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Nioh 2 players will receive Free Armor sets ahead of Nioh 2 Remaster’s launch on PS5 and PC

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Koei Tecmo shared some exciting details ahead of Nioh 2’s PC and PS5 launch, they will be giving away two armor sets to all existing and new Nioh 2 players. This limited-time bonus will be available starting February 5 until February 26 and will be delivered via a small update.

Team Ninja showed off the Ornate Gold armor as well as the Sohaya Deserter garb on Twitter.

PC players will be getting complete keyboard and mouse support, ultra-wide display options, frame rates up to 144Hz, HDR compatibility, and 4K resolution as well as an extra bonus cosmetic item, Steam Helmet. While PS5 users can expect ultra-fast loading times and up to 120fps and improved visuals over the current version.

Nioh 2 is currently available on PS4 and was well received by fans and critics alike.

The PC version will be releasing on February 5 on Steam as well as remastered versions of both Nioh titles dubbed The Nioh Collection for PS5.

PewDiePie promise surprise upon YouTube return

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Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg announced his break from YouTube but now is all set of an early comeback, with a “big reveal” on its way with him. Fans speculated a month long break initially but it has been cut short to a couple of weeks as Pewds made his fans wait till 20th January.

Earlier this month, PewDiePie announced his break from YouTube, which came as a surprise for many given the fact he barely misses a day of upload. They were supportive of this decision and showered his socials with heartful messages after he said his mental health is getting affected. “I don’t really take breaks and I feel like I just need it” he said while announcing his break. The work that he puts in to upload daily videos is bound to take a toll on his mental/physical health.

Upon his return to YouTube, Felix was quick to disclose a big reveal set for the 23rd of this month, making fans wonder what could it be. As excited as they were with an earlier than expected comeback, the teaser of the “big reveal” got them as hyped as ever. Although he didn’t emphasize what the big reveal is he did say it under a Minecraft avatar, thus it can be assumed something hilarious is on the way.

With his diverse history in content creation, it might be a diss track, a new collaboration video, merch drop or might as well be another book, since we didn’t have one in a long time. Felix rarely disappoints with his content, so whatever it is, fans will be definitely be entertained for the least. Until any further teasers are dropped, we must wait till 23rd to find out what it is.

Gootecks finally responds to Twitch removing his PogChamp emote

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Ex-Street Fighter pro and Cross Counter TV owner Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez has responded to Twitch’s removal of PogChamp emote by uploading a new response video talking about Twitch’s decision to remove the original PogChamp emote and how it’s wrong. 

On January 6 right after the failed extremist attack on US Capitol, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez tweeted out asking his fans on Twitter if there would be a “civil unrest for the woman who was executed inside the Capitol”. Shortly after his tweet went viral, Twitch acted quickly and deemed that Gooteck’s tweet about the Capitol violence goes against the platform’s TOS and was “encouraging further violence”. Right after that, Twitch removed the PogChamp emote.

“We’ve made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote following statements from the face of the emote encouraging further violence after what took place in the Capitol today.“

“We want the sentiment and use of Pog to live on – its meaning is much bigger than the person depicted or image itself– and it has a big place in Twitch culture. However, we can’t in good conscience continue to enable the use of the image.”

Twitch swiftly implemented a new solution and decided to introduce a “New PogChamp” emote daily featuring various streamers on the platform.

Announcing the response video on Twitter, Gooteck tweeted out saying

“I got been locked out of Twitter for tweets about [HCQ] on 08/04, not the video I posted 01/06. 

Twitch has chosen to remove the PogChamp emote from the platform(?) as a response to a tweet.

My response will be on YouTube soon.”

While the new solution is working as intended, the original face of PogChamp emotes Gooteck was unhappy with the way Twitch handled the situation. In the response video uploaded on his Cross Counter TV Youtube Channel, Gooteck pointed out inconsistencies in the actions of both Twitter and Twitch. While his Tweet was deemed “unwanted and inciting violence” by Twitch, the social media site in question — Twitter didn’t take any action against his Tweet and only locked his account temporarily for another tweet. 

Peachachoo opens up about her involvement in ongoing drama

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Peachachoo has finally opened up about her involvement in the ongoing feud between Bob7 and Destiny where the latter is throwing some serious allegations at the former that has got multiple people in the community involved.

TBob7 has been accused by Destiny of manipulating and deceiving a number of female streamers with Peachachoo being one of them. According to Destiny, TBob7 has leaked private chat messages that put a strain among the female streamers causing them to doubt each other. Bob since then has pushed a “manifesto” where he goes point by point and defends himself against every allegations thrown at him by Destiny, and further adds more screenshots to attest his claims.

Peach has been dug deep into this drama that has forced her to come out and publish a statement where she claims to enjoy it all as a spectator. Her statement indicates that she has no part to play in this feud and minds her own business by staying out of all this. “drama this. drama that. i’m just eating beans” read her statement.

The drama has pulled more attention than it deserves, for something meaningless, the feud has got a lot of significant people involved who has a reputation to defend. Whether or not these accusations has some truth to them, the best outcome for everyone will be to let go off it and move foreword with a fresh start. Pulling on this will do more harm than good as nothing good ever comes out from digging old graves.

