged over 1600% despite the odds.

Why do I say odds? Because the retail market worldwide has been massively hit by the global medical pandemic COVID-19. And GameStop is the major player of video games in the United States, the worst-hit country by a coronavirus. As the market started to slow down, market research firms and analysts marked GameStop as bearish, with obviously justified metrics.

Just last year GameStop’s stock was trading well under $4.02 and today, it made new highs of $159.18.

What is fueling Game Stop’s meteoric rise?

Reddit. It’s no joke. Market analysts and researches have been down rating GameStop’s stock, thus, making it garner attention of Reddit community, which has now taken it as a challenge.

It is based on no metric, no fundamentals and absolutely no intrinsic value to justify the price. Citron Research the lead bearish firm on Game Stock clashed with Reddit’s army head-on with currencies. After the rebuttal, GameStop’s market value went over $4.5 billion briefly on Friday.

On the flip side, activist investor and Chewy Inc. co-founder Ryan Cohen was added to GameStop’s board, which is a new development and opens up a wide range of avenues for the company to restructure its operations.

Despite the expert executives, financial charts and in-depth analysis, accumulated of experience & fancy tools, Reddit had the last laugh this past week.

Pokimane banned from Mizkif’s chat during live stream

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Mizkif banned Imane “Pokimane” Anys from his Twitch chat during a live stream that yielded a hilarious reaction out of her.

Just when Pokimane was going through Mizkif’s Twitch the “little people” emoticon got her interest to which she wondered if she can have one for herself and her chat. She realized the aforementioned emoticon was limited to his chat upon which Mizkif handed her a ban from the chat to which she made a hilarious face for us to laugh at for ages. Although before mentioning the emoticon, she took her sweet time to feel superior for having a higher message per minute than him.

“I’ve way higher mpm”………aww this little people is so cute can we add him,” she was just done saying this when Mizkif’s chat disappeared leading to a hilarious reaction from her. Pokimane was having her “Just Chatting” session with her fans just when this happened making it funny enough for her fans.

Though one can say that boasting your “mpm” on a less popular streamer would be something we won’t expect but as it seems Pokimane was really satisfied upon feeling superior. Soon his mods were able to unban her, which speaks to fact that Mizkif was having some fun at her expense. He was dissatisfied with the comments she made to which he decided to unban her.

Pokimane is one of the top streamers on Twitch, and someone like her rubbing stats on lesser-known streamers can make her look like a wealthy bully. Incidents like these speak to the mentality of the streamers on the upper echelons of Twitch who should help others grow rather than boasting stats on them, a shoutout or mention benefits lesser-known streamers instead of flexing stats.

Twitch streamer LosPollosTV opens up about not refunding accidental donation

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Well known Twitch streamer Louis ‘LosPollosTV’ Sammartino has denied refunding the $350 donation from an avid fan that otherwise would have been $3.50, he later defended his position during a live stream.

Twitch donations have been a way to send messages to your favorite streamers, fans often use them to share their problems, success, and several other emotions. During a stream on 24th January, LosPollos was blessed with a $350 dollar donation which to his surprise was an accidental one as the fan originally intended to donate $3.50. Upon backing down from offering a refund he got severe backlash from the community. Later during a stream, he explained his position while defending his decision to not return the fan his money.

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“I’ve been a nice guy about this too many times, I don’t care anymore. It literally says all donations are nonrefundable, what’s up?” “Are you trying to sue, what’s up? I’m sick of this s**t. This literally happened last week.” said LosPollos. Legally speaking, LosPollos is right to deny the refund given the number of stages of confirmation are present during the donation procedure. The statement also indicates the fact that this is not his first rodeo, rather this has happened several times before where he has been generous enough to provide his fans with a refund.

To address the situation in a different way, Pollos will donate $50 to seven lucky subscribers that adds up to a total of $350, the same amount the fan claimed to have accidentally donated. Such accidents take place often, and it is not always right to blast the stream for something he holds little responsibility for, rather than giving him a hard time, donators should take the procedure seriously to avoid any accidental donation in the future.

