North American Organization Cloud9 team up with Red Bull as they reveal “To The Skyes” a Valorant Invitational charity event featuring 8 teams which include Cloud9 Blue, T1, FaZe, and many more. Among these 8 teams, the Red Bull AdrenaLAN champions would be winning a total sum of $25,000USD which would be later on donated to the charity.
The list of teams participating in this Cloud9 Valorant Invitational is:
Cloud9 Blue
Cloud9 White
T1
Complexity
Renegades
Envy
Mythicals (TSM Myth and Friends)
Faze
The Skyes is scheduled to be conducted from December 19th through the next day. You can catch the action live on Cloud9’s Twitch channel at 2:30 am IST.
On December 19th, right after the Valorant Invitational, Red Bull gaming athlete and Twitch Streamer GrandPooBear will be hosting a “Fall Guys” tournament which will feature 16 Candian streamers as they will take on the challenge over the $5000USD Prize pool.
Both these events are part of the third annual Red Bull AdrenaLAN, which kicks off this weekend with an array of gaming programming featuring world premieres, unique performances and thrilling competitions. This year, the event moves online and will be live-streamed Dec. 19-20 across multiple channels, bringing something for everyone who has an interest in gaming. The event celebrates Canadian gaming and includes many of the country’s top streamers and athletes.
With this gig being AdrenaLAN’s third iteration, the Canadians can opt in for a plethora of free-to-enter tournaments like League of Legends, VALORANT, and Street Fighter V over here. These titles also share a total prize pool of $25,000USD up for grabs. Along with these tournaments, AdrenaLAN will also feature a Call Of Duty : Warzone tournament where there will be three private game lobbies consisting of 38 teams in each. Players will stand a chance to lock horns with Toronto Ultra, a pro team from Canada where they will be awarded cash bounties if they take down these professional players.
Infinitode 2 is a tower defense game for iOS and Android. Developed by Prineside, the game offers a ton of towers to defend alongside maps and resources.
The map editor functionality makes the game stand out, unlike other Tower defense games, Infinitode 2 allows you to edit the terrain of a map to your will, thus you can make the challenging as well as easier depending upon how you alter a map. The game offers a few secret codes to make things easy by granting in-game resources.
Infinitode 2 Recent Secret Codes
PX4F3dh – 4000 green papers, 1 green box, 10-bit dust
North American Organization NRG Esports on their Twitter have confirmed the addition of Ryan “Shanks” Ngo to the NRG Valorant roster.
Earlie in November, NRG parted ways with Loic “effys” Sauvageau followed by the benching of Yannick “KOLER” Blanchette in a bid to inculcate some changes within the team. Before getting picked by Damian “daps” Steele’s side, he was trialled by Team Dignitas where he helped them finish 4th at the B Site managed Pop Flash Ignition series.
But things didn’t seem to work out between him and the organization as he was let go. Later on, Immortals brought him as a stand-in to assist the team through the Qualifiers of the First Strike where they beat Luminosity Gaming to book a spot at the same.
Patch 1.2 of Genshin Impact is bringing a ton of new changes to the open-world RPG by miHoYo. The upcoming patch will also bring with it a new location ‘Dragonspine’ to the title.
Dragonspine will be home for the ‘Frostbearing Tree’ which can potentially reward players with rare items. To get these items, players must offer Crimson Agate to the Frostbearing Tree. Crimson Agate is a new item that can be found in Dragonspine.
The rewards from the Frostbearing Tree include Acquaint Fate, Intertwined Fate, and other rare items.
Adventurers can offer Crimson Agate to the tree till they get to LVL 12, with each LVL offering different items.
FIFA 21 in the final day of FUT Freeze brings a Jesus Navas Player Squad Builder Challenge.
