After some of the team members informed the manager of suspicious behavior in rapaztriste’s gameplay, an elaborate investigation was launched alongside Riot Games. The investigation confirmed that Fonseca was, in fact, using cheats during the January 16th game.
“We want to apologize to LVP and Riot for what happened and thank them for their speed and their availability to find a solution to the problem,” the org said in their statement. “Of course, we also want to extend our sincere apologies to all Valorant fans and tournament participants.”
Following this move, the current Movistar Riders Valorant roster stands at:
When it comes to Skins in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, they are just an inseparable part of the game’s culture since the Arms Deal update in 2013. However, for some, skins are a business. One with a lot of money in it. Today we will talk about the most expensive CSGO skin sold ever. Buckle up and get ready for us to unleash this jaw-dropping purchase.
Sold for $150k. Let’s move onto next ones. Link to google sheet in previous tweets pic.twitter.com/AGLQuRyNWh
Expensive CSGO Skin Sold – Most Expensive Skin Ever in CSGO
The Most Expensive CSGO Skin Ever Sold in the History of Counter Strike Global Offensive is the AK-47 Case Hardened with the StatTrak™ Technology. Bearing 4 ‘Titan | Katowice 2014’ stickers on the skin with a Minimal Wear finish, the weapon was bought at a flabbergasting price of $150,000USD on Steam.
That is some serious cash right there, and likely a good investment since there is no other version of it that is exactly like this one. The Ak-47 Case Hardened skin was added to counter-strike as a part of the first-ever weapon case and was too a part of the Arms Deal Collection.
The skin had an interesting pattern design that had a blue hue on it. It became obvious that most players really liked the blue glow emitted by the gun in the process and might likely just increase in value.
This reported trade was executed by a well known skin trader who goes by the name “ROFL” (@roflm0nster) on Twitter. This skin belongs to one of his friends named “Batmon” whom he is helping to sell their inventory. On 14th January, ROFL tweeted along with a Google Doc spreadsheet where he has updated the same with a plethora of weapon skin listings.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, you have certainly heard the name of Rachaell “Valkyrae” Hoffstetter. Valkyrae is one of the most popular content creators and video game streamers of the world right now and has been declared the “fastest-growing streamer” in the world. Over the course of 2020, she has managed to gather a fan base of millions worldwide.
Most of Valkyrae’s growth on YouTube can be credited to the murder-mystery title Among Us which Valkyrae regularly played with a bunch of popular streamers from mid-2020. The 29-year-old eventually managed to surpass Twitch star Imane “Pokimane” Anys in terms of views becoming the #1 female streamer in the world.
How much does Valkyrae make from YouTube
While it’s impossible to accurately determine how much Valkyrae makes per month, her income from YouTube can easily be expected to be around $150,000 a month, if not more.
From an accidental leak that happened in Valkyrae’s stream last December, it’s evident that the YouTube star makes about $173,000 per month. However, this is her income from YouTube alone, which means that the money she makes from other sources, like being a part of the 100Thieves content creation team, for instance, isn’t included in this.
The trouble from Cyberpunk’s disastrous launch doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon for CDPR. Earlier this week, CDPR’s co-founder Marcin Iwiński issued an apology for the state of Cyberpunk 2077, which has been buggy on PC and almost unplayable on last-gen consoles. In that apology, Iwiński suggested that the scope of Cyberpunk 2077’s issues was not entirely known before release and the company tried its best to meet the expectations of fans but due to the launch date closing in the company fast-tracked some processes in hopes of day 1 patch fixing most issues.
While the apology only hours old and a new report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier rejected most of Marcin Iwińsk’s claims and suggested that the company knew about bugs and performance issues before launch. The report titled “Inside Cyberpunk 2077’s Disastrous Rollout”, goes into detail about the work culture and how CDPR knowingly pushed for the launch of the game.
Schreier interviewed more than 20 current and ex-CDPR staff, about the implications of COVID-19 restrictions and difficulties with communication and production it caused. While most of the interviewed staff asked for anonymity, one ex-staff, Adrian Jakubiak who worked as Audio Programmer said that “There were times when I would crunch up to 13 hours a day—a little bit over that was my record probably—and I would do five days a week working like that. I have some friends who lost their families because of this sort of shenanigans.”
The report briefly describes how the company’s mandatory overtime in the lead-up to a game’s release exhausted programmers and forced other coworkers to work extra hours to make up for those not wanting to work overtime. According to the report, troubles started showing up much earlier in Cyberpunk 2077’s development cycle. The company was working on building a new engine at the same time as the game was being built on it.
