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McDonalds share rose all-time high 23%, thanks to Nintendo’s Pokemon

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McDonalds share rose all-time high 23%, thanks to Nintendo’s Pokemon

Stock Market is on a roll in Tokyo after Nintendo’s PokemonGO is shuffling the sentiments of the market movers and shakers. Joining the list in the surge market movers is McDonald’s Holdings Co. which boomed to its all-time daily high, market price of share rose by 23%, highest since it was listed more than a decade ago.

The game, which is still not able in Japan surprisingly, has vouched for the Food giant McDonalds by taking the share price on a roll gaining in percentages more than 20% in intra-day trading.

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“Investors are flocking to Pokemon-related stocks and McDonald’s Japan is one of those benefiting from the boom,” said Mitsushige Akino, a Tokyo-based executive officer at Ichiyoshi Asset Management Co. “The boom came at a time when McDonald’s business has already started recovering and there’s expectation that the Pokemon toy offering will further increase customer traffic to their shops.”

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After a breathtaking rally of the game’s trend everlasting – now more than a week – Nintendo has pushed its market value past Sony Corp. For the Japan unit of McDonald’s Corp., Nintendo has been offering exclusive Pokemon action figures in their outlets. Shares in the Japan unit of McDonald’s Corp. rose 9.9 percent to 3,340 yen as of 11:00 a.m. in Tokyo trading Tuesday. The 23 percent jump earlier was the biggest daily gain since its July 2001 listing. The benchmark Topix index rose 0.2 percent.

Pokemon Go’s launch in Japan has been postponed in light of the fact that the server limit in the nation is not sufficiently capable of staying, with respect to the expected interest, Forbes reported July 15, referring to John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon GO engineer Niantic Inc.

Nintendo has now surpassed Sony, valued at $40bns

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Nintendo has now surpassed Sony, valued at $40bns

Nintendo’s is on a fairly run now after the launch of its overnight success Pokemon: GO which has now surpassed every possible figure available to avail success. The company has now taken over in figures the market capital valuation of its Japanese rival Sony. Nintendo has now doubled its valuation after the Pokemon GO launch and has now been valued over $40billion.

It also has created a new record for the Japanese stock exchange by marking the highest number of shares ever traded daily in Japan. The stock doubled its valuation on Tuesday and surpassed the valuation of technology giant Sony, dealing the valuation of over $39billions.

Considering, the game has not launched in many countries officially, it is quite easy to predict the forthcoming success of the game as the fact that countries like India have not still gotten an official launch, but the rising popularity aims clearly towards the fundamentals of a viral game such as Pokemon GO.

Team Empire drops Scandal

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Team Empire drops Scandal

Team Empire drops Scandal – four active members remains to the team

Team Empire drops Scandal from their dota 2 roster after their poor performance at the Chinese Nanyang dota 2 championships season 2.

Team Empire drops scandal
Roman “Scandal” Sadotenkov

Roman “Scandal” Sadotenkov was a former player of Team Empire back in 2012.

Scandal then moved apart from the team due to some disputes with the managerial staff. During his 3 years of time span before he joined back Team Empire he was part of many other known organisations such as Rox-Kis, Power Rangers and Virtus-pro.Polar.

Team Empire looked promising during their performance by qualifying for the ESL One Manila and Manila Majors.

Team was brought down at the Chinese showdown at the Season 2 of Nanyang dota 2 championships. With poor performance at Nanyang the organisation decided to drop their mid player from the roster.

Statement by Team Empire.

” It is still unknown who is going to replace Roman. After Virtus.Pro have disbanded and Polarity have lost its financial support it is safe to assume that CIS free agents’ market is rather full. We hope that Team Empire will come back stronger with new mid player as well as Roman will find his new team and perform greatly. ”

Due to lot of roster changes in CIS regions and many teams disbanding such as Virtus.Pro and even polarity losing their financial support it is assumed that Scandal will be a free agent till the time he is able to find himself a new home.

This is what Scandal have to say about the Situation on his social media page.