Before any new challenge comes in next week, players will have a chance to pick up Jesus Navas. Navas has made this way to the heart of the defense, from wing to center back. The Freeze Navas card boasts amazing overall statistics, with solid physicality backed by enough pace to keep up with the quickest of the quickest forwards. Navas can play anywhere in the backline, even in the center of the park. In short, he is a complete package but not complete enough to justify the price.
The cheapest squad to complete the FUT Freeze Jesús Navas SBC right now according to live prices from to FUTBIN.
La Liga
GK: Kevin Trapp 83-rated (Eintracht Frankfurt)
LB: Marcel Halstenberg 82-rated (RB Leipzig)
CB: David Alaba 84-rated (Bayern Munich)
CB: Jérôme Boateng 82-rated (Bayern Munich)
RB: Aitor Fernández 83-rated (Levante)
CDM: Marcel Sabitzer 83-rated (RB Leipzig)
CDM: Charles Aránguiz 83-rated (Bayer Leverkusen)
LM: Filip Kostić 83-rated (Eintracht Frankfurt)
CAM: Ellyes Skhiri 81-rated (FC Köln)
RM: Lukáš Hrádecký 83-rated (Chelsea)
ST: Andrej Kramarić 82-rated (Hoffenheim)
Spain
GK: Samir Handanovič 88-rated (Internazionale)
LB: Diego Godín 85-rated (Benfica)
CB: Stefan de Vrij 84-rated (Internazionale)
CB: Milan Škriniar 85-rated (Internazionale)
RB: Pizzi 84-rated (Benfica)
CM: Luis Alberto 85-rated (Lazio)
CM: Christian Eriksen 85-rated (Internazionale)
CM: Jesús Corona 84-rated (Porto)
LW: Iker Muniain 83-rated (Athletic Bilbao)
RW: Carlos Vela 83-rated (Los Angeles FC)
ST: Gonzalo Higuaín 83-rated (Inter Miami)
The pace in Jesus Navas’s card is the only stat that stands out. Players might skip this SBC as it will cost over 100K coins, with better options in the same position for a cheaper price. Cards with identical chemistry options are also available for a far lesser price. Given the CB position, the best that can be done is to push Navas to CDM at the cost of some chemistry. His dribbling, passing, and shooting might come in handy in a position higher up in the field but unnecessary for a Center Back.
Amazon acknowledged streaming platform Twitch will now ban users if they use words like “Simp” , “incel” and “Virgin” while streaming or in the chatbox.
In a recent Twitch Town Hall video, COO Sara Clemens opened up about this new update where these words would be flagged as “forbidden” if they are used in a context that would negatively refer to someone else’s sexual activity.
This new update will also prohibit users from using the emotes that include the term ‘simp’.
This update comes right after the speculative DMCA folk tale which saw a majority of the Twitch community oppose the same. Along with these words mentioned above, Twitch has imposed a ban on yet more words which can be found on their newly updated Hateful Conduct and Harassment policy.
A Twitch official later clarified by stating, “Using these terms on their own wouldn’t lead to an enforcement but we would take action if they were used repeatedly in a harassing manner.”
In Retaliation, a couple of Twitch Streamers did tweet regarding the same among whom is “Neekolul”, a content creator from 100 Thieves where she instead decided to replace “Simp” and “Incel” with “Kings” and “Manbaby” respectively.
Wait is the word simp like bannable if said on stream? O_O I need to find a new word… instead of incel I’ll say manbaby and instead of simp I’ll say KINGS 💯
Valve has shipped another update to CSGO today, and it sheds light on the service medal for the next year along with a number of changes to the game itself.
Release Notes for today are up. We've updated Broken Fang Agents, fixed bugs associated with incorrect star progression, and added a donation key (CTRL) when purchasing a weapon to donate to teammates without dropping your primary weapon. This and more: https://t.co/DVfCkfQwRb
The service medal can be obtained by leveling up your account to Global General (Rank 40). Once done, you’ll have an option to reset your account level which will land you or let you upgrade the service medal.
To obtain the 2021 service medal, you need to reach rank 40 and claim the medal after January 1, 2021.
