Most gamers spend a decent amount of money on skins, pets, and hats, so wouldn’t it be great if we can also do something good while we are at it? GoodGamer is a new initiative that strives to help the most effective charities in the world through in-game micro purchases. You’d get to choose how much to donate and to which charities which are divided in four different categories – poverty, animals and climate change, meta-charities, and far-future and research.
GoodGamer’s idea is to approach Valve’s managing director Gabe Newell and convince him to implement the possibility for developers and modders to sell charity items in the recently introduced item shops on steam. To do that however they need gamers’ support so make sure to spread the word by liking their page and telling all your friends about it.
If you’d like to find out more about GoodGamer please visit their website.
With the new year settling things for new rosters and organizations. Ninjas in Pyjamas decided a new way to pick things up for the upcoming year. NiP roster 2016 is being announced in a very unique format and till today they have managed to make the most in anticipating their fans with happiness and some with, disappointment.
Following the announcement of pyth as their fourth player, NiP has taken a huge unavoidable risk of trading a world-class player like allu with a semi-professional tier 2 player. It is a very ambitious project to deal with as far as the recruitment at NiP is concerned, pyth as a player can be a good aimer or an unsung clutcher, but by taking him for granted and expecting that he’d take down the horses against the first-class experienced players at first go, sounds vague.
NiP roster 2016 now has;
friberg
Xizt
f0rest
pyth
Get_Right
The fifth player is expected to be Get_Right if everything else remain constant, though there are numerous possibilities if they would trade Gtr for someone else or Gtr himself would feel a need to pass by the ambitious roster would be the question. The Swedish rival, fnatic also recently announced that they’d stick to their current roster for the coming year and would not be experimenting any sort of changes just after the departure of the former IGL pronax from the team.
NiP and its players has been struggling past 2014 in making their way to top the scenario after being knocked down by all of the top teams and failing to beat any of them with severe impacts at the majors. The team, which made a historical run with title of undisputed champions for the longest period in the game are now contesting to test new players every season and this year, supposedly pyth is their branch out for 2016.
Skyred CSGO former lineup has now been acquired by 24/7 Esports, the organization announced Sunday.
“This has been a huge undertaking and we as an organisation are looking forward to working with the team for the next year,” said 24/7 Esports’ owner Wei-Ning Yong in the announcement. “The team is easy to work with and hungry for success and this lines up perfectly with our expectations of the team”, he added.
24/7 Esports’ CS:GO roster is as follows:
Vu “cLb” Hoang Nguyen
Cong “crazyguy” Anh Ngo
Hoang “d@rklord” Giang Phung
Phu “Rap” Quoc Phan
Ngoc “Zac” Thien Nguyen
Skyred’s former lineup first made their major international appearance during DreamHack Open Stockholm where the team played Titan and Vexed Gaming.
At the event, crazyguy unexpectedly made a name for himself as a incredibly deadly AWPer after several incredibly impactful rounds with the Sniper.
Jesper ”JW” Wecksell, of fnatic, took to Twitter to announce the roster for the Swedish powerhouse going into 2016. There have been no changes made and the Swedes will be going into 2016 with the same five players as seen at the end of 2015. It will no doubt be interesting to see how the team develops in 2016, after a fairly significant roster change that saw in-game leader, Markus ”pronax” Wallsten leave the team, replaced by former G2 eSports representative, Dennis ”dennis” Edman.
.@FNATIC 2016 will be JW, olofm, flusha, KRIMZ & Dennis.
And fnatic’s strongest multi-national rival NiP are taking different ways to announce the release of the newest roster. As of now they announced 2016 roster starting with friberg as their first player.
Steam reported a general cache error earlier this morning where users were able to see through account details of random users. Personal account data and activity was been visible, no intellectual loss or data compromising has been revealed as of yet.
Positively, no falsified purchases or fraud has been made as the transaction page would alert users with, “You can’t do this transaction on this account”. And making matters much settled, an official Steam representative also responded on the matter and confirmed of re-arrangements being processed.
Steam is back up and running without any known issues. As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. This issue has since been resolved. We believe no unauthorized actions were allowed on accounts beyond the viewing of cached page information and no additional action is required by users.