Former Witcher 3 developers left the project due to frequent clashes with game director Adam Badowski’s vision, who frequently requested big overhauls like changing the camera from third to first-person. Bringing those overhauls wasted precious programming hours and forced the team to re-write several lines of codes on a WIP engine which broke other things.
The employees Schreier interviewed also said that the management struggled to properly manage a team of more than 500 employees which was twice as large as The Witcher 3’s development team. Soon after Schreier’s report went live on Bloomberg, Adam Badowski tweeted out a response rejecting the idea of the fake E3 2018 demo, saying that “it reflects the non-linear process of game development and was labeled as a work in progress and the final game looks and plays way better than what that demo ever was.”
Adam Badowski also said that the sample group of 20 employees was too small to make claims that “the game wouldn’t be ready to release in 2020”. Read Adam’s full response on the tweet linked above and see for yourself if the game actually had a troubled launch or it was just corporate greed at work to get those Christmas sales. Since its launch, Cyberpunk 2077 has received several patches fixing various bugs and uplifting console performance. The game has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, a figure which also factors in the number of refunds issued by the company.
In what is currently being believed to be the priciest CSGO skin exchange to have ever taken place in history, January 15th witnessed an incredibly rare AK-47 skin being reportedly sold for a record-breaking price of $150,000.
The skin was previously in possession of a friend of popular CSGO skin trader ‘ROFL’, who decided to sell the skin along with several other rare cosmetic items from CSGO a few days ago.
I am helping a friend sell his collection.
ST MW 661 w/ 4 TT Holos M4 Hotrod w/ 4 iBP Holos ST FN Howl 0.006 Non Duped Full set of Kato 2014 Holos Low float set of Sapphire & Ruby Knives
For those interested reach out on Steam / Twitter DMs.
The $150,000 skin was none other than an AK-47 Case Hardened with a rare float and more importantly, 4x Titan Holo stickers from the Katowice 2014 collection. The stickers themselves amount to tens of thousands of dollars.
Sold for $150k. Let’s move onto next ones. Link to google sheet in previous tweets pic.twitter.com/AGLQuRyNWh
Some other skins that ROFL is helping his friend sell include:
M4A1-S Hot Rod w/ 4 iBP Holos
ST FN M4A4 Howl w/ 0.006 float
Full set of Kato 2014 Holos
Low float set of Sapphire & Ruby Knives
The record for the most expensive CSGO skin was previously held by StatTrak M4A4 Howl with 4 iBUYPOWER Katowice 2014 stickers that reportedly sold for the price of a whopping $100,000.
Recently a customer reported getting scammed on eBay after purchasing what they believed to be a DualSense controller for the PS5, only to receive a look-a-like custom white painted Xbox controller.
Reddit user “crihyde” first reported the scam in a post on the r/Playstation subreddit where he shared an image that clearly shows a standard Xbox One controller customized in PS5’s DualSense controller style. It appears the seller customized the controller using the bottom half of the black Xbox controller and the top half of the White Xbox Controller, somewhat resembling the PS5 controller.
Since the launch of the PS5, many unaware fans have fallen victim to scammers on eBay. While buying on eBay comes at a risk, eBay has various customer protection schemes in place to safeguard buyers. While most sellers are honest, sometimes there are a minority of third-party sellers that looking to earn a quick buck by gaming the system.
Previously many scammers were caught selling photos of PS5s, trying to trick hasty customers into buying a photograph of PS5 at console’s MSRP. Since then eBay implemented several checks and assured its users that they will “surely crackdown on such listings and take legal against such sellers.”
The League of Legends star YourPrincess aka Jayden Diaz, has decided to step down from captaincy from the Twitch Rivals competition after she accused a fellow player of sexual abuse.
Though the decision was taken out of her own discretion, her teammates somewhat forced it out of her as they chose to abandon their team once the draft was finalized. Having three of her teammates drop out, Diaz was left without a team to be a captain of. Players who were drafted in her team found her allegations bogus and immediately opted out.
YourPrincess made accusations against player ‘Tuesday’ aka Jean-Sébastien Thery in 2020 as part of the MeToo movement. She claimed Thery made her feel uncomfortable and things took a worse turn after he allegedly picked her up and placed her on his lap without warning. Tuesday defended himself by making public a series of private chats with YourPrincess that suggests they shared a flirtatious relationship far from platonic. YourPrincess has also been accused of abusing the popularity of the #MeToo movement to traction from media attention.
I decided to drop out of this twitch rivals due to controversy and scheduling conflicts in proving grounds. Sorry guys I'll run rivals next time
Diaz has been under fire ever since the screenshots surfaced. The community was quick to get behind Tuesday as everyone finds enough ground to justify his actions. The pressure has forced Diaz to completely part ways with Twitch Rivals as after the truth came out, no one was willing to play with her anymore, three players of her team, MikeYeung, Dragoon, and LL Stylish, all flunked the team.