Other changes introduced in today’s update include some fixes to the Operation Broken Fang, changes to some of the maps, and the ‘Donate Weapons’ feature.
Hold the buy menu donation key (CTRL by default) when purchasing a weapon to donate to teammates without dropping your primary weapon. You can change the “Buy Menu Donation Key” in settings.
You can see the full list of patch notes in the official CSGO blog here.
CSGO Update Log (18th December 2020)
CSGO Release Notes for 12/17/2020
[ OPERATION BROKEN FANG ] – Adjusted first person arm models for Operation Broken Fang agents. – Adjusted end of match animations for Operation Broken Fang master agents. – Fixed a bug that could allow extra stars to be earned from missions. Going forward players will be correctly limited to receiving the total number of stars available from all unlocked cards. – Kick player vote is now disabled in Broken Fang Premier pick/ban arenas. – Fixed kill distance in missions UI to be correctly rounded for display.
[ MISC ] – Added 2021 Service Medal to be awarded for outstanding service and achievement starting from January 1, 2021 GMT. – Donate weapons to teammates in need! Hold the buy menu donation key (CTRL by default) when purchasing a weapon to donate to teammates without dropping your primary weapon. You can change the “Buy Menu Donation Key” in settings. – Game settings now have a search box to quickly find and jump to any setting or key binding. – Zeus restrictions in Casual, Wingman, and Competitive modes are now the same as all other weapons. – Adjusted Retakes clip areas in Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, Train, and Vertigo
[ MAPS ] Guard – Repacked radar
Elysion – Fixed a pixelwalk outside on the glass. – Fixed a pixelwalk on the Elysion sign on A site – Fixed a pixelwalk on the umbrellas outside. – Fixed the pixelwalks on the doorframes – Players were able to jump on top of the A sign on A site – Player were able to jump on top of the small palm plant – Players were able to 2 man boost outside and see into the site from an unfair position – Players were able to run boost on the windows railing on A site – The ladder outside has been removed – Reduced the foilage outside, players were able to hide – Waterfalls have been deleted from the white walls. Caused the smoke to become see through.
Apollo – Reduced props that draw for people on very low and low settings to hopefully help FPS levels across the map. (Thanks Shavitish) – Reduced CT spawn Cover to make it easier to clear – Improved model shuttle collsions to make walking over nicer – Reduced non-designed headpeaks across map (Thanks CF-166) – Fixed car fade in CT spawn (Thanks Sylikoira) – Fixed a few boost exploits – Updated to radar to a more simple single layer one – Reduced foliage over key angle (Near moonroom/CT spawn) – Fixed a number of grammar and spelling mistakes (Thanks Dogman15 + Marisakiri)
Anubis – Widened A main entrance – Simplified A connector area – Got rid of the deep corner below the windows on A – Got rid of the wall near the pillar at Waterfalls A site and reduced some corners to hide in as a CT – Some other minor things 3kliksphillip will probably find out
Starting today, Activision is running a Free Access Multiplayer event for Call Of Duty Black Ops Cold War. Interested players can check out different multiplayer game modes of the latest iteration of the COD series free of charge for a limited time.
Incidentally, the event went live after the game received its very first season update which added loads of new maps and content to Black Ops Cold War and integrated game weapons and vehicles with Battle Royale Warzone. With this event, Activision hopes more players will join the series and purchase the Black Ops Cold War in the coming days and boost the lower than expected player population.
The “Multiplayer Free Access Week” event is going to be split into two stages and will run for a week in total starting from December 17th and ending on December 24th. According to the official Call of Duty Blog, the first stage will run from December 17 until December 21 and allow players free access to Team Deathmatch, Domination, and 2v2 Gunfight game modes. The first stage will also allow access to two featured playlists: Nuketown Holiday 24/7 and Raid the Mall.
