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March 22, 2016

Why EA Sports discontinued Cricket franchise even after huge success?

E.A. Sports have put a break to every one of the trusts of the fans that are sitting tight restlessly for an overhauled and alluring variant of EA Sports Cricket Diversion. Talking four years in a meeting to Gameplanet, Mr. Andrew Wilson said: “Well, this year we re-propelled SSX, we re-dispatched FIFA Street – two items that we haven’t accomplished for quite a while that both returned to basic approval with incredible deals, both highlighted creative gameplay on both fronts.”

The 2007 game which brought revolution in PC Gaming, where people loved to try the sport and work around the game in a way they ever imagined. In terms of licensing, EA never failed to add-up the humor for the gamers when they witnessed S. Trendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar) bat and A. Kunle (Anil Kumble) bowl.

The main purpose behind ending the cricket arrangement is that there are just 10 noteworthy cricket playing countries. Amongst the ten, India, Australia and England appreciate the imposing business model. So it’s hard for the organization to expect benefit from this game elsewhere.

The organization has constantly confronted privacy issues in the Indian market furthermore couple of years prior they wound up in a legitimate halt with BCCI and they additionally lost permitting rights to Indian players. This lead until the very end of the diversion in the Indian market. Considering the number of inhabitants in England and Australia, it’s hard for the organization to expect any benefit from those nations. So at last, they chose to cease their operations in cricket arrangement.

Presently the organization is just focusing upon football as they have thought of FIFA 2016 which is vastly improved than its past release. A correlation between redesigned variant and past rendition of the game will most likely give you a reasonable thought that how much the organization is centering upon football. Doubtlessly football is bringing them more benefits as the amusement is well known all around the globe furthermore enormous cash is included in this diversion. Cricket stands no place if contrasted with football. In any case, MR. Wilson additionally included that the organization will without a doubt again think after creating cricket arrangement however starting now they have no arrangements to reexamine their choice.

EA Sports 07 was the last diversion to be discharged by them. The game experienced significant changes in term of design control, players traits and so forth. The game was an incredible hit in the business sector as it was the best diversion around then.

Still numerous patches are accessible on the web through which we can change groups shirt, players confront and can add couple of competitions to the diversion however no progressions have been made to playing style and controls which keep the buyers from playing the game once more.

EZSkins.com shuts down, clearing outstanding skin debts

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Raja Pratap Singh

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March 22, 2016

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EZSkins.com shuts down, clearing outstanding skin debts

In what may come as a shock to a few, EZSkins.com, one of the most active CSGO skins gambling website was shut down the previous day following a farewell message to the visitors. Shockingly, EZskins.com shuts down and no reasons of the same were revealed.

The company, which was run by the community contributor ‘Henry’ also had a competitive tier 3 team which has a 143rd world-ranking. The reason of the website going down was never revealed, but as it was already presumed, the fate of gambling websites were always in dark.

After Fanobet, which was recently banned in the U.S., it is quiet obvious that these website owners aren’t really concerned about registering or applying for a gambling licences as far as betting is concerned.

Even though if they have a license, there is ultimately no way to eliminate underage gamblers, which is prohibited almost allover the planet.

To a different perspective, this can even be a sole decision of the site owner, a decision for himself to stay away from the forthcoming mental trauma and legal battles.

EZSkins.com shuts down

The Message on their Website

Hello,

As of 21:00 GMT 21/03/2016, EZskins.com ceased trading.

We’d like to thank everyone who helped make EZskins possible as well as all our players & fans. It's been a fantastic ride and we hope we've given everyone a reliable and fair service throughout our time.

If you have any outstanding issues, please check your profile or create a support ticket from the navigation above.

For all enquiries please contact Henry via email: [email protected].

Again, Thank you to everyone involved in making this possible.

Oh and in case I don’t see you... Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.

EZskins Team

The best part, however is that it is not another regular scam and Henry is actually refunding or clearing all the pending debts with their users so as to end the journey with a good reputation. What do you think is the fate of CSGO:Lounge and CSGOShuffle?

