Valorant just landed its brand new Fan made skin bundle, The Matte Black Collection. With the pre-loaded default skins available in this pack, you can finally call yourself a proud owner of at least one skin bundle in the game.
This new collection features 5 weapons with a jaw-dropping matte black finish. Here is the list of the weapons made available once you get this bundle from the store.
1. Ghost
2. Phantom
3. Operator
4. Spectre
5. Melee knife
These won’t cost you a single penny and would be made available free of cost. Though yet to be acknowledged officially by the game developer, we might soon be able to grab the same from the store.
Chill out, it’s just a satire. Now get back to the game.
“Valorant Matte Black” fan made skin bundle revealed
Registrations for Free Fire India Championship 2021: Spring Split to begin soon
Free Fire Esports is kickstarting its yearly esports season in India with the first open-for-all tournament named Free Fire India Championship. The new iteration of this tournament will bring a three-week-long League session with several intermediate stages. For the first time, the prize pool of this tournament is skyrocketed to a whopping amount of ₹75,00,000 for the Grand Finals.
Free Fire India Championship is the highest level of Free Fire tournament in the country where powerhouses from all the corners gather and fight out for the lion’s share of this prize pool. Free Fire has gained a large amount of popularity in recent times and hence, its esports scene is thriving in India.
The older versions of FFIC were never at par with the current format and production level. Due to the rise in quality, several big names are going to try their hands on this title. Recently, their esports team released a trailer video for FFIC 2021, and from it, several details about this tournament have been revealed.
Free Fire India Championship 2021 Spring Details:
Free Fire India Championship 2021 Spring will start the registration process from next week and in the upcoming days, teams will have to qualify from the tedious in-game qualifier system to get to the initial stages of this tournament. In the Free Fire Cup [FFC Mode], the in-game qualifiers will take place and from that, the top 48 teams will qualify for the further rounds.
In the next round, the League Qualifiers will be held on 4th and 5th February. In this stage, the number will fall down to the top 18 teams who will play the next League Stage. This next stage will be live-streamed and held for the duration of 19th February to 7th March.
During the League Stage, the top 18 teams will be divided into three groups and at the very end, the top six teams will secure a slot for grand finals whereas the remaining teams will fight in the play-in stage. At the end of Play-ins, the remaining top six teams will qualify for the finals and we will get the top 12 teams for Grand Finals.
The grand finals of this tournament will be held on 21st March and the winning team will secure the bragging rights alongside a large portion of this ₹75,00,000 prize pool. The registration process will be announced on the relevant social media handles soon so keep an eye on it.
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PUBG Mobile 2: Krafton to release new battle royale mobile game based on PUBG
The Execute Producer of Krafton Inc, Kim Chang-han, has confirmed that Krafton is working on a new PUBG-based battle royale game and plans to release it by this year. It was also revealed that another PUBG-related PC and console title is under development alongside a completely new horror mode game. These new games can be referred to as PUBG and PUBG Mobile 2.
A report by Bloomberg has revealed this information cited by the Execute Producer himself. In this short interview story, Kim has stated some interesting plans for Krafton in the near future and some of them are directly linked to the launch of new versions of PUBG and PUBG Mobile this year.
Krafton has made big strides since the launch of PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds and the mobile version of this game. PUBG became world-famous in a short period of time and became the face of battle royale titles for a short period. As the hype surrounding this game started to fade away, PUBG Mobile made an entrance into the market and took everybody by the storm. PUBG Mobile became immensely popular in the world, especially in the Asian region.
Owing to the success of their predecessors, Krafton is ready to launch a new series of PUBG games that could be similar to the former but unique at the same time. The description of these titles belonging to the ‘battle royale’ genre makes them sound very similar to the pre-existing titles so it will be interesting to see how new changes are implemented in these new games.
Previously, a Korean report revealed a similar kind of exclusive information where these games were referred to as ‘Battlegrounds 2.0’ and ‘Project XTRM’ but as there is no official announcement yet, these games can be considered as the newer versions or PUBG 2 and PUBG Mobile 2.0.
