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Tencent partners with Mission Impossible: Fallout for PUBG

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New Delhiโ€“ August 03, 2018 โ€“ As part of an unprecedented month-long campaign for PlayerUnknownโ€™s Battlegrounds Mobile (PUBG MOBILE), Tencent Games has partnered with the new movie, โ€œMission: Impossible โ€“ Fallout,โ€ which released in theaters on July 27, to deliver all-new in-game content inspired by the film. This latest update, available now, comes just in time for PUBG MOBILE players.

โ€œNothing is impossible for PUBG MOBILE, the worldโ€™s most popular mobile battle royale game โ€“ ย not even a partnership with an iconic movie franchise such as โ€œMission: Impossible,โ€ said PUBG MOBILE team General Manager Vincent Wang.

โ€œAfter only a few months on the market, we continue to build our player base for PUBG MOBILEโ€“ now over 100 million strong โ€“ while growing our brand with innovative partnerships such as this special in-game event with to appeal to a broad range of gamers worldwide.โ€

Also, PUBG MOBILE will feature a โ€œMission: Impossible – Falloutโ€ in-game theme and several new in-game features with its latest update, including:

  • โ€œMission: Impossible โ€“ Falloutโ€ Takeover โ€“ Players will experience all-new background music and customizable parachutes themed to the film;
  • Special In-Game Rewards โ€“ Players can exchange themed items for โ€œMission: Impossible – Falloutโ€ avatars to use during the promotional campaign;
  • All-New Challenges โ€“ Players can compete in themed challenges for Team Rush, Survival and First-Person Perspective modes to earn various rewards.

Players can experience the world of โ€œMission: Impossible – Falloutโ€ on their Android and iOS devices in PUBG MOBILE with new items, challenges and other recognizable content straight from the film.

MIBR signs YNk as new coach

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Janko “YNk” Paunovic has signed a contract with MIBR and he will be training Fallen and co. The club introduced the tutor to the site.

https://twitter.com/mibr/status/1024716879066267649

YNk will arrive on August 13 at the bootcamp in Madrid before the start of the 2018/2019 season.

YNk has played professional Counter-Strike from 2013-15. In March 2015, he became an Observer, and in September began to work in the frame. He was at the analyst desk for all subsequent majors, except DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 and ELEAGUE Major 2017.

MIBR has not won a single premier tournament since October 2017. In July 2018, the squad couldn’t go past the group stage at ESL One: Cologne 2018 and ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2018. MIBR line-up acted without a coach since July 2016, when Wilton “zews” Prado joined Immortals. MIBR will begin FACEIT Major – London from the group stage, as it had finished in top eight at ELEAGUE Major Boston.

MIBR now have:

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Fernando “fer” Alvarenga

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Marcelo “coldzera” David

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธย Tarikย “tarik”ย Celik

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Jake “Stewie2K” Yip

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธย Janko “YNk” Paunoviฤ‡ (coach)

 

IEM Shanghai 2018 – Preview

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Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Shanghai is all set to begin tomorrow with $250,000 USD on the table and eight teams attending the offline event at the New International Expo Center, in Shanghai. The event will be held over the span of next six days which would not be a part of Intel Grand Slam.

Five teams were directly sent an invite while the remaining three teams qualified through online qualifiers from their respective regions. 5POWER qualified via China Qualifier, BOOT-dream[S]cape via Asia Qualifier and Grayhound qualified through the ANZ Qualifier.

Leslie “Bobosaur” Soen will replace Alikhan “w1nt3r” Kopzhanov in the BOOT-dream[S]cape line-up due to Visa problems while Piotr “Morelz” Taterka would be standing-in for Virtus.pro. Kristjan “FejtZ” Allsaar would be standing in for woxic and Blad3 would coach the Gambit line-up.

IEM Shanghai 2018 – Tournament Information

DateAugust 1st - 6th, 2018
OrganizerESL
Location๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Shanghai
VenueShanghai New International Expo Center.
Prize Pool$250,000 USD
Teams8 Teams

Map Pool:

Prize-Pool Distribution:

1st.: $125,000 USD
2nd: $50,000 USD
3rd-4th: $22,000 USD
5th-6th: $10,000 USD
7th-8th: $5,500 USD

Format:

  • Group Stage –

Eight teams are divided into two groups of four each and the event would feature double-elimination (GSL) format. Opening matches will be best-of-one while the rest are best-of-three. Out of four team, top two teams would advance to playoffs.

  • Playoffs –ย 

Semi-finals and grand-finals would feature single-elimination best-of-three format.

