Recently, Martin Shkreli was in the news, revealed as the mysterious buyer of the sole copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time inShaolin. It was auctioned off to the highest bidder and, surprise surprise, it ended up being Shkreli who paid “millions” for it ($2 million is the current reported price).
Shkreli is also the chairman of pro League of Legends squad Team Imagine, where he goes by the handle “Cerebral.”
#Breaking no seizure warrant at the arrest of Martin Shkreli today, which means we didn't seize the Wu-Tang Clan album.
And Team Imagine chairman Martin “Cerebral” Shkreli was arrested by the FBI today. Nothing to do with League of Legends, Wu Tang, or his current company’s drug price hike. “He is accused of repeatedly losing money for investors and lying to them about it, illegally taking assets from one of his companies to pay off debtors in another,” according to Bloomberg.
“Shkreli essentially ran his company like a Ponzi scheme where he used each subsequent company to pay off defrauded investors from the prior company,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said at a press conference.
He also made headlines after raising the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent, from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill.
Shkreli denies the allegations of fraud and was released on a $5 million bond because he is incredibly wealthy and a very eligible bachelor that many women want to sleep with.
With all the stuffs noticable from the in-game updates. Steam convincingly made few important and overdue changes into the basic user experiences by eliminating regular scam and spamming practices performed across its private chat feature.
As not many of you must have noted. Steam apparently rolled out a major security update as the latest user experience feature. This means a lot to traders and people with fantasy of having high-end expensive skins in their inventory. Many of you must have faced the issue of regular messages from strangers pretending to be your friend and asking you to click on links to view their items which perhaps are none less than scams.
And apparently, this latest 15th December client update would simple filter all the messaging rights. People who are secondarily linked to you or played a game with you or are in a group-chat will only have the option to send you a private chat.
PayPal is the king of spoilers. The Steam Winter Sale can come out on December 22nd as discovered by few of the PayPal users when they found a promo in their mail boxes. Considering the bulk of sales begin at 10am, we tend to wouldn’t be shocked if you’ll begin saving on thousands of titles begin at that point.
This year’s winter sale, now as announced by PayPal’s email, starts Tuesday. This could be just another regular sale that will not come up with the same old flash/daily format, and instead opts for store-wide discounts obtainable throughout the sale’s amount, with some highlighted on a daily basis.
Steam winter sale
This year’s winter sale, according to PayPal’s email, starts Tuesday, December 22. This may be another sale that does away with the usual flash/daily format, and instead opts for store-wide discounts available throughout the sale’s period, with a few highlighted every day.
Just like with the fall Sale, don’t expect there to be flash and daily sales as Valve modified it, however its massive sales perform beginning with its last sale. Anyone UN agency is collaborating within the Winter Sale can got to submit only one discount, rather than 2, one in every of which might be used for flash and daily sales.
While the amendment might not are as wide accepted as Valve would have like-able, customers greatly like this transformation as they will make sure they’ll purchase their game for very cheap doable value throughout the complete sale amount.
Zowie, the gaming peripherals company that we’ve all heard of is now part of BenQ. BenQ have invested a serious amount of their money into Zowie, they have invested enough that BenQ and Zowie are now partners. This now makes Zowie the offical eSports brand for BenQ. And it will now be a famous favorite brand as Zowie partners with benq.
This is a massive change as far as BenQ is concerned because all the brandings on the products manufactured by either of the companies will hold a Zowie branding. And the company as a whole would be called as Zowie – The eSports brand by BenQ. On their website, it’s mentioned that: “All future BenQ e-sports merchandise will be introduced under the ZOWIE name. Combining the core competences of BenQ and ZOWIE, new ZOWIE-branded e-Sports devices will focus on ergonomics and personalization to provide innovations that truly enhance player performance and enjoyment.”
Zowie partners with BenQ
Zowie’s name will now be applied to all future products, which also includes their Gaming Monitors. Zowie has also revived some of their gaming mice, adding some minor modifications, for example the switches used. As well as that, they have introduced new mouse pads, and a new desk cable management accessory which showcases their new logo and colour scheme. Regardless of how there are no proper channels set for Zowie in India, gamers still find their way to get their products. And now that BenQ already has all its functionality active and revolving, we would see Zowie emerging into the marketing segments.
