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Koei Tecmo Shuts Down Official Website after getting hit by Cyberattack

Prateek Jain
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Koei Tecmo Shuts Down Official Website after getting hit by Cyberattack

Koei Tecmo is a Japanese video game and anime company notably known for the Nioh, One Piece: Pirate Warriors, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive, etc series games. 

In a press release that was sent out on December 29, Koei Tecmo confirmed that The European branch of Koei Tecmo’s site has been hit by a cyberattack, and subsequently the company has temporarily shut down its official website. Reportedly, log-in details of around 65,000 forum accounts were leaked.

Koei Tecmo Cyber Attack

The company confirms that only the forum member account names, passwords (encrypted), and mail addresses were leaked. The good news is that the hackers were unable to get their hands on credit card information or the customer and employee info. 

However, the press release by Koei Tecmo doesn’t go into full details about the alleged cyberattack. It could only be account information that was compromised but like any other gaming company that was recently targetted by hackers, the cyberattack initially might only look minor until a further investigation confirms a far-reaching breach that would leak details about future products or personal information of players. 

For now, Koei Tecmo has responded to the attack quickly by taking down the compromised website and adding a notice for anyone visiting the American or European site, explaining that Koei Tecmo had to “temporarily close the website due to an external cyberattack”. 

Since the pandemic has forced companies to start working from home, these cyberattacks are getting more frequent and elaborate. The security of video game companies and the individuals who entrust their personal information to these companies is very important.

Hopefully, Koei Tecmo can wrap up this issue sooner rather than later and come out with further details about the cyberattack and immediately inform individuals whose account information was compromised. 

Source: Famitsu

CSGO Operation Broken Fang Week 5 Missions

Bharat Kotwani
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CSGO Operation Broken Fang Week 5 Missions

The CSGO Week 5 missions for the Operation Broken Fang have been revealed by the game developer. Until now, this current operation has delivered 28 stars upon completion of specific missions. With this new brand week, you can collect in total 6 stars by completing the same.

Operation Broken Fang comes to provide you with 16 weeks of worthy and exciting grind where you can get your hands on some newly launched agents, skins and stickers as well.

The Operation Broken Fang was revealed on 3rd December and is expected to run until the end of March in 2021.

Week 5 features just 4 missions on the board with 6 stars up for grabs. 

CSGO Week 5 Missions

Cup And Balls –

  • Description: Win rounds in Competitive: Mirage.
  • Mode: Competitive
  • Reward: 1 ★ after winning 7, 15, 20 rounds each. 
  • Location: Mirage

Smoke Show

  • Description: Get 25 kills in Guardian: Mirage.
  • Mode: Guardian
  • Reward: ★★
  • Location: Mirage

Pickpocket

  • Description: Select an enemy card in Retakes.
  • Mode: Casual
  • Reward: ★
  • Location: Retakes

Keep Your Secrets

  • Description: Detonate smoke grenades at specific locations in Casual: Nuke.
  • Mode: Casual
  • Reward: ★
  • Location: Nuke

PUBG Mobile bans 2.3 million accounts in a week for cheating

Pranav Nalawade
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PUBG Mobile bans 2.3 million accounts in a week for cheating

PUBG Mobile revealed a big progress in their anti-cheat program. The officials have revealed that they have banned over 2.3 million accounts in the period of seven days.

PUBG Mobile made the anti-cheating announcement on several social media platforms and the numbers are huge for the timeframe of seven days. From 18th December to 24th December, PUBG Mobile has banned a total of 2,395,953 accounts for cheating with various methods.

The bans are distributed into several categories as follows:

  • X-Ray vision: 14 percent
  • Auto-aim hacks: 16 percent
  • Speed hacks: 14 percent
  • Modification of area damage: 13 percent
  • Modification of the character model: 20 percent
  • Others: 20 percent

PUBG Mobile has been striving to create a better platform of fair-play since a long time and introduced several programme since the last year.