The roster change took place after failing to qualify for the International 6 by acquiring bottom 3rd position in their qualifying bubble group and failing to grab a good spot at the season 2 of Nanyang Dota 2 championships. Team Empire is now a part of the post TI6 Shuffle before TI6.

Team Empire’s Current Roster.

Russia Roman ‘RAMZES666’ Kushnarev
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Russia Vasily ‘Afterlife’ Shishkin
Russia Yaroslav ‘Miposhka’ Naidenov
Russia Rinat ‘KingR’ Abdullin

Majors Restructured?

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Majors Restructured?

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Majors

As we all know after The International 5 Valve came up with Majors happening before the start of TI6. It is speculated that the format of Majors will be restructured.

Majors are basically 3 tournaments before The International which takes place every year affiliated with Valve.

The prize money is contributed by Valve and allows the community to enjoy Dota for the whole year.

Ehome’s Manager, Galahad, recently tweeted on weibo that he heard about Valve to cancel the Major’s post Ti6 and come up with a new tournament structure.

This information is not yet confirmed by anyone from Valve or any known personality.

Ehome’s Manager said :

” heard that there won’t be seasonal Majors next year. But Valve will pick some big tournament organisers like ESL and PGL to do CS:GO-like big tournaments. Valve will still provide the prize money. But the essence is that they will outsource the Majors and Valve will not provide the money of organising. Dota2 will have a Hall of Fame, which will select players that shone in the past. But the entrees must have retired for a year.”

With this, rooms for third party Organizers like Starladder & ESL are now open.

It is also speculated that Valve may go with third party organizers for the tournaments who proved to be the best for the community.

The above mentioned things are not yet confirmed and still are rumored.

Valve to take action against betting and gambling sites

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Valve to take action against betting and gambling sites

Valve to take action against betting and gambling sites who are using openID API.

There have been enormous number of betting sites available where anyone can go and bet in game items and make money.

But everything has it’s own dark side where people are getting addicted to betting and gambling. As the items used to gamble or bet are basically items from Valve which are ingame cosmetics. Since Valve have left an option to the community for exchanging items with their friends. It is now used as a way of betting and gambling on 3rd party sites.

A recent announcement from Valve states

In 2011, we added a feature to Steam that enabled users to trade in-game items as a way to make it easier for people to get the items they wanted in games featuring in-game economies.

Since then a number of gambling sites started leveraging the Steam trading system, and there’s been some false assumptions about our involvement with these sites. We’d like to clarify that we have no business relationships with any of these sites. We have never received any revenue from them. And Steam does not have a system for turning in-game items into real world currency.

These sites have basically pieced together their operations in a two-part fashion. First, they are using the OpenID API as a way for users to prove ownership of their Steam accounts and items. Any other information they obtain about a user’s Steam account is either manually disclosed by the user or obtained from the user’s Steam Community profile (when the user has chosen to make their profile public). Second, they create automated Steam accounts that make the same web calls as individual Steam users.

Using the OpenID API and making the same web calls as Steam users to run a gambling business is not allowed by our API nor our user agreements. We are going to start sending notices to these sites requesting they cease operations through Steam, and further pursue the matter as necessary. Users should probably consider this information as they manage their in-game item inventory and trade activity.

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Valve will soon be taking actions against the betting and gambling websites to improve the community which is moving towards gambling and betting. Since the community is full of youth’s and mainly aged between 15-27, it is important from valve’s point of view to put a stop to Gambling.

This action will also improve the professional gaming scene. As many of players are found betting against their own team and deliberately losing the game for the sake of winning the money attained from betting. This has always been an issue for the community and puts a bad reference to the viewers and newcomers. This action will also allow to decrease the amount of match fixing which have already been a thread to the competitive scene. Eventually, if valve decides to take an action against the current ongoing websites with regards to certain lawsuits. We can see a potential of gambling and betting websites to go down soon.

We here at Talkesport suggest people to withdraw their deposits from such websites as their deposits may be in danger.

Since Many of the websites have now stopped taking deposits and can go down soon. If the website goes down, Valve won’t be responsible for any of your losses since betting and gambling of Valve’s cosmetics are marked illegal by Valve.