Halo World Championship has the biggest ever prize-pool of a FPS game

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Sajid Paik

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March 21, 2016

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Halo World Championship has the biggest ever prize-pool of a FPS game

The 2016 Halo World Championship is practically over, with the greatest prize pool in first-individual shooter history being distributed this weekend.

Developer 343 Industries set the underlying prize pool at $1 million a year ago, with the aggregate pot expanding taking into account the buy of REQ packs by Halo 5 players. On Feb. nineteenth it was declared that the aggregate prize is $2.5 million, to be partitioned between the 16 groups that met all requirements for the big showdown.

Rivalry commenced on Friday in California, with the quarterfinals and elimination rounds today evening time, and the finals tomorrow. All matches are 4v4, and a best-of-five arrangement paving the way to the elimination rounds and finals which are best-of-seven. There are eight maps accessible, and three qualified modes for play: group slayer, catch the banner, and fortresses.

The majority of the groups have as of now been dispensed with. This incorporates Epsilon eSports, Renegades, Evil Geniuses, and Team Liquid who earned $75,000 each for their fifth eighth spot, spots. Another eight groups took home $25,000 for coming in ninth sixteenth, including Cloud9, and Team Immunity. Abhorrent Geniuses were thumped out of the opposition by Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), a severe contention after one of their individuals, Tony “Lethul” Campbell, left the group for CLG in January.

Now just four teams are left, Team eLevate, Team Allegiance, CLG, and Denial eSports. The losers of the semifinals tonight will still earn $250,000 each. Meanwhile tomorrow’s finals will see the second place team walk away with $500,000, and the winner earning a cool $1 million.

More than 900 teams registered for the competition, so you can expect some epic matches from the top teams that are left. Tune into the Halo Twitch channel to catch the rest of the action, and find out who will walk away with the ultimate prize. The broadcast is live until 9pm PT tonight, and starts up again tomorrow at 4pm PT.

Na’Vi beats Virtus Pro 2-0 to reach finals of CPLS 2: pasha blames self

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Arpita Tewari

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March 18, 2016

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Na’Vi beats Virtus Pro 2-0 to reach finals of CPLS 2: pasha blames self

Natus Vincere confirms their place in the grand face-off of the Counter Pit League Season 2 Finals after defeating Virtus.pro 2-0 (16-14 on de_overpass and 16-12 on de_train).

Beginning off on the Terrorist side of Overpass, Natus Vincere got the gun round and the accompanying hostile to ecos to take a 3-0 lead. In the wake of purchasing up, Virtus.pro grabbed two rounds in succession, however Na`Vi hit back directly after to set the score at 4-2. The Polish group realized that in the event that they lost the accompanying round their economy would be seriously harmed, and Filip “NEO” Kubski ran immense with the AWP and won a 1vs3 grasp with three quick executes inside A.

Virtus.pro went to take the following five rounds, conveying the scoreline to 8-4, when their streak reached an end after Ioann “Edward” Sukhariev racked up two essential executes with a flank endeavor. Still, the CIS-based group were not able profit by that round win, with Virtus.pro taking a persuading 10-5 half-time lead.

The Polish group developed their lead by winning the gun round and the principal hostile to eco round, yet they were found napping by Na`Vi’s eco push in the third round, with Egor “flamie” Vasilyev grabbing three headshots. What took after was a profoundly challenged time of the diversion in which adjusts backpedaled and forward until Virtus.pro made it 14-7. That is the means by which far Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas’ men would go, in any case, as Na`Vi racked up nine rounds in succession to seal a 16-14 triumph and get the lead in the arrangement.

Train started with Na`Vi once increase looking the brighter of the two sides as they raged to a 3-0 lead, yet the force of the amusement changed in weapon rounds. With every single close round going their direction, Virtus.pro had a devastating control of the economy, which permitted them to head into the separation 9-6.

In the second half, Na`Vi got off to a flying begin and won the initial seven rounds to take a 13-9 lead. Virtus.pro still attempted to react, however all they finished was three rounds as their adversaries struggled to a hard-battled yet merited 16-12 win.

