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MSI partners with CompLexity Gaming as official hardware partner

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MSI partners with CompLexity Gaming as official hardware partner

The hardware giant MSI have partnered with CompLexity Gaming as an official hardware partner. As a part of the deal, compLexity Gaming will exclusively use MSIโ€™s hardware be it desktop, video cards, laptops and monitors. MSI hardware will be powered by high-end Nvidia video cards to avail maximum performance.

MSI will be retrofitting the GameStop Performance Centre, Complexity Gaming’s new headquarters, with MSI PCs, laptops, and monitors powered by NVIDIA technology. The two brands will also collaborate to create unique event and trade show activations that showcase the immersive qualities and future of gaming.

โ€œComplexity and MSI have demonstrated an impressive track record of success in the gaming industry. MSI has a stellar reputation in gaming and this partnership will ensure that our players train and compete at the highest level with the latest and most powerful products, setting them up for long term success,โ€ said Daniel Herz, Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President, Complexity Gaming.

Followed by Sam Chern, MSI Marketing VP saying โ€œMSI is committed to the gaming industry, from offering the best gaming solutions to partnering with esports teams that share the same vision and determination. We are thrilled to join forces with Complexity Gaming and look forward to outfitting their elite players with the tools to train, compete, and shine.”

MSIโ€™s hardware partnership will be helping the organisation to further improve their teamโ€™sperformance with every player getting hands on Nvidia powered high end systems. The GameStop Performance Centrewill showcase the latest advancements in technology, including eye-tracking, performance-based data analytics, collaborative digital content creation, and more. MSI products will also be available for fans to test and purchase onsite at Complexity Gamingโ€™s headquarters.

PUBG Europe League partners with DXRacer

Prateek Jain
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PUBG Europe League partners with DXRacer

The gaming chair brand DXRacer revealed that they have partnered with StarLadder for upcoming PUBG Europe League. The league represents Europe’s portion of 2019 Official competitive season held by PUBG Corporation.

PUBG Europe League is one of six regional leagues alongside three additional regional circuits. The first of three phases just wrapped up on April 16th-21st with the FACEIT Global Summit: PUBG Classic in London.

DXRacer will be suppling gaming chairs to the players and talent in the PUBG Europe League utilise for the remainder of the 2019 season. The 2019 competitive season will be culminated at the PUBG Global Championship 2019.DXRacer is also partnered with organisations such Fnatic, NiP gaming, Naโ€™Vi, Optic gaming and Tempo Storm.

Similarly, HyperX had sponsored the PUBG Classic a week before it kicked off. HyperX provided mice, mouse pads, DRAM, and SSD products for the entirety of the tournament.

Gaming chair partnerships are the most common site for tournament organisers and almost if not, most tournament atleast have been sponsored by a gaming chair brand.

Photo: PUBG Europe League

Gearbox reveals Borderlands 3 Gameplay Reveal event details

Prateek Jain
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Gearbox reveals Borderlands 3 Gameplay Reveal event details

Gearbox is all set to reveal the gameplay of the much-awaited borderland 3 on Twitch in a special โ€œGameplay Revealโ€ event. During the event, the team at Borderlands 3 will inviteโ€œhundreds of streamersโ€ to play the game and viewers will be able to earn in-game loot simply by watching the event on twitch after installing a special extension.

The reveal event is set to broadcast on Wednesday, 1st May (6 pm UK/10am PDT). Viewers that install the Borderlands 3 ECHOcast Twitch extension can enjoy some additional benefits. After linking the SHiFT and Twitch accounts, the Borderlands 3 ECHOcast Twitch extension will let you interact with live streams of Borderlands 3.

With the ECHOcast extension enabled, the extension will allow viewer to look through the streamerโ€™s loadout, explore the contents of their backpack, and look over the skill tree. To enable the extension when you join a stream, youโ€™ll need to click on the small Vault symbol at the bottom of Twitchโ€™s video player.