PUBG Mobile recently upgraded their anti-cheat system by introducing a “peer-review mechanism” that enhanced their ability to stop hackers from exploiting the spectator system. The game is also going to include a “Safety Observation Period” to further reduce the hacking cases.

Pokimane reveals TikTok locked her Twitter account

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Pokimane reveals TikTok locked her Twitter account

Pokimane has been on the receiving end of a bizarre DMCA takedown that got the internet questioning about the regulations guarding digital media content creators.

In the recent Tweet by pokimane, she revealed that she was locked out of her Twitter account over a tweet and a TikTok clip she shared earlier.

Two DMCA notices were served to her where one was for a tweet that read “i love girls” while the other was one of her TikTok clips where she can be seen dancing to Doja Cat’s “say so”.

These were shared back in January but Twitter didn’t care to hand a band until the end of the year.

According to reports, the strike was not issued on the behave of any content creator, rather it was TikTok themselves where the video originated from.

This sparked controversy as not until now that pokimane has received a ban over sharing her own content.

Given the nature of the strike, the internet sided with Canadian, showing her support all over Twitter.

With how harsh the DMCA regulations are getting, not just pokimane but every content creator around should get extra cautious over the content they create as a second of infringing material can hand them long-lasting bans from most of the platforms.

Strikes are getting more common than they used to be and too many of them might get you permanently banned from the platform where it is issued.

Epic Games Final Two Free Games For December 30, 31 Leaked

Sonu Banerjee
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Epic Games Final Two Free Games For December 30, 31 Leaked

Only three days remain before the free games’ giveaway on the Epic Games store comes to a conclusion. Users will be available to redeem one game for free each day till the end of December 2020.

The free game for December 29th has already been confirmed to be Solitarica. The fresh take on the RPG genre will be available to redeem till December 30 at 8:00 am PT.

However, this isn’t the only delightful news that fans are getting today, as the next two games that are about to go free on the Epic Games store have already been leaked on the internet from multiple sources.

According to the leaks, the free title for December 30th on Epic Games can be expected to be Torchlight II, the action RPG dungeon crawler by Runic Games and Panic Button Games.

The last game to go free on the Epic Games store is the renowned business sim game, Jurassic World Evolution. The title, originally released in June 2018 by Frontier Developments, will go free-to-play on December 31st.

Top 5 Valorant Skins of 2020

Sonu Banerjee
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Top 5 Valorant Skins of 2020

From the Elderflame collection to the recent BlastX series, Valorant players have seen their fair share of gorgeous weapon skins in 2020. Unlike most other competitive shooter titles, Valorant weapon skins are equipped with a bunch of audio-visual effects alongside some special kill animations that make them unique.

While pointing out the best Valorant skins from the plethora of cosmetics available for purchase in-game can certainly be tough, we have managed to list what we think, are the top 5 Valorant skins of 2020.

Top 5 Valorant Skins

5) Prime Vandal

Released alongside the official launch of Valorant on June 2nd, the Prime collection is undoubtedly one of the best skin collections currently available for purchase in-game. Equipped with futuristic bullet sounds, a unique reload animation, and an iconic kill animation, Prime Vandal is certainly the best Vandal skin in-game.

4) Singularity Phantom

The looks and overall designs of the Singularity Phantom were enough to land it on this list of top 5 Valorant skins. Add with that one of the best kill animations in the game, and Singularity Phantom should be a no-brainer for anyone looking to purchase a Phantom skin.

3) Reaver Sheriff

Alongside the popular rifles, many players also prefer to own a weapon skin for the Sheriff due to its ability to finish off armored opponents with a single headshot. The Reaver collection was initially introduced during the closed beta and was taken off the store shortly afterward.

It was revamped and re-introduced to the in-game store last month. The color schemes, sharp edges, sound effects, and the kill animation were enough for the Reaver Sheriff to make it to this list.

