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How to watch FreeFortnite Cup: Schedule, Rules and Rewards

Divyesh Moghe
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How to watch FreeFortnite Cup: Schedule, Rules and Rewards

Epic Games is hosting an in-game tournament event named #FreeFortnite Cup. It will be last tournament for iOS devices until the lawsuit between Apple and Epic Games come to an end. Following a rift between the two giants, Apple has revoked all the developer access for the duration of lawsuit.

Apple was unhappy when Fortnite announced their own in-game payment system which skips their 30% cut. They removed Fortnite from App store and Epic Games filed a lawsuit against them in response. Epic games have revolted against this monopoly and launched a social campaign running the forefront with a ‘#FreeFortnite’ hashtag. This tournament can be considered as a part of this whole revolt.

The tournament will be last tournament for iOS users as Fortnite will head into Chapter Two: Season Four on 27 August. iOS users are not privy of using the game on their devices until the lawsuit settles the things between Apple and Epic Games.

Schedule:

#FreeFortnite Cup will be available in-game under Compete tab for a limited time from today at 7:30 PM IST/2:00 PM UST. Players can claim the #1 victory royale by defeating their opponents in Solo mode. They can jump into the game during a limited period of four hours by clicking under #FreeFortnite Cup Playlist.

Rules:

The players will be alloted points in the following format:

  • Active Time – 1 point for every 3 minutes on the BR island
  • Eliminations – 1 point per kill
  • Victory Royale – 10 points for each Victory Royale  

Players scoring 10 points will be gifted a Tart Tycoon Outfit and all the players can play upto 12 matches in this tournament. A more detailed criteria according to various regions is given below:

Rewards:

Epic Games provides a plethora of prizes for this tournament, ranging from in-game cosmetics to gaming hardwares. The in-game skin is called as Tart Tycoon Outfit which looks like an outfit with evil apple head. They created a parody clip some while ago where they mocked Apple by creating an evil version of their logo. That logo and this outfit share a lot of similarities.

credits: Epic Games

Along with such cosmetics, Epic Games have are offering an exclusive apparel in form of a hat donning “Free Fortnite” slogan. A huge range of gaming peripherals will be awarded to the top 1200 ‘apple-eaters’ globally. The list of gifts is given below:

  • Alienware Gaming Laptop®
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab S7®
  • OnePlus 8 – 90FPS on a phone
  • PlayStation 4 Pro®
  • Xbox One X®
  • Nintendo Switch®

The clash between Apple and Epic Games is heating up a lot and with this, Epic Games is encouraging their users to opt any different platform on which they can enjoy the game with their old account and the gaming devices gifted are a part of this propoganda.

PUBG Mobile: Belletron Ace win PMPL Ladies Tournament

Divyesh Moghe
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PUBG Mobile: Belletron Ace win PMPL Ladies Tournament

Belletron Ace, the female division of Bigetron Esports, won the PMPL Ladies Tournament which was included in PMPL Indonesia Season Two. The team won 25 Million IDR (~$1700) and the winner title.

Belletron Ace secured the top spot and won a seed in PMPL Ladies SEA tournament. PMPL included a ladies-only tournament for the first time and now according to the official post, another tournament for SEA will be conducted in th near future.

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PMPL Indonesia Ladies Tournament Finals were held for two days where Bigetron’s ladies division emerged victorious with high amount of kills. They were closely followed by AlterEgo and Aerowolf Zoo until the very end.

Bigetron RA are the two-time World champions and the same organisation’s ladies division grabs this win to mark their ever ending dominance in the PUBG Mobile Esports community.

The ladies-only tournament seems to make a permanent place in the PMPL structure soon and globally, other regions may also include their own set of female tournaments to encourage the ever-changing esports scene.

EA Play will be Available on Steam

Aritra Patra
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EA Play will be Available on Steam

Lately, Electronic Arts or EA combined its Origin Access and EA Access subscription into one service named “EA Play”. In addition, the Origin Access Premier will be called EA Play Pro. However, if you are on Steam but you would love to try out EA Play, there is good news for you.

After PS4, Xbox One, and Origin, the EA Play subscription service is coming to Steam on August 31. With the EA Play subscription, Steam users will be able to play numerous AAA titles of EA such as Battlefield, Titanfall, NFS, Sims, and more. Moreover, EA confirmed that the price will be $4.99 per month ($29.99 per year) for the EA Play subscription and $14.99 per month ($99.99 per year) for the EA Play Pro subscription. Players will also get early access to all the new titles along with deals and discounts.

In 2019, EA announced a partnership with Steam. EA Play for Steam is a great way to expand on Steam. How excited are you? Are you going to purchase EA Play on Steam on August 31st? Let us know in the comment section below.