 

Mountain Dew’s DewArena – India’s largest gaming championship

Deepak Ojha
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Mountain Dew’s DewArena – India’s largest gaming championship

Mountain Dew’s DewArena, as it says, India’s largest gaming championship in partnership with ESL India has been announced with prize-pool INR 8,00,000. The event starts 15th of July 2016 with the qualifiers.

As the name suggests, this tournament will be part of the promotional campaign for the beverage giant, Pepsi, which plans to launch their latest product Mountain Dew GameFuel in India very soon. The most interesting and exciting part of the tournament marks on the prizes to the winning team. There’s a lot more to win other than cash prize as the winning captain will have their picture embossed on the Mountain Dew GameFuel, which will be retailed all across the country.

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The format of the tournament will be standardized with offline qualifiers followed by the DewArena Grand LAN finals on 24th and 25th of September in Delhi later this year.

DewArena: India’s largest gaming festival

The Games

DewArena will have the two most played online multi-player, CS:GO & DotA II covered along with the addition of FIFA which will be played on Xbox One. Forza Motorsport 6 and Mortal Kombat X will also be a part of this festival for which qualifiers will be limited to North Indian regions with offline qualifiers.

The registrations

As per the regulations by ESL globally, the registrations will be allowed to only those who have a valid ESL account and a non-VAC steam account. The registration for the CS:GO DewArena Online qualifiers will be available on ESL Play website.

The Offline qualifiers

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As per the ESL website, qualifiers for CS:GO, DotA II and FIFA 16 will begin on 22nd of July followed by three more qualifiers for each game.

Counter Strike: Global offensive

22nd July 2016 – Qualifier #1 – Registration
5th August 2016 – Qualifier #2 – Registration
19th August 2016 – Qualifier #3 – Registration
2nd September 2016 – Qualifier #4 – Registration

DotA II

22nd July 2016 – Qualifier #1 – Registration
5th August 2016 – Qualifier #2 – Registration
19th August 2016 – Qualifier #3 – Registration
2nd September 2016 – Qualifier #4 – Registration

FIFA 16

22nd July 2016 – Qualifier #1 – Registration
5th August 2016 – Qualifier #2 – Registration
19th August 2016 – Qualifier #3 – Registration
2nd September 2016 – Qualifier #4 – Registration

The prize-pool

The prize pool for the event is close to a million Indian currency which is huge at this level of the game. With CS:GO and DotA II taking maximum numbers from the proportion Rs. 3,50,000 each for both the games, FIFA has left with INR 1 lakh.

Important information about all the three games is available on the event page of all the three games, CS:GO, DotA II and FIFA 16.

Dota 2 Update – 6.88b

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Dota 2 Update – 6.88b

Dota 2 Main Client Update – 13th July 2016

Dota 2 Update – 6.88b will include some minor changes re Summit 5 and The International 6.

This should allow some changes in the play style of teams participating at The Summit 5.

6.88b will feature some minor changes which can bring an impact to the style of tournament played.

* Timbersaw strength gain reduced from 2.1 to 1.8
* Death Prophet base strength reduced by 1
* Spirit Siphon base health drain reduced from 16 to 14
* Metamorphosis manacost increased from 50 to 100
* Metamorphosis no longer lingers after reincarnation/death
* Time Dilation manacost increased from 50 to 75
* Astral Spirit vision reduced from 450 to 400
* Beastmaster Boar XP bounty increased from 59 to 60/70/80/90
* Riki’s Blink Strike damage reduced from 60/80/100/120 to 55/70/85/100
* Lane Creeps now give 20% of XP when denied by neutrals rather than 0% (normal player denies give 50% XP)
* Astral Imprisonment damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 100/175/250/325
* Arcane Orb intelligence duration increased from 60 to 80
* Bloodlust manacost reduced from 75 to 50
* Meepo agility growth increased from 1.9 to 2.2
* Stone Form cooldown reduced from 26 to 20
* Arcane Curse damage increased from 14/21/28/35 to 14/22/30/38
* Brewmaster Boulder damage increased from 50 to 50/100/150
* Brewmaster Dispel Magic damage to illusions and summoned units increased from 500 to 850
* Press the Attack’s attack speed bonus increased from 60/80/100/120 to 65/90/115/140
* Sniper turn rate improved from 0.6 to 0.7
* Sniper night vision increased from 1000 to 1100
* Warlock Golems HP increased from 900/1350/1800 to 1000/1500/2000
* Thirst bonus rescaled from 10/20/30/40% to 16/24/32/40%
* Lightning Bolt ministun increased from 0.1 to 0.2
* Stampede slow duration increased from 1.5 to 1.8
* Shadow Fiend movement speed increased from 310 to 315
* Living Armor cooldown reduced from 32/26/20/14 to 30/24/18/12
* Dismember strength based damage increased from 30/40/50 to 30/45/60%
* Sand Storm cooldown reduced from 40/30/20/10 to 34/26/18/10
* Epicenter manacost reduced from 175/250/325 to 150/225/300
* Empower cleave AoE increased from 225 to 240