2) Elderflame Operator

To this date, the Elderflame collection remains the priciest skin collection to be released in Valorant. Coming at a pocket pinch of a whopping $100, Riot made sure to compensate for the heavy price tag with some amazing effects for each skin. The reload animation of the Elderflame collection is also considered to be the best in the game by many Valorant players. From the equip animation to a gorgeous finisher, there’s nothing about the Elderflame Operator that’ll fail to dazzle you.

1) Winter Wunderland Melee

While the customizable Winter Wunderland Melee Candy Cane is a neat skin in itself. It has attained the #1 spot in the list for a different reason. Shortly after the Winter Wunderland collection was released, it was found by the Valorant player base that the melee Candy Cane could be ‘broken’ into a knife in-game. This unique feature could be triggered by repeatedly hitting the walls in-game till the cane transformed into a knife.

Zhongli Buffed In New Genshin Impact Update

Sonu Banerjee
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Zhongli Buffed In New Genshin Impact Update

Even after a major content update was shipped to Genshin Impact in the form of patch 1.2, the demands of fans to buff the five-star character Zhongli continued. It looks like miHoYo has finally listened to its player base, as Zhongli has finally received a much-needed buff in a recent Genshin Impact update.

In a blog post released today, miHoYo acknowledged the weaknesses of Zhongli in Geo parties, non-Geo parties, and Co-Op scenarios while adjusting the character to buff its abilities.

Other than some visual enhancements to the character, the recent buffs include changes to Zhongli’s elemental skill – Dominus Lapidis (Hold).

From now onwards, when a character is protected by the Jade Shield, opponents within a set radius have all Elemental RES and Physical RES decreased by 20%. This effect cannot be stacked.

This will increase the playability of this character by a margin in co-op and multiplayer modes. Players will now have a much easier time damaging enemies around them while using Zhongli’s elemental skill/

Vietnam to have $500K prize pool for PUBG Mobile Esports 2021 season

Divyesh Moghe
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Vietnam to have $500K prize pool for PUBG Mobile Esports 2021 season

PUBG Mobile Esports has been making exponential growth in the last couple of years. Starting with smaller events, the scale of tournaments have risen to new levels and each region is improving on their own.

Vietnam has announced that the total PUBG Mobile Esports prize pool will be 11.5 Billion Vietnamese Dong for the upcoming year.

PUBG Mobile is quite popular in the world of mobile gaming and several regions are at the forefront of it. The growth in global tournaments has been remarkabale but for the regions like Japan, China or even Vietnam, the league structure is quite different.

As the publishers vary for these regions, the powerhouses from these regions are only seen on the global stages and their regional tournaments follow a different format.

Japan has already made a huge move in their upcoming leagues and launched a two-year plan to sustain PUBG Mobile esports ecosystem in the country. The PUBG Mobile Japan League 2021-22 will have a prize pool of over $2.8M and a similar trend is now seen for Vietnam.

According to Liquipedia, the prize pool will be 11.5B VND for all the PUBG Mobile tournament combined. This includes several regional tournaments which may or may not fall under the PUBG Mobile esports pyramid. The official tournaments falling in pyramidal structure are mentioned below.

This is a big announcement for PUBG Mobile enthusiasts in Vietnam as the region will receive an excellent support. The previous editions of regional tournaments only had a prize pool of about $50,000 and now, the combined prize pool will be about $600,000 so each tournament will have a slightly higher amount.

How to check your Valorant Elo

Bharat Kotwani
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How to check your Valorant Elo

You can now keep tabs on your Valorant Ranked points with the help of this Valorant Ranked Elo Checker.

In a Github thread, a user named ‘RumbleMike’ revealed Valorant’s hidden ELO system for it’s Ranked mode. He further revealed the ranking system to have a threshold of 100 points further needed for ranking up.

This is the first time where the hidden ELO system has been cracked by an avid Developer. We might now be able to determine our rank through this executable in Valorant, unlike some FPS titles which haven’t revealed their functioning for the same till date.

