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PUBG Mobile earnings soar $3 billion

Divyesh Moghe
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PUBG Mobile earnings soar $3 billion

PUBG Mobile by Tencent recently doubled its lifetime revenue to $3 Billion in just a period of over seven months. This battle-royale game is very famous across the globe with a very high amount of users. 

According to the reports from a research firm SensorTower, this successful achievement was attained through the collective revenue collected from the global version of this game and its Chinese counterpart known as “Game for Peace”.

The game has earned $1.2 Billion in 2020 alone. This amount was also a collective of the two versions. The peak revenue was at a record high of $270 Million in the month of March, which was amid the lockdown imposed in many countries due to the Pandemic

PUBG Mobile earned almost four times more than any other mobile shooter game title in the first half of 2020. Other titles such as Free Fire and Call of Duty: Mobile earned around $300 Million in comparison.

The Chinese counterpart “Game for Peace” earned the maximum revenue of about $1.6 Billion from their lifetime player spending on China’s App store which contributes to 52% of their lifetime earnings, according to SensorTower analytics.  China is followed by USA which contributes 14% and Japan with 5.3% of the total revenue.

The game has a very high player base. India ranks first for app downloads, with 175 Million (24%) installs till date, followed by China (16.7%) and USA( 6.4%).

iPhone users are most generous when it comes to spending in this game. 79% of the total revenue generated was from Apple’s app store and remaining was from Google Play Store, which is from android device users. This is opposite to the accounts where 65% of installs were made from Play Store and only 35% from App Store. 

Valorant patch 1.03 reduces Guardian’s price, loosens surrender requirements

Sonu Banerjee
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Valorant patch 1.03 reduces Guardian’s price, loosens surrender requirements

The developers of Riot Games have constantly been working to improve the balance and fairness of their competitive shooter VALORANT. They have shipped out multiple updates to the game in only a span of a few weeks to maintain the competitive integrity of the game. The previous updates generally included hero reworks, weapon improvements, map updates, and numerous bug fixes.

Today, Riot devs announced their newest patch to VALORANT which includes a number of noticeable changes to the first-person shooter.

The first and perhaps the most important change of patch 1.03 is the revamp of the Guardian. The price of the Guardian was reduced to 2500 from its previous price tag of 2700. To balance things out, Riot also reduced the firing rate of the gun from 6.5 to 4.75 while simultaneously increasing its penetration power from Medium to Heavy.

As Riot wrote in their blog post, “We hope these changes will sharpen the Guardian’s identity as a long-range, versatile weapon, with its heavy penetration values and lower price providing some more nuanced choice competition to the rifle category of the arsenal.”

Another important aspect of the latest patch is the change in the requirements of surrendering a game. The unrated mode will no longer require 100% of the players’ votes for a surrender vote to be passed. Instead, having 80% of the players voting yes will now be enough to pass the vote. However, this change is only for the unrated mode. Ranked mode would still require the surrender vote to be unanimously passed by 100% of the players.

In addition to this, the surrender option will now be available from round 5 instead of round 8, enabling players to opt out of a game sooner than before if they believe they had a terrible start. However, it’s important to remember that surrendering in ranked mode will count losses for all the remaining rounds in the game. So, surrendering should ideally be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

Other changes in this update include some small adjustments to the maps, several bug fixes, multiple quality of life changes and the addition of a new orb in the Spike Rush game mode.

The full details of the patch can be read here.

WePlay! VALORANT Invitational announced

Pranav Nalawade
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WePlay! VALORANT Invitational announced

WePlay! Esports are proud to announce our first VALORANT tournament. In this event, six invited teams will be joined by two Open Qualifier winners to fight for a prize pool of $50,000. This event is another entry in the VALORANT IGNITION SERIES.

Invited teams

  • PartyParrots
  • fish123
  • Prodigy
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
  • G2 Esports
  • forZe

Event format & dates

The tournament kicks off with Open Qualifiers on July 13 and 14. The qualifiers are two separate single-elimination brackets. The final series in each qualifier is BO3, the rest are BO1. Teams are allowed to participate in both qualifiers.

Sign up for Open Qualifier #1
Sign up for Open Qualifier #2

The eight invited and qualified teams will participate in a Swiss Bracket group stage that takes place on July 15–17. Four teams will proceed to the next stage.

The winners of the group stage will be seeded in a single-elimination bracket. The Semifinals will be played on July 18; the final series will be played on July 19.

All main event matches, including the Finals, are BO3.

We have been following VALORANT since its announcement, and now welcome the opportunity to apply ourselves in the new title. As usual, we will try to make the event dramatic, unusual, and unforgettable. We’re hoping that VALORANT will enjoy WePlay! Esports’ style and our regular viewers will have fun with the new game.

Eugene “Hitras” Shepelev, Lead Esports Manager at WePlay! Esports.

he IGNITION SERIES is definitely setting up a standard of play for VALORANT, the likes of which we’ve never seen before, and will undoubtedly begin to influence competitive audiences in their decisions around play.

Joe Ziegler, Game Director at Riot Games

MSI President and CEO Charles Chiang Has Passed Away

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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MSI President and CEO Charles Chiang Has Passed Away

MSI, a company which brought in many amazing products throughout the ages has faced the tragic loss of their CEO Charles Chiang at the age of 56.

The death however has occurred under circumstances that arise many questions and has been turned into a matter of police investigation thus far. The Twaiwanese media has reported that the death of Mr Chiang has been caused due to a fall from a building which led to a head injury.

Sheng-Chang Chiang took over MSI in January last year and was known to have established the gaming brand of the company with and leading the company’s venture into PC oriented gaming equipment such as motherboards and graphics cards as the head of Desktop Computing business.

We share our utmost condolences to the family of Sheng-Chang Chiang and MSI.

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Get Watch Dogs 2 for free this Sunday by watching Ubisoft Forward

Pranav Nalawade
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Get Watch Dogs 2 for free this Sunday by watching Ubisoft Forward

This weekend Ubisoft is giving away Watch Dogs 2 to everyone who is login to their Ubisoft Account this Sunday 12th July while the Ubisoft Forward event is active. Ubisoft has specifically said that Watch Dogs 2 will be available “anytime after Trackmania and before the end of the main show.” Presumably, if Trackmania is the first game to appear on the show at 11 am then everyone gets a 2 hours window to claim Watch Dogs 2 for free.

While they’re claiming Watch Dogs 2, players can also enter to win additional in-game rewards from Ubisoft by answering trivia questions.

Ubisoft is expected to reveal their next-gen games for the upcoming PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in the Ubisoft Forward. The event will take place on Sunday, July 12 at 11 am PDT with a stream covering news on upcoming updates for The Division 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Trackmania, and Just Dance 2020. Shortly after these announcements, the main event will commence at 12 pm PDT featuring details on Ubisoft’s upcoming next-gen games i.e Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Hyper Scape, plus “a few surprises.”

Watch Dogs 2 is 2nd game in the Watch Dogs series and was launched in 2016. Watch Dogs 2 has sold more than 10 million copies by March 2020 and the 3rd game of the series, Watch Dogs: Legion, is expected to come in 2021.

CSGO skin collector creates record by buying a weapon skin for $100,000

Sonu Banerjee
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CSGO skin collector creates record by buying a weapon skin for $100,000

The skin economy revolving around Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is vast. Every day, the Steam market possibly experiences transactions worth millions of dollars based on CSGO skins alone. The price of some of these virtual items are hefty, while that of some are outright unbelievable.

It’s not rare for skin collectors of CSGO to spend thousands of dollars on a fancy Dragon Lore, or on a Gungnir. In fact, it’s rare for these skins to go under a thousand dollars because of their demand and limited availability.

The record of the costliest skin ever sold in CSGO history was held by a Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore which went for a whopping $61,000 after the Boston Major held in January 2018. That specific Souvenir skin had a golden sticker of Skadoodle in it, who was the Boston Major MVP and played in Cloud9, the winning team of the tournament.

Two years later, that astonishing record has finally been broken, not by a Souvenir skin but by a skin whose sheer rarity surpasses that of even the dragon lore and dressed in stickers which cannot be obtained in the game anymore.

According to a Twitter post by ohnePixel, a Chinese CSGO skin collector has bought a Stattrak M4A4 Howl with 4x IBuyPower Katowice 2014 stickers for around $100,000, which is a record skin price in the history of CSGO.

Besides the Howl being an extremely rare and contraband skin by itself, this one had a float as low as 0.003, which further increased its value combinedly with the IBuyPower Katowice 2014 stickers applied on the skin. All these factors resulted in the huge price tag on this specific M4 Howl.

The collector is reportedly looking to sell the skin for $130,000, which will set another record in the history of CSGO for the most valued skin to ever have been sold.

PUBG Mobile Update 0.19.0 With New ‘Livik’ Map to launch on July 7

Divyesh Moghe
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PUBG Mobile Update 0.19.0 With New ‘Livik’ Map to launch on July 7

PUBG Mobile’s new update of patch 0.19.0 is set to release on July 7th, 2020. The new update will bring a new map called as “Livik” which will be the newest addition to current maps. This will be the first exclusive map to be released in PUBG Mobile.

Map Introduction:

Livik will cover an area of 2×2 km in size, which is extremely small as compared to other maps in the game. The map may come under “Playground” section because the lobby will comprise of only 52 players. The developers made this map with an intention to keep the play time to maximum of 15 minutes.

The map is a combination between a dormant volcano in the southern part and snow covered mountains in the northern part. As a result of this, there is a variety of climates in different parts of map.

Here is a short description of various places in the map and what we know about them for now:

  • Lupine Felt: It is located in the North-Western part of the map and will have a sea of lupine flowers blossoming in long open fields. 
  • Reeds: It is located in the central region of the map. It is like a swamp with waist-high reeds. It will be favourite spot for players who like to play that sneaky game like Sanhok.
  • Waterfall: It is located in the South-Eastern section of this map. As the name suggests, it will have a two tier multi-step waterfall. You can jump boats over the waterfall.
  • Aqueduct: It is located in the South-Western part of the map. It is comprised of ancient runes and there is lot to discover here.

New Guns:

New guns are added to this map exclusively. The famous P90 from mode Team Death-Match is one of those weapons. A new gun MK-12 is introduced which is going to be a DMR weapon and will use 5.56mm ammunition. It will have a standard magazine of 20 bullets and maximum of 30 bullets, it has approximate reload time of 3.2 seconds and will include all the attachments including foregrip, scopes, canted sight, muzzles and  magazine. This gun will be exclusively available in this map only. 

New Attachments:

A new attachment known as Barrel Extender will be available. It is a muzzle attachment and can be used with most of Snipers, Assault Rifles and SMGs. The function of this attachment will be that it can increase the range of weapon but decreases the damage with increasing range.

New Vehicles:

Monster truck will be added as new vehicle only available in this map. It is going to be humongous in size and has its advantages over normal vehicles available in other modes. The big wheels of this truck are able to climb small obstacles and it is going to be very handy to travel through the mountainous terrain of Livik.

Additional Features:

  • Super crates will spawn randomly over the map and an extra amount of loot and armor.
  • The hot-springs will boost up your character slowly when you stand in the water.

We will update the list as more official information is available. Let us know if you will dive into this map and explore it more.

CSGO: BIG wins CS Summit 6 Europe

Kanishka Thakur
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CSGO: BIG wins CS Summit 6 Europe

BIG has defeated Vitality 3-2 in a best of 5 series in the finals of cs_summit 6 after having a 1 map disadvantage due to coming from the lower bracket. 

The map veto started with BIG removing Vertigo and Vitality banning Train and then BIG picking up Mirage as the first map and Vitality picking inferno. Dust 2 was chosen by BIG as the third map pick and Overpass was lastly picked by Vitality. 

The first map started with BIG winning the pistol round in their favor and also taking on the buy round and extending their lead in the very beginning to 5-0.  Mathieu “⁠ZywOo⁠” Herbaut 4 insane AWP kills started to bring his team back in the game. Although BIG won the first half 8-7.

The second half saw some incredible plays coming from Nils “⁠k1to⁠” Gruhne with his AWP and BIG playing inch perfect on their own map pick and then easily closing out the map 16-8 in their favor. 

The second map was inferno and Vitality did bounce back after losing the first map of the grand finals and started with winning the pistol round with 3 quick kills coming from ‘Rpk’ and then helping his team move on to a 7-1 lead. On the other hand Ismailcan “⁠XANTARES⁠” Dörtkardeş was on another level today as he clutched some very important rounds for his team and took the half time score to 8-7 in favor of Vitality.

The second pistol round was also won by Vitality and that gave them a good boost to recover all the lost rounds in the first half and the rest of the job was done by ‘Zyw0O’ who finished the map with a 23K-19D and Vitality secured the map 16-11.

The third map of the game was Dust2 and BIG was not ready to give up so easily so although losing the pistol round, they did a force buy on the second round and that worked for them and they were quite dominant on their T side and secured the half 10-5.

In the second half Vitality did try to make a comeback by winning the pistol round yet again but again losing on the force buy rounds and then eventually losing a few clutch situations and BIG finally taking the map 16-10 in their favor and equalising the series 2-2 and taking to the fifth and the final map of the series that was Overpass.

The final map was Overpass and this was the last chance for both the teams to seal this series and the title of Cs_summit6. The rounds went back and forth as both the teams played top notch counter strike but the half ended with Vitality slightly edging over BIG with a 8-7 advantage.

The second half was a different story altogether as BIG won the pistol round and then they started off winning rounds continuously and took the scoreline to 14-8. Richard ‘shox’ Papillon did try to win some rounds for his team but failed and BIG secure the map 16-10 and won the series 3-2 and became the champions of Cs_summit 6. 