The mention of an upcoming horror game by Krafton is a big announcement. After becoming successful in the BR genre games, shifting to an entirely new genre is a big task. This game will be based on the “PUBG universe three centuries into the future” and will be released in 2022.
Valorant Ranked Mode Temporarily Disappears From Servers
On 19th January, 2021, a portion of the Valorant player base across the world reported a temporary disappearance of the ‘Ranked’ mode in-game.
The issue was initially brought to light by fans of the competitive shooter through social media platforms like Reddit. The issue seems to have primarily hit the servers of North America, Asia and South America.
As of now, the reason behind the problem is still unknown. Fans are suspecting it to be a technical fault in Riot’s servers.
Players facing the problem won’t be able to queue for Ranked mode till the issue is resolved. If you find yourself encountering a similar problem, it’s best to wait it out till a patch is delivered from Riot’s side.
Valorant’s ranking system has been under fire from the community recently due to a number of problems involving it. These issues include higher ranked players being unable to find games for prolonged durations while others are often finding themselves being misplaced into skill brackets much higher or lower than their actual in-game skill.
Fans are expecting the developers to ship out a patch in the near future that’ll aim to fix the present problems regarding ranked matchmaking in the title.
Destiny 2 update 3.0.2 patch notes: Read Full Update Notes
Destiny 2 update 3.0.2 patch notes:
ABILITIES
- Fixed an issue where Code of the Siegebreaker path and Phoenix Cradle Exotic can create invisible Sunspots from Stasis crystals.
- Fixed an issue where Flawless Execution had a delayed trigger.
- Shatterdive
- Now has damage falloff vs. unfrozen targets.
- Max range damage reduced from 50 to 5.
- Damage reduction during ability reduced from 50% to 25%.
- Whisper of Fissures
- Reduced max/min damage vs. non-Super players from 42-22 to 30-4.
- Reduced max/min damage vs. super players from 42-22 to 16-2.
- Reduced detonation radius vs. players from 10m to 9m.
WEAPONS
- Fixed an issue where Dragonfly could roll on the Cold Front Submachine Gun.
- It will be replaced with Swashbuckler.
- Fixed an issue where the Unrelenting perk was not triggering health regeneration.
- Fixed an issue where damage from the Deafening Whisper Grenade Launcher could not trigger the Abyssal Extractors perk on the Nezarec’s Sin Exotic helmet.
- Fixed an issue where Cloudstrike hits on the Divinity cage counted as two precision hits.
- Fixed an issue where the Binary System ornament for Symmetry did not have enemy highlighting.
- Fixed a bug where MIDA Multi-Tool’s catalyst wasn’t dropping.
ACTIVITIES
- Fixed Hive bosses, Ananh, Brood Queen, and Xillox not counting as Hive boss kills in bounties.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some quest items from dropping in the Moon freeroam activity.
- This prevented completion of several “Essence” quests, such as Essence of Rage, Essence of Insanity, and Essence of Servitude.
- Fixed an issue where the Champions Reward banner (Platinum, Gold, etc.) for Legend and Master Lost Sectors until was only showing up once a player returned to orbit.
- Fixed an issue where some players could not progress through New Light if they lose Zavala’s Gift.
STRIKES
- Fixed an issue where some players couldn’t respawn if they died during the boss fight of the Inverted Spire strike.
- Fixed an issue where a fireteam could encounter other fireteams in Sorrow’s Harbor and be unable to complete the Scarlet Keep strike.
- Fixed an issue where players were not being notified that Grandmaster Nightfall was available.
- Fixed an issue where Grandmaster Nightfall timer was set to 30 minutes.
RAIDS AND DUNGEONS
- Fixed a bug where Garden of Salvation flawless completions would fail to award the Inherent Perfection Triumph.
- Fixed an issue in the Garden of Salvation raid where players could backtrack from the boss checkpoint to complete the first encounter again for rewards.
- Fixed a bug where Taken Psions would replicate too rapidly in some Prophecy dungeon encounters.