Pokimane says she “had nothing to do” with Leafy’s YouTube ban

Divyesh Moghe
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Pokimane says she “had nothing to do” with Leafy’s YouTube ban

Pokimane has been in limelight for a long time, from taking temporary breaks from streaming to posting a short apology video for various reasons. This time Poki has made her stance clear before any assumptions are made.

LeafyIsHere criticized Pokimane and her fans in a couple of his videos in elaborative points. Soon after that, she was on a break from streaming during early August.

There was an unaddressed quarrel between Leafy and Pokimane and after this mysterious ban, it was bound to draw attention on Pokimane. Poki was already accused of allegedly banning people mentioning Leafy or his videos on her streams or socials following the statements from Leafy.

Leafy accused Pokimane of “censoring the internet and publicly removing cricisms for maintaining her image”. That video titled Content Nuke:Pokimane had already crossed a million views soon after its release.

Leafy was mysteriously banned from YouTube for severely violating its harrasment policies. This ban came through soon after Pokimane released her apology video. Pokimane must have caught the wind about this news and soon clearly stated that she had no involvement whatsoever in this matter.

Leafy and his entire content has been removed from YouTube and no further information is disclosed by YouTube officials about this matter and apparently the reason is unclear for even Leafy himself.

Valorant fans rage as Riot wipes account data and skins on alt regions

Sonu Banerjee
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Valorant fans rage as Riot wipes account data and skins on alt regions

Recently, a Reddit post has received a lot of traction when it revealed what happens to a VALORANT account when the owner decides to change its region, and players are furious after seeing Riot’s response.

“I just recently moved from Australia back to Belgium,” u/nyuware says in his Reddit thread. “So now I wanna change my region to Europe and I go to the support to do so, and this is the answer I’m getting.”

He then explained that Riot would delete most of the account data, including skins, match history, rank progression, and Battle Pass progress upon changing regions of an account.

“So basically in order to change my region, They will completely wipe my account, rank, paid skins, basically everything and I think that’s bullsh*t.”

What was further infuriating for the player is that they had no knowledge of this prior to starting the process. It wasn’t before he had made the account change request to Riot when he came to know that his account data would be reset. There is also a wait time of two weeks for the region change to commence.

“Before starting the process I didn’t have the information that this would happen, they just told me that I had to wait two weeks in order to change my region, and now they’re asking me to this ? WTF”

The reddit user also shared a screenshot of the Riot support explaining the details of the region changing process to him.

Needless to say, other Redditors were furious over this. “If your whole account is wiped what’s the point in having the ability to region change accounts? Literally a useless function,” one user said in the comments of the thread.

Riot devs haven’t responded to the thread yet, but the post is gaining rapid popularity in the subreddit as it has garnered over 7,000 upvotes in under a day.

India should lead digital gaming sector, develop games inspired by its culture, folk tales: PM Modi

Divyesh Moghe
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India should lead digital gaming sector, develop games inspired by its culture, folk tales: PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi addressed the panel during a discussion on ways to increase toy manufacturing in the country. At the end of this discussion, Modi states the importance of digital gaming and how it can be embedded with India’s cultural heritage.

The meeting was held to emphasize the need for boosting toy manufacturing in the country and PM Modi did not leave the rising digital gaming sector unnoticed.

“India should tap into the huge potential of digital gaming sector and lead international digital gaming sector by developing games that are inspired by Indian culture and folklore”, said PM Modi during this meeting.

The meeting started off with PM addressing the council on how the cultural heritage could be blended with toy manufacturing and their implementation in schools. Modi also suggested that by using tourism, local culture could be promoted in regions famous for handcrafted toys.

At the end, he announced that more hackathons should be arranged to mix in technology and how India should lead in global digital gaming market.

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mousesports bench woxic

Bharat Kotwani
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mousesports bench woxic

According to a report from 1pv.fr’s neLendirekt, Özgür “woxic” Eker has been moved to the bench by Mousesports.

Mousesports have announced the exclusion of Woxic from their starting roster as the latter has been accused for his “poor attitude” which led the team to put up some execrable showings. Since past few months, the European team’s performance had experienced a disastrous slump at a plethora of events like DreamHack Masters Spring 2020, cs_summit 6 Europe and at the ongoing ESL One Cologne where Finn ‘karrigan’ Andersen and his men were shown the exit door by MAD Lions.

Aurimas “⁠Bymas⁠” Pipiras who was earlier signed by Mousesports is all set to replace Woxic on the team. After trialling out at FaZe for almost three months, Bymas was signed as a ‘Developmental player” by Mousesports, only to replace the 21yo Turkish Sniper within just 2 weeks at his new home.