The second stage will run from December 21 to December 24 and allow free access to all the content from the first stage along with the Prop Hunt, Combined Arms: Hardpoint, and Fireteam: Dirty Bomb game modes.
Additionally, starting with the First Stage players will be able to earn double XP and double weapon bonuses on all operators. This runs until the end of the First Stage and will be replaced by a double battle pass XP event until the end of the Second Stage.
How to play Call Of Duty Black Ops Cold War For Free
In order to download it, visit your platform’s store to download and play Black Ops Cold War MP.
PlayStation: Open COD: Warzone, go the Store tab, scroll to Franchise Store, and you should see the Free Access option there. It’s rolling out slowly worldwide.
Xbox: Visit the Xbox Store on your console and search for “Black Ops Cold War Free Access” and download to play.
PC: Access via Blizzard Battle.net app. Go to the BLACK OPS tab, and there will be an option for “Try for Free.” This will begin the installation of the game.
Free Access Stage 1: Dec 17-21
Free access will come in two stages. Stage 1 starts on Thursday, 12/17 and ends on Monday, 12/21, and includes a combination of modes new to Season One or already available since the launch of Black Ops Cold War.
2v2 Gunfight
Get some Warzone Gulag practice in when the seminal 2v2 game mode from Modern Warfare returns in Black Ops Cold War in Season One. These fast, high-tension battles always end the same way: with the last duo standing. Face off with a rival duo on four maps: Game Show, ICBM, KGB, and U-Bahn, and be the first team to win six rounds to win.
Team Deathmatch
This classic 6v6 game mode needs no introduction. Eliminate your enemies and earn score for your team. First team to 100 wins. Maps include Moscow, Cartel, Miami, Satellite, Checkmate, Garrison, Armada Strike, Crossroads Strike, Nuketown ’84, The Pines, and Raid.
Featured Playlist: Nuketown Holiday 24/7
Deck the halls with this festive playlist, taking place in a reimagined Black Ops classic. Nuketown ’84 made its triumphant return in the lead-up to Season One, and this holiday version of the map adds an even brighter glow to the former Nevada testing ground. Jump into this 24/7 playlist and play Nuketown to your heart’s content in a variety of fast-paced modes.
Featured Playlist: Raid the Mall
Get ready for a two-map showcase featuring the fan-favorite Raid from Black Ops II and the neon-lit New Jersey mall at The Pines. With two medium-sized maps populated by a variety of scenic obstacles with an ‘80s aesthetic, Raid the Mall promises down-and-dirty battles, intense combat, and blazing fast gameplay.
Domination
The tried-and-true Call of Duty objective mode is back and better than ever. Two teams of six players fight for control of three objective zones. Earn score for each objective that your team owns. The first team to reach 200 score will achieve victory! Maps include Moscow, Cartel, Miami, Satellite, Checkmate, Garrison, Armada Strike, Crossroads Strike, Nuketown ’84, The Pines, and Raid.
Free Access Stage 2: Dec 21-24
Though Stage 1 ends Monday, 12/21, fear not. Stage 2 will pick right up where you left off. Not only are all of the modes from the previous stage available, you’ll also get the following:
Prop Hunt
The popular mode delivers its hilarious take on hide-and-seek, Call of Duty style. For those who don’t know, Prop Hunt pits two teams against one another: Hunters and Props. Props disguise themselves as scenery like baby grand pianos or mannequins, while Hunters try to track the Props down and eliminate them before they escape and blend in with the environment again. First team to take three rounds wins.
Combined Arms: Hardpoint
In this new addition to Combined Arms, two teams of 12 battle to capture and control a moving objective across four maps: Armada, Crossroads, Miami, and Cartel. Use tanks, gunboats, and snowmobiles to own objectives and take out the enemy’s control. Although the time limit is five minutes, the clock will pause when either team controls the objective, allowing for epic comebacks. The first team to reach the 350 score limit wins.