- Fixed an issue in Deep Stone Crypt raid where players could deal damage to Atraks-1 at an unintended time.
- Fixed an issue where players could exit the environment in the Deep Stone Crypt raid.
- Fixed an issue where players could have “Shelter From the Storm” permanently applied in the Deep Stone Crypt raid.
- Fixed various issues affecting the Guided Games version of Deep Stone Crypt.
- Fixed a bug in Deep Stone Crypt where players were stuck in suppressed state after crash.
- Improved health bar rubber-banding behavior in the Dûl Incaru boss encounter in the Shattered Throne dungeon.
GAMBIT
- Removed “Might of the Traveler” Gambit weekly bounty.
- Fixed an issue causing high value targets to drop more motes than intended.
CRUCIBLE
- Fixed areas where players could exit the environment in the following Crucible maps:
- Exodus Blue
- Widow’s Court
- Twilight Gap
- Cauldron
- Fixed an issue where Rumble matches were not entering overtime.
REWARDS
- Added missing lore tab for the Starfarer 7M Dawning ship.
- Fixed an issue where some quests provided by Eris used “challenge” iconography but didn’t grant Powerful rewards.
- Iconography changed to normal quest branding.
- Fixed an issue which was causing the Season of the Hunt Lure to output lower than expected armor stats from the “Coup de Grace” Celebrant Hunt. Armor now has a much greater chance to be rewarded with a high-stat roll.
- Fixed an issue where powerful rewards from the Season of the Hunt mission “Coup de Grace” were not correctly gated weekly, per class.
GENERAL
- Optimized Lighting on PC GPUs to help increase performance.
- Fixed an issue where clan rosters were not loading correctly on PlayStation 5.
Valorant Fan Discovers Game Breaking Glitch On Ascent
It has only been a few days since Valorant Episode 2 has hit the live servers, and fans are already starting to find some game-breaking glitches that can potentially be exploited to gain the upper hand in competitive matches.
A recent glitch found by Twitter user Chris isn’t as harmful as some of the other ones, but it’s a game-breaking glitch nonetheless.
The glitch makes the abilities of certain agents worthless as they seemingly pass through the floor near A Balcony in Ascent. Through an attached video, Christ demonstrated how the glitch works.
As shown in a follow-up video, the glitch can also be recreated at will.
Furthermore, not only Phoenix players should be concerned about this, as the glitch seems to be affecting a bunch of other agents and their abilities as well.
As mentioned in this tweet, the glitch can be recreated with Killjoy, Viper, Sova, Cypher, Raze and Brimstone as well.
Fans are expecting Riot Games to ship out a patch, fixing the problem at the earliest. However, no comments have been made by the devs regarding this as of yet.
Hitman 3 Release Date and Time
The highly anticipated release of IO Interactive’s Hitman 3 is just around the corner, and fans are more hyped than ever to know about the release date and time of the stealth shooter. Hitman 3 is set to be the eighth main installment in the Hitman series and the final installment of the World of Assassination trilogy, following Hitman and Hitman 2.
Hitman 3 Release Date
Hitman 3 is scheduled to arrive today, on 20th January.
Hitman 3 Release Time
The title will be available to play on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X, and PC. Fans can expect Hitman 3 to hit all these platforms on the above mentioned date at 13:00 UTC.
Hitman 3 Price
Hitman 3 will be available to purchase in Standard (£54.99) and Deluxe (£74.99) editions.
The Deluxe edition will include:
- Deluxe suits and items
- Digital soundtracks
- Digital ‘World of Hitman’ book
- Director commentary
- Deluxe Escalation contracts
Players pre-ordering either edition of the game will receive a Trinity Pack alongside their purchase.
Spain’s Superliga launch makes history with record figures for unique viewers and a peak of more than 47,000 viewers
The League of Legends Superliga, the highest national competition organized by LVP (MEDIAPRO Group) in Spain, started in 2021 making history and confirming the important growth trend experienced the previous year.
