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16-Year-Old PUBG Addict Fakes His Own Kidnapping After Parents Take Away His Mobile Phone, demanded 3 lakh ransom

Sonu Banerjee
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16-Year-Old PUBG Addict Fakes His Own Kidnapping After Parents Take Away His Mobile Phone, demanded 3 lakh ransom

A 14-year-old boy from Bihar, India has faked his own kidnapping and demanded a ransom of Rs 500,000 from his mother, according to a report from The Times of India.

According to her mother, on the morning of August 9th, the teenager left the house claiming that he had to go meet a friend. The tenth grade student left the house with a sum of Rs 2,000 and his mobile phone, but didn’t return.

Soon, his widow mother received a text message saying that the boy had been kidnapped, along with a ransom demand of Rs 500,000. She then contacted Patra Nagar Police Station and lodged a complaint of kidnapping.

It didn’t take long for the police to find the boy, who was found at a bus station in Purnea on Wednesday night.

According to the report, Patrakar Nagar police station SHO Pramod Kumar said that the boy planned to use the ransom money to get admitted in a cricket academy in Delhi or Mumbai. He also mentioned that the boy was addicted to online video games and wanted to buy a costly mobile phone to play them in.

It was found out through an investigation that the mother had taken a loan of Rs 350,000 which the boy knew about, and may have led to him staging his own kidnapping.

Valorant: Nitr0 joins 100 Thieves

Bharat Kotwani
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Valorant: Nitr0 joins 100 Thieves

100 Thieves have announced the addition of Nick “nitr0” Cannella to their Valorant roster.

Nicholas “nitr0” Cannella rejoins his former teammate Spencer “Hiko” Martin at 100T’s Valorant, with whom he played under Team Liquid’s banner from Mid August 2015 till January 2017 during his CS:GO career. With this signing, 100T bid farewell to its rest of the roster except Hiko after they seemed to have struggled lately with some early exits from the FaZe Clan and PAX Arena Invitationals.

Nitr0 came up with his decision of making the switch to Valorant nearly after 2 weeks after the latter decided to step down from Team Liquid. The entire community was curious to recieve some answers regarding his fate, until now where he has successfuly transitioned himself into a pro player for 100 Thieves’s Valorant division. Till the beginning of this month, Nick was the part of Team Liquid’s Original roster which was formed way back in 2015, along with whom he did triumph at the ESL One Colonge 2019 and secured the Intel Grand Slam title.

PMCO for India, Pakistan and South Asia region have been postponed

Divyesh Moghe
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PMCO for India, Pakistan and South Asia region have been postponed

PMCO South Asia, India and Pakistan regions have been postponed due to suspicious behaviour of some players. This is a similar incident to that of PMCO Pakistan hackers that took place just two days ago and the tournament is halted for second time for Pakistan region.

PMCO: South Asia group stages were stopped in the middle after the third match and casters announced that the map will be played in near future and official announcement will be given regarding this matter as well. This is the exact same thing that happened some days ago for PMCO Pakistan and it further lead to four teams getting banned for lifetime.

PMCO India soon followed the suit and it was postponed alongside PMCO Pakistan and a massive check will happen to ensure the integrity of this tournament. Pakistan region undergoes scanning again even after primary investigation led to four teams getting banned.

source: GameTube
Source: GameTube

GameTube posted some screenshots of official discord announcements that states that the games are postponed until the integrity of this tournament is ensured. An exact similar statement was given during preliminary investigation of Pakistan region but this time there is no mention of scanning all the players that are playing the group stages.

Source: GameTube

The entire edition of PMCO is questionable after two doubtful incidents emerging one after another and both are regarding the same matter. The officials have taken strict action this time and halted the entirety of this tournament for all the regions mentioned above.

The management of these tournaments have promised to use anti-cheat apps for upcoming matches but apparently that was not implemented right from the starting stages. This perhaps led to severe development of such cases and hackers managed to reach upto group stages of one of the most prestigious tournament edition of PUBG Mobile.