Participants:ย 

Photo Via IEM
  • Group A –ย 

Virtus.pro
HellRaisers
5POWER
NRG Esports

  • Group B –ย 

TyLoo
Gambit Esports
BOOT-dream[S]cape
Grayhound Gaming

Broadcast team:

Photo Via IEM

Stage Host

  • Yu “DXMASTER” Hao

Desk Host

  • Tres “Stunna” Saranthus

Content Host

  • Matt Andrews

Analysts

  • Sudhen “Bleh” Wahengbam
  • Jacob “Pimp” Winneche
  • Halvor “Vendetta” Gulestol

Casters

  • Matthew “Sadokist” Trivett
  • Chad “SPUNJ” Burchill
  • Harry “JustHarry” Russell
  • Alex “Snodz” Byfield

Observers

  • Michael “MC” Campagna
  • Alex “Rushly” Rush

All the matches would be streamed live on Twitch.

More information on the IEM Shanghai can be found on IEMโ€™sย website, and this article will be updated as more details are released.

International Olympics Committee notices too much violence in esports

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International Olympics Committee is claiming that esports portray too much violence. The president of IOC believes, even though there are no physical moves to determine pragmatic violence, it can not be overlooked.

IOC president Thomas Bachย said,ย The red line would be eGames which are killer games, where you have the promotion of violence or any kind of discrimination as a content. They can never be recognizedย as a part of the Olympic movement because they would be contrary to our values and principles.

Contrary to experts, it is not fulfilling right to say Counter Strike: Global Offensive affects a child’s brain and Boxing Match doesn’t.

However, itโ€™s not new that violence is frequently singled out as a defining and negative feature of video games. For instance, Call of Duty, Battlefield, CS:GO, are among the top esports games which possess violence as their poster-stand.

Computer game viciousness is regularly in view of hyper-practical bleeding fights and shootouts. Players (by and large kids and youngsters) regularly select from an arms stockpile of weapons to execute first-individual style, in war or road wrongdoing related accounts. Most brutal computer games incorporate avocations of the depicted viciousness, a misshaped depiction of results, and dehumanization of adversaries.

At the forefront of the on-field sport violence conversation is the number of injuries โ€“ estimated at more than 600,000 per year in US sports. Concussions, which are a serious form of head trauma, are not just being seen among professional athletes but among school-aged children too.

About 90% of children younger than 12 years, and 95% of children aged 12 and older, play video games. More than 85% of video games on the market contain some form of violence.

For spectators, the majority of on-field professional sport is watched on a screen. At the same time, professional sport has become increasingly commodified and detached from everyday life.

The celebrity lifestyles of many leading athletes (and their the wives and girlfriends) can โ€œdehumaniseโ€ athletes to the point where they seem like characters in a game. Watching professional sport often provides a sense of freedom and escape from modern life and, in this manner, can be viewed as being somehow less โ€œrealโ€.

In some studies, violent game play was found to have no effect, while other research has suggested that it increased aggressive behavior and reduced prosocial behavior, empathy and moral engagement.

Astralis acquires ELEAGUE CSGO Premier trophy in style

Astralis are the 2018 ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier champions, and potentially the most predominant competition victors in late history.

A 2-0 triumph over Team Liquid today fixed the occasion title for the Danish group, who completed the opposition with eight guide wins and no misfortunes. Of their four match triumphs, two came against Liquidโ€”who were additionally undefeated in delineate, outside of their gatherings with Astralis, obviously.

While the Nuke recreations in both Astralis versus Fluid arrangement were moderately shut, alternate maps were uneven. The present Inferno matchup to commence the arrangement was an exceptional show of strength, however. Astralis won 14 continuous rounds to start the diversion, putting the guide for all intents and purposes distant before Liquid even anchored their first round.

With some battle, Liquid snatched five rounds. Tragically for them, it takes 16 to win an amusement and Astralis could do that after only 21 rounds. The brisk triumph place Liquid in an unpleasant spot to return the best-of-three arrangementโ€”and they simply couldn’t do it on account of yet another incredible diversion by Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz.

The Danish top pick completed with a diversion high 25 slaughters, donning another amusement high 1.42 rating to oblige it. That execution was only the keep going on a noteworthy rundown of awesome recreations for dev1ce, who completed with a 1.44 general rating and 0.91 slaughters for every round in the occasion.

The ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier title is the fourth for Astralis over the most recent couple of monthsโ€”and the third that was done off with a triumph over Team Liquid.

Meet the 24 teams at FACEIT Major

FACEIT Major is heading towards its final stage. The $1mn major from Valve is posted at London between 5th of September to the 23rd.

All the four minors have concluded with eight teams making their way to the New Challengers Stage in the FACEIT London major. Both the finalists at four Regional Minor are invited to the New Challengers Stage.

Winners

America Minor:

  • compLexity
  • Rogue

CIS Minor:

  • HellRaisers
  • Team Spirit

Asia Minor:

  • TyLoo
  • Renegades

Europe Minor:

  • OpTic Gaming
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas

Eight qualified teams will compete with bottom eight teams from the ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018:

  1. Astralis
  2. Team Liquid
  3. Virtus.pro
  4. Gambit
  5. Vega Squadron
  6. BIG
  7. North
  8. Space Soldiers

Top eight teams from New Challengers Stage will advance to New Legends Stage where they would clash with top eight teams from the previous major:

  1. Cloud 9
  2. MIBR
  3. FaZe Clan
  4. Natus Vincere
  5. G2 Esports
  6. fnatic
  7. mousesports
  8. Winstrike (previously QB Fire)

New Challengers Stage will be held from September 5-9 followed by New Legends Stage on Sept 12-16 and Champions Stage from September 20-23. All the matches would be streamed live on Twitch and YouTube Gaming along with GOTV access. More details regarding the renowned major could be found on their official website.