We will soon know more about the range of products from the officials.
Abacus Peripherals in association with Nvidia Inno3D and Antec organized dealer meets in Jaipur and Delhi on 7th Dec and 10th Dec respectively. The meet was attended by elite partners of Jaipur and Delhi and gave Abacus and its brands a platform to effectively communicate with them.
The event was an initiative undertaken by Abacus to connect its partners directly with the vendor, educate partners about the range of its products and also showcase some signature products including water cooled GPU from Inno3d. The meet saw a quality amount of partner’s participation. This provided them an opportunity to voice out operational and regulatory issues which require the cooperation and support of the Vendors as well as the National Distributor. Some of the persistent issues that cropped up were addressed during the interaction and a constructive way to eradicate them were decided upon.
The open discussion brought the partners, distributor and the vendor on the same platform to discuss scope of improvement, future strategies and mutual benefits for sustainability and growth in the long run with healthy inputs from both the ends.
“With ever changing dynamics of our industry we felt there was a need to make the partners a part of future growth strategies. Thankfully our vendors appreciate such initiative and have supported it. This meet has only established stronger relation between the partners and the Abacus Team. Also understanding and discussing partner pain points was very important not only for us but also the vendor, we will address them on priority. This will only raise the bar of efficiency as we have realized the market expectations and out team is all out gearing to meet them.”
Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. is the national distributor of computer components and peripherals distributing brands like Zion RAM, Biostar Motherboards, Genius PC peripherals, Antec PC components (gaming cabinets & power supplies) etc. successfully across India for over 18 years.
We have come across recently to some fundamental changes on the game’s primary weapons by Valve, in which they recently added a new weapon and also made several changes into the general mechanism of the game by nerfing the pistols and weapon recoils.
Image courtesy: SlouthSquadron
Now, what exactly happened? why did community backlash at the mass?
Following the release of the newest weapon, R8. Valve also made some technical changes into the game’s current bearing weapons which included, pistols, AK-47, M4A4 rifles. Valve made no delays in releasing updates which rolled back the recoil and inaccuracy patterns from the earlier mechanism which was brought in after the winter update. So technically, the game currently is back to normal and acceptable at different levels by every contributing bearers.
Unfortunately, our implementation failed in a few ways.
According to the patterns which were earlier the part of the game, AK47 had the crouch inaccuracy of 5.00 which now has been reverted back to 4.81. The recovery time and shooting preferences were also turned. Valve in their blog post also acknowledged that they messed up quiet a bit with the game and they took the gamers for granted.
"Dont whine on here, send an email to ValvE"
Put a message in a bottle and throw it in the ocean while you're at it
Some sort of discussions, community backlash and trolls on Valve trying to be a ignorant developer, made them to revert the changes back to the acceptable notches. Valve also offered a sort of unconditional apology on their CS:GO blog where they explained pretty much about the rant and the mess they created:
We made some adjustments to rifles recently, and those changes have been causing a lot of pain in the CS:GO community. The pain was the result of a few mistakes we made, and while we usually prefer to avoid disrupting conversations happening in the community, we wanted to talk about some of the thinking that led to the recent changes as well as our plan for moving forward.
The official blog also recorded that Valve sincerely acknowledged this feedback and from hereafter, would certainly not make these huge improvisations to game before proper data analysis. They thanked and wished the community Happy holidays with the following: “We’re constantly reading community feedback and while we don’t often respond directly, understanding the community is one of the most important parts of working on CS:GO. Mistakes happen, but when they do, we’re committed to making sure they get fixed.”
Here’s the complete update log on the changes:
GAMEPLAY
Reverted recent changes to pistols and the AK-47, M4A4, and M4A1-S.
MISC
Other players can now hear the sound of the R8 Revolver primary fire hammer just before it fires.
Smoke clouds from smoke grenades detonated by burning fire will now correctly cover the ground instead of floating above that area.
Fire grenades that had been only partially extinguished by smoke will no longer deal damage from the flames under smoke grenade (fix for a bug discovered by jasonRRR)
Flames from fire grenades that are still spreading will no longer spread into the smoke cloud and will instead spread along the edge of the smoke cloud.
Fixed up-to-360-degree camera flip in Killer Replay.