MissBehavin faced a three days ban on Twitch over content that violated the community guidelines restricting adult content on the platform.
Boasting over 40000 subscribers on Twitch, she can often be found under the Just Chatting category. Other than chatting with her followers on Twitch, she specializes in adult content across Instagram and other platforms. Reports suggest that the Twitch ban comes in correlation with the same content that got her followers on OnlyFans.
You weren't there, chill out bro. I sell these for money why the fuck would I want to give it out for free. I'm actually upset and pissed.
MissBehavin was handed a three days ban for streaming what she finds appropriate. In her defense, she argued on Twitter that she has no reason to show something on Twitch for free that fans would usually pay for otherwise. Some of her fans agree with her while others find Twitch’s decision to be justified.
MissBehavin has a popular Onlyfans and a healthy influx of new followers across other live streaming that allow adult content. Logically she has no reason to violet the Twitch guidelines but in any case, if she did, Twitch might as well let it pass. A large part of the audience on Twitch is kids below 18 who might get swayed into something they shouldn’t so Twitch can’t be blamed to be overly cautious while dealing with adult content.
The next season of Call of Duty: Mobile is right around the corner and with the launch of its beta testing build, some leaks of the new additions have surfaced on social media pages. Some of these leaks might potentially be the new additions to the upcoming season 14 of COD Mobile.
COD Mobile tends to release a beta application for selective users before launching the new features on its global version. For this season, the developers revealed some changes in their testing phase which may include some new additions in their community update.This new update will have two new modes, several seasonal events, two new guns, and some other bundles.
COD Mobile Season 14 leaks:
Attack of the Undead Mode:
The developers are adding back the famous ‘Attack of the Undead’ game mode with the new seasonal update. In this mode, a total of twenty players land on a map where one player turns to the ‘Undead’ side at random. That player has access to a weapon for the first kill and after which, only melee attacks work. Each kill will turn a player to the undead side and others have to kill the formers in order to survive. If one manages to survive till the clock timer runs out, they win the round.
This mode was similar to zombie modes seen in many other games. The theme was very similar and now, COD Mobile is adding it back to the first seasonal update of the year. It will be interesting to see if the game tweaks this mode or makes some changes in the overall gameplay or not.
3v3 Gunfight Mode:
A special variant of Gunfight mode will be added to the game with the new update. The regular 2v2 Gunfight will be turned into a 3v3 mode where three players will face off their opponents in a head-on arms battle. According to the leaks, there are a total of six rounds in this mode and each round will have its own designated weapon. The team which secures the win in four rounds ultimately wins the mode.
Operator Skill: Gravity Vortex
Some leaks have confirmed that a new operator skill will be added to the game. This skill will be named Gravity Vortex and will be a ballistic launcher. When this weapon is used on a target, the nearby enemies are pulled towards that specific point and then killed.
New Guns:
Two new guns will be added to the game with the next update. These guns are SKS and FR 5.56 and even when the fan base expected new LMGs to be added to the game, it is now clear that an assault rifle will be added alongside a DMR. The statistics of these guns will be revealed in the seasonal update and some seasonal events might provide these weapons for free as well.
New Bundles:
The leaks have also uncovered several new outfit and weapon skins that might be added to the game in the upcoming update. Some of these new skins are shown below.
These are all the leaks that have been revealed to date. We might see some changes or new additions to this list when the actual update hits the global servers. Another interesting detail about this new update is that COD Mobile has clarified that this new season will be called ‘Season One’ of this new year and hence, it will not follow the ‘Season XX’ series from the last year.
Since the dawn of Fortnite, players had been repeatedly demanding an option to disable the pre-edits feature in the battle royale. After the latest 15.20 update, it seems like Epic Games has finally listened to the fan base as an in-game setting has been implemented by the devs that enables players to turn off the feature.
The pre-edits feature lets players edit and set different builds for in-game structure, which, according to many avid Fortnite fans, does more harm than good in the heat of battle. This is why the Fortnite player base is now delighted at the newest addition to the title that let’s them disable it at will.
How to disable pre-edits in Fortnite
Turning on the new “Disable Pre-Edits” option means that structures can no longer be edited until they are placed. To disable pre-edits in Fortnite, simply follow the steps below:
Launch Fortnite
Once you’re in the main menu, go to the ‘Settings’ tab
Head over to the “Building” section
Turn the “Disable Pre-Edit Option” on.
That’s all you need to do in order to disable the pre-edits feature in Fortnite.