Where to find Pinecones in Genshin Impact

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Day 2 of the Marvelous Merchandise event in Genshin Impact has already begun, and more and more players are tuning into the game to earn some sweet rewards. Today’s quest given by Liben requires players to find Sunsettia, Carrots, and Pinecones. This guide will be focused on the locations of Pinecones across Mondstadt.

Genshin Impact Pinecones Location

The quest requires players to find only a set of 5 Pinecones, which means you won’t have to do a lot of exploring once you know the right spots to find those.

Pinecones are primarily located towards the North of Mondstadt. To be more precise, take a look at the map below. The area that’s circled represents where you’ll need to be to obtain five pinecones.

Once done, all that’s left for you is to get 5 Sunsettia and 5 carrots to complete the quest from Liben.

Free Fire celebrates India’s 72nd Republic Day with exciting in-game activities and rewards

Free Fire, the world’s most downloaded mobile game in 2020, is all geared up to celebrate India’s 72nd Republic Day. Developed and published globally by Garena, Free Fire has lined up a host of exciting in-game activities and rewards to enable players in India to enjoy this momentous occasion.

This builds on the immersive mobile battle royale game’s efforts to continuously delight the expansive and fast-growing gaming community in India with engaging and localized content. 

Celebrating India’s 72nd Republic Day with exciting in-game activities and rewards 

Free Fire’s Republic Day activities promise tonnes of thrills and excitement. Starting today till 31 January, players will get the chance to receive a free premium character trial card and a free legendary gun skin trial card for each day that they log in – enabling them to enjoy the full fun of different play styles.

The character trial cards will include none other than the legendary Hrithik Roshan’s official character, ‘Jai’, and the latest character, Chrono. That’s not all! If players check-in for 9 days consecutively during this period, they will also get to claim 5 legendary gun boxes and 3 weapon royale vouchers to up their game. 

Garena has also added something extra-special into Free Fire to celebrate this historic occasion with a bang – quite literally! From today, players can collect firework tokens as they play more and more games. These firework tokens can be used to redeem the brand-new gun skin, P90- Midnight Mafia. 

In addition, there will be other exciting rewards on 26 January. To mark the date, 26/1, players will get a chance to get 2 Diamond royale vouchers, 6 Justice Fighter Gun Boxes, and 1 incubator voucher. 

Free Fire’s dedication towards its Indian community

This Republic Day celebration takes forward Garena’s efforts to entertain and engage the Free Fire Indian community with localised experiences specifically tailored to them.

Some of the recent highlights include the introduction of Hindi in the game, the streaming of esports tournaments in local languages, and the hosting of community engagement activities such as a YouTube influencer engagement party in Goa.

Last year, Free Fire also introduced the “Light Up Bermuda”campaign to celebrate a #FreeFireDiwali with all their fans across India; partnered with superstar Hrithik Roshan in the “Be The Hero” campaign to launch the game’s first playable Indian character; and developed the #IndiaKaBattleRoyaledigital and outdoor campaign.

Game Breaking Valorant Bug Lets Omen Teleport Without Cooldown

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In under two weeks of the introduction of the highly anticipated Episode 2 of Valorant, the game has witnessed a considerable number of game-breaking bugs featuring multiple agents. While some of these bugs haven’t been able to cause much harm in competitive, some others have made players terrified to queue for ranked games before they are fixed by Riot.

The list of game-breaking bugs in Valorant was extended further when Reddit user u/LogicaLogix demonstrated a glitch that lets Omen teleport to any point in the map freely without cooldown.

As shown in the video, this glitch can be replicated by using Omen’s ultimate and cancelling the animation using an ability right as you’re about to teleport.

The Reddit user further said, “you have to pull out your knife and left click on the map at the same time, then use an ability right before you tp.”

If executed properly, this game-breaking bug can be replicated at will to teleport to different locations in the map as many times as a player wants.

Fans are looking forward to Riot Games shipping out an update to fix this bug. However, the possibility of Omen being temporarily removed from matchmaking once again is also becoming a cause of concern for a portion of the player base.