TalkEsport, Immortals India and Playtonia unite for an Independence Day tribute from Esports

Abhishek Bajaj
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TalkEsport, Immortals India and Playtonia unite for an Independence Day tribute from Esports

A trio of Indian powerhouses in the esports scene have come together for a good cause this Independence Day. The concoction paid tribute to the ‘unity in diversity’ concept of India on August 15 by bringing a host of personalities from different spheres of the esports industry together.

The concept is not too different from what several entertainment houses have done recently but the first instance of someone channeling the same idea in the Indian esports scene. The host of personalities gathered from their respective abodes sang the National Anthem, which paid homage to the solidarity, strength and unity of the nation.

We hope this initiative can help merge several sectors of the Indian esports industry and provide more opportunities to the people and organisations involved along with easing the inculcation of newcomers. Vande Mataram.

Online Gaming Racket of $150 Million busted by Hyderabad Police

Divyesh Moghe
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Online Gaming Racket of $150 Million busted by Hyderabad Police

Hyderabad police have arrested four men including one Chinese national after busting a huge online gaming racket which was worth ₹1,100 Crore as per transactions traced by the Police. Most of these transactions occurred during the lockdown period.

The investigation was initially started to trace down two transactions of ₹97,000 and ₹1,64,000 which were lost to online gambling. After some investigation it was unearthed that the racket was much more bigger with a lot of complications.

“The Modus Operandi in this crime involved a social media platform called Telegram. They created a group on telegram and entries were allowed only through some sort of reference. This reference could be of system administrator or the existing member of the group. Members used to get commissions for new entry”, says Anjani Kumar, Hyderabad Police commissioner.

These groups were used to direct the users to websites and place bets or play online games on it. The websites were changed on a regular basis and the domains were traced back to China and cloud data hosting services are situated in USA.

The websites were programmed to operate in such a way that people lost money in long durations and many others were scammed by phishing and similar methods. All the companies involved are allegedly controlled by a China-based firm named “Beijing T Power”

The four arrested men are charged according to IPC section 420 for cheating and section 120B for conspiracy and under Telangana Gaming Act.

Watch: Gamers celebrate Independence Day in GTA V

Divyesh Moghe
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Watch: Gamers celebrate Independence Day in GTA V

Indian gamers expressed their love for nation and games at the same time on Independence Day. Various GTA V players in India beautifully celebrated this year’s Independence Day in-game in the online servers and offline mods as well. Gamers like Os triCh, Mandeep is Gamer and Preet Creator flaunted their patriotism and game skills to create a wonderful Independence Day celebration ingame in their own ideal way.

Os triCh dedicated his Independence Day celebration video to Indian Army and made some absolutely charming sequences in their video. They used a tricolour theme honouring the Indian Flag and resprayed the tanks and insurgent pick-up trucks and arranged them in Orange, White and Green colour order.

V-65 Molotok aircraft was used with customised colour smokes to create a beautiful replica of actual planes flying in national ceremony of Independence Day.

credits: Os triCh Youtube

Other YouTubers like Mandeep is Gamer and Preet Creator made a parody video of flag hoisting ceremony and a parade of customised vehicles donning Indian Flag at the top. Their videos mostly feature their own gameplay and a part of that is the Independence Day ceremony.

credits: Preet Creator

Following are the stills from Mandeep is Gamer’s video:

This wonderful crossover between a gamer’s love for game and nation and expressing his patriotic nature through creating such amazing content in games like GTA V form such amusing things that are unique as well as beautiful to look at. Many more Youtubers have created some form of Independence Day themed content across various games as well.

Ubisoft fired Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail

Divyesh Moghe
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Ubisoft fired Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail

Ubisoft has fired Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of their newest game title Assassin’s Creed Valhalla over misconduct remarks. This game is one of the most anticipated titles of this year. Ubisoft is already dealing with lots of misconduct allegations and the topic which may have led to this decision could be one of them.

Ashraf Ismail was accused by a fan of lying about his marital status to seek an extramarital affair. He apologized later on and stepped down from his role but continued to be an employee in Ubisoft.