Fireteam: Dirty Bomb
Drop into this frenzied 40-player mode to collect, deliver, and deposit uranium into several active dirty bombs sites. You earn score by killing enemies, gathering and depositing uranium, and detonating dirty bombs. Maps include two massive play spaces: Ruka and Alpine.
Double XP, Double Weapon XP, and Double Battle Pass Progression
The week of free access just keeps getting better.
Starting 10AM December 18 to 10AM December 21, all Operators* (whether you’re in the free access or not) will earn double XP and double weapons bonuses across the available Multiplayer modes.
The bonuses continue at 10AM on December 22 through 10AM December 28 with Double Battle Pass XP in Multiplayer to unlock Battle Pass System content twice as fast. That’s a full 10 days to level up your Operator, weapons, and Battle Pass System tiers!
But keep in mind, from December 22-25, the Double Battle Pass XP is available only in Black Ops Cold War, and free access ends December 24. However, the Double Battle Pass XP bonus then kicks in for both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone from December 25-28.
* PlayStation users also have access to a bonus 24-hour double XP window to progress their Season 1 player level, starting at 10AM in December 17 in Black Ops Cold War and Warzone.
After refund “debacle”, Sony has finally made their move and pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store. Sony is also offering full refunds to anyone who purchased a digital copy through PlayStation.
Cyberpunk 2077 is having a hard time since its launch on December 10th, within a week, the hype and anticipation around the game have died down and now turned into a fury of players who are struggling to get the game running on their modern hardware or supported consoles.
At launch, the game was full of game-breaking bugs and glitches that players encountered throughout the game. Even the performance of the game wasn’t satisfactory and simply performed below average even on modern hardware.
Soon after the complaints reached the upper echelons at CD Projekt Red, the company issued a public apology and promised to fix the game. The developers also assured dissatisfied players about refunds and asked them to contact their respective game stores to get refunds.
Soon after the announcement, players on PlayStation trying to refund their digital copies of the game were struck down by Sony and were asked to wait for patches. But things didn’t go well for Sony after denying refunds and all players diverted their anger towards Sony.
Previously, Sony was only issuing refunds for “faulty” copies of the game, however, Sony is now offering full refunds to “all gamers who have purchased Cyberpunk 2077 via PlayStation Store”. Sony also went ahead and removed the game from PlayStation Store until further notice. We don’t know if the game will ever return to the store, as this is the first time Sony has handed out such harsh judgment.
sony pulls cyberpunk
The move to completely remove the game is something that no one would have expected and is considered to be unprecedented. It’s not like Cyberpunk 2077 was the only problem child that Sony had approved for release on their store in a broken state, back in 2018 Sony had also allowed the “console bricking” and infamously buggy game,Fallout 76. Even after reports of the game bricking some consoles, Sony never removed Fallout 76 from the store or offer refunds.
Sony released a statement to justify the removal of the game and said:
SIE strives to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction, and we will begin to offer a full refund for all gamers who have purchased Cyberpunk 2077 via PlayStation Store and want a refund.
Cyberpunk removed from Playstation Store
CDPR hasn’t issued a statement regarding Sony’s move, but all of these issues have resulted in developer CD Projekt Red losing a billion dollars in stock value over the last couple of days and losing trust among players.
Free Fire is a game that has a large variety of cosmetic skins and in-game items. With a game that already has so many utilities, the number of skins just multiplies and hence we have a large number of skins available. Free Fire sometimes gives away some free rewards to their community in form of redeem codes.
Free Fire and its cosmetic lineup start from small things like baggage and move from parachutes, glue walls, weapons, dress outfits, to fully-fledged characters. These skins need diamonds which are pretty costly to buy. Those who cannot afford to pay for the skins have other ways through which they can either collect diamonds but the easiest way to grab some freebies is through code redeems.
Whenever there are some official Free Fire streams on YouTube, you can hope to collect some free in-game goodies through the codes distributed. It is not guaranteed that you can receive a reward but the chances are higher.