BLAST Pro Series gets Turkish Airlines as their transportation partner for Istanbul

Turkish Airlines has been named transportation accomplice for the primary Istanbul portion in the BLAST Pro Series. Additionally subtle elements on the arrangement will be uncovered later in the year.

The Blast Pro Series is aย Counter-Strike: Global Offensiveย ย tournament circuit, possessed and worked byย RFRSH Entertainmentย . The arrangement started with a sold-out, 12K participant Copenhagen competition in 2017, with a second Danish occasion made arrangements for November.

September’s $250K prize poolย Blast Pro Series in Istanbul will be the primary held in Turkey, and the second competition in general for the arrangement. The occasion was initially planned for June 24, yet after a political race was brought in Turkey for a similar date, the competition was pushed back to September 29.

Other notable aviation giants who previously entered into the esports segment:

Bettina Kuperman, CEO of Impact 34โ€”an Istanbul games and stimulation advertising organization co-creating the occasionโ€”stated: “As far back as we declared we’d convey BLAST Pro Series to Istanbul, we have gotten a considerable measure of consideration from fans, telecasters and a portion of the greatest Turkish and global brands.”

“We’re not Esports ready” says PUBG creator Brendan Greene

Two days afterย PUBG Global Invitational started in Berlin, Brendan Greene says that the game still isn’t prepared for a noteworthy esports scene. In a meeting in front of the beginning of the opposition, PlayerUnknown himself says that PUBG is “not esports prepared.”

Greene later developed getting PUBG prepared for the esports organize, expressing that “we truly need to settle the stage. We need to make the diversion focused, and that implies getting each one of those low down bugs out and all the personal satisfaction changes that the players need, so we may include new highlights and add new usefulness to the amusement.”

Santos Football Club adds League of Legends roster

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Santos F.C., a top Brazilian soccer club, has extended its esports branch to incorporate a League of Legends group. The LoL squad will be added to Santos’ current esports list, which incorporates Pro Evolution Soccer title holder Guilherme “GuiFera01” Fonseca and an all-ladies Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team.

With its new LoL group, Santos e-Sports will hope to fit the bill for the 2019 Challenger Circuit, Brazil’s semi-ace association which bolsters into the district’s proficient alliance, CBLoL.

Santos started its esports wander in 2015 as a title backer of Dexterity Team, which then re-branded to Santos Dexterity. The organization finished in March 2018, when Santos propelled its own particular esports mark with the assistance of esports administration organization Select e-Sports Management.

BenQ announces ZOWIE XL2411P as the chosen monitor of PUBG Global Invitational 2018

New Delhi, Jul 26, 2018 โ€“ ZOWIE, BenQ’s eSports brand, announced today that ZOWIE XL2411P has been chosen as the tournament monitor of PGI 2018. ZOWIE strives to provide e-Sports professionals and enthusiasts with the best equipment to suit their personal preference, allowing them to focus on nothing but their performance in-game.

PUBG GLOBAL INVITATIONAL 2018 is the first major international tournament which will take place from 25th to 29th July at the Mercedes-Benz-Arena, Berlin. The tournament is organized by PUBG Corporation and will feature the top 20 teams from around the world competing to win a piece of the $2,000,000 prize pool, the largest to date for PUBG.

โ€œWe are proud that ZOWIE e-Sports monitor has been chosen for popular e-sports gaming championship. e-Sports in India is showing strong growth which provides a platform for engagement for professional players and e-gamers across the country. Achievements like these will give us more confidence and determination to make our products better every day. BenQโ€™s ZOWIE XL2411P is a special monitor embodying all the features suitable for the wider audience.โ€ said Rajeev Singh, Managing Director, BenQ India.

XL2411P provides the features of the classic XL2411 monitor and adds the Display Port connector for enhanced connectivity. ZOWIE XL2411P is a 1ms monitor with 144Hz refresh rate which delivers an extremely smooth gaming experience in FPS and MOBA games suitable for gamersโ€™ specific needs. It entails Black eQualizer for visual clarity in dark scenes, Smart Scaling for quick screen size adjustment and Color Vibrance giving you the flexibility to easily tune preferred color tone and make color grading more defined. The product also consists of various input connectors, including DisplayPort, DVI-DL, HDMI and headphone jack.

The flagship e-Sports monitor features present in ZOWIE XL2411P, such as Color Vibrance and Black eQualizer, are available on all XL series monitors, & can provide players with in-game benefits for PUBG. Fine tuning the levels for these features can provide players with better clarity and comfort in-game allowing them to play to the best of their ability with no compromise in performance.