Pasha being the worst performer, only managed to get 28 kills against his 51 deaths, which resulted in Virtus. Pro losing with a very less marginal difference in both the matches, but convincingly a 2-0.

Pasha, however, shared his worst of the experience on his official Facebook account, where is he most active than the rest of the Counter Strike players from the professional scene. He also pointed that this performance of his can even get him out of the team, which was undoubtedly not accepted by his fans in comments.

Redbull eSports player of the month – Olofmeister leads the charge

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Sajid Paik

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March 18, 2016

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Redbull eSports player of the month – Olofmeister leads the charge

Redbull eSports player of the month title is kicked off! “Consistently, we’ll solicit our board from casters and eSports specialists to assign a player from every major eSport, and afterward you simply need to vote in favor of your most loved in the survey. We’ll declare the champ one week from now”, says the message on board at Redbull eSports.

In February and early March (the Dota Shanghai Major straddled both months so we included it), there have been some extraordinary exhibitions by stars and newcomers from Call of Duty’s MarkyB to Dota 2’s pieliedie and Street Fighter’s new star Mister Crimson. You can vote in our survey beneath, yet in the event that you don’t know who to vote in favor of, ensure you investigate each of the designations from our specialists.

The list of nominated personalities are:

Call of Duty – Mark ‘MarkyB’ Bryceland
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Olofmeister
Heroes of the Storm – Sake
Hearthstone – ThijsNL
Dota 2 – pieliedie
FIFA 16 – Spencer ‘Epsilon Gorilla’ Ealing
Halo – Mathew ‘Royal2’ Fiorante
Street Fighter – Mister Crimson
League of Legends – Song ‘Smeb’ Kyung-ho

After Esports player of the year, Olofmeister is currently leading the charge with most number of votes along with a unprecedented margin. Make sure your vote goes to our CSGO fame, superstar of Fnatic, Olofmeister! Vote here:

E-Frag’s Razer Rising Stars is kicking off in Europe

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Sajid Paik

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March 16, 2016

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E-Frag’s Razer Rising Stars is kicking off in Europe

After announcing that Efrag is going to be doing another World Championship this year, we are pleased to announce that they are also going to be doing a series of leagues which they will hold around the world with a total prize-pool of $64,600.

As the name “Rising Stars” suggests, the leagues that we will be holding will be seasonal leagues that are aimed to support the grassroots of the CounterStrike: Global Offensive scene. The main goal of this league is to support teams that don’t get a lot of recognition and also nontier 1 teams with them wanting to one day, reach that goal which with this league, we can help with.

As well as us planning to help these teams get exposure, in the future we also hope to have these teams as shareholders and partners of the events with us sharing the profits and success of it with not only ourselves but also the teams involved.

During the Razer Rising Stars, there will be four leagues in four regions (Europe, North America, South America and Southeast Asia). In total, $64,600 will be given out in these four leagues, whilst 12 online qualifiers will determine which teams will qualify for these leagues. Although originally the prizepool was $50,000, this has now risen to $64,600 as all teams who complete all of their matches will receive $500.

All of the Razer Rising Stars League matches will be streamed in several languages on the platform, Azubu. These languages will be; English, French, German, Russian, Finnish, Serbian, Polish and Spanish.

List of all different streams:

● English: www.azubu.tv/efragtv

● French: www.azubu.tv/efragfr

● Polish:www.azubu.tv/efragpl

● Serbian:www.azubu.tv/efragrs

● Finnish:www.azubu.tv/efragfi

● German:www.azubu.tv/efragger

● Russian:www.azubu.tv/efragru

● Spanish: www.azubu.tv/efrages

Razer Rising Stars Europe League:

The Razer Rising Stars Europe League will run from 15th March 2016 until 1st May 2016 and will have a prize pool of $20,000. It will feature 16 teams, 8 of which will be invited while 8 will join from 4 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 16 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a best of two match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 15 BO2 matches, the prizes will be paid out dependent on each teams placement. (shown below)

● 1st: $10,000 USD

● 2nd: $5,000 USD

● 3rd: $3,000 USD

● 4th: $2,000 USD

● 5th-16th: $500 USD (for each team if they finish every match)

For the Razer Rising Stars European League there were four qualifiers in which 734 teams registered and over 3,600 players played in best of one matches. These teams were split into the four qualifiers with Space Soldiers and Orbit (ExEpiphany Bolt as they were known at the time) qualifying from the first qualifiers, Bpro Gaming and miMo qualifying from the second qualifiers, PENTA Sports and Team Refuse qualifying from the third qualifiers and Recursive and eSuba securing the final spots after qualifying from the fourth and final qualifiers.