Earlier this year, Steam faced a major market glitch where tons of user accounts and transactions were made at unbelievable prices and the moderators tried their best to roll-back the transactions for that current period. But, we are happy that this cache error wasn’t a part of the threatening done by LizardSquad or PhantomSquad who announced that they’d take down the entire PSN and Xbox Live networks on Christmas. Ironically, Steam faced a hour down-time on the Christmas evening.
Red Bull is the world’s most popular energy drink , the brand has expanded into different sports and disciplines in recent years, including sponsoring teams have football and Formula 1. Redbull also recently teamed with OpTic Gaming Call of team Duty. Redbull gives TeamSoLoMid & Cloud9 wings.
We are very excited about our new partnerships with @TeamSoloMid and @Cloud9gg. 2016 is going to be huge.
The energy drink has chosen two major American teams, Team SoloMid and Cloud9 to show their mark on the LCS. From now on Red Bull will be one of the main sponsors of both teams.
Redbull gives TeamSoLoMid & Cloud9 wings.
This sponsorship goes further, since teams will participate in the program of mental and physical development that leads the company, whose main objective is to improve training systems, and other athletes like Lindsey Vonn, Louie Vito or Ryan Sheckler took part in.
There is no doubt that this news will further help increase the good economy of the American clubs. Follow more from Redbull eSports.
Sighs … If you lost your “health, job and wife” after a only a three week Fallout 4 bender, you were probably on the verge of losing all those things already. If he wins, Bethesda should be ordered to pay him in caps. Man sues Bethesda over financial and personal life losses.
There’s little doubt that Fallout 4’s gameplay is involving when you can spend dozens of hours on the main storyline alone. However, one Russian man is convinced that it’s too involving. RT says that he’s suing Bethesda for 500,000 rubles ($7,030) for failing to warn that Fallout 4 would “become so addictive.” Supposedly, the man went on a 3-week gaming marathon that cost him his health, job and wife. Had he known how alluring it was, he says, he would have either waited until the holidays to buy the game or avoided it entirely. We’ve reached out to Bethesda to both confirm the lawsuit and get its take on the claims.
There is a history of these cases, and they can even be successful: one American got compensation from NCSoft after he got hooked on Lineage II. There’s also evidence to suggest that certain kinds of gameplay can promote addictive behavior. With that said, there are many Fallout 4 players who’ve played extensively without ruining their personal and professional lives. This man will have to convince the court that he was genuinely addicted, not just lacking in self-discipline. And if he wins the case, Bethesda is bound to pack him back.
ZionRAM and Inno3D sponsored the gaming event of the IT stream at the S.M.Shetty College, Powai. This intercollegiate festival held on 16th and 17th December concluded on a high as it attracted a crowd of more than 500 students from 35 participating colleges.
Dz Rahul Joshi powered by ZionRAM
Numerous e-games and technical events were held at the event with focus on Counter strike, Need for Speed, FIFA, etc. The winners not only discovered their talent but also overjoyed with prizes they received which were sponsored by Zion and Inno3D.
Abacus is not only committed to create a healthy eco-system in the IT market but is also dedicated to promote gaming in India with support of its partners. Sponsoring college event not only gives young gamers the boost to take up gaming as a career but also gave Zion & Inno3D marketing leverage as students got familiar with the wide range of product mix available in India.
Abacus Peripherals are the manufactures for Zion & national distributor for Genius peripherals in India. With over 18 years of experience in IT industry abacus has presence in 27 locations across India and growing. To make Zion part of your College event contact [email protected].
PENTA Sport’s Timo “Spiidi” Richter has replaced Fatih “gob b” Dayik on mousesports’ Counter-Strike listing.
Although no reason was given for gob b’s removal, Mouz declared that “all four starting players decided to continue without their team captain.”
The modification sets mousesports’ beginning listing as follows:
Chris “chrisJ” de Jong
Denis “denis” Howell
Johannes “nex’ Maget
Nikola “NiKo” Kovač
Timo “Spiidi” Richter
Since the contract with mousesports in Gregorian calendar month, gob b has been below serious criticism for his poor performance despite being well-known as a powerful in-game leader.
Even though he was replaced previously, Spiidi is one among the foremost proficient German players within the scene and might be thought-about AN upgrade to gob b in military capability.