The launching game of the championship was held Monday, January 18th and exceeded 300,000 unique viewers, 13% more than the previous best for the competition (265,000 viewers), which had been reached in the 2020 summer final, and a 22% increase on the first day of the previous season, which reached 245,000 viewers. In this sense, the first day of the 2021 Superliga became the most watched broadcast in the history of the national competition.
The numbers of the first day are especially remarkable because they also set a historical record in terms of the peak of concurrent viewers for the championship. In all of 2020, the most watched broadcast corresponds to the aforementioned summer finale, which reached 46,700 viewers, while yesterday, during the clash between Vodafone Giants and Team Queso, 47,212 viewers were reached. LVP’s broadcast on Twitch exceeded 31,000 concurrent viewers on average throughout the day, figures which had never been in the Superliga thus far.
“The spectacular start of the Superliga confirms the trend of 2020, when we opened the door to a significant new public. Our mission in 2021 is to consolidate these new audiences and continue to grow in double digits, as we have done in recent years. The Superliga continues to be the benchmark competition on a continental level thanks to the work of LVP, Riot Games, the clubs and the rest of the stakeholders in the ecosystem, since this is a success that we share with them”, explained Jordi Soler, CEO of LVP.
The start of the Superliga also served as a premiere for the new sponsors of the competition, non-alcoholic beer Mahou 0,0 Tostada and Cacaolat, who this season join OMEN, Intel, Takis and Domino’s Pizza.
G2 Arctic takes its revenge on Movistar Riders
In sports, the most important event was the triumph of G2 Arctic over Movistar Riders, in the rematch of last summer’s final. The wolves stormed through the champion, who appeared at the meeting with a completely renewed roster compared to the previous year. MAD Lions Madrid, which beat Cream Real Betis in the debut of the competition; UCAM Esports Club, S2V Esports and Vodafone Giants, also started the Superliga adding a point to their winning form.
The Superliga returns next Wednesday with a second day can be followed online via Twitch or on television through UBEAT.
Plarium’s “RAID: Shadow Legends” Partners with Natus Vincere Esports Organization
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – January 19th, 2021 – Plarium, a developer of mobile, and PC games with more than 380 million users worldwide, today announced a partnership with Natus Vincere (NAVI), a leading multi-team esports organization based in Ukraine, to sponsor the club and engage in crossover initiatives with Plarium’s acclaimed role-playing game RAID: Shadow Legends on mobile devices and PC. Since its launch, RAID has amassed 56M+ downloads and has over 1M daily active users across platforms.
As part of the partnership brokered by EsportQuake, NAVI will feature RAID as a proud jersey sponsor throughout this year’s competitive run, and promote the game through marketing, advertising, and branding campaigns and activations.
Additionally, RAID: Shadow Legends will bring players in-game events featuring NAVI competitive talent, as well as a full year of collaborations, community and player challenges, and behind-the-scenes RAID and NAVI content.
“We are thrilled to partner with one of the most esteemed esports clubs in the world and continue expanding RAID’s growing player base,” said Noam Sagie, VP of Marketing at Plarium. “Both NAVI and RAID have passionate and loyal fans, and we look forward to taking full advantage of our collaboration to excite our communities around the world.”
“I am happy to announce our partnership with Plarium,” adds Oleksandr ‘nervo-’ Pavlenko, CMO at NAVI. “Over the past few years they have collaborated with so many well-known personalities – both in esports and across the global media space. NAVI’s partnership with the RAID: Shadow Legends brand promises opportunities for unique products and content at the crossroads of esports and mobile gaming. In the first quarter of 2021 we will be sharing more exciting details of our plans for RAID. I am sure this will be a bright year for both our brands: together we will amaze and delight our fans.”
RAID: Shadow Legends is available for users around the globe in English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Korean, Ukrainian, and Turkish. Raid can be downloaded on mobile devices via the Apple App Store and Google Play or on PC through the Plarium Play Launcher.
CSGO Servers are Down Today [Jan 19]
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On January 19th, 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.