Some of the teams that didn’t make it through but were close to qualifying were; Arcade, Epsilon, GameAgents, RCTIC, gBots, K1ck.es and Revival who all played really well in their matches but not enough to qualify.

The full list of teams (Invited and qualified) participating in the European League are:

EFrag.net Esports Club, Space Soldiers, LoungeGaming, Team Orbit (exEpiphany Bolt), Orgless Bpro, CPH Wolves, miMo, ALTERNATE aTTaX, PENTA Sports, LDLC White, Refuse.pl, DenDD, eSuba, Ancient, Recursive.

Links to the qualifiers:

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2231/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25231

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2232/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25232

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2233/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25233

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2234/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25234

Razer Rising Stars South America League:

The Razer Rising Stars South American League Qualifiers are currently in progress with participating teams and players still going up due to them still being open for more teams to enter.

The League for South America will have a prizepool of $10,000. It will feature 8 teams, 4 of which will be invited and the other 4 being qualified teams from the online qualifiers. qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 8 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a best of two match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 7 BO2 matches.

Invited; Qualified;

NTN, KeyD Stars, Santos.Dexterity, g3nerationX, TBD

The league’s following prize distribution:

● 1st: $5,000 USD

● 2nd: $3,000 USD

● 3rd: $2,000 USD

● 4th10th: $200 USD (for each team if they finish every match)

Links to the qualifiers:

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2235/razerrisingstarssouthamericanleaguequalifier25231

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2236/razerrisingstarssouthamericanleaguequalifier25232

Razer Rising Stars North American and SouthEast Asia League:

All of the qualifiers for both of these Leagues are due to begin soon. The schedule for all of the leagues will be announced soon.

Abacus Peripherals sponsored two gaming events for the prestigious IIT’s

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The Crew

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March 14, 2016

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Abacus Peripherals sponsored two gaming events for the prestigious IIT’s

Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. in association with Antec, Nvidia Inno3D and Zion RAM sponsored Gaming Events of two IT festivals of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Kanpur and IIT BHU.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kanpur organized their tech festival TECHKRITI from 3^rd to 6^thMarch, which saw a massive crowd of around 4000 be a part of the event. IIT BHU, located in the heart of Banaras organized Technex’16 from 4^th to 6^th March. This 3 day event pulled a crowd of more than 5000.

The IT festival had numerous e-games such as FIFA’16, CG:GO and NFS-Most Wanted, also events such as Robo Wars and Drone Fight didn’t lose a chance to attract eyes of the crowd. Apart from technical events there was spectacular display of band performance by Farhan Akhtar and Mohit Chauhan and astonishing speeches by personalities like Hamid Karzai (Hon’ble former President of Afganistan), Amit Sethi (CIO of Axis Bank), Jorge Cham (Creator PHD comics) and many other great personalities as part of their Tech Talks. Their speeches were a source of inspiration for many youth. The annual tech festival at IIT provided India’s brightest minds a platform to showcase their talent, knowledge and skill all under one roof.

Vipul Modi, VP- Marketing & Sales at Abacus peripherals Pvt. Ltd, “We have been regularly associated with IIT BHU, and we are glad to associate with IIT, Kanpur this year. We are extremely pleased and excited to be part of such worthwhile events, not only they are worthwhile, but also they showcase a level of enthusiasm that’s hard to find anywhere else.”

Sponsoring these events serves the major purpose of Abacus Peripherals to motivate the young and budding gamers of India to take their talent, skill and love for E-sports to a whole new level.

About Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. :-
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), Nvidia Inno3D graphic Cards etc. successfully across India for over 18 years.

Azubu gets exclusive ESL content official rights

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The Crew

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March 12, 2016

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Azubu gets exclusive ESL content official rights

Spilling stage Azubu will be the main spot to watch certain ESL eSports scope taking after the understanding of a two-year bargain between the pair.

The arrangement doesn’t gift selective gushing access to ESL occasions, for example, ESL One, IEM and the ESL Pro League (despite the fact that Azubu will stream these), however provides Azubu with elite substance and showcasing joint efforts, for example, permitting, dispersion and deals representation.

The deal commences instantly.

“As eSports keep on developing exponentially everywhere throughout the world, drawing bigger crowds who need to inundate themselves in the diversions, encounters and way of life, it turns out to be progressively imperative for us to band together with the best stages to give access to our occasions and also more esteem to brands who need to contact those groups of onlookers,” ESL’s SVP of offers and business improvement Nik Adams said.

“Azubu’s achieve, client experience and energetic devotion to the eSports way of life are second to none.”

Azubu’s VP of business advancement Abe Gottesman included: “Azubu’s association with ESL will offer both organizations some assistance with growing and extend their achieve, which will eventually better serve the violently developing eSports gatherings of people.

“This joint effort is more than a substance and deals representation relationship. Azubu and ESL are deliberately adjusted on giving brands a more important and inventive approach to interface with the enormous eSports demographic on a worldwide level and to convey Azubu’s eSports group the best eSports programming discovered anyplace on the planet.”

In December Azubu got a $59m money infusion for obligation financing, the potential ramifications of which rely on upon your translation. Obligation financing offers advantages over vanilla speculation, and has been utilized by large portions of tech’s enormous players. Nonetheless, it’s a less secure system that can reverse discharge down the line if the cards don’t fall effectively.

Unquestionably however, content rights seem, by all accounts, to be the instrument with which Azubu plans to tackle the joined may of Twitch and YouTube

Nvidia’s latest driver issue can corrupt your Operating System

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Sajid Paik

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March 12, 2016

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Nvidia’s latest driver issue can corrupt your Operating System

On the off chance that you have a Nvidia design cards it’s prescribed that you abstain from introducing the most recent 364.47 and 364.51 drivers until further notice. As reports have been pouring through Nvidia’s official GeForce forums, redditors and various websites of the 364.47 GeForce drivers bringing about an extensive variety of significant issues and the in this manner discharged 364.51 drivers having not successfully determined them starting yet.

The driver release version 364.47 is creating chaos with the rigs of gamers as the driver seems to be broken, Nvidia has officially confirmed about.

The driver version released for stabilizing the compatibility of GeForce cards with Tom Clancy’s: The Division Game was reportedly broken and not ready for usage. Following the update, users are facing numerous types of issues with their computers. Some have alleged that their Operating System got corrupted whereas, few complain of a hardware failure.

How to resolve?

What we suggest is, rolling back to the previous stable driver version. You may boot your computer in ‘Safe Mode’ and thereafter uninstalling the latest driver version installed.

UPDATE: Nvidia updates that it has rolled out another update version 364.51 to fix the errors and compatibility. The driver has been submitted to MicrosoftWHQL to get their driver version certified, the update would go live as soon as Microsoft passes it forward.

MLG Columbus Group A, B teams has been revealed

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Sajid Paik

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March 11, 2016

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MLG Columbus Group A, B teams has been revealed

The first two groups for the upcoming major have been announced, featuring teams like NiP, Fnatic, Luminosity and FaZe.

MLG have announced the groups A and B in two short videos on their Instagram today. The videos can be found in this post as well.

The groups have been drawn based on seeds from the previous major, DreamHack: Cluj-Napoca, as well as results from the Lan qualifiers for the major, where the 1st pool features the top 4 and pool 2 is the 5th-8th place finishers from Cluj. Pools 3 and 4 are determined by the qualifiers, the group winners from the LAN qualifiers are pool 3 leaving the 2nd place finishers in the groups in pool 4.

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