Xeppaa joins Cloud9 CSGO roster

Cloud9 on their Twitter have announced the addition of Erick “Xeppaa” Bach to their CS:GO division.

As earlier reported by TalkEsport and 1pv.fr, Xeppaa would now represent the Iconic North American Organization who would go on to fill the void previously left by the Turkish Sniper Özgür “⁠woxic⁠” Eker earlier this week.

The 20yo Prodigy along with his teammates were released by Chaos Esports Club in December 2020, after the “Ongoing Corona Pandemic” hindered the organization’s ability to support the team. At Chaos Xeppaa averaged with a 2.0 rating of 1.17 from a map win rate of 65.4% and had also steered his team to clinch the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 North America title where they breezed past TeamOne in the BO5 Grand Finale.

In the announcement video, Xeppaa stated,

“My personal goal is to show that I can compete on a high level, especially against these top European teams. Our team goal is to win every event and do as well.”

Cloud’s general manager Henry “HenryG” Greer on Twitter revealed Xeppaa’s contract deal. The young guns will be staying on the team for the next three years starting this January, with his deal value to be $432,000 USD across his tenure. Xeppaa will be taking up the Entry-fragger role on Cloud9.

Cloud9 CSGO Team:

  • Ricky “⁠floppy⁠” Kemery
  • Alex “⁠ALEX⁠” McMeekin
  • William “⁠mezii⁠” Merriman
  • Patrick “⁠es3tag⁠” Hansen
  • Erick “⁠Xeppaa⁠” Bach

PUBG Mobile: PMGC Finals Day Two gets delayed due to network issues

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PUBG Mobile Global Championship has been temporarily postponed due to prevailing network issues for some players. The grand finals of PMGC were supposed to be held in the Coca Cola Arena in Dubai in a LAN environment but due to several issues, the tournament was entirely taken to the online mode. As this was the backup plan, some issues have popped up and have caused the delay in PMGC Finals Day Two until further notice.

The start of PMGC Finals were a bit shaky as the entire setup of this tournament was altered because three players tested positive to COVID-19. For the safety of other players, PUBG Mobile Esports decided to shift this tournament to the online mode and teams were supposed to compete from an isolated environment. This instant change in operations may have caused few problems for the organizers.

The proceedings of PMGC Finals Day Two were halted midway and casters revealed that some players are facing minor issues. The matches began with a slight delay but the problem persisted and hence, the first map was restarted. After the rematch, the stream was halted and a ‘Delayed till further notice’ banner was popped up on the screen.

The casters also explained that this decision was taken because some players were facing network issues. It was also said that the problems are identified and being resolved for the time being. PUBG Mobile Esports instantly issued a statement on their social media handles and apologized to the players and fans for the inconvenience caused.

PUBG Mobile Global Championship is the biggest PUBG Mobile event of the year and the decision to shift it to a new mode was instantaneous and hence, some problems were bound to happen. The time period required for resolving these issues is not mentioned but if the problem is not solved, the Day Three of this tournament can be postponed as well.

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Free Fire: Garena bans over 30 million accounts for hacking

Garena has taken a big leap in their plans to curb hacking and cheating in their famous battle-royale title Free Fire. In the Free Fire ‘2020 Anti Hacking Annual Review‘, it has been revealed that Garena has banned over 30 million hackers over the course of last year. The majority of the actions come from the anti-cheat protection but player reports also played a big part in it.

Every game is ridden with the problem of hackers and while their extent varies across each title, one thing that remains constant is the will of some players to bypass several layers of protection and tamper the original files to have an unfair advantage over others in the matches. For a battle royale game, hackers are a very big problem and it seems like Free Fire is tackling them efficiently.

Free Fire initially launched a program named Operation Cutcord in which they have claimed to ban 700,000 accounts reported by the players and a total of over 3.8 million accounts after deploying their new anti-hack detection system. This was followed with several banwaves in the future and a total accumulation of all these numbers has been covered in this annual report.

A total of 30M accounts were banned and 69% of these users were banned by anti-cheat detection system implemented in Free Fire and rest of the accounts were banned after other players reported them in-game. This also reveals that players have a huge role in curbing the hacking problem in Free Fire.

The hackers were banned for use of several cheats and a rough amount of each cheat used was revealed in the announcement video. The numbers are as follows:

  • Auto-Aim: 36%
  • Through Walls: 23%
  • Teleport: 17%
  • Antenna: 11%
  • Others: 13%

This action clearly indicates that Garena is readily implementing a good enough anti-cheat system to keep the in-game environment clean for the other players. As the game has huge player base, such large number of bans were necessary to ensure that hackers are getting punished for their wrongdoings.

Also Read | REGISTRATIONS FOR FREE FIRE INDIA CHAMPIONSHIP 2021: SPRING SPLIT TO BEGIN SOON

PMGC Finals Day 1 Standings

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The PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020 (PMGC 2020) League Stage ended on December 20th. The top 16 teams qualified from the league stage will participate in the grand finals held at Coca Cola avenue Dubai. The league stage took place from November 24th to December 20th with a huge prize pool of $769,000.