According to BloomBerg, their staff confirmed that Ashraf Ismail is no longer an employee and has been dismissed from Ubisoft. They have also confirmed that he was not fired for “cheating on his wife” but due to some other misconducts.

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1294255875495002112?s=19

Many of the top executives from Ubisoft, including the Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoët have departed from this company following the rising allegations.

Dr. Disrespect teases Pewdiepie collaboration on Fall Guys for today’s stream

Abhishek Bajaj
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Dr. Disrespect teases Pewdiepie collaboration on Fall Guys for today’s stream

Renowned streamer Herschel ‘Dr. Disrespect’ Beahm IV has teased his fans with what looks like a collaboration with Youtube sensation Felix ‘Pewdiepie’ Kjellberg. The controversial streamer who recently shifted from Twitch to Youtube seems set to play Fall Guys with Pewdiepie on today’s stream.

Dr. Disrespect has been received with open arms by viewers on YouTube, with his opening streams being a huge success, with his concurrent viewership of over 300k during his first one beating a previous YouTube record set by Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins. The record however, has since been eclipsed by a few streamers including Fnatic PUBGM star Tanmay ‘scoutOP’ Singh.

The main reason for Dr. Disrespect’s move to YouTube for streaming purposes is his permanent ban on Twitch, with the platform yet to reveal the reason behind it to the masses and even the Doc himself. There are rumours that Doc’s team is contemplating legal action against Twitch. However, One platform’s loss is another’s gain and it seems the doc will be set to break more benchmarks and reach new heights with this purported stream collaboration with Pewdiepie.

The doc has gone live now, with so far his trailer running. It will be intriguing to see just how huge this stream collaboration will turn out to be.

Four PMCO Pakistan Teams receive lifetime ban for hacking

Divyesh Moghe
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Four PMCO Pakistan Teams receive lifetime ban for hacking

Four teams are banned from PMCO Pakistan under the pretext of using hacks in the group stages. The tournament was halted midway on 13th August 2020 for scanning players using hacks and the official disqualification announcement was made on today’s Livestream.

PMCO Pakistan’s integrity was questioned when there were lots of allegations of hacking in the group stages of the tournament. We covered this incident in detail yesterday and there was a strong probability of many bans coming through.

According to the official statement which read “The PUBG Mobile Esports team investigated the currently active competitive PUBG Mobile players of PMCO Pakistan. We have discovered that four teams have made use of an unauthorised program, the type of which has been severely damaging the integrity of the game PUBG Mobile therefore we have decided to ban the following four teams from ongoing PMCO Pakistan and future PUBG Mobile tournaments for lifetime”

  • Team Xetreme
  • 47 esports
  • Team ECSTASYYY
  • TheHELLFIREs

Players were getting banned one after another when the screening process by PUBG Mobile Esports officials was started. The final decision was announced on a discord group which is as follows:

The tournament was postponed midway yesterday after two matches were played and it was instantly resumed to its original timetable from 14th August 2020.

Two matches which were remaining from day two have been rescheduled as one extra match per day on next two consecutive days. The tournament will be held according to normal schedule and these four teams will be removed from stages.

Mobile Premier League announced as the principal sponsor of Knight Riders Franchises KKR and TKR

Divyesh Moghe
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Mobile Premier League announced as the principal sponsor of Knight Riders Franchises KKR and TKR

Mobile Premier League (MPL) became the principal sponsors of Knight Riders franchise in IPL and CPL for teams Kolkata Knight Riders and Trinbago Knight Riders.

MPL is an Indian esports and gaming startup which is gaining traction in India. The captain of Indian Cricket Team, Virat Kohli is the brand ambassador of this esports platform. This company has made another move in traditional sports by sponsoring a prominent contender in IPL and becoming the pricipal sponsors for the Knight Riders franchise.

IPL 2020 will start from 19th September in UAE and players from Kolkata Knight Riders will flaunt this jersey in their games.

This is a big partnership that brings gaming startup to tie up with a traditional sports franchise and form a unique partnership between traditional sports and esports industry.

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