With Woxic’s exit from the team, Chris “⁠chrisJ⁠” de Jong will be seen transitioning himself into the role as the primary “Sniper” for the team. According to 1pv.fr, the air still remains unclear for the community whether the 17yo Prodigy will start for Mousesports as there has been no official statement released by the European side.

With woxic placed on the bench and Bymas in the active roster, mousesports will be:

  • Chris “⁠chrisJ⁠” de Jong
  • Robin “⁠ropz⁠” Kool
  • Finn “⁠karrigan⁠” Andersen
  • David “⁠frozen⁠” Čerňanský
  • Aurimas “⁠Bymas⁠” Pipiras
  • Allan “⁠Rejin⁠” Petersen (Head coach)
  • Özgür “⁠woxic⁠” Eker (benched)

Pokimane apologizes to fans addressing past behaviour

Pranav Nalawade
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Pokimane apologizes to fans addressing past behaviour

The past few months have been rough for Twitch streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys, as the 24-year-old found herself repeatedly amid controversies. She was held under fire by popular YouTube personalities like LeafyIsHere, It’sAGundam, diesel patches and many other channels on the platform.

The YouTubers put forward a number of arguments against Pokimane in their videos and called her a “hypocrite” for taking down other content creators’ videos due to lack of “transformative content” while simultaneously posting low-effort content herself. She was also accused of actively trying to “censor the internet” by Leafy, who claimed that if people tried to upload anything negative about the streamer, their content would be taken down by her.

Following these accusations, several Twitch streamers came to defend Pokimane saying the accusations were baseless, which created a sort of rift between a part of YouTube and Twitch content creators. It reached a point where people were getting banned off Pokimane’s discord even if they mentioned the name of the mentioned YouTube channels. Soon, Pokimane decided to take a temporary break from creating content which she announced through her Twitter.

On August 19th, only weeks after she declared her “break”, she issued a public apology video on YouTube for her past behavior. She came upfront with her viewers and acknowledged her mistakes, addressing all allegations against her and explaining them throughout her 16-minute long video.

It wasn’t before long that the YouTube commentary channels shared their thoughts on Pokimane’s apology. They mentioned how the apology wasn’t enough and just a restatement of her previous apology videos. However, soon after these incidents, on August 21st, YouTuber LeafyIsHere received an indefinite ban from YouTube for “multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully, or threaten.”

FallMania: The first Fall Guys tournament with $5,000 top prize

Pranav Nalawade
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FallMania: The first Fall Guys tournament with $5,000 top prize

It has been only a few weeks since the release of Fall Guys, and the “massively multiplayer party game” has already won the hearts of millions of fans worldwide. Although Fall Guys was initially seen as a casual game to have fun, it seems like things are taking a more competitive approach, as the first fall guys tournament has been announced with massive prize money of $5,000 on each round.

FallMania is set to be a streamers-only invitational tournament for Fall Guys. It will take place on August 27th and will have multiple events.

While it’s still unclear how many events will exactly be organized, each event will have a prize money of $5,000 up for grabs.

The event can be seen live here.

The popularity of Fall Guys has skyrocketed since the last few days. The reason behind this lies primarily in the fact that the game has been picked up by popular twitch streamers like xQc, moistcr1tikal and TimTheTatman. Not to mention the unique gameplay mechanics of Fall Guys in itself has attracted hundreds of thousands of fans to it.

Court denies Jamppi’s claim on VAC ban lift

Sonu Banerjee
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Court denies Jamppi’s claim on VAC ban lift

The Steam account of Jamppi received a Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) ban way back in 2015. This year, in March 2020, 18-year-old Jamppi decided to sue Valve over the ban and demanded a compensation of €268,092 in damages. Jamppi claimed that the VAC ban had hindered his signing to OG and permanently prevented him from participating in any CSGO majors. He also demanded the court for his VAC ban to be lifted.

Jamppi also demanded his VAC ban to be temporarily lifted for the duration of the legal proceedings, to which Valve has finally replied on 20th August, according to a report on Ilta-Sanomat.

In their response, Valve has declined to life Jamppi’s demands to lift his VAC ban temporarily.

Valve claimed that the removal of Jamppi’s VAC ban would cause damages to the company, and send a false message among players that they could cheat in the game and the VAC ban could be removed without any justification.

Following this, the District Court has declined Jamppi’s claims for his VAC ban to be lifted during the legal proceedings. However, the case will still continue in the court, and Jamppi will have rights to appeal against the District Court’s decision in the next seven days.

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