The events in India certainly lack the level where the media broadcasters invest their time in their Documentary. Instead, the major events where people expect to get experience of the sport and general idea about the business modules from the event, mostly turn out to be a blunder or a mishap.
Pic courtesy: VGF Facebook
We can’t forget the nightmares Indian Gaming Carnival left us with couple of years ago. Nor we can forget how some famous multi-national brands award winners of an event with second hand and malfunctioned products. We witnessed these two and a dozens of more such events live, understood the pain and disappointment from the gamer’s perspective and felt a bit more devastated. In India, ‘gaming’ or I may dig into specifics ‘esports’ is not another famous term where people recognizes it the very moment when you throw the word to them. Although, having dozens of massive successful events, a whole list of credible production and media houses and a lot more of business oriented independent esports organization, we still fail to get noticed upfront the masses.
Video Game Fest which called itself, India’s Biggest Gaming Galore was organized in Bangalore on 11th October this year. The event was this year’s one of the most hyped festivals as for the scale of the event, the event also saw a massive appreciation from the sponsors and the companies who were a part of the organizing team.
I won’t even care about prizes, if Games the Shop does a fighting game tournament, I’ll be there like a fly to shit.
– Raghavendran Ravi
Here is it how it goes, after the event concluded successfully from organizer’s perspective. People started to complain about how their experiences at the event which construed by a hell lot of technicality and conductive issues:
No chairs for participants
Incomplete game files
Selective pool draws
Re-registrations of eliminated participants
Informal conduct towards the participants
Prizes not given to a console gamer
Police complaint threats when asked about his prize on facebook
Product Marketing Strategies where Gamers are the victims
Why this behavior and ill-treatment? Because we are gamers? We waste our time playing ‘computer games’?
This strategy works every effing time, doesn’t it? Greed the gamers of big prizes, get huge number of professional gamers and spectators, show the numbers to sponsors and boom, yet another successful ‘video game’ fest.
Marketing a product is a no crime, but certainly leveraging upon gamers and treating them like dirt, is practically dirty. These practitioners fail to understand that if we being gamers, start to boy-cot events in masses, there would no really no one to experience these product launches.
Was it really a strong to file police complaint against the organizers?
Well, here’s the catch. You and me both got it wrong. Actually, the complaint has been filed by the organizers against winner of Forza sport and Mortal Kombat X tournament for asking his prizes.
What interesting in this whole story is, the guy, Raghavendran Ravi got a police complaint filed against his name supposedly because of his feedback on the event and his unanswered queries about his prize money. Or else, this is another strategy by the organizers to threaten a ‘video gamer’ because he is a wasted kid and would back-off?!? I mean where in the world is this a crime? Even though he might have shared some unpleasant experience of his, is it enough to have his name filed into criminal records?
Supposedly the post again which police complaint has been done.
From the words of the attendees
Everything else was pretty well organized, but console gaming was a disaster. They didn’t know how to organize a fighting game on console. –Shiva (Participant)
Wasn’t organized properly at all. The console gamers had no chairs to sit on for most part of their event. Nothing was on schedule. There was even a small fire when the wires F*cked up. They were blasting music when the teams were playing their semis and finals even though we requested not to. There was no official prize ceremony for the counter strike winners. All this can easily be fixed the next time around imo. But threatening a participant with a police complaint and not giving him a prize that he won fair and square just because he bashed the event in a community group is unacceptable.
– Sid Joshi (Team Manager, NeckBreak)
The first day was a total disaster.
– (Anonymous Participant)
The event was spontaneous, but poorly organized.
– Akshat Mehta (Spectator)
A different perspective
Raghavendran still have not got his prize yet, but all he has got is a police complaint registered against him, which also technically means that this will remain sticked to his career for eternity. Being a student and planning for a masters abroad, a police complaint registered under your name isn’t a healthy sign at all. But if, ONLY IF, this was a tactic to threaten him so he steps back then surely, Videogame Fest organizers should definitely need to answer some serious questions.
We have reached out to the organizers for their word, and will keep following up to this story as it grows. For traction, we also have mentioned that this would work as defamation material against the organizers and if they don’t resolve this issue as soon as possible, they’ll have to face the consequences.