One of the most exciting features of the ECHOcast Twitch extension gives viewers chance to receive the same in-game loot that a streamer finds in rare chests, which are typically guarded by powerful enemies. Once a streamer opens a rare chest viewer will have only 30 seconds to opt into the event. (Note that the loot will automatically scale to viewerโ€™s level when viewer retrieve it from in-game mailbox).

With the gameโ€™s September launch coming closer one can expect more events like this in future.

Nintendo Switch Online reaches close to 10million subscribers in Half-Year

Prateek Jain
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Nintendo Switch Online reaches close to 10million subscribers in Half-Year

Nintendo Switch Online is a service that offers a suite of features for Nintendo Switch handheld game console which requires the user to purchase a subscription for 20$ annually. Since its launch on September 19, 2018, the online service has gathered around 9.8 million users.

With Nintendo reporting 34 million units of Switch sold worldwide, this number comes close to 1/3rd population of total user-base.

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Nintendo Switch Online features include online multiplayer, cloud saving, voice chat, access to a library of Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games, as well as other promotions and offers. Following a period where some of its features were available to all users at no charge, but after the official launch, these features were made exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online.

Unlike Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus, Nintendo Switch Online does not offer free games every month, but Nintendo Switch Online does offer a roster of free classic NES titles.

With Nintendo denying launch of upgraded model at E3, this number is sure to rise. As the Switch grows its library of games also grows, with many developers/publisher now looking at it as potential future console many games are in works for Switch either new or ports.

Microsoft to not include Minecraftโ€™s creator Notch in 10 year Anniversary plans

Prateek Jain
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Microsoft to not include Minecraftโ€™s creator Notch in 10 year Anniversary plans

Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be involving Minecraft creator Marcus “Notch” Persson in the game’s official tenth-anniversary celebrations, due to his controversial “comments and opinions”.

Marcus “Notch” Persson sold Minecraft to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 Billion USD in 2014. Notch first released the game to the public on 17th May 2009. With the game completing a decade this year Microsoft and Mojang ( developer of Minecraft) have decided to celebrate this with a special press event at Minecraft developer Mojang’s Stockholm studio on 17th May, focussing on the “past, present and exciting future”.

In March update, Microsoft removed all references to Notch from the previously featured splash text on Minecraftโ€™s main menu. Notch is known for making controversial remarks about race, gender and sexuality on social media ( mainly twitter, where he has 3.7 million followers).

โ€œHis comments and opinions do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang and are not representative of โ€˜Minecraft,โ€ a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to Variety, which confirms that Notch wonโ€™t be involved with the birthday celebrations next month.

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Southeast Missouri State University to Establish Esports Space

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Southeast Missouri State University to Establish Esports Space

Esports has been on rise and since the recent past, it has not been merely confied. It has reached new highs with facilitating universities into its ecosystem and establishment of esports stadium across regions. Queensland University and Robbert Morris University stepped up to offer scholarship to esports athletes while Malaysian Asia Pacific University and Tokay High School orchestrated dedicated esports oriented curriculum for enthusiasts.

This time it is Southeast Missouri State University. It has planned to dedicate 1500 sq. foot area of a computer lab solely for esports. It shall be accessible throughout the day featuring six desktops, consoles and a 70-inch television. Students can grind, compete or even enjoy watching live matches at this space.

โ€œThis is of interest to our students, we are going to help students compete who want to be competitive. For those that donโ€™t, we hope they find a connection with others. That is so important.”

“The esports space comes after the creation of an esports club, that climbed to 60 members and integration into the universityโ€™s intramural program,” said Dr Bruce Skinner, Vice President of the aforementioned university.

Integration between esport and colleges is a big step forward. The collaboration can help bring relatively new form of entertainment to masses and nurture highly skilled athletes in their early phase. This can prevent from esports being looked down in several regions and could eventually glorify esport as a sports indeed. Esports athletes can also benefit by balancing their professional and curricular life and in turn, perform best at both the avenues.

Ence invited to ESL One Cologne 2019

Parth Gada
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Ence invited to ESL One Cologne 2019

Finnish Organisation Ence have been invited to ESL One Cologne 2019 which will be held from July 2-7, with the playoffs being held at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne from July 5-7.