Source : Dota2.com

Splyce sign Machinegun, roster now complete

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Splyce sign Machinegun, roster now complete

The Splyce CS:GO squad is eager to welcome three new players to speak to the group in chief competitions over the globe:

Enkhtaivan “Machinegun” Lkhagva – Machinegun brings the crude ability and experience expected to end up a top group. A Mongolz veteran, he has contended at the top level of the Asian CS:GO scene for right around three years.

Asger “AcilioN” Larsen – At just 19 years of age, with time on groups like SK Gaming and Copenhagen Wolves, AcilioN brings an abundance of abnormal state competition experience regardless of his childhood. He has contended in major and head worldwide occasion arrangement including DreamHack, the Electronic Sports World Cup, and Intel Extreme Masters. Joey “CRUC1AL” Steusel – After playing Counter-Strike: Source, CRUC1AL immediately swapped to CS:GO when it was discharged. Much the same as AcilioN, CRUC1AL is 19 and willing to test his aptitude on bigger stages.

“We are happy to welcome Machinegun, AcilioN, and CRUC1AL to the team! Each of these individuals is immensely dedicated to putting in the time necessary to win and grow as a team. This was a big step for us but I believe it is a step in the right direction,” team captain Hekmat said of the signing.

The fresh introductions carry with them an abundance of experience from various occasion levels and other top groups. Joined with veteran Splyce players arya and David “DAVEY” Stafford under the instructing administration of Andrew “Professor_Chaos” Heintz, Splyce is sure that the new program will permit us to achieve our objectives and take us to considerably more prominent statures.

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Memento signed by ROCCAT

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Memento signed by ROCCAT

Jungler Jonas “Memento” Elmarghichi is the latest individual from Team ROCCAT and will assume control beginning obligations going ahead, the association reported today on their official Twitter handle.

RpK dropped after unfavorable health condition related to earbuds

Deepak Ojha
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RpK dropped after unfavorable health condition related to earbuds

G2 Esports, one of the most promising lineup of this year which are on a tremendous run in the ELEAGUE has announced that Cédric “RpK” Guipouy will no longer be able to play for their roster in the ELEAGUE following his critical health problems with earbuds, doctors have recommended RpK to not fly for a while because of the diagnosis process. G2 Esports will have Fuks as their stand-in for the rest of the league.

Simon “Fuks” Florysiak who currently plays for LDLC White and was a former LDLC player

“It is an honor to make the trip with G2 for ELEAGUE,” he told G2’s website. “I know it will be hard for me to do as well as RpK, but I have worked hard to be in shape for this tournament.

“This is also an opportunity for me to show what I can do, and I will do my best to help the team. Maybe RpK’s stickers will also make me a TANK!”

Health related problems has now been very common issue being faced by eSports athletes, with some facing wrist pains and some struggling with back-pains, there are plenty of reports about disturbance in the eardrums as far as G2 Esports is concerned. Recently, G2’s shox had to go minor surgery during ESL One Cologne group stages when the earbuds he was wearing pushed into his ears deeper than comfort.

 

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