The PUBG Mobile Global Championship  Finals is begun from yesterday. The top 16 teams from around the world will battle for a massive prize pool of  $1.2 Million. Approximately 8.77 crore rupees in Indian money. The four-day event was scheduled to take place at Coca Cola Avenue in Dubai but was changed as three of the players got testes positive for COVID. OnePlus 8T 5G smartphone is the official smartphone provided to the players to play the PMGC Finals.

The first day of the PUBG Mobile Global Championship Finals has successfully ended. Klas Digital Athletics is leading the overall table at the end of the day with 31 kills and 80 points, with Four Angry Men on the second spot with 34 kills and 75 points. Natus Vincere is in third place with 30 kills and 68 points.

Four Angry Men won the first match of the day, on Erangel, with nine kills, Natus Vincere finished in second place with nine eliminations. Hasaki from 4 AM was awarded the MVP award for three kills.

The second match was won by Abrupt Slayers on Miramar with eight kills, A1 Esports finished in second with six kills. 
The third match on Vikendi was won by klas Digital Athletics with eight kills, Power888 KPS in second place with ten kills. Sylas was the MVP with four kills.

The fourth match, on Erangel, was won up by Natus Vincere with nine kills. Oldboy from NaVi was awarded the MVP with four kills.
The fifth game on Sanhok was won by Secret Jin with five kills, followed by Konina Power in second with seven kills. TSJ Kenqzo was the MVP  with five kills.

The sixth and final game of the day,  on Erangel, was won by Four Angry Men with 11 kills, followed by Alpha 7 Esports with six kills.

FaZe Rain gives an update on his recovery

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FaZe Clan co-owner Nordan “Rain” Shat went under recovery in the summer of 2020 after he was caught abusing drugs on Instagram live. He comes out after months giving us a short update on his recovery process.

In the March of 2020, Shat was forced out of the FaZe House after the news surfaced. He went under a recovery process without proving any update until now. Fans were extremely disappointed with him when they found out about multiple issues surrounding him and things turned worse when the same drugs started to take a toll on his body to the point it left him paralyzed.

Rain’s intentions were clear from the start, he was quick to realize his mistake and opened himself up to a recovery process. Apparently, things have been going well that is evident from the tweet. Although things going well doesn’t mean that he will be back to his YouTube lifestyle.

https://twitter.com/FaZe_Rain/status/1307008951821561856

Heading into 2021, things are getting better for him. “The pain is spreading and getting worse and worse every day. I can’t live like this. If only you knew how fucked I am. Trying my best I promise.” tweeted Rain back in September. However, in his latest tweet, he confirms that he has been free of drugs for 5 months now, thus a YouTube comeback can be expected soon.

Drug abuse is a terrible thing, and for someone like Rain who is looked upon my millions of kids, this might act as a bad influence for them. Better late than never, Rain has realized his mistake and has taken a respectable way out of it. We hope 2021 turns out a better year and he can return to his glory days of vlogging and gaming.

Twitch bans Metzy’s Warzone Team after a cheating scandal

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One of the biggest Call Of Duty Warzone events of the year hit a snag after allegations of cheating surfaced against the Trio of METZY_B, kyrptic_j0ker, & Unifyz participating as a team in the $250K Twitch Rivals Doritos Bowl Warzone event.

The cheating allegation came in after some players noticed the Trio taking extremely sharp aim towards the end of the fourth round of action. After this several Warzone veteran competitors also began accusing the players of cheating and soon an investigation was called upon the game and the event was paused. 

100 Thieves’ Tommey shared various clips of the Trio using auto-aim to lock-on enemy players. His video went viral on social media and soon other professional players also joined Tommey, particularly FaZe’s Nickmercs, who was the first to support Tommey’s suspicion and tweet out saying:

“Unfortunately without anti-cheat, authentic Warzone tournaments just aren’t possible anymore. We learned a lot from those Gauntlets & I’ve been tellin’ y’all. There’s too much cheese & way too many rats. Bob & weave baby.”

The organizers were soon to react and banned the Trio from the competition. Event host Caleb ‘WavePunk’ Simmons later released a statement where he explained:

“Based on the evidence submitted from various sources in and out of the tournament, [Twitch has] determined that [their] gameplay was unnatural beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Soon after the disqualification, Twitch opted to move forward with the event and continued the day from the fifth map with one less team in the lobby. 

METZY disqualified from Twitch Rivals Warzone tournament

After being disqualified from the tournament, one of the members of the Trio, METZY_B joined Tommey’s Discord call and showed his PC, the programs he’s been using, and more, in an attempt to clear his name. Tommey, after investigating the situation, conceded that METZY_B was clean and got it wrong this time and there wasn’t enough proof to go on with the ban.

“I apologize for that, which’ll mean very little to a lot of you and I know that. I didn’t want to take it any further but nobody else seemed to care (bar one or two) and he asked if I’d talk to him so he can prove he was clean, which he did.”

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While METZY wasn’t reinstated to the tournament, many critics deleted their tweets after Tommey apologized. Tommey also clarified that he played no part in reporting METZY to the admins or forcing his removal and the player is “more than welcome to take his earnings” from the event.