To know about your current Valorant Rank Points, all you need to do is follow these steps : 

  • Download the .exe file from: https://bit.ly/38KBDQ9 or directly via GitHub
  • Click Here To Download ValorantRankChecker.zip file which is located in assets.
  • Open the config.json file.
  • Put in username and password along with your Region credentials. ‘na’ for North America (Players from Latin America CAN USE NORTH AMERICA), ‘eu’ for Europe, ‘ap’ for OCE, Africa, Australia, ‘ko’ for Korea, and ‘br’ for Brazil.
  • Once you’re done with the above steps, go for the GetRankedPoints.exe located in the Extracted folder. 
  • There you are, you will be able to see your points for Valorant Ranked. 

Just make sure you download the dot net files from the official site of Microsoft (x86 Version) (x64 Version).

So how does the Valorant Ranked Point Checker or Valorant Elo Tracker works?

Basically, when you grant them your username and password and hit the .exe file, it requests Riot’s API for the login token. Once it logs in your account, this exec would just read your Valorant ID’s game data which does include the ELO data as well. After gaining access, it would take upto 5-10 seconds to extract the collected data which would finally be shown to you in the Command prompt.

Credits: RumbleMike

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ESPL India Valorant Power Up: Registration Details and Format revealed

Abhishek Bajaj
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ESPL India Valorant Power Up: Registration Details and Format revealed

The Indian Valorant scene is going to begin in 2021 with a bang, with the ESPL Valorant PowerUp event boasting of a prize pool of 750,000 INR lined up for the Indian region. The detailed format and schedule for the first big Valorant event of 2021 have been revealed, with a total of four Qualifiers scheduled to take place for the Final Stage of the tournament.

The registrations for the first of four Qualifiers of the mega event had already begun from 18th December and will continue till December 31, 2020, with the Qualifier scheduled to take place between January 5 and January 10 in 2021.

Every Qualifier will have 256 registration slots up for grabs and will entirely be played out in a single elimination format, with brackets upto the Top 16 featuring best-of-1 matches.

The Qualifiers will have a best-of-3 format from the Pre-Quarters and onwards, with the final four teams qualifying for the Main Stage from each qualifier, thus culminating into a 16-team main event.

ESPL India Valorant PowerUp tournament format

The 16 Qualified teams will be distributed into four groups, which will be played out in a GSL format, with 2 teams to emerge from each group. The playoffs stage will feature a single-elimination best-of-3 bracket except for the Grand Finals, which will see the two challengers fight it out in a best-of-5.

The ultimate winner will take home a 400,000 INR purse while the Runners Up will be greeted with a 200,000 INR prize money. The two losers in the semi-finals will not leave empty-handed either, with a 50,000 INR prize money to be awarded to each of them.

For people unaware of the GSL format, it is a tournament format wherein, traditionally, four teams enter the group schedule and two fixtures are drawn. Therefrom, two winners and two losers emerge.

The two winners battle each other, with the one emerging victorious among the two securing a spot straight into the next round.

In cases where there are 2 spots up for grabs from each group, the other team from the Winners Match goes forward to face the winner of the match between the two losers from the first round for a spot in the next stage.

The ESPL Power Up Valorant event’s top-heavy prize distribution ensures the team is compensated heavily for reaching the Finals, thus raising the stakes for all teams eyeing a piece of the 750,000 INR prize pool.

There are a couple of days left to secure a slot in the first Qualifier, with the registrations set to close on December 31, 2020. You can register your team here.

Esports Players League (ESPL) was founded in 2019 with the aim of building a sustainable, open, and integrated Esports ecosystem. ESPL is focused on building an Esports Tournament and Media Network on a global scale with a mission to nurture casual gamers to esports champions.

One illustration of the same could be given by the fact that individuals struggling to find a team for the 750,000 INR ESPL Valorant India Event can use their Team Finder available on the ESPL.gg website or look to find other players and/or stack on the ESPL discord.

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