Punjab teen spends Rs 2 lakh from grandfather’s Pension account on PUBG Mobile in-game transactions

Pranav Nalawade
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Punjab teen spends Rs 2 lakh from grandfather’s Pension account on PUBG Mobile in-game transactions

Recently, a teenager spent RS 16 Lakh in PUBG Mobile. He took the money from several bank accounts held by his parents. It was too late when his parents realized that what was going on. The parents had kept the money safely in case of a medical emergency. He took the money from several bank accounts held by his parents. It was too late when his parents realized that what was going on. The parents had kept the money safely in case of a medical emergency.

The addiction of PUBG Mobile is on the rise as another similar case has emerged just like the last one. Another teenager from Mohali region of Punjab, India made use of his grandfather’s pension account to make in-game item purchases worth 2 Lakh Rs in PUBG Mobile.

As per the news report from The Tribune India, the teenager started playing the game in the month of January. “He learnt to make online transactions inside the game with the help of a bank account from one of his school seniors”, says his uncle. He even told that the teenager had bought a brand-new SIM card just to play the game. PUBG Mobile’s in-game currency, also known as UC (Unknown Cash) allows the players to buy several clothes, weapon skins, premium crates and much more inside the game.

He reportedly used his grandfather’s documents to verify the account and make the online payments. Grandfather’s bank account was made by the family for pension deposits. As per the sources, this teenager who hails from Mohali made around 30 transactions in the last two months to spend 55,000 Indian Rupees in the game. He was using a Paytm account made on the name of his grandfather to buy the UC. His family got to know about what was going on when they did a routine check on grandfather’s bank account statement.

Later on, the boy revealed that he had spent over 2 Lakh Indian Rupees for in-app purchases in PUBG Mobile. He even acknowledged that he had given the senior a fair amount of money to purchase items in the game. As per the family, the teenager was lured by his senior to indulge in such activities and they have even filed a complaint against the senior who lives in a small region of Mohali district, Zirakpur.

YouTuber makes fake CSGO cheats to punish cheaters with hilarious punishments

Sonu Banerjee
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YouTuber makes fake CSGO cheats to punish cheaters with hilarious punishments

If you’ve been playing CSGO for a while, you should be familiar with the cheating problem the game faces. Despite the efforts of Valve and their anti-cheat VAC to curb the cheater count in the game, cheats are still steadily available to use online, some of which are paid while some are completely free to use.

While the Overwatch system of CSGO ensures that cheaters get banned at the earliest, some of the players still choose to cheat regardless for personal enjoyment. This led YouTuber “ScriptKid” to take matters into his own hands and punish the people who download such cheats, and that too in a hilarious way.

To set things up, after the coding of the cheat was done, ScriptKid created a website for the cheat and gave it an authentic look. He also paid Google to advertise his webpage on the front page of Google when someone made a search somewhere along the lines of “Free CSGO cheats”. He demonstrated the process briefly in his YouTube video.

The unsuspecting cheaters who downloaded the cheat had no clue what was awaiting for them once they launched the cheat. The cheat included in it various levels of “punishments” scattered across a competitive game. They would trigger randomly or at specific moments in a game to hinder the cheaters’ gameplays.

The Punishments

  • Burning Man: When the cheater tries to use a Molotov or an incendiary, his aim automatically drops to the ground, setting himself on fire. Furthermore, his movement keys are automatically unbound for a few seconds.
  • No Plant or Defuse: When the player tries to plant or defuse the bomb, it automatically cancels right at the last second and plays a fake “The bomb has been defused” sound effect to confuse the player.
  • Big Spender: During a buy round, the player randomly drops cheap weapons like the Mp9 or Nova to mess up their economy.
  • No Spray 4 U: While spraying with a gun, there’s a 50% chance to drop all the weapons in the player’s inventory.
  • Invert Mouse: Whenever the cheater aims down a scope (like the AWP or the SSG), his mouse gets inverted.
  • Violence Speed Momentum: The cheater gets 100 sensitivity and starts jumping randomly for a few seconds.
  • ButterFingers:  The cheater drops his weapon whenever he tries to shoot.
  • Do You Even Aim Bro: When the cheater aims towards an enemy, the crosshair is randomly shifted away from the enemy and has to be manually dragged back, making it much more difficult to land a shot.
  • BloodBrothers: Whenever the crosshair of the cheater is on a teammate, the gun which the cheater has equipped starts shooting automatically.
  • Tripwires: Tripwires are scattered at various locations of the maps. When the player steps on a tripwire, a random punishment is activated.

Just by reading the punishment names and descriptions, you can probably guess how difficult it must be for the cheaters when they play a game with this cheat enabled. What’s even more interesting is that the cheat automatically sends the replays of the matches to ScriptKid, who shared a compilation of the cheaters having a hard time through his YouTube video and it’s certain to give you a bunch of good laughs at the unfortunate cheaters.

Photo: ScriptKid

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