Author: Arpita Tewari
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Garena’s latest “Light up Bermuda” campaign surges Indian fans engagement in Free Fire
India, 18 November 2020 – Garena, the leading global online games developer and publisher based in Singapore, brought together millions of Indians to celebrate a #FreeFireDiwali in its latest “Light up Bermuda” campaign. Through a host of exciting events, including the launch of a new music video, a dance challenge, and a video series, alongside plenty of in-game activities, the localized campaign enabled…
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Mumbai’s Moinuddin Amdani secures spot for India in PES 2021 at 12th Esports World Championship
Riding on dominating performances, Moinuddin Amdani sealed a spot in PES 2021 in the Finals of 12th Esports World Championship and gave India a winning start at the regional qualifiers. Competing online in the South Asia region, an experienced Amdani started off with thrashing 4-0 and 10-1 victory against Sri Lanka in the best-of-three league…
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Harsha Bhogle invests into gaming platform
Celebrated Cricket commentator and analyst Harsha Bhogle has put his bet into Fantasy Akhada, a cricket-and football-focused gaming & sports platform. According to the official company statement (via VCCircle), Harsha has also entered into an agreement with the company to serve as its brand ambassador. Fantasy Akhada says it has raised over $175,000 (roughly Rs…
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Valve fixes CSGO stuttering in a new 12 MB update
In a noiseless move, Valve has just released an tiny update in response to dozens of players reporting stuttering error. On reddit even, dozens of threads were reported wherein players were complaining of ‘stuck screen’ during the first few minutes into the game. The complete patch notes are available here.
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Malaysian DotA pro Mushi to attend Dreamhack Mumbai
Professional DotA veteran and ex-Mineski captain Chai “Mushi” Yee Fung will be traveling to Mumbai, Dreamhack has announced. In a Facebook post, DreamHack India announced the arrival of Mushi. Though this won’t be a competitive visit and the 28-year old will only travel for greetings his fans. Laying the foundations of his career in the…
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League of Legends in 2018 was the World’s Most Viewed Esports Game in History
This past week hasn’t been the best for Riot Games and League of Legends. Unprecedented for quite a long time, LoL’s universality has been on the rot with ordinary watcher checks lower than at some other time as a result of the continuous impact in viewership for new battle royale entertainments on Twitch. Regardless, even with…
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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 a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament circuit, possessed and worked by RFRSH Entertainment . The arrangement started with a sold-out, 12K participant Copenhagen competition in…
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Twitter enables #hashtag Icons of Esports teams
Twitter earlier today, rolled out update with some of the new sets of emojis. The professional teams to get their hashtag icons include, TSM, Cloud9 & FaZe. Although there are no official marker of the teams, it appears around ten are awarded. https://twitter.com/TwitterGaming/status/1022219115308769282 The hash tags icons appears with the keywords: 100 Thieves (#100T –…
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YouTube star FaZe Censor dumps World’s Sexiest Weather Girl to play Call of Duty
Douglas FaZe Censor Martin dumped his girlfriend Yanet Garcia through an announcement he made on YouTube. Garcia became famous after clips of her forecasts went viral and people labelled her as “World’s Sexiest Weather Girl.” Professional YouTuber Douglas ‘FaZe Censor’ Martin acclaimed he will do ‘whatever it takes’ to excel his skills in the game.…
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German company ESL acquires stake in Nazara Technologies
Nazara Technologies Limited (Nazara) today announced that ESL, the world’s largest esports company has invested for a minority stake in the Indian company. Founded in 2000, ESL runs amateur to professional leagues, ranging from online tournaments through major global mega stadium events in venues around the world, distributing its content and original programming across digital and linear channels, including…