Hypixel Studios acquired by Riot Games as Indie Dev Partners

Hypixel Studios, Developer of the Minecraft-inspired Hytale, has been acquired by Riot Games as an independent studio. In the announcement made on Hytale’s website, both Simon and Noxy have made statements.  Simon is immensely grateful for the enthusiasm and creativity of the growing Hytale community.  Simon has stated that the acquisition marks a huge step …

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TenZ Becomes Cloud9’s First Official Valorant Player

Cloud9 have announced TenZ as their first official player for Riot Games’ Valorant. Yesterday, eSports organization Cloud9 posted a tweet with a promotional teaser regarding their first dedicated Valorant player: The tweet contained a teaser clip and a link to Cloud9’s official YouTube channel which has the full reveal. Check it out below: Tyson “TenZ” …

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Chinese Retailers are cracking down on… Animal Crossing

People always try to voice their opinions, even in times when COVID is impacting the world. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become one such avenue, but it seems that China has taken issue with Nintendo’s beloved series. It stems from the Coronavirus. Since everyone is inside, people cannot publicly protest, but that won’t stop the …

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FACEIT launches Justice to punish negative behavior

FACEIT launches its new community-centric approach to detect and punish negative behavior and griefing named FACEIT Justice. FACEIT announced its new approach to fighting negative behavior within their games. “Justice” is a “new portal available to the community to review and judge potential cases of reported negative behavior during a match on FACEIT”. “Justice” is …

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EU Masters 2020 Spring Play-In has come to an end

European Masters 2020 Spring Play-In has come to an end with GamerLegion, eSuba, Defusekids and K1CK Neosurf qualifying to the Main Event. EU Masters 2020 Spring Play-In is a group stage format event with 16 teams. These teams are competing on qualifying to the €150.000 prize pool main event of EU Masters 2020 Spring. 4 …

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Riot is backing away from dodge penalty increases

Riot Games, after a series of posts on Twitter, has unofficially announced that they are backing away from dodge penalty increases. Mark Yetter, also known as Riot Scruffy, announced earlier in April that they are on working on some changes on dodge penalty increases. After the announcement, plenty of unhappy League of Legends players caused …

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‘Stay home. Save lives’ Coming to a Game Near You

Stay home. Save lives

The ‘Stay home. Save lives’ campaign is getting a little help propagating thanks to several prominent game developers. If you are unfamiliar with this campaign, the goal is to remind people of their social obligation to stay home during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Doing so will help slow the spread of the disease and undoubtedly …

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How to play in the VALORANT closed beta

Valorant closed beta promotion image.

Riot Games’ upcoming 5v5 tactical-shooter, VALORANT (previously known as “Project A”) has got the entire gaming community talking about it. Riot announced the beta on Twitter a few days ago, and today I’m going to show you how to play in the closed beta for VALORANT. The beta will only be available to players in …

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