Minecraft fame Dream facing backlash for blaming his fans

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Dream is facing backlash for blaming his fans over encouraging “CP” through artwork. The Minecraft star said he was not comfortable with it and his fans were acting on their own to publish such inappropriate content.

Dream’s newfound fame was off the back of Minecraft, and collaboration with the mainstream entertainment industry.

Just like Corpse Husband, he was able to roll with the big boys of YouTube without a face cam, with purely entertaining content. Given his involvement in multiple controversies previously, he wouldn’t mind getting into one more to defend himself.

His fans were certain of the fact that dream was comfortable with” CP” and made it the reason behind why they were creating inappropriate fan art with minors involved. However, Dream says otherwise and feels disgusted for the fact that minors are getting dragged into NFSW content.

He goes on and says that in none of his videos, had he ever encouraged CP nor he is fond of his stans using him to shield themselves. The Minecraft star Dream finds the backlash getting pointed in the wrong direction.

https://twitter.com/Dream/status/1352705286818115593?s=20

“YouTuber Dream has refused to condemn murder after one of his fans turned out to be a murderer. Will he finally be held accountable? Tune in at six to find out.” tweeed Dream rhetorically. Though his intention were pretty clear, he is tired and dissatisfied with his fans pointing their anger at the wrong direction.

There is no saying which way the drama is headed, as Dream fans are certain that the YouTuber is at fault to encourage such things later disowning his fans when they tired making artworks for him. A detailed explanation his side is needed or this drama will be dragged into something worse which wont benefit neither the community nor Dream himself.

Navi vs Vitality clocks a record breaking 500K concurrent viewership

During Navi’s face-off against Vitality in the Lower Bracket run of the BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020, viewership numbers shattered the charts. The third map of the Lower Bracket Finals being played between Navi and Vitality has clocked a record concurrent viewership count of 687,691, making it the most-watched online CSGO match in history.

The viewership record was also previously reigned by Navi vs Astralis squaring off at the ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe, which attracted 568,406 live viewers.

This record was broken four times during the BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020 with the other two matches having Navi involved with their fight against Team Liquid during the day-two matchup and a playoff elimination game on day five that attracted 569,159 and 592,089 viewers respectively.

Navi emerge victorious at the BLAST Premier Global Final 2020

Keeping aside the viewership the CIS team has attracted, irrespective of not being able to start the league on a good note Natus Vincere managed to clinch the BLAST Premier Global Final 2020 after defeating after clean sweeping Astralis 2-0 in the Best of Three Grand Finals. The CIS originated team will take home $600,000 as prize money.

Navi had to defeat Complexity, G2 Esports, Team Liquid, Team Vitality, and Astralis during their race to the top. Our hearts were warmed after seeing Navi’s star player S1mple shed a tear after being crowned the Blast Premier Global Final 2020 Champions. With this win, Navi has finally come forth their dry spell of not being able to bag any major tournament wins.

Xbox Games With Gold for February 2021 Announced

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After the aftermath of the Xbox Gold price increase and an instant reversal of that decision, Microsoft has finally revealed the free Xbox Games with Gold coming in February 2021. 

Like every other month, in February Xbox Gold Live and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will have access to the five games for a limited time. Typically the games offered are from older gen Xbox generation — Xbox 360 and Xbox One, playable via the Backwards Compatibility program. 

In February players will be able to claim one of Microsft’s original — Gears 5. Gears 5 is an Xbox Series X|S optimized title, meaning the game will take advantage of the power of Xbox Series X| S and enable players to experience reduced load times, support for Quick Resume, variable refresh rates, improved Real-time lighting quality, variable-rate shading, and 120 FPS in Versus. On Xbox Series X, players will also get access to the Ultra-HD pack and Ultra-Spec graphics quality settings previously only available to PC players. Xbox Series X also allows for 60 FPS in campaign cinematics, contributing to a seamless blending of gameplay and cinematics.

The list of games coming this February:

Xbox Games With Gold for February 2021:

  • Gears 5 (February 1, 2021 – February 28, 2021): Released in 2019, Gears 5 is an Xbox One original title that also launched on the PC platform. It is the sixth installment of the critically acclaimed Gears of War series and the sequel to Gears of War 4. Gears 5 was relaunched last year with special optimizations for the latest gen Xbox Series X|S consoles. 
  • Resident Evil (February 1, 2021 – February 28, 2021): First released in 1996 as a PlayStation 1 game Resident Evil, and it later came to Xbox 360 in 2005 with a remake of the original game that defined the survival-horror genre back in its time. The game was again offered on Xbox One through the backward compatibility program and will be available on Series X|S through the same backward compatibility program. 
  • Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition (February 16, 2021 – March 15, 2021): Released in 2018, Dandara is a 2D platformer game. The world of Salt hangs on the brink of collapse and players as the protagonist, Dandara has to transverse through this bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion and arise as the heroine, a ray of hope awoken to reshape the world. 
  • Indiana Jones and The Emperor’s Tomb (February 1, 2021 – February 15, 2021): Based on the popular film series, Indiana Jones and The Emperor’s Tomb offers a heart-stopping new adventure to the fans. Released in 2003 on Xbox 360, the game takes place in 1930s China, where players as Indiana Jones are hired to recover one of the most powerful artifacts known to mankind before it falls into hostile hands.
  • Lost Planet 2 (February 16, 2021 – February 28, 2021): Released in 2010,  Lost Planet 2, is the 3rd entry into the 2.7 million-selling third-person action shooter game series. Over 10 years on from the events of the first game, Lost Planet 2 returns to the troubled world of E.D.N. III, with a globe-trotting story of a planet torn apart by the battle for precious thermal energy.

ESFI Ranks “Top Valorant Team” Except, It’s Not Even In The Best 5

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Esports Federation of India, which places itself as one of the associative bodies of esports in India has revealed a “national ranking for esports.” The games include Call of Duty Mobile, Valorant & Garena’s Free Fire.

The ranking celebrates the winners in each title as Team Resilience, Team Adbhut & Team Checkmate, respectively. However, no form of metrics is declared in the release. The only performance indicator assessed is a few friendly games played by casual teams in the past few weeks.

The teams mentioned for Call of Duty & Free Fire are still arguable objective, but Valorant’s ranking is simply ludicrous. The players could well be among the best ones in India even though no one has ever heard about them. But a team is more than the players, it’s an organization that has a structural base, far from just being competitive players.

No pro games, atleast not significantly

Team Adbhut, who is named the best team in India for Valorant hasn’t participated in any major event. Even if they have, there were clearly no significant results that elevated them into becoming India’s top Valorant team.

ESFI’s “top-ranking” for Valorant is nothing but a conclusion derived from a panel that has limited knowledge about the professional esports spectrum in India.

The Real Top Valorant Team in India

Unquestionably, Team Mahi, which was previously known as VLT is the top Valorant team in India. The assessment is by taking into account their activities into the professional scene and results of the tournaments they have participated in with other pro teams.

Team Mahi is one of the most prestigious Valorant rosters of the country packing CS:GO veterans like Tejas “Rite2ace” Sawant, Karan “Excali” Mhaswadkar, Sabyasachi ‘Antidote’ Bose, Anuj ‘Amaterasu’ Sharma, and Sagnik ‘Hellfighter’ Roy. Since its formation, the team has been on a winning streak and has won every tournament they have participated in. Team Mahi is also the first Indian team to represent India at an International Valorant event after they qualified for the PVP Singapore for Valorant.

Others in the list of top Valorant teams in India are Global Esports, Noble Esports, Godlike & Paratroops.

India’s Valorant scheme has been shaping quite sharply since after multiple former CSGO pros made move to the Riot’s new FPS title. The gaming scene as a whole in India has surged to newer heights with the introduction of Valorant. The community in India which was mostly comprised of PUBG Mobile started to look around for different titles when the Tencent-published game was banned in India.

These teams have been squaring off against each other for months and are always able to emerge at the top of all the big leagues in India like the ESPL, Skyesports League, and TEC Valorant Challenger Series. However, none of them were featured in the national rankings released by ESFI which makes us question the intrinsicality of these ratings.