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.
Abios continues to expand as they release their new Abios Match Ticker Extension. The new updated chrome extension has improved its esports coverage functionality, covering a total of 11 games as of today, and added stream-following across all major streaming platforms.
The new extension also allows the user to follow and get notified for specific teams, players and matches. The entire look and feel of the extension also received an update to give it a more user-friendly and modern style. These features will make it even easier to follow all the esports action you desire.
Abios Match Ticker Extension
“With the popularity and great feedback the extension has received it only makes sense to invest more in the platform” says Anton Janér, founder and CTO at Abios. “We are excited to bring users the first platform where they can follow and receive notifications, not only for when their favourite streamers go live, but also their favourite teams, players and tournaments”.
Abios Match Ticker Extension is the ultimate tool to get going
Users will never miss a match after installing the Abios extension. All matches and their streams are always one click away. The availability of the Abios Match Ticker Extension will enable more gamers to find events, scores and enjoy esports. Abios has added a subscription feature to the new extension allowing you to not only follow specific games, but any team, player or tournament in their 11 game coverage. You can also be notified when popular streamers go live. With the addition of live updated results and tailored subscriptions, the extension can manage all the esports you can fit into your calendar. You won’t miss a match.
Abios was founded by a group of gamers and students in Sweden in 2013. Over the past two years, Abios has implemented a series of innovative features to facilitate the following of esports. The company is passionate and dedicated to improving esports and providing the best possible coverage.
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.