Fixed an instance where an offer showed the incorrect price.
You can view the full explanation on the weapons at their official post.
One band of hackers with an analogous name, Lizard Squad wasn’t enough as we’ve another within the kind of Phantom Squad. These guys are quickly creating their name within the world of hacking by doing what they are doing best i.e. taking down completely different services getting used by standard folks.
On their Twitter profile, the hacker cluster has warned that this Christmas they’re progressing to take down not solely PSN and additionally Xbox Live. Not solely that, they’re boast they’ll keep each the services down for a few week. Here’s the tweet:
That wasn’t all, your time later Phantom Squad titillated “don’t you all get it? we are going to be accountable of taking down PSN and Xbox Live servers this year” and followed it by asserting that they’re not allies with Anonymous or Lizard Squad.
Their Twitter account claims that they need taken down decision of Duty Black Roman deity three On December twelve aboard Xbox Live (only for somewhat while). remainder of their claims embrace taking down Star Wars The previous Republic, FIFA, Xbox.com, GTA five and solely a few of hours agone, Reddit.
Anyhow, they’re currently asking their “fans” what to require down next and therefore the choices embrace Steam, PlayStation and Xbox aboard some random individual and organization.
It is a proven fact that Xbox Live was down a few of days ago, however it is not yet clear that it had anything to do with these guys who advocate themselves Phantom Squad. The previous year, the Twitter handle @LizardSquad claimed the same and they actually managed to take town the networks entirely for a week via DDoS.
The 17 year old guy from Bamble, Norway, has been arrested over allegedly stealing costly in-game weapons using malware and RATs (Remote Access Trojans).
A number of individuals are inactive in Romania, France and Norge. one in all the threads just in case diode to Bamble, wherever the police so have charged a seventeen year recent WHO have purloined weapons and alternative things he utilized in a simulation.
The boy was offline at his home on Thursday of last week. he’s charged with having used a kind of malicious computer code referred to as Remote Access Trojan (RAT). we tend to believe that has taken management of others’ computers to achieve access to the objects he utilized in a video game.
17-year-old has no criminal past, and confessed hacking once he was questioned by police.
State Kleiv, the superintendent of Police, Bamlbe, says that the boy ought to have resold a number of the virtual things he scarfed from different players. The values of the felony corresponds but not massive sums of real cash. State Kleiv says it is a matter of millions.
The boy has not however been appointed for any defense. Police have seized plenty of pc instrumentation which can currently be examined to seek out documentation.
He says it is important for Norwegian police to point out that it takes a heavy read on such matters, which beats down on that too little.
Just when everything goes into your direction, you are the optimistic nerd in the face of the earth. And all you have to do in the next step is to gather some more positivism around. This is no example but the story of ourselves battling out with the rest of the world to prove a point and the leverage of what eSports is approaching towards.
Fnatic’s fanatic, ‘olofmeister’ is my next target.
Those unfamiliar with him, Olof, a 23 year old Swedish professional athlete and serves for the world famous gaming organization ‘Fnatic’. During an interview with TheScore eSports, the fnatic superstar and rifler shared his personal desires on how he sees the support to emerge.
To which he spoke: “I think it is going to get bigger and bigger. Just watching the Pro League and there is stuff happening by the team so I don’t know if I can comment to that. There is big stuff happening and I am looking forward to it, I hope less tournaments though.”
‘I would like to see bigger leagues comparable to basketball or football’
Olofmeister was also among the recently nominated eSports player of the year, along side KennyS. Ever since the commendable growth of the sport, influential public figures are not taking a leap to release statements in their interviews and interactions. The NiP CEO, HeatoN also recently said in an interview; “Esports will be bigger than football.
The League of Legends 2015 World Championship was an amazing success for Riot Games, having the championship games hosted over the course of October by the developers.
On the League of Legends website, Riot gave specific numbers showing that the largest peak concurrent viewership was a stunning 14 million, which happened during the finals between SK Telecom and Koo Tigers on the 31st of October. With the unique viewer count for the final match reaching “a record-breaking high for any esports event”, at a massive 36 million.
Riot games also noted that the “total cumulative daily unique impressions” reached 334 million over the course of the four weeks, whereas last year of 2014 it was 288 million.
