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Twitch streamer rages after mom get his Steam account banned

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On 1st November a Twitch streamer who goes by the handle Yeetyboiiiii was notified in the middle of his stream that his Steam account has been banned for 13 days. Further, he released that it was his mother who contacted them and reported his account for unauthorized use of her credit card to purchase games.

“CD key activation has been disabled. What the F*CK!!!” cursed the enraged streamer. He then calls his mother on the phone for his audience and the conversation goes like this. “You know that call and email you made to Steam? They disabled my account and banned me! That’s hundreds of games down the drain you owe me now!” His mother gently denied him saying “Oh, I definitely don’t owe you. You were using my card and it wasn’t acceptable!” Upon hanging up the phone he screamed “GOD! DUMB B*TCH!. Get the f*ck out of here!”.

Later down the stream, we see him taking questions from his chat, most of which are about his relationship with his mother, to which he said he still loves her and “She does everything for me.” He also explained that he is unaware of those purchases and it came from a different IP from their house.

The account as it seems has not been banned from everything, standard market features like cs key activation and trading are only harmed for 13 days.

S1mple confirms stay with Natus Vincere till late 2020

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The 2018 worldโ€™s no 1 Counter-Strike player Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev is expected to stay with Natus Vincere until December of next year according to DBLTAP. The timing of this arrangement have not been disclosed yet, and neither the player or the organization went public about it.

Back in 2017, NaVi signed S1mple along with flamie, since then their roster went through some significant changes. The Russian organization saw Edward getting loaned out with Zeus hanging his mouse up.

They signed back GuardiaN and Boombl4 to complement the roster with Boombl4 to take up the IGL role. Getting GuradiaN on the AWP meant s1mple will have less time on the weapon, which saw him transit back to an assault player, only to play the big green as a secondary to the Slovak.

Since such changes in the rosters, Naโ€™Vi went up to semifinals of DreamHack Masters Malmรถ and had a clean qualifier group for ESL Pro League Season 10. This change also recorded their worst tournament where they made a group stage exit from i-League Season 8.

NiP defeat Astralis; Liquid take down Cloud9 at BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen

NiP beat Astralis on Overpass, 16-7, to go 2-0 in their first two matches, while liquid defeated cloud9 on Inferno 16-4, in their BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen Opener.

Ninjas in Pyjamas, won the first 12 rounds of the game on Overpass. However, Astralis got their first win on 13th round, thanks to Lukas โ€œgla1veโ€ Rossander, who won a crucial one-vs-two clutch against Jonas โ€œLekr0โ€ Olofsson and Simon โ€œtwistโ€ Eliasson.

Via HLTV

For a moment, NiP probably felt like they are about to lose the game. But the Ninjas had such a huge lead to work with that Astralisโ€™ efforts were in vain.

Liquid gave an immaculate performance on the Counter-Terrorist side. They ran all over the Cloud9 aggression to race to a 13-2 lead.

Via HLTV

In the second half, Liquid won their T-side pistol with ace from Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken, and the subsequent anti-eco. However, Cloud9 reacted in second half by winning 2 rounds, but that was not enough to stop Liquid, who won anti-eco round to seal the deal, 16-4.

NiP will face FaZe today at 18:30 IST. Whereas, Astralis will try to step up today against Team Liquid at 18:30 IST.

You can now see how much money you’ve spent on CSGO skins

At times we have always wondered how much money we would have saved if we had not spent all that pocket money on buying CSGO skins. Well, now there is a way to find out exactly that.

It all started with a reddit thread where a user was contemplating his enormous spending on skins, which promoted others to share their side as well, with one user claiming to have spent over $137,000 (Rs 97,25,150). There are many ways to actually get skins in the game:

  • Drop from matches
  • Opening cases
  • Trading with a friend
  • Buying skins from the market or a 3rd party website.

The one caveat to the spending that they show does not include the profits or the money made by selling any skin. This means that if one was to buy and sell the same skin again and again, they actually have not spent any money but steam will show a recurring purchase for that skin. Another factor not considered is the money spent/earned on trading, either through a 3rd party website or with friends..

However, if you are just curious and brave enough to see how much you spent in total, you can click on badges near your name on the Steam app and website and click on “How do I earn card drops?” which will show your spending.

Ubisoft reports a sharp decline in operating income amid delays and poor sales

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Last week, Ubisoft announced delays to its 3 upcoming AAA games Gods and Monster, Rainbow Six Quarantine and Watch_Dogs Legion into its fiscal year 2020-21. All of these games were slated to release this year only, but due to poor response on The Division 2 and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint the management decided to delay the other games and improve them further.

In a statement, Yves Guillemot, CEO at Ubisoft said that the delays were announced to give more time to developers to polish the experience and perfect implementation of innovation for players.

Today, Ubisoft reported their first half 2019-2020 earnings in which the operating income of the company declined by more than 90% compared to last year.

The company didnโ€™t mention any thing about The Division 2 in the report, but were vocal about the failure of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint being explanation for โ€œoperating income impairmentโ€. This report further went into predicting an empty Q3 and Q4 as there are no major release scheduled for those months.

The reports of the current fiscal arenโ€™t good by any standard for company such as Ubisoft which is traded publicly on stock market. This will make investors cautioned about the company and may result in drop of share prices.

Although this doesnโ€™t mean that the company is doomed and may close down, but rather it means that the next major releases should perform exponentially well and meet all market expectations or the company may have hard times next year.

Further in the report CEO Yves Guillemot said:

Ubisoft’s prospects are particularly promising. Our numerous growth vectors going forward include the arrival of the next generation of consoles, the opening up of the Asian market and our partnership with Tencent for launching our franchises on mobile. All of these are strong value creation drivers for the medium term.

Next year will be hard for the company and its teams any failure might have big repercussions for both the parties.

Borderlands 3 is now available for Mac users

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Just in time for Halloween sales, the ever anticipated version of Borderlands series i.e. Borderlands 3 will be coming to Mac OS. In an Official announcement Gearbox announced the game coming to Mac OS and also detailed its requirements.

Mac gamers interested in buying Borderlands 3 should head onto Epic Games Store to purchase the game. As it stands the game is only available through Epic Games Store as it is a paid exclusive till April 2020 and will release on Steam after that.

Borderlands 3 will work on Mac OS 10.12.6 and above version only, so anyone still running on old version should update the OS or they wonโ€™t be able to play the game. Other requirements include a minimum of 8gb, 70+GB storage space, intel i7 7th gen processor, AMD Radeon Pro 580 8GB and above.

Borderlands 3 is officially one of the best selling game in the franchise and also one the bestselling 2K game in history since its launch in September.

As an added bonus for anyone buying Borderlands 3 now will get a free Fortnite Psycho Bundle Pack which includes Psycho Bandit Outfit, Claptrap Pet and Psycho Buzz Axe. This promotion bundle will be given out until December 2019.

Upcoming games to claim for free on Console and PC

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Since its Halloween week both console giants Xbox and PlayStation will be handing out a number of free games to their premium service subscribers.

Xbox Live Gold subscribers and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get access to four games in November. These games include Sherlock Holmes: The Devilโ€™s Daughter, The Final Station, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (till 15th Nov) and Joy Ride Turbo ( available from 16th Nov till 30th Nov). The Xbox Live Gold users can still claim Friday the 13th: The Game (until 15th Nov) which was available in October.

As for PlayStation Plus subscribers they will be a be able to claim a free copy of Nioh and Outlast 2. Although there are only 2 games available this time, but both of these games are praised for their gameplay and story.

NIoh is a samurai action game somewhat similar Sekiro but with more in-depth combat system in a medieval setting and Outlast 2 is a scary game about a journalist investigating murders in town.

But thatโ€™s not all, gamers on PC can also get free games from Epic Games Store. This month EGS users can claim 2 free games namely Costume Quest and SOMA. Both games are available till November 7th and will be followed by Nuclear Throne and Ruiner.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC launch Trailer shared by Rockstar

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Today, Rockstar Games shared official trailer for its upcoming PC Red Dead Redemption 2.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most critically acclaimed console games of 2018, with the game bringing in many graphical advances and also a full length campaign; the game was a financial success on both the consoles and was called an โ€œOpen World Masterpieceโ€

But the main gripe for many gamers was its availability limited to consoles only. But in October Rockstar Games announced their own game launcher and with that they also announced the debut of Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC. The game will be making its way to PC on November 5th 2019. The game will be available through Rockstar Game Launcher and Epic Games Store only. A Steam version of the game will launch at some point in December.

The game on PC will feature a number of graphics and technical enhancements over the console version. These features include increased draw distance, higher quality Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion, higher quality shadows, improved reflections, improved textures and loads more options. All of this is only possible due to availability of more powerful hardware on PC than on consoles. The game will also feature uncapped framerates and 4K ultrawide resolutions.

Astralis Group plans to launch IPO in Denmark

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Danish Esports organisation Astralis Group, owners of esports teams Astralis (CS:GO), Origen (League of Legends) and Future Football Club (FIFA 19/20) announced expressed their intentions to list itself on NASDAQ. The Astralis group plans to introduce its IPO to the market later this year date of which will be announced later with more details about offering price and quantity.

Team Astralis is considered as one of the  best line-ups in history of CS:GO with a dominant performance throughout the year and a stronghold on #1 rank for majority of the year. This fact alone will help gather many investors interested in the IPO offering.

The organisation will soon release a public prospectus which will offer information about the IPO and the company to the investor.

Nikolaj Nyholm, CEO and co-founder of Astralis Group in the announcement pointed out the strong foundation of his organisation and stronghold of its teams in their respective esports.

According to him, there is a great potential in development of future product stack of the organisation and scaling their business globally. The organisation plans to use the funds gathered from IPO offering towards investment in those ideas.

They also have plans to invest in developing facilities, performance tools, media presence and a commercial platform.

100 Thieves return to CSGO by signing Renegades roster

American esports organization 100Thieves will return to competitive CSGO after acquiring Renegadeโ€™s roster.

Renegades were too excited to announce the departure as they tweeted the release of their roster and quickly deleted it. This was followed by an official announcement from 100T. 100 Thieves owner Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag announced in July that they were looking to return to competitive CS:GO. Nadeshot even came over to Berlin during the Starladder Major and kept an eye for players who were hungry to make a winning legacy.

This will be 100T’s second time in the competitive scene for CSGO, they previously had a brief spell during late 2017, where they picked up the Immortals roster that finished 2nd place in PGL Krakow. The team missed out on the ELEAGUE Major due to immigration issues, Vito “kNgV-” Giuseppe and then the rest of the team were released soon afterward without even making a single appearance for the organization.

100 Thieves are:

  • Justin “jks” Savage
  • Aaron “AZR” Ward
  • Joakim “jkaem” Myrbostad
  • Sean “Gratisfaction” Kaiwai
  • Jay “Liazz” Tregillgas
  • Aleksandar “kassad” Trifunoviฤ‡ (coach)