This makes Ence the 8th team to be given a direct invite after Astralis, BIG, Faze,MIBR,Navi, NiP and Fnatic. The remaining 8 spots will be decided by qualifiers in Europe, who have 2 spots, and Asia and NA, each of whom have a single spot as well as 4 other invites that are yet to be announced.

Ence, who are ranked 5th in the World, shocked the community with runners up spot in the IEM Katowice Major 2019, which has seen them rise through the ranks to the top echelons of CS. Their latest outing was a 5th-8th standing at Starseries i-League Season 7.

The team list is now as follows:

  • Astralis
  • FaZe
  • Natus Vincere
  • fnatic
  • BIG
  • MIBR
  • NiP
  • Ence
  • Invite slot
  • Invite slot
  • Invite slot
  • Invite slot
  • EU Qualifier #1
  • NA Qualifier
  • EU Qualifier #2
  • Asia Qualifier

cs_summit 4 on air team revealed

Malav Popat
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cs_summit 4 on air team revealed

The organizers of the event have revealed the on-air team which will be leading the event held at Summit House in California from the 23rd of May to the 26th of May with a prize pool of $150,000 in the fourth instalment of the tournament.

The on-air team see Tres “stunna” Saranthus, Halvor “vENdetta” Gulestรธl, and Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson returning to the tournament after their appearance at cs_summit 3.

The on-air team is rounded off by Henry “HenryG” Greer and Jason “moses” O’Toole and Mohan “launders” Govindasamy.

The full on-air crew for cs_summit 4 is as follows:

  • Tres “stunna” Saranthus
  • Jason “moses” O’Toole
  • Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson
  • Henry “HenryG” Greer
  • Mohan “launders” Govindasamy
  • Halvor “vENdetta” Gulestรธl

Photo: HLTV

Devils.one organisation and players part ways

Malav Popat
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Devils.one organisation and players part ways

The Polish organisation, devils.one, have announced that they have parted ways with their players.

According to HLTV, the players parted with the organisation due to โ€œinternal tensions between the teamโ€

Photo: StarLadder

The same was reported by DeKay who stated that the organisation, formerly known as Kinguin, offered the players newer contracts. However, those contracts had lower pays and included the players being relocated to Warsaw. The players were unhappy with this move and decided to not sign new contracts.

This move comes as a shock to multiple viewers as the devils.one roster had shown promise following qualification for the second group stage of ESL Pro League Season 9 winning the Lotto Cup Winners’ Cup.

The following players will become free agents on the 1st of May

  • Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas
  • Jacek “MINISE” Jeziak
  • Karol “rallen” Rodowicz
  • Mikoล‚aj “mouz” Karolewski
  • Paweล‚ “dycha” Dycha (trial)
  • Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski (coach)

Photo: HLTV

Byali to leave Virtus.pro – Report

Malav Popat
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Byali to leave Virtus.pro – Report

According to a report from Cybersport.pl, Paweล‚ “byali” Bieliล„ski will be quitting the active lineup of Vitrus.Pro.

Byali and Snax returned to the newly formed Polish roster of Vitrus.Pro alongside MICHU, snatchie and TOAO. After this reformed roster went live, the Polish legendary side attended only one tournament, Charleroi Esports, where the team was knocked out following losses to G2 and GamerLegion.

Photo: HLTV

It is rumoured that Byali is unhappy with the teamโ€™s results and has decided to step down from the active lineup. The 24-year-old 1x Major Champion is set to be replaced by Michal “OKOLICIOUZ” Glowaty from EURONICS.

Vitrus.pro will be playing against ex-3DMAX in Kalashnikov Cup Season 2. However, it is not clear which player will play with the team.

If this report is correct, the Vitrus.Pro roster would be:

  • Michaล‚ “MICHU” Mรผller
  • Michaล‚ “snatchie” Rudzki
  • Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski
  • Arek “Vegi” Nawojski
  • Jakub “kuben” Gurczynski (coach)

